by Faith Central & Steve Welsh
“… He put His Finger into the man’s ears and, spitting, touched his tongue; then He looked up to Heaven and groaned, and said to him, ‘Ephphatha!’ (that is, ‘Be opened!’) And immediately the man’s ears were opened, his speech impediment was removed, and he spoke plainly. … They were exceedingly astonished and they said, ‘He has done all things well. He makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.'”
“… She replied and said … ‘Lord, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s scraps.’ … He said to her, ‘For saying this, you may go. The demon has gone out of your daughter.’ When the woman went home, she found the child lying in bed and the demon gone.”
“‘Is a lamp brought in to be placed under a bushel basket or under a bed, and not to be placed on a lampstand?
For there is nothing hidden except to be made visible; nothing is secret except to come to light. … The measure with which you measure will be measured out to you, and still more will be given to you. …”
”… If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house is divided against itself,
that house will not be able to stand. * * * … Amen, I say to you, all sins and all blasphemies that people utter will be forgiven them. But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never have forgiveness, but is guilty of an everlasting sin.’ For they had said, ‘He has an unclean spirit.'”
“Jesus withdrew toward the sea with His Disciples. A large number of people followed …. He had cured many and, as a result, those who had diseases were pressing upon Him to touch Him. And whenever unclean spirits saw Him they would fall down before Him and shout, ‘You are the Son of God.’ He warned them sternly not to make Him known. …”
“Jesus entered the synagogue. There was a man … who had a withered hand. … [Jesus] said to the Pharisees, ‘Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath rather than to do evil, to save life rather than to destroy it?’ … grieved at their hardness of heart, Jesus said to the man, ‘Stretch out your hand.’ … and his hand was restored. The Pharisees … immediately took counsel with the Herodians … to put Him to death.”
“Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? … the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away …then they will fast …. No one sews a piece of unshrunken cloth on an old cloak. … Likewise, no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the skins are ruined. Rather, new wine is poured into fresh wineskins.”
“There was a wedding at Cana in Galilee …. When the wine ran short, the Mother of Jesus said to Him, ‘They have no wine.’ … His Mother said to the servers, ‘Do whatever he tells you.’ … Jesus told the them, ‘Fill the jars with water.’ … when the headwaiter tasted the water that had become wine … the headwaiter … ‘… you have kept the good wine until now.’ Jesus did this as the beginning of His Signs at Cana in Galilee and so revealed His Glory, and His Disciples began to believe in Him.”
“… They came bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men.
Unable to get near Jesus because of the crowd,
they opened up the roof above him.
After they had broken through,
they let down the mat on which the paralytic was lying.
When Jesus saw their faith, he said to him,
‘Child, your sins are forgiven.’ …”
“A leper came to [Jesus] and kneeling down begged Him and said, ‘If you wish, you can make me clean.’ Moved with pity, He stretched out His Hand, touched the leper, and said to him, ‘I do will it. Be made clean.’ …”