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And as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly fragile.


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And as you saw the iron mixed with the clay of the clay, they shall be mixed with the seed of men. But they shall not adhere to one another, even as iron does not mix with clay.


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And in the days of these kings, the God of Heaven shall set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed. And the kingdom shall not be left to other people. It shall break in pieces and destroy all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.


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Because you saw that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold in pieces. The great God has made known to the king what shall occur after this. And the dream is certain, and the meaning of it is trustworthy.


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Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face and did homage to Daniel. And he commanded an offering, even to offer incense to him.


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The king answered Daniel and said, Your God truly is a God of gods and a Lord of kings, and a Revealer of secrets, since you could reveal this secret.


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Then the king made Daniel great and gave many great gifts to him. And he made him ruler over all the province of Babylon, and chief of the prefects over all the wise men of Babylon.


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And Daniel asked of the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego over the affairs of the province of Babylon. But Daniel sat in the gate of the king.


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Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold whose height was sixty cubits; its breadth, six cubits. He set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.


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Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather the satraps, the prefects, the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the judges and the justices. And all the officials of the provinces were ordered to come to the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.


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Then were gathered the satraps, the prefects, the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the judges, the justices, and all the officials of the provinces, to the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. And they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.


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at the time you hear the sound of the horn, the pipe, zither, the lyre, harp, bagpipe, and all kinds of music, you shall fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up.


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And whoever does not fall down and worship, at that moment they will be thrown into the middle of a burning, fiery furnace.


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Then at that time when all the people heard the sound of the horn, the pipe, zither, the lyre, harp, and all kinds of music, all the peoples, the nations, and the languages fell down, worshiping the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.


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You, O king, have made a decree that every man who shall hear the sound of the horn, the pipe, zither, the lyre, harp, and the bagpipe, and all kinds of music, shall fall down and worship the golden image.


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And whoever does not fall down and worship, he should be thrown into the middle of a burning, fiery furnace.


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There are men, Jews, whom you have set over the business of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. These men, O king, do not pay attention to you. They do not serve your gods or worship the golden image which you have set up.


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Then Nebuchadnezzar in anger and wrath commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Then they brought these men before the king.


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Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said to them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego that you are not serving my gods, nor worshiping the golden image which I have set up?


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Now if you are ready, at the time you hear the sound of the horn, the pipe, zither, the lyre, harp, and bagpipe, and all kinds of music, fall down and worship the image which I have made. But if you do not worship, in that moment you shall be thrown into the middle of a burning, fiery furnace. And who is that god who shall deliver you out of my hand?


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Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to return a word to you on this matter.


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If it is so that our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning, fiery furnace, then He will deliver out of your hand, O king.


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And if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image which you have set up.


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Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with wrath, and the form of his face was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He spoke and commanded to heat the furnace seven times more than it was usual to heat it.


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And he commanded mighty men of valor in his army to tie up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to throw them into the burning, fiery furnace.


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Then these men were tied up in their slippers, their tunics, and their mantles, and their other clothes, and were thrown into the middle of the burning, fiery furnace.


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Then, because the king's command was urgent, and the furnace exceedingly hot, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.


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And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the middle of the burning, fiery furnace.


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Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was amazed. And he rose up in haste; he spoke and said to his royal officials, Did we not throw three men bound into the middle of the fire? They replied and said to the king, True, O king.


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He answered and said, Behold! I see four men loose, walking in the middle of the fire, and there is no harm among them. And the form of the fourth is like a son of the gods.


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Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the door of the burning, fiery furnace. He answered and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out and come here. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out of the middle of the fire.


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And the satraps, the prefects, the governors, and the king's officials assembled. And they saw these men on whose bodies the fire had no power, and the hair of their head was not scorched, nor were their slippers changed, nor had the smell of fire clung on them.


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Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent His Angel and has delivered His servants who trusted in Him, and have changed the king's words, and have given their bodies that they might not serve nor worship any god except their own God.


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And a decree is set out by me, that every people, nation, and language who speak anything amiss about the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, he will be made into mere members and his house shall be made an outhouse. Because there is no other God who is able to deliver like this.


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Nebuchadnezzar the king to all the peoples, the nations, and the tongues that dwell in all the earth: Your peace be multiplied.


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How great are His signs! And how mighty are His wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and His rule is from generation to generation.


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So I made a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known to me the meaning of the dream.


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Then the magicians, the conjurers, the Chaldeans, and the star-gazing ones came in. And I told the dream before them, but they did not make its meaning known to me.


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But at last Daniel came in before me, whose name was Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods. And I told the dream before him, saying,


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O Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you, and no secret troubles you, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and its meaning.


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As to the visions of my head on my bed, I was looking, and, behold, a tree was in the middle of the earth. And its height was great.


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The tree became great and strong, and its height reached to the heaven, and its appearance to the end of all the earth.


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Its leaves were beautiful, and its fruit plentiful, and food for all was in it. The beasts of the field sought shade under it, and the birds of the sky dwelt in its branches, and all flesh was fed from it.


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I was looking in the visions of my head on my bed. And, behold, a watcher, even a holy one, came down from the heaven.


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He cried with might and said this: Cut down the tree and cut off its branches. Shake off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Let the beasts flee from under it, and the birds leave its branches.


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But leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a fetter of iron and bronze, in the grass of the field. And let it be wet with the dew of the heavens, and his lot be with the beasts in the grass of the earth.


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Let his heart be changed from man's, and let the heart of the beasts be given to him. And let seven times pass over him.


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This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the command by the word of the holy ones, so that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men and gives it to whomever He will. And He sets up over it the lowest of men.


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I, Nebuchadnezzar, have seen this dream. Now you, O Belteshazzar, declare its meaning, since all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to reveal the meaning to me. But you are able, for the spirit of the holy gods is in you.


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Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was stunned for one hour, and his thoughts troubled him. The king spoke and said, O Belteshazzar, do not let the dream or its meaning trouble you. Belteshazzar answered and said, My lord, the dream is to those who hate you, and its meaning is to your foes.


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The tree that you saw, which became great and strong, whose height reached to the heaven and its appearance to all the earth,


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and its leaves being beautiful, and its fruit plentiful, and food for all being in it, under which the beasts of the field lived, and in its branches the birds of the sky had their home:


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It was you, O king, for you have become great and strong. For your greatness has grown and reaches to the heavens, and your rule is to the end of the earth.


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And as the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from the heavens, and saying, Cut the tree down, and destroy it. Yet leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and bronze, in the grass of the field. And let him be wet with the dew of the heavens, and his lot be with the beasts of the field, until seven times pass over him.


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This is the meaning, O king, and this the decree of the Most High, which has come on my lord the king:


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And you shall be driven from men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. And you shall be fed with grass like oxen. And you shall be wet with dew of the heavens; and seven times shall pass over you until you know that the Most High is Ruler in the kingdom of men, and He gives it to whomever He desires.


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And in that they commanded to leave the stump of the tree roots, Your kingdom shall be enduring to you after you have realized that Heaven rules.


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So, O king, let my advice be pleasing to you: Even break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by pitying the poor, whether there will be duration to your prosperity.


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The king spoke and said, Is this not great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom, by the might of my power, and for the honor of my majesty?


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The word was still in the king's mouth when a voice fell from the heavens, saying, O King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is declared: The kingdom has been taken from you!


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And you shall be driven from men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. You shall be fed with the grass like oxen, and seven times shall pass over you until you know that the Most High is Ruler in the kingdom of men, and that He gives it to whomever He desires.


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The same hour the thing was fulfilled on Nebuchadnezzar. And he was driven from men, and he ate the grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the heavens, until his hair had grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws.


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And at the end of the days, I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to the heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High. And I praised and honored Him who lives forever, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and His rule from generation to generation.


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And all those living in the earth are counted as nothing. And He does according to His will among the army of Heaven, and among those living in the earth. And no one is able to strike His hand or say to Him, What are You doing?


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At that time my reason returned to me, and the glory of my kingdom, my majesty, and my brightness returned to me. And my advisers and my nobles sought to me. And I was reestablished in my kingdom, and excellent greatness was added to me.


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Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and honor the King of Heaven, for all His works are truth, and His ways are justice. And He is able to humble those who walk in pride.


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Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his nobles. And he drank wine before the thousand.


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When tasting the wine, Belshazzar commanded the golden and silver vessels brought, those his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem, that the king and his nobles, his wives, and his concubines might drink with them.


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Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God in Jerusalem. And the king, his nobles, his wives, and his concubines drank with them.


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They drank wine and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, and of bronze, of iron, wood, and stone.


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At that moment fingers of a man's hand came out and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace across from the lampstand. And the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.


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Then the king's color was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins shook, and his knees knocked one against the other.


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The king cried aloud to bring in the conjurers, the Chaldeans, and the star gazers. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, Any man who can read this writing and reveal its meaning shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold around his neck. And he shall rule third in the kingdom.


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Then all the king's wise men came in. But they could not read the writing or make the meaning known to the king.


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Then King Belshazzar was greatly troubled, and his face was changing on him, and his nobles were perplexed.


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The queen came in to the banquet house because of the words of the king and his nobles. The queen spoke and said, O king, live forever, do not let your thoughts terrify you, and do not let your face be changed.


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There is a man in your kingdom in whom is the spirit of the holy gods. And in the days of your father, light and understanding and wisdom was found in him, like the wisdom of the gods. Your father, King Nebuchadnezzar, your father the king, appointed him master of the magicians, conjurers, Chaldeans and star-gazing ones,


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because an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, explaining of dreams, and revealing of hard sentences, and the unraveling of knots, were found in this Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will reveal the meaning.


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Then Daniel was thrust in before the king. The king spoke and said to Daniel, Are you that Daniel who is of the sons of the exiled of Judah, whom my father the king brought out of Judah?


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I have even heard of you, that the spirit of the gods is in you, and light, and excellent wisdom, and understanding are found in you.


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And now the wise men and the conjurers have been thrust in before me, so that they might read this writing and make the meaning known to me. But they were not able to declare the meaning of the thing.


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And I have heard of you, that you can interpret meanings, and unravel knots. Now if you can read the writing and reveal its meaning to me, you shall be clothed with purple and have a golden chain around your neck, and you will rule third in the kingdom.


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Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let your gifts be to yourself, and give your rewards to another. Yet I will read the writing to the king, and make the meaning known to him.


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O king, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honor.


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And for the majesty that He gave him, all peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. He killed whom he desired, and whom he desired he kept alive. And whom he would, he set up; and whom he desired, he put down.


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But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was put down from the throne of his kingdom, and they took his glory from him.


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And he was driven from the sons of men. And his heart was made like the animals, and his home was with the wild asses. They fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the heavens, until he knew that the Most High God is Ruler in the kingdom of men, and that He appoints over it whomever He desires.


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But you have lifted yourself up against the Lord of Heaven. And they have brought the vessels of His house before you. And you, and your nobles, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine with them. And you have praised the gods of silver, and gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see, nor hear, and do not know. And you have not glorified the God in whose hand your life, breath, and all your ways is.


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Then Belshazzar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with purple, and a necklace of gold around his neck. And they made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.


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It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom a hundred and twenty satraps, that they might be over the kingdom.


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And over them were three presidents (Daniel was one of them), so that these satraps might give account to them, and the king should have no loss.


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Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him. And the king was planning to set him over all the kingdom.


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Then the presidents and satraps sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom. But they could find no occasion or fault because he was trustworthy. And no error or fault was found in him.


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Then these men said, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel unless we find it against him concerning the Law of his God.


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Then these presidents and satraps gathered together to the king and said this to him, King Darius, live forever.


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All the presidents of the kingdom, the prefects, and the satraps, the officials and the governors, have planned together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except from you, O king, he shall be thrown into the den of lions.


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Now, O king, establish the decree and sign the document, so that it may not be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which does not pass away.


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And when he had learned that the document was signed, Daniel went to his house. And his windows were open in his roof room toward Jerusalem. He knelt on his knees three times in the day, and prayed and praised before his God, as he did before.


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Then they came near and spoke before the king concerning the king's decree, saying, Have you not signed a decree that every man who shall ask of any god or man within thirty days, except of you, O king, that he shall be thrown into the lions' den? The king answered and said, The thing is certain, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which does not pass away.


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Then they answered and said before the king, Daniel, who is of the sons of the exile of Judah, has not set attention on you, O king, or the decree that you have signed, but he makes his prayer three times in the day.


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Then the king, when he heard the word, was very displeased with himself, and he set his heart on Daniel, to deliver him. And he labored until the going of the sun to deliver him.


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Then these men met before the king and said to the king, O king, know that the law of the Medes and Persians is that every decree or law which the king enacts may not be changed.


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And the king commanded. And they brought Daniel, and they threw him into the lions' den. The king spoke and said to Daniel, Your God whom you constantly serve will deliver you.


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And a stone was brought and laid on the mouth of the den. And the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his nobles, that the affair may not change concerning Daniel.


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Then the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting; and diversions were not brought before him; and his sleep fled from him.


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And when he came to the den, he cried with a grieved voice to Daniel. The king spoke and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, your God whom you always serve, is He able to deliver you from the lions?


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My God has sent His Angel, and He has shut the mouths of the lions. And they have not harmed me, because in His sight innocence was found in me. And also before you, O king, I have done no harm.


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Then the king was exceedingly glad over him. And he commanded to bring up Daniel from the den. And Daniel was brought out of the den, and no harm was found on him, because he trusted in his God.


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And the king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel. And they threw them into the lions' den, them, their sons and their wives. And the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones before they reached to the bottom of the den.


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Then King Darius wrote to all the peoples, the nations, and the languages who were living in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you.


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A decree was given from before me that in all the domain of my kingdom there shall be trembling and fear before the God of Daniel. For He is the living God and endures forever, and His kingdom is the one which shall not be destroyed. And His rule shall be to the end.


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He delivers and rescues, and He works signs and wonders in the heavens and in the earth, He who has delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.


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In the first year of Belshazzar, king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and visions of his head on his bed. Then he related the dream, giving the sum of the matters.


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Daniel spoke and said, In my vision by night I was looking. And, behold, the four winds of the heavens were stirring up the Great Sea.


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The first was like a lion and had eagle's wings. I watched until its wings were torn off. And it was lifted up from the earth and made to stand on two feet like a man, and a man's heart was given to it.


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And, behold, another beast, a second, like a bear. And it was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth. And they said this to it, Rise up, eat much flesh.


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After this I was looking, and, behold, another like a leopard, and to it were four wings of a bird on its side. And also to the beast were four heads. And rulership was given to it.


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And after this I was looking in the night visions. And, behold, the fourth beast was frightening and terrifying, and very strong! And to it were great iron teeth. It devoured, and crushed, and stamped what was left with its feet. And it was different from all the beasts before it; and it had ten horns.


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I was thinking about the horns. And behold! Another little horn came up among them, and three of the first horns were uprooted before it. And behold! In this horn were eyes like the eyes of the man, and a mouth speaking great things.


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I was looking until the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of Days sat, whose robe was white as snow and the hair of His head like pure wool. His throne was like flames of fire, its wheels like burning fire.


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A stream of fire went out and came out from before Him. A thousand thousands served Him, and a myriad myriads stood before Him. The judgment was set and the books were opened.


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Then I was looking because of the voice of the great words which the horn spoke. I was looking until the beast was killed, and his body was destroyed and given to the burning flame.


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And the rest of the beasts, their dominion was taken away. Yet length of life was given them for a season and a time.


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I was looking in the night visions. And behold! One like the Son of Man came with the clouds of the heavens. And He came to the Ancient of Days. And they brought Him near before Him.


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And dominion was given to Him, and glory, and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion which shall not pass away, and His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.


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And I came near one of those who stood by and asked him the truth of all this. And he told me and made me know the meaning of the things.


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But the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever.


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Then I wanted to know the truth of the fourth beast, which was different from all of them, very frightening, whose teeth were of iron and its nails bronze; who devoured and crushed, and trampled what was left with its feet,


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also of the ten horns that were on its head, and the other which came up, and before whom three fell, even that horn that had eyes, and a mouth speaking great things, and its appearance was greater than his fellows.


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until the Ancient of Days came. And judgment was given to the saints of the Most High, and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.


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And he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom on earth, which shall be different from all kingdoms, and shall devour all the earth, and shall trample it down and crush it.


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And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings; they shall rise, and another shall rise after them. And he shall be different from the first, and he shall humble three kings.


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And he shall speak words against the Most High, and he shall wear out the saints of the Most High. And he intends to change times and law. And they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and one half time.


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But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his rulership, to cut off and to destroy until the end.


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And the kingdom and rulership, and the greatness of the kingdom under all the heavens shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. And all kingdoms shall serve and obey Him.


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Until now is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts terrified me much, and my face changed on me. But I kept the matter in my heart.


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In the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar, a vision appeared to me, Daniel, after that which appeared to me at the first.


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And I looked in the vision, and it happened when I looked that I was at Shushan, the palace, which is in the province of Elam. And in a vision I looked, and I was by the Ulai Canal.


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Then I lifted up my eyes and looked. And behold! A ram was standing before the canal, having two horns. And the two horns were high, but one was higher than the other, and the higher one came up last.


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I saw the ram pushing westward and northward and southward, so that no beasts could stand before him, and none could deliver out of his hand. But he did according to his will and became great.


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And I was considering. And behold! A male of the goats came from the west, over the face of all the earth and did not touch the ground. And the he goat had an outstanding horn between his eyes.


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And he came to the ram with two horns which I had seen standing before the canal. And he ran to it in the fury of his power.


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And I saw him touched beside the ram. And he was moved with anger against him. And he struck the ram and shattered his two horns. And there was no power in the ram to stand before him. But he threw him down to the ground and trampled him. And no one could deliver the ram from his hand.


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Then the he-goat became very great. And when he was mighty, the great horn was shattered. And in its place came up four outstanding ones toward the four winds of the heavens.


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And out of one of them came a little horn which became very great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the bountiful land.


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And it became great, even to the host of the heavens. And it caused some of the host and of the stars to fall to the ground, and it trampled them.


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Yea, he magnified himself even to the leader of the host. And the regular sacrifice was taken away by him, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.


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And a host was given with the regular sacrifice because of transgression. And it threw the truth down to the ground, and it worked and prospered.


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Then I heard a certain holy one speaking, and another holy one said to that one who spoke, Until when is the vision, the regular sacrifice and the desolating transgression, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trampled?


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And he said to me, For two thousand, three hundred evenings and mornings, then the sanctuary will be put right.


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And it happened when I, Daniel, had seen the vision, then I sought the meaning. And, behold, the form of a man stood before me.


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And I heard a man's voice between the banks of Ulai, and he called and said, Gabriel, make this one understand the vision.


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And he came beside my place. And when he came, I feared and fell on my face. But he said to me, O son of man, understand, for the vision is for the time of the end.


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And while he was speaking with me, I was stunned and on my face toward the ground. But he touched me and made me stand.


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And he said, Behold, I will make you know what shall happen in the last end of the indignation. For it is for the time appointed for the end.


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And as for that which was shattered, and four stood up in its place, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in its power.


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And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors have come to the full, a king, strong of face and skilled at intrigues, shall stand up.


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And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power. And he shall destroy wondrously, and he shall prosper, and work, and destroy the mighty, and the holy people.


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And also through his skill he will make deceit succeed in his land. And he will lift himself up in his heart, and be at ease; he shall destroy many. He shall also stand up against the Ruler of rulers, but he shall be shattered without a hand.


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And the morning and evening vision that was told is true. But you shall shut up the vision, for it shall be for many days.


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And I, Daniel, was faint. And I was sick for days. Afterwards, I got up and did the king's business. And I was amazed at the vision. But there was no understanding.


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In the first year of Darius, the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans,


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in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood the number of the years by books, which had been a Word of Jehovah to Jeremiah the prophet, that He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.


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And I set my face toward the Lord God, to seek by prayer and holy desires, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.


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And I prayed to Jehovah my God, and made my confession, saying, O Lord, the great and awesome God, keeping the covenant and mercy of those who love Him, and to those who keep His commandments,


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we have sinned and have committed iniquity and have done evilly, and we have rebelled, even by departing from Your commandments and from Your judgments.


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And we have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, our rulers, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.


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O Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but to us the shame of our faces, as it is this day to the men of Judah, and to those living in Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near and who are afar through all the lands where You have driven them for their unfaithfulness which they have done against You.


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O Lord, shame of face belongs to us, to our kings, to our rulers and to our fathers, because we have sinned against You.


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We have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in His laws which he set before us by His servants the prophets.


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Yea, all Israel has transgressed Your Law and turned aside that they might not obey Your voice. For this reason the curse has poured out on us, and the oath that is written in the Law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against Him.


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And He has confirmed His Words which He spoke against us, and against our judges who judge us, by bringing on us a great evil. For under the whole heavens it has not been done as it has been done to Jerusalem.


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As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet we did not make our prayer before Jehovah our God that we might turn from our perversities and understand Your truth.


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And Jehovah has looked on the evil and has made it come on us. For Jehovah our God is righteous in all His works which He does. For we did not obey His voice.


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And now, O Lord our God, who brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand and made for Yourself a name, as it is this day; we have sinned; we have done evilly.


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O Lord, I pray to You, according to all Your righteousness, let Your anger and Your fury be turned away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain. For because of our sins and of our fathers' iniquities, Jerusalem and Your people have become a reproach to all those around us.


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And now, hear, O our God, the prayer of Your servant and his holy desires, and cause Your face to shine on Your sanctuary that is desolate, for the sake of the Lord.


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O my God, bow down Your ear and hear; open Your eyes and see our ruins and the city which is called by Your name. For we do not make our prayers fall before You on account of our righteousnesses, but because of Your great mercies.


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O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, attend to us and work! Do not delay, for Your own sake, O my God. For Your name is called on Your city and on Your people.


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And while I was speaking and praying and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and making my cry fall before Jehovah my God for the holy mountain of my God,


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and while I was setting my prayer in order, then the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, touched me in my severe exhaustion about the time of the evening sacrifice.


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And he enlightened me and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I have now come out to give you skill in understanding.


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At the beginning of your prayers the word came forth, and I have come to explain it. For you are greatly beloved. Then consider the matter and understand the vision:


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Seventy weeks are decreed as to your people, and as to your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make atonement for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy.


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Know, then, and understand that from the going out of a word to restore and to rebuild Jerusalem, to Messiah the Prince, shall be seven weeks and sixty two weeks. The street shall be built again, and the wall, even in times of affliction.


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And after sixty two weeks, Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself. And the people of a coming ruler shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end shall be with the flood, and ruins are determined, and war shall be until the end.


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And he shall confirm a covenant with the many for one week. And in the middle of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease. And on a corner of the altar will be abominations that desolate, even until the end. And that which was decreed shall pour out on the desolator.


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In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia, a thing was revealed to Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar. And the thing was true, and a great conflict. And he understood the thing and had understanding of the vision.


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I ate no food for delight, and no flesh or wine came into my mouth. I did not anoint myself at all until three weeks of days were fulfilled.


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And in the twenty fourth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Tigris,


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then I lifted up my eyes and looked: And behold! A certain man was clothed in linen, whose loins were wrapped in fine gold from Uphaz.


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His body was also like the beryl, and his face looked like lightning. And his eyes were like torches of fire; and his arms and his feet in color like polished bronze; and the sound of his words were as the noise of a multitude.


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And I, Daniel, alone saw the vision. For the men who were with me did not see the vision. But a great trembling fell on them so that they fled to hide themselves.


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Then I was left alone, and I saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me. For my glory was turned within me into corruption, and I kept no strength.


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Yet I heard the sound of his words. And when I heard the sound of his words, then I was on my face, stunned, and my face was toward the ground.


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And he said to me, O Daniel, a man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak to you and stand up. For I am now sent to you. And when he had spoken this word to me, I stood, trembling.


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And he said to me, Do not fear, Daniel. For from the first day that you set your heart to understand and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard. And I have come because of your words.


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But the king of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty one days. But, lo, Michael, one of the first rulers, came to help me. And I stayed there with the kings of Persia.


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Now I have come to make you understand what shall happen to your people in the latter days. For the vision is yet for many days.


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And, behold, one in form as the sons of men touched my lips. And I opened my mouth and spoke and said to him who stood before me, O lord, my pangs have come over me because of the vision, and I have no strength left.


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For how can the servant of this my lord speak with this my lord? For as for me, there is no power left in me; yea, there is no breath left in me.


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And he said, O man greatly beloved, do not fear. Peace to you. Be strong. Yea, be strong! And when he had spoken to me I was made strong. And I said, Speak, my lord, for you have made me strong.


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And he said, Do you know why I have come to you? And now I will return to fight with the ruler of Persia. And when I have gone out, then, lo, the ruler of Greece shall come.


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But I will tell you what is written in the Scripture of Truth. And no one makes himself strong with me in these things except Michael your ruler.


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And I, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I was standing for a supporter and for a fortress for him.


