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There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.


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You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips, and flees away.


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Your guards are like the locusts, and your officials like the swarms of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day, but when the sun appears, they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.


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Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria. Your nobles lie down. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them.


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There is no healing your wound, for your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over you; for who hasn't felt your endless cruelty?


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Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you "Violence!" and will you not save?


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Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.


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Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice goes forth perverted.


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"Look among the nations, watch, and wonder marvelously; for I am working a work in your days, which you will not believe though it is told you.


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For, behold, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, that march through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs.


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Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle that hurries to devour.


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Yes, he scoffs at kings, and princes are a derision to him. He laughs at every stronghold, for he builds up an earthen ramp, and takes it.


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Aren't you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.


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You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,


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He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.


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Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious, and his food is good.


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I will stand at my watch, and set myself on the ramparts, and will look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.


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For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won't prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won't delay.


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Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. A haughty man who doesn't stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can't be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.


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Won't all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, 'Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?'


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Won't your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?


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Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you, because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.


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Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!


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You have devised shame to your house, by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.


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Behold, isn't it of Yahweh of Hosts that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?


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For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.


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"Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies!


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You are filled with shame, and not glory. You will also drink, and be exposed! The cup of Yahweh's right hand will come around to you, and disgrace will cover your glory.


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For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of the animals, which made them afraid; because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to every city and to those who dwell in them.


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"What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?


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Woe to him who says to the wood, 'Awake!' or to the mute stone, 'Arise!' Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.


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Yahweh, I have heard of your fame. I stand in awe of your deeds, Yahweh. Renew your work in the midst of the years. In the midst of the years make it known. In wrath, you remember mercy.


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God came from Teman, The Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah.  His glory covered the heavens, And his praise filled the earth.


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He stood, and shook the earth. He looked, and made the nations tremble. The ancient mountains were crumbled. The age-old hills collapsed. His ways are eternal.


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Was Yahweh displeased with the rivers? Was your anger against the rivers, Or your wrath against the sea, That you rode on your horses, On your chariots of salvation?


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The mountains saw you, and were afraid. The tempest of waters passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.


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The sun and moon stood still in the sky, At the light of your arrows as they went, At the shining of your glittering spear.


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You went forth for the salvation of your people, For the salvation of your anointed. You crushed the head of the land of wickedness. You stripped them head to foot. Selah.


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You pierced the heads of his warriors with their own spears. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me, Gloating as if to devour the wretched in secret.


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I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place, Because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, For the coming up of the people who invade us.


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For though the fig tree doesn't flourish, Nor fruit be in the vines; The labor of the olive fails, The fields yield no food; The flocks are cut off from the fold, And there is no herd in the stalls:


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Yahweh, the Lord, is my strength. He makes my feet like deer's feet, And enables me to go in high places. For the music director, on my stringed instruments.


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The word of Yahweh which came to Zephaniah, the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah.


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I will sweep away man and animal. I will sweep away the birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and the heaps of rubble with the wicked. I will cut off man from the surface of the earth, says Yahweh.


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I will stretch out my hand against Judah, and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place: the name of the idolatrous and pagan priests,


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those who worship the host of the sky on the housetops, those who worship and swear by Yahweh and also swear by Malcam,


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those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven't sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.


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Be silent at the presence of the Lord Yahweh, for the day of Yahweh is at hand. For Yahweh has prepared a sacrifice. He has consecrated his guests.


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It will happen in the day of Yahweh's sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, the king's sons, and all those who as are clothed with foreign clothing.


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In that day, I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their master's house with violence and deceit.


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In that day, says Yahweh, there will be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.


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Wail, you inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the people of Canaan are undone! All those who were loaded with silver are cut off.


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It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, "Yahweh will not do good, neither will he do evil."


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Their wealth will become a spoil, and their houses a desolation. Yes, they will build houses, but won't inhabit them. They will plant vineyards, but won't drink their wine.


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The great day of Yahweh is near. It is near, and hurries greatly, the voice of the day of Yahweh. The mighty man cries there bitterly.


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That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,


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I will bring distress on men, that they will walk like blind men, because they have sinned against Yahweh, and their blood will be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung.


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Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh's wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.


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before the appointed time when the day passes as the chaff, before the fierce anger of Yahweh comes on you, before the day of Yahweh's anger comes on you.


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Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh's anger.


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For Gaza will be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation. They will drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron will be rooted up.


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Woe to the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! The word of Yahweh is against you, Canaan, the land of the Philistines. I will destroy you, that there will be no inhabitant.


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The coast will be for the remnant of the house of Judah. They will find pasture. In the houses of Ashkelon, they will lie down in the evening, for Yahweh, their God, will visit them, and restore them.


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I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the insults of the children of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.


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Therefore as I live, says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.


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This they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Yahweh of Hosts.


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Yahweh will be awesome to them, for he will famish all the gods of the land. Men will worship him, everyone from his place, even all the shores of the nations.


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He will stretch out his hand against the north, destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like the wilderness.


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Herds will lie down in the midst of her, all the animals of the nations. Both the pelican and the porcupine will lodge in its capitals. Their calls will echo through the windows. Desolation will be in the thresholds, for he has laid bare the cedar beams.


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This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, "I am, and there is none besides me." How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.


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She didn't obey the voice. She didn't receive correction. She didn't trust in Yahweh. She didn't draw near to her God.


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Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.


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Her prophets are arrogant and treacherous people. Her priests have profaned the sanctuary. They have done violence to the law.


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Yahweh, in the midst of her, is righteous. He will do no wrong. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He doesn't fail, but the unjust know no shame.


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I have cut off nations. Their battlements are desolate. I have made their streets waste, so that no one passes by. Their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant.


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I said, "Just fear me. Receive correction, so that her dwelling won't be cut off, according to all that I have appointed concerning her." But they rose early and corrupted all their doings.


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"Therefore wait for me," says Yahweh, "until the day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour on them my indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.


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For then I will purify the lips of the peoples, that they may all call on the name of Yahweh, to serve him shoulder to shoulder.


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From beyond the rivers of Cush, my worshipers, even the daughter of my dispersed people, will bring my offering.


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In that day you will not be disappointed for all your doings, in which you have transgressed against me; for then I will take away out of the midst of you your proudly exulting ones, and you will no more be haughty in my holy mountain.


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But I will leave in the midst of you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in the name of Yahweh.


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The remnant of Israel will not do iniquity, nor speak lies, neither will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they will feed and lie down, and no one will make them afraid."


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Sing, daughter of Zion! Shout, Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, daughter of Jerusalem.


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Yahweh has taken away your judgments. He has thrown out your enemy. The King of Israel, Yahweh, is in the midst of you. You will not be afraid of evil any more.


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Yahweh, your God, is in the midst of you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will rest in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.


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Those who are sad for the appointed feasts, I will remove from you. They are a burden and a reproach to you.


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Behold, at that time I will deal with all those who afflict you, and I will save those who are lame, and gather those who were driven away. I will give them praise and honor, whose shame has been in all the earth.


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At that time will I bring you in, and at that time will I gather you; for I will give you honor and praise among all the peoples of the earth, when I bring back your captivity before your eyes, says Yahweh.


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In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, the Word of Yahweh came by Haggai, the prophet, to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,


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"This is what Yahweh of Hosts says: These people say, 'The time hasn't yet come, the time for Yahweh's house to be built.'"


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You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don't have enough. You drink, but you aren't filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it."


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Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified," says Yahweh.


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"You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?" says Yahweh of Hosts, "Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.


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I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on that which the ground brings forth, on men, on cattle, and on all the labor of the hands."


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Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of Yahweh, their God, and the words of Haggai, the prophet, as Yahweh, their God, had sent him; and the people feared Yahweh.


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Then Haggai, Yahweh's messenger, spoke in Yahweh's message to the people, saying, "I am with you," says Yahweh.


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Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of Yahweh of Hosts, their God,


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In the seventh month, in the twenty-first day of the month, the Word of Yahweh came by Haggai the prophet, saying,


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"Speak now to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people, saying,


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'Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Isn't it in your eyes as nothing?


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Yet now be strong, Zerubbabel,' says Yahweh. 'Be strong, Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land,' says Yahweh, 'and work, for I am with you,' says Yahweh of Hosts.


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This is the word that I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt, and my Spirit lived among you. Don't be afraid.'


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For this is what Yahweh of Hosts says: 'Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, the earth, the sea, and the dry land;


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and I will shake all nations. The precious things of all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory, says Yahweh of Hosts.


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'The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former,' says Yahweh of Hosts; 'and in this place will I give peace,' says Yahweh of Hosts."


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In the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the Word of Yahweh came by Haggai the prophet, saying,


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'If someone carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, and with his fold touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any food, will it become holy?'" The priests answered, "No."


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Then Haggai said, "If one who is unclean by reason of a dead body touch any of these, will it be unclean?" The priests answered, "It will be unclean."


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Then Haggai answered, "'So is this people, and so is this nation before me,' says Yahweh; 'and so is every work of their hands. That which they offer there is unclean.


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Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in the temple of Yahweh.


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Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty.


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I struck you with blight, mildew, and hail in all the work of your hands; yet you didn't turn to me,' says Yahweh.


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'Consider, please, from this day and backward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, since the day that the foundation of Yahweh's temple was laid, consider it.


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Is the seed yet in the barn? Yes, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree haven't brought forth. From this day will I bless you.'"


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I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms. I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations. I will overthrow the chariots, and those who ride in them. The horses and their riders will come down, everyone by the sword of his brother.


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In that day, says Yahweh of Hosts, will I take you, Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel,' says Yahweh, 'and will make you as a signet, for I have chosen you,' says Yahweh of Hosts."


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In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying,


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Therefore tell them: Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: 'Return to me,' says Yahweh of Hosts, 'and I will return to you,' says Yahweh of Hosts.


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Don't you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: Thus says Yahweh of hosts, 'Return now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings;' but they did not hear, nor listen to me, says Yahweh.


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But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn't they overtake your fathers? "Then they repented and said, 'Just as Yahweh of Hosts determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.'"


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On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying,


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"I had a vision in the night, and, behold, a man riding on a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in a ravine; and behind him there were red, brown, and white horses.


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Then I asked, 'My lord, what are these?'" The angel who talked with me said to me, "I will show you what these are."


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The man who stood among the myrtle trees answered, "They are the ones Yahweh has sent to go back and forth through the earth."


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They reported to the angel of Yahweh who stood among the myrtle trees, and said, "We have walked back and forth through the earth, and, behold, all the earth is at rest and in peace."


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Then the angel of Yahweh replied, "O Yahweh of Hosts, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these seventy years?"


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So the angel who talked with me said to me, "Proclaim, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: "I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.


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I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity."


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Therefore thus says Yahweh: "I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy. My house shall be built in it," says Yahweh of Hosts, "and a line shall be stretched forth over Jerusalem."'


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"Proclaim further, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: "My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and Yahweh will again comfort Zion, and will again choose Jerusalem."'"


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I asked the angel who talked with me, "What are these?" He answered me, "These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem."


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Then I asked, "What are these coming to do?" He said, "These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man lifted up his head; but these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations, which lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it."


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Then I asked, "Where are you going?" He said to me, "To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its breadth and what is its length."


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and said to him, "Run, speak to this young man, saying, 'Jerusalem will be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of men and cattle in it.


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For I,' says Yahweh, 'will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the midst of her.


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Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,' says Yahweh; 'for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the sky,' says Yahweh.


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For thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.


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For, behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they will be a spoil to those who served them; and you will know that Yahweh of Hosts has sent me.


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Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion; for, behold, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of you,' says Yahweh.


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Many nations shall join themselves to Yahweh in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell in the midst of you, and you shall know that Yahweh of Hosts has sent me to you.


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He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of Yahweh, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.


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Yahweh said to Satan, "Yahweh rebuke you, Satan! Yes, Yahweh who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Isn't this a burning stick plucked out of the fire?"


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He answered and spoke to those who stood before him, saying, "Take the filthy garments off of him." To him he said, "Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you, and I will clothe you with rich clothing."


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I said, "Let them set a clean turban on his head." So they set a clean turban on his head, and clothed him; and the angel of Yahweh was standing by.


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"Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'If you will walk in my ways, and if you will keep my charge, then you also shall judge my house, and shall also keep my courts, and I will give you a place of access among these who stand by.


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Hear now, Joshua the high priest, you and your fellows who sit before you; for they are men who are a sign: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant, the Branch.


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For, behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the engraving of it,' says Yahweh of Hosts, 'and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.


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In that day,' says Yahweh of hosts, 'you will invite every man his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree.'"


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He said to me, "What do you see?" I said, "I have seen, and, behold, a lampstand all of gold, with its bowl on the top of it, and its seven lamps thereon; there are seven pipes to each of the lamps, which are on the top of it;


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and two olive trees by it, one on the right side of the bowl, and the other on the left side of it."


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Then the angel who talked with me answered me, "Don't you know what these are?" I said, "No, my lord."


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Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, "This is the word of Yahweh to Zerubbabel, saying, 'Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,' says Yahweh of Hosts.


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Who are you, great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you are a plain; and he will bring out the capstone with shouts of 'Grace, grace, to it!'"


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"The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house. His hands shall also finish it; and you will know that Yahweh of Hosts has sent me to you.


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Indeed, who despises the day of small things? For these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. These are the eyes of Yahweh, which run back and forth through the whole earth."


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Then I asked him, "What are these two olive trees on the right side of the lampstand and on the left side of it?"


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I asked him the second time, "What are these two olive-branches, which are beside the two golden spouts, that pour the golden oil out of themselves?"


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He said to me, "What do you see?" I answered, "I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits, and its breadth ten cubits."


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Then he said to me, "This is the curse that goes out over the surface of the whole land; for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on the one side; and everyone who swears falsely shall be cut off according to it on the other side.


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I will cause it to go out," says Yahweh of Hosts, "and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the midst of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones."


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Then the angel who talked with me came forward, and said to me, "Lift up now your eyes, and see what is this that is appearing."


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I said, "What is it?" He said, "This is the ephah{ An ephah is a measure of volume of about 22 litres, 5.8 U. S. gallons, 4.8 imperial gallons, or a bit more than half a bushel. } basket that is appearing." He said moreover, "This is their appearance in all the land


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(and, behold, a talent{A talent is a weight of about 34 kilograms or 75 pounds.} of lead was lifted up); and this is a woman sitting in the midst of the ephah basket."


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He said, "This is Wickedness;" and he threw her down into the midst of the ephah basket; and he threw the weight of lead on its mouth.


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Then lifted I up my eyes, and saw, and, behold, there were two women, and the wind was in their wings. Now they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the ephah basket between earth and the sky.


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He said to me, "To build her a house in the land of Shinar. When it is prepared, she will be set there in her own place."


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Again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and, behold, four chariots came out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass.


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The angel answered me, "These are the four winds of the sky, which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth.


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The one with the black horses goes out toward the north country; and the white went out after them; and the dappled went forth toward the south country."


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The strong went out, and sought to go that they might walk back and forth through the earth: and he said, "Go around and through the earth!" So they walked back and forth through the earth.


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Then he called to me, and spoke to me, saying, "Behold, those who go toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country."


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"Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah; and come the same day, and go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah, where they have come from Babylon.


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Yes, take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them on the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest;


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and speak to him, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, "Behold, the man whose name is the Branch: and he shall grow up out of his place; and he shall build the temple of Yahweh;


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even he shall build the temple of Yahweh; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule on his throne; and he shall be a priest on his throne; and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.


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The crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the temple of Yahweh.


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Those who are far off shall come and build in the temple of Yahweh; and you shall know that Yahweh of hosts has sent me to you. This will happen, if you will diligently obey the voice of Yahweh your God."'"


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It happened in the fourth year of king Darius that the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Chislev.


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and to speak to the priests of the house of Yahweh of Hosts, and to the prophets, saying, "Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?"


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"Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, 'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?


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Aren't these the words which Yahweh proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and its cities around her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?'"


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"Thus has Yahweh of Hosts spoken, saying, 'Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.


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Don't oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.'


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But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.


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Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of Hosts had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of Hosts.


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It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen," said Yahweh of Hosts;


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"but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the pleasant land desolate."


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Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: "I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath."


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Thus says Yahweh: "I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be called 'The City of Truth;' and the mountain of Yahweh of Hosts, 'The Holy Mountain.'"


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Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: "Old men and old women will again dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand for very age.


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Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: "If it is marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be marvelous in my eyes?" says Yahweh of Hosts.


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Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: "Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country;


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and I will bring them, and they will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and they will be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness."


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Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: "Let your hands be strong, you who hear in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets who were in the day that the foundation of the house of Yahweh of Hosts was laid, even the temple, that it might be built.


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For before those days there was no wages for man, nor any wages for an animal; neither was there any peace to him who went out or came in, because of the adversary. For I set all men everyone against his neighbor.


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"For the seed of peace and the vine will yield its fruit, and the ground will give its increase, and the heavens will give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.


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It shall come to pass that, as you were a curse among the nations, house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you, and you shall be a blessing. Don't be afraid. Let your hands be strong."


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For thus says Yahweh of hosts: "As I thought to do evil to you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath," says Yahweh of Hosts, "and I didn't repent;


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so again have I thought in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Don't be afraid.


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These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,


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and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate," says Yahweh.


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Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: "The fasts of the fourth fifth, seventh, and tenth months shall be for the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace."


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and the inhabitants of one shall go to another, saying, 'Let us go speedily to entreat the favor of Yahweh, and to seek Yahweh of Hosts. I will go also.'


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Yes, many peoples and strong nations will come to seek Yahweh of Hosts in Jerusalem, and to entreat the favor of Yahweh."


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Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: "In those days, ten men will take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they will take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, 'We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.'"


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An oracle. The word of Yahweh is against the land of Hadrach, And will rest upon Damascus; For the eye of man And of all the tribes of Israel is toward Yahweh;


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Tyre built herself a stronghold, And heaped up silver like the dust, And fine gold like the mire of the streets.


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Behold, the Lord will dispossess her, And he will strike her power in the sea; And she will be devoured with fire.


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Ashkelon will see it, and fear; Gaza also, and will writhe in agony; As will Ekron, for her expectation will be disappointed; And the king will perish from Gaza, And Ashkelon will not be inhabited.


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I will take away his blood out of his mouth, And his abominations from between his teeth; And he also will be a remnant for our God; And he will be as a chieftain in Judah, And Ekron as a Jebusite.


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I will encamp around my house against the army, That none pass through or return; And no oppressor will pass through them any more: For now I have seen with my eyes.


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Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; Lowly, and riding on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.


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I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, And the horse from Jerusalem; And the battle bow will be cut off; And he will speak peace to the nations: And his dominion will be from sea to sea, And from the River to the ends of the earth.


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As for you also, Because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.


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Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope! Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.


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For indeed I bend Judah as a bow for me. I have filled the bow with Ephraim; And I will stir up your sons, Zion, Against your sons, Greece, And will make you like the sword of a mighty man.


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Yahweh will be seen over them; And his arrow will go flash like lightning; And the Lord Yahweh will blow the trumpet, And will go with whirlwinds of the south.


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Yahweh of Hosts will defend them; And they will destroy and overcome with sling-stones; And they will drink, and roar as through wine; And they will be filled like bowls, Like the corners of the altar.


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Yahweh their God will save them in that day as the flock of his people; For they are like the jewels of a crown, Lifted on high over his land.


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For how great is his goodness, And how great is his beauty! Grain will make the young men flourish, And new wine the virgins.


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Ask of Yahweh rain in the spring time, Yahweh who makes storm clouds, And he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the field.


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For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; And they have told false dreams. They comfort in vain. Therefore they go their way like sheep. They are oppressed, because there is no shepherd.


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My anger is kindled against the shepherds, And I will punish the male goats; For Yahweh of Hosts has visited his flock, the house of Judah, And will make them as his horse in the battle that he is proud of.


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From him will come forth the corner-stone, From him the nail, From him the battle bow, From him every ruler together.


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They shall be as mighty men, Treading down muddy streets in the battle; And they shall fight, because Yahweh is with them; And the riders on horses will be confounded.


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"I will strengthen the house of Judah, And I will save the house of Joseph, And I will bring them back; For I have mercy on them; And they will be as though I had not cast them off: For I am Yahweh their God, and I will hear them.


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Ephraim will be like a mighty man, And their heart will rejoice as through wine; Yes, their children will see it, and rejoice. Their heart will be glad in Yahweh.


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I will signal for them, and gather them; For I have redeemed them; And they will increase as they have increased.


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I will sow them among the peoples; And they will remember me in far countries; And they will live with their children, and will return.


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I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, And gather them out of Assyria; And I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; And there won't be room enough for them.


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He will pass through the sea of affliction, And will strike the waves in the sea, And all the depths of the Nile will dry up; And the pride of Assyria will be brought down, And the scepter of Egypt will depart.


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Wail, fir tree, for the cedar has fallen, Because the stately ones are destroyed. Wail, you oaks of Bashan, For the strong forest has come down.


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A voice of the wailing of the shepherds! For their glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions! For the pride of the Jordan is ruined.


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Their buyers slaughter them, and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, 'Blessed be Yahweh, for I am rich;' and their own shepherds don't pity them.


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For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land," says Yahweh; "but, behold, I will deliver the men everyone into his neighbor's hand, and into the hand of his king. They will strike the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them."


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So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called "Favor," and the other I called "Union," and I fed the flock.


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I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.


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Then I said, "I will not feed you. That which dies, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let those who are left eat each other's flesh."


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I took my staff Favor, and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant that I had made with all the peoples.


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It was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock that listened to me knew that it was the word of Yahweh.


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I said to them, "If you think it best, give me my wages; and if not, keep them." So they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver.


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Yahweh said to me, "Throw it to the potter, the handsome price that I was valued at by them!" I took the thirty pieces of silver, and threw them to the potter, in the house of Yahweh.


