Lexicon :: Strong's G1410 - dynamai

Then a man with leprosy[fn] came to him and, on his knees,[fn] begged him, “If you are willing, you can make me clean.”

Yet he went out and began to proclaim it widely and to spread the news, with the result that Jesus could no longer enter a town openly. But he was out in deserted places, and they came to him from everywhere.

Since they were not able to bring him to[fn] Jesus because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and after digging through it, they lowered the mat on which the paralytic was lying.

“Why does he speak like this? He’s blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone? ”

Jesus said to them, “The wedding guests cannot fast while the groom is with them, can they? As long as they have the groom with them, they cannot fast.

Jesus entered a house, and the crowd gathered again so that they were not even able to eat.[fn]

So he summoned them and spoke to them in parables: “How can Satan drive out Satan?

“And when sown, it comes up and grows taller than all the garden plants, and produces large branches, so that the birds of the sky can nest in its shade.”

He lived in the tombs, and no one was able to restrain him anymore ​— ​not even with a chain ​— ​

He was not able to do a miracle there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them.

So Herodias held a grudge against him and wanted to kill him. But she could not,

“Nothing that goes into a person from outside can defile him but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.”[fn]

He said to them, “Are you also as lacking in understanding? Don’t you realize that nothing going into a person from the outside can defile him?

He got up and departed from there to the region of Tyre.[fn] He entered a house and did not want anyone to know it, but he could not escape notice.

His disciples answered him, “Where can anyone get enough bread here in this desolate place to feed these people? ”

and his clothes became dazzling ​— ​extremely white as no launderer on earth could whiten them.

“And many times it has thrown him into fire or water to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”

After he had gone into the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why couldn’t we drive it out? ”

“Don’t stop him,” said Jesus, “because there is no one who will perform a miracle in my name who can soon afterward speak evil of me.

They were even more astonished, saying to one another, “Then who can be saved? ”

Jesus said to them, “You don’t know what you’re asking. Are you able to drink the cup I drink or to be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with? ”

“For this perfume might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii[fn] and given to the poor.” And they began to scold her.

“You always have the poor with you, and you can do what is good for them whenever you want, but you do not always have me.

In the same way, the chief priests with the scribes were mocking him among themselves and saying, “He saved others, but he cannot save himself!