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The people were amazed at his teaching, because he taught them as one who had authority, not as the teachers of the law.
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Instead he went out and began to talk freely, spreading the news. As a result, Jesus could no longer enter a town openly but stayed outside in lonely places. Yet the people still came to him from everywhere.
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“Why does this fellow talk like that? He’s blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
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Which is easier: to say to this paralyzed man, ‘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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As he walked along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” Jesus told him, and Levi got up and followed him.
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While Jesus was having dinner at Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with him and his disciples, for there were many who followed him.
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When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
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Jesus Questioned About Fasting
Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. Some people came and asked Jesus, “How is it that John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees are fasting, but yours are not?”
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But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and on that day they will fast.
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When his family heard about this, they went to take charge of him, for they said, “He is out of his mind.”
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He taught them many things by parables, and in his teaching said:
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Some people are like seed along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.
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Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.”
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He took her by the hand and said to her, “Talitha koum!” (which means “Little girl, I say to you, get up!” ).
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These were his instructions: “Take nothing for the journey except a staff—no bread, no bag, no money in your belts.
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Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand
The apostles gathered around Jesus and reported to him all they had done and taught.
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But he answered, “You give them something to eat.” They said to him, “That would take more than half a year’s wages! Are we to go and spend that much on bread and give it to them to eat?”
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Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to his disciples to distribute to the people. He also divided the two fish among them all.
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because they all saw him and were terrified. Immediately he spoke to them and said, “Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.”
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“First let the children eat all they want,” he told her, “for it is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.”
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“Lord,” she replied, “even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”
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There some people brought to him a man who was deaf and could hardly talk, and they begged Jesus to place his hand on him.
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Jesus commanded them not to tell anyone. But the more he did so, the more they kept talking about it.
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He told the crowd to sit down on the ground. When he had taken the seven loaves and given thanks, he broke them and gave them to his disciples to distribute to the people, and they did so.
