Jesus

Whoever does what God wants is my brother, sister and mother!"

Again Yeshua began to teach by the lake, but the crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat on the lake and sat there, while the crowd remained on shore at the water's edge.

He taught them many things in parables. In the course of his teaching, he said to them:

And he concluded, "Whoever has ears to hear with, let him hear!"

When Yeshua was alone, the people around him with the Twelve asked him about the parables.

He answered them, "To you the secret of the Kingdom of God has been given; but to those outside, everything is in parables,

Then Yeshua said to them, "Don't you understand this parable? How will you be able to understand any parable?

He said to them, "A lamp isn't brought in to be put under a bowl or under the bed, is it? Wouldn't you put it on a lampstand?

He also said to them, "Pay attention to what you are hearing! The measure with which you measure out will be used to measure to you -- and more besides!

And he said, "The Kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed on the ground.

Yeshua also said, "With what can we compare the Kingdom of God? What illustration should we use to describe it?

With many parables like these he spoke the message to them, to the extent that they were capable of hearing it.

He did not say a thing to them without using a parable; when he was alone with his own talmidim he explained everything to them.

That day, when evening had come, Yeshua said to them, "Let's cross to the other side of the lake."

So, leaving the crowd behind, they took him just as he was, in the boat; and there were other boats with him.

But he was in the stern on a cushion, asleep. They woke him and said to him, "Rabbi, doesn't it matter to you that we're about to be killed?"

He awoke, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, "Quiet! Be still!" The wind subsided, and there was a dead calm.

He said to them, "Why are you afraid? Have you no trust even now?"

But they were terrified and asked each other, "Who can this be, that even the wind and the waves obey him?"

As soon as he disembarked, a man with an unclean spirit came out of the burial caves to meet him.

Seeing Yeshua from a distance, he ran and fell on his knees in front of him

and screamed at the top of his voice, "What do you want with me, Yeshua, Son of God Ha`Elyon? I implore you in God's name! Don't torture me!"

For Yeshua had already begun saying to him, "Unclean spirit, come out of this man!"

Yeshua asked him, "What's your name?" "My name is Legion," he answered, "there are so many of us";

and he kept begging Yeshua not to send them out of that region.