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And now I will declare the truth to you: Behold! Three kings shall stand up in Persia; and the fourth shall be rich in all greater riches. And when he is strong through his riches, he shall stir up all against the kingdom of Greece.


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And when he stands up his kingdom shall be shattered and shall be divided to the four winds of the heavens, and not to his posterity, nor according to his authority with which he ruled. For his kingdom shall be pulled up and given to others besides these.


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And the king of the south shall be strong. And one of his rulers, even he will be strong on him, and he will rule. His rule shall be a great rule.


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And at the end of the years they shall join together, and the king of the south's daughter shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement. But she shall not keep the power of the arm. And he will not stand, nor his arm. But she and those who brought her shall be given up, also her begetter and her supporter in these times.


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But the shoots of her roots will stand in his place, and he shall come to the army and will enter into the fortress of the king of the north. And he will act against them and will show strength.


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And he will also bring their gods with their casted images, with silver and gold vessels of their possessions, into exile to Egypt. And for years he will stand away from the king of the north.


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But his sons shall be stirred up and shall gather a multitude of great forces. And one certainly shall come and overflow and pass through. And he will return to his fortress and be stirred up.


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And the king of the south will be bitter and will go out and fight with him, with the king of the north. And he shall raise a great multitude, but the multitude shall be given into his hand.


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And having carried away the host, his heart will be lifted up. And he will cause myriads to fall, but he shall not be strong.


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For the king of the north shall return and raise a greater host than the former. And at the end of times, years, coming he shall come with a great army and with much equipment.


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And in those times many shall stand up against the king of the south. And the sons of the violent ones of your people shall rise up to establish the vision, but they shall stumble.


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And the king of the north shall come and pour out a siege mound and seize a fortified city. And the arms of the south shall not stand, nor his choice people, for there will be no firmness to stand.


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But he who comes against him will do as he desires, and none shall stand before him. And he shall stand in the glorious land, and destruction shall be in his hand.


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And he shall set his face to go in with the might of all his kingdom, and upright ones with him; so he shall do. And he shall give the daughter of women to him, to destroy it. But she shall not stand, nor be for him.


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And he shall turn his face to the coastlands and shall capture many. But a ruler shall make cease his reproach for him, but his reproach shall return to him.


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And he shall turn his face toward the fortresses of his own land, but he will stumble and fall and shall not be found.


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And one who passes over a tax exacter shall stand in his place, for the glory of the kingdom. But within a few days he will be shattered, but not in anger and not in battle.


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And a despised one shall stand up on his place, and they shall not give to him the honor of the king. But he shall come in while at ease and make strong the kingdom by intrigues.


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And the forces of the overflow shall be swept from before his face, and they will be shattered, and also the ruler of a covenant.


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And after they join themselves to him, he will practice deceit; for he shall come and shall be strong with a few people.


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He will go in safely, even into the rich places of the province. And he shall do what his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers. He shall plunder and spoil and scatter goods among them. And he shall devise his plots against the strongholds, even for a time.


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And he will stir up his power and his heart against the king of the south with a great army. And the king of the south will be stirred up to battle with a great and very mighty army. But he shall not stand, for they will devise plots against him.


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Yea, those who eat his food shall destroy him, and his army shall overflow. And many will fall down slain.


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And both of them, the kings, shall have in their hearts to do evil, and they will speak lies at one table. But it will not prosper, for the end still shall be at the appointed time.


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And he will return to his land with great wealth. And his heart shall be against the holy covenant. And he will act, and he shall return to his land.


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At the appointed time he will return and come against the south. But it will not be as the former or as the latter.


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For the Kittim ships will come against him. And he will be pained and turn back and be furious against the holy covenant. And he will act, and he will return and heed the forsakers of the holy covenant.


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And forces will stand away from him, and they will profane the sanctuary, the fortress. And they shall remove the regular sacrifice, and they will place the abomination that desolates.


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And he will defile by flatteries those who do evil against the covenant. But the people who know their God will be strong and will work.


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And those who understand among the people will instruct many, yet they will stumble by the sword and by flame, by exile and spoil for days.


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And when they shall stumble, they will be helped with a little help. But many will join them with hypocrisy.


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And many of those who understand shall stumble, to refine and to purge them, and to make white to the time of the end. For it is yet for the appointed time.


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And the king shall do according to his will. And he shall exalt and magnify himself above every god; he shall even speak marvelous things against the God of gods and shall prosper until the fury is completed. For that which is decreed shall be done.


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He shall not regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women; yea, he will not come to any god. For he shall magnify himself above all.


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But in his place he shall honor the god of forces, and he shall honor a god whom his fathers did not know, with gold and silver and with precious stones, and desirable things.


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And he shall act in the strongholds of the fortresses with a foreign god, whom he shall acknowledge. He shall multiply in glory, and he shall cause them to rule over many and shall divide the land for a price.


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And at the end time, the king of the south will engage in butting with him. And the king of the north shall come against him like a tempest, with chariots and with horsemen and with many ships. And he shall go into the lands and shall overflow and pass over.


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And he shall enter into the glorious land, and many will be stumbled. But these shall escape out of his hand: Edom and Moab, and the chief of the sons of Ammon.


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But he will rule over the treasures of gold and silver, and over all Egypt's desirable things. And the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.


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But news shall trouble him from the east and from the north. And he will go out with great fury to destroy and to devote many to destruction.


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And he shall plant his palace tents between the seas, in the glorious holy mountain. Yet he shall come to his end, and there is not a helper for him.


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And at that time, Michael shall stand up, the great ruler who stands for the sons of your people. And there shall be a time of distress, such as has not been from the being of a nation until that time. And at that time, your people shall be delivered, everyone that shall be found written in the Book.


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And many of those sleeping in the earth's dust shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to reproaches and to everlasting abhorrence.


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And those who act wisely shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and those turning many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever.


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But you, O Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, to the end time. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.


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And I, Daniel, looked. And, behold! Another two stood there, the one on this side, and one on that side of the river's edge.


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And one said to the man clothed in linen, who was on the waters of the river, Until when is the end of the wonders?


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And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was on the waters of the river, when he held up his right and his left hand to the heavens and swore by Him who lives forever, that it shall be for a time, times, and a half. And when they have made an end of scattering the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.


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And I heard, but I did not understand. And I said, O my lord, what shall be the end of these things?


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Many shall be purified and made white and tested. But the wicked shall do wickedly. And not one of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand.


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And from the time the regular sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that desolates set up, a thousand, two hundred and ninety days shall occur.


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The Word of Jehovah that was to Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, the son of Joash, king of Israel.


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The beginning of the speaking of Jehovah by Hosea. And Jehovah said to Hosea, Go, take to yourself a wife of harlotry, and children of harlotry. For the land has utterly gone lusting away from Jehovah.


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And Jehovah said to him, Call his name God Will Sow, for yet in a little while I will call to account the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.


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And she conceived again and bore a daughter. And He said to him, Call her name No Mercy, for I will not again still have mercy on the house of Israel; but I will completely take them away.


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And I will have mercy on the house of Judah and will save them by Jehovah their God. And I will not save them by bow or by sword, or by battle, by horses, or by horsemen.


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Yet the number of the sons of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which is not measured nor numbered. And it shall be, in the place where it is said to them, You are not My people, it shall be said to them, Sons of the Living God.


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And the sons of Judah and the sons of Israel shall be gathered together, and shall set over themselves one head. And they shall go up out of the land; for great shall be the day of Jezreel.


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Strive! Strive with your mother, for she is not My wife, and I am not her husband. Therefore, let her put away her harlotries from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts,


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that I not strip her naked and set her out as in the day that she was born, and make her as the wilderness, and place her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.


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For their mother has prostituted herself; she who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, I will go after my lovers who give my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.


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Therefore, behold, I will hedge your way with thorns, and I will wall up her wall, that she shall not find her paths.


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And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them. And she shall look for them, but she shall not find them. Then she shall say, I will go and return to my first husband, for then it was better with me than now.


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For she did not know that I gave her grain and wine and oil, and I multiplied her silver and the gold they prepared for Baal.


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So I will return and take My grain in its time, and My wine in its season. And I will take back My wool and My flax she uses to cover her nakedness.


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And now I will reveal her shamefulness to the eyes of her lovers, and not a man shall deliver her out of My hand.


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I will also cause all her joy to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.


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And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, of which she has said, They are my rewards that my lovers have given me. And I will set them for a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.


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And I will visit on her the days of the Baals in which she burned incense to them. Yea, she adorned herself with her nose rings, and her jewels, and she went after her lovers and forgot Me, says Jehovah.


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And from there I will give her vineyards to her, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope. And she shall answer there as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.


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And at that day, says Jehovah, you shall call Me, My husband; and you shall no more call Me, My Baal.


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For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth; and they shall no more be remembered by their name.


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And in that day I will cut a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the birds of the heavens, and the creepers of the ground. And I will break the bow and the sword, and the battle out of the earth, and I will make them to lie down safely.


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And I will betroth you to Me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to Me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in mercy, and in compassions.


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And it shall be in that day, I will answer, says Jehovah. I will answer the heavens, and they shall answer the earth.


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And I will sow her to Me in the earth. And I will have mercy on No Mercy. And I will say to Not My People, You are My people! And they shall say, My God!


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And Jehovah said to me, Go again, love a woman loved by a friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of Jehovah toward the sons of Israel, who turn to other gods, and love raisin cakes of grapes.


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So I bought her for myself with fifteen pieces of silver, and for a homer of barley, and a half of barley.


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And I said to her, You shall remain with me many days. You shall not be a harlot, and not be to a man, and I also will be for you.


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For the sons of Israel shall remain many days with no king and no ruler, and with no sacrifice, and no pillars, and no ephod or teraphim.


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Afterward the sons of Israel shall return and seek Jehovah their God and David their king. And they shall fear Jehovah and His goodness in the ends of the days.


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Sons of Israel, hear the Word of Jehovah, for Jehovah has a quarrel with those living in the land; for there is no truth, and no mercy, and no knowledge of God in the land.


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Swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and the committing of adultery increase. And blood touches against blood.


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On account of this the land shall mourn, and every one living in it shall droop, with the beasts of the field and the birds of the heaven; yes, also the fish of the sea shall be removed.


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And you shall stumble in the day, and the prophet also shall stumble with you at night, and I will cut off your mother.


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My people are cut off for lack of knowledge. Because you rejected the knowledge, I also rejected you from being priest to Me. Since you have forgotten the Law of your God, I will forget your sons, even I.


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And it will be, Like people, like priest. And I will visit their ways on them and repay them for their deeds.


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For they shall eat and not have enough. They shall fornicate and not increase, because they have ceased heeding Jehovah.


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My people seek advice by their wooden idols, and their rod declares to them. For the spirit of harlotry has led them astray, and they fornicated from under their God.


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They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains and burn incense on the hills, under oak and poplar and terebinth, because its shade is good. On account of this, your daughters shall prostitute, and your brides shall commit adultery.


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I will not punish your daughters when they fornicate, nor your brides when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go aside with harlots, and they sacrifice with temple prostitutes. The people who do not understand are thrust down.


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Israel, though you fornicate, do not let Judah become guilty. And do not come to Gilgal, nor go up to Beth-aven, nor swear, As Jehovah lives.


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Hear this, O priests, and attend, house of Israel. And give ear, house of the king. For the judgment is toward you, because you have been a snare to Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor.


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I know Ephraim, and Israel has not hidden from me. For now, O Ephraim, you have fornicated; Israel is defiled.


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Their doings will not give them to turn to their God. For the spirit of fornication is in their midst, and they do not know Jehovah.


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And the pride of Israel answers to his face. So Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in their iniquity. Judah shall also stumble with them.


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They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Jehovah, but they shall not find Him; He has withdrawn Himself from them.


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They have acted treacherously against Jehovah, for they have brought forth strange sons. Now a new moon shall devour them with their portions.


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Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of correction. Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known that which is confirmed.


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When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to King Jareb. Yet he could not heal you, nor did he cure you of your wound.


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For I am to Ephraim as the lion, and as the young lion to the house of Judah; I, even I, tear and go; I take away, and no one rescues.


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I will go; I will return to My place until they confess their guilt and seek My face. In their affliction they will seek Me diligently.


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Come and let us return to Jehovah. For He has torn, and He will heal us. He has stricken, and He will bind us up.


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After two days He will bring us to life. In the third day He will raise us up, and we shall live before Him.


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Then we shall know, we who follow on to know Jehovah. His going forth is established as the dawn. And He shall come to us as the rain, as the latter and former rain to the earth.


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O Ephraim, what shall I do to you? O Judah, what shall I do to you? For your goodness is like a morning cloud, and it goes away like the early dew.


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So I have hewn them by the prophets; I have slain them by the Words of My mouth; and your judgments have been as the light that goes forth.


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And as troops of robbers wait for a man, the company of priests murder in the way to Shechem; for they have done wickedness.


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I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: the fornication of Ephraim is there; Israel is defiled.


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When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered, and the evil of Samaria. For they have worked falsehood; and a thief comes; a troop of robbers plunders outside.


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And they do not say within their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their own doings have hemmed them in. They are before My face.


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They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker; he ceases from stirring, from kneading the dough until it is leavened.


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In the day of our king, the rulers have sickened themselves with the heat of wine. He stretches out his hand with scorners.


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For they have brought their heart near like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps all night; in the morning it burns like a flaming fire.


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They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges. All their kings have fallen; not one among them calls to Me.


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Strangers have eaten up his strength, yet he does not know. Yea, gray hairs are sprinkled here and there on him, yet he does not know.


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And the pride of Israel testifies to his face. And they do not return to Jehovah their God, nor seek Him in all this.


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When they go, I will spread My net over them; I will bring them down like the birds of the heavens; I will chastise them, as a report to their congregation.


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Woe to them! For they have fled from Me. Ruin to them! For they have transgressed against Me. Though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against Me.


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And they have not cried to Me with their heart, when they howled on their beds. They gather themselves for grain and wine; they turn against Me.


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They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a treacherous bow. Their rulers shall fall by the sword from the rage of the tongue. This shall be their scorn in the land of Egypt.


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Put a horn to your mouth. He comes like an eagle against the house of Jehovah, because they have broken My covenant and have sinned against My Law.


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They have set up kings, but not by Me. They have made rulers, but I did not know. They made idols for themselves with their silver and their gold, so that they may be cut off.


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O Samaria, your calf has cast you off. My anger is kindled against them. Until when will they not attain purity?


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For it also came from Israel: The craftsman made it, but it is not God. For the calf of Samaria shall be splinters.


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For they sow the wind, and they reap the whirlwind. He has no stalk; the bud shall make no flour. If it does make it, strangers will swallow it up.


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Also, though they have hired among the nations, now I will gather them. And they began to be few, from the burden of the king of rulers.


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They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of My offerings, and they eat. Jehovah did not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins. They shall return to Egypt.


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For Israel has forgotten his Maker, and builds temples. And Judah has multiplied fortified cities. But I will send a fire on his cities, and it shall burn up her palaces.


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O Israel, do not rejoice for joy, like the peoples. For you have gone lusting away from your God. You have loved a reward on all threshing-floors of grain.


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They shall not live in the land of Jehovah. But Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.


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They shall not offer wine to Jehovah. They shall not be pleasing to Him. Their sacrifices shall be like the bread of sorrows to them; all who eat it shall be defiled, for their bread is for their person; it shall not come into the house of Jehovah.


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For, lo, they have gone from destruction. Egypt shall gather them; Memphis shall bury them. Nettles shall possess the desirable things of their silver; thorns shall be in their tents.


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The days of her visitation have come; the days of retribution have come. Israel shall know. The prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is insane, because of the greatness of your iniquity and your great hatred.


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Ephraim is a watchman with my God. The prophet is a snare of a fowler on all his ways; hatred is in the house of his God.


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They have deeply corrupted, as in days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity; He will punish their sins.


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I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruit in the fig tree at her first time. They came to Baal-peor and set themselves apart to a shameful thing. And they became hateful like that which they loved.


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Ephraim is like a bird; their glory shall fly away, from birth, and from the womb, and from conception.


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Though they multiply their sons, yet I will make them childless, without a man. Yea, woe also to them when I turn away from them!


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As when I looked toward Tyre, Ephraim was planted in a pleasant place. But Ephraim shall bring forth his sons to the slayer.


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All their wickedness is in Gilgal, for there I hated them. I will drive them out of My house for the wickedness of their doings, I will not add to love them; all their rulers are revolters.


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Ephraim is stricken; their root is dried up; they shall bear no fruit. Yea, though they bear, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb.


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My God shall reject them because they did not listen to Him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.


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Israel is a luxuriant vine; he bears fruit for himself. According to the plenty of his fruit he has increased the altars. They have made beautiful images according to the goodness of his land.


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Their heart is divided. Now they shall be guilty. He will break down their altars; He will spoil their pillars.


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For now they shall say, We have no king, because we did not fear Jehovah. What then should a king do for us?


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They have spoken words, swearing vanity to cut a covenant. So judgment springs up like hemlock in the furrows of the field.


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The people of Samaria shall dread because of the calves of Beth-aven. For its people shall mourn over it; also its priests who rejoiced on it for its glory, because it has departed from it.


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It shall also be carried to Assyria, a present to King Jareb. Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.


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Also, the high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed. The thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars. And they shall say to the mountains, Cover us! and to the hills, Fall on us!


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O Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah. There they stood. The battle against the sons of iniquity did not overtake them in Gibeah.


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When I desire, I shall bind them; and the peoples shall be gathered against them, when they bind themselves to their two perversities.


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And Ephraim is a trained heifer, loving to tread out. But I passed over on the goodness of her neck; I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow; Jacob shall break clods for him.


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Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap as kindness. Break up your fallow ground. For it is time to seek Jehovah, until He comes and rains righteousness on you.


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You have plowed wickedness; you have reaped iniquity. You have eaten the fruit of lies because you trusted in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men.


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And an uproar shall rise up among your peoples. And all your strongholds shall be spoiled, as the ruin of Beth-arbel in the day of battle. The mother was dashed in pieces on her sons.


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So He does to you, Bethel, because of your great evil. In the dawn, the king of Israel shall be completely cut off.


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As they called to them, so they went from their face. They sacrifice to the Baals, and burn incense to graven images.


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I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love. And I was to them as those who lift off the yoke on their jaws; and I extended food to him.


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He shall not return to the land of Egypt, but he of Assyria shall be his king, because they refused to return.


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And the sword shall whirl in his cities, and shall bring to an end his bars, and shall consume, because of their own counsels.


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And My people are bent on backsliding from Me. And they call him to the Most High; no one at all would exalt Him.


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How shall I give you up, Ephraim? Shall I deliver you, Israel? How shall I make you like Admah? Shall I set you as Zeboim? My heart has turned within Me; My compassions are kindled together.


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I will not execute the heat of My anger; I will not return to destroy Ephraim. For I am God, and not a man, the Holy One in your midst. And I will not enter into the city.


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They shall walk after Jehovah; He shall roar as a lion. When He roars, then sons shall tremble from the west.


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They trembled like a bird from Egypt, and like a dove from the land of Assyria. And I will make them live in their houses, says Jehovah.


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Ephraim circles around Me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit; but Judah still rules with God and is faithful with the saints.


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Ephraim feeds on wind, and follows after the east wind; all the day he multiplies lies and ruin. And they cut a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.


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Jehovah also has a quarrel with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; He will repay him according to his deeds.


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Yes, he wept and pleaded to Him, and he contended with the Angel and overcame. He found us at Bethel, and He spoke with us there,


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For this reason, you return to your God; keep kindness and judgment, and call on your God continually.


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And Ephraim said, I am rich; I have found much wealth for myself. In all my labors they shall find in me no iniquity that is sin.


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And I am Jehovah, your God from the land of Egypt; yet I will make you live in tents, as in the days of meeting.


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I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions; and by the hand of the prophets use parables.


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Is Gilead evil? Surely they have been vanity. They sacrificed bulls in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the field.


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And Jacob fled into the field of Syria, and Israel served for a wife; yea, he shepherded for a wife.


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Ephraim has provoked Me to anger most bitterly. And He shall leave his blood to him, and his Lord shall turn his reproach to him.


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And now they sin more and more, and they have made themselves a molten image of their silver, idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen. They say to them, Let men, those who sacrifice, kiss calves.


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So they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passes away, as chaff storm driven from the threshing floor, and as the smoke out of the window.


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Yet I am Jehovah, your God from the land of Egypt; and you shall know no other gods than Me. For there is no Savior besides Me.


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According to their pasture, so they were filled. They were filled, and their heart was lifted up. On account of this they have forgotten Me.


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I will meet them like a bereaved bear, and I will tear the lining of their heart; and as a lion, I will devour them there; the beast of the field shall tear them.


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Where is your king now, that he may save you in all your cities? And where are your judges of whom you said, Give to me a king and rulers?


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The pangs of one giving birth shall come to him; he is not a wise son, for he cannot stand still in the time of the breaking forth of sons.


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I will ransom them from the hand of Sheol; I will redeem them from death. O death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your ruin? Repentance is hidden from My eyes.


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Though he is fruitful among brothers, an east wind shall come. The wind of Jehovah shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall be ashamed, and his fountain shall be dried up. He shall plunder the treasure of all desirable vessels.


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Samaria shall be desolate, for she has rebelled against her God. They shall fall by the sword, their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women shall be ripped up.


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Take words with you and return to Jehovah. Say to Him, Lift up all iniquity and receive us well, that we may repay with the calves of our lips.


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Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride on horses. We shall not say any more to the work of our hands, Our gods! For in You the fatherless finds mercy.


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His branches shall go out, and his beauty shall be like the olive tree, and his scent as Lebanon to him.


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They who live under his shadow shall return; they shall live like the grain, and blossom like the vine; their memorial shall be as the wine of Lebanon.


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Ephraim shall say, What is it to me any more with idols? I answered him, and I regarded him. I am as a green cypress tree; your fruit is found from Me.


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Who is wise and discerns these things? Who is discerning and knows them? For the ways of Jehovah are right, and the righteous shall walk in them; but transgressors shall stumble in them.


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Hear this, you old men, and give ear, all you people of the land. Has this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?


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What was left by the cutter, the swarming locust ate; and that left of the swarming locust, the locust larvae ate; and that left of the locust larvae, the stripping locust ate.


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Awake, drunkards, and weep. And wail, all wine drinkers, over the grape must, for it is cut off from your mouth.


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For a nation has come up on my land, strong and without number; its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and it has the jaw teeth of a lioness.


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There My vine is desolation, and it has splintered My fig tree. He has stripped it, and thrown it down; its branches grow white.


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The food offering and the drink offering have been cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah's ministers, mourn.


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The field is wasted; the land mourns, for the grain is wasted. The new wine is dried up, the oil tree droops.


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Be withered, farmers, howl, vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field has perished.


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The vine is dried up and the fig tree droops, the pomegranate, and the palm tree, and the apple tree; all the trees of the field are dried up, because joy has dried up from the sons of men.


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Gird up and lament, priests. Howl, ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, ministers of my God. For the food offering and the drink offering are held back from the house of your God.


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Set apart a fast; call a solemn assembly; gather the elders, all those living in the land, into the house of Jehovah your God, and cry to Jehovah.


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Alas for the day! For the day of Jehovah is at hand. And it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.


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The seed shrivels under their clods; the storage bins are laid waste, the granaries are broken down, for the grain has dried up.


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How the beasts groan! The herds of livestock are vexed, for there is no pasture for them. Even the flocks of sheep are perishing.


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O Jehovah, to You I will cry, for the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and has consumed all the trees of the field.


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The beasts of the field also long for You, for the rivers of water are dried up, and the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.


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Blow a ram's horn in Zion, and shout an alarm in My holy mountain. Let all those living in the land tremble. For the day of Jehovah approaches; it is near,


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a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, as the dawn spread out on the mountains, a great and a strong people. There has never been the like, nor shall there ever be again to the years of many generations;


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a fire devours before it, and a flame burns behind it. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them is a desolate wilderness; yea, also there is no escape to them.


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They shall leap like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains, like the noise of flames of fire that devour the chaff, as a strong people set in order for battle.


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They shall run as mighty ones; they shall go up the wall as men of war. And they each go on his way, and they do not change their paths.


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And each does not press his brother; they each go in his paths. And if they fall behind their weapon, they shall not be cut off.


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They shall rush on the city; they shall run on the wall; they shall climb up on the houses; they shall enter in by the windows, like a thief.


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The earth shall quake before them, the heavens shall shake. The sun and moon shall grow dark, and the stars shall gather in their light.


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And Jehovah shall give His voice before His army, for His camp is very great. For he who does His Word is strong. For the day of Jehovah is very great and terrifying, and who can endure it?


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Yet even now turn to Me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning, declares Jehovah.


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Yea, tear your heart, and not your robes; and turn to Jehovah your God. For He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and He pities concerning the evil.