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Then I cut apart my other staff, even Union, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.


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For, behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not visit those who are cut off, neither will seek those who are scattered, nor heal that which is broken, nor feed that which is sound; but he will eat the flesh of the fat sheep, and will tear their hoofs in pieces.


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Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword will be on his arm, and on his right eye. His arm will be completely withered, and his right eye will be totally blinded!"


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An oracle. The word of Yahweh concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:


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"Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all the surrounding peoples, and on Judah also will it be in the siege against Jerusalem.


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It will happen in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples. All who burden themselves with it will be severely wounded, and all the nations of the earth will be gathered together against it.


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In that day," says Yahweh, "I will strike every horse with terror, and his rider with madness; and I will open my eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.


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The chieftains of Judah will say in their heart, 'The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength in Yahweh of Hosts their God.'


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In that day I will make the chieftains of Judah like a pan of fire among wood, and like a flaming torch among sheaves; and they will devour all the surrounding peoples, on the right hand and on the left; and Jerusalem will yet again dwell in their own place, even in Jerusalem.


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Yahweh also will save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem not be magnified above Judah.


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In that day Yahweh will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. He who is feeble among them at that day will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of Yahweh before them.


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It will happen in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.


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I will pour on the house of David, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me{After "me," the Hebrew has the two letters "Aleph Tav" (the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet), not as a word, but as a grammatical marker.} whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.


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In that day there will be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.


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The land will mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;


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"In that day there will be a spring opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.


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It will come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they will no more be remembered; and also I will cause the prophets and the spirit of impurity to pass out of the land.


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It will happen that, when anyone still prophesies, then his father and his mother who bore him will tell him, 'You must die, because you speak lies in the name of Yahweh;' and his father and his mother who bore him will stab him when he prophesies.


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It will happen in that day, that the prophets will each be ashamed of his vision, when he prophesies; neither will they wear a hairy mantle to deceive:


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but he will say, 'I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the ground; for I have been made a bondservant from my youth.'


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One will say to him, 'What are these wounds between your arms?' Then he will answer, 'Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.'


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"Awake, sword, against my shepherd, And against the man who is close to me," says Yahweh of Hosts. Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; And I will turn my hand against the little ones.


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It shall happen that in all the land," says Yahweh, Two parts in it will be cut off and die; But the third will be left in it.


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I will bring the third part into the fire, And will refine them as silver is refined, And will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, 'It is my people;' And they will say, 'Yahweh is my God.'"


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For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.


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His feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in two, from east to west, making a very great valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and half of it toward the south.


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You shall flee by the valley of my mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azel; yes, you shall flee, just like you fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Yahweh my God will come, and all the holy ones with you.


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It will be a unique day which is known to Yahweh; not day, and not night; but it will come to pass, that at evening time there will be light.


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It will happen in that day, that living waters will go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea; in summer and in winter will it be.


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All the land will be made like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she will be lifted up, and will dwell in her place, from Benjamin's gate to the place of the first gate, to the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananel to the king's wine-presses.


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This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh will consume away while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will consume away in their sockets, and their tongue will consume away in their mouth.


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It will happen in that day, that a great panic from Yahweh will be among them; and they will lay hold everyone on the hand of his neighbor, and his hand will rise up against the hand of his neighbor.


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Judah also will fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be gathered together: gold, and silver, and clothing, in great abundance.


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So will be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the donkey, and of all the animals that will be in those camps, as that plague.


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It will happen that everyone who is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, Yahweh of Hosts, and to keep the feast of tents.


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It will be, that whoever of all the families of the earth doesn't go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, Yahweh of Hosts, on them there will be no rain.


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If the family of Egypt doesn't go up, and doesn't come, neither will it rain on them. This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike the nations that don't go up to keep the feast of tents.


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This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that don't go up to keep the feast of tents.


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In that day there will be on the bells of the horses, "HOLY TO YAHWEH;" and the pots in Yahweh's house will be like the bowls before the altar.


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Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to Yahweh of Hosts; and all those who sacrifice will come and take of them, and cook in them. In that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of Yahweh of Hosts.


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"I have loved you," says Yahweh. Yet you say, "How have you loved us?" "Wasn't Esau Jacob's brother?" says Yahweh, "Yet I loved Jacob;


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but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness."


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Whereas Edom says, "We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places;" thus says Yahweh of Hosts, "They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them 'The Wicked Land,' even the people against whom Yahweh shows wrath forever."


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"A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Hosts to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, 'How have we despised your name?'


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You offer polluted bread on my altar. You say, 'How have we polluted you?' In that you say, 'Yahweh's table contemptible.'


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When you offer the blind for sacrifice, isn't that evil? And when you offer the lame and sick, isn't that evil? Present it now to your governor! Will he be pleased with you? Or will he accept your person?" says Yahweh of Hosts.


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"Now, please entreat the favor of God, that he may be gracious to us. With this, will he accept any of you?" says Yahweh of Hosts.


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"Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you," says Yahweh of hosts, "neither will I accept an offering at your hand.


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For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the nations," says Yahweh of Hosts.


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"But you profane it, in that you say, 'Yahweh's table is polluted, and its fruit, even its food, is contemptible.'


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You say also, 'Behold, what a weariness it is!' and you have sniffed at it," says Yahweh of Hosts; "and you have brought that which was taken by violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. Should I accept this at your hand?" says Yahweh.


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"But the deceiver is cursed, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord a blemished thing; for I am a great King," says Yahweh of hosts, "and my name is awesome among the nations."


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If you will not listen, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name," says Yahweh of Hosts, "then will I send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart.


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Behold, I will rebuke your seed, and will spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.


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You will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant may be with Levi," says Yahweh of Hosts.


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"My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him who he might be reverent toward me; and he was reverent toward me, and stood in awe of my name.


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The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity.


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For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Hosts.


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But you have turned aside out of the way. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi," says Yahweh of Hosts.


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"Therefore I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.


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Don't we all have one father? Hasn't one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?


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Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.


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Yahweh will cut off, to the man who does this, him who wakes and him who answers, out of the tents of Jacob, and him who offers an offering to Yahweh of Hosts.


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This again you do: you cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn't regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.


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Yet you say, 'Why?' Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.


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Did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.


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For I hate divorce," says Yahweh, the God of Israel, "and him who covers his garment with violence!' says Yahweh of Hosts. "Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don't deal treacherously.


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You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, 'How have we wearied him?' In that you say, 'Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of Yahweh, and he delights in them;' or 'Where is the God of justice?'


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"Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!" says Yahweh of hosts.


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"But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire, and like launderer's soap;


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and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer to Yahweh offerings in righteousness.


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Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasant to Yahweh, as in the days of old, and as in ancient years.


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I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don't fear me," says Yahweh of Hosts.


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From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you," says Yahweh of Hosts. "But you say, 'How shall we return?'


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Bring the whole tithe into the store-house, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this," says Yahweh of hosts, "if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough for.


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I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast its fruit before its time in the field," says Yahweh of Hosts.


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"Your words have been stout against me," says Yahweh. "Yet you say, 'What have we spoken against you?'


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You have said, 'It is vain to serve God;' and 'What profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Hosts?


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Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.'


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Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name.


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They shall be mine," says Yahweh of Hosts, "my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.


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Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn't serve him.


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"For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up," says Yahweh of Hosts, "that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.


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But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.


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You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make," says Yahweh of Hosts.


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"Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances.


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He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse."


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The book of the generation of Jesus Christ{Christ (Greek) and Messiah (Hebrew) both mean "Anointed One"}, the son of David, the son of Abraham.


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Abraham became the father of Isaac. Isaac became the father of Jacob. Jacob became the father of Judah and his brothers.


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Judah became the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar. Perez became the father of Hezron. Hezron became the father of Ram.


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Ram became the father of Amminadab. Amminadab became the father of Nahshon. Nahshon became the father of Salmon.


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Salmon became the father of Boaz by Rahab. Boaz became the father of Obed by Ruth. Obed became the father of Jesse.


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Jesse became the father of David the king. David became the father of Solomon by her who had been the wife of Uriah.


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Solomon became the father of Rehoboam. Rehoboam became the father of Abijah. Abijah became the father of Asa.


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Asa became the father of Jehoshaphat. Jehoshaphat became the father of Joram. Joram became the father of Uzziah.


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Uzziah became the father of Jotham. Jotham became the father of Ahaz. Ahaz became the father of Hezekiah.


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Hezekiah became the father of Manasseh. Manasseh became the father of Amon. Amon became the father of Josiah.


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After the exile to Babylon, Jechoniah became the father of Shealtiel. Shealtiel became the father of Zerubbabel.


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Zerubbabel became the father of Abiud. Abiud became the father of Eliakim. Eliakim became the father of Azor.


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Azor became the father of Sadoc. Sadoc became the father of Achim. Achim became the father of Eliud.


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Eliud became the father of Eleazar. Eleazar became the father of Matthan. Matthan became the father of Jacob.


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Jacob became the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, from whom was born Jesus{"Jesus" is a Greek variant of the Jewish name "Yehoshua," which means "Yah saves." "Jesus" is also the masculine form of "Yeshu'ah," which means "Salvation."}, who is called Christ.


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So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; from David to the exile to Babylon fourteen generations; and from the carrying away to Babylon to the Christ, fourteen generations.


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Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this; for after his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.


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Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly.


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But when he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, son of David, don't be afraid to take to yourself Mary, your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.


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She shall bring forth a son. You shall call his name Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins."


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Now all this has happened, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying,


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"Behold, the virgin shall be with child, And shall bring forth a son. They shall call his name Immanuel;" Which is, being interpreted, "God with us."


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Joseph arose from his sleep, and did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and took his wife to himself;


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Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men{The word for "wise men" (magoi) can also mean teachers, priests, physicians, astrologers, seers, interpreters of dreams, or sorcerers.} from the east came to Jerusalem, saying,


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"Where is he who is born King of the Jews? For we saw his star in the east, and have come to worship him."


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Gathering together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he asked them where the Christ would be born.


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'You Bethlehem, land of Judah, Are in no way least among the princes of Judah: For out of you shall come forth a governor, Who shall shepherd my people, Israel.'"


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He sent them to Bethlehem, and said, "Go and search diligently for the young child. When you have found him, bring me word, so that I also may come and worship him."


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They, having heard the king, went their way; and behold, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, until it came and stood over where the young child was.


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They came into the house and saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Opening their treasures, they offered to him gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.


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Being warned in a dream that they shouldn't return to Herod, they went back to their own country another way.


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Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, "Arise and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him."


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and was there until the death of Herod; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, "Out of Egypt I called my son."


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Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.


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"A voice was heard in Ramah, Lamentation, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; She wouldn't be comforted, Because they are no more."


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But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying,


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"Arise and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel, for those who sought the young child's life are dead."


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But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in the place of his father, Herod, he was afraid to go there. Being warned in a dream, he withdrew into the region of Galilee,


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and came and lived in a city called Nazareth; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets: "He will be called a Nazarene."


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For this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make ready the way of the Lord, Make his paths straight."


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Now John himself wore clothing made of camel's hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.


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But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, "You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?


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Don't think to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father,' for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.


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"Even now the axe lies at the root of the trees. Therefore, every tree that doesn't bring forth good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.


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I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.{TR and NU add "and with fire"}


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His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire."


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But Jesus, answering, said to him, "Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness." Then he allowed him.


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Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him.


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The tempter came and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread."


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But he answered, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.'"


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and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, 'He will give his angels charge concerning you.' and, 'On their hands they will bear you up, So that you don't dash your foot against a stone.'"


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Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.


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Then Jesus said to him, "Get behind me,{TR and NU read "Go away" instead of "Get behind me"} Satan! For it is written, 'You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.'"


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Leaving Nazareth, he came and lived in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali,


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"The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, Toward the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles,


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The people who sat in darkness saw a great light, To those who sat in the region and shadow of death, To them light has dawned."


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Walking by the sea of Galilee, he{TR reads "Jesus" instead of "he"} saw two brothers: Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew, his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.


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Going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets. He called them.


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Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.


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The report about him went out into all Syria. They brought to him all who were sick, afflicted with various diseases and torments, possessed with demons, epileptics, and paralytics; and he healed them.


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Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him.


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Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness' sake, For theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.


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"Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.


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Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.


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"You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.


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Neither do you light a lamp, and put it under a measuring basket, but on a stand; and it shines to all who are in the house.


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Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.


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"Don't think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn't come to destroy, but to fulfill.


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For most assuredly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter{literally, iota} or one tiny pen stroke{or, serif} shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.


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Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.


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For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.


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"You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, 'You shall not murder;' and 'Whoever shall murder shall be in danger of the judgment.'


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But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment; and whoever shall say to his brother, 'Raca{"Raca" is an Aramaic insult, related to the word for "empty" and conveying the idea of empty-headedness.}!' shall be in danger of the council; and whoever shall say, 'You fool!' shall be in danger of the fire of Gehenna{Gehenna is another name for Hell that brings to mind an image of a burning garbage dump with dead bodies in it.}.


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"If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you,


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leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.


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Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him in the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.


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Most assuredly I tell you, you shall by no means get out of there, until you have paid the last penny.{Literally, kodrantes. A kodrantes was a small copper coin worth about 2 lepta (widow's mites)--not enough to buy very much of anything.}


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but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.


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If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.


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If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you: for it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, and not your whole body be thrown into Gehenna.


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but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.


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"Again you have heard that it was said to them of old time, 'You shall not make false vows, but shall perform to the Lord your vows,'


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But I tell you, don't resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.


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But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,


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that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.


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For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don't even the tax collectors do the same?


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If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don't even the tax collectors do the same?


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"Be careful that you don't do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.


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Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don't sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most assuredly I tell you, they have received their reward.


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so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.


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"When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most assuredly, I tell you, they have received their reward.


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But you, when you pray, enter into your inner chamber, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.


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In praying, don't use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.


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Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.'


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"Moreover when you fast, don't be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most assuredly I tell you, they have received their reward.


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so that you are not seen by men to be fasting, but by your Father who is in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.


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"Don't lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;


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but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don't break through and steal;


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"The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.


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But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!


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"No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can't serve both God and Mammon.


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Therefore, I tell you, don't be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn't life more than food, and the body more than clothing?


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See the birds of the sky, that they don't sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren't you of much more value than they?


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Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don't toil, neither do they spin,


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But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won't he much more clothe you, you of little faith?


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"Therefore don't be anxious, saying, 'What will we eat?', 'What will we drink?' or, 'With what will we be clothed?'


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For the Gentiles seek after all these things, for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.


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But seek first God's Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.


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Therefore don't be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day's own evil is sufficient.


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For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.


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Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye?


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Or how will you tell your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye;' and behold, the beam is in your own eye?


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You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye.


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"Don't give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.


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If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!


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Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.


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"Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.


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How{TR reads "Because" instead of "How"} narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it.


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Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.


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Many will tell me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, didn't we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?'


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"Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.


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The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn't fall, for it was founded on the rock.


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Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn't do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand.


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The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell--and great was its fall."


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It happened, when Jesus had finished saying these things, that the multitudes were astonished at his teaching,


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Behold, a leper came to him and worshiped him, saying, "Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean."


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Jesus stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying, "I want to. Be made clean." Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.


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Jesus said to him, "See that you tell nobody, but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them."


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The centurion answered, "Lord, I'm not worthy for you to come under my roof. Just say the word, and my servant will be healed.


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For I am also a man under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one, 'Go,' and he goes; and tell another, 'Come,' and he comes; and tell my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it."


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When Jesus heard it, he marveled, and said to those who followed, "Most assuredly I tell you, I haven't found so great a faith, not even in Israel.


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I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven,


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but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and the gnashing of teeth."


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Jesus said to the centurion, "Go your way. Let it be done for you as you have believed." His servant was healed in that hour.


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He touched her hand, and the fever left her. She got up and served him.{TR reads "them" instead of "him"}


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When evening came, they brought to him many possessed with demons. He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick;


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that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying: "He took our infirmities, and bore our diseases."


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Jesus said to him, "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head."


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Behold, a great tempest arose in the sea, so much that the boat was covered with the waves, but he was asleep.


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He said to them, "Why are you fearful, oh you of little faith?" Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.


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When he came to the other side, into the country of the Gergesenes, two people possessed by demons met him there, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that nobody could pass by that way.


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Behold, they cried out, saying, "What do we have to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?"


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He said to them, "Go!" They came out, and went into the herd of pigs: and behold, the whole herd of pigs rushed down the cliff into the sea, and died in the water.


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Those who fed them fled, and went away into the city, and told everything, including what happened to those who were possessed with demons.


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Behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus. When they saw him, they begged that he would depart from their borders.


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Behold, they brought to him a man who was paralyzed, lying on a bed. Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, "Son, cheer up! Your sins are forgiven you."


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But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins..." (then he said to the paralytic), "Get up, and take up your mat, and go up to your house."


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But when the multitudes saw it, they marveled and glorified God, who had given such authority to men.


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As Jesus passed by from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax collection office. He said to him, "Follow me." He got up and followed him.


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It happened as he sat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples.


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When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"


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When Jesus heard it, he said to them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.


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But you go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."


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Then John's disciples came to him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don't fast?"


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Jesus said to them, "Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.


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No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch would tear away from the garment, and a worse hole is made.


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Neither do people put new wine into old wineskins, or else the skins would burst, and the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined. No, they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved."


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While he told these things to them, behold, a ruler came and worshiped him, saying, "My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live."


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Behold, a woman who had an issue of blood for twelve years came behind him, and touched the tassels of his garment;


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But Jesus, turning around and seeing her, said, "Daughter, cheer up! Your faith has made you well." And the woman was made well from that hour.


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As Jesus passed by from there, two blind men followed him, calling out and saying, "Have mercy on us, son of David!"


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When he had come into the house, the blind men came to him. Jesus said to them, "Do you believe that I am able to do this?" They told him, "Yes, Lord."


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When the demon was cast out, the mute man spoke. The multitudes marveled, saying, "Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel!"


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Jesus went about all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.


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But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed{TR reads "weary" instead of "harassed"} and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd.


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He called to himself his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every sickness.


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Now the names of the twelve apostles are these. The first, Simon, who is called Peter; Andrew, his brother; James the son of Zebedee; John, his brother;


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Philip; Bartholomew; Thomas; Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus; and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus;


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Jesus sent these twelve out, and charged them, saying, "Don't go among the Gentiles, and don't enter into any city of the Samaritans.


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Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers{TR adds ", raise the dead"}, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give.


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Take no bag for your journey, neither two coats, nor shoes, nor staff: for the laborer is worthy of his food.


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Into whatever city or village you enter, find out who in it is worthy; and stay there until you go on.


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If the household is worthy, let your peace come on it, but if it isn't worthy, let your peace return to you.


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Whoever doesn't receive you, nor hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake off the dust from your feet.


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Most assuredly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.


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"Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.


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But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you.


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Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the Gentiles.


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But when they deliver you up, don't be anxious how or what you will say, for it will be given you in that hour what you will say.


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"Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.


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But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next, for most assuredly I tell you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel, until the Son of Man has come.


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It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!


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Therefore don't be afraid of them, for there is nothing covered that will not be revealed; and hidden that will not be known.


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What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.


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Don't be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.


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"Aren't two sparrows sold for an assarion{An assarion is a small coin worth one tenth of a drachma or a sixteenth of a denarius (approximately the wages of one half hour of agricultural labor).}? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father's will,


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Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, him I will also confess before my Father who is in heaven.


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For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.


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He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn't worthy of me.


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He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet's reward: and he who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will receive a righteous man's reward.


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Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most assuredly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward."


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It happened that when Jesus had finished directing his twelve disciples, he departed from there to teach and preach in their cities.


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the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.


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As these went their way, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John, "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?


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But what did you go out to see? A man in soft clothing? Behold, those who wear soft clothing are in king's houses.


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For this is he, of whom it is written, 'Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.'


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Most assuredly I tell you, among those who are born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptizer; yet he who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.


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From the days of John the Baptizer until now, the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.


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"But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who call to their companions


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and say, 'We played the flute for you, and you didn't dance. We mourned for you, and you didn't lament.'


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The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' But wisdom is justified by her children."


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Then he began to denounce the cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they didn't repent.


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"Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.


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You, Capernaum, who are exalted to Heaven, you will go down to Hades. For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done in you, it would have remained until this day.


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But I tell you that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom, on the day of judgment, than for you."


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At that time, Jesus answered, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.


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All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.


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Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.


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At that time, Jesus went on the Sabbath day through the grain fields. His disciples were hungry and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat.


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But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said to him, "Behold, your disciples do what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath."


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But he said to them, "Haven't you read what David did, when he was hungry, and those who were with him;


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how he entered into the house of God, and ate the show bread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for those who were with him, but only for the priests?


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Or have you not read in the law, that on the Sabbath day, the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are guiltless?


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But if you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless.


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And behold there was a man with a withered hand. They asked him, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath day?" that they might accuse him.


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He said to them, "What man is there among you, who has one sheep, and if this one falls into a pit on the Sabbath day, won't he grab on to it, and lift it out?


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Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day."


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Then he told the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out; and it was restored whole, just like the other.


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"Behold, my servant whom I have chosen; My beloved in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my Spirit on him. He will proclaim justice to the Gentiles.


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Then one possessed by a demon, blind and mute, was brought to him and he healed him, so that the blind and mute man both spoke and saw.


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But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, "This man does not cast out demons, except by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons."


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Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.


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If I by Beelzebul cast out demons, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.


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Or how can one enter into the house of the strong man, and plunder his goods, unless he first bind the strong man? Then he will plunder his house.


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Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men.


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Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, neither in this age, nor in that which is to come.


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"Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.


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You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.


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The good man out of his good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure{TR adds "of the heart"} brings out evil things.


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I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.


