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.

Jesus and his disciples came to the other side of the sea, to the territory of the Gerasenes. When he got out of the boat, at once a man from the tombs who had an unclean spirit met him. The man had been dwelling among the tombs, and no one could restrain him any longer, even with a chain. In fact, he had frequently been bound with shackles and chains, but the chains had been pulled apart by him and the shackles smashed, and no one was strong enough to subdue him. Night and day among the tombs and on the hillsides he was always crying out and bruising himself with stones. Catching sight of Jesus from a distance, he ran up and prostrated himself ­before him, crying out in a loud voice, “What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me!” (He had been saying to him, “Unclean spirit, come out of the man!”) He asked him, “What is your name?” He replied, “Legion is my name.