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Jesus said to them, "Follow Me. I will make you fish for men!"

Jesus called them and they left their father Zebedee. He was in the boat with men who were working for him.

He went and took her by the hand and raised her up. At once her sickness was gone. She got up and cared for them.

Simon and the others looked for Jesus.

They found Him and said, "All the people are looking for You."

Jesus said to them, "The Day of Rest was made for the good of man. Man was not made for the Day of Rest.

He told His followers to have a small boat ready for Him because so many people might push Him down.

For sure, I tell you, all sins will be forgiven people, and bad things they speak against God.

Then His mother and brothers came and stood outside. They sent for Jesus.

Many people were sitting around Him. They said, "See! Your mother and brothers are outside looking for You."

But the cares of this life let thorns come up. A love for riches and always wanting other things let thorns grow. These things do not give the Word room to grow so it does not give grain.

Jesus asked the demon, "What is your name?" He said, "My name is Many, for there are many of us."

The men who cared for the pigs ran fast to the town and out to the country telling what had been done. People came to see what had happened.

Jesus would not let him go but said to him, "Go home to your own people. Tell them what great things the Lord has done for you. Tell them how He had pity on you."

The man went his way and told everyone in the land of Decapolis what great things Jesus had done for him. All the people were surprised and wondered.

A woman had been sick for twelve years with a flow of blood.

For she said to herself, "If I can only touch His coat, I will be healed."

Jesus said to them, "One who speaks for God is respected everywhere but in his own country and among his own family and in his own house."

Whoever does not take you in or listen to you, when you leave there, shake the dust off your feet. By doing that, you will speak against them. For sure, I tell you, it will be easier for the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day men stand before God and are judged than for that city."

Then they left. They preached that men should be sorry for their sins and turn from them.