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But he answered them, "An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, but no sign will be given it but the sign of Jonah the prophet.


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For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.


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The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, someone greater than Jonah is here.


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The queen of the south will rise up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, someone greater than Solomon is here.


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But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of the man, passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and doesn't find it.


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Then he says, 'I will return into my house from which I came out,' and when he has come back, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order.


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Then he goes, and takes with himself seven other spirits more evil than he is, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first. Even so will it be also to this evil generation."


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While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to him.


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Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat, and sat, and all the multitude stood on the beach.


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Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn't have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth.


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and others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.


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He answered them, "To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.


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For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance, but whoever doesn't have, from him will be taken away even that which he has.


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Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don't see, and hearing, they don't hear, neither do they understand.


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In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says,  'By hearing you will hear, And will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, And will in no way perceive:


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For this people's heart has grown callous, Their ears are dull of hearing, They have closed their eyes; Or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, Hear with their ears, Understand with their heart, And should turn again; And I would heal them.'


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For most assuredly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which you see, and didn't see them; and to hear the things which you hear, and didn't hear them.


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When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn't understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.


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What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word, and immediately with joy receives it;


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yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.


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What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.


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What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most assuredly bears fruit, and brings forth, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty."


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He set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,


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but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel{darnel is a weed grass (probably bearded darnel or lolium temulentum) that looks very much like wheat until it is mature, when the difference becomes very apparent.} also among the wheat, and went away.


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The servants of the householder came and said to him, 'Sir, didn't you sow good seed in your field? Where did this darnel come from?'


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"He said to them, 'An enemy has done this.' "The servants asked him, 'Do you want us to go and gather them up?'


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Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, "First, gather up the darnel, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn."'"


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He set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field;


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which indeed is smaller than all seeds. But when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches."


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He spoke another parable to them. "The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took, and hid in three measures{Literally, satas. 3 satas = about 0.5 bushel or 22 litres} of meal, until it was all leavened."


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Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn't speak to them,


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that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying,  "I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world."


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Then Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went into the house. His disciples came to him, saying, "Explain to us the parable of the darnel of the field."


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the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the children of the Kingdom; and the darnel are the children of the evil one.


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The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.


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The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather out of his Kingdom all things that cause stumbling, and those who do iniquity,


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Then the righteous will shine forth like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.


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"Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.


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"Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet, that was cast into the sea, and gathered some fish of every kind,


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which, when it was filled, they drew up on the beach. They sat down, and gathered the good into containers, but the bad they threw away.


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So will it be in the end of the world. The angels will come forth, and separate the wicked from among the righteous,


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He said to them, "Therefore, every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things."


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Coming into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, "Where did this man get this wisdom, and these mighty works?


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Isn't this the carpenter's son? Isn't his mother called Mary, and his brothers, James, Joses, Simon, and Judas?


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They were offended by him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and in his own house."


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and said to his servants, "This is John the Baptizer. He is risen from the dead. That is why these powers work in him."


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For Herod had laid hold of John, and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife.


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When he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.


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The king was grieved, but for the sake of his oaths, and of those who sat at the table with him, he commanded it to be given,


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Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat, to a deserted place apart. When the multitudes heard it, they followed him on foot from the cities.


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When evening had come, his disciples came to him, saying, "This place is deserted, and the hour is already late. Send the multitudes away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves food."


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He commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass; and he took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, broke and gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples gave to the multitudes.


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They all ate, and were filled. They took up twelve baskets full of that which remained left over from the broken pieces.


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Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat, and to go ahead of him to the other side, while he sent the multitudes away.


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After he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into the mountain by himself to pray. When evening had come, he was there alone.


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In the fourth watch of the night,{The night was equally divided into four watches, so the fourth watch is approximately 3:00 A. M. to sunrise.} Jesus came to them, walking on the sea.


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When the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, "It's a ghost!" and they cried out for fear.


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But when he saw that the wind was strong, he was afraid, and beginning to sink, he cried out, saying, "Lord, save me!"


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Immediately Jesus stretched out his hand, took hold of him, and said to him, "You of little faith, why did you doubt?"


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When the men of that place recognized him, they sent into all that surrounding region, and brought to him all who were sick,


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and they begged him that they might just touch the fringe of his garment. As many as touched it were made whole.


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"Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don't wash their hands when they eat bread."


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For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'


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But you say, 'Whoever may tell his father or his mother, "Whatever help you might otherwise have gotten from me is a gift devoted to God,"


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he shall not honor his father or mother.' You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.


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'These people draw near to me with their mouth, And honor me with their lips; But their heart is far from me.


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That which enters into the mouth doesn't defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man."


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Then the disciples came, and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees were offended, when they heard this saying?"


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Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit."


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Don't you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and then out of the body?


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For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.


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Behold, a Canaanite woman came out from those borders, and cried, saying, "Have mercy on me, Lord, you son of David! My daughter is severely demonized!"


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But he answered her not a word. His disciples came and begged him, saying, "Send her away; for she cries after us."


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Then Jesus answered her, "Woman, great is your faith! Be it done to you even as you desire." And her daughter was healed from that hour.


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Jesus departed there, and came near to the sea of Galilee; and he went up into the mountain, and sat there.


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Great multitudes came to him, having with them the lame, blind, mute, maimed, and many others, and they put them down at his feet. He healed them,


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so that the multitude wondered when they saw the mute speaking, injured whole, lame walking, and blind seeing--and they glorified the God of Israel.


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Jesus summoned his disciples and said, "I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat. I don't want to send them away fasting, or they might faint on the way."


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The disciples said to him, "Where should we get so many loaves in a deserted place as to satisfy so great a multitude?"


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and he took the seven loaves and the fish. He gave thanks and broke them, and gave to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.


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They all ate, and were filled. They took up seven baskets full of the broken pieces that were left over.


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In the morning, 'It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.' Hypocrites! You know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but you can't discern the signs of the times!


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An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there will be no sign given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah." He left them, and departed.


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Jesus, perceiving it, said, "Why do you reason among yourselves, you of little faith, 'because you have brought no bread?'


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Don't you yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?


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How is it that you don't perceive that I didn't speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees."


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Then they understood that he didn't tell them to beware of the yeast of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.


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Now when Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, "Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?"


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They said, "Some say John the Baptizer, some, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets."


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Jesus answered him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.


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I also tell you that you are Peter,{Peter's name, Petros in Greek, is the word for a specific rock or stone.} and on this rock{Greek, petra, a rock mass or bedrock.} I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.


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I will give to you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven; and whatever you release on earth will be released in heaven."


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From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.


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Peter took him aside, and began to rebuke him, saying, "Far be it from you, Lord! This will never be done to you."


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But he turned, and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling-block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men."


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Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.


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For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.


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For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?


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For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.


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Most assuredly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste of death, until they see the Son of Man coming in his Kingdom."


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After six days, Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John his brother, and brought them up into a high mountain by themselves.


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He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his garments became as white as the light.


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Peter answered, and said to Jesus, "Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you want, let's make three tents here: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."


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While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him."


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As they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying, "Don't tell anyone what you saw, until the Son of Man has risen from the dead."


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but I tell you that Elijah has come already, and they didn't recognize him, but did to him whatever they wanted to. Even so the Son of Man will also suffer by them."


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"Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is epileptic, and suffers grievously; for he often falls into the fire, and often into the water.


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Jesus answered, "Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me."


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He said to them, "Because of your unbelief. For most assuredly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.


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While they were staying in Galilee, Jesus said to them, "The Son of Man is about to be delivered up into the hands of men,


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When they had come to Capernaum, those who collected the didrachma coins{A didrachma is a Greek silver coin worth 2 drachmas, about as much as 2 Roman denarii, or about 2 days wages. It was commonly used to pay the half-shekel temple tax, because 2 drachmas were worth one half shekel of silver.} came to Peter, and said, "Doesn't your teacher pay the didrachma?"


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He said, "Yes." When he came into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, "What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth receive toll or tribute? From their children, or from strangers?"


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But, lest we cause them to stumble, go to the sea, and cast a hook, and take up the first fish that comes up. When you have opened its mouth, you will find a stater coin.{A stater is a silver coin equivalent to four Attic or two Alexandrian drachmas, or a Jewish shekel: just exactly enough to cover the half-shekel Temple Tax for two people.} Take that, and give it to them for me and you."


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and said, "Most assuredly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.


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Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child, the same is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.


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but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone should be hung around his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea.


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"Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes!


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If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire.


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If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna{or, Hell} of fire.


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See that you don't despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.


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"What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn't he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray?


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If he finds it, most assuredly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray.


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Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.


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"If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.


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But if he doesn't listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.


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If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.


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Most assuredly I tell you, whatever things you will bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever things you will release on earth will be released in heaven.


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Again, assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that they will ask, it will be done for them by my Father who is in heaven.


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Then Peter came and said to him, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?"


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Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who wanted to reconcile accounts with his servants.


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When he had begun to reconcile, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.{Ten thousand talents represents an extremely large sum of money, equivalent to about 60,000,000 denarii, where one denarius was typical of one day's wages for agricultural labor.}


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But because he couldn't pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.


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The servant therefore fell down and kneeled before him, saying, 'Lord, have patience with me, and I will repay you all!'


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"But that servant went out, and found one of his fellow servants, who owed him one hundred denarii,{100 denarii was about one sixtieth of a talent.} and he grabbed him, and took him by the throat, saying, 'Pay me what you owe!'


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"So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, 'Have patience with me, and I will repay you!'


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So when his fellow servants saw what was done, they were exceedingly sorry, and came and told to their lord all that was done.


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Then his lord called him in, and said to him, 'You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt, because you begged me.


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His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors, until he should pay all that was due to him.


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So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don't each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds."


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It happened when Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan.


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Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?"


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and said, 'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?'


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So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don't let man tear apart."


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He said to them, "Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.


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I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery."


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His disciples said to him, "If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry."


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For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother's womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven's sake. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it."


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Then little children were brought to him, that he should lay his hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them.


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But Jesus said, "Allow the little children, and don't forbid them to come to me; for to such belongs the Kingdom of Heaven."


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Behold, one came to him and said, "Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?"


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He said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments."


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He said to him, "Which ones?" Jesus said, "'You shall not murder.' 'You shall not commit adultery.' 'You shall not steal.' 'You shall not offer false testimony.'


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Jesus said to him, "If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me."


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But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions.


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Jesus said to his disciples, "Most assuredly I say to you, a rich man will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven with difficulty.


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Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God."


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Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly I tell you that you who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on the throne of his glory, you also will sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.


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Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.


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"For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.


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When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius{A denarius is a silver Roman coin worth 1/25th of a Roman aureus. This was a common wage for a day of farm labor.} a day, he sent them into his vineyard.


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He went out about the third hour,{Time was measured from sunrise to sunset, so the third hour would be about 9:00 AM.} and saw others standing idle in the marketplace.


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To them he said, 'You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.' So they went their way.


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About the eleventh hour{5:00 PM} he went out, and found others standing idle. He said to them, 'Why do you stand here all day idle?'


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"They said to him, 'Because no one has hired us.' "He said to them, 'You also go into the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right.'


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When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his steward, 'Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.'


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When the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise each received a denarius.


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saying, 'These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!'


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"But he answered one of them, 'Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Didn't you agree with me for a denarius?


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Take that which is yours, and go your way. It is my desire to give to this last just as much as to you.


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Isn't it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?'


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As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to them,


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"Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death,


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and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, to scourge, and to crucify; and the third day he will be raised up."


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Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, kneeling and asking a certain thing of him.


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He said to her, "What do you want?" She said to him, "Command that these, my two sons, may sit, one on your right hand, and one on your left hand, in your Kingdom."


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But Jesus answered, "You don't know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?" They said to him, "We are able."


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He said to them, "You will indeed drink my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with, but to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it is for whom it has been prepared by my Father."


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But Jesus summoned them, and said, "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.


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It shall not be so among you, but whoever desires to become great among you shall be{TR reads "let him be" instead of "shall be"} your servant.


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even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."


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Behold, two blind men sitting by the road, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out, "Lord, have mercy on us, you son of David!"


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The multitude rebuked them, telling them that they should be quiet, but they cried out even more, "Lord, have mercy on us, you son of David!"


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Jesus, being moved with compassion, touched their eyes; and immediately their eyes received their sight, and they followed him.


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When they drew near to Jerusalem, and came to Bethsphage,{TR reads "Bethphage" instead of "Bethsphage"} to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,


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saying to them, "Go into the village that is opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie them, and bring them to me.


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If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, 'The Lord needs them,' and immediately he will send them."


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"Tell the daughter of Zion, Behold, your King comes to you, Humble, and riding on a donkey, On a colt, the foal of a donkey."


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A very great multitude spread their clothes on the road. Others cut branches from the trees, and spread them on the road.


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The multitudes who went before him, and who followed kept shouting, "Hosanna to the son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!"


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Jesus entered into the temple of God, and drove out all of those who sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the money-changers' tables and the seats of those who sold the doves.


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He said to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you have made it a den of robbers!"


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But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children who were crying in the temple and saying, "Hosanna to the son of David!" they were indignant,


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and said to him, "Do you hear what these are saying?" Jesus said to them, "Yes. Did you never read, 'Out of the mouth of babes and nursing babies you have perfected praise?'"


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Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, "Let there be no fruit from you forever!" Immediately the fig tree withered away.


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Jesus answered them, "Most assuredly I tell you, if you have faith, and don't doubt, you will not only do what is done to the fig tree, but even if you told this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' it would be done.


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When he had come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, "By what authority do you do these things? Who gave you this authority?"


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Jesus answered them, "I also will ask you one question, which if you tell me, I likewise will tell you by what authority I do these things.


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The baptism of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men?" They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will ask us, 'Why then did you not believe him?'


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They answered Jesus, and said, "We don't know." He also said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.


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But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, 'Son, go work today in my vineyard.'


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Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said to him, "The first." Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into the Kingdom of God before you.


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For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn't believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you didn't even repent afterward, that you might believe him.


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"Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a winepress in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.


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But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, and seize his inheritance.'


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They told him, "He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will give him the fruit in its season."


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Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures, 'The stone which the builders rejected, The same was made the head of the corner. This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes?'


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"Therefore I tell you, the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation bringing forth its fruits.


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He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whoever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust."


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When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he spoke about them.


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When they sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because they considered him to be a prophet.


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and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast, but they would not come.


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Again he sent out other servants, saying, 'Tell those who are invited, "Behold, I have made ready my dinner. My oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the marriage feast!"'


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When the king heard that, he was angry, and he sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.


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Go therefore to the intersections of the highways, and as many as you may find, invite to the marriage feast.'


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Those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together as many as they found, both bad and good. The wedding was filled with guests.


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But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who didn't have on wedding clothing,


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and he said to him, 'Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?' He was speechless.


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Then the king said to the servants, 'Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness; there is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.'


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They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, "Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter who you teach, for you aren't partial to anyone.


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They said to him, "Caesar's." Then he said to them, "Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."


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saying, "Teacher, Moses said, 'If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed for his brother.'


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Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no seed left his wife to his brother.


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For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like God's angels in heaven.


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But concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven't you read that which was spoken to you by God, saying,


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'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?' God is not the God of the dead, but of the living."


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Jesus said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.'


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'The Lord said to my Lord, Sit on my right hand, Until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet?'


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No one was able to answer him a word, neither dared any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.


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All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don't do their works; for they say, and don't do.


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For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them.


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But all their works they do to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad, enlarge the fringes of their garments,


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"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.


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"But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don't enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter.{Some Greek manuscripts reverse the order of verses 13 and 14, and some omit verse 13, numbering verse 14 as 13.}


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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much of a son of Gehenna as yourselves.


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"Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, 'Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.'


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'Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obligated.'


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"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin,{ cumin is an aromatic seed from Cuminum cyminum, resembling caraway in flavor and appearance. It is used as a spice.} and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.


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"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness.{TR reads "self-indulgence" instead of "unrighteousness"}


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You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that the outside of it may become clean also.


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"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.


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Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.


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"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the righteous,


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and say, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn't have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.'


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Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;


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that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.


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"Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often would I have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!


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For I tell you, you will not see me from now on, until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!'"


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Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple.


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But he answered them, "Don't you see all of these things? Most assuredly I tell you, there will not be left here one stone on another, that will not be thrown down."


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As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?"


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You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you aren't troubled, for all this must happen, but the end is not yet.


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For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes in various places.


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Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name's sake.


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This Gospel of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.


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"When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),


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for then there will be great oppression, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.


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Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.


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For there will arise false christs, and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.


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If therefore they tell you, 'Behold, he is in the wilderness,' don't go out; 'Behold, he is in the inner chambers,' don't believe it.


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For as the lightning comes forth from the east, and is seen even to the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.


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But immediately after the oppression of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;


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and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky. Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory.


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He will send out his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.


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"Now from the fig tree learn this parable. When its branch has now become tender, and puts forth its leaves, you know that the summer is near.


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Most assuredly I tell you, this generation{The word for "generation" (genea) can also be translated as "race."} will not pass away, until all these things are accomplished.


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and they didn't know until the flood came, and took them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.


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But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.


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"Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?


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the lord of that servant will come in a day when he doesn't expect it, and in an hour when he doesn't know it,


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and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites; there is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.


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"Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom.


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But the wise answered, saying, 'What if there isn't enough for us and you? You go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.'


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While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut.


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"For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them.


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To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to each according to his own ability. Then he went on his journey.


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Immediately he who received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents.


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He who received the five talents came and brought another five talents, saying, 'Lord, you delivered to me five talents. Behold, I have gained another five talents besides them.'


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"His lord said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.'


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"He also who got the two talents came and said, 'Lord, you delivered to me two talents. Behold, I have gained another two talents besides them.'


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"He also who had received the one talent came and said, 'Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter.


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"But his lord answered him, 'You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn't sow, and gather where I didn't scatter.


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You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest.


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For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have abundance, but from him who has not, even that which he has will be taken away.


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Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'


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"But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory.


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Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.


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Then the King will tell those on his right hand, 'Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;


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for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me drink; I was a stranger, and you took me in;


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"Then the righteous will answer him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry, and feed you; or thirsty, and give you a drink?


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"The King will answer them, 'Most assuredly I tell you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers{The word for "brothers" here may be also correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."}, you did it to me.'


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Then he will say also to those on the left hand, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;


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I was a stranger, and you didn't take me in; naked, and you didn't clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn't visit me.'


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"Then they will also answer, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and didn't help you?'


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"Then he will answer them, saying, 'Most assuredly I tell you, inasmuch as you didn't do it to one of the least of these, you didn't do it to me.'


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"You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified."


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Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.


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a woman came to him having an alabaster jar of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he sat at the table.


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But Jesus, knowing this, said to them, "Why do you trouble the woman? Because she has done a good work for me.


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Most assuredly I tell you, wherever this Gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of as a memorial of her."


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and said, "What are you willing to give me, that I should deliver him to you?" They weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver.


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Now on the first day of unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying to him, "Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?"


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He said, "Go into the city to a certain person, and tell him, 'The Teacher says, "My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples."'"


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The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born."


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As they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks for{TR reads "blessed" instead of "gave thanks for"} it, and broke it. He gave to the disciples, and said, "Take, eat; this is my body."


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But I tell you that I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on, until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father's Kingdom."


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Then Jesus said to them, "All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'


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But Peter answered him, "Even if all will be made to stumble because of you, I will never be made to stumble."


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Jesus said to him, "Most assuredly I tell you that tonight, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times."


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Peter said to him, "Even if I must die with you, I will not deny you." All of the disciples also said likewise.


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Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to his disciples, "Sit here, while I go there and pray."


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He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and severely troubled.


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Then he said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch with me."


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He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire."


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He came to the disciples, and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "What, couldn't you watch with me for one hour?


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Watch and pray, that you don't enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."


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Again, a second time he went away, and prayed, saying, "My Father, if this cup can't pass away from me unless I drink it, your desire be done."


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Then he came to his disciples, and said to them, "Sleep on now, and take your rest. Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.


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While he was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priest and elders of the people.


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Jesus said to him, "Friend, why are you here?" Then they came and laid hands on Jesus, and took him.


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Behold, one of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck the servant of the high priest, and struck off his ear.


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Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword.


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Or do you think that I couldn't ask my Father, and he would even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?


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In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, "Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and you didn't arrest me.


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But all this has happened, that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled." Then all the disciples left him, and fled.


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Those who had taken Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together.


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But Peter followed him from a distance, to the court of the high priest, and entered in and sat with the officers, to see the end.


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Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;


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and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward,


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The high priest stood up, and said to him, "Have you no answer? What is this that these testify against you?"


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But Jesus held his peace. The high priest answered him, "I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God."


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Jesus said to him, "You have said it. Nevertheless, I tell you, henceforth you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of the sky."


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Then the high priest tore his clothing, saying, "He has spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any more witnesses? Behold, now you have heard his blasphemy.


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Now Peter was sitting outside in the court, and a maid came to him, saying, "You were also with Jesus, the Galilean!"


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When he had gone out onto the porch, someone else saw him, and said to those who were there, "This man also was with Jesus of Nazareth."


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After a little while those who stood by came and said to Peter, "Surely you are also one of them, for your speech makes you known."


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Peter remembered the word which Jesus had said to him, "Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times." He went out and wept bitterly.


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Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:


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Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,


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saying, "I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood." But they said, "What is that to us? You see to it."


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The chief priests took the pieces of silver, and said, "It's not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood."


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Then that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, saying, "They took the thirty pieces of silver, The price of him upon whom a price had been set, Whom some of the children of Israel priced,


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Now Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, "Are you the King of the Jews?" Jesus said to him, "So you say."


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Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to release to the multitude one prisoner, whom they desired.


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When therefore they were gathered together, Pilate said to them, "Whom do you want me to release to you? Barabbas, or Jesus, who is called Christ?"