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Who knows if He will turn and have pity and leave a blessing behind Him, a food offering and a drink offering for Jehovah your God?


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Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, gather the elders, gather the children, and those who suck the breasts. Let the bridegroom go out of his room, and the bride out of her room.


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Let the priests, ministers of Jehovah, weep between the porch and the altar; and let them say, Have pity on Your people, O Jehovah, and do not give Your inheritance to shame, for a proverb among those of the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, Where is their God?


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Yea, Jehovah will answer and say to His people, Behold, I will send you grain, and wine, and oil, and you shall be satisfied with it. And I will no more make you a curse among the nations.


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But I will remove the northern army far from you, and I will drive him into a dry and desolated land with his face toward the eastern sea, and his rear toward the western sea. And his stench shall come up, and his ill odor shall come up, because he was doing great things.


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Fear not, beasts of the field, for the pastures of the wilderness grow green, for the tree bears its fruit, the fig tree and the vine give their strength.


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Then be glad, sons of Zion, and rejoice in Jehovah your God. For He has given to you the early rain according to righteousness, and He will cause the rain to come down for you, the early rain and the latter rain in the first month.


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And I will restore to you the years which the swarming locust has eaten, the locust larvae, and the stripping locust, and the cutting locust, My great army which I sent among you.


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And you shall eat fully and be satisfied; and you shall praise the name of Jehovah your God, who has dealt wondrously with you. And My people shall not be ashamed forever.


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And you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am Jehovah your God, and there is no other. And My people shall not be ashamed forever.


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And it shall be afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh. And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.


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The sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the coming of the great and awesome day of Jehovah.


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For it shall be, all who shall call on the name of Jehovah shall be saved. For salvation shall be in Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, as Jehovah has said, and among the survivors whom Jehovah shall call.


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I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will enter into judgment with them there, for My people and My inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations; and they shared out My land.


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And they have cast lots for My people. And they have given a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine, and they drank.


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And also, what are you to Me, Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you restoring repayment to Me? And if you are repaying Me, I will turn your reward on your own head, swiftly, speedily,


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You have also sold the sons of Judah and the sons of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks, that you might remove them far from their border.


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Behold, I am arousing them from the place where you have sold them, and will return your reward on your own head.


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And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far off. For Jehovah has spoken it.


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Proclaim this among the nations: Sanctify a war; awaken the mighty men; let all the men of war draw near; let them come up.


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Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, I am strong.


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Gather yourselves and come, all you nations; and gather yourselves together all around. O Jehovah, bring down Your mighty ones.


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Let the nations be awakened and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat. For there I will sit to judge all the nations all around.


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Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, go down, for the press is full, the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great.


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Multitudes, multitudes in valley of decision! For the day of Jehovah is near in the valley of decision.


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And Jehovah roars from Zion, and He gives His voice from Jerusalem. And the heavens and the earth quake. But Jehovah is a refuge for His people and a fortress to the sons of Israel.


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And you shall know that I am Jehovah your God dwelling in Zion, My holy mountain. And Jerusalem shall be a holy thing, and aliens shall no more pass through her.


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And it shall be in that day, the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the streams of Judah shall flow with waters. And a fountain shall come forth from the house of Jehovah, and it shall water the valley of Shittim.


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Egypt shall be a ruin, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, from violence done to the sons of Judah, whose innocent blood they poured out in their land.


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The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.


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And he said: Jehovah will roar from Zion and utter His voice from Jerusalem. And the pastures of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.


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So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn back from it, for they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron.


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I will also break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the one living in the Valley of Aven, and him who holds the scepter from Beth-eden. And the people of Syria shall go captive to Kir, says Jehovah.


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So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn back from it, for they deported as exiles to deliver up a complete population to Edom.


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And I will cut off Ashdod's dwellers and him who holds the scepter from Ashkelon; and I will turn My hand against Ekron; and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, says the Lord Jehovah.


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So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not turn back from it, for they delivered up as exiles a complete population to Edom and did not remember the covenant of brothers.


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So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn back from it, for he pursued his brother with the sword, and corrupted his compassions, and his anger tore continually, and he kept it, his wrath, forever.


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So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of the sons of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn back from it, for they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead, to make their border larger.


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But I will kindle a fire against the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour its palaces, with a war cry in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the windstorm.


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So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn back from it, for he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime.


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But I will send a fire against Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth. And Moab shall die with uproar, with a war cry, with the sound of the ram's horn.


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So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn back from it; for they despised the Law of Jehovah, and they have not kept His statutes. And their lies after which their fathers walked led them astray.


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So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn back from it, for they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of sandals,


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panting for the dust of the earth to be on the head of the helpless, and turning aside the way of the humble. And a man and his father will go in to the same girl, in order to profane the name of My holiness.


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And they will stretch out beside every altar, and on garments taken in pledge. And they will drink wine of those being fined in the house of God.


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Yet I destroyed the Amorite from before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the great trees. And I destroyed his fruit from above and his roots from below.


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Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt and led you in the wilderness forty years, to possess the land of the Amorite.


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And I raised up from your sons for prophets, and for Nazarites from your young men. Is this not even so, O sons of Israel? declares Jehovah.


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And refuge shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his power, nor shall the mighty deliver his life,


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and he who handles the bow shall not stand, and the swift footed shall not save, and the horse rider shall not save his life.


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And the strong one in his heart among the mighty shall run away naked in that day, declares Jehovah.


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Hear this Word that Jehovah has spoken against you, sons of Israel, against all the family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying:


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You only have I known of all the families of the earth. On account of this, I will punish you for all your iniquities.


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Will a lion roar in the forest when there is no prey for him? Will a young lion cry out of his den except he has caught something?


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Will a bird fall into a trap on the ground, and there is no bait for it? Will a trap spring up from the ground, and nothing at all be caught?


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If a ram's horn is blowing in a city, will the people not also tremble? If there is a calamity in a city, has Jehovah not even done it?


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Make it heard at the palaces in Ashdod, and at the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Gather yourselves on the mountains of Samaria and see many panics in its midst, and oppressions in its midst.


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For they do not know to do right, declares Jehovah, those who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.


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So the Lord Jehovah says this: An enemy! And he shall be all around the land. And he shall bring you down from your fortress, and your palaces shall be plundered.


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So says Jehovah, As the shepherd snatches two legs out of the mouth of the lion, or a piece of an ear, so shall the sons of Israel be snatched, those who dwell in Samaria in a corner of a bed, and in Damascus on a couch.


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For in the day I punish the transgressions of Israel on him, I will also call to account on the altars of Bethel. And the horns of the altar will be cut off and will fall to the ground.


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And I will strike the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall be swept away, declares Jehovah.


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Hear this word, cows of Bashan who are in the mountain of Samaria, who press down the helpless, who crush the poor, who say to their husbands, Bring in, that we may drink.


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The Lord Jehovah has sworn by His holiness that the days are coming that He will lift you up with meat hooks, and the last of you with fishhooks.


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And you shall go out at the breaches, each woman before her. And you shall throw down the high place, declares Jehovah.


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Come into Bethel and transgress; multiply transgressing at Gilgal. And bring your sacrifices for the morning, your tithes for three days;


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and offer a sacrifice of a thanksgiving offering that is leavened. And cry out, call out the voluntary offerings! For so you love to do, sons of Israel, declares the Lord Jehovah.


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And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in your places; and you have not returned to Me, declares Jehovah.


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And I have also withheld the rain from you when it was yet three months to the harvest. And I caused rain to fall on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. One piece was rained on, and the piece where it did not rain was dried up.


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So two or three cities staggered to one city in order to drink water, but they were not satisfied; yet you have not returned to Me, declares Jehovah.


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I have struck you with blasting and mildew. The multitude of your gardens and your vineyards, and your figs, and your olives are devoured by the creeping locust; yet you have not returned to Me, declares Jehovah.


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I have sent a plague among you in the way of Egypt; I have killed your young men with the sword and your horses with captivity. And I have made the stench of your camps to come up even into your nostrils; yet you have not returned to Me, declares Jehovah.


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I have overturned among you, as God overturned Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand plucked out of the burning; yet you have not returned to Me, declares Jehovah.


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So I will do this to you, O Israel: Because of this that I will do to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel.


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For, behold, He who forms mountains and creates the wind and declares to man what His thought is, He who makes the dawn darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth; Jehovah, the God of Hosts, is His name.


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The virgin of Israel has fallen, and will not arise again; she lies forsaken on her land; there is no one raising her up.


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For so says the Lord Jehovah, The city that goes out by a thousand shall have a hundred left. And that which goes out by a hundred shall have ten left in the house of Israel.


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But do not seek Bethel, and do not enter Gilgal, and do not cross over to Beer-sheba; for Gilgal going shall go into exile, and Bethel shall be for nothing.


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Seek Jehovah, and live, that He not break out like a fire on the house of Joseph, and consume, and no one is putting it out for Bethel.


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He who created the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the deep darkness into the morning, and He darkened the day into night; who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the face of the earth, Jehovah is His name;


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So, because of your trampling on the poor, and you take tribute of grain from him; you have built houses of hewn stones, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted desirable vineyards, but you shall not drink wine from them.


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For I know your many transgressions, and your many sins: distressing the just, taking of a bribe, and turning aside the poor in the gate.


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Seek good and not evil, that you may live; and so Jehovah the God of Hosts shall be with you, as you have spoken.


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Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice in the gate. It may be that Jehovah the God of Hosts will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.


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So Jehovah, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says this: Wailing shall be in all streets, and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! Alas! And they shall call the farmer to the mourning, and those knowing wailing to lamentation.


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Woe to those desiring the day of Jehovah! What is this for you? The day of Jehovah is darkness, and not light.


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It is as if a man fled before a lion, and the bear met him. Or he goes into the house and leans his hand against the wall, and a snake bites him.


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Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness, and not light; even very dark, and not any brightness in it?


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Though you offer Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not be pleased; nor will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals.


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Take away from Me the noise of your songs; and I will not hear the melody of your stringed instruments.


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Have you brought near sacrifices and food offerings to Me forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?


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Yea, you have lifted up the booth of your king, and Kiyyun, your images, the star of your gods which you made for yourselves!


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Woe to those at ease in Zion, and those trusting in the mountain of Samaria, those noted as the leader of the nations! And the house of Israel came to them.


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Cross to Calneh and see; and from there go to the great Hamath; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are they better than these kingdoms, or their border than your border?


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who lie on beds of ivory and stretch themselves on their couches; and those eating the lambs from the flock, and bull calves from the midst of the stall;


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those chanting with the mouth of the harp; they invent instruments of song for themselves like David;


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who drink bowls of wine, and they anoint with the best of oils; but they are not grieved for the breaking of Joseph!


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So now they shall go into exile with the first of the exiles, and the feast of those who stretch themselves shall cease.


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The Lord Jehovah has sworn by Himself, declares Jehovah, the God of Hosts: I abhor the pride of Jacob, and hate his palaces; and I will shut up the city and its fullness.


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And his uncle shall lift him up, and he who burns him, to bring out the bones from the house; and he shall say to that one left in the recesses of the house, Are any still with you? And he shall say, No. Then he shall say, Hush! For no one shall mention the name of Jehovah.


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For, behold, Jehovah commands, and He will strike the great house into pieces, and the little house into cracks.


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Shall horses run on the rock? Or will one plow there with oxen? For you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,


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those rejoicing for nothing, those saying, Have we not taken horns to ourselves by our own strength?


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For, behold, I will raise a nation up against you, O house of Israel, declares Jehovah, the God of Hosts. And they shall oppress you from the entrance of Hamath to the torrent of the Arabah.


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The Lord Jehovah made me see this: And, behold, He is forming locusts at the beginning of the coming up of the late grass; even behold, the after growth after the mowings of the king.


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And it happened when it had made an end of eating the vegetation of the land, then I said, Lord Jehovah, I pray, forgive. How can Jacob rise up? For he is small.


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The Lord Jehovah made me to see this: And, behold, the Lord Jehovah was calling to contend by fire. And it consumed the great deep, and it was devouring part of it.


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He made me see this: And, behold, the Lord was standing by the plumb line wall, and a plumb line in His hand.


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And Jehovah said to me, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A plumb line. And the Lord said, Behold, I will set a plumb line in the midst of My people Israel. I will not again pass over him any more.


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And the high places of Isaac shall be desolated, and the holy places of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.


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Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent to Jeroboam, the king of Israel, saying, Amos has plotted against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to endure all his words.


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For so Amos says: Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel going shall go into exile out of his land.


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And Amaziah said to Amos, Seer, go! Flee for yourself into the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and prophesy there.


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But do not again prophesy at Bethel any more, for it is the king's holy place, and it is the royal house.


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Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah, I was not a prophet, nor was I a prophet's son, but I was a herdsman and a tender of sycamore trees.


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And Jehovah took me from behind the flock, and Jehovah said to me, Go, prophesy to My people Israel.


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Now, then, hear the Word of Jehovah: You say, Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not drop words against the house of Isaac.


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So Jehovah says this, Your wife shall be a harlot in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by a line. And you shall die in a defiled land. And Israel going shall go into exile from his land.


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And He said, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. And Jehovah said to me, The end has come on My people Israel; I will not again pass over him any more.


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And they will howl the songs of the temple in that day, declares the Lord Jehovah. The dead bodies shall be many; in every place one shall throw them out, saying, Hush!


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saying, When will the new moon have passed, so that we may buy grain? Or the sabbath, so that we may open the wheat, making smaller the ephah, and making greater the shekel, and to falsify the deceitful balances,


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in order to buy the helpless with silver, and the poor for a pair of sandals, and sell the chaff of the wheat?


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Shall not the land tremble for this, and all who dwell in it mourn? And all of it shall go up like the light, and it shall overflow and sink like the Nile of Egypt.


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And it shall be in that day, declares the Lord Jehovah, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in light of the day.


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And I will turn your feasts to mourning, and all your songs into a dirge. And I will bring up sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head. And I will make it like the mourning for an only one; and the end of it shall be like a bitter day.


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Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord Jehovah, that I will send a famine into the land, not a famine for bread, nor a thirst for water, but rather a famine for hearing the Words of Jehovah.


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And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to east; they shall roam about to seek the Word of Jehovah, and they shall not find it.


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They who swear by the guilt of Samaria, and say, As your God lives, O Dan! And, As the way of Beer-sheba lives! Even they shall fall, and not rise again.


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I saw the Lord standing by the altar. And He said, Strike the capital of the door, and the thresholds will shake; and cut them off on the head of all of them. And I will kill the last of them with the sword. Not one of them who flees will flee, and not a fugitive of them will escape.


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And if they dig through into Sheol, from there My hand will take them. And if they go up to the heavens, from there I will bring them down.


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And if they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out from there. And if they hide from My eyes in the bottom of the sea, from there I will command the serpent, and he will bite them.


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And if they go into exile before their enemies, from there I will command the sword, and it will kill them. And I will set My eyes on them for evil, and not for good.


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And the Lord Jehovah of Hosts is He who touches the earth so that it melts, and all dwelling in it shall mourn. And all of it will rise up like the Nile, and sink down like the Nile of Egypt.


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It is He who builds His staircase in the heavens, and His firmament He has founded, binding the heavens over the earth; He who calls for the seawaters and pours them out on the face of the earth, Jehovah is His name.


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Are you not like the sons of the Ethiopians to Me, O sons of Israel? declares Jehovah. Have I not brought Israel up out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?


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Behold, the eyes of the Lord Jehovah are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth; only that I will not completely destroy the house of Jacob, declares Jehovah.


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For, behold, I will command, and I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations, as one shakes with a sieve; yet not a grain shall fall to the ground.


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All the sinners of My people shall die by the sword, those who say, The evil shall not draw near or confront us.


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In that day I will raise up the booth of David that has fallen, and I will wall up its breaks. And I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as the days of old;


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so that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the nations on whom My name is called, declares Jehovah who is doing this.


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Behold, the days are coming, declares Jehovah, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him who draws along seed. And the mountains shall drop new must, and all the hills will be dissolved.


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And I will bring back the captivity of My people Israel. And they shall build the waste cities, and live in them. And they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine of them. They shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.


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And I will plant them on their land, and they shall never again be pulled up out of their land which I have given to them, says Jehovah your God.


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The vision of Obadiah: So says the Lord Jehovah concerning Edom: We have heard a message from Jehovah, and a messenger is sent among the nations; rise up, and let us rise up against her for battle.


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The pride of your heart has deceived you, dwelling in the clefts of the rock; his dwelling is lofty, saying in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?


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Though you rise high as the eagle, and though you set your nest between the stars, I will bring you down from there, declares Jehovah.


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If thieves came to you, if destroyers by night, how you have been cut off! Would they not have stolen until they had enough? If the grape-gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?


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All the men of your covenant have dismissed you to the border. The men who were at peace with you have deceived you and have prevailed over you. They are setting your bread as a snare under you; there is no understanding in him.


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Shall I not in that day even destroy the wise out of Edom and understanding out of the mount of Esau? declares Jehovah.


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And your mighty ones, Teman, shall be afraid, so that each man from the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter.


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Shame shall cover you from the violence against your brother Jacob, and you shall be cut off forever.


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On the day of your standing on the other side, on the day that the strangers took his force captive, and foreigners entered his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were like one of them.


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But you should not have looked on the day of your brother, on the day of his alienation; nor should you have rejoiced over the sons of Judah in the day of their destruction; nor should you have enlarged your mouth in the day of distress.


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You should not have entered into My people's gate on the day of his calamity; also you should not have looked on his evil on the day of his calamity, nor should you have sent out against his force in the day of his calamity.


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Nor should you have stood on the crossways to cut off those of him who escaped, nor should you have shut up his survivors in the day of distress.


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For the day of Jehovah is near on all the nations: As you have done, it shall be done to you; your reward shall return on your head!


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For as you have drunk on My holy mount, so all the nations shall continually drink. Yea, they shall drink and shall swallow; and they will be as if they had not been.


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But the ones who escaped shall be on Mount Zion, and it shall be holy. And the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.


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And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for straw. And they shall burn among them and consume them. And no survivor shall be to the house of Esau, for Jehovah has spoken.


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And those of Negeb shall possess the mountain of Esau, and the low country of the Philistines. And they shall possess Ephraim's fields, and Samaria's fields. And Benjamin shall possess Gilead.


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And the exiles of this force shall go to the sons of Israel who shall possess the land of the Canaanites to Zarephath; even the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall possess the cities of the Negeb.


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And deliverers shall go up into the mountain of Zion to judge the mountain of Esau, and the kingdom shall be to Jehovah.


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Rise up, go to Nineveh, the great city, and cry out against it; for their evil has come up before Me.


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But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the face of Jehovah. And he went down to Joppa, and he found a ship going to Tarshish. And he gave its fare and went down into it in order to go with them to Tarshish, from before the face of Jehovah.


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But Jehovah hurled a great wind into the sea, and there was a great storm in the sea, and the ship was thought to be broken.


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And the sailors were afraid, and each man cried to his god. And they threw out the ship's articles into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah had gone down into the hold of the ship; and he lay down, and was sound asleep.


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And the chief of the seamen came near to him and said to him, What is it to you, O fast sleeping one? Rise up and cry out to your God! Perhaps our god will notice us, and we will not perish.


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And they said, each man to his companion, Come and let us cast lots, that we may know on whose account this evil occurred to us. And they made lots fall, and the lot fell on Jonah.


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And they said to him, Please tell us on account of whom has this evil occurred to us? What is your work? And from where do you come? What is your country, and of what people are you?


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And he said to them, I am a Hebrew. And I fear Jehovah, the God of Heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land.


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And the men were terrified with fear and said to him, What is this you have done? For the men knew that he was fleeing from before the face of Jehovah, because he had told them.


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And they said to him, What shall we do to you that the sea may be calm from being upon us? For the sea was going on and being stormy.


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And he said to them, Take me up and throw me out into the sea. And the sea will be calm from being upon you. For I know that this great storm is upon you on account of me.


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But the men rowed to return to the dry land, but they were notz able, for the sea was going on and being stormy against them.


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And they cried out to Jehovah, and said, We beseech You, O Jehovah, we beseech You, do not let us perish for this man's life, and do not lay innocent blood on us. For You, O Jehovah, have done as You desired.


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And Jehovah had appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.


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And he said, I cried out to Jehovah from my distress. And He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried for help, and You heard my voice.


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For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current surrounded me; all Your breakers and Your waves passed over me.


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Waters encompassed me, even to my soul; the depth closed around me; seaweed was clinging to my head.


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I went down to the bases of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me forever. But You brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah my God.


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When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah; and my prayer came to You, to Your holy temple.


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but I will sacrifice to You with the voice of thanksgiving; I will fulfill that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to Jehovah!


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Rise up, go to Nineveh, the great city, and cry out to it the proclamation that I am declaring to you.


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And Jonah rose up and went to Nineveh according to the Word of Jehovah. And Nineveh was a great city to God, of three days' journey.


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And Jonah began to enter a day's journey into the city. And he cried out and said, Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be overturned!


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And the men of Nineveh believed in God, and they called a fast and put on sackclothes, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.


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And the word touched even to the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he took his robe from him and covered himself with sackcloth and sat on the ashes.


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And he cried and said in Nineveh by the decree of the king and of his great ones, saying, Do not let man or beast, herd or flock, taste anything; do not let them feed nor let them drink water.


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But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth. And let them call with strength to God. And let them each one turn from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.


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Who knows? He may turn, and God may have pity and turn away from the glow of His anger, that we do not perish.


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And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. And God was compassionate over the evil that He had spoken to do to them, and He did not do it.


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And he prayed to Jehovah, and said, Please, O Jehovah, was this not my word while I was on my own land? On account of this, I fled to Tarshish before, for I knew that You are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and One who repents over calamity.


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And Jonah went out from the city and sat on the east of the city. And he made there a booth for himself and sat under it in the shade until he should see what would happen in the city.


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And Jehovah God appointed a plant, and it came up over Jonah to be shade over his head, in order to deliver him from his misery. And Jonah rejoiced over the plant with great joy.


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But God appointed a worm at the rising of the dawn of the next day, and it struck the plant, and it withered.


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And it happened when the sun shone, God had appointed a scorching east wind; and the sun struck Jonah's head, so that he fainted; and he asked for his life to die. And he said, Better is my death than my life.


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And God said to Jonah, Is your anger rightly kindled over the plant? And he said, My anger is rightly kindled, even to death.


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And Jehovah said, You have had pity on the plant for which you had not labored, nor made it grow, which was the son of a night and perished the son of a night,


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and should I not have pity on Nineveh, the great city in which are more than a hundred and twenty thousand of mankind who do not know between the right and the left hand, and many cattle?


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The Word of Jehovah that was to Micah of Moresheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw on Samaria and Jerusalem:


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Let the peoples hear, all of them. Pay attention, O earth, and its fullness. And let the Lord Jehovah be a witness against you, the Lord from His holy temple.


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For, behold, Jehovah is coming out of His place, and He will come down and walk on the high places of the earth.


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And the mountains shall melt under Him, and the valleys shall cleave themselves, as wax before the fire, as waters poured out on a steep place.


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All this is against the transgression of Jacob, and against the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what are the high places of Judah? Are they not Jerusalem?


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And I will make Samaria into ruins of the field, planting places for a vineyard. And I will pour down her stones into the valley, and I will uncover her foundations.


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And all her carved images shall be beaten to pieces, and all her gifts for harlotry shall be burned with fire. And I will make all her idols a desolation. For she gathered it from the reward of a harlot, and they shall return to the reward of a harlot.


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Because of this I will wail and howl; I will go stripped and naked; I will make a wailing like the jackal, yea, mourn like the daughters of an ostrich.


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For her wounds are incurable; for it has come to Judah; it has reached to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem.


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Pass over to them, O one living in Shaphir, in nakedness of shame. The one living in Zaanan has not gone out; the mourning of Beth-ezel shall take from you its place of standing.


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For be grieved for good, the one living in Maroth, for evil came down from Jehovah to the gate of Jerusalem.


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One living in Lachish, tie the chariot to the stallion; she is the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion, for the transgressions of Israel were found in you.


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So you shall give parting gifts to Moresheth-gath. The houses of Achzib are for a lying thing to the kings of Israel.


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I will bring an heir to you again, O one living in Mareshah. The glory of Israel shall come to Adullam.


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Make yourself bald, and cut off your hair for the sons of your delight. Make your baldness increase like the eagle, for they go into exile from you.


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Woe to those plotting wickedness and preparing evil on their beds! In the light of the morning they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.


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And they covet and seize fields and houses, and carry them away. And they oppress a man and his household, even a man and his inheritance.


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So Jehovah says this: Behold, I am plotting an evil against this family, from which you shall not remove your necks; nor shall you go exalted, for it is an evil time.


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In that day one shall lift up a parable against you and lament a lament of lamenting. He says, We shall be completely laid waste. He has exchanged the share of my people. How He has removed it for me! To the turncoat He has divided the fields.


