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But some of the scribes were sitting there, questioning in their hearts:
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Which is easier: to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, take your mat, and walk’?
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“I tell you: get up, take your mat, and go home.”
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Then, passing by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax office, and he said to him, “Follow me,” and he got up and followed him.
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While he was reclining at the table in Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who were following him.
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When the scribes who were Pharisees saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
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A Question about Fasting
Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. People came and asked him, “Why do John’s disciples and the Pharisees’ disciples fast, but your disciples do not fast?”
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But the time will come when the groom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast on that day.
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He taught them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them,
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Some are like the word sown on the path. When they hear, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word sown in them.
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For whoever has, more will be given to him, and whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.”
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And when sown, it comes up and grows taller than all the garden plants, and produces large branches, so that the birds of the sky can nest in its shade.”
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Then he took the child by the hand and said to her, “Talitha koum” (which is translated, “Little girl, I say to you, get up” ).
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He instructed them to take nothing for the road except a staff—no bread, no traveling bag, no money in their belts,
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Feeding of the Five Thousand
The apostles gathered around Jesus and reported to him all that they had done and taught.
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He said to her, “Let the children be fed first, because it isn’t right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”
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But she replied to him, “Lord, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”
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He commanded the crowd to sit down on the ground. Taking the seven loaves, he gave thanks, broke them, and gave them to his disciples to set before the people. So they served them to the crowd.
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The disciples had forgotten to take bread and had only one loaf with them in the boat.
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Take Up Your Cross
Calling the crowd along with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone wants to follow after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.
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Then he said to them, “Truly I tell you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God come in power.”
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Elijah appeared to them with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus.
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They kept this word to themselves, questioning what “rising from the dead” meant.
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But Jesus, taking him by the hand, raised him, and he stood up.
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He took a child, had him stand among them, and taking him in his arms, he said to them,
