Again Jesus left the district of Tyre and went by way of Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, into the district of the Decapolis.

While Jesus was going through a field of grain on a sabbath, his disciples were picking the heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands, and eating them.

The scribes and Pharisees said to Jesus, “The disciples of John the Baptist fast often and offer prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees do the same; but yours eat and drink.” Jesus answered them, “Can you make the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them?

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

After Jesus left the synagogue, he entered the house of Simon.

Jesus went down to Caper­naum, a town of Galilee.

Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had grown up, and went according to his custom into the synagogue on the sabbath day.

When the Pharisees with some scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus, they observed that some of his disciples ate their meals with unclean, that is, unwashed, hands.—For the Pharisees and, in fact, all Jews, do not eat without carefully washing their hands, keeping the tradition of the elders.

Jesus told his disciples this parable: “A man going on a journey called in his servants and entrusted his possessions to them.

Jesus told his disciples this parable: “The Kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.