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Do not drop words as they drop! They shall not drop words about these; they shall not draw back reproaches.


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House of Jacob, it is said, The Spirit of Jehovah is limited, if these are His doings. Do not My Words do good with the one who walks upright?


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Even yesterday My people have risen up like an enemy. You strip off an inner robe from before an outer garment, from those who pass by confidently, those returning from war.


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You have thrown the wives of My people out from the house of her delight; you have taken away My majesty forever from her children.


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Rise up and go! For because of destroying uncleanness, even a grievous destruction, this is not your rest.


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If a man walks with wind, and he lies in deceit, saying, I will drop words to you for wine and for fermented drink, he shall even be a dropper of words for this people.


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Gathering I will gather all of you, Jacob; gathering I will gather the remnant of Israel. I will set him together like the sheep of Bozrah, like a flock in the midst of its fold. They shall be in commotion because of men.


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He breaking up has come before them; they have broken up and have passed through the gate and have gone out of it. And their king shall pass before them, and Jehovah at their head.


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And I said, Heads of Jacob and magistrates of the house of Israel, please hear. Is it not for you to know justice?


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who also eat the flesh of My people, and cause their skin to come off from them; yea, they break their bones and shatter, like that in the pot, and as flesh in the midst of the kettle.


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Then they shall cry out to Jehovah, but He will not answer them. He will even hide His face from them in that time, as they have done evil in their doings.


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So says Jehovah concerning the prophets who make My people err, who bite with their teeth and call out, Peace! And whoever does not give for their mouth, they even sanctify a war against him.


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So a night shall be for you apart from vision; and darkness apart from divining. And the sun shall go down on the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.


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And the seers shall be ashamed, and those divining shall blush, all of them; yea, they shall cover over their mustache, for there is no answer from God.


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But by the Spirit of Jehovah I am full of power and justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression, and his sin to Israel.


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Please hear this, heads of the house of Jacob, and magistrates of the house of Israel, you who abhor justice and pervert all equity,


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Her leaders judge for a bribe, and her priests teach for pay, and her prophets divine for silver; yet they will lean on Jehovah, saying, is not Jehovah among us? No evil shall come on us!


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Therefore, on account of you, Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house into high places of the forest.


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But it shall be in the end of the days, the mountain of the house of Jehovah shall be established on the top of the mountains; and it shall be lifted up from the hills; and peoples shall flow on it.


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And many nations shall come and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, and to the house of the God of Jacob. And He will teach us from His ways, and we will walk in His paths. For the Law shall go forth out of Zion, and the Word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.


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And He shall judge between many peoples, and will decide for strong nations afar off. And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, nor shall they learn war still.


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But they shall each one sit under his vine and under his fig tree, and there shall be no trembling. For the mouth of Jehovah of Hosts has spoken.


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For all the peoples walk, each one in the name of his god; but we will walk in the name of Jehovah our God forever and ever.


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In that day I will gather the lame, declares Jehovah, and I will gather the banished, and the one I have afflicted.


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And I will set the lame in place into a remnant, and her who was cast off into a strong nation. And Jehovah shall reign over them in Mount Zion from now on, and to forever.


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And you, tower of the flock, the hill of the daughter of Zion, it shall happen to you. And the dominion of the chief ones shall come, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.


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Now why do you cry aloud, an outcry? Is there not a king among you? Has your adviser perished? For pangs have seized you like one giving birth.


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Be in pain and deliver, daughter of Zion, like one giving birth. For now you shall go out from the city, and you shall live in the field. And you shall come to Babylon. There you shall be snatched back. There Jehovah shall redeem you from the hand of your enemies.


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Now also many nations are gathered against you, saying, Let her be defiled, and let our eyes look on Zion.


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But they do not know the plans of Jehovah, nor do they understand His counsel. For He has gathered them like the sheaf to the threshing floor.


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Rise up and thresh, O daughter of Zion, for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs bronze, and you shall crush many peoples. And I will devote their gain to Jehovah, and their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.


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Now gather yourself together, daughter of a troop; one sets a siege against us. They shall strike the Judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.


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And you, Bethlehem Ephratah, being least among the thousands of Judah, out of you He shall come forth to Me to become One ruling in Israel; and His goings forth have been from of old, from the days of eternity.


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So He will give them over until the time the one giving birth has given birth. Then the rest of His brothers shall return to the sons of Israel.


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And He shall stand and feed in the strength of Jehovah, in the majesty of the name of Jehovah His God. And they shall sit, for now He is great to the ends of the earth.


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And this One shall be peace. When Assyria shall come into our land, and when he shall walk in our palaces, then we shall raise against him seven shepherds and eight anointed ones of man.


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And they shall depasture the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod at her entrances. And He shall deliver us from Assyria, when he comes into our land, and when he treads within our border.


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And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples as dew from Jehovah, as showers on a blade of grass, which does not wait for man, nor delay for the sons of men.


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And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep (who both tramples and tears in pieces if he passes through) and there is no one to snatch back.


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And it shall be in that day, I will cut off your horses out of your midst, and I will destroy your chariots, declares Jehovah.


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And I also will cut off your graven images and your pillars from your midst. And you shall not any more worship the work of your hands.


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Mountains, and you enduring foundations of the earth, hear the contention of Jehovah, for Jehovah has a quarrel with His people, and He will dispute with Israel.


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For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of slaves; and I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam before you.


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My people, remember now what Balak, king of Moab, planned; and what Balaam, the son of Beor, answered him from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you may know the righteousnesses of Jehovah.


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With what shall I come before Jehovah, to bow myself before the loftiness of God? Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, with calves, sons of a year?


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Will Jehovah be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of torrents of oil? Shall I give my first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?


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O man, He has declared to you what is good. And what does Jehovah require of you, but to do justice, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?


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The voice of Jehovah calls out to the city; and one of sound wisdom will see Your name. Hear the rod, and Him who appointed it.


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Are there yet in the house of the wicked the treasures of wickedness, and a cursed ephah of leanness?


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For her rich ones are full of violence, and ones living in her speak a lie, and their tongue is deceit in their mouth.


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You shall eat, but not be satisfied, and your sinking shall be in your midst; and you will move back, but shall not keep safe; and that which you keep safe, I will give to the sword.


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You shall sow, but you shall not reap. You shall tread the olive, but you shall not anoint with oil; and new wine, but shall not drink wine.


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And one has kept himself as to the statutes of Omri and all the works of the house of Ahab. And you walk in their counsels, so that I may give you for a horror, and ones living in her for a hissing. And you shall bear the shame of My people.


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Woe to me! For I am like the gatherings of summer fruit, like the gleanings of the vintage. There is no cluster to eat; my soul desires the early fig.


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The pious has perished from the earth, and the upright is not among mankind. All of them lie in wait for blood; each one hunts his brother with a net.


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Both hands are on evil, to do it well. The ruler is asking for a bribe, also the judge. And the great one speaks the lust of his soul; he acts, and they weave it together.


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The best of them is like a thorn; the upright more than a hedge of thorns. The day of your watchers, your visitation is coming; now their shame shall be.


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Put no faith in a companion; put no trust in a friend; keep the door of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom;


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for a son despises his father; a daughter rises up against her mother; the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man's enemies are the men of his house.


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Rejoice not against me, my enemy; for if I fall, I shall arise. For if I sit in darkness, Jehovah is a light to me.


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I will bear the fury of Jehovah because I have sinned against Him, until He judges my case and brings forth justice for me. He will bring me out to the light; I shall see His righteousness.


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And my enemy shall see; and shame shall cover her, the one saying to me, Where is He, Jehovah your God? My eyes shall see her. Now she shall be for a trampling, as the mud of the streets.


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That day he shall come even to you from Assyria and the besieged cities, and from the siege even to the River, and from sea to sea, and mountain to mountain.


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Feed Your people with Your rod, the flock of Your possession, dwelling alone in the thicket, amidst Carmel. Let them pasture in Bashan and Gilead, as in days of old.


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As the days of your coming out from the land of Egypt, I will cause him to see extraordinary things.


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The nations shall see and be ashamed from all their might. They shall set the hand on their mouth; their ears shall be deaf.


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They shall lick the dust like a snake; they shall tremble out of their holes like crawlers of the earth; they shall dread Jehovah our God; they shall fear from You.


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Who is a God like You, forgiving iniquity and passing by the transgression of the remnant of His possession? He does not make strong His anger forever, for He delights in grace.


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He will return to pity us; He will subdue our iniquities. Yea, You will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.


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You will give faithfulness to Jacob, kindness to Abraham, which You have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.


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God is jealous, and Jehovah is avenging, Jehovah is avenging and is a possessor of wrath. Jehovah takes vengeance against His foes, and He keeps wrath against His enemies.


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Jehovah takes long to anger, and is great of power, and He does not by any means acquit the guilty. Jehovah has His way in the tempest and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of His feet.


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He rebukes the sea and makes it dry, and dries up the rivers. Bashan and Carmel wither, and the flower of Lebanon withers.


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The mountains quake from Him, and the hills melt; and the earth is lifted up from before Him, even the world and all who dwell in it.


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Who can stand before His fury? And who can rise against the heat of His anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken down because of Him.


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But with a flood passing through, He will make a complete end of its place, and darkness shall pursue His enemies.


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What are you plotting against Jehovah? He will make an utter end; distress shall not rise up a second time.


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For as thorns are woven together, and as their drunkards are drunken, they shall be devoured like fully dried straw.


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So says Jehovah, Though secure, and so many, yet they will be cut off and will vanish. And though I have afflicted you, I will not afflict you any more.


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And Jehovah has commanded concerning you. Not one of your name shall be sown any more; I will cut off the carved image and the molten image out of the house of your gods; I will appoint your grave, for you are despised.


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Behold! The feet of Him bearing good news is on the mountains, making heard, Peace! O Judah, celebrate your feasts; fulfill your vows; for the worthless will not continue to pass through among you; he is completely cut off.


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The one scattering is coming up against your face. Guard the rampart; watch the way; make the loins strong, firm up your power exceedingly.


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For Jehovah has turned the glory of Jacob as the glory of Israel. For the plunderers have plundered them and have destroyed their vine branches.


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The shield of his mighty ones has become red, the mighty men are clothed in scarlet, the chariots will flame like iron torches in the day of preparation, and the cypresses are made to quiver.


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The chariots run madly in the streets; they shall rush to and fro in the plazas. Their appearance is like torches; they dart about like the lightnings.


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He shall remember its nobles; they shall stumble in their walking; they shall hurry to its wall, and the covering shall be set up.


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And she who stood firm is uncovered and caused to go away; and her slave -girls are moaning like the sound of doves, beating on their breast.


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And Nineveh is like a pool of water from her days; yet they are fleeing. They cry, Stand! Stand! But no one turns himself.


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Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! For there is no end to the treasures, riches from all precious objects.


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She is empty, even waste, even devastated. And the heart is melted, and the knees knocking; and trembling is in all the loins; and all of their faces collect heat.


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Where is the den of the lions and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion, and the lioness, and the lion's cub walked, and none shall terrify them?


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The lion tears in pieces, enough for his cubs, and strangles for his lionesses, and has filled his holes with prey, even his lairs with torn prey.


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Behold, I am against you, declares Jehovah of Hosts; and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions. And I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers shall not be heard any more.


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The sound of a whip, and the sound of rattling of a wheel, and a galloping horse, and of a bounding chariot.


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The horseman lifts up both the gleam of the sword and the lightning of the spear, and many are slain, and there are a mass of dead bodies, and no end of corpses; they stumble on their dead bodies,


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because of the many harlotries of the well favored harlot, the mistress of sorceries who sells nations by her harlotries, and families by her sorceries.


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Behold, I am against you, declares Jehovah of Hosts, and I will uncover your skirts over your face, and I will cause the nations to see your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.


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And it shall be that all those who look on you shall flee from you and shall say, Nineveh is laid waste; who shall weep for her? From where shall I seek comforters for you?


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Are you better than No Amon that dwelt among the Nile branches, waters surrounding her, whose rampart was the sea, the waters her wall?


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Yet she went into exile; she went into captivity. Also her young ones were dashed to pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honored ones, and all her great ones were bound in chains.


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All your fortresses are fig trees with the firstfruits; if they are shaken, then they shall fall on the mouth of the eater.


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Behold, your people are women in your midst; the gates of your land shall surely be opened to your enemies; the fire shall devour your bars.


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Draw water of the siege for you! Strengthen your fortifications! Go into the clay and tread in the mortar! Make the mold strong!


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Fire will devour you there. The sword shall cut you off. It will eat you up like the locust larvae. Make yourself as many as the larvae; multiply yourself like the locusts.


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You have increased your merchants above the stars of the heavens; the locust larvae shall strip off and fly away.


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Your princes are like the locusts, and your officials are a swarm of locusts that camp in the hedges in the cold day. The sun rises and they flee, and the place where they are is not known.


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Your shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria; your nobles are lying down. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and no one is gathering.


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There is no healing for your fracture; your wound is severe. All who hear of your report shall clap the hand over you, for on whom has your wickedness not continually passed?


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O Jehovah, until when shall I cry for help, and You will not hear? I cry out to You, Violence! But You do not save.


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Why do You make me see evil, and You look upon toil? For destruction and violence are before me; and there is strife, and contention rises up.


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On account of this the law has become feeble, and justice does not go forth with continuity. For the wicked surrounds the righteous, so justice goes forth, being perverted.


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Look among the nations and see, and be amazed. Be amazed! For a work is working in your days which you will not believe, though it be told to you.


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For, behold, I raise up the Chaldeans, the bitter and impetuous nation which is going into the broad spaces of the land, to possess dwellings not his own.


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His horses also are swifter than leopards and are fiercer than the evening wolves. And their horsemen spread themselves; yea, their horsemen come from afar; they shall fly as the eagle hurrying to eat.


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All of him shall come for violence; the eagerness of their faces is forward; and they gather captives like the sand.


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And he shall scoff against the kings, and officials shall be a scorn to him. He shall scorn every fortress, and he shall heap up dirt and capture it.


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Then he sweeps on like a wind; and he passes on and is guilty, crediting this power of his to his god.


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Are You not from aforetime, Jehovah our God, my Holy One? We shall not die, Jehovah, for You have appointed him for judgment. And, my Rock, You have established him for correction.


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You are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and You are not able to look upon vexation. Why do you look on those who deal deceitfully? Will You be silent when the wicked swallows one more righteous than he?


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He takes up all of him with the hook; he drags him with his net and gathers him with his seine. On account of this he rejoices and exults.


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So he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his seine; because by them his portion is fat, and his food rich.


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I will stand on my guard and set myself on the tower, and watch to see what He will say against me, and what I shall return on my rebuke.


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And Jehovah answered me and said, Write the vision and engrave it on the tablets, that he who reads it may run.


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For the vision is still for the appointed time, but it breathes to the end, and it does not lie. Though it delays, wait for it, because coming it will come; it will not tarry.


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And also, wine indeed betrays a proud man, and he dwells not at home; who widens his soul like Sheol. And he is like death, and is not satisfied, but gathers all the nations to himself, and collects all the peoples to himself.


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Shall not all of these lift up a parable against him, and a mocking riddle to him, and say, Woe to him who increases what is not his! Until when, then, shall he load the pledges on himself?


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Shall not those who bite you rise up suddenly, and those who shake you be aroused, and you become a prize to him?


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Because you have plundered many nations, all the rest of the people shall plunder you, because of the blood of men and the violence of the land, and the city, and all those dwelling in it.


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Woe to him who robs evil booty for his house, to set his nest on high, to be snatched from the hand of evil!


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You have advised shame for your house, to make an end of many peoples, and are sinning in your soul.


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Behold, is it not for Jehovah of Hosts that the people labor only for fire? Yea, nations weary themselves only for vanity.


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For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Jehovah, as the waters cover the sea.


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Woe to him who causes his friend to drink, joining with your bottle, and also making him drunk, so as to look upon their nakedness!


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You are filled with shame instead of glory; you drink also, and will be seen as uncircumcised. The cup of the right hand of Jehovah shall turn on you, and disgrace shall be your glory.


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For the violence of Lebanon shall cover you, and the ruin of beasts shall terrify them because of the blood of men and the violence of the land, the city, and all those dwelling in it.


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What does an image profit, for its maker has carved it; a molten image, and a teacher of falsehood? For does the maker trust in his work on it, to make mute idols?


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Woe to him who says to the wood, Awake! To a mute stone, Rise up, it shall teach! Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, but no breath is in its midst.


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Jehovah, I have heard Your report; I am afraid, Jehovah. Give new life to Your work in the midst of years, in the midst of years make known; in anger remember compassion.


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God comes from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. His majesty covers the heavens, and His praise fills the earth.


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And His brightness is as the light; rays from His hand are His, and there was a covering of His strength.


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He stood and measured the earth; He looked and shook nations; and the ancient mountains were shattered; the eternal hills bowed down. The goings of eternity are His.


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Did Jehovah burn against rivers? Or was Your anger against the rivers? Or Your fury against the sea? For You ride on horses; Your chariots of salvation.


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You bare Your bow, naked according to the oaths of the tribes of Your Word. Selah. You have cut through the earth with rivers.


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They saw You; mountains whirled. The storm of water gushed. The deep gave its voice and lifted up its hands on high.


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The sun and moon stood still in their dwelling. At the light of Your arrows they go, at the shining of Your gleaming spear.


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You went forth for the salvation of Your people, for the salvation of Your anointed. You struck the head from the house of the wicked to bare the foundation to the neck. Selah.


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You pierced the head of his warriors with his shafts. They rush to scatter me; their exultation is to devour the humble in a secret place.


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I heard, and my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the sound. Rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled within myself that I might rest for the day of distress; to come up against the peoples; he cuts him off.


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Though the fig tree shall not blossom, and fruit is not on the vines; the work of the olive fails, and the fields make no food; the flock is cut off from the fold, and no herd is in the stalls,


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Jehovah the Lord is my might, and He sets my feet like hinds' feet, and He will make me to walk on my high places. To the chief singer, on my stringed instruments.


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The Word of Jehovah which was 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 gather away man and beast: I will gather away the birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea, and the stumbling-blocks, even the wicked. And I will cut off man from the face of the ground, declares Jehovah.


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I will also stretch out My hand on Judah and on all those dwelling in Jerusalem. And I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, the name of the idol worshipers, with the priests;


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and those bowing to the host of the heavens on the housetops; and those bowing, swearing to Jehovah, also swearing by Malcham,


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Be silent before the face of the Lord Jehovah, for the day of Jehovah is near. For Jehovah has appointed a sacrifice; He has consecrated ones He called.


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And it shall be in the day of the sacrifice of Jehovah, I will punish the rulers and the king's sons, and all those clothed in foreign clothing.


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And I will punish all those who leap on the threshold in that day, who fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.


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And it shall be in that day, declares Jehovah, the sound of a cry from the Fish Gate, and a howling from the Second, and a great breaking from the hills.


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Howl, those living in Maktesh, for all the people of Canaan have perished; all those carrying silver are cut off.


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And it shall be in that time, I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and punish the men being settled on their lees; who say in their heart, Jehovah will not do good, nor will He do evil.


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And their goods shall become a prize, and their houses a waste. They shall also build houses, but not live there. And they shall plant vineyards, but not drink their wine.


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The great day of Jehovah is near; it is near and rushing greatly, the sound of the day of Jehovah. The mighty man shall cry out bitterly there.


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That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and pressure, a day of waste and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness,


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And I will bring distress to men, and they shall walk like the blind, because they have sinned against Jehovah. And their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh like dung.


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Their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Jehovah. But all the earth shall be consumed by the fire of His jealousy. For He shall make a complete, yea, a speedy end of all those living in the land.


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before the birth of the decree, the day shall pass like the chaff, yet not before the hot anger of Jehovah comes on you, yet not before the day of the anger of Jehovah comes on you.


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Seek Jehovah, all the meek of the earth who have done His justice; seek righteousness; seek meekness. It may be you shall be hidden in the day of the anger of Jehovah.


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For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a ruin. They shall drive Ashdod out at the noonday, and Ekron shall be rooted up.


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Woe to those living in the seacoast, the nation of the Cherethites! The Word of Jehovah is against you, Canaan, the land of the Philistines; I will destroy you so there shall not be an inhabitant.


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And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed on them. In the houses of Ashkelon, they shall lie down in the evening, for Jehovah their God shall visit them and return their captivity.


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I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the sons of Ammon, with which they have reviled My people and have magnified themselves on their border.


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Therefore, as I live, declares Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the sons of Ammon like Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and a pit of salt, and a ruin forever. The remnant of My people shall plunder them, and the rest of the nation shall possess them.


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They shall have this for their pride, because they have cursed and magnified themselves against the people of Jehovah of Hosts.


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Jehovah will be frightening to them, for He will make lean all the gods of the earth. Each man from his place and all the coastlands of the nations will bow to Him.


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And He will stretch out His hand against the north, and destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, dry like the desert.


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And flocks shall lie down in her midst; all the beasts of a nation; both the pelican and the bittern shall lodge in the capitals of its pillars. A voice shall sing at the window; ruin shall be at the doorsill; for the cedar work He will bare.


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This is the joyful city, dwelling confidently, who says in her heart, I am, and there is yet no other. How she has become a ruin, a restingplace for animals! Everyone who passes near her shall hiss; he shall shake his hand!


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She did not listen to the voice; she did not receive correction; she did not trust in Jehovah; she did not draw near to her God.


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Her rulers within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they do not gnaw bones for the morning.


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Her prophets are proud, men of deceit; her priests have profaned the sanctuary; they have done violence to the Law.


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The righteous Jehovah is in her midst; He will not act perversely. Every morning He gives His justice to the light; He does not fail, but the unjust knows no shame.


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I have cut off nations; their towers are ruined. I made their streets waste, so that none passes by. Their cities are laid waste, without a man, from there being not one living there.


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I said, Surely you will fear Me; you will receive instruction; then her dwelling shall not be cut off, all that I appointed for her. But they rose up early; they corrupted all their doings.


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Therefore, wait for Me, declares Jehovah, for the day I rise up to the prey. For My judgment is to gather the nations, for Me to gather the kingdoms, to pour My fury out on them, all My hot anger. For all the earth shall be burned up with the fire of My jealousy.


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For then I will give a clear lip to the peoples, to call all of them by the name of Jehovah, to serve Him with one shoulder.


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From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, My worshipers, the daughter of My scattered ones, shall bring My food offering.


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In that day you shall not be ashamed from all your doings in which you have transgressed against Me. For then I will take away those who rejoice in your pride out of your midst, and you shall not again be proud any more in My holy mountain.


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I will also leave a poor and weak people in your midst, and they shall trust in the name of Jehovah.


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The remnant of Israel shall not do injustice, nor speak lies. And a deceitful tongue shall not be found in their mouth. For they shall feed and lie down, and no one shall frighten them.


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Shout for joy, daughter of Zion; shout, Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all the heart, daughter of Jerusalem!


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Jehovah has turned off your judgments; He has turned away your enemy. Jehovah, the King of Israel, is in your midst; you shall not fear evil any more.


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Jehovah your God is mighty in your midst; He will save. He will rejoice over you with joy; He is silent in His love. He rejoices over you with a joyful shout.


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I will gather the afflicted ones from the appointed place; they were from you, a lifting up of reproach over her.


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Behold, at that time I will deal with all those who afflict you. And I will save her who is lame, and gather her who was thrust out. And I will give them for a praise and for a name in all the land of their shame.


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In that time I will bring you, even in the time I gather you. For I will give you for a name and for a praise among all the peoples of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, says Jehovah.


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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 Jehovah 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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So speaks Jehovah of Hosts, saying, This people says, The time has not come, the time for the house of Jehovah to be built.


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You have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, but are not satisfied; you drink, but not to be filled; you dress, but there is no warmth to one. Yea, one hiring out himself hires out himself for a bag of holes.


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Go up the mountain and bring wood and build this house. And I will be pleased with it, and I will be glorified, says Jehovah.


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You looked for much, and, behold, little! And when you brought it home, then I blew on it. Why, declares Jehovah of Hosts? Because of My house that is ruined, and you, each man, run to his own house.


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On account of this, the heavens above you have held back the dew, and the earth is held back from her produce.


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And I called for a drought in the land, and on the mountains, and on the grain, and on the new wine, and on the oil, and on that which the ground produces, and on man, and on livestock, and on all the labor of your hands.


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


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And Haggai, the messenger of Jehovah, spoke the message of Jehovah to the people, saying, I am with you, says Jehovah.


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And Jehovah 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 Jehovah of Hosts, their God,


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In the seventh month, on the twenty-first of the month, the Word of Jehovah was by Haggai the prophet, saying,


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Now speak 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 her former glory? And how do you see it now? When compared to it, is it not as nothing in your eyes?