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While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, "Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him."


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Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes to ask for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.


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But the governor answered them, "Which of the two do you want me to release to you?" They said, "Barabbas!"


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Pilate said to them, "What then shall I do to Jesus, who is called Christ?" They all said to him, "Let him be crucified!"


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But the governor said, "Why? What evil has he done?" But they cried out exceedingly, saying, "Let him be crucified!"


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So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it."


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Then the governor's soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium, and gathered the whole garrison together against him.


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They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!"


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When they had mocked him, they took the robe off of him, and put his clothes on him, and led him away to crucify him.


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As they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name, and they compelled him to go with them, that he might carry his cross.


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When they had crucified him, they divided his clothing among them, casting lots,{TR adds "that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet: 'They divided my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots;'" [see Psalm 22:18 and John 19:24]}


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They set up over his head the accusation against him written, "THIS IS JESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS."


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and saying, "You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!"


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Likewise the chief priests also mocking, with the scribes, the Pharisees,{TR omits "the Pharisees"} and the elders, said,


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"He saved others, but he can't save himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him.


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Now from the sixth hour{noon} there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.{3:00 P. M.}


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About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, "Eli, Eli, lima{TR reads "lama" instead of "lima"} sabachthani?" That is, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"


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Immediately one of them ran, and took a sponge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him a drink.


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Behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom. The earth quaked and the rocks were split.


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and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection, they entered into the holy city and appeared to many.


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Now the centurion, and those who were with him watching Jesus, when they saw the earthquake, and the things that were done, feared exceedingly, saying, "Truly this was the Son of God."


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Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.


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When evening had come, a rich man from Arimathaea, named Joseph, who himself was also Jesus' disciple came.


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and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock, and he rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, and departed.


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Now on the next day, which was the day after the Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees were gathered together to Pilate,


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saying, "Sir, we remember what that deceiver said while he was still alive: 'After three days I will rise again.'


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Command therefore that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest perhaps his disciples come at night and steal him away, and tell the people, 'He is risen from the dead;' and the last deception will be worse than the first."


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Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb.


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Behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from the sky, and came and rolled away the stone from the door, and sat on it.


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The angel answered the women, "Don't be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus, who has been crucified.


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Go quickly and tell his disciples, 'He has risen from the dead, and behold, he goes before you into Galilee; there you will see him.' Behold, I have told you."


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As they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, "Rejoice!" They came and took hold of his feet, and worshiped him.


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Then Jesus said to them, "Don't be afraid. Go tell my brothers{The word for "brothers" here may be also correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} that they should go into Galilee, and there they will see me."


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Now while they were going, behold, some of the guards came into the city, and told the chief priests all the things that had happened.


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When they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave a large amount of silver to the soldiers,


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So they took the money and did as they were told. This saying was spread abroad among the Jews, and continues until this day.


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Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.


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Therefore go, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,


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teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.


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As it is written in the prophets, "Behold, I send my messenger before your face, Who will prepare your way before you.


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The voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make ready the way of the Lord! Make his paths straight!'"


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John came baptizing{To baptize means to immerse in (or wash with) water (or fire). This baptizm is not just to cleanse the body, but as an outward sign of an inward spiritual cleansing and commitment.} in the wilderness and preaching the baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins.


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All the country of Judea and all those of Jerusalem went out to him. They were baptized by him in the Jordan river, confessing their sins.


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John was clothed with camel's hair and a leather belt around his loins. He ate locusts and wild honey.


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He preached, saying, "After me comes he who is mightier than I, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and loosen.


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I baptized you in{The Greek word (en) translated here as "in" could also be translated as "with" in some contexts.} water, but he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit."


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It happened in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan.


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Immediately coming up from the water, he saw the heavens parting, and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.


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He was there in the wilderness forty days tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals; and the angels were ministering to him.


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Now after John was taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom of God,


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and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Gospel."


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Passing along by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net in the sea, for they were fishermen.


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Going on a little further from there, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John, his brother, who were also in the boat mending the nets.


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Immediately he called them, and they left their father, Zebedee, in the boat with the hired servants, and went after him.


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They went into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath day he entered into the synagogue and taught.


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They were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as having authority, and not as the scribes.


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saying, "Ha! What do we have to do with you, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God!"


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They were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, "What is this? A new teaching? For with authority he commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him!"


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The report of him went out immediately everywhere into all the region of Galilee and its surrounding area.


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Immediately, when they had come out of the synagogue, they came into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.


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At evening, when the sun had set, they brought to him all who were sick, and those who were possessed by demons.


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He healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons. He didn't allow the demons to speak, because they knew him.


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He said to them, "Let's go elsewhere into the next towns, that I may preach there also, because for this reason I came forth."


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There came to him a leper, begging him, kneeling down to him, and saying to him, "If you want to, you can make me clean."


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Being moved with compassion, he stretched out his hand, and touched him, and said to him, "I want to. Be made clean."


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and said to him, "See you say nothing to anybody, but go show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing the things which Moses commanded, for a testimony to them."


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But he went out, and began to proclaim it much, and to spread about the matter, so that Jesus could no more openly enter into a city, but was outside in desert places: and they came to him from everywhere.


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Immediately many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even around the door; and he spoke the word to them.


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When they could not come near to him for the crowd, they removed the roof where he was. When they had broken it up, they let down the mat that the paralytic was lying on.


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Immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said to them, "Why do you reason these things in your hearts?


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Which is easier, to tell the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven;' or to say, 'Arise, and take up your bed, and walk?'


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But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins"--he said to the paralytic--


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He arose, and immediately took up the mat, and went out in front of them all; so that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, "We never saw anything like this!"


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As he passed by, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax office, and he said to him, "Follow me." And he arose and followed him.


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It happened, that he was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners sat down with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many, and they followed him.


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The scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, "Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?"


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When Jesus heard it, he said to them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."


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John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and asked him, "Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don't fast?"


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Jesus said to them, "Can the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they can't fast.


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But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then will they fast in that day.


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No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, or else the patch shrinks and the new tears away from the old, and a worse hole is made.


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No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and the wine pours out, and the skins will be destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins."


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It happened that he was going on the Sabbath day through the grain fields, and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of grain.


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He said to them, "Did you never read what David did, when he had need, and was hungry--he, and they who were with him?


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How he entered into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the show bread, which it is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and gave also to those who were with him?"


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He said to them, "Is it lawful on the Sabbath day to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?" But they were silent.


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When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other.


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The Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.


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Jesus withdrew to the sea with his disciples, and a great multitude followed him from Galilee, from Judea,


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from Jerusalem, from Idumaea, beyond the Jordan, and those from around Tyre and Sidon. A great multitude, hearing what great things he did, came to him.


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He spoke to his disciples that a little boat should stay near him because of the crowd, so that they wouldn't press on him.


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The unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, "You are the Son of God!"


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James the son of Zebedee; John, the brother of James, and he surnamed them Boanerges, which means, Sons of Thunder;


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Andrew; Philip; Bartholomew; Matthew; Thomas; James, the son of Alphaeus; Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot;


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The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, "He has Beelzebul," and, "By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons."


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But no one can enter into the house of the strong man to plunder, unless he first binds the strong man; and then he will plunder his house.


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Most assuredly I tell you, all of the children of men's sins will be forgiven them, including their blasphemies with which they may blaspheme;


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but whoever may blaspheme against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin"


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A multitude was sitting around him, and they told him, "Behold, your mother, your brothers, and your sisters{TR omits "your sisters"} are outside looking for you."


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Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea, and sat down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea.


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and it happened, as he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds{TR adds "of the air"} came and devoured it.


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Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.


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Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some brought forth thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much."


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He said to them, "To you is given the mystery of the Kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,


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that 'seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.'"


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These are the ones by the road, where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes, and takes away the word which has been sown in them.


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These in like manner are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.


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They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.


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and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.


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These are those which were sown on the good ground: such as hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times."


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He said to them, "Is the lamp brought to be put under a basket{Literally, a modion, a dry measuring basket containing about a peck (about 9 litres)} or under a bed? Isn't it put on a lampstand?


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For there is nothing hidden, except that it should be made known; neither was anything made secret, but that it should come to light.


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He said to them, "Take heed what you hear. With whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and more will be given to you who hear.


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For whoever has, to him will more be given, and he who doesn't have, from him will be taken away even that which he has."


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and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he doesn't know how.


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It's like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the earth,


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yet when it is sown, grows up, and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can lodge under its shadow."


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Without a parable he didn't speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained all things.


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Leaving the multitude, they took him with them, even as he was, in the boat. Other small boats were also with him.


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There arose a great wind storm, and the waves beat into the boat, so much that the boat was already filled.


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He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him up, and told him, "Teacher, don't you care that we are dying?"


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He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace! Be still!" The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.


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They were greatly afraid, and said to one another, "Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?"


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When he had come out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,


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because he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him, and the fetters broken in pieces. Nobody had the strength to tame him.


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Always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones.


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and crying out with a loud voice, he said, "What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, don't torment me."


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At once Jesus gave them permission. The unclean spirits came out and entered into the pigs. The herd of about two thousand rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and they were drowned in the sea.


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Those who fed them fled, and told it in the city and in the country. The people came to see what it was that had happened.


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They came to Jesus, and saw him who had been possessed by demons sitting, clothed, and in his right mind, even him who had the legion; and they were afraid.


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Those who saw it declared to them how it happened to him who was possessed by demons, and about the pigs.


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As he was entering into the boat, he who had been possessed by demons begged him that he might be with him.


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He didn't allow him, but said to him, "Go to your house, to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how he had mercy on you."


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He went his way, and began to proclaim in Decapolis how Jesus had done great things for him, and everyone marveled.


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When Jesus had crossed back over in the boat to the other side, a great multitude was gathered to him; and he was by the sea.


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Behold, one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, came; and seeing him, he fell at his feet,


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and begged him much, saying, "My little daughter is at the point of death. Please come and lay your hands on her, that she may be made healthy, and live."


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and had suffered many things by many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better, but rather grew worse,


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Immediately the flow of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction.


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Immediately Jesus, perceiving in himself that the power had gone out from him, turned around in the crowd, and asked, "Who touched my clothes?"


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His disciples said to him, "You see the multitude pressing against you, and you say, 'Who touched me?'"


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But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had been done to her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.


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He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be cured of your disease."


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While he was still speaking, they came from the synagogue ruler's house saying, "Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Teacher any more?"


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But Jesus, when he heard the message spoken, immediately said to the ruler of the synagogue, "Don't be afraid, only believe."


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When he had entered in, he said to them, "Why do you make an uproar and weep? The child is not dead, but is asleep."


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They ridiculed him. But he, having put them all out, took the father of the child and her mother and those who were with him, and went in where the child was lying.


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Taking the child by the hand, he said to her, "Talitha cumi;" which means, being interpreted, "Girl, I tell you, get up."


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Immediately the girl rose up, and walked, for she was twelve years old. They were amazed with great amazement.


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He strictly ordered them that no one should know this, and commanded that something should be given to her to eat.


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When the Sabbath had come, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many hearing him were astonished, saying, "Where did this man get these things?" and, "What is the wisdom that is given to this man, that such mighty works come about by his hands?


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Isn't this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? Aren't his sisters here with us?" They were offended at him.


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Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and among his own relatives, and in his own house."


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He could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people, and healed them.


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He called to himself the twelve, and began to send them out two by two; and he gave them authority over the unclean spirits.


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He charged them that they should take nothing for their journey, except a staff only: no bread, no wallet, no money in their purse,


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Whoever will not receive you nor hear you, as you depart from there, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony against them. Assuredly, I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!"


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King Herod heard this, for his name had become known, and he said, "John the Baptizer has risen from the dead, and therefore these powers are at work in him."


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For Herod himself had sent out and arrested John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, for he had married her.


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for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. When he heard him, he did many things, and he heard him gladly.


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Then a convenient day came, that Herod on his birthday made a supper for his nobles, the high officers, and the chief men of Galilee.


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When the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced, she pleased Herod and those sitting with him. The king said to the young lady, "Ask me whatever you want, and I will give it to you."


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She went out, and said to her mother, "What shall I ask?" She said, "The head of John the Baptizer."


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She came in immediately with haste to the king, and asked, "I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptizer on a platter."


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The king was exceedingly sorry, but for the sake of his oaths, and of his dinner guests, he didn't wish to refuse her.


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Immediately the king sent out a soldier of his guard, and commanded to bring John's head, and he went and beheaded him in the prison,


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and brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the young lady; and the young lady gave it to her mother.


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The apostles gathered themselves together to Jesus, and they told him all things, whatever they had done, and whatever they had taught.


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He said to them, "You come apart into a deserted place, and rest awhile." For there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.


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They{TR reads "The multitudes" instead of "They"} saw them going, and many recognized him and ran there on foot from all the cities. They arrived before them and came together to him.


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Jesus came out, saw a great multitude, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things.


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When it was late in the day, his disciples came to him, and said, "This place is deserted, and it is late in the day.


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Send them away, that they may go into the surrounding country and villages, and buy themselves bread, for they have nothing to eat."


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But he answered them, "You give them something to eat." They asked him, "Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii{200 denarii was about 7 or 8 months wages for an agricultural laborer.} worth of bread, and give them something to eat?"


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He said to them, "How many loaves do you have? Go see." When they knew, they said, "Five, and two fish."


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He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed and broke the loaves, and he gave to his disciples to set before them, and he divided the two fish among them all.


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Immediately he made his disciples get into the boat, and to go ahead to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he himself sent the multitude away.


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Seeing them distressed in rowing, for the wind was contrary to them, about the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea, and he would have passed by them,


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for they all saw him, and were troubled. But he immediately spoke with them, and said to them, "Cheer up! It is I!{Literally, "I AM!"} Don't be afraid."


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He got into the boat with them; and the wind ceased, and they were very amazed among themselves, and marveled;


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and ran around that whole region, and began to bring those who were sick, on their mats, to where they heard he was.


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Wherever he entered, into villages, or into cities, or into the country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces, and begged him that they might touch just the fringe of his garment; and as many as touched him were made well.


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Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is, unwashed, hands, they found fault.


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(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, don't eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders.


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They don't eat when they come from the marketplace, unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things, which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.)


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The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why don't your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?"


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He answered them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This people honors me with their lips, But their heart is far from me.


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"For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly to the tradition of men--the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things."


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For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother;' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'


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But you say, 'If a man tells his father or his mother, "Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban{Corban is a Hebrew word for an offering devoted to God.}, that is to say, given to God;"'


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making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this."


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There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.


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When he had entered into a house away from the multitude, his disciples asked him about the parable.


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He said to them, "Are you thus without understanding also? Don't you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can't defile him,


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because it doesn't go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, thus making all foods clean?"


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For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,


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From there he arose, and went away into the borders of Tyre and Sidon. He entered into a house, and didn't want anyone to know it, but he couldn't escape notice.


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For a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of him, came and fell down at his feet.


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Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. She begged him that he would cast the demon out of her daughter.


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But Jesus said to her, "Let the children be filled first, for it is not appropriate to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."


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She went away to her house, and found the child having been laid on the bed, with the demon gone out.


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Again he departed from the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and came to the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the region of Decapolis.


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They brought to him one who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech. They begged him to lay his hand on him.


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He took him aside from the multitude, privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue.


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Immediately his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was released, and he spoke clearly.


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He commanded them that they should tell no one, but the more he commanded them, so much the more widely they proclaimed it.


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They were astonished beyond measure, saying, "He has done all things well. He makes even the deaf hear, and the mute speak!"


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In those days, when there was a very great multitude, and they had nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples to himself, and said to them,


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"I have compassion on the multitude, because they have stayed with me now three days, and have nothing to eat.


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If I send them away fasting to their home, they will faint on the way, for some of them have come a long way."


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His disciples answered him, "From where could one satisfy these people with bread here in a deserted place?"


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He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground, and he took the seven loaves. Having given thanks, he broke them, and gave them to his disciples to serve, and they served the multitude.


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The Pharisees came out and began to question him, seeking from him a sign from heaven, and testing him.


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He sighed deeply in his spirit, and said, "Why does this generation{The word translated "generation" here (genea) could also be translated "people," "race," or "family."} seek a sign? Most assuredly I tell you, no sign will be given to this generation."


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Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, "Why do you reason that it's because you have no bread? Don't you perceive yet, neither understand? Is your heart still hardened?


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When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?" They told him, "Twelve."


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"When the seven loaves fed the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?" They told him, "Seven."


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He took hold of the blind man by the hand, and brought him out of the village. When he had spit on his eyes, and laid his hands on him, he asked him if he saw anything.


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Then again he laid his hands on his eyes. He looked intently, and was restored, and saw everyone clearly.


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He sent him away to his house, saying, "Don't enter into the village, nor tell anyone in the village."


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Jesus went out, with his disciples, into the villages of Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked his disciples, "Who do men say that I am?"


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He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.


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But he, turning around, and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, and said, "Get behind me, Satan! For you have in mind not the things of God, but the things of men."


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He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, "Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.


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For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the Gospel's will save it.


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For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels."


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He said to them, "Most assuredly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste death until they see the Kingdom of God come with power."


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After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John, and brought them up onto a high mountain privately by themselves, and he was changed into another form in front of them.


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His clothing became glistening, exceedingly white, like snow, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them.


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Peter answered Jesus, "Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let's make three tents: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."


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A cloud came, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, "This is my beloved Son. Listen to him."


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As they were coming down from the mountain, he charged them that they should tell no one what things they had seen, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead.


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He said to them, "Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things. How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer many things and be despised?


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But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they have also done to him whatever they wanted to, even as it is written about him."


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Immediately all the multitude, when they saw him, were greatly amazed, and running to him greeted him.


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and wherever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, and grinds his teeth, and wastes away. I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they weren't able."


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He answered him, "Unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me."


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They brought him to him, and when he saw him, immediately the spirit convulsed him, and he fell on the ground, wallowing and foaming at the mouth.


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Often it has cast him both into the fire and into the water, to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us, and help us."


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When Jesus saw that a multitude came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him, "You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him, and never enter him again!"


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Having cried out, and convulsed greatly, it came out of him. The boy became like one dead; so much that most of them said, "He is dead."


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For he was teaching his disciples, and said to them, "The Son of Man is being handed over to the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, on the third day he will rise again."


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He came to Capernaum, and when he was in the house he asked them, "What were you arguing among yourselves on the way?"


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He sat down, and called the twelve; and he said to them, "If any man wants to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all."


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"Whoever receives one such little child in my name, receives me, and whoever receives me, doesn't receive me, but him who sent me."


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John said to him, "Teacher, we saw someone who doesn't follow us casting out demons in your name; and we forbade him, because he doesn't follow us."


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But Jesus said, "Don't forbid him, for there is no one who will do a mighty work in my name, and be able quickly to speak evil of me.


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For whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you are Christ's, most assuredly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward.


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Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if he was thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck.


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If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna,{Gehenna is a word for Hell that originated as the name for a place where live babies were thrown crying into the fire under the arms of the idol, Moloch, to die. This place was so despised by the people after the righteous King Josiah abolished this hideous practice, that not only was it made into a garbage heap, but dead bodies of diseased animals and executed criminals were thrown there and burned.} into the unquenchable fire,


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If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life lame, rather than having your two feet to be cast into Gehenna, into the fire that will never be quenched--


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If your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out. It is better for you to enter into the Kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire,


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Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another."


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He arose from there and came into the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Multitudes came together to him again. As he usually did, he was again teaching them.


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They were bringing to him little children, that he should touch them, but the disciples rebuked those who were bringing them.


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But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, "Allow the little children to come to me! Don't forbid them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.


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Most assuredly I tell you, whoever will not receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it."


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As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, "Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?"


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You know the commandments: 'Do not murder,' 'Do not commit adultery,' 'Do not steal,' 'Do not give false testimony,' 'Do not defraud,' 'Honor your father and mother.'"


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Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, "One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross."


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But his face fell at that saying, and he went away sorrowful, for he was one who had great possessions.


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Jesus looked around, and said to his disciples, "How difficult it is for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!"


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The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered again, "Children, how hard is it for those who trust in riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!


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It is easier for a camel to go through a{or, the} needle's eye than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God."


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Jesus, looking at them, said, "With men it is impossible, but not with God, for all things are possible with God."


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Jesus said, "Most assuredly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the Gospel's sake,


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but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time, houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.


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They were on the way, going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus was going in front of them, and they were amazed; and those who followed were afraid. He again took the twelve, and began to tell them the things that were going to happen to him.


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"Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes. They will condemn him to death, and will deliver him to the Gentiles.


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James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came near to him, saying, "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we will ask."


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They said to him, "Grant to us that we may sit, one at your right hand, and one at your left hand, in your glory."


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But Jesus said to them, "You don't know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?"


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They said to him, "We are able." Jesus said to them, "You shall indeed drink the cup that I drink, and you shall be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with;


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but to sit at my right hand and at my left hand is not mine to give, but for whom it has been prepared."


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Jesus summoned them, and said to them, "You know that they who are recognized as rulers over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.


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But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant.


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For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."


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They came to Jericho. As he went out from Jericho, with his disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road.


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When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out, and say, "Jesus, you son of David, have mercy on me!"


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Many rebuked him, that he should be quiet, but he cried out much more, "You son of David, have mercy on me!"


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Jesus stood still, and said, "Call him." They called the blind man, saying to him, "Cheer up! Get up. He is calling you!"


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Jesus asked him, "What do you want me to do for you?" The blind man said to him, "Rhabboni,{Rhabboni is a transliteration of the Hebrew word for "great teacher."} that I may see again."


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Jesus said to him, "Go your way. Your faith has made you well." Immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way.


