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Narrative: The Feast of Weeks

And they laughed him to scorn. But when the people were put forth, he went in, and took her
by the hand, and the maid arose. And the fame hereof went abroad into all that land.
And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying,

Thou Son of David, have mercy on us.”
And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: And Jesus saith unto them,
“Believe ye that I am able to do this?”
They said unto him,
“Yea, Lord.”

Then touched he their eyes, saying,
“According to your faith be it unto you.”
And there eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying,
“See that no man know it.”

But they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country.
As they went out, behold, they brought to him a dumb man possessed with a devil. And when
the devil was cast out, the dumb spake: And the multitudes marvelled, saying,
“It was never so seen in Israel.”
But the Pharisees said,

“He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils.”
And it came to pass on the second sabbath after the first, that he went through the cornfields
on the sabbath day; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of corn and did eat,
rubbing them in their hands. And certain of the Pharisees said unto them,

“Behold, why do they do ye that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days?”
And Jesus answering them said, unto them,
“Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungered, he, and they
that were with him? How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did
take and eat the shewbread, and gave also to them that were with him; which it is not lawful to eat but

for the priests alone?”

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