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Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, says Jehovah. And be strong, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. And be strong and work, all people of the land, says Jehovah. For I am with you, declares Jehovah of Hosts,


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with the Word by whom I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt, so My Spirit stands among you; do not fear.


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For so says Jehovah of Hosts: Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land.


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And I will shake all the nations; and the desire of all nations shall come. And I will fill this house with glory, says Jehovah of Hosts.


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The glory of this latter house shall be greater than that of the former, says Jehovah of Hosts. And in this place I will give peace, says Jehovah of Hosts.


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In the twenty-fourth of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the Word of Jehovah came to Haggai the prophet, saying,


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Behold, one bears holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and touches his skirt to the bread, or boiled food, or wine, or oil, or any food, will it become holy? And the priests answered and said, No.


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And Haggai said, If the unclean of body touches these, is it unclean? And the priests answered and said, It is unclean.


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And Haggai answered and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before Me, declares Jehovah. And so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.


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And now set your heart on it. From this day and onward: before the placing of a stone on a stone in the temple of Jehovah;


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from then onward, one came to a heap of twenty measures, and there were but ten. One came to the wine vat to draw out fifty from the wine trough, and there were but twenty.


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I struck you with blight, and with mildew, and with hail, in all the labors of your hands; yet you did not turn to Me, says Jehovah.


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Now set your heart from this day and forward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the day that Jehovah's temple was established. Set your heart:


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Is the seed still in the barn? Yes, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree have not brought forth. From this day I will bless them.


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And I will overturn the throne of the kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations. And I will overturn the chariots and their riders, and the horses and their riders will come down, each one by the sword of his brother.


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In that day, says Jehovah of Hosts, I will take you, O Zerubbabel, My servant, the son of Shealtiel, says Jehovah, and will make you like a signet; for I have chosen you, declares Jehovah of Hosts.


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


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And you say to them, So says Jehovah of Hosts: Turn back to Me, says Jehovah of Hosts, and I will turn back to you, says Jehovah of Hosts.


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Do not be as your fathers, to whom the former prophets have proclaimed to them, saying, So says Jehovah of Hosts: Turn back now from your evil ways and your evil doings. But they did not hear or pay attention to Me, says Jehovah.


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But My Words and My statutes which I commanded My servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? And they turned back and said, As Jehovah of Hosts purposes to do to us, according to our ways and according to our doings, so He has done with us.


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On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, it is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the Word of Jehovah was to Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,


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I saw at night. And, behold! A Man riding on a red horse. And He stood among the myrtle trees in the ravine. And behind Him were red, sorrel, and white horses.


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Then I said, My lord, what are these? And the angel who was speaking with me said to me, I will show you what these are.


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And the Man who stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are those whom Jehovah has sent to walk to and fro through the earth.


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And they answered the Angel of Jehovah who stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sits still and is at rest.


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And the Angel of Jehovah answered and said, O Jehovah of Hosts, until when will You not have pity on Jerusalem, and on the cities of Judah, against which You have abhorred these seventy years?


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So the angel who was talking with me said to me, Cry out, saying, So says Jehovah of Hosts: I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion, with a great jealousy.


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And with great anger I am angered at the nations at ease; in that I was but a little angry, and they gave help for evil.


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So Jehovah says this: I have returned to Jerusalem with compassions; My house shall be built in it, says Jehovah of Hosts, and a line shall be stretched over Jerusalem.


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Cry out again, saying, So says Jehovah of Hosts: My cities shall again overflow with goodness, and Jehovah shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.


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And I said to the angel who was talking with me, What are these? And he answered me, These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.


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And I said, What are these coming to do? And He spoke, saying, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man lifts up his head. But these have come to terrify them, to throw down the horns of the nations who lifted up their horn over the land of Judah, to scatter it.


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And I said, Where are you going? And 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 dwell like unwalled villages, for the multitude of men and livestock in her midst.


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And I will be to her a wall of fire all around, and I will be for glory in her midst, declares Jehovah.


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Ho! Ho! Flee then from the land of the north, says Jehovah. For I have scattered you as the four winds of the heavens, declares Jehovah.


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For so says Jehovah of Hosts: He has sent Me after glory, to the nations who plundered you; for he who touches you touches the pupil of His eye.


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For, behold, I will shake My hand over them, and they shall be a prize for their servants. And you shall know that Jehovah has sent Me.


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And many nations shall be joined to Jehovah in that day, and they shall be My people. And I will dwell among you; and you shall know that Jehovah of Hosts has sent Me to you.


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And he made me see Joshua the high priest standing before the Angel of Jehovah, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.


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And Jehovah said to Satan, Jehovah rebuke you, Satan! And, Jehovah who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is this not a brand plucked out of the fire?


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And He answered and spoke to those who stood before Him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And He said to him, Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you, and I will clothe you with ceremonial robes.


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And I said, Let them set a clean turban on his head. And they set a clean turban on his head and clothed him with clothing. And the Angel of Jehovah stood by.


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So says Jehovah of Hosts: If you will walk in My ways, and if you will keep My charge, then you shall also judge My house, and shall also keep My courts, and I will give you room to walk among these who stand by.


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Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, you and your associates who are sitting before you; for they are men of symbol.


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For, behold, I will bring forth My Servant, the BRANCH. For behold, the stone which I have given before Joshua, on the one stone are seven eyes. I will engrave its engraving, says Jehovah of Hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.


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In that day, says Jehovah of Hosts, you shall call each man to his neighbor to sit under the vine and under the fig tree.


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And the angel who was speaking with me returned and awakened me, as a man is awakened out of his sleep.


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And he said to me, What do you see? And I said, I see, and behold, a lampstand, all of it gold, and a bowl on its top, and its seven lamps on it, and seven spouts each to the seven lamps on its top;


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And the angel who was speaking with me answered and said to me, Do you not know what these are? And I said, No, my lord.


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Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, This is the Word of Jehovah to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, says Jehovah of Hosts.


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Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain. And he shall bring forth the capstone with shouts: 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 shall know that Jehovah of Hosts has sent me to you.


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For who has despised the day of small things? For they shall rejoice and shall see the plummet stone in the hand of Zerubbabel. These seven are the eyes of Jehovah; they run to and fro through all the earth.


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And I answered and said to him, What are these two olive trees on the right of the lampstand, and on its left?


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And I answered a second time and said to him, What are the two clusters of olive trees beside the two golden pipes, emptying the golden oil from themselves?


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And he said to me, What do you see? And I answered, I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits, and its width ten cubits.


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And he said to me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole earth. For from now on everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it; and everyone who swears from now on shall be cut off according to it.


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And I will bring it forth, says Jehovah of Hosts. And it shall go into the house of the thief, and into the house of the one who swears falsely by My name. And it shall remain within his house and shall finish it, and its timber, and its stones.


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Then the angel who was speaking with me went out, and said to me, Now lift up your eyes and see what this is that goes forth.


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And I said, What is it? And he said, This is the ephah that goes forth. And he said, This is their form in all the earth.


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And he said, This is wickedness. And he threw her into the midst of the ephah; and he threw the lead stone over its opening.


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And I lifted up my eyes and looked. And, behold, two women came out. And the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of the stork. And they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heavens.


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And he said to me, To build a house for it in the land of Shinar; and it shall be made ready and placed there on its own place.


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And again my eyes lifted up and looked, and, behold, four chariots were coming from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of bronze.


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And the angel answered and said to me, These are the four spirits of Heaven who go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth.


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The black horses in it go into the north country, and the white go after them; and the dappled ones go toward the south country.


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And the strong colored ones went forth and sought to go, to walk to and fro in the earth. And he said, Go! Walk to and fro in the earth. So they walked to and fro in the earth.


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And he cried out to me, and spoke to me, saying, Behold, these who go toward the north country have caused My Spirit to rest in the north country.


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Take from Heldai, from Tobijah, and from Jedaiah, from the exiles who have come from Babylon; and in that day you go and enter into the house of Josiah, the son of Zephaniah.


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And take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set on the head of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest.


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And speak to him, saying, So says Jehovah of Hosts, saying, Behold! The Man whose name is THE BRANCH! And He shall spring up out of His place, and He shall build the temple of Jehovah.


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Even He shall build the temple of Jehovah; and He shall bear the majesty, 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 the two of them.


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


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And the distant ones shall come and build in the temple of Jehovah. And you shall know that Jehovah of Hosts has sent me to you. And this shall be, if listening you will listen to the voice of Jehovah your God.


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And in the fourth year of King Darius, the Word of Jehovah was to Zechariah, in the fourth of the ninth month, in Chislev.


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And Sharezer and Regem-melech, and his men, had sent to Bethel to seek the favor of the face of Jehovah,


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to speak to the priests who belong to the house of Jehovah of Hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, consecrating myself as I have done these 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 seventh months, even those seventy years, did you truly fast to Me, even to Me?


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Are not these the Words which Jehovah proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited, and prosperous with her cities all around her, and the Negeb and the Shephelah were inhabited?


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So says Jehovah of Hosts, saying, Judge true judgment, and practice kindness and pity, each man with his brother.


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And do not oppress the widow, or the fatherless, the alien, or the poor. And do not devise evil in your heart, of a man against his brother.


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But they refused to listen, and gave a stubborn shoulder, and they made their ears heavy from hearing.


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And they made their heart adamant from hearing the Law and the Words which Jehovah of Hosts has sent by the former prophets through His Spirit. And great wrath was from Jehovah of Hosts.


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And it will be, just as He called, and they did not listen; so they called, and I did not listen, says Jehovah of Hosts.


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But I stormed them away on all the nations whom they did not know. And the land is desolated behind them, from passing and from returning; for they made the land of desire a waste.


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So says Jehovah of Hosts: I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great wrath.


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So says Jehovah: I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. And Jerusalem shall be called a City of Truth, and the mountain of Jehovah of Hosts, the Holy Mountain.


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So says Jehovah of Hosts: There shall yet be old men and old women sitting in the streets of Jerusalem; and each man with his staff in his hand because of their many days.


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So says Jehovah of Hosts: If it is marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, will it also be marvelous in My eyes? says Jehovah of Hosts.


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So says Jehovah of Hosts: Behold, I will save My people from the rising sun and from the land of the setting sun.


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And I will bring them, and they shall live in the midst of Jerusalem. And they shall be for a people to Me, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.


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So says Jehovah of Hosts: Let your hands be made strong, you who hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, that in the day the house of Jehovah of Hosts is founded, the temple is to be built.


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For before those days there was no payment for man, nor was there payment for animal; and there was no peace to him from the adversary who went out or came in. For I sent every man, a man against his neighbor.


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For there shall be peace for the seed: the vine shall give its fruit, and the ground shall give its produce, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these.


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And it shall be, as you were a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you shall be a blessing. Do not fear; let your hands be made strong.


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For so says Jehovah of Hosts, As I purposed to punish you when your fathers provoked Me to wrath, says Jehovah of Hosts, and I did not repent,


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so again I have purposed in these days to do good to Jerusalem, and the house of Judah. Do not fear.


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These are the things that you shall do. Let each man speak the truth with his neighbor. Judge with truth and justice for peace in your gates,


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and let each devise no evil in your heart against his neighbor, and do not love a false oath. For all these I hate, says Jehovah.


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So says Jehovah of Hosts: The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall become for joy and gladness and cheerful feasts to the house of Judah. Therefore, love truth and peace.


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And those living in one shall go to another, saying, Let us go at once to seek the favor of the face of Jehovah, and to seek Jehovah of Hosts; I will go also.


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And many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek Jehovah of Hosts in Jerusalem, and to seek the favor of the face of Jehovah.


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So says Jehovah of Hosts: In those days ten men out of all languages of the nations shall take hold, and will seize the skirt of a man, a Jew, saying, Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.


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The burden of the Word of Jehovah against the land of Hadrach, and its resting place, Damascus, (when the eye of man, and all the tribes of Israel shall be toward Jehovah),


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And Tyre shall build a fortress for herself, and shall pile up silver like the dust, and gold like the mud of the streets.


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Behold! The Lord will expel her, and He will strike her wealth in the sea, and she shall be consumed with fire.


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Ashkelon shall see and fear; Gaza also shall writhe in great pain; and Ekron shall be ashamed for her hope. And the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.


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And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth. But the remnant, even he, shall be for our God. And he shall be as a governor in Judah, and Ekron, like a Jebusite.


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And I will camp around My house from an army, from one passing by, and from one returning. And an oppressor shall not pass through them again. For now I have seen with My eyes.


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Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous and being victorious, humble, and riding on an ass, even on a colt, the son of an ass.


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And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem. And the battle bow shall be cut off, and He shall speak peace to the nations. And His dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.


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Also you, by the blood of your covenant I have sent out your prisoners from the pit; no water is in it.


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For I have bent Judah for Me as a bow; I filled it with Ephraim. And I will stir up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and make you as the sword of a mighty man.


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Then Jehovah will be seen over them, and His arrow shall go out as lightning; and the Lord Jehovah shall blow the ram's horn and shall go forth with the windstorms of the south.


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Jehovah of Hosts shall defend them. And they shall devour and subdue the slingstones. And they shall drink and be boisterous, as with wine. And they shall be full like a bowl, like the corners of the altar.


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And Jehovah their God shall save them in that day as the flock of His people; for they are as stones of a crown, lifted up as a barrier over His land.


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For how great is its goodness, and how great its beauty! Grain shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.


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Ask rain from Jehovah in the time of the latter rain. Jehovah shall make lightnings. And He gives them showers of rain, grass to each man in the field.


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For the family idols speak iniquity, and the divining ones have seen a lie and have told false dreams. They comfort in vain. On account of this, they wandered like a flock. They were troubled because there was no shepherd.


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My anger is kindled against the shepherds, and I will punish the he-goats. For Jehovah of Hosts has visited His flock, the house of Judah, and made them as His splendid horse in battle.


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From Him came the cornerstone, from Him the nail, from Him came the battle bow, and from Him every ruler together.


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And they shall be like mighty ones who trample the mud of the streets in the battle. And they shall fight because Jehovah is with them, and they shall make the riders of horses ashamed.


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And I will make stronger the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph. And I will return to save them, for I have pity on them. And they shall be as though I had not cast them off, for I am Jehovah their God, and I will answer them.


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And Ephraim shall be like a mighty one, and their heart shall be glad as by wine. And their sons shall see and be glad; their heart shall rejoice in Jehovah.


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I will whistle for them and gather them, for I have redeemed them. And they shall multiply as they were multiplied.


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And I will sow them among the peoples, and they shall remember Me in far countries, and they shall live with their sons and return.


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And I will return to save them out of the land of Egypt and gather them out of Assyria. And I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon, for room shall not be found for them.


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And He shall pass through the sea of distress and strike the waves in the sea, and all the depths of the Nile shall dry up. And the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt shall go away.


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Howl, fir tree, for the cedar has fallen, because the majestic trees have been destroyed. Howl, O oaks of Bashan, for the inaccessible forest has come down.


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A voice of the wailing of the shepherds is heard, for their splendor is destroyed. A voice of the roaring of young lions is heard, for the pride of Jordan is destroyed.


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Those who buy them kill them and are not held guilty. And those who sell them say, Blessed be Jehovah, for I am rich. And their shepherds do not pity them.


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For I will never again pity those living in the land, says Jehovah. But, behold! I will cause to be found the men, each one into his neighbor's hand, and into his king's hand. And they shall strike the land, and I will not deliver out of their hand.


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And I fed the flock of slaughter, the truly poor of the flock. And I took two staffs for Myself: the one I called Kindness, and the other I called Union. And I fed the flock.


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I also cut off three shepherds in one month. And My soul loathed them, and their soul also detested 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 the ones remaining, each woman, eat the flesh of her neighbor.


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And I took My staff Kindness and broke it apart, to break My covenant which I had cut with all the peoples.


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And it was broken in that day, and so the poor of the flock who were watching Me knew that it was the Word of Jehovah.


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And I said to them, If it is good in your eyes, give My price; and if not, let it go. And they weighed My price, thirty pieces of silver.


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And Jehovah said to Me, Throw it to the potter, the magnificent price at which I was valued by them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw it to the potter in the house of Jehovah.


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Then I broke apart My second staff Union, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.


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For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land; he shall not visit those who are cut off, nor will he seek the young, nor will he heal that which is broken, nor will he sustain that which stands. But he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear off their hoofs.


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Woe to the worthless shepherd who abandons the flock! The sword shall be against his arm and against his right eye. His arm shall be completely withered, and his right eye shall be totally darkened.


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The burden of the Word of Jehovah for Israel, says Jehovah, who stretches forth the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man in his midst.


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Behold! I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling to all the peoples all around, and it shall also be against Judah in the siege against Jerusalem.


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And in that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who lift it shall be slashed. And all the nations of the earth will be gathered against it.


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In that day I will strike every horse with panic and his rider with madness, says Jehovah. And I will open My eyes on the house of Judah, and I will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.


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And the leaders of Judah shall say in their heart, Those living in Jerusalem shall be my strength in Jehovah of Hosts, their God.


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In that day I will make the leaders of Judah like a hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire among cut grain. And they shall devour all the peoples all around, on the right hand and on the left hand. And Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her place, in Jerusalem.


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Jehovah also shall save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of those living in Jerusalem may not be magnified above Judah.


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In that day Jehovah shall protect around those living in Jerusalem. And it will be, he who is feeble among them in that day shall be like David, and the house of David shall be like God, like the Angel of Jehovah before them.


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And I will pour on the house of David, and on those living in Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of prayers. And they shall look on Me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they shall be bitter over Him, like the bitterness over the first-born.


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In that day the mourning in Jerusalem shall be great, like the mourning of Hadad-rimmon in the valley of Megiddo.


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And the land shall mourn, each 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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the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;


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In that day a fountain shall be opened to the house of David and to those living in Jerusalem, for sin and for impurity.


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And it shall be in that day, I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall be remembered no more, says Jehovah of Hosts. And I also will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.


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And it shall be when any shall prophesy again, his father and his mother who gave him birth shall say to him then, You shall not live, for you speak lies in the name of Jehovah. And his father and his mother who gave him birth shall pierce him when he prophesies.


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And it shall be in that day, the prophets shall be ashamed, each one of his vision when he prophesies, and they shall not wear a hairy garment to deceive.


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But he shall say, I am not a prophet; I am a man, a tiller of the ground, for a man caused me to buy from my youth.


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And one shall say to Him, What are these wounds between Your hands? Then He shall answer, Those with which I was struck in the house of those who love Me.


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O sword, awake against My Shepherd, and against the Man who is My Associate, says Jehovah of Hosts. Strike the Shepherd and the sheep will be scattered. And I will turn My hand on the little ones.


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And it shall be in all the land, says Jehovah, two parts in it shall be cut off and perish, but the third shall be left in it.


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And I will bring the third part through the fire, and I will refine them as silver is refined. And I will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, It is My people, and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.


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For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem. And the city shall be captured, and the houses plundered, and the women ravished. And half the city shall go into exile and the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.


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And Jehovah shall go out and fight against those nations, like the day He fought in the day of battle.


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And His feet shall stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives shall divide from its middle, from the east even to the west, a very great valley. And half of the mountain shall move toward the north, and half of it toward the south.


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And you shall flee to the valley of My mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal. And you shall flee as you fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah. And Jehovah my God shall come, and all the saints with You.


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And it will be one day which shall be known to Jehovah; not day and not night, but it will be, there will be light at evening time.


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


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And Jehovah shall be King over all the earth. In that day there shall be one Jehovah, and His name one.


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All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. And it shall rise and dwell in its place, from Benjamin's Gate to the place of the First Gate, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananeel to the king's winepresses.


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And they shall live in it. And there shall not again be a shutting in, but Jerusalem shall dwell safely.


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And this shall be the plague with which Jehovah will strike all the peoples who have fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh shall rot while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will rest in their sockets, and their tongues shall rot in their mouths.


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And it shall be in that day, a great panic of Jehovah shall be among them; and they shall each one lay hold of his neighbor, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbor.


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And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem. And the wealth of the surrounding nations shall be gathered, gold, and silver, and clothing, very much.


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And so shall be the plague of the horse, the mule, the camel, and the ass, and all the beasts which shall be in those camps, like this plague.


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And it shall be, everyone who is left from all the nations which came up against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, Jehovah of Hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.


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And it shall be, whoever will not go up from the families of the earth to Jerusalem to worship the King, Jehovah of Hosts, there shall even be no rain on them.


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And if the family of Egypt does not go up, nor come in, then the rain shall not be on them, but the plague with which Jehovah shall strike the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.


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This shall be Egypt's offense, and the offense of all nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.


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In that day there shall be on the bells of the horses, HOLY TO JEHOVAH. And the pots in the house of Jehovah shall be like the bowls before the altar.


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And every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holy to Jehovah of Hosts. And all those who sacrifice shall come and take of them, and boil in them. And in that day there shall not be a trader in the house of Jehovah of Hosts any more.


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I have loved you, says Jehovah. But you say, In what way have You loved us? Was not Esau the brother to Jacob? Yet Jehovah declares, I loved Jacob,


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and I have hated Esau and have made his mountains a desolation, and his inheritance to be for the jackals of the wilderness.


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If Edom says, We are beaten down, but we will return and build the ruined places; so says Jehovah of Hosts: They shall build, but I will tear down. And they shall call them the region of wickedness, and the people with whom Jehovah is indignant until forever.


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A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is My fear? says Jehovah of Hosts to you, O priests who despise My name. But you say, In what have we despised Your name?


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You are offering defiled food on My altar, and you say, In what have we defiled You? It is in your saying, The table of Jehovah, it is to be despised.


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And if you offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? And if you offer the lame and the sick, is it not evil? Bring it now to your governor. Will he accept you or lift up your face? says Jehovah of Hosts.


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And now entreat the face of God, that He favor us. This has been by your hands; will He lift up your faces? says Jehovah of Hosts.


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Who is even among you that will shut the doors, and you not kindle fire on My altar in vain? There is no delight to Me in you, says Jehovah of Hosts. I will not be pleased with a food offering from you.


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For from the east to the west, My name shall be great among the nations, and everywhere incense shall be offered to My name; and a pure food offering; for My name shall be great among the nations, says Jehovah of Hosts.


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But you are profaning it when you say, The table of the Lord, it is polluted; and its fruit, His food is to be despised.


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And you have said, Behold, what weariness! And you have sniffed at it, says Jehovah of Hosts. And you bring plunder, and the lame, and the sick; and you bring the grain offering. Should I accept it from your hand? says Jehovah.


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But cursed be a deceiver and there is a male in his flock, yet he vows it, but he sacrifices a blemished one to the Lord. For I am a great King, says Jehovah of Hosts, and My name is feared among the nations.


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If you will not hear, and if you will not set it on your heart to give glory to My name, says Jehovah of Hosts, then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. And indeed, I have cursed it, because you are not setting it on your heart.


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Behold, I am rebuking your seed, and I will spread dung on your faces, the dung of your solemn feasts; and one will lift you up to it.


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And you shall know that I have sent this command to you, to be My covenant with Levi, says Jehovah of Hosts.


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My covenant with him was life and peace, and I gave them to him for fear; and he feared Me, and he is put in awe before My name.


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The Law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips. In peace and in uprightness he walked with Me, and he turned many from iniquity.


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For the lips of the priest should guard knowledge, and they should seek the Law from his mouth; for he is the messenger of Jehovah of Hosts.


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But you have turned out of the way; you have caused many to stumble at the Law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says Jehovah of Hosts.


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So I have also made you despised and low to all the people, just as you have not kept My ways, but are lifting up faces in the Law.


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Is there not one father to us all? Has not one God created us? Why do we act deceitfully, each man with his brother, to profane the covenant of our fathers?


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Judah has dealt treacherously, and has done an abomination in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holy place of Jehovah, which He loves and has married a daughter of a foreign god.


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Jehovah will cut off from the tents of Jacob the man who does it, he waking and answering, or offering a grain offering to Jehovah of Hosts.


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And this is a second thing you have done: covering the altar of Jehovah with tears, with weeping and groaning; yet not facing toward the grain offering, and taking it with delight from your hand.


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Yet you say, On what cause? Because Jehovah has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously; and she is your companion and your covenant wife.


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And has He not made you one? Yet the vestige of the Spirit is in him. And what of the one? He was seeking a seed of God. Then guard your spirit, and do not deal treacherously with the wife of your youth.


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Jehovah, the God of Israel, says, He hates sending away, and to cover with violence on his garment, says Jehovah of Hosts. Then guard your spirit and do not act treacherously.


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You have wearied Jehovah with your words. Yet you say, In what have we wearied Him? When you say, Every evildoer is good in the eyes of Jehovah, and He delights in them; or, Where is the God of justice?


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Behold, I am sending My messenger, and He will clear the way before Me. And the Lord whom you are seeking shall suddenly come to His temple, even the Angel of the Covenant, in whom you delight. Behold, He comes, says Jehovah 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 fuller's soap.


