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ing because he delivered his message with Jesus sat down and taught the crowds from authority. the boat. "When he finished speaking to the crowds, he said to Simon, "Row out farther, into the deep water, and drop your nets for a catch.”
33 A man in the synagogue had the spirit of an unclean demon. He screamed, 34"Hey! What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are. You are the holy one from God."
5Simon replied, "Master, we've worked hard all night and caught nothing. But because you say so, I'll drop the nets."
35"Silence!" Jesus said, speaking harshly to the demon. "Come out of him!" The demon threw the man down before them, then came out of him without harming him.
36 They were all shaken and said to each other, "What kind of word is this, that he can command unclean spirits with authority and power, and they leave?" 37Reports about him spread everywhere in the surrounding region.
38 After leaving the synagogue, Jesus went home with Simon. Simon's mother-in-law was sick with a high fever, and the family asked Jesus to help her. 39He bent over her and spoke harshly to the fever, and it left her. She got up at once and served them.
40 When the sun was setting, everyone brought to Jesus relatives and acquaintances with all kinds of diseases. Placing his hands on each of them, he healed them. 41 Demons also came out of many people. They screamed, "You are God's Son." But he spoke harshly to them and wouldn't allow them to speak because they recognized that he was the Christ. 42When daybreak arrived, Jesus went to a deserted place. The crowds were looking for him. When they found him, they tried to keep him from leaving them. 43 But he said to them, "I must preach the good news of God's kingdom in other cities too, for this is why I was sent." 44So he continued preaching in the Judean synagogues.
"So they dropped the nets and their catch was so huge that their nets were splitting. 'They signaled for their partners in the other boat to come and help them. They filled both boats so full that they were about to sink. When Simon Peter saw the catch, he fell at Jesus' knees and said, "Leave me, Lord, for I'm a sinner!" "Peter and those with him were overcome with amazement because of the number of fish they caught. 10 James and John, Zebedee's sons, were Simon's partners and they were amazed too.
Jesus said to Simon, "Don't be afraid. From now on, you will be fishing for people." "As soon as they brought the boats to the shore, they left everything and followed Jesus.
A man with a skin disease
12 Jesus was in one of the towns where there was also a man covered with a skin disease. When he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and begged, "Lord, if you want, you can make me clean.”
13 Jesus reached out his hand, touched him, and said, "I do want to. Be clean." Instantly, the skin disease left him. 14 Jesus ordered him not to tell anyone. "Instead," Jesus said, "go and show yourself to the priest and make an offering for your cleansing, as Moses instructed. This will be a testimony to them." 15 News of him spread even more and huge crowds gathered to listen and to be healed from their illnesses. 16 But
Jesus calls disciples
One day Jesus was standing beside Lake Jesus would withdraw to deserted places
One day Jesus was the crowd pressed in
for prayer.
around him to hear God's word. 2Jesus saw two boats sitting by the lake. The fishermen had gone ashore and were washing their nets. 3Jesus boarded one of the boats, the one that belonged to Simon, then asked him to row out a little distance from the shore.
Jesus heals a paralyzed man
17 One day when Jesus was teaching, Pharisees and legal experts were sitting nearby. They had come from every village in Galilee and Judea, and from Jerusalem.
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