by Faith Central & Steve Welsh
“… 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. …”
“‘… The Sower sows the Word. These are the ones on the path where the word is sown. As soon as they hear, Satan comes at once and takes away the word sown in them. And these are the ones sown on rocky ground who, when they hear the word, receive it at once with joy. But they have no roots; they last only for a time. … when tribulation or persecution comes because of the Word, they quickly fall away. Those sown among thorns are another sort. They are the people who hear the word, but worldly anxiety, the lure of riches, and the craving for other things intrude and choke the Word, and it bears no Fruit. But those sown on rich soil are the ones who hear the Word and accept it and bear fruit thirty and sixty and a hundredfold.'”
”… 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 returned to Galilee in the Power of the Spirit … He came to Nazareth and went … into the synagogue … [and] stood up to read … a scroll of the prophet Isaiah. ‘The Spirit of the Lord is upon me … He has Anointed Me to bring Glad Tidings to the poor. … to Proclaim Liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free … to proclaim a Year Acceptable to the Lord. … He said to them, ‘Today this Scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing.'”
“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.’ …”