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And He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; and He shall purify the sons of Levi and purge them like gold and like silver, that they may be presenters of a grain offering in righteousness to Jehovah.


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Then the grain offering of Judah and Jerusalem shall be pleasing to Jehovah, as in the days of old, and as in former years.


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And I will come near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against those swearing to a lie; and against those who extort from the hired laborer's pay; and turning away the widow, and the fatherless, and the alien, and not fearing Me, says Jehovah of Hosts.


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From the days of your fathers, you have turned aside from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you, says Jehovah of Hosts. But you say, In what shall we return?


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Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me. But you say, In what have we robbed You? In the tithe and the offering!


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Bring all the tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. And test Me now with this, says Jehovah of Hosts, whether I will not open the windows of the heavens for you and pour out a blessing until there is no sufficiency of room to store it.


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And I will rebuke the devourer for you, and he shall not destroy the fruit of your ground against you; nor shall your vine miscarry against you in the field, says Jehovah of Hosts.


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You have said, It is vanity to serve God. And, What profit is it that we have kept His charge, and that we have walked as mourners before Jehovah of Hosts?


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And now we are calling the arrogant blessed. Not only are the doers of wickedness built up, they also test God, and escape.


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Then those fearing Jehovah spoke together, each man to his neighbor. And Jehovah gave attention and heard. And a Book of Remembrance was written before Him for those who feared Jehovah, and for those esteeming His name.


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And they shall be Mine, says Jehovah of Hosts, for the day that I will make up My treasure. And I will pity them as a man has pity on his son who serves him.


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Then you shall again see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who does not serve Him.


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For, behold, the day is coming, burning like a fire pot; and all the proud and every doer of wickedness shall be chaff. And the coming day will set them ablaze, says Jehovah of Hosts, which will not leave root or branches to them.


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But to you who fear My name, the Sun of Righteousness shall rise up, and healing will be on His wings. And you shall go out and frisk like calves of the stall.


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And you shall tread under the wicked, for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day which I am preparing, says Jehovah of Hosts.


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Remember the Law of My servant Moses which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel, the statutes and judgments.


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Behold, I am sending you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of Jehovah.


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And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the sons, and the heart of the sons to their fathers, that I not come and strike the earth with utter destruction.


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And Judah fathered Pharez and Zarah out of Tamar, and Pharez fathered Hezron, and Hezron fathered Aram,


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and Jesse fathered David the king. And David the king fathered Solomon out of her who had been the wife of Uriah,


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And after the deportation of Babylon, Jehoiachin fathered Shealtiel, and Shealtiel fathered Zerubbabel,


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and Jacob fathered Joseph, the husband to be of Mary, out of whom Jesus was born, the One called Christ.


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So all the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon, fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon until the Christ, fourteen generations.


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And the birth of Jesus Christ was this way (for His mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph) before the coming together of them, she was found having babe in womb by the Holy Spirit.


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But her husband to be, Joseph, being just, and not willing to make her a public example, he purposed to put her away secretly.


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And as he was thinking about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord was seen by him in a dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife. For that in her is generated by the Holy Spirit.


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And she will bear a son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sins.


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And all this happened so that might be fulfilled that which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying,


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"Behold! The virgin will conceive in her womb and will bear a son, and they will call His name Emmanuel" (which translated is, God with us). Isa.:


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And when Jesus had been born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men arrived from the east to Jerusalem,


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saying, Where is He born King of the Jews? For we saw His star in the east and have come to worship Him.


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And having gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he asked of them where the Christ was to be born.


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"And you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judea, in no way are you least among the governors of Judah, for out of you shall come out One ruling, who shall shepherd My people Israel." Mic.:


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And sending them to Bethlehem, he said, Having gone, exactly inquire about the child. And when you find him, bring me word again so that coming I may also worship him.


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And having heard the king, they departed. And, behold! The star which they saw in the east went before them until it had come and stood over where the child was.


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And having come into the house, they saw the child with His mother Mary. And falling down, they worshiped Him. And opening their treasures, they presented gifts to Him: gold and frankincense and myrrh.


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And having been warned by a dream not to return to Herod, they went back into their own country by another way.


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And they having departed, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph by a dream, saying, Rise up! Take the child and His mother with you, and flee into Egypt. And be there until I shall tell you. For Herod is about to look for the child in order to destroy Him.


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And he was there until the end of Herod, that might be fulfilled that spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, "Out of Egypt I have called My Son." Hos.:


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Then seeing that he was mocked by the wise men, Herod was greatly enraged, and having sent, he killed all the boys in Bethlehem and in all its districts, from two years old and under, according to the time which he exactly asked from the wise men.


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"A voice was heard in Ramah, lamenting and bitter wailing, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and would not be comforted, because they were not." Jer.:


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saying, Rising up, take along the child and His mother and pass over into the land of Israel; for those seeking the soul of the child have expired.


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But hearing that Archelaus reigned over Judea in place of his father Herod, he feared to go there. And being warned by a dream, he departed into the parts of Galilee.


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And coming, he lived in a city called Nazareth, so as to fulfill that spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene. No OT passage


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For this is he spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying: "The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Lord! Make His paths straight!" Isa.:


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And John himself had his clothing from hairs of a camel, and a belt of leather about his loin. And his food was locusts and wild honey.


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But seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?


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And do not think to say within yourselves, We have a father, Abraham. For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.


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But already the axe is even laid at the root of the trees; therefore, any tree not bringing forth good fruit is cut off and is thrown into fire.


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I indeed baptize you in water to repentance; but He who is coming after me is stronger than me, of whom I am not able to lift The sandals. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire,


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whose fan is in His hand, and He will cleanse His floor and will gather His wheat into the storehouse. But He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.


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But answering, Jesus said to him, Allow it now, for it is becoming to us this way to fulfill all righteousness. Then he allows Him.


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And having been baptized, Jesus went up immediately from the water. And, behold! The heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God coming down as a dove, and coming upon Him.


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And behold! A voice out of the heaven saying, This is My Son, the Beloved, in whom I have been delighting. Psa.:; Gen.:; Isa.:


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And coming near to Him, the Tempter said, If You are the Son of God, speak that these stones may become loaves.


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But answering, He said, It has been written: "Man shall not live by bread alone, but on every Word going out of the mouth of God." Deut.:


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And he said to Him, If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down; for it has been written: "He shall give His angels charge concerning You, and they shall bear You on their hands, lest You strike Your foot against a stone." LXX-Psa.:,; MT-Psa.:,


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Again the Devil takes Him to a very high mountain, and shows to Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.


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Then Jesus said to him, Go, Satan! For it has been written: "You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve Him only." Deut.:


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And having left Nazareth, having come He lived at Capernaum, beside the sea in the districts of Zebulun and Naphtali,


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the people sitting in darkness saw a great Light; and to those sitting in the region and shadow of death, Light sprang up to them." Isa.:,


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And walking beside the Sea of Galilee, Jesus saw two brothers, Simon being called Peter and his brother Andrew, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishers.


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


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And Jesus went around all Galilee teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.


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And the report of Him went out into all Syria. And they brought to Him all the ones being badly ill, suffering various diseases and torments, also those being demon-possessed, and those being moonstruck, and paralytics; and He healed them.


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And many crowds followed Him from Galilee and Decapolis, and Jerusalem, and Judea, and beyond the Jordan.


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But seeing the crowds, He went up into the mountain, and seating Himself, His disciples came near to Him.


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Blessed are they who have been persecuted for righteousness' sake! For theirs is the kingdom of Heaven.


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Blessed are you when they shall reproach you, and persecute you, and shall say every evil word against you, lying, on account of Me.


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Rejoice and leap for joy, for your reward is great in Heaven; for in this way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.


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You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt becomes tasteless, with what shall it be salted? For it has strength for nothing any more but to be thrown out and to be trampled under by men.


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Nor do they light a lamp and put it under the grain measure, but on the lampstand; and it shines for all those in the house.


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So let your light shine before men, so that they may see your good works, and may glorify your Father in Heaven.


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Truly I say to you, Until the heaven and the earth pass away, in no way shall one iota or one point pass away from the Law until all comes to pass.


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Therefore, whoever relaxes one of these commandments, the least, and shall teach men so, he shall be called least in the kingdom of Heaven. But whoever does and teaches them, this one shall be called great in the kingdom of Heaven.


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For I say to you, If your righteousness shall not exceed that of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall not enter into the kingdom of God, never!


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You have heard that it was said to the ancients: "Do not commit murder!" And, Whoever commits murder shall be liable to the Judgment. Ex.:; Deut.:


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But I say to you, Everyone who is angry with his brother without cause shall be liable to the Judgment. And whoever says to his brother, Raca, shall be liable to the sanhedrin; but whoever says, Fool! shall be liable to be thrown into the fire of Hell.


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Then if you offer your gift on the altar, and remember there that your brother has something against you,


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


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Be well intentioned toward your opponent quickly, while you are in the way with him, that the opponent not deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be thrown into prison.


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But I say to you, Everyone looking at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.


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But if your right eye offends you, take it out and throw it from you, for it is profitable to you that one of your members should perish and all your body not be thrown into Hell.


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And if your right hand causes you to offend, cut it off and throw it from you, for it is profitable to you that one of your members should perish and all your body not be thrown into Hell.


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But I say to you, Whoever puts away his wife, apart from a matter of fornication, causes her to commit adultery. And whoever shall marry the one put away commits adultery.


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Again, you have heard that it was said to the ancients: "You shall not swear falsely, but shall give your oaths to the Lord." Lev.:; Num.:


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nor by the earth, because it is the footstool of His feet; nor by Jerusalem, because it is the city of the great King. Isa.:; Psa.:


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but I say to you, Do not resist the evil; but whoever strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other to him also.


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but I say to you, Love your enemies; bless those cursing you, do well to those hating you; and pray for those abusing and persecuting you,


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so that you may become sons of your Father in Heaven. Because He causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and unjust.


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For if you love those loving you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax-collectors do the same?


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And if you only greet your brothers, what exceptional thing do you do? Do not the tax-collectors do so?


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Take care not to do your merciful deeds before men in order to be seen by them. But if not, you have no reward from your Father in Heaven.


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Therefore, when you do merciful deeds, do not trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be glorified by men. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.


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so that your merciful deeds may be in secret. And your Father seeing in secret Himself will repay you in the open.


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And when you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the open streets so that they may be seen of men. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.


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But you, when you pray, enter into your room and shutting your door, pray to your Father in secret. And your Father seeing in secret will repay you in the open.


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But when you pray, do not be babbling vain words, as the nations; for they think that they shall be heard in their much speaking.


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And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil, for Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory to the ages. Amen.


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And when you fast, do not be as the hypocrites, with sullen face, for they disfigure their faces so that they may appear to men to be fasting. Truly I say to you that they have their reward.


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so as not to appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father in secret. And your Father seeing in secret will repay you in the open.


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Do not treasure up for you treasures on the earth, where moth and rust cause to perish, and where thieves dig through and steal.


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But treasure up for you treasures in Heaven, where neither moth nor rust cause to perish, and where thieves do not dig through and steal.


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But if your eye is evil, all your body is dark. If, then, the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!


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No one is able to serve two lords; for either he will hate the one, and he will love the other; or he will cleave to the one, and he will despise the other. You are not able to serve God and wealth.


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Because of this, I say to you, Do not be anxious for your soul, what you eat and what you drink, nor for your body, what you put on. Is not the soul more than the food and the body than the clothing?


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Observe the birds of the heaven, that they do not sow, nor do they reap, nor do they gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Do you not rather excel them?


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And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They do not labor nor do they spin,


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If God so enrobes the grass of the field (which is today, and is thrown into a furnace tomorrow) will He not much rather you, little-faiths?


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For after all these things the nations seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you have need of all these things.


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Then do not be anxious for tomorrow. For the morrow will be anxious of itself. Sufficient to each day is its own trouble.


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


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But why do you look on the twig that is in the eye of your brother, but do not see the log in your eye?


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Or how will you say to your brother, Allow me to cast out the twig from your eye; and behold, the log is in your eye!


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Hypocrite, first cast the log out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to cast the twig out of the eye of your brother.


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Do not give that which is holy to the dogs, nor throw your pearls before the pigs, that they should not trample them with their feet, and turning they charge you.


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For each one that asks receives, and the one that seeks finds; and to the one knocking, it will be opened.


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Therefore, if you, being evil, know to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in Heaven give good things to those that ask Him?


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Therefore, all things, whatever you desire that men should do to you, so also you should do to them; for this is the Law and the Prophets.


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Go in through the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are the ones entering in through it.


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For narrow is the gate, and constricted is the way that leads away into life, and few are the ones finding it.


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But beware of the false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inside they are plundering wolves.


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Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, will enter into the kingdom of Heaven, but the ones who do the will of My Father in Heaven.


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Many will say to Me in that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name do many works of power?


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And then I will declare to them, I never knew you; "depart from Me, those working lawlessness!" Psa.:


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Then everyone who hears these Words from Me, and does them, I will compare him to a wise man who built his house on the rock;


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and the rain came down, and the floods came up, and the winds blew, and fell against that house; but it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock.


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And everyone who hears these Words of Mine, and who does not do them, he shall be compared to a foolish man who built his house on the sand;


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and the rain came down, and the floods came up, and the winds blew and beat against that house; and it fell, and great was the collapse of it.


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And behold, coming up, a leper worshiped Him, saying, Lord, If You will, You are able to cleanse me.


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And stretching out His hand, Jesus touched him, saying, I will! Be cleansed! And instantly his leprosy was cleansed.


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And Jesus said to him, See that you tell no one, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift which Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.


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And answering, the centurion said, Lord, I am not worthy that You should enter under my roof, but only speak a word and my child will be healed.


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For I am also a man under authority, having soldiers under myself. And I say to this one, Go; and he goes; and to another, Come; and he comes; and to my slave, Do this; and he does it.


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And hearing, Jesus marveled, and said to those following, Truly I say to you, Not even in Israel did I find such faith.


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But I say to you that many will come from east and west, and will recline with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of Heaven,


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but the sons of the kingdom shall be cast out into the outer darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of the teeth.


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And Jesus said to the centurion, Go, and as you have believed, so let it be to you. And his child was healed in that hour.


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And evening having come on, they brought to Him many having been possessed by demons. And He cast out the spirits by a word, and He healed all those having illness,


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so that it might be fulfilled that spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, "He took upon Himself our weaknesses, and bore our sicknesses." Isa.:


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And Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the heaven have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere He may lay His head.


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And, behold, a great shaking occurred in the sea, so that the boat was covered by the waves; but He was sleeping.


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And He said to them, Why are you afraid, little-faiths? Then rising up, He rebuked the winds and the sea. And a great calm occurred.


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And He coming to the other side, into the country of the Gergesenes, two demon-possessed ones met Him, coming out of the tombs, very violent, so that no one was able to pass through that way.


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And, behold! They cried out, saying, What is to us and to You, Jesus, Son of God? Have You come here beforetime to torment us?


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And He said to them, Go! And coming out, these went away into the herd of pigs. And, behold, all the herd of pigs rushed down the cliff into the sea, and died in the waters.


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But those who fed them fled, and going into the city, they told all the things of the ones who had been demon-possessed.


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And, behold, all the city went out to meet with Jesus. And seeing Him, they begged that He move away from their borders.


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And, behold! They were bringing a paralytic lying on a cot to Him. And seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralyzed one, Be comforted, child. Your sins have been remitted.


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But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to remit sins, then He said to the paralytic, Rising up, lift up your cot and go to your house.


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And passing from there, Jesus saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, Follow Me. And rising up, he followed Him.


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And it happened as He reclined in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners having come, these were reclining with Jesus and His disciples.


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And seeing, the Pharisees said to His disciples, Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?


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But Jesus hearing, He said to them, The ones being strong have no need of a healer, but the ones having illness.


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But going, learn what this is, "I desire mercy and not sacrifice." For I did not come to call righteous ones, but sinners to repentance. Hos.:


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Then the disciples of John came to Him, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast much, and Your disciples do not fast?


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And Jesus said to them, Can the sons of the bridechamber mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will have been taken from them, and then they will fast.


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But no one puts a piece of new cloth onto an old garment. For its filling up takes away from the garment, and a worse tear takes its place.


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Nor do they put new wine into old skins; otherwise, the skins are burst, and the wine pours out, and the skins will be ruined. But they put new wine into fresh skins, and both are preserved together.


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As He was speaking these things to them, behold, one ruler coming worshiped before Him, saying, My daughter has just now died; but coming lay Your hand on her, and she will live.


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And behold, a woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years came near behind Him, and touched the fringe of His robe.


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But turning and seeing her, Jesus said, Be comforted, daughter; your faith has healed you. And the woman was healed from that hour.


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And Jesus coming into the house of the ruler, and seeing the flute-players and the crowd causing a tumult,


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He says to them, Go back, for the little girl has not died, but she sleeps. And they laughed at Him.


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But when the crowd had been put out, entering He took hold of her hand, and the little girl rose up.


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And Jesus passing on from there, two blind ones followed Him, crying and saying, Have pity on us, Son of David.


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And coming into the house, the blind ones came near to Him. And Jesus says to them, Do you believe that I am able to do this? And they said to Him, Yes, Lord.


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And as they were going out, behold, they brought to Him a dumb man having been possessed by a demon.


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And the demon being cast out, the dumb one spoke. And the crowds marveled, saying, Never was it seen this way in Israel.


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And Jesus went about all the cities and the villages teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every weakness of body among the people.


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And seeing the crowds, He was moved with pity concerning them, because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd.


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And having called His twelve disciples, He gave them authority over unclean spirits, so as to cast out, and to heal every disease and every weakness of body.


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And the names of the twelve apostles are these: First, Simon who is called Peter and his brother Andrew, James the son of Zebedee and his brother John,


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Philip, and Bartholomew, Thomas, and Matthew the tax-collector, James the son of Alpheus, and Lebbaeus, whose last name was Thaddaeus,


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Jesus sent these twelve out, charging them, saying: Do not go into the way of the nations, and do not go into a Samaritan city.


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nor provision bag for the road, nor two tunics, nor sandals, nor staves. For the worker is worthy of his food.


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And into whatever city or village you enter, search out who in it is worthy; and remain there until you go out.


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and if the house truly is worthy, let your peace come upon it. But if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you.


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And whoever will not receive you, nor will hear your words, having gone out of that house or city, shake off the dust from your feet.


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Truly I say to you, It will be more bearable to the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in Judgment Day 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 betray you to sanhedrins, and they will flog you in their synagogues.


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And also you will be brought before governors and kings for My sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.


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But when they deliver you up, do not be anxious how or what you should say, for it is given to you in that hour what you should say.


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But brother will betray brother to death, and the father his child. And children will rise up against parents and will put them to death.


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And you will be hated by all on account of My name, but the one enduring to the end shall be kept safe.


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But when they persecute you in this city, flee to another. For truly I say to you, In no way will you have finished the cities of Israel until the Son of Man comes.


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It is enough for the disciple to become as his teacher, and the slave as his lord. If they called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more those of his household?


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Therefore, you should not fear them, for nothing is covered which will not be uncovered; and hidden, which will not be made known.


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What I say to you in the darkness, speak in the light. And what you hear in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.


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And you should not fear the ones killing the body, but not being able to kill the soul. But rather fear Him being able to destroy both soul and body in Hell.


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Are not two sparrows sold for an assarion? Yet not one of them shall fall to the ground without your Father.


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I came to divide a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a bride against her mother-in-law.


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The one loving father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And the one loving son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.


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The one receiving a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet's reward, and the one receiving a just one in the name of a just one will receive a just one's reward.


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And whoever gives only a cup of cold water to drink to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple, truly I say to you, In no way will he lose his reward.


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And it happened when Jesus finished commanding His twelve disciples, He left there to teach and to proclaim in their cities.


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The blind receive sight, and the lame walk; lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear; the dead are raised, and the poor are given the gospel. Isa.:


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But as these were going, Jesus began to say to the crowds about John, What did you go out into the wilderness to behold? A reed being shaken with the wind?


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But what did you go out to see? A man being clothed in soft garments? Behold, those wearing soft things are in the houses of kings.


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But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I say to you, and one more excellent than a prophet.


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For this is the one about whom it has been written: "Behold, I send out My messenger before Your face, who shall prepare Your way before You." Mal.:


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Truly I say to you, There has not arisen among those born of a woman any greater than John the Baptist. But the least in the kingdom of Heaven is greater than he is.


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But from the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent seize it.


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But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like little children sitting in the markets, and calling to their mates,


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The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold, a gluttonous man and a wine drinker, and a friend of tax collectors, and of sinners. And wisdom was justified by her children.


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Then He began to reproach the cities in which most of His powerful acts had occurred, for they did not repent.


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Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the powerful acts which have taken place in you had happened in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.


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And you, Capernaum, who "have been exalted to the heaven, you will be thrown down to Hades." For if the powerful acts happening in you had taken place in Sodom, it would remain until today. Isa.:,


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Answering at that time, Jesus said, I praise You, Father, Lord of Heaven and of earth, because You hid these things from the sophisticated and cunning and revealed them to babes.


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All things were yielded up to Me by My Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and the one to whom the Son purposes to reveal Him.


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Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, because I am meek and lowly in heart, "and you will find rest to your souls." Jer.:


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


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But seeing, the Pharisees said to Him, Behold, your disciples are doing what it is not lawful to do on the sabbath.


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How he entered into the house of God, and he ate the Loaves of the Presentation, which it was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those with him, but for the priests only?


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Or have you not read in the Law that on the sabbaths the priests in the temple profane the sabbath and are guiltless?


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But if you had known what this is, "I desire mercy and not sacrifice," you would not have condemned the guiltless. Hos.:


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And, behold, a man having a withered hand was there. And they asked Him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbaths? (that they might accuse Him).


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But He said to them, What man of you will be who will have one sheep, and if this one fall into a pit on the sabbaths, will he not lay hold of it and raise it up?


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Then He said to the man, Stretch out your hand! And he stretched out. And it was restored sound as the other.


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"Behold My Child whom I chose, My Beloved, in whom My soul has delighted! I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will declare judgment to the nations.


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A bruised reed He will not break, and smoking flax He will not quench, until He bring forth judgment to victory." Isa.:-


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Then one having been demon-possessed was brought to Him, blind and dumb. And He healed him, so that the blind and dumb one could both speak and see.


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But hearing, the Pharisees said, This One does not cast out demons except by Beelzebub, ruler of the demons.


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But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, He said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to ruin. And every city or house divided against itself will not stand.


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And if I throw out the demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons cast them out? Because of this, they shall be your judges.


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Or how is anyone able to enter the house of the strong one and plunder his goods, if he does not first bind the strong one; and then he will plunder his house?


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Because of this, I say to you, Every sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven to men, but the blasphemy concerning the Spirit shall not be forgiven to men.


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And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him. But whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, not in this age nor in the coming one.


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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 the fruit.


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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 the good treasure of the heart puts forth good things. And the evil man out of the evil treasure puts forth evil things.


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But I say to you, that every idle word, whatever men may speak, they shall give an account of it in Judgment Day.


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But answering, He said to them, An evil and adulterous generation seeks a sign, and a sign shall not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet.


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And even as "Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish three days and three nights," so shall the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights. Jon.:


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Men, Ninevites, will stand up in the Judgment with this generation and will condemn it. For they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and, behold, a Greater-than-Jonah is here.


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The queen of the south will be raised 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, a Greater-than-Solomon is here.


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But when the unclean spirit goes from a man, he goes through dry places seeking rest and does not find it.


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Then he says, I will return to my house from which I came out. And coming, he finds it standing empty, swept and decorated.


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Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more evil than himself, and entering dwells there. And the last things of that man become worse than the first. So it will be also to this evil generation.


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But while He was yet speaking to the crowds, behold, His mother and brothers were standing outside, seeking to speak to Him.


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Then one said to Him, Behold, Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside, seeking to speak to You.


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And great crowds were gathered to Him, so that having entered the boat, He sat down. And all the crowd stood on the shore.


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And other fell on the stony places where they did not have much earth, and it immediately sprang up because it had no deepness of earth.


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And other fell on the good ground and yielded fruit; indeed, one a hundredfold, and one sixty, and one thirty.


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And answering, He said to them, Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of Heaven, but it has not been given to those.


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For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have overabundance. But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.


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Because of this, I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.


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And the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled on them, which says, "In hearing you will hear and in no way understand, and seeing you will see yet in no way perceive.


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For the heart of this people has grown fat, and they heard heavily with the ears, and they have closed their eyes, that they not see with the eyes, or hear with the ears, and understand with the heart, and be converted, and I heal them." Isa.:,


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For truly I tell you that many prophets and righteous ones desired to see what you see and did not see, and to hear what you hear and did not hear.


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Everyone hearing the Word of the kingdom, and not understanding, then the evil one comes and catches away that which was sown in his heart. This is that sown by the roadside.


