Jesus went to the district of Tyre.

Jesus summoned the crowd again and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand.

This people honors me with their lips,/ but their hearts are far from me;/ in vain do they worship me,/ teaching as doctrines human precepts.

After making the crossing to the other side of the sea, Jesus and his disciples came to land at Gennesaret and tied up there.

While the crowd was pressing in on Jesus and listening to the word of God, he was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret.

The Apostles gathered together with Jesus and reported all they had done and taught.

King Herod heard about Jesus, for his fame had ­become widespread, and people were saying, “John the Baptist has been raised from the dead; that is why mighty powers are at work in him.” Others were saying, “He is Elijah”; still others, “He is a prophet like any of the prophets.” But when Herod learned of it, he said, “It is John whom I beheaded.

Jesus summoned the Twelve and began to send them out two by two and gave them authority over unclean spirits.

Jesus departed from there and came to his native place, accompanied by his disciples.

When Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered around him, and he stayed close to the sea.