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When they drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethsphage{TR reads "Bethphage" instead of "Bethsphage"} and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,


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and said to them, "Go your way into the village that is opposite you. Immediately as you enter into it, you will find a young donkey tied, on which no one has sat. Untie him, and bring him.


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If anyone asks you, 'Why are you doing this?' say, 'The Lord needs him;' and immediately he will send him back here."


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They went away, and found a young donkey tied at the door outside in the open street, and they untied him.


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Many spread their garments on the way, and others were cutting down branches from the trees, and spreading them on the road.


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Those who went in front, and those who followed, cried out, "Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!


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Blessed is the kingdom of our father David that is coming in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!"


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Jesus entered into the temple in Jerusalem. When he had looked around at everything, it being now evening, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.


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Seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came to see if perhaps he might find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.


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They came to Jerusalem, and Jesus entered into the temple, and began to throw out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of those who sold the doves.


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He taught, saying to them, "Isn't it written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations?' But you have made it a den of robbers!"


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The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.


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For most assuredly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' and doesn't doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening; he shall have whatever he says.


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Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them.


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Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.


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They came again to Jerusalem, and as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders came to him,


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and they began saying to him, "By what authority do you do these things? Or who gave you this authority to do these things?"


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Jesus said to them, "I will ask you one question. Answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.


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They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we should say, 'From heaven;' he will say, 'Why then did you not believe him?'


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They answered Jesus, "We don't know." Jesus said to them, "Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things."


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He began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the winepress, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country.


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When it was time, he sent a servant to the farmer to get from the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard.


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Again, he sent another servant to them; and they threw stones at him, wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully treated.


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Therefore still having one, his beloved son, he sent him last to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.'


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But those farmers said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.'


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What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.


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Haven't you even read this Scripture: 'The stone which the builders rejected, The same was made the head of the corner.


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They tried to seize him, but they feared the multitude; for they perceived that he spoke the parable against them. They left him, and went away.


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When they had come, they asked him, "Teacher, we know that you are honest, and don't defer to anyone; for you aren't partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?


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Shall we give, or shall we not give?" But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, "Why do you test me? Bring me a denarius, that I may see it."


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They brought it. He said to them, "Whose is this image and inscription?" They said to him, "Caesar's."


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Jesus answered them, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." They marveled greatly at him.


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"Teacher, Moses wrote to us, 'If a man's brother dies, and leaves a wife behind him, and leaves no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.'


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In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be of them? For the seven had her as a wife."


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Jesus answered them, "Isn't this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God?


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For when they will rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.


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But about the dead, that they are raised; haven't you read in the book of Moses, about the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?'


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One of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together. Knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, "Which commandment is the greatest of all?"


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you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.' This is the first commandment.


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The second is like this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."


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The scribe said to him, "Truly, teacher, you have said well that he is one, and there is none other but he,


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and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices."


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When Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, "You are not far from the Kingdom of God." No one dared ask him any question after that.


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Jesus responded, as he taught in the temple, "How is it that the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?


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For David himself said in the Holy Spirit, 'The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, Until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet.'


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Therefore David himself calls him Lord, so how can he be his son?" The common people heard him gladly.


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In his teaching he said to them, "Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and to get greetings in the marketplaces,


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those who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation."


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Jesus sat down opposite the treasury, and saw how the multitude cast money into the treasury. Many who were rich cast in much.


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A poor widow came, and she cast in two small brass coins,{Literally, lepta (or widow's mites). Lepta are very small brass coins worth half a quadrans each, which is a quarter of the copper assarion. Lepta are worth less than 1% of an agricultural worker's daily wages.} which equal a quadrans coin.{A quadrans is a coin worth about 1/64 of a denarius. A denarius is about one day's wages for an agricultural laborer.}


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He called his disciples to himself, and said to them, "Most assuredly I tell you, this poor widow gave more than all those who are giving into the treasury,


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for they all gave out of their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, gave all that she had to live on."


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As he went out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, "Teacher, see what kind of stones and what kind of buildings!"


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Jesus said to him, "Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone on another, which will not be thrown down."


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As he sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked him privately,


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"Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign that these things are all about to be fulfilled?"


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"When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, don't be troubled. For those must happen, but the end is not yet.


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For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places. There will be famines and troubles. These things are the beginning of birth pains.


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But watch yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils. You will be beaten in synagogues. You will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them.


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When they lead you away and deliver you up, don't be anxious beforehand, or premeditate what you will say, but say whatever will be given you in that hour. For it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.


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You will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.


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But when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains,


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For in those days there will be oppression, such as there has not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will be.


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Unless the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would have been saved; but for the sake of the chosen ones, whom he picked out, he shortened the days.


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For there will arise false christs and false prophets, and will show signs and wonders, that they may lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.


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But in those days, after that oppression, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light,


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Then he will send out his angels, and will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the sky.


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"Now from the fig tree, learn this parable. When the branch has now become tender, and puts forth its leaves, you know that the summer is near;


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Most assuredly I say to you, this generation{The word translated "generation" (genea) could also be translated "race," "family," or "people."} will not pass away until all these things happen.


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But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.


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"It is like a man, traveling to another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch.


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Watch therefore, for you don't know when the lord of the house is coming, whether at evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning;


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It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might sieze him by deception, and kill him.


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While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard-- very costly. She broke the jar, and poured it over his head.


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But there were some who were indignant among themselves, saying, "Why has this ointment been wasted?


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For this might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii,{300 denarii was about a years wages for an agricultural laborer.} and given to the poor." They grumbled against her.


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For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me.


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Most assuredly I tell you, wherever this Gospel may be preached throughout the whole world, that which this woman has done will also be spoken of for a memorial of her."


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Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests, that he might deliver him to them.


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They, when they heard it, were glad, and promised to give him money. He sought how he might conveniently deliver him.


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On the first day of unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the Passover, his disciples asked him, "Where do you want us to go and make ready that you may eat the Passover?"


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He sent two of his disciples, and said to them, "Go into the city, and there you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him,


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and wherever he enters in, tell the master of the house, 'The Teacher says, "Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?"'


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His disciples went out, and came into the city, and found things as he had said to them, and they prepared the Passover.


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As they sat and were eating, Jesus said, "Most assuredly I tell you, one of you will betray me -- he who eats with me."


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They began to be sorrowful, and to ask him one by one, "Surely not I?" And another said, "Surely not I?"


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For the Son of Man goes, even as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born."


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As they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had blessed, he broke it, and gave to them, and said, "Take, eat. This is my body."


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Most assuredly I tell you, I will no more drink of the fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it anew in the Kingdom of God."


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Jesus said to them, "All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.'


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Jesus said to him, "Most assuredly I tell you, that you today, even this night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times."


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But he spoke all the more, "If I must die with you, I will not deny you." They all said the same thing.


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They came to a place which was named Gethsemane. He said to his disciples, "Sit here, while I pray."


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He went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass away from him.


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He said, "Abba, Father, all things are possible to you. Please remove this cup from me. However, not what I desire, but what you desire."


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He came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn't you watch one hour?


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Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."


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Again he returned, and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy, and they didn't know what to answer him.


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He came the third time, and said to them, "Sleep on now, and take your rest. It is enough. The hour has come. Behold, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.


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Immediately, while he was still speaking, Judas, one of the twelve, came--and with him a multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders.


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Now he who betrayed him had given them a sign, saying, "Whoever I will kiss, that is he. Seize him, and lead him away safely."


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But a certain one of those who stood by drew his sword, and struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.


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I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and you didn't arrest me. But this is so that the Scriptures might be fulfilled."


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A certain young man followed him, having a linen cloth thrown around himself, over his naked body. The young men grabbed him,


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They led Jesus away to the high priest. All the chief priests, the elders, and the scribes came together with him.


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Peter had followed him from a distance, until he came into the court of the high priest. He was sitting with the officers, and warming himself in the light of the fire.


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Now the chief priests and the whole council sought witnesses against Jesus to put him to death, and found none.


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"We heard him say, 'I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.'"


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The high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, "Have you no answer? What is it which these testify against you?"


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But he stayed quiet, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?"


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Jesus said, "I AM. You will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of the sky."


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Some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to beat him with fists, and to tell him, "Prophesy!" The officers struck him with the palms of their hands.


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and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him, and said, "You were also with the Nazarene, Jesus!"


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But he denied it, saying, "I neither know, nor understand what you are saying." He went out on the porch, and the rooster crowed.


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But he again denied it. After a little while again those who stood by said to Peter, "You truly are one of them, for you are a Galilean, and your speech shows it."


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The rooster crowed the second time. Peter remembered the word, how that Jesus said to him, "Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times." When he thought about that, he wept.


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Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.


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There was one called Barabbas, bound with those who had made insurrection, men who in the insurrection had committed murder.


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Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and handed over Jesus, when he had flogged him, to be crucified.


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The soldiers led him away within the court, which is the Praetorium; and they called together the whole cohort.


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When they had mocked him, they took the purple off of him, and put his own garments on him. They led him out to crucify him.


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They compelled one passing by, coming from the country, Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to go with them, that he might bear his cross.


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Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, "Ha! You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days,


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Likewise, also the chief priests mocking among themselves with the scribes said, "He saved others. He can't save himself.


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Let the Christ, the King of Israel, now come down from the cross, that we may see and believe him.{TR omits "him"}" Those who were crucified with him insulted him.


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When the sixth hour{or, noon} had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.{3:00 PM}


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At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" which is, being interpreted, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"


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One ran, and filling a sponge full of vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink, saying, "Let him be. Let's see whether Elijah comes to take him down."


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When the centurion, who stood by opposite him, saw that he cried out like this and breathed his last, he said, "Truly this man was the Son of God!"


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There were also women watching from afar, among whom were both Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;


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who, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and served him; and many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem.


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Joseph of Arimathaea, a prominent council member who also himself was looking for the Kingdom of God, came. He boldly went in to Pilate, and asked for Jesus' body.


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Pilate marveled if he were already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long.


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He bought a linen cloth, and taking him down, wound him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb which had been cut out of a rock. He rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.


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When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him.


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Entering into the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were amazed.


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He said to them, "Don't be amazed. You seek Jesus, the Nazarene, who has been crucified. He has risen. He is not here. Behold, the place where they laid him!


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But go, tell his disciples and Peter, 'He goes before you into Galilee. There you will see him, as he said to you.'"


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They went out,{TR adds "quickly"} and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had come on them. They said nothing to anyone; for they were afraid.


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Now when he had risen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.


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After these things he was revealed in another form to two of them, as they walked, on their way into the country.


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Afterward he was revealed to the eleven themselves as they sat at the table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they didn't believe those who had seen him after he had risen.


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These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new languages;


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they will take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it will in no way hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover."


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So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.


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They went out, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the signs that followed. Amen.


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Since many have undertaken to set in order a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us,


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even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word delivered them to us,


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it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all things accurately from the first, to write to you in order, most excellent Theophilus;


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There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the priestly division of Abijah. He had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.


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They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.


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But the angel said to him, "Don't be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard, and your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.


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For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.


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He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, 'to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,' and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord."


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Zacharias said to the angel, "How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years."


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The angel answered him, "I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God. I was sent to speak to you, and to bring you this good news.


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Behold, you will be silent and not able to speak, until the day that these things will happen, because you didn't believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their proper time."


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When he came out, he could not speak to them, and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple. He continued making signs to them, and remained mute.


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"Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in which he looked at me, to take away my reproach among men."


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to a virgin pledged to be married to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin's name was Mary.


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Having come in, the angel said to her, "Rejoice, you highly favored one! The Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women!"


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But when she saw him, she was greatly troubled at the saying, and considered what kind of salutation this might be.


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He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father, David,


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The angel answered her, "The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.


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Behold, Elizabeth, your relative, also has conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.


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Mary said, "Behold, the handmaid of the Lord; be it to me according to your word." The angel departed from her.


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It happened, when Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, that the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.


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She called out with a loud voice, and said, "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!


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Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfillment of the things which have been spoken to her from the Lord!"


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For he has looked at the humble state of his handmaid. For behold, from now on, all generations will call me blessed.


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Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy towards her, and they rejoiced with her.


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It happened on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zacharias, after the name of the father.


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Fear came on all who lived around them, and all these sayings were talked about throughout all the hill country of Judea.


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All who heard them laid them up in their heart, saying, "What then will this child be?" The hand of the Lord was with him.


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To grant to us that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, should serve him without fear,


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And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High, For you will go before the face of the Lord to make ready his ways,


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To shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; To guide our feet into the way of peace."


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The child was growing, and becoming strong in spirit, and was in the desert until the day of his public appearance to Israel.


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Now it happened in those days, that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled.


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Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David;


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She brought forth her firstborn son, and she wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a feeding trough, because there was no room for them in the inn.


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There were shepherds in the same country staying in the field, and keeping watch by night over their flock.


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Behold, an angel of the Lord stood by them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.


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The angel said to them, "Don't be afraid, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be to all the people.


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This is the sign to you: you will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth, lying in a feeding trough."


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It happened, when the angels went away from them into the sky, that the shepherds said one to another, "Let's go to Bethlehem, now, and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us."


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The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, just as it was told them.


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When eight days were fulfilled for the circumcision of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.


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When the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were fulfilled, they brought him up to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord


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(as it is written in the law of the Lord, "Every male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord"),


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and to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, "A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons."


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Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.


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It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death before he had seen the Lord's Christ.{"Christ" (Greek) and "Messiah" (Hebrew) both mean "Anointed One"}


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He came in the Spirit into the temple. When the parents brought in the child, Jesus, that they might do concerning him according to the custom of the law,


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and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, "Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.


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There was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity,


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and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn't depart from the temple, worshipping with fastings and petitions night and day.


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Coming up at that very hour, she gave thanks to the Lord, and spoke of him to all those who were looking for redemption in Jerusalem.


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When they had accomplished all things that were according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city, Nazareth.


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The child was growing, and was becoming strong in spirit, being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.


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and when they had fulfilled the days, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. Joseph and his mother didn't know it,


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but supposing him to be in the company, they went a day's journey, and they looked for him among their relatives and acquaintances.


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It happened after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them, and asking them questions.


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When they saw him, they were astonished, and his mother said to him, "Son, why have you treated us this way? Behold, your father and I were anxiously looking for you."


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He said to them, "Why were you looking for me? Didn't you know that I must be in my Father's house?"


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And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.


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Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,


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in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness.


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He came into all the region around the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for remission of sins.


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As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make ready the way of the Lord. Make his paths straight.


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Every valley will be filled. Every mountain and hill will be brought low. The crooked will become straight, And the rough ways smooth.


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He said therefore to the multitudes who went out to be baptized by him, "You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?


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Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and don't begin to say among yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father;' for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones!


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Even now the axe also lies at the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doesn't bring forth good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire."


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He answered them, "He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise."


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Soldiers also asked him, saying, "What about us? What must we do?" He said to them, "Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages."


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As the people were in expectation, and all men reasoned in their hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he was the Christ,


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John answered them all, "I indeed baptize you with water, but he comes who is mightier than I, the latchet of whose sandals I am not worthy to loosen. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire,


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whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor, and will gather the wheat into his barn; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."


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but Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias, his brother's{TR reads "brother Philip's instead of brother's"} wife, and for all the evil things which Herod had done,


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Now it happened, when all the people were baptized, Jesus also had been baptized, and was praying. The sky was opened,


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and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form as a dove on him; and a voice came out of the sky, saying "You are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased."


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Jesus himself, when he began to teach, was about thirty years old, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,


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the son of Amminadab, the son of Aram, the son of Joram,{TR omits "the son of Joram"} the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah,


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the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan,


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Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness


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for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry.


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Jesus answered him, saying, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.'"


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The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.


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The devil said to him, "I will give you all this authority, and their glory, for it has been delivered to me; and I give it to whomever I want.


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Jesus answered him, "Get behind me Satan! For it is written, 'You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.'"


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He led him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down from here,


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Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and news about him spread through all the surrounding area.


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He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.


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The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. He opened the book, and found the place where it was written,


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"The Spirit of the Lord is on me, Because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim release to the captives, Recovering of sight to the blind, To deliver those who are crushed,


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He closed the book, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on him.


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All testified about him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, "Isn't this Joseph's son?"


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He said to them, "Doubtless you will tell me this parable, 'Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done at Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.'"


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But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.


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Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.


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There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian."


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They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.


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In the synagogue there was a man who had a spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice,


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saying, "Ah! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God!"


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Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be silent, and come out of him!" When the demon had thrown him down in their midst, he came out of him, having done him no harm.


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Amazement came on all, and they spoke together, one with another, saying, "What is this word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!"


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He rose up from the synagogue, and entered into Simon's house. Simon's mother-in-law was afflicted with a great fever, and they begged him for her.


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When the sun was setting, all those who had any sick with various diseases brought them to him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.


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Demons also came out from many, crying out, and saying, "You are the Christ, the Son of God!" Rebuking them, he didn't allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.


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When it was day, he departed and went into an uninhabited place, and the multitudes looked for him, and came to him, and held on to him, so that he wouldn't go away from them.


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But he said to them, "I must preach the good news of the Kingdom of God to the other cities also. For this reason I have been sent."


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Now it happened, while the multitude pressed on him and heard the word of God, that he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret.


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He saw two boats standing by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them, and were washing their nets.


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He entered into one of the boats, which was Simon's, and asked him to put out a little from the land. He sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat.


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When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, "Put out into the deep, and let down your nets for a catch."


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Simon answered him, "Master, we worked all night, and took nothing; but at your word I will let down the net."


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They beckoned to their partners in the other boat, that they should come and help them. They came, and filled both boats, so that they began to sink.


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But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, "Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord."


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and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. Jesus said to Simon, "Don't be afraid. From now on you will be catching people alive."


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It happened, while he was in one of the cities, behold, there was a man full of leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he fell on his face, and begged him, saying, "Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean."


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He stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying, "I want to. Be made clean." Immediately the leprosy left him.


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He charged him to tell no one, "But go your way, and show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing according to what Moses commanded, for a testimony to them."


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But the report concerning him spread much more, and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities.


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It happened on one of those days, that he was teaching; and there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every village of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was with him to heal them.


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Not finding a way to bring him in because of the multitude, they went up to the housetop, and let him down through the tiles with his cot into the midst before Jesus.


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The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, "Who is this that speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?"


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But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins" (he said to the paralyzed man), "I tell you, arise, and take up your cot, and go to your house."


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Immediately he rose up before them, and took up that which he was laying on, and departed to his house, glorifying God.


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Amazement took hold on all, and they glorified God. They were filled with fear, saying, "We have seen strange things today."


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After these things he went out, and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and said to him, "Follow me!"


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Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.


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Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?"


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Jesus answered them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.


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They said to him, "Why do John's disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?"


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He said to them, "Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast, while the bridegroom is with them?


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But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast in those days."


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He also told a parable to them. "No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old.


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No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.


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Now it happened on the second Sabbath after the first, that he was going through the grain fields. His disciples plucked the heads of grain, and ate, rubbing them in their hands.


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But some of the Pharisees said to them, "Why do you do that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day?"


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Jesus, answering them, said, "Haven't you read what David did when he was hungry, he, and those who were with him;


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how he entered into the house of God, and took and ate the show bread, and gave also to those who were with him, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests alone?"


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It also happened on another Sabbath that he entered into the synagogue and taught. There was a man there, and his right hand was withered.


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The scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, that they might find an accusation against him.


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But he knew their thoughts; and he said to the man who had the withered hand, "Rise up, and stand in the middle." He arose and stood.


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Then Jesus said to them, "I will ask you something: Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?"


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He looked around at them all, and said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He did, and his hand was restored as sound as the other.


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It happened in these days, that he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.


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When it was day, he called his disciples, and from them he chose twelve, whom he also named apostles:


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He came down with them, and stood on a level place, with a crowd of his disciples, and a great number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases;


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He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, "Blessed are you who are poor, For yours is the Kingdom of God.


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Blessed are you who hunger now, For you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, For you will laugh.


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Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man's sake.


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Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets.


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Woe to you, you who are full now! For you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now! For you will mourn and weep.


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Woe,{TR adds "to you"} when{TR adds "all"} men speak well of you! For their fathers did the same thing to the false prophets.


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To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him who takes away your cloak, don't withhold your coat also.


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If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.


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If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.


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If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive back as much.


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But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.


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Don't judge, And you won't be judged. Don't condemn, And you won't be condemned. Set free, And you will be set free.


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"Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you.{literally, into your bosom.} For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you."


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A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.


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Why do you see the speck of chaff that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye?


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Or how can you tell your brother, 'Brother, let me remove the speck of chaff that is in your eye,' when you yourself don't see the beam that is in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck of chaff that is in your brother's eye.


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For there is no good tree that brings forth rotten fruit; nor again a rotten tree that brings forth good fruit.


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For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people don't gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.


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The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.


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He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it was founded on the rock.


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But he who hears, and doesn't do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great."


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When he heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come and save his servant.


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When they came to Jesus, they begged him earnestly, saying, "He is worthy for you to do this for him,


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Jesus went with them. When he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying to him, "Lord, don't trouble yourself, for I am not worthy for you to come under my roof.


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Therefore I didn't even think myself worthy to come to you; but say the word, and my servant will be healed.


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For I also am a man placed under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one, 'Go!' and he goes; and to another, 'Come!' and he comes; and to my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it."


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When Jesus heard these things, he marveled at him, and turned and said to the multitude who followed him, "I tell you, I have not found such great faith, no, not in Israel."


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It happened soon afterwards, that he went to a city called Nain. Many of his disciples, along with a great multitude, went with him.


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Now when he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, one who was dead was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. Many people of the city were with her.


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He came near and touched the coffin, and the bearers stood still. He said, "Young man, I tell you, arise!"


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Fear took hold of all, and they glorified God, saying, "A great prophet has arisen among us!" and, "God has visited his people!"