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And that sown on the stony places is this: the one hearing the Word, and immediately receiving it with joy,


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but has no root in himself, but is temporary, and tribulation, or persecution occurring because of the Word, he is at once offended.


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And that sown into the thorn bushes is this: the one hearing the Word, and the anxiety of this age, and the deceit of riches, choke the Word, and it becomes unfruitful.


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But that sown on the good ground is this: the one hearing the Word, and understanding it, who indeed bears and yields fruit, one truly a hundredfold, and one sixty, and one thirty.


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He put before them another parable, saying: The kingdom of Heaven is compared to a man sowing good seed in his fields.


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But while the men were sleeping, one hostile to him came and sowed darnel in the midst of the wheat, and went away.


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And coming near, the slaves of the housemaster said to him, Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? Then from where does it have the darnel?


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And he said to them, A man, an enemy did this. And the slaves said to him, Do you desire, then, that going out we should gather them?


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Allow both to grow together until the harvest. And in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, First gather the darnel, and bind them into bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my granary.


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He put another parable before them, saying: The kingdom of Heaven is compared to a grain of mustard, which taking, a man sowed in his field;


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which indeed is less than all the seeds, but when it is grown it is greater than the plants, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the heaven come and roost in its branches.


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He spoke another parable to them: The kingdom of Heaven is compared to leaven, which taking, a woman hid in three measures of meal until the whole was leavened.


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Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the crowds, and He did not speak to them without a parable,


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so that was fulfilled that spoken through the prophet, saying: "I will open My mouth in parables; I will speak out things hidden from the foundation of the world." Psa.:


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Then sending away the crowds, Jesus came into the house. And His disciples came to Him, saying, Explain to us the parable of the darnel of the field.


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And the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; but the darnel are the sons of the evil one.


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And the hostile one who sowed them is the Devil, and the harvest is the end of the age, and the angels are the reapers.


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Then as the darnel is gathered and is consumed in the fire, so it will be in the completion of this age.


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The Son of Man will send forth His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all the offenses, and those who practice lawlessness.


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Then the righteous will shine out like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. The one having ears to hear, let him hear.


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Again, the kingdom of Heaven is compared to treasure being hidden in the field, which finding, a man hid; and for the joy of it, he goes and sells all things, as many as he has, and buys that field.


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who finding one very precious pearl, going away has sold all things, as many as he had, and bought it.


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Again, the kingdom of Heaven is compared to a drag net thrown into the sea, and gathering together of every kind;


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which, when it was filled, drawing it up on the shore, and sitting down, they gathered the good into containers, and they threw out the rotten.


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So it will be in the completion of the age: the angels will go out and will separate the evil from the midst of the righteous,


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And He said to them, Because of this, every scribe schooled to the kingdom of Heaven is like a man, a master of a house, who puts forth out of his treasure new and old.


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And coming into His own country, He taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, Where did this One get this wisdom, and the powerful works?


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Is this not the carpenter's son? Is not His mother called Mary, and His brothers, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?


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And they were offended in Him. But Jesus said to them, A prophet is not without honor, except in his own fatherland, and in his own house.


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And he said to his servants, This is John the Baptist. He has risen from the dead, and because of this, powerful works are working in him.


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For seizing John, Herod bound him and put him into prison, because of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip.


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But a birthday feast for Herod being held, the daughter of Herodias danced in the midst and pleased Herod.


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But she being urged on by her mother, she says, Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist.


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And the king was grieved, but because of the oaths, and those who reclined with him, he ordered it to be given.


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And having heard, Jesus withdrew privately from there in a boat, into a deserted place. And hearing, the crowds followed Him on foot out of the cities.


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And going out, Jesus saw a great crowd and was filled with pity toward them. And He healed their infirm ones.


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And evening coming, His disciples came near to Him saying, The place is deserted, and the hour is already gone by. Dismiss the crowds, that going away into the villages they may buy provisions for themselves.


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And commanding the crowds to recline on the grass, and taking the five loaves and two fish, looking up to Heaven, He blessed. And breaking, He gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples gave to the crowds.


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And immediately Jesus made His disciples get into a boat and to go before Him to the other side until He should dismiss the crowds.


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And having dismissed the crowds, He went up into the mountain alone to pray. And evening coming on, He was there alone.


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And seeing Him walking on the sea, the disciples were troubled, saying, It is a phantom! And they cried out from the fear.


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But seeing the wind strong, he was afraid, and beginning to sink, he cried out, saying, Lord, save me!


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And immediately stretching out the hand, Jesus took hold of him, and said to him, Little-faith, why did you doubt?


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And recognizing Him, the men of that place sent to all that neighborhood, and brought to Him all those badly ill.


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And they begged Him that they might touch the fringe of His robe. And as many as touched were cured.


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Why do Your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.


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But answering He said to them, Why do you also transgress the command of God on account of your tradition?


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and in no way he honors his father or his mother. And you annulled the command of God on account of your tradition.


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"This people draws near to Me with their mouth, and with their lips honor Me; but their heart holds far off from Me.


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It is not the thing entering into the mouth that defiles the man, but the thing coming forth out of the mouth, this defiles the man.


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Then coming, the disciples said to Him, You know that hearing the Word, the Pharisees were offended?


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Leave them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind; and if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.


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Do you not yet perceive that everything entering into the mouth goes into the belly, and is thrown out into the waste bowl?


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For out of the heart come forth reasonings, evil things, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, lies, blasphemies.


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These things are the things defiling the man. But eating with unwashed hands does not defile the man.


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And, behold, a woman of Canaan coming forth from those borders cried out to Him, saying, Have pity on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is badly demon-possessed.


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But He did not answer her a word. And coming near, His disciples asked Him, saying, Send her away, for she cries out after us.


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But answering, He said, It is not good to take the bread of the children to throw it to the little dogs.


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But she said, Yes, Lord; for even the little dogs eat of the crumbs falling from the table of their lords.


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Then answering, Jesus said to her, O woman, great is your faith; let it be to you as you desire. And her daughter was healed from that hour.


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And moving from there, Jesus came beside the Sea of Galilee. And going up into the mountain, He sat there.


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And great crowds came to Him, having with them lame ones, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others. And they flung them down at the feet of Jesus. And He healed them;


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so that the crowds marveled, seeing dumb ones speaking, maimed ones sound, lame ones walking, and blind ones seeing. And they glorified the God of Israel.


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But having called His disciples near, Jesus said, I am filled with pity on the crowd, because they already have remained with Me three days and have nothing they may eat. And I do not desire to send them away fasting, that they may not faint in the way.


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And His disciples said to Him, From where in a deserted place will come to us so many loaves as to satisfy so great a crowd?


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And taking the seven loaves and the fish, giving thanks, He broke and gave to His disciples, and the disciples to the crowd.


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And having come the Pharisees and Sadducees tempting, asked Him to show them a sign out of the heaven.


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And at morning, Today a storm, for the sky is red, being overcast. Hypocrites! You indeed know how to discern the face of the heaven, but you cannot the signs of the times.


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An evil and adulterous generation seeks a sign, and a sign will not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet. And leaving them, He went away.


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And knowing, Jesus said to them, Why do you reason among yourselves because you took no loaves, little-faiths?


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Do you not perceive nor recall the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many hand baskets you took up?


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How do you not perceive that it was not about loaves that I said to you to take heed from the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?


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Then they knew that He did not say to take heed from the leaven of bread, but from the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees.


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And coming into the parts of Caesarea of Philip, Jesus questioned His disciples, saying, Whom do men say Me the Son of Man to be?


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And they said, Some say John the Baptist, and others Elijah, and others Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.


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And answering, Jesus said to him, Blessed are you, Simon, son of Jonah, for flesh and blood did not reveal it to you, but My Father in Heaven.


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And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against her.


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And I will give to you the keys of the kingdom of Heaven. And whatever you bind on earth shall occur, having been bound in Heaven. And whatever you may loose on the earth shall be, having been loosed in Heaven.


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From that time, Jesus began to show to His disciples that it was necessary for Him to go away to Jerusalem, and to suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and to be killed, and to be raised on the third day.


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And having taken Him near, Peter began to rebuke Him, saying, God be gracious to You, Lord; this shall never be to You.


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But turning He said to Peter, Go behind Me, Satan! You are an offense to Me, for you do not think of the things of God, but 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 let him bear his cross, and let him follow Me.


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For whoever may desire to save his life will lose it. But whoever may lose his life for My sake will find it.


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For what will a man be benefited if he should gain the whole world, but forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give as an exchange for his soul?


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Truly I say to you, There are some standing here who will not taste of death, never, until they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.


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And after six days, Jesus took Peter and James, and his brother John, and brought them up into a high mountain privately.


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


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And answering, Peter said to Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here. If You desire, let us make three tents here, one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.


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While he was yet speaking, behold, a radiant cloud overshadowed them. And, behold, a voice out of the cloud saying, This is My Son, the Beloved, in whom I have been delighting; hear Him. Psa.:; Gen.:; Isa.:; Deut.:


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And as they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no one until the Son of Man is raised from the dead.


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But I say to you, Elijah already came, and they did not know him, but did to him whatever they desired. So also the Son of Man is about to suffer by them.


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Lord, pity my son. For he is moonstruck and suffers miserably. For he often falls into the fire, and often into the water.


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And answering, Jesus said, O faithless and perverted generation! Until when shall I be with you? Until when shall I bear with you? Bring him here to Me.


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And Jesus said to them, Because of your unbelief. For truly I say to you, If you have faith as a grain of mustard, you will say to this mountain, Move from here to there! And it will move. And nothing shall be impossible to you.


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And while they were walking in Galilee, Jesus said to them, The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men.


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And they having come into Capernaum, those receiving the didrachmas came to Peter and said, Does your teacher not pay the didrachmas?


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He said, Yes. And when he entered into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth receive customs or tribute? From their sons or from strangers?


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But that we may not offend them, going to the sea, throw in a hook and take the first fish coming up. And opening its mouth, you will find a stater. Taking that, give to them for you and Me.


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And He said, Truly I say to you, Unless you convert and become as the little children, not at all can you enter into the kingdom of Heaven.


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Then whoever will humble himself as this little child, this one is the greater in the kingdom of Heaven.


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But whoever causes one of these little ones believing in Me to offend, it is better for him that a millstone turned by an ass be hung on his neck, and he be sunk in the depth of the sea.


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Woe to the world from its offenses! It is a necessity for the offenses to come, yet woe to that man through whom the offense comes!


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And if your hand or your foot offends you, cut it off and throw it from you; it is good for you to enter into life lame or maimed, than having two hands or two feet to be thrown into the everlasting fire.


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And if your eye offends you, pluck it out and throw it from you; for it is good for you to enter into life one-eyed, than having two eyes to be thrown into the Hell of fire.


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See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that their angels in Heaven continually look on the face of My Father in Heaven.


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What do you think? If there be to any man a hundred sheep, and one of them strays away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains, and having gone he seeks the one having strayed?


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And if he happens to find it, truly I say to you that he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine not having gone astray.


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But if your brother may sin against you, go and reprove him between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother.


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But if he fails to hear them, tell it to the assembly. And if he also fails to hear the assembly, let him be to you as the nations and the tax collector.


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Truly I say to you, Whatever you bind on the earth will be, having been bound in Heaven. And whatever you loose on the earth will be, having been loosed in Heaven.


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Again I say to you, If two of you agree on earth as to anything, whatever they shall ask, it shall be to them from My Father in Heaven.


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


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Because of this the kingdom of Heaven has been compared to a man, a king, who desired to take account with his slaves.


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But he not having any to repay, the lord commanded him to be sold, also his wife and children, and all things, as much as he had, even to pay back.


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Then having fallen down, the slave bowed the knee to him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay all to you.


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But having gone out, that slave found one of his fellow slaves who owed him a hundred denarii. And seizing him, he choked him, saying, Pay me whatever you owe.


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Then having fallen down at his feet, his fellow slave begged him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay all to you.


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But he would not, but having gone away he threw him into prison until he should pay back the amount owing.


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But his fellow slaves, seeing the things happening, they were greatly grieved. And having come they reported to their lord all the things happening.


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Then having called him near, his lord said to him, Wicked slave! I forgave you all that debt, since you begged me.


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And being angry, his lord delivered him up to the tormentors until he pay back all that debt to him.


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So also My heavenly Father will do to you unless each of you from your hearts forgive his brother their deviations.


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And it happened when Jesus had finished these words, He moved from Galilee and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan.


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And the Pharisees came near to Him, tempting Him, and saying to Him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every reason?


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But answering, He said to them, Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning "created them male and female"? Gen.:


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So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let not man separate.


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They said to Him, Why then did Moses command to "give a bill of divorce," "and to put her away"? Deut.:


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He said to them, In view of your hardheartedness, Moses allowed you to put away your wives. But from the beginning it was not so.


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And I say to you, Whoever shall put away his wife, if not for fornication, and shall marry another, that one commits adultery. And the one who marries her who was put away commits adultery.


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


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Then little children were brought to Him, that He might lay hands on them and might pray. But the disciples rebuked them.


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But Jesus said, Allow the little children and do not prevent them to come to Me, for of such is the kingdom of Heaven.


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And, behold, coming near, one said to Him, Good Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life?


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And He said to him, Why do you call Me good? No one is good except One, God! But if you desire to enter into life, keep the commandments.


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He said to Him, Which? And Jesus said, "You shall not commit murder, nor commit adultery, nor steal, nor bear false witness,


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honor your father and your mother," and, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." Ex.:-; Lev.:; Deut.:-


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Jesus said to him, If you desire to be perfect, go sell your property and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in Heaven; and come, follow Me.


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And Jesus said to His disciples, Truly I say to you that a rich man will with great difficulty enter into the kingdom of Heaven.


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And again I say to you, It is easier for a camel to pass through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.


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But having looked at them, Jesus said to them, With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.


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Then answering, Peter said to Him, Behold, we left all things and followed You. What then shall be to us?


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And Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, You who have followed Me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man sits on the throne of His glory, you also will sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.


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And everyone who left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for the sake of My name, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.


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For the kingdom of Heaven is like a man, a housemaster, who went out when it was early to hire workers into his vineyard.


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And he said to them, You also go into the vineyard, and I will give you whatever is just. And they went.


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And going out about the eleventh hour, he found others standing idle, and said to them, Why do you stand here idle all day?


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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 just.


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But evening having come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, Call the workers and pay them the wage, beginning from the last to the first.


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And having come, the first supposed that they would receive more. And they also each received a denarius.


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saying, These last have performed one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden and the heat of the day.


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But answering, he said to one of them, Friend, I do not wrong you. Did you not agree to a denarius with me?


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Or is it not lawful for me to do what I desire with my things? Or is your eye evil because I am good?


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Behold! We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and scribes. And they will condemn Him to death.


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And they will deliver Him up to the nations to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify. And the third day He will rise again.


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Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came near to Him, along with her sons, worshipping, and asking something from Him.


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And He said to her, What do you desire? She said to Him, Say that these two sons of mine may sit one on Your right, and one on Your left in Your Kingdom.


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But answering, Jesus said, You do not know what you ask. Are you able to drink the cup which I am about to drink, and to be baptized with the baptism with which I am to be baptized? They said to Him, We are able.


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And He said to them, Indeed you shall drink My cup, and you shall be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized; but to sit off My right and off My left hand is not Mine to give, but to those for whom it was prepared by My Father.


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But having called them, Jesus said, You know that the rulers of the nations exercise lordship over them, and the great ones exercise authority over them.


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But it will not be so among you. But whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant.


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Even as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.


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And behold! Two blind ones sitting beside the way, hearing that Jesus was passing by, they cried out, saying, Have pity on us, Lord, Son of David!


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But the crowd rebuked them, that they be quiet. But they cried out the more, saying, Have pity on us, Lord, Son of David!


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And being moved with pity, Jesus touched their eyes. And instantly their eyes received sight, and they followed Him.


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And when they drew near to Jerusalem and came into Bethphage, toward the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,


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saying to them, Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find an ass tied, and a colt with her. Loosening, lead them to Me.


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And if anyone says anything to you, you shall say, The Lord has need of them. And he will send them at once.


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"Tell the daughter of Zion, Behold, your King comes to you, meek and mounted on an ass, even a colt, the son of an ass." Isa.:; Zech.:


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And the very great crowd strewed their garments in the road. And others were cutting branches from the trees and were spreading them in the way.


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And the crowd, the ones going before and the ones following, were crying out, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David! "Blessed is He coming in the name of the Lord"! Hosanna in the highest! Psa.:


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And Jesus entered into the temple of God and threw out all those selling and buying in the temple. And He overthrew the tables of the money changers and the seats of those selling the doves.


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And He said to them, It has been written, "My house shall be called a house of prayer," but you have "made it a den of plunderers." Isa.:; Jer.:


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But the chief priests and the scribes, seeing the wonders which He did, and the children crying out in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David, they were incensed.


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And they said to Him, Do you hear what these say? And Jesus said to them, Yes. Did you never read, "Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings You have perfected praise?" LXX-Psa.:; MT-Psa.:


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And seeing one fig tree by the road, He went up to it, and found nothing on it except leaves only. And He said to it, Let there be no more fruit from you forever. And the fig tree immediately dried up.


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And He having come into the temple, the chief priests and elders of the people came near to Him as He was teaching, saying, By what authority do You do these things? And who gave this authority to You?


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And answering, Jesus said to them, I also will ask you one thing, which if you tell Me, I also will tell you by what authority I do these things.


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The baptism of John, from where was it? From Heaven, or from men? And they reasoned among themselves, saying, If we shall say, From Heaven, He will say to us, Why then did you not believe him?


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And answering Jesus, they said, We do not know. And He said to them, Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.


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But what do you think? A man had two children, and coming to the first he said, Child, go today; work in my vineyard.


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And having come to the second, he said the same. And answering, he said, I go, sir; but he did not leave.


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Which of the two did the will of the father? They said to Him, The first. Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, The tax collectors and the harlots go before you into the kingdom of God.


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For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him. But the tax-collectors and the harlots believed him. And having seen, you did not repent afterwards to believe him.


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Hear another parable: There was a certain man, a house master, who planted a vineyard and placed a hedge around it; and he dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. And he rented it to vinedressers and left the country. Isa.:,


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And when the season of the fruits came, he sent his slaves to the vinedressers to receive his fruits.


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And the vinedressers, taking his slaves, they beat this one, and they killed one, and they stoned another.


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But seeing the son, the vinedressers said among themselves, This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and possess his inheritance.


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They said to Him, Bad men! He will miserably destroy them, and he will rent out the vineyard to other vinedressers who will give to him the fruits in their seasons.


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Jesus said to them, Did you never read in the Scriptures, "A Stone which the builders rejected, this One became the Head of the Corner? This was from the Lord, and it is a wonder in our eyes?" Psalm:,


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Because of this I say to you, The kingdom of God will be taken from you, and it will be given to a nation producing the fruits of it.


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And he sent his slaves to call those being invited to the wedding feast, but they did not desire to come.


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Again, he sent other slaves, saying, Tell the ones invited, Behold, I have prepared my supper; my oxen, and the fatlings are killed, and all things ready; come to the wedding feast.


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And hearing, the king became angry. And sending his armies, he destroyed those murderers and burned their city.


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And going out into the highways, those slaves gathered all, as many as they found, both evil and good. And the wedding feast was filled with reclining guests.


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And the king coming in to look over those reclining, he saw a man there not having been dressed in a wedding garment.


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And he said to him, Friend, how did you come in here, not having a wedding garment? But he was speechless.


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Then the king said to the servants, Binding his feet and hands, take him away and throw him out into the outer darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of the teeth.


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And they sent to Him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that You are true, and teach the way of God in truth, and it does not concern You about anyone, for You do not look to the face of men.


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They said to Him, Caesar's. Then He said to them, Then give to Caesar the things of Caesar, and to God the things of God.


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saying, Teacher, Moses said, If any should die not having children, his brother shall marry his wife, and shall raise up seed to his brother. Deut.:


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And seven brothers were with us. And having married, the first expired, and not having seed left his wife to his brother.


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For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but they are as the angels of God in Heaven.


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


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And 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." Deut.:


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"The Lord said to my Lord, Sit off My right until I should put Your hostile ones as a footstool for Your feet?" LXX-Psa.:; MT-Psa.:


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And no one was able to answer Him a word, nor did anyone dare from that day to question Him any more.


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Then all things, whatever they tell you to keep, keep and do. But do not do according to their works, for they say, and do not do.


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For they bind heavy and hard to bear burdens, and lay them on the shoulders of men, but they do not desire to move them with their finger.


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And they do all their works to be seen by men. And they make their phylacteries broad and enlarge the borders of their robes.


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But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of Heaven before men; for you do not enter, nor do you allow those entering to go in.


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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour the houses of widows, and pray at length as a pretext. Because of this you will receive more abundant judgment.


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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you go about the sea and the dry land to make one proselyte; and when he has become so, you make him twofold more a son of Hell than yourselves.


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Woe to you, blind guides, who say, Whoever swears by the Holy Place, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the Holy Place is a debtor.


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And you say, Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift on it, he is a debtor.


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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and you have left aside the weightier matters of the Law: judgment, and mercy, and faith. It was right to do these, and not to have left those aside.


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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within they are full of robbery and excess.


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Blind Pharisee! First cleanse the inside of the cup and of the dish, that the outside of them may become clean also.


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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened graves which outwardly indeed appear beautiful, but within are full of bones of the dead, and of all uncleanness.


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So you also indeed outwardly appear righteous to men, but within are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.


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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and adorn the tombs of the righteous.


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And you say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.


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Because of this, behold, I send to you prophets and wise ones and scribes. And some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and will persecute from city to city;


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so that should come on you all the righteous blood poured out on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Berechiah whom you murdered between the Holy Place and the altar.


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Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one killing the prophets and stoning those sent to her. How often I desired to gather your children in the way a bird gathers her chicks under her wings! And you did not desire it.


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For I say to you, In no way shall you see Me from now on, until you say, "Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord." Psa.:


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And going out, Jesus left the temple. And His disciples came to show Him the buildings of the temple.


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But Jesus said to them, Do you not see all these things? Truly I say to you, There will not at all be left one stone on a stone which in no way will not be thrown down.


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And as He was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, Tell us, when will these things be? And, What is the sign of Your coming and of the end of the age?


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But you are going to hear of wars and rumors of wars. See, do not be terrified. For all things must take place, but the end is not yet.


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For nation will be raised against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines and plagues and earthquakes against many places.


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Then they will deliver you up to affliction, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.


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And this gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached in all the earth for a testimony to all the nations, and then will come the end.


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Then when you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (the one reading, let him understand), Dan.:;:


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For there will be great affliction, such as has not happened from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.


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And except those days were shortened, not any flesh would be saved. But on account of the elect, those days will be shortened.


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For false christs and false prophets will rise up. And they will give great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.


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Then if they say to you, Behold, He is in the wilderness; do not go out. Behold, He is in the inner rooms; do not believe.


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For as the lightning comes forth from the east and shines as far as the west, so also will be the coming of the Son of Man.


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And immediately after the affliction of those days the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give her light, and the stars will fall from the heaven, 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 heavens. And then all the tribes of the land will wail. And they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and much glory. Dan.:


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And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather His elect from the four winds, from the ends of the heavens to their ends.


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But learn the parable of the fig tree: When its branch becomes tender and it puts out leaves, you know that the summer is near;


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But as to that day and that hour, no one knows, neither the angels of Heaven, except My Father only.


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For as they were in the days before the flood: eating, and drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah went into the ark.


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And they did not know until the flood came and took all away. So also will be the coming of the Son of Man.


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But know this, that if the housemaster had known in what watch the thief comes, he would have watched and not have allowed his house to be dug through.


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Who then is the faithful and wise servant whom his Lord has set over His household, to give to them the food in season?


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the Lord of that slave will come in a day in which he does not expect and in an hour which he does not know,


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and will cut him in two, and will appoint his portion with the hypocrites. There will be weeping and gnashing of the teeth.


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Then the kingdom of Heaven shall be compared to ten virgins who taking their lamps, went out to a meeting of the bridegroom.


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But the wise answered, saying, No, lest there not be enough for us and you. But rather, go to those who sell and buy for yourselves.


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But they going away to buy, the bridegroom came. And those ready went in with him to the wedding feast, and the door was shut.


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And to one indeed he gave five talents, and to another, two, and to another, one, to each according to his ability. And he went abroad at once.


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And coming up, the one who received five talents brought another five talents near, saying, Lord, you delivered five talents to me. Behold, I gained another five talents above them.


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And his lord said to him, Well done, good and faithful slave. You were faithful over a few things; I will set you over many. Enter into the joy of your lord.


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And the one who received two talents also coming up, he said, Lord, you delivered two talents to me. Behold, I have gained two other talents above them.


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His lord said to him, Well done, good and faithful slave. You were faithful over a few things, I will set you over many. Enter into the joy of your lord.


