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“a voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him.’”
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John wore clothing made of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey.
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The Baptism and Testing of Jesus
At that time Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan.
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And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.”
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Jesus Drives Out an Impure Spirit
They went to Capernaum, and when the Sabbath came, Jesus went into the synagogue and began to teach.
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The impure spirit shook the man violently and came out of him with a shriek.
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Jesus Heals a Man With Leprosy
A man with leprosy came to him and begged him on his knees, “If you are willing, you can make me clean.”
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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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They gathered in such large numbers that there was no room left, not even outside the door, and he preached the word to them.
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Some men came, bringing to him a paralyzed man, carried by four of them.
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Jesus Calls Levi and Eats With Sinners
Once again Jesus went out beside the lake. A large crowd came to him, and he began to teach them.
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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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Jesus Is Lord of the Sabbath
One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain.
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So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”
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When they heard about all he was doing, many people came to him from Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, and the regions across the Jordan and around Tyre and Sidon.
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Jesus Appoints the Twelve
Jesus went up on a mountainside and called to him those he wanted, and they came to him.
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And the teachers of the law who came down from Jerusalem said, “He is possessed by Beelzebul! By the prince of demons he is driving out demons.”
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As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.
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But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root.
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Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up, grew and produced a crop, some multiplying thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times.”
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The farmer sows the word.
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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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Others, like seed sown on rocky places, hear the word and at once receive it with joy.
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But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.
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Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word;