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John, calling to himself two of his disciples, sent them to Jesus, saying, "Are you the one who is coming, or should we look for another?"


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When the men had come to him, they said, "John the Baptizer has sent us to you, saying, 'Are you he who comes, or should we look for another?'"


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In that hour he cured many of diseases and plagues and evil spirits; and to many who were blind he gave sight.


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Jesus answered them, "Go and tell John the things which you have seen and heard: that the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.


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When John's messengers had departed, he began to tell the multitudes about John, "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?


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But what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft clothing? Behold, those who are gorgeously dressed, and live delicately, are in kings' courts.


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This is he of whom it is written, 'Behold, I send my messenger before your face, Who will prepare your way before you.'


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"For I tell you, among those who are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptizer, yet he who is least in the Kingdom of God is greater than he."


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When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared God to be just, having been baptized with John's baptism.


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But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves.


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But the Lord said,{So reads TR. MT omits "But the Lord said,"} "To what then will I liken the people of this generation? What are they like?


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They are like children who sit in the marketplace, and call one to another, saying, 'We piped to you, and you didn't dance. We mourned, and you didn't weep.'


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The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, 'Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!'


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One of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him. He entered into the Pharisee's house, and sat at the table.


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Behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that he was reclining in the Pharisee's house, she brought an alabaster jar of ointment.


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Standing behind at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and she wiped them with the hair of her head, kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.


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Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, "This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner."


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Simon answered, "He, I suppose, to whom he forgave the most." He said to him, "You have judged correctly."


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Turning to the woman, he said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I entered into your house, and you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head.


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Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little."


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Those who sat at the table with him began to say to themselves, "Who is this who even forgives sins?"


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It happened soon afterwards, that he went about through cities and villages, preaching and bringing the good news of the Kingdom of God. With him were the twelve,


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and certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary who was called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out;


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and Joanna, the wife of Chuzas, Herod's steward; Susanna; and many others; who ministered to them{TR reads "him" instead of "them"} from their possessions.


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When a great multitude came together, and people from every city were coming to him, he spoke by a parable.


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"The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it.


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Other fell into the good ground, and grew, and brought forth fruit one hundred times." As he said these things, he called out, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear!"


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He said, "To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God, but to the rest in parables; that 'seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.'


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Those along the road are those who hear, then the devil comes, and takes away the word from their heart, that they may not believe and be saved.


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Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.


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That which fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.


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That in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and bring forth fruit with patience.


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"No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a container, or puts it under a bed; but puts it on a stand, that those who enter in may see the light.


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For nothing is hidden, that will not be revealed; nor anything secret, that will not be known and come to light.


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Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn't have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has."


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Now it happened on one of those days, that he entered into a boat, himself and his disciples, and he said to them, "Let's go over to the other side of the lake." So they launched out.


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But as they sailed, he fell asleep. A wind storm came down on the lake, and they were taking on dangerous amounts of water.


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They came to him, and awoke him, saying, "Master, master, we are dying!" He awoke, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water, and they ceased, and it was calm.


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He said to them, "Where is your faith?" Being afraid they marveled, saying one to another, "Who is this, then, that he commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him?"


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When Jesus stepped ashore, a certain man out of the city who had demons for a long time met him. He wore no clothes, and didn't live in a house, but in the tombs.


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When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, "What do I have to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don't torment me!"


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For Jesus was commanding the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For the unclean spirit had often seized the man. He was kept under guard, and bound with chains and fetters. Breaking the bands apart, he was driven by the demon into the desert.


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Now there was there a herd of many pigs feeding on the mountain, and they begged him that he would allow them to enter into those. He allowed them.


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The demons came out from the man, and entered into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake, and were drowned.


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When those who fed them saw what had happened, they fled, and told it in the city and in the country.


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People went out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus' feet, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.


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All the people of the surrounding country of the Gadarenes asked him to depart from them, for they were very much afraid. He entered into the boat, and returned.


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But the man from whom the demons had gone out begged him that he might go with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying,


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"Return to your house, and declare what great things God has done for you." He went his way, proclaiming throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him.


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It happened, when Jesus returned, that the multitude welcomed him, for they were all waiting for him.


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Behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue. He fell down at Jesus' feet, and begged him to come into his house,


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for he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. But as he went, the multitudes pressed against him.


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A woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her living on physicians, and could not be healed by any,


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came behind him, and touched the fringe of his cloak, and immediately the flow of her blood stopped.


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Jesus said, "Who touched me?" When all denied it, Peter and those with him said, "Master, the multitudes press and jostle you, and you say, 'Who touched me?'"


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When the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling, and falling down before him declared to him in the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately.


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While he still spoke, one from the ruler of the synagogue's house came, saying to him, "Your daughter is dead. Don't trouble the Teacher."


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When he came to the house, he didn't allow anyone to enter in, except Peter, John, James, the father of the child, and her mother.


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Her spirit returned, and she rose up immediately. He commanded that something be given to her to eat.


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He called the twelve{TR reads "his twelve disciples" instead of "the twelve"} together, and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases.


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He said to them, "Take nothing for your journey--neither staffs, nor wallet, nor bread, nor money; neither have two coats apiece.


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As many as don't receive you, when you depart from that city, shake off even the dust from your feet for a testimony against them."


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Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him; and he was very perplexed, because it was said by some that John had risen from the dead,


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Herod said, "John I beheaded, but who is this, about whom I hear such things?" He sought to see him.


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The apostles, when they had returned, told him what things they had done. He took them, and withdrew apart to a deserted place of a city called Bethsaida.


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But the multitudes, perceiving it, followed him. He welcomed them, and spoke to them of the Kingdom of God, and he cured those who needed healing.


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The day began to wear away; and the twelve came, and said to him, "Send the multitude away, that they may go into the surrounding villages and farms, and lodge, and get food, for we are here in a deserted place."


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But he said to them, "You give them something to eat." They said, "We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we should go and buy food for all these people."


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For they were about five thousand men. He said to his disciples, "Make them sit down in groups of about fifty each."


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He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to the sky, he blessed them, and broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude.


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They ate, and were all filled. They gathered up twelve baskets of broken pieces that were left over.


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It happened, as he was praying alone, that the disciples were with him, and he asked them, "Who do the multitudes say that I am?"


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They answered, "'John the Baptizer,' but others say, 'Elijah,' and others, that one of the old prophets is risen again."


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saying, "The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up."


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He said to all, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross,{TR, NU add "daily"} and follow me.


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For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, the same will save it.


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For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.


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But I tell you the truth: There are some of those who stand here, who will in no way taste of death, until they see the Kingdom of God."


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It happened about eight days after these sayings, that he took with him Peter, John, and James, and went up onto the mountain to pray.


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As he was praying, the appearance of his face was altered, and his clothing became white and dazzling.


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who appeared in glory, and spoke of his departure,{Literally, "exodus"} which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem.


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Now Peter and those who were with him were heavy with sleep, but when they were fully awake, they saw his glory, and the two men who stood with him.


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It happened, as they were parting from him, that Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is good for us to be here. Let's make three tents: one for you, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah," not knowing what he said.


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While he said these things, a cloud came and overshadowed them, and they were afraid as they entered into the cloud.


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When the voice came, Jesus was found alone. They were silent, and told no one in those days any of the things which they had seen.


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It happened on the next day, when they had come down from the mountain, that a great multitude met him.


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Behold, a man from the crowd called out, saying, "Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, for he is my only child.


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Behold, a spirit takes him, he suddenly cries out, and it convulses him so that he foams, and it hardly departs from him, bruising him severely.


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Jesus answered, "Faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here."


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While he was still coming, the demon threw him down and convulsed him violently. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.


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They were all astonished at the majesty of God. But while all were marveling at all the things which Jesus did, he said to his disciples,


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"Let these words sink into your ears, for the Son of Man will be delivered up into the hands of men."


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But they didn't understand this saying. It was concealed from them, that they should not perceive it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.


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and said to them, "Whoever receives this little child in my name receives me. Whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For whoever is least among you all, this one will be great."


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John answered, "Master, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we forbade him, because he doesn't follow with us."


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It came to pass, when the days were near that he should be taken up, he intently set his face to go to Jerusalem,


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and sent messengers before his face. They went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, so as to prepare for him.


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When his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, "Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from the sky, and destroy them, just as Elijah did?"


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For the Son of Man didn't come to destroy men's lives, but to save them." They went to another village.


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Jesus said to him, "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head."


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But Jesus said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce the Kingdom of God."


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Another also said, "I want to follow you, Lord, but first allow me to bid farewell to those who are at my house."


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But Jesus said to him, "No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God."


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Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two ahead of him{literally, "before his face"} into every city and place, where he was about to come.


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Then he said to them, "The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he may send out laborers into his harvest.


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Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Don't go from house to house.


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But into whatever city you enter, and they don't receive you, go out into the streets of it and say,


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'Even the dust from your city that clings to us, we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that the Kingdom of God has come near to you.'


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"Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.


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You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades.{Hades is the lower realm of the dead, or Hell.}


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Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me."


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Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt you.


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Nevertheless, don't rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven."


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In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, "I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight."


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Turning to the disciples, he said, "All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him."


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Turning to the disciples, he said privately, "Blessed are the eyes which see the things that you see,


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for I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see the things which you see, and didn't see them, and to hear the things which you hear, and didn't hear them."


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Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"


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He answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself."


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Jesus answered, "A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead.


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By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side.


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But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion,


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came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.


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On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, and gave them to the host, and said to him, 'Take care of him. Whatever you spend beyond that, I will repay you when I return.'


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It happened as they went on their way, he entered into a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house.


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But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she came up to him, and said, "Lord, don't you care that my sister left me to serve alone? Ask her therefore to help me."


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It happened, that when he finished praying in a certain place, one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples."


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He said to them, "When you pray, say, 'Our Father in heaven, May your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come. May your will be done on Earth, as it is in heaven.


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Forgive us our sins, For we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. Bring us not into temptation, But deliver us from the evil one.'"


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He said to them, "Which of you, if you go to a friend at midnight, and tell him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,


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and he from within will answer and say, 'Don't bother me. The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I can't get up and give it to you'?


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I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he needs.


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"I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.


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"Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won't give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?


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If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?"


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He was casting out a demon, and it was mute. It happened, when the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke; and the multitudes marveled.


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But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation. A house divided against itself falls.


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If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebul.


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But if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore will they be your judges.


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But when someone stronger attacks him and overcomes him, he takes from him his whole armor in which he trusted, and divides his spoils.


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The unclean spirit, when he has gone out of the man, passes through dry places, seeking rest, and finding none, he says, 'I will turn back to my house from which I came out.'


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Then he goes, and takes seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first."


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It came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice, and said to him, "Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts which nursed you!"


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When the multitudes were gathering together to him, he began to say, "This is an evil generation. It seeks after a sign. No sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah, the prophet.


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For even as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will also the Son of Man be to this generation.


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The Queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and will condemn them: for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, one greater than Solomon is here.


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The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, one greater than Jonah is here.


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"No man, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a cellar, nor under a basket, but on a stand, that those who enter in may see the light.


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The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness.


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If therefore your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its bright shining gives you light."


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The Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.


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But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.


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But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and the love of God. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.


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Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues, and the greetings in the marketplaces.


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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like hidden graves, and the men who walk over them don't know it."


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He said, "Woe to you lawyers also! For you load men with burdens that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won't even lift one finger to help carry those burdens.


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So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their tombs.


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Therefore also the wisdom of God said, 'I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute,


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from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.' Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation.


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Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn't enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered."


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As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him;


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lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.


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Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.


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Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner chambers will be proclaimed on the housetops.


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"I tell you, my friends, don't be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.


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But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him, who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna.{or, Hell} Yes, I tell you, fear him.


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"Aren't five sparrows sold for two assaria coins{An assarion was a small copper coin worth about an hour's wages for an agricultural laborer.}? Not one of them is forgotten by God.


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But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Therefore don't be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.


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"I tell you, everyone who confesses me before men, him will the Son of Man also confess before the angels of God;


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Everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but those who blaspheme against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.


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When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, don't be anxious how or what you will answer, or what you will say;


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He said to them, "Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man's life doesn't consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses."


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He said, 'This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.


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I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry."'


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"But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared--whose will they be?'


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He said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, don't be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.


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Consider the ravens: they don't sow, they don't reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds!


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Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don't toil, neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.


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But if this is how God clothes the grass in the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith?


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For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things.


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Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don't grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn't fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.


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Be like men watching for their lord, when he returns from the marriage feast; that, when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him.


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Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most assuredly I tell you, that he will dress himself, and make them recline, and will come and serve them.


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But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not allowed his house to be broken into.


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The Lord said, "Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?


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But if that servant says in his heart, 'My lord delays his coming,' and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,


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then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn't expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn't know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.


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That servant, who knew his lord's will, and didn't prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,


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but he who didn't know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whoever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.


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They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."


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He said to the multitudes also, "When you see a cloud rising from the west, immediately you say, 'A shower is coming,' and so it happens.


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You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how is it that you don't interpret this time?


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For when you are going with your adversary before the magistrate, try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.


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I tell you, you will by no means get out of there, until you have paid the very last penny.{Literally, lepton. A lepton is a very small brass Jewish coin worth half a Roman quadrans each, which is worth a quarter of the copper assarion. Lepta are worth less than 1% of an agricultural worker's daily wages.}"


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Now there were some present at the same time who told him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.


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Jesus answered them, "Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered such things?


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Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them; do you think that they were worse offenders than all the men who dwell in Jerusalem?


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He spoke this parable. "A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none.


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He said to the vine dresser, 'Behold, these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down. Why does it waste the soil?'


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Behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and she was bent over, and could in no way straighten herself up.


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The ruler of the synagogue, being indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the multitude, "There are six days in which men ought to work. Therefore come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day!"


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Therefore the Lord answered him, "You hypocrites! Doesn't each one of you free his ox or his donkey from the stall on the Sabbath, and lead him away to water?


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Ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan had bound eighteen long years, be freed from this bondage on the Sabbath day?"


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As he said these things, all his adversaries were disappointed, and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.


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It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and put in his own garden. It grew, and became a large tree, and the birds of the sky lodged in its branches."


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It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three measures{literally, three sata. 3 sata is about 39 litres or a bit more than a bushel} of flour, until it was all leavened."


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"Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.


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When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us!' then he will answer and tell you, 'I don't know you or where you come from.'


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He will say, 'I tell you, I don't know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.'


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There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets, in the Kingdom of God, and yourselves being thrown outside.


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Behold, there are some who are last who will be first, and there are some who are first who will be last."


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On that same day, some Pharisees came, saying to him, "Get out of here, and go away, for Herod wants to kill you."


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He said to them, "Go and tell that fox, 'Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I complete my mission.


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Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the next day, for it can't be that a prophet perish outside of Jerusalem.'


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"Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused!


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Behold, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see me, until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!'"


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It happened, when he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, that they were watching him.


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Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?"


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He answered them, "Which of you, if your son{TR reads "donkey" instead of "son"} or an ox fell into a well, wouldn't immediately pull him out on a Sabbath day?"


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He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the best seats, and said to them,


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"When you are invited by anyone to a marriage feast, don't sit in the best seat, since perhaps someone more honorable than you might be invited by him,


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and he who invited both of you would come and tell you, 'Make room for this person.' Then you would begin, with shame, to take the lowest place.


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But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes, he may tell you, 'Friend, move up higher.' Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you.


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He also said to the one who had invited him, "When you make a dinner or a supper, don't call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back.


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and you will be blessed, because they don't have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous."


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When one of those who sat at the table with him heard these things, he said to him, "Blessed is he who will feast in the Kingdom of God!"


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He sent out his servant at supper time to tell those who were invited, 'Come, for everything is ready now.'


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They all as one began to make excuses. "The first said to him, 'I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.'


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"Another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I must go try them out. Please have me excused.'


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"That servant came, and told his lord these things. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, 'Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.'


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"The lord said to the servant, 'Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.


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"If anyone comes to me, and doesn't hate his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can't be my disciple.


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For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn't first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?


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Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,


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Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?


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Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy, and asks for conditions of peace.


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It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile. It is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear."


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"Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn't leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?


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When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!'


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I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.


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Or what woman, if she had ten drachma{A drachma coin was worth about 2 days wages for an agricultural laborer.} coins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn't light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it?


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When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.'


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The younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me my share of your property.' He divided his livelihood between them.


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Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.


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When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.


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He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.


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But when he came to himself he said, 'How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough to spare, and I'm dying with hunger!


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I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.


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"He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.


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The son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.'


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"But the father said to his servants, 'Bring out the best robe, and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet.


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for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.' They began to celebrate.


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He said to him, 'Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and healthy.'


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But he answered his father, 'Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.


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But when this, your son, came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.'


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But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.'"


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He also said to his disciples, "There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.


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He called him, and said to him, 'What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.'


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"The manager said within himself, 'What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don't have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.


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I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from management, they may receive me into their houses.'


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Calling each one of his lord's debtors to him, he said to the first, 'How much do you owe to my lord?'


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He said, 'A hundred batos{100 batos is about 395 litres, 104 U. S. gallons, or 87 imperial gallons.} of oil.' He said to him, 'Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.'


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Then said he to another, 'How much do you owe?' He said, 'A hundred cors{ 100 cors = about 3,910 litres or 600 bushels. } of wheat.' He said to him, 'Take your bill, and write eighty.'


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"His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.


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I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.


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He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.


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If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?


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No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren't able to serve God and mammon{"Mammon" refers to riches or a false god of wealth.}."


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He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.


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The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Gospel of the Kingdom of God is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.


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But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall.


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Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.


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"Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.


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and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.


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It happened that the beggar died, and that he was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.


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In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.


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He cried and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.'


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"But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in like manner, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.


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Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that none may cross over from there to us.'


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for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, so they won't also come into this place of torment.'


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"He said to him, 'If they don't listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.'"


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He said to the disciples, "It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come!


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It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.


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If he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven times returns, saying, 'I repent,' you shall forgive him."


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The Lord said, "If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you would tell this sycamore tree, 'Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.


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But who is there among you, having a servant plowing or keeping sheep, that will say, when he comes in from the field, 'Come immediately and sit down at the table,'


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and will not rather tell him, 'Prepare my supper, clothe yourself properly, and serve me, while I eat and drink. Afterward you shall eat and drink'?


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Even so you also, when you have done all the things that are commanded you, say, 'We are unworthy servants. We have done our duty.'"


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It happened as he was on his way to Jerusalem, that he was passing along the borders of Samaria and Galilee.


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When he saw them, he said to them, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." It happened that as they went, they were cleansed.


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Being asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God would come, he answered them, "The Kingdom of God doesn't come with observation;


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neither will they say, 'Look, here!' or, 'Look, there!' for behold, the Kingdom of God is within you."


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He said to the disciples, "The days will come, when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.


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for as the lightning, when it flashes out of the one part under the sky, shines to the other part under the sky; so will the Son of Man be in his day.


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Likewise, even as it happened in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;


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but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky, and destroyed them all.


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In that day, he who will be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away. Let him who is in the field likewise not turn back.


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I tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed. The one will be taken, and the other will be left.


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They answering, asked him, "Where, Lord?" He said to them, "Where the body is, there will the vultures also be gathered together."


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He wouldn't for a while, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,


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yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.'"


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Won't God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?


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I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"


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He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.


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The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: 'God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.


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But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn't even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!'


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I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted."


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They were also bringing their babies to him, that he might touch them. But when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them.


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Jesus summoned them, saying, "Allow the little children to come to me, and don't hinder them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.


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Most assuredly, I tell you, whoever doesn't receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it."


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You know the commandments: 'Don't commit adultery,' 'Don't murder,' 'Don't steal,' 'Don't give false testimony,' 'Honor your father and your mother.'"


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When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, "You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. You will have treasure in heaven. Come, follow me."


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Jesus, seeing that he became very sad, said, "How hard it is for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!


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For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God."


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He said to them, "Most assuredly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for the Kingdom of God's sake,


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He took the twelve aside, and said to them, "Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written through the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be completed.


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They understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they didn't understand the things that were said.


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Those who led the way rebuked him, that he should be quiet; but he cried out all the more, "You son of David, have mercy on me!"


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Immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God. All the people, when they saw it, praised God.


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When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and said to him, "Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house."


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Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, "Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much."


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As they heard these things, he went on and told a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that the Kingdom of God would be revealed immediately.


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He said therefore, "A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.


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He called ten servants of his, and gave them ten mina coins,{10 minas was more than 3 year's wages for an agricultural laborer.} and told them, 'Conduct business until I come.'


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But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, 'We don't want this man to reign over us.'


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"It happened when he had come back again, having received the kingdom, that he commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by conducting business.


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"He said to him, 'Well done, you good servant! Because you were found faithful with very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.'


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for I feared you, because you are an exacting man. You take up that which you didn't lay down, and reap that which you didn't sow.'


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"He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn't lay down, and reaping that which I didn't sow.


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Then why didn't you deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming, I might have earned interest on it?'


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He said to those who stood by, 'Take the mina away from him, and give it to him who has the ten minas.'


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'For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn't have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.


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But bring those enemies of mine who didn't want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.'"


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It happened, when he drew near to Bethsphage{TR, NU read "Bethpage" instead of "Bethsphage"} and Bethany, at the mountain that is called Olivet, he sent two of his disciples,


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saying, "Go your way into the village on the other side, in which, as you enter, you will find a colt tied, whereon no man ever yet sat. Untie it, and bring it.


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As he was now getting near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had seen,


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saying, "Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest!"


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saying, "If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.


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For the days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side,


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and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn't know the time of your visitation."


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saying to them, "It is written, 'My house is a house of prayer,' but you have made it a 'den of robbers'!"


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He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him.


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It happened on one of those days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the Gospel, that the {TR adds "chief"}priests and scribes came to him with the elders.