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And the one who received the one talent also coming up, he 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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And answering, his lord said to him, Evil and slothful slave! You knew that I reap where I did not sow, and I gather where I did not scatter.


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Then you ought to have put my silver to the bankers, and coming I would have received my own with interest.


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For to each who has, more will be given, and he will abound. But from him who does not have, even that which he has will be taken from him.


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And throw the worthless slave out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of the 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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And before Him shall be gathered all the nations; and He will separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.


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Then the King will say to those on His right, Come, the blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.


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For I hungered, and you gave Me food to eat; I thirsted, and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger, and you took Me in;


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Then the righteous will answer, saying, Lord, when did we see You hungry, and fed You; or thirsting, and gave You drink?


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And answering, the King will say to them, Truly I say to you, In so far as you did it to one of these, the least of My brothers, you did it to Me.


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Then He will also say to those on His left, Go away from Me, cursed ones, into the everlasting fire having been prepared for the Devil and his angels.


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For I hungered, and you did not give Me a thing to eat. I thirsted and you did not give Me a thing to drink;


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I was a stranger, and you did not take Me in; naked, and you did not clothe Me; sick, and in prison, and you did not visit Me.


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Then they also will answer Him, saying, Lord, when did we see You hungering, or thirsting, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister to You?


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Then He will answer them, saying, Truly I say to you, In so far as you did not do it to one of these, the least, neither did you do it to Me.


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You know that the Passover is coming after two days, and the Son of Man is betrayed to be crucified.


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Then the chief priests and the scribes and the elders of the people were assembled to the court of the high priest, the one named Caiaphas.


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a woman came to Him having an alabaster vial of ointment, very precious. And she poured it on His head as He reclined.


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But knowing, Jesus said to them, Why do you cause trouble to the woman? For she worked a good work toward Me.


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Truly I say to you, Wherever this gospel is proclaimed in all the world, what she did will be spoken of for a memorial of her.


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said, What will you give to me, and I will deliver Him up to you? "And they weighed to him thirty silver pieces." Zech.:


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And on the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying to Him, Where do you desire we should prepare for You to eat the Passover?


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And He said, Go into the city to a certain one and say to him, The Teacher says, My time is near; toward you I will prepare the Passover with My disciples.


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Indeed, the Son of Man goes, as it has been written about Him. But woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed. It were good for him if that man was never born.


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And answering, the one betraying Him, Judas, said, Not at all I is it, Rabbi? He said to him, You have said it.


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And as they ate, taking the bread and blessing it, Jesus broke and gave to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is My body.


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For this is My blood of the New Covenant which concerning many is being poured out for remission of sins.


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But I say to you, I will not at all drink of this fruit of the vine after this until that day when I drink it new with you in the kingdom of My Father.


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Then Jesus said to them, You all will be offended in Me during this night. For it has been written, "I will smite the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered." Zech.:


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Jesus said to him, Truly I say to you, During this night, before a cock crows, you will deny Me three times.


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Peter said to Him, Even if it were necessary for me to die with You, I will not deny You, never! And all the disciples said the same.


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Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane. And He said to the disciples, Sit here, until going away, I shall pray there.


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And going forward a little, He fell on His face, praying, and saying, My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; yet not as I will, but as You will.


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And He came to the disciples and found them sleeping. And He said to Peter, So! Were you not able to watch one hour with Me?


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Watch and pray, that you do not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is eager, but the flesh is weak.


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Again, going away a second time, He prayed, saying, My Father, if it is not possible for this cup to pass away except I drink it, let Your will be done.


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Then He came to His disciples and said to them, Sleep on, and rest for what time remains. Behold, the hour draws near, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.


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And as He was yet speaking, behold, Judas came, one of the Twelve. And with him was a numerous crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and elders of the people.


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But Jesus said to him, Friend, why are you here? Then coming up, they laid hands on Jesus and seized Him.


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And, behold, one of those with Jesus, stretching out the hand, drew his sword and struck the slave of the high priest and took off his ear.


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Then Jesus said to him, Put your sword back into its place. For all who take the sword shall perish by a sword.


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Or do you think that I am not able now to call on My Father, and He will place beside Me more than twelve legions of angels?


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In that hour, Jesus said to the crowds, Have you come out to take Me with swords and clubs, as against a plunderer? I sat with you daily teaching in the temple, and you did not lay hands on Me.


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But all this is happening that the Scriptures of the prophets may be fulfilled. Then all the disciples ran away, forsaking Him.


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And those who had seized Jesus led Him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled.


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And Peter followed Him from a distance, even to the court of the high priest. And going inside, he sat with the under-officers to see the end.


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And the chief priests and the elders and the whole sanhedrin looked for false testimony against Jesus, so that they might put Him to death,


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said, This One said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and through three even days to build it.


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And standing up, the high priest said to Him, Do you answer nothing? What do these witness against you?


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But Jesus kept silent. And answering, the high priest said to Him, I put You on oath by the living God that You tell us if You are the Christ, the Son of God.


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Jesus said to him, You said it. I tell you more. From this time you shall see the Son of Man sitting off the right hand of power, and coming on the clouds of the heaven. Psa.:; Dan.:


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Then the high priest tore his garments, saying, He blasphemed! Why do we have any more need of witnesses? Behold, now you have heard His blasphemy.


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And Peter sat outside in the courtyard. And one girl came near to him, saying, And you were with Jesus the Galilean.


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And he, going out into the porch, another saw him and said to those there, And this one was with Jesus the Nazarene.


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And after a little, coming near, those standing by said to Peter, Truly you also are of them, for even your speech makes you known.


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And Peter recalled the word of Jesus, saying to him, Before a cock crows, you will deny Me three times. And going out, he wept bitterly.


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And early morning occurring, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel together against Jesus, so as to put Him to death.


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Then Judas, the one betraying Him, seeing that He was condemned, repenting, returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders,


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And taking the pieces of silver, the chief priests said, It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood.


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Then was fulfilled that spoken through Jeremiah the prophet, saying, And I took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of Him who had been priced, on whom they of the sons of Israel set a price,


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And Jesus stood before the governor. And the governor questioned Him, saying, Are You the King of the Jews? And Jesus said to him, You say it.


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Then they, having been assembled, Pilate said to them, Whom do you wish I may release to you, Barabbas, or Jesus being called Christ?


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But as he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, Let nothing be to you and that just one. For I have suffered many things today by a dream because of Him.


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But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds, that they should ask for Barabbas, and to destroy Jesus.


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And answering, the governor said to them, From the two, which do you wish that I release to you? And they said, Barabbas.


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Pilate said to them, What then should I do to Jesus being called Christ? They all say to him, Crucify Him!


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And seeing that nothing is gained, but rather an uproar occurs, taking water, Pilate washed his hands before the crowd, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this righteous one; you will see.


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Then he released Barabbas to them. But having flogged Jesus, he delivered Him up that He might be crucified.


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Then taking Jesus into the praetorium, the soldiers of the governor gathered all the cohort against Him.


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And plaiting a crown of thorns, they placed it on His head, and a reed in His right hand. And bowing the knee before Him, they mocked at Him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews.


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And when they had mocked Him, they stripped off His cloak, and they put His garments on Him and led Him away to crucify Him.


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And going out, they found a man, a Cyrenean, named Simon. They compelled this one, that he bear His cross.


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And having crucified Him, they divided His garments, casting a lot, that might be fulfilled that spoken by the prophet, "They divided My garments to themselves, and they cast a lot over My clothing." Psa.:


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And they put up over His head His charge, it having been written: THIS IS JESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS.


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and saying, You the one razing the temple and building it in three days, if You are the Son of God, come down from the cross.


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He saved others; He is not able to save Himself. If He is the King of Israel, let Him come down now from the cross, and we will believe Him.


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And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani; that is, "My God, My God, why did You forsake Me?" Psa.:


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And at once, one of them running and taking a sponge, and filling it with "vinegar," put it on a reed and "gave drink to Him." Psa.:


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And, behold! The veil of the temple was torn into two from above as far as below. And the earth quaked, and the rocks were sheared!


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And coming forth out of the tombs after His resurrection, they entered into the holy city and were revealed to many.


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But the centurion and those with him guarding Jesus, seeing the earthquake and the things taking place, they feared exceedingly, saying, Truly this One was Son of God.


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And many women were there, watching from afar off, those who followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering to Him;


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among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.


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And evening having come, a rich man from Arimathea (Joseph by name) who also himself was discipled to Jesus,


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coming up to Pilate, this one asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be given.


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and laid it in his new tomb, which he had cut out in the rock. And rolling a great stone to the door of the tomb, he departed.


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And on the morrow, which is after the Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees were assembled to Pilate,


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Therefore, command that the grave be secured until the third day, that His disciples may not come by night and steal Him away, and may say to the people, He is raised from the dead. And the last deception will be worse than the first.


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But late in the sabbaths, at the dawning into the first of the sabbaths, Mary the Magdalene and the other Mary came to gaze upon the grave.


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And, behold! A great earthquake occurred! For descending from Heaven and coming near, an angel of the Lord rolled away the stone from the door and was sitting on it.


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But answering, the angel said to the women, You must not fear, for I know that you seek Jesus who has been crucified.


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And going quickly say to His disciples that He was raised from the dead. And behold! He goes before you into Galilee. You will see Him there. Behold! I told you.


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But as they were going to report to His disciples, behold, Jesus also met them, saying, Hail! And coming near, they seized His feet and worshiped Him.


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Then Jesus said to them, Do not fear. Go tell your brothers that they may go into Galilee, and there they will see Me.


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And they, having gone, behold, some of the guard coming into the city reported to the chief priests all things that occurred.


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And taking the silver, they did as they were taught. And this report was spread by the Jews until today.


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Then having gone, disciple all nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,


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teaching them to observe all things, whatever I commanded you. And, behold, I am with you all the days until the completion of the age. Amen.


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as it has been 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. Prepare the way of the Lord, make His paths straight." Mal.:; Isa.:


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John came baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for remission of sins.


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And all the Judean country and those of Jerusalem went out to him, and were all baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins.


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And John was clothed in camel's hair, and a leather girdle about his loin, and eating locusts and wild honey.


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And he proclaimed, saying, He who comes after me is mightier than I, of whom I am not fit to stoop down to loosen the thong of His sandals.


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And it happened in those days, Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan.


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And going up from the water, immediately He saw the heavens being torn, and the Spirit coming down as a dove upon Him.


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And there was a voice out of the heavens, You are My Son, the Beloved, in whom I have been delighting. Psa.:; Gen.:; Isa.:


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And He was there in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan, and was with the wild beasts. And the angels ministered to Him.


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And after John was delivered up, Jesus came into Galilee proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom of God,


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and saying, The time has been fulfilled, and the kingdom of God draws near. Repent and believe in the gospel.


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And walking along beside the Sea of Galilee, He saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a small net in the sea; for they were fishers.


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And going forward from there a little, He saw James the son of Zebedee, and his brother John. And they were in the boat mending the nets.


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And at once He called them. And leaving their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants, they went after Him.


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And they passed along into Capernaum. And entering into the synagogue, at once He taught on the sabbaths.


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And they were astounded at His doctrine, for He was teaching them as having authority, and not as the scribes.


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saying, What is to us and to You, Jesus, Nazarene? Have You come to destroy us? I know You, who You are, the Holy One of God.


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And all were astonished, so as to discuss to themselves, saying, What is this? What new teaching is this, that He commands even the unclean spirits with authority, and they obey Him?


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And at once going out of the synagogue, they came into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.


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And the mother-in-law of Simon was laid out, stricken by fever. And at once they spoke to Him about her.


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And coming near, He raised her up, holding her hand. And the fever left her instantly, and she served them.


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And evening coming, when the sun sank, they brought to Him all those having illness and those having been demon-possessed.


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And He healed many who had illness of various diseases. And he cast out many demons, and He did not allow the demons to speak, because they knew Him.


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And rising up quite early in the night, He went out and went away into a deserted place. And He was praying there.


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And He said to them, Let us go into the neighboring towns, that I may proclaim there also. For it was for this I came forth.


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And a leper came to Him, begging Him, and falling on his knees to Him, and saying to Him, If You desire, You are able to make me clean.


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And being moved with pity, reaching out the hand, Jesus touched him, and said to him, I am willing. Be made clean!


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and said to him, See, tell no one a thing, but go show yourself to the priest, and offer what Moses directed concerning your cleansing, for a testimony to them.


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But going out he began to proclaim much, and to spread about the matter, so that He no longer could openly enter into a city. But He was outside in deserted places. And they came to Him from every quarter.


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And at once many were gathered, so as none any longer had room, not even to the door. And He spoke the Word to them.


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And not being able to draw near to Him, due to the crowd, they unroofed the roof where He was. And digging through, they lowered the cot on which the paralytic was lying.


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And instantly knowing in His spirit that they reasoned this way within themselves, Jesus said to them, Why do you reason these things in your hearts?


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Which is easier? To say to the paralytic, Your sins are forgiven to you, or to say, Rise up and take your cot and walk?


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But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority to forgive sins on the earth, He said to the paralytic,


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And at once he rose up. And taking his cot, he went out before all, so as all to be astonished and glorified God, saying, Never did we see it this way.


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And passing on, He saw Levi the son of Alpheus sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, Follow Me. And rising up, he followed Him.


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And it happened as He reclined in his house, even many tax collectors and sinners reclined with Jesus and His disciples, for they were many. And they followed Him.


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And the scribes and Pharisees seeing Him eating with tax collectors and sinners, they said to His disciples, Why is it that He eats and drinks with the tax collectors and sinners?


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And hearing, Jesus said to them, Those who are strong have no need of a physician, but those badly having illness. I did not come to call the righteous to repentance, but sinners.


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And John's disciples, and those of the Pharisees, were fasting. And they came and said to Him, Why do John's disciples and those of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?


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And Jesus said to them, Can the sons of the bridechamber fast while the groom is with them? What time they have the groom with them, they cannot fast.


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But the days will come when the groom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days.


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And no one sews a patch of unmilled cloth on an old garment, else it takes away its fullness, the new from the old, and a worse tear occurs.


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And no one puts new wine into old skins, else the new wine bursts the skins, and the wine pours out, and the skins will be destroyed. But new wine is put into fresh skins.


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And it happened, He went along through the grain fields in the sabbaths. And His disciples began to make way, plucking the heads of grain.


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And He said to them, Did you never read what David did when he had need and hungered, he and those with him,


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how he entered the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the Loaves of the Presentation, which it is not lawful to eat, except for the priests, and he even gave to those being with him?


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And He said to them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbaths, or to do evil? To save a soul, or to kill? But they were silent.


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And having looked around on them with anger, being greatly grieved over the hardness of their heart, He said to the man, Stretch out your hand! And he stretched out, and his hand was restored sound as the other.


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And going out, the Pharisees at once took counsel with the Herodians against Him, how they might destroy Him.


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And Jesus withdrew to the sea with His disciples; and a great multitude from Galilee and from Judea followed Him,


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also some from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and beyond the Jordan, also those around Tyre and Sidon. A great multitude came to Him, hearing how much He was doing.


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And He spoke to His disciples that a small boat should stay near to Him because of the crowd, that they might not press upon Him.


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And when the unclean spirits saw Him, they fell down before Him, and cried out, saying, You are the Son of God!


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And He made disciples of twelve, that they might be with Him; and that He might send them to proclaim,


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And on James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James, He put on them the names Boanerges, which is, Sons of Thunder.


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Also He appointed Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alpheus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Canaanite,


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And coming down from Jerusalem, the scribes said, He has Beelzebub; and He casts out demons by the ruler of the demons.


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No one, not any, having entered into his house, is able to plunder the vessels of the strong one, unless he first tie up the strong one; and then he will plunder his house.


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Truly I say to you, All the sins will be forgiven to the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they have blasphemed;


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but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit has no remission unto the age, but is liable to eternal judgment


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And a crowd sat around Him. And they said to Him, Behold, Your mother and Your brothers seek You outside.


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And having looked around on those sitting around Him in a circle, He said, Behold, My mother and My brothers!


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And again He began to teach by the sea. And a large crowd was gathered to Him, so that He entered into the boat in order to sit in the sea. And all the crowd were on the land toward the sea.


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And as he sowed, it happened that one indeed fell by the wayside; and the birds of the heaven came and devoured it.


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And another fell on the stony place where it did not have much earth. And it sprang up at once, due to not having deepness of earth.


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And another fell into the thorn-bushes, and the thorn-bushes grew up and choked it; and it did not yield fruit.


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And another fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, going up and increasing; and one bore thirty, and one sixty, and one a hundredfold.


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And He said to them, To you it has been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God. But to these, those outside, all things are being given in parables,


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that seeing they may see and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand, lest they should convert, and the sins be forgiven to them. Isa.:,


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And these are those by the wayside where the Word is sown. And when they hear, Satan comes at once and takes away the Word having been sown in their hearts.


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And likewise, these are the ones having been sown on the rocky places, who, when they hear the Word, they immediately receive it with joy,


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yet they have no root in themselves, but are temporary. Then trouble or persecution having occurred through the Word, immediately they are offended.


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and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts about other things entering in, they choke the Word, and it becomes unfruitful.


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And these are those being sown on the good ground, who hear and welcome the Word and bring forth fruit, one thirty, and one sixty, and one a hundredfold.


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And He said to them, Does the lamp come that it may be put under the grain measure, or under the bed? Is it not also that it may be put on the lampstand?


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For not anything is hidden but that it will be revealed, nor anything become covered but that it will come to light.


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And He said to them, Be careful what you hear. With what measure you measure, it will be measured to you; and more will be given to you, the ones hearing.


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For whoever may have, more will be given to him; and the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.


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and should sleep, and rise night and day; and the seed should sprout and lengthen of itself, as he does not know.


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It is like a grain of mustard, which, when it is sown on the earth, it is lesser than all the seeds of those on the earth.


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And when it is sown, it comes up and becomes greater than all the plants, and produces great branches, so as to enable the birds of the heaven to roost under its shade.


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But He did not speak to them without a parable. And He explained all things to His disciples privately.


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And dismissing the crowd they took Him along in the boat as He was. And other small boats also were with Him.


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And He was on the stern, sleeping on the headrest. And they awakened Him, and said to Him, Teacher, does it not matter to You that we are perishing?


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And being awakened, He rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, Silence! Be still! And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.


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And they feared a great fear and said to one another, Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey Him?


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Because he had often been bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn by him, and the fetters had been shattered. And no one was able to subdue him.


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And continually night and day in the hills, and in the tombs, he was crying and cutting himself with stones.


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And crying with a loud voice, he said, What is to me and to You, Jesus, Son of the most high God? I adjure You by God, do not torment me.


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And He asked him, What is your name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion, because we are many.


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And Jesus immediately allowed them. And coming out, the unclean spirits entered into the pigs. And the herd rushed down the precipice into the sea (and they were about two thousand), and they were choked in the sea.


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And those who fed the pigs fled, and they told it to the city, and to the fields. And they came out to see what was happening.


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And they came to Jesus, and stared at the one who had been demon possessed, sitting and being clothed, and being in his senses, the one who had the legion. And they feared.


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And those seeing it related to them how it happened to the one who had been demon possessed, and about the pigs.


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But Jesus did not allow him, but said to him, Go to your house, to your own, and report to them what the Lord has done to you and had mercy on you.


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And Jesus having crossed over in the boat again to the other side, a large crowd gathered upon Him; and He was by the sea.


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And he begged Him very much, saying, My daughter is at the last end. I pray that You will come and lay hands on her, that she may be cured and live.


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and who had suffered many things by many physicians, and had spent all things that she had, and having gained nothing, but rather coming to worse,


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And instantly the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she knew in her body that she was healed of the plague.


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And knowing instantly within Himself that power had gone forth out of Him, turning in the crowd, Jesus said, Who touched My garments?


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And the woman, being afraid and trembling, knowing what had happened on her, she came and fell down before Him and told Him all the truth.


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As He was speaking, they came from the synagogue ruler saying, Your daughter has died. Why do you still trouble the Teacher?


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And going in, He said to them, Why do you make a tumult and weep? The child has not died, but is sleeping.


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And they laughed at Him. But having put all out, He took along the father and the mother of the child, and those with Him, and passed on into where the child was lying.


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And taking hold of the child's hand, He said to her, Talitha koumi; which is, being translated, Little girl, I say to you, Rise up!


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And immediately the little girl rose up and walked. For she was twelve years old. And they were amazed with great amazement.


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And very much He directed them that no one should know this. And He said to give her something to eat.


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And a sabbath having come, He began to teach in the synagogue. And hearing, many were amazed, saying, From where came these things to this One? And what is the wisdom given to Him, that even such works of power come about through His hands?


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Is this One not the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James and Joseph and Judas and Simon? And are not His sisters here with us? And they were offended in Him.


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And Jesus said to them, A prophet is not without honor, except in his fatherland, and among the relatives, and in his own house.


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And He could do no work of power there, except He performed healing on a few infirm ones, laying on His hands.


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And He called the Twelve near and began to send them out two by two. And He gave them authority over the unclean spirits,


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and charged them that they take nothing in the way, except only a staff; no bag, no bread, no copper in the belt;


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And as many as will not receive you, nor hear from you, having gone out from there, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony to them. Truly I say to you, It will be more bearable for Sodom or Gomorrah in Judgment Day than for that city.


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And Herod the king heard, for His name became publicly known. And he said, John the Baptist has been raised from the dead, and because of this the works of power operate in Him.


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For having sent, Herod himself had seized John and bound him in the prison, because of Herodias the wife of his brother Philip, because he had married her.


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For Herod feared John, knowing him to be a holy and just man, and kept him safe. And hearing him, he did many things, and gladly heard from him.


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And a suitable day having come, when Herod made a dinner for his great ones on his birthday, also the chiliarchs, and the first ones of Galilee.


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And the daughter of Herodias herself entering, and having danced, she also pleased Herod and those reclining with him. The king said to the girl, Ask me whatever you wish, and I will give it to you.


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And going out, she said to her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist.


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And immediately going in with haste to the king, she asked, saying, I desire that at once you give to me the head of John the Baptist on a platter.


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And having become deeply grieved, but because of the oaths and those reclining together, the king did not wish to reject her.


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And the king sending a guardsman at once, he ordered his head to be brought. And going, he beheaded him in the prison,


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And the apostles gathered to Jesus. And they told Him all things, even what they did and what they taught.


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And He said to them, You yourselves come apart into a deserted place, and rest a little. For those coming and those going were many, and they did not even have opportunity to eat.


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And the crowds saw them going, and many recognized Him. And they ran together on foot there, from all the cities, and came before them, and came together to Him.


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And going out, Jesus saw a large crowd, and had pity on them, because "they were as sheep having no shepherd." And He began to teach them many things. Num.:; Eze.:


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And now a late hour occurring, drawing near to Him, the disciples said, The place is deserted, and it is now a late hour.


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Send them away, that going away to the surrounding fields and villages they may buy bread for themselves. For they do not have what they may eat.


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And answering, He said to them, You give them food to eat. And they said to Him, Going, should we buy two hundred denarii of bread and give them to eat?


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And He said to them, How many loaves do you have? Go and see. And knowing, they said, Five, and two fish.


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And taking the five loaves and the two fish, looking up to Heaven, He blessed, and broke the loaves, and giving out to His disciples, that they might set before them. And He divided the two fish to all.


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And at once He constrained His disciples to enter into the boat, and to go before to the other side, to Bethsaida, until He should dismiss the crowd.


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And He saw them being distressed in the rowing, for the wind was contrary to them. And it was about the fourth watch of the night when He came toward them, walking on the sea. And He willed to go by them.


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For all saw Him, and were troubled. And immediately He spoke to them and said to them, Have courage. I AM! Do not fear.


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And He went up to them into the boat, and the wind was cut off. And they were amazed, exceedingly beyond measure within themselves, and marveled.


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they ran around all that neighborhood. And they began to carry about those badly having illness on cots to where they heard that He was.


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And wherever He went into villages or cities or fields, they laid the ailing ones in the markets and begged Him if only they may touch the fringe of His garment. And as many as touched Him were healed.


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And seeing some of His disciples eating bread with unclean, that is unwashed hands, they found fault.


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For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash the hands with the fist, holding the tradition of the elders.


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And coming from the market, if they do not immerse themselves, they do not eat. And there are many other things which they received to hold: dippings of cups, and of utensils, and of copper vessels, and couches.


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Then the Pharisees and scribes questioned Him, Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands?


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And answering, He said to them, Well did Isaiah prophesy concerning you, hypocrites; as it has been written: "This people honors Me with the lips, but their heart is far away from Me;


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For forsaking the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men: immersings of utensils and cups, and many other such like things you do.


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And He said to them, Well do you to set aside the commandment of God so that you may keep your tradition?


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For Moses said, "Honor your father and your mother;" Ex.