Let us go into the next towns, that I may preach there also: for therefore came I forth.
And the people sought him, and came unto him,
and stayed him, that he should not depart from them. And he said unto them,
I must preach the kingdom of God to other cities also: for therefore am I sent.
And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people, and cast out devils. And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them. And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judea, and from beyond Jordan.
CHAPTER IX.
SERMON ON THE MOUNT, NEAR CAPERNAUM.
AND seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,
Blessed are the poor in spirit: for their's is the kingdom of heaven.