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They asked him, "Tell us: by what authority do you do these things? Or who is giving you this authority?"


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They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will say, 'Why didn't you believe him?'


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But if we say, 'From men,' all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet."


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He began to tell the people this parable. "A {NU (in brackets) and TR add "certain"}man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time.


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At the proper season, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him, and sent him away empty.


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He sent yet another servant, and they also beat him, and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.


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The lord of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that seeing him, they will respect him.'


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"But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.'


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They threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them?


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He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others." When they heard it, they said, "May it never be!"


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But he looked at them, and said, "Then what is this that is written, 'The stone which the builders rejected, The same was made the chief cornerstone?'


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"Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, But it will crush whomever it falls on to dust."


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The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on Him that very hour, but they feared the people--for they knew He had spoken this parable against them.


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They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.


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They asked him, "Teacher, we know that you say and teach what is right, and aren't partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God.


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He said to them, "Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."


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They weren't able to trap him in his words before the people. They marveled at his answer, and were silent.


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They asked him, "Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man's brother dies having a wife, and he is childless, his brother should take the wife, and raise up children for his brother.


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But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage.


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For they can't die any more, for they are like the angels, and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.


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But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush, when he called the Lord 'The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'


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"Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts;


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who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these will receive greater condemnation."


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He saw a certain poor widow casting in two small brass coins.{literally, "two lepta." 2 lepta was about 1% of a day's wages for an agricultural laborer.}


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for all these put in gifts for God from their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in all that she had to live on."


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As some were talking about the temple and how it was decorated with beautiful stones and gifts, he said,


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"As for these things which you see, the days will come, in which there will not be left here one stone on another that will not be thrown down."


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They asked him, "Teacher, so when will these things be? What is the sign that these things are about to happen?"


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He said, "Watch out that you don't get led astray, for many will come in my name, saying, 'I AM,' and, 'The time is at hand.' Therefore don't follow them.


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When you hear of wars and disturbances, don't be terrified, for these things must happen first, but the end won't come immediately."


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There will be great earthquakes, famines, and plagues in various places. There will be terrors and great signs from heaven.


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But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name's sake.


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for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.


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You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. Some of you they will cause to be put to death.


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Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let those who are in the midst of her depart. Let those who are in the country not enter therein.


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Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days! For there will be great distress in the land, and wrath to this people.


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They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.


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There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and on the earth anxiety of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the waves;


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men fainting for fear, and for expectation of the things which are coming on the world: for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.


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But when these things begin to happen, look up, and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near."


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When they are already budding, you see it and know by your own selves that the summer is already near.


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"So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.


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Therefore be watchful all the time, asking that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man."


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Every day Jesus was teaching in the temple, and every night he would go out and spend the night on the mountain that is called Olivet.


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The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put him to death, for they feared the people.


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He went away, and talked with the chief priests and captains about how he might deliver him to them.


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He said to them, "Behold, when you have entered into the city, a man carrying a pitcher of water will meet you. Follow him into the house which he enters.


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Tell the master of the house, 'The Teacher says to you, "Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?"'


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for I tell you, I will no longer by any means eat of it until it is fulfilled in the Kingdom of God."


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He received a cup, and when he had given thanks, he said, "Take this, and share it among yourselves,


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for I tell you, I will not drink at all again from the fruit of the vine, until the Kingdom of God comes."


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He took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and gave to them, saying, "This is my body which is given for you. Do this in memory of me."


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Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.


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The Son of Man indeed goes, as it has been determined, but woe to that man through whom he is betrayed!"


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He said to them, "The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those who have authority over them are called 'benefactors.'


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But not so with you. But one who is the greater among you, let him become as the younger, and one who is governing, as one who serves.


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For who is greater, one who sits at the table, or one who serves? Isn't it he who sits at the table? But I am in the midst of you as one who serves.


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that you may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom. You will sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel."


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but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn't fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers{The word for "brothers" here may be also correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."}."


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He said, "I tell you, Peter, the rooster will by no means crow today until you deny that you know me three times."


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He said to them, "When I sent you out without purse, and wallet, and shoes, did you lack anything?" They said, "Nothing."


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Then he said to them, "But now, whoever has a purse, let him take it, and likewise a wallet. Whoever has none, let him sell his cloak, and buy a sword.


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For I tell you that this which is written must still be fulfilled in me: 'He was counted with the lawless.' For that which concerns me has an end."


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saying, "Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done."


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Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.


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When he rose up from his prayer, he came to the disciples, and found them sleeping because of grief,


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While he was still speaking, behold, a multitude, and he who was called Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He came near to Jesus to kiss him.


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When those who were around him saw what was about to happen, they said to him, "Lord, shall we strike with the sword?"


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Jesus said to the chief priests, captains of the temple, and elders, who had come against him, "Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs?


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When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn't stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness."


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They seized him, and led him away, and brought him into the high priest's house. But Peter followed from a distance.


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When they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard, and had sat down together, Peter sat among them.


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A certain servant girl saw him as he sat in the light, and looking intently at him, said, "This man also was with him."


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After a little while someone else saw him, and said, "You also are one of them!" But Peter answered, "Man, I am not!"


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After about one hour passed, another confidently affirmed, saying, "Truly this man also was with him, for he is a Galilean!"


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But Peter said, "Man, I don't know what you are talking about!" Immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.


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The Lord turned, and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the Lord's word, how he said to him, "Before the rooster crows you will deny me three times."


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Having blindfolded him, they struck him on the face and asked him, "Prophesy! Who is the one who struck you?"


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As soon as it was day, the assembly of the elders of the people was gathered together, both chief priests and scribes, and they led him away into their council, saying,


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They began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king."


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Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, "I find no basis for a charge against this man."


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But they insisted, saying, "He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place."


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When he found out that he was in Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem during those days.


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Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly glad, for he had wanted to see him for a long time, because he had heard many things about him. He hoped to see some miracle done by him.


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Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate.


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Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day, for before that they were enemies with each other.


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and said to them, "You brought this man to me as one that perverts the people, and see, I have examined him before you, and found no basis for a charge against this man concerning those things of which you accuse him.


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He said to them the third time, "Why? What evil has this man done? I have found no capital crime in him. I will therefore chastise him and release him."


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But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the chief priests prevailed.


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He released him who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus up to their will.


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When they led him away, they grabbed one Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it after Jesus.


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But Jesus, turning to them, said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, don't weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.


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For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.'


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When they came to the place that is called The Skull, they crucified him there with the criminals, one on the right and the other on the left.


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Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they don't know what they are doing." Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.


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The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, "He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!"


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An inscription was also written over him in letters of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew: "THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS."


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One of the criminals who was hanged insulted him, saying, "If you are the Christ, save yourself and us!"


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But the other answered, and rebuking him said, "Don't you even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation?


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And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong."


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It was now about the sixth hour{Time was counted from sunrise, so the sixth hour was about noon.}, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.{3:00 PM}


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Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!" Having said this, he breathed his last.


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When the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, "Certainly this was a righteous man."


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All the multitudes that came together to see this, when they saw the things that were done, returned home beating their breasts.


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All his acquaintances, and the women who followed with him from Galilee, stood at a distance, watching these things.


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(he had not consented to their counsel and deed), from Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who was also waiting for the Kingdom of God:


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He took it down, and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb that was cut in stone, where no one had ever been laid.


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The women, who had come with him out of Galilee, followed after, and saw the tomb, and how his body was laid.


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They returned, and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.


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But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they and some others came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared.


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It happened, while they were greatly perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling clothing.


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Becoming terrified, they bowed their faces down to the earth. They said to them, "Why do you seek the living among the dead?


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saying that the Son of Man must be delivered up into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again?"


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Now they were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James. The other women with them told these things to the apostles.


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But Peter got up and ran to the tomb. Stooping and looking in, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he departed to his home, wondering what had happened.


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Behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus, which was sixty stadia{60 stadia = about 11 kilometers or about 7 miles.} from Jerusalem.


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It happened, while they talked and questioned together, that Jesus himself came near, and went with them.


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One of them, named Cleopas, answered him, "Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem who doesn't know the things which have happened there in these days?"


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He said to them, "What things?" They said to him, "The things concerning Jesus, the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people;


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But we were hoping that it was he who would redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened.


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and when they didn't find his body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive.


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Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.


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They urged him, saying, "Stay with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost over." He went in to stay with them.


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It happened, that when he had sat down at the table with them, he took the bread and gave thanks. Breaking it, he gave to them.


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They said one to another, "Weren't our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?"


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They rose up that very hour, returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and those who were with them,


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They related the things that happened along the way, and how he was recognized by them in the breaking of the bread.


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See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see, for a spirit doesn't have flesh and bones, as you see that I have."


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While they still didn't believe for joy, and wondered, he said to them, "Do you have anything here to eat?"


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He said to them, "This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled."


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He said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,


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and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.


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Behold, I send forth the promise of my Father on you. But wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high."


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The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn't overcome{The word translated "overcome" (katelaben) can also be translated "comprehended." It refers to getting a grip on an enemy to defeat him.} it.


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The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him.


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But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who believe in his name:


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The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.


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John testified about him. He cried out, saying, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.'"


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No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.


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This is John's testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"


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They asked him, "What then? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No."


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They said therefore to him, "Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"


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He said, "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make straight the way of the Lord,' as Isaiah the prophet said."


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He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I'm not worthy to loosen."


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The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!


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I didn't know him, but for this reason I came baptizing in water: that he would be revealed to Israel."


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John testified, saying, "I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him.


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I didn't recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water, he said to me, 'On whomever you will see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.'


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Jesus turned, and saw them following, and said to them, "What are you looking for?" They said to him, "Rabbi" (which is to say, being interpreted, Teacher), "where are you staying?"


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He said to them, "Come, and see." They came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.{4:00 PM.}


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He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, "We have found the Messiah!" (which is, being interpreted, Christ{"Messiah" (Hebrew) and "Christ" (Greek) both mean "Anointed One".}).


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He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said, "You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas" (which is by interpretation, Peter).


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On the next day, he was determined to go out into Galilee, and he found Philip. Jesus said to him, "Follow me."


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Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, "We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."


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Nathanael said to him, "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see."


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Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!"


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Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you."


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Jesus answered him, "Because I told you, 'I saw you underneath the fig tree,' do you believe? You will see greater things than these!"


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He said to him, "Most assuredly, I tell you, hereafter you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man."


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Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews' manner of purifying, containing two or three metretes{2 to 3 metretes is about 20 to 30 U. S. Gallons, 16 to 25 imperial gallons, or 75 to 115 litres.} apiece.


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When the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and didn't know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast called the bridegroom,


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and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have kept the good wine until now!"


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This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.


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After this, he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they stayed there a few days.


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He made a whip of cords, and threw all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers' money, and overthrew their tables.


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To those who sold the doves, he said, "Take these things out of here! Don't make my Father's house a marketplace!"


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The Jews therefore said, "Forty-six years was this temple in building, and will you raise it up in three days?"


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When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.


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Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.


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and because he didn't need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.


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The same came to him by night, and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him."


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Jesus answered him, "Most assuredly, I tell you, unless one is born anew,{The word translated "anew" here and in John 3:7 (anothen) also means "again" and "from above".} he can't see the Kingdom of God."


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Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb, and be born?"


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Jesus answered, "Most assuredly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can't enter into the Kingdom of God!


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The wind{The same Greek word (pneuma) means wind, breath, and spirit.} blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don't know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit."


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Most assuredly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don't receive our witness.


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If I told you earthly things and you don't believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?


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No one has ascended into heaven, but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.


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For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.


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For God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.


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He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn't believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.


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This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.


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For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.


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But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God."


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After these things, Jesus came with his disciples into the land of Judea. He stayed there with them, and baptized.


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John also was baptizing in Enon near Salim, because there was much water there. They came, and were baptized.


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There arose therefore a questioning on the part of John's disciples with some Jews about purification.


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They came to John, and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, the same baptizes, and everyone is coming to him."


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He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full.


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He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the Earth belongs to the Earth, and speaks of the Earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.


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One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys{The same word can be translated "disobeys" or "disbelieves" in this context.} the Son won't see life, but the wrath of God remains on him."


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Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John


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So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph.


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Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour{noon}.


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The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, "How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)


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Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."


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The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. From where then have you that living water?


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Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, as did his children, and his cattle?"


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but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life."


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The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I don't get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw."


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for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly."


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Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship."


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Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father.


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You worship that which you don't know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.


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But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshippers.


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The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah comes," (he who is called Christ). "When he has come, he will declare to us all things."


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At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, "What are you looking for?" or, "Why do you speak with her?"


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Don't you say, 'There are yet four months until the harvest?' Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.


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He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.


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I sent you to reap that for which you haven't labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor."


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From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, "He told me everything that I did."


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They said to the woman, "Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world."


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So when he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast, for they also went to the feast.


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Jesus came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.


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When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and begged him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.


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Jesus said to him, "Go your way. Your son lives." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.


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So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. They said therefore to him, "Yesterday at the seventh hour,{1:00 P. M.} the fever left him."


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So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, "Your son lives." He believed, as did his whole house.


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Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew, "Bethesda," having five porches.


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In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water;


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for an angel of the Lord went down at certain times into the pool, and stirred up the water. Whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was made whole of whatever disease he had.


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When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been sick for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to be made well?"


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The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I'm coming, another steps down before me."


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Immediately, the man was made well, and took up his mat and walked. Now it was the Sabbath on that day.


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So the Jews said to him who was cured, "It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry the mat."


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Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, "Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you."


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For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.


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For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.


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Jesus therefore answered them, "Most assuredly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise.


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For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does. He will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel.


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For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.


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that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn't honor the Son doesn't honor the Father who sent him.


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"Most assuredly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn't come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.


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Most assuredly, I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God's voice; and those who hear will live.


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and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.


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I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don't seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.


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It is another who testifies about me. I know that the testimony which he testifies about me is true.


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But the testimony which I receive is not from man. However, I say these things that you may be saved.


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But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John, for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me.


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The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.


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"You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.


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I have come in my Father's name, and you don't receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.


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How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don't seek the glory that comes from the only God?


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"Don't think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope.


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After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is also called the Sea of Tiberias.


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Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a great multitude was coming to him, said to Philip, "Where are we to buy bread, that these may eat?"


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Philip answered him, "Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that everyone of them may receive a little."


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Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." Now there was much grass in that place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.


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Jesus took the loaves; and having given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to those who were sitting down; likewise also of the fish as much as they desired.


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When they were filled, he said to his disciples, "Gather up the broken pieces which are left over, that nothing be lost."


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So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves, which were left over by those who had eaten.


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When therefore the people saw the sign which Jesus did, they said, "This is truly the prophet who comes into the world."


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Jesus therefore, perceiving that they were about to come and take him by force, to make him king, withdrew again to the mountain by himself.


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and they entered into the boat, and were going over the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not come to them.


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When therefore they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia,{25 to 30 stadia is about 5 to 6 kilometers or about 3 to 4 miles} they saw Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing near to the boat; and they were afraid.


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They were willing therefore to receive him into the boat. Immediately the boat was at the land where they were going.


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On the next day, the multitude that stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there, except the one in which his disciples had embarked, and that Jesus hadn't entered with his disciples into the boat, but his disciples had gone away alone.


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However boats from Tiberias came near to the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks.


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When the multitude therefore saw that Jesus wasn't there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats, and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.


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Jesus answered them, "Most assuredly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled.


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Don't work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him."


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They said therefore to him, "What then do you do for a sign, that we may see, and believe you? What work do you do?


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Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, 'He gave them bread out of heaven{Greek and Hebrew use the same word for "heaven", "the heavens", "the sky", and "the air".} to eat.'"


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Jesus therefore said to them, "Most assuredly, I tell you, it wasn't Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven.


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Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.


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This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day.


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This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day."


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The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, "I am the bread which came down out of heaven."


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They said, "Isn't this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then does he say, 'I have come down out of heaven?'"


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No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.


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It is written in the prophets, 'They will all be taught by God.' Therefore everyone who hears from the Father, and has learned, comes to me.


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I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."


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Jesus therefore said to them, "Most assuredly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in yourselves.


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As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.


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This is the bread which came down out of heaven-- not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever."


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Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, "This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?"


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But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, "Does this cause you to stumble?


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It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.


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But there are some of you who don't believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who didn't believe, and who it was who would betray him.


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He said, "For this cause have I said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father."


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Now he spoke of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, for it was he who would betray him, being one of the twelve.


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After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn't walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.


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His brothers therefore said to him, "Depart from here, and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do.


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For no one does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world."


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But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.


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There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said, "He is a good man." Others said, "Not so, but he leads the multitude astray."


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If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.


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He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.


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Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy.


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If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I made a man every bit whole on the Sabbath?


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Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ?


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However we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from."


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Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, "You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don't know.


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They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.


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But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, "When the Christ comes, he won't do more signs than those which this man has done, will he?"


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The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.


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The Jews therefore said among themselves, "Where will this man go that we won't find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?


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What is this word that he said, 'You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come?'"


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Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!


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He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water."


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But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn't yet glorified.


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Hasn't the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"


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The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why didn't you bring him?"


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They answered him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee."


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Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down, and taught them.


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They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down, and wrote on the ground with his finger.


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But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her."


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They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.


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She said, "No one, Lord." Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more."


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Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life."


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Jesus answered them, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don't know where I came from, or where I am going.


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They said therefore to him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither me, nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also."


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Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.


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Jesus said therefore again to them, "I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can't come."


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He said to them, "You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.


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I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins."


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They said therefore to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning.


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I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world."


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Jesus therefore said to them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things.


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He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn't left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him."


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Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, "If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.


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They answered him, "We are Abraham's seed, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, 'You will be made free?'"


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Jesus answered them, "Most assuredly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.


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I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father."


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They answered him, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham.


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But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God. Abraham didn't do this.


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You do the works of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God."


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Therefore Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven't come of myself, but he sent me.


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You are of your Father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn't stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of it.


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He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don't hear, because you are not of God."


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Then the Jews said to him, "Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets; and you say, 'If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.'


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Are you greater than our father, Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?"


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Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God.


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You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, 'I don't know him,' I would be like you, a liar. But I know him, and keep his word.


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Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the midst of them, and so passed by.


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Jesus answered, "Neither did this man sin, nor his parents; but, that the works of God might be revealed in him.


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I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.


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When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man's eyes with the mud,


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and said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which means "Sent"). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing.


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The neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he was blind before, said, "Isn't this he who sat and begged?"


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He answered, "A man called Jesus made mud, anointed my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash.' So I went away and washed, and I received sight."


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Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. He said to them, "He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see."


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Some therefore of the Pharisees said, "This man is not from God, because he doesn't keep the Sabbath." Others said, "How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?" There was division among them.


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Therefore they asked the blind man again, "What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?" He said, "He is a prophet."


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The Jews therefore did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight,


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but how he now sees, we don't know; or who opened his eyes, we don't know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself."


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His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.


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So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, "Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner."


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He therefore answered, "I don't know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see."


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He answered them, "I told you already, and you didn't listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don't also want to become his disciples, do you?"


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We know that God doesn't listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshipper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.


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Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, "Do you believe in the Son of God?"


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Jesus said, "I came into this world for judgment, that those who don't see may see; and that those who see may become blind."


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Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, 'We see.' Therefore your sin remains.


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"Most assuredly, I tell you, one who doesn't enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.


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The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.


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Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.


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They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don't know the voice of strangers."


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I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.


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The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.


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He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn't own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them.


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I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.


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No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father."


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Others said, "These are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon. It isn't possible for a demon to open the eyes of the blind, is it?"


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It was the Feast of the Dedication{The "Feast of the Dedication" is the Greek name for "Chanukkah," a celebration of the rededication of the Temple.} at Jerusalem.


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The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, "How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."


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Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you don't believe. The works that I do in my Father's name, these testify about me.


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My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father's hand.


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Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?"


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The Jews answered him, "We don't stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God."


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Do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You blaspheme,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God?'


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But if I do them, though you don't believe me, believe the works; that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father."


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He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing at first, and there he stayed.


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Many came to him. They said, "John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said about this man is true."


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It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick.


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The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, "Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick."


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But when Jesus heard it, he said, "This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God's Son may be glorified by it."


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The disciples told him, "Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you, and are you going there again?"


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Jesus answered, "Aren't there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn't stumble, because he sees the light of this world.


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He said these things, and after that, he said to them, "Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep."


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I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let's go to him."


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Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus,{"Didymus" means "Twin"} said to his fellow disciples, "Let's go also, that we may die with him."


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Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia{15 stadia is about 2.8 kilometers or 1.7 miles} away.


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Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.


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Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, though he die, yet will he live.


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She said to him, "Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, God's Son, he who comes into the world."


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When she had said this, she went away, and called Mary, her sister, secretly, saying, "The Teacher is here, and is calling you."


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Then the Jews who were with her in the house, and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, "She is going to the tomb to weep there."


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Therefore when Mary came to where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him, "Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn't have died."


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When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,


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Some of them said, "Couldn't this man, who opened the eyes of him who was blind, have also kept this man from dying?"


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Jesus therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it.


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Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, "Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days."


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So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, "Father, I thank you that you listened to me.


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I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude that stands around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me."


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He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Free him, and let him go."


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The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, "What are we doing? For this man does many signs.


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If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation."


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But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all,


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nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish."


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Now he didn't say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,


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and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.


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Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples.


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Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.


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Then they sought for Jesus and spoke one with another, as they stood in the temple, "What do you think--that he isn't coming to the feast at all?"


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Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him.


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Then six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.


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So they made him a supper there. Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him.


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Mary, therefore, took a pound{a Roman pound of 12 ounces, or about 340 grams} of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.


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"Why wasn't this ointment sold for three hundred denarii,{300 denarii was about a year's wages for an agricultural laborer.} and given to the poor?"


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Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it.


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A large crowd therefore of the Jews learned that he was there, and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.


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On the next day a great multitude had come to the feast. When they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,


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they took the branches of the palm trees, and went out to meet him, and cried out, "Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel!"


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His disciples didn't understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him.


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The multitude therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from the dead, was testifying about it.


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The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, "See how you accomplish nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him."


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These, therefore, came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, "Sir, we want to see Jesus."


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Most assuredly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.


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He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.


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If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there will my servant also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.


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"Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? 'Father, save me from this time?' But for this cause I came to this time.


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Father, glorify your name!" Then there came a voice out of the sky, saying, "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again."


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The multitude therefore, who stood by and heard it, said that it had thundered. Others said, "An angel has spoken to him."


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The multitude answered him, "We have heard out of the law that the Christ remains forever. How do you say, 'The Son of Man must be lifted up?' Who is this Son of Man?"


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Jesus therefore said to them, "Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn't overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn't know where he is going.


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While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light." Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.


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that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, "Lord, who has believed our report? To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?"


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"He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, Lest they should see with their eyes, And perceive with their heart, And would turn, And I would heal them."


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Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn't confess it, so that they wouldn't be put out of the synagogue,


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If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn't believe, I don't judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.


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He who rejects me, and doesn't receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke, the same will judge him in the last day.


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For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.


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I know that his commandment is eternal life. The things therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, so I speak."


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Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.


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After supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him,


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Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came forth from God, and was going to God,


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arose from supper, and laid aside his outer garments. He took a towel, and wrapped a towel around his waist.


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Then he poured water into the basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him.


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Peter said to him, "You will never wash my feet!" Jesus answered him, "If I don't wash you, you have no part with me."


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Jesus said to him, "Someone who has bathed only needs to have his feet washed, but is completely clean. You are clean, but not all of you."


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So when he had washed their feet, put his outer garment back on, and sat down again, he said to them, "Do you know what I have done to you?


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If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.


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Most assuredly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his lord, neither one who is sent greater than he who sent him.


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I don't speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, 'He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.'


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Most assuredly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, receives me; and he who receives me, receives him who sent me."


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When Jesus had said this, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, "Most assuredly I tell you that one of you will betray me."


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Jesus therefore answered, "It is he to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it." So when he had dipped the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.


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After the piece of bread, then Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to him, "What you do, do quickly."


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For some thought, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus said to him, "Buy what things we need for the feast," or that he should give something to the poor.


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When he had gone out, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him.


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If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him immediately.


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Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, 'Where I am going, you can't come,' so now I tell you.


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A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.


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Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus answered, "Where I am going, you can't follow now, but you will follow afterwards."


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Jesus answered him, "Will you lay down your life for me? Most assuredly I tell you, the rooster won't crow until you have denied me three times.


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In my Father's house are many mansions. If it weren't so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.


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If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.


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Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.


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If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him, and have seen him."


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Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, 'Show us the Father?'


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Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.


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Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works' sake.


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Most assuredly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these will he do; because I am going to my Father.


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I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor,{Greek Parakleton: Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, and Comfortor.} that he may be with you forever,--


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the Spirit of truth, whom the world can't receive; for it doesn't see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.


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Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.


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One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him."


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Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?"


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Jesus answered him, "If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.


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He who doesn't love me doesn't keep my words. The word which you hear isn't mine, but the Father's who sent me.


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But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.


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Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don't let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.


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You heard how I told you, 'I go away, and I come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said 'I am going to my Father;' for the Father is greater than I.


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But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let us go from here.


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Every branch in me that doesn't bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.


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Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can't bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.


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I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.


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If a man doesn't remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.


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If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.


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If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and remain in his love.


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I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.


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No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn't know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.


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You didn't choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.


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If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.


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Remember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not greater than his lord.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.


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But all these things will they do to you for my name's sake, because they don't know him who sent me.


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If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.


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If I hadn't done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn't have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father.


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But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, 'They hated me without a cause.'


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"When the Counselor{Greek Parakletos: Counselor, Helper, Advocate, Intercessor, and Comfortor.} has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.


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They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.


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But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn't tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.


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Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don't go away, the Counselor won't come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.


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However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.


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All things whatever the Father has are mine; therefore I said that he takes{TR reads "will take" instead of "takes"} of mine, and will declare it to you.


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Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, "What is this that he says to us, 'A little while, and you won't see me, and again a little while, and you will see me;' and, 'Because I go to the Father?'"


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They said therefore, "What is this that he says, 'A little while?' We don't know what he is saying."


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Therefore Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, "Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, 'A little while, and you won't see me, and again a little while, and you will see me?'


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Most assuredly I tell you, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.


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A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn't remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.


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Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.


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"In that day you will ask me no questions. Most assuredly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.


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Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.


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I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father.


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In that day you will ask in my name; and I don't say to you, that I will pray to the Father for you,


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for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from God.


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I came out from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father."


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Now we know that you know all things, and don't need for anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came forth from God."


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Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.


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I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world."


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Jesus said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, "Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you;


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even as you gave him authority over all flesh, he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.


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This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.


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Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.


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I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.


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for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came forth from you, and they have believed that you sent me.


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I pray for them. I don't pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.


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I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.


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While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. Those whom you have given me I have kept. None of them is lost, except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.


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But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves.


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I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.


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that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.


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I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you loved me.


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Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.


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I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them."


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When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered.


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Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus often resorted there with his disciples.


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Judas then, having taken a detachment of soldiers and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.


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Jesus therefore, knowing all the things that were happening to him, went forth, and said to them, "Who are you looking for?"


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They answered him, "Jesus of Nazareth." Jesus said to them, "I AM." Judas also, who betrayed him, was standing with them.


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that the word might be fulfilled which he spoke, "Of those whom you have given me, I have lost none."


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Simon Peter therefore, having a sword, drew it, and struck the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus.


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Jesus therefore said to Peter, "Put the sword into its sheath. The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not surely drink it?"


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So the detachment, the commanding officer, and the officers of the Jews, seized Jesus and bound him,


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Now it was Caiaphas who advised the Jews that it was expedient that one man should perish for the people.


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Simon Peter followed Jesus, as did another disciple. Now that disciple was known to the high priest, and entered in with Jesus into the court of the high priest;


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but Peter was standing at the door outside. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to her who kept the door, and brought in Peter.


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Then the maid who kept the door said to Peter, "Are you also one of this man's disciples?" He said, "I am not."


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Now the servants and the officers were standing there, having made a fire of coals, for it was cold. They were warming themselves. Peter was with them, standing and warming himself.


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Jesus answered him, "I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret.


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Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them. Behold, these know the things which I said."


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When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped Jesus with his hand, saying, "Do you answer the high priest like that?"


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Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said therefore to him, "You aren't also one of his disciples, are you?" He denied it, and said, "I am not."


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One of the servants of the high priest, being a relative of him whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Didn't I see you in the garden with him?"


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They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn't enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.


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Pilate therefore said to them, "Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law." Therefore the Jews said to him, "It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death,"


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that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying by what kind of death he should die.


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Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, called Jesus, and said to him, "Are you the King of the Jews?"


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Pilate answered, "I'm not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests delivered you to me. What have you done?"


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Jesus answered, "My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn't be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here."


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Pilate therefore said to him, "Are you a king then?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice."


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Pilate said to him, "What is truth?" When he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, "I find no basis for a charge against him.


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But you have a custom, that I should release someone to you at the Passover. Therefore do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"


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The soldiers twisted thorns into a crown, and put it on his head, and dressed him in a purple garment.


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Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, "Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against him."


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Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, "Behold, the man!"


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When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify!" Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him."


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The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God."


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He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, "Where are you from?" But Jesus gave him no answer.


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Pilate therefore said to him, "Aren't you speaking to me? Don't you know that I have power to release you, and have power to crucify you?"


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Jesus answered, "You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin."


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At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, "If you release this man, you aren't Caesar's friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!"


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When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out, and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called "The Pavement," but in Hebrew, "Gabbatha."


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Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour.{noon} He said to the Jews, "Behold, your King!"


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They cried out, "Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your King?" The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar!"


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He went out, bearing his cross, to the place called "The Place of a Skull," which is called in Hebrew, "Golgotha,"


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Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. There was written, "JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS."


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Therefore many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek.


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The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, "Don't write, 'The King of the Jews,' but, 'he said, I am King of the Jews.'"


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Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the coat. Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.


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Then they said to one another, "Let's not tear it, but cast lots for it to decide whose it will be," that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which says, "They parted my garments among them. For my cloak they cast lots." Therefore the soldiers did these things.


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But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.


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Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold your son!"


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Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home.


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After this, Jesus, seeing{NU, TR read "knowing" instead of "seeing"} that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, "I am thirsty."


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Now a vessel full of vinegar was set there; so they put a sponge full of the vinegar on hyssop, and held it at his mouth.


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When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, "It is finished." He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.


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Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies wouldn't remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.


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Therefore the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who was crucified with him;


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However one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.


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He who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, that you may believe.


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For these things happened, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, "A bone of him will not be broken."


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After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away Jesus' body. Pilate gave him permission. He came therefore and took away his body.


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Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds.{100 Roman pounds of 12 ounces each, or about 72 pounds, or 33 Kilograms.}


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So they took Jesus' body, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury.


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Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden. In the garden a new tomb in which no man had ever yet been laid.


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Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb.


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Therefore she ran and came to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, "They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we don't know where they have laid him!"


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and the cloth that had been on his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by itself.


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But Mary was standing outside at the tomb weeping. So, as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb,


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and she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.


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They told her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I don't know where they have laid him."


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When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, and didn't know that it was Jesus.


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Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?" She, supposing him to be the gardener, said to him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away."


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Jesus said to her, "Don't touch me, for I haven't yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers, and tell them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"


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Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had said these things to her.


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When therefore it was evening, on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, "Peace be to you."


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When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples therefore were glad when they saw the Lord.


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Jesus therefore said to them again, "Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you."


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Whoever's sins you forgive, they are forgiven them. Whoever's sins you retain, they have been retained."


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The other disciples therefore said to him, "We have seen the Lord!" But he said to them, "Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe."


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After eight days again his disciples were inside, and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, the doors being locked, and stood in the midst, and said, "Peace be to you."


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Then he said to Thomas, "Reach here your finger, and see my hands. Reach here your hand, and put it into my side. Don't be unbelieving, but believing."


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Jesus said to him, "Because you have seen me,{TR adds " Thomas,"} you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed."


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Therefore Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book;


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but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.


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After these things, Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias. He revealed himself this way.


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Simon Peter, Thomas called Didymus, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were together.


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Simon Peter said to them, "I'm going fishing." They told him, "We are also coming with you." They immediately went out, and entered into the boat. That night, they caught nothing.


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But when day had already come, Jesus stood on the beach, yet the disciples didn't know that it was Jesus.


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He said to them, "Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some." They cast it therefore, and now they weren't able to draw it in for the multitude of fish.


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That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It's the Lord!" So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he wrapped his coat around him (for he was naked), and threw himself into the sea.


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But the other disciples came in the little boat (for they were not far from the land, but about two hundred cubits{200 cubits is about 100 yards or about 91 meters} away), dragging the net full of fish.


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Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land, full of great fish, one hundred fifty-three; and even though there were so many, the net wasn't torn.


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Jesus said to them, "Come and eat breakfast." None of the disciples dared inquire of him, "Who are you?" knowing that it was the Lord.


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This is now the third time that Jesus was revealed to his disciples, after he had risen from the dead.


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So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you." He said to him, "Feed my lambs."


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He said to him again a second time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you." He said to him, "Tend my sheep."


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He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?" Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, "Do you have affection for me?" He said to him, "Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep.


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Most assuredly I tell you, when you were young, you dressed yourself, and walked where you wanted to. But when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you, and carry you where you don't want to go."


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Now he said this, signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. When he had said this, he said to him, "Follow me."


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Then Peter, turning around, saw a disciple following. This was the disciple whom Jesus sincerely loved, the one who had also leaned on Jesus' breast at the supper and asked, "Lord, who is going to betray You?"


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This saying therefore went out among the brothers{The word for "brothers" here may be also correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."}, that this disciple wouldn't die. Yet Jesus didn't say to him that he wouldn't die, but, "If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you?"


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This is the disciple who testifies about these things, and wrote these things. We know that his witness is true.


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There are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they would all be written, I suppose that even the world itself wouldn't have room for the books that would be written.


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until the day in which he was received up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.


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To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking about God's Kingdom.


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Being assembled together with them, he charged them, "Don't depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which you heard from me.


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For John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now."


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Therefore, when they had come together, they asked him, "Lord, are you now restoring the kingdom to Israel?"


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He said to them, "It isn't for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within His own authority.


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But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth."


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When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.


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While they were looking steadfastly into the sky as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white clothing,


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who also said, "You men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who was received up from you into the sky will come back in the same way as you saw him going into the sky."


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Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey away.


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When they had come in, they went up into the upper room, where they were staying; that is Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.


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All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and supplication, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.


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In these days, Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples (and the number of names was about one hundred twenty), and said,


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"Brothers, it was necessary that this Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus.


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Now this man obtained a field with the reward for his wickedness, and falling headlong, his body burst open, and all his intestines gushed out.


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It became known to everyone who lived in Jerusalem that in their language that field was called 'Akeldama,' that is, 'The field of blood.'


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For it is written in the book of Psalms, 'Let his habitation be made desolate, Let no one dwell therein,' and, 'Let another take his office.'


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Of the men therefore who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,


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beginning from the baptism of John, to the day that he was received up from us, of these one must become a witness with us of his resurrection."


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They prayed, and said, "You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two you have chosen


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to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place."


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They drew lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.


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Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.


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They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.


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When this sound was heard, the multitude came together, and were bewildered, because everyone heard them speaking in his own language.


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They were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, "Behold, aren't all these who speak Galileans?


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Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, the parts of Libya around Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,


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But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and spoke out to them, "You men of Judea, and all you who dwell at Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to my words.


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For these aren't drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is only the third hour of the day{about 9:00 AM}.


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'It will be in the last days, says God, That I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams.


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Yes, and on my servants and on my handmaidens in those days, I will pour out my Spirit, and they will prophesy.


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I will show wonders in the sky above, And signs on the earth beneath; Blood, and fire, and billows of smoke.


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The sun will be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.


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"Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him in the midst of you, even as you yourselves know,


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him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;


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whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.


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For David says concerning him, 'I saw the Lord always before my face, For he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved.


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"Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.


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Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, he would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne,


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he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was his soul left in Hades, nor did his flesh see decay.


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Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this, which you now see and hear.


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For David didn't ascend into the heavens, but he says himself, 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit by my right hand,


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"Let all the house of Israel therefore know assuredly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified."


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Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?"


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Peter said to them, "Repent, and be baptized, everyone of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.


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For to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself."


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With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, "Save yourselves from this crooked generation!"


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Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.


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They continued steadfastly in the apostles' teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.


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Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,


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praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.


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A certain man who was lame from his mother's womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple.


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But Peter said, "Silver and gold have I none, but what I have, that I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!"


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He took him by the right hand, and raised him up. Immediately his feet and his ankle bones received strength.


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Leaping up, he stood, and began to walk. He entered with them into the temple, walking, leaping, and praising God.


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They recognized him, that it was he who used to sit begging for gifts for the needy at the Beautiful Gate of the temple. They were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.


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As the lame man who was healed held on to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the porch that is called Solomon's, greatly wondering.


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When Peter saw it, he responded to the people, "You men of Israel, why do you marvel at this man? Why do you fasten your eyes on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him walk?


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The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him.


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By faith in his name has his name made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which is through him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.


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"Now, brothers{The word for "brothers" here may be also correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."}, I know that you did this in ignorance, as did also your rulers.


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But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.


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"Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,


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whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God spoke long ago by the mouth of his holy prophets.


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For Moses indeed said to the fathers, 'The Lord God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him in all things whatever he says to you.


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It will be, that every soul that will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.'


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Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel and those who followed after, as many as have spoken, they also told of these days.


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You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, 'In your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.'


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God, having raised up his servant, Jesus, sent him to you first, to bless you, in turning away everyone of you from your wickedness."


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As they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came to them,


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But many of those who heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.


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It happened in the morning, that their rulers, elders, and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem.


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Annas the high priest was there, with Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and as many as were relatives of the high priest.


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When they had stood them in the middle of them, they inquired, "By what power, or in what name, have you done this?"


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Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, "You rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,


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if we are examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed,


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be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, in him does this man stand here before you whole.


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He is 'the stone which was regarded as worthless by you, the builders, which has become the head of the corner.'


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There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved!"


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Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled. They recognized that they had been with Jesus.


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saying, "What shall we do to these men? Because indeed a notable miracle has been done through them, as can be plainly seen by all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we can't deny it.


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But so that this spreads no further among the people, let's threaten them, that from now on they don't speak to anyone in this name."


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But Peter and John answered them, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves,


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When they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish them, because of the people; for everyone glorified God for that which was done.


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Being let go, they came to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.


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When they heard it, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, "O Lord, you are God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;


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who by the mouth of your servant, David, said, 'Why do the nations rage, And the peoples plot a vain thing?


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The kings of the earth take a stand, And the rulers take council together, Against the Lord, and against his Christ{Christ (Greek) and Messiah (Hebrew) both mean Anointed One. (Compare Psalm 2)}.'


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For truly, in this city against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together


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while you stretch out your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy Servant Jesus."


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When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were gathered together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.


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The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.


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With great power, the apostles gave their testimony of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Great grace was on them all.


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For neither was there among them any who lacked, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold,


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and laid them at the apostles' feet, and distribution was made to each, according as anyone had need.


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Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas (which is, being interpreted, Son of Encouragement), a Levite, a man of Cyprus by race,


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and kept back part of the price, his wife also being aware of it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet.


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But Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?


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While you kept it, didn't it remain your own? After it was sold, wasn't it in your power? How is it that you have conceived this thing in your heart? You haven't lied to men, but to God."


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But Peter asked her, "How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out."


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She fell down immediately at his feet, and died. The young men came in and found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her by her husband.


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By the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done among the people. They were all with one accord in Solomon's porch.


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They even carried out the sick into the streets, and laid them on cots and mattresses, so that as Peter came by, at the least his shadow might overshadow some of them.


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Multitudes also came together from the cities around Jerusalem, bringing sick people, and those who were tormented by unclean spirits: and they were all healed.


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But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy,


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When they heard this, they entered into the temple about daybreak, and taught. But the high priest came, and those who were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.


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"We found the prison shut and locked, and the guards standing before the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside!"


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Now when the high priest, the captain of the temple, and the chief priests heard these words, they were very perplexed about them and what might become of this.


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One came and told them, "Behold, the men whom you put in prison are in the temple, standing and teaching the people."


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Then the captain went with the officers, and brought them without violence, for they were afraid that the people might stone them.


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saying, "Didn't we strictly charge you not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man's blood on us."


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God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.


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We are His witnesses of these things; and so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him."


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But one stood up in the council, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, honored by all the people, and commanded to put the apostles out for a little while.


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For before these days Theudas rose up, making himself out to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were dispersed, and came to nothing.


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After this man, Judas of Galilee rose up in the days of the enrollment, and drew away some people after him. He also perished, and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered abroad.


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Now I tell you, withdraw from these men, and leave them alone. For if this counsel or this work is of men, it will be overthrown.


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But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!"


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They agreed with him. Summoning the apostles, they beat them and charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.


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They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for Jesus' name.


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Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Grecian Jews against the Hebrews because their widows were neglected in the daily service.


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The twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, "It is not appropriate for us to forsake the word of God and serve tables.


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Therefore select from among you, brothers, seven men of good report, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.


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These words pleased the whole multitude. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch;


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The word of God increased and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly. A great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.


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But some of those who were of the synagogue called "The Libertines," and of the Cyrenians, of the Alexandrians, and of those of Cilicia and Asia arose, disputing with Stephen.


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Then they secretly induced men to say, "We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God."


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They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and came against him and seized him, and brought him in to the council,


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and set up false witnesses who said, "This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.


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For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place, and will change the customs which Moses delivered to us."


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All who sat in the council, fastening their eyes on him, saw his face like it was the face of an angel.


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He said, "Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,


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and said to him, 'Get out of your land, and from your relatives, and come into a land which I will show you.'


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Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and lived in Haran. From there, when his father was dead, God moved him into this land, where you are now living.


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He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when he still had no child.


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God spoke in this way: that his seed would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.


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'I will judge the nation to which they will be in bondage,' said God, 'and after that will they come out, and serve me in this place.'


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He gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.


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and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.


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Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.


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On the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph's race was revealed to Pharaoh.


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and they were brought back to Shechem, and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver from the children of Hamor of Shechem.


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"But as the time of the promise came close which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,


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The same took advantage of our race, and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to throw out their babies, so that they wouldn't stay alive.


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At that time Moses was born, and was exceedingly handsome. He was nourished three months in his father's house.


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But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers{The word for "brothers" here and where the context allows may be also correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."}, the children of Israel.


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Seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him who was oppressed, striking the Egyptian.


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He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they didn't understand.


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"The day following, he appeared to them as they fought, and urged them to be at peace again, saying, 'Sirs, you are brothers. Why do you wrong one another?'


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But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?


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Moses fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.


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"When forty years were fulfilled, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.


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When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight. As he came close to see, a voice of the Lord came to him,


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'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' Moses trembled, and dared not look.


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The Lord said to him, 'Take your sandals off of your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.


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I have surely seen the affliction of my people that is in Egypt, and have heard their groaning. I have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you into Egypt.'


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"This Moses, whom they refused, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge?'--God has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.


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This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.


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This is that Moses, who said to the children of Israel, 'The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me.{TR adds "You shall listen to him."}'


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This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living oracles to give to us,


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to whom our fathers wouldn't be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,


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saying to Aaron, 'Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him.'


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They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.


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But God turned, and gave them up to serve the host of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, 'Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices Forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?


