Jesus

But he walked right through the middle of the crowd and went away.

They were amazed at the way he taught, because his word carried the ring of authority.

"Yaah! What do you want with us, Yeshua from Natzeret? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are -- the Holy One of God!"

But Yeshua rebuked it: "Be quiet, and come out of him!" The demonic spirit threw the man down in the middle of the crowd and came out of him, having done him no harm.

They were all astounded and said to one another, "What kind of teaching is this? Why, he gives orders with power and authority to the unclean spirits, and they come out!"

And reports about him went out through the whole surrounding district.

Leaving the synagogue, he went to Shim`on's house. Shim`on's mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever, and they asked him to do something for her.

So, standing over her, he rebuked the fever; and it left her. She immediately got up and began helping them.

After sunset, all those who had people sick with various diseases brought them to Yeshua, and he put his hands on each one of them and healed them;

also demons came out of many, crying, "You are the Son of God!" But, rebuking them, he did not permit them to say that they knew he was the Messiah.

When day had come, he left and went away to a lonely spot. The people looked for him, came to him and would have kept him from leaving them.

But he said to them, "I must announce the Good News of the Kingdom of God to the other towns too -- this is why I was sent."

He also spent time preaching in the synagogues of Y'hudah.

One day, as Yeshua was standing on the shore of Lake Kinneret, with the people pressing in around him in order to hear the word of God,

He got into one of the boats, the one belonging to Shim`on, and asked him to put out a little way from shore. Then he sat down and taught the people from the boat.

When he had finished speaking, he said to Shim`on, "Put out into deep water, and let down your nets for a catch."

Shim`on answered, "We've worked hard all night long, Rabbi, and haven't caught a thing! But if you say so, I'll let down the nets."

When he saw this, Shim`on Kefa fell at Yeshua's knees and said, "Get away from me, sir, because I'm a sinner!"

likewise both Ya`akov and Yochanan, Shim`on's partners. "Don't be frightened,"Yeshua said to Shim`on, "from now on you will be catching men -- alive!"

And as soon as they had beached their boats, they left everything behind and followed him.

Once, when Yeshua was in one of the towns, there came a man completely covered with tzara`at. On seeing Yeshua, he fell on his face and begged him, "Sir, if you are willing, you can make me clean."

Yeshua reached out his hand and touched him, saying, "I am willing! Be cleansed!" Immediately the tzara`at left him.

Then Yeshua warned him not to tell anyone. "Instead, as a testimony to the people, go straight to the cohen and make an offering for your cleansing, as Moshe commanded."

But the news about Yeshua kept spreading all the more, so that huge crowds would gather to listen and be healed of their sicknesses.

However, he made a practice of withdrawing to remote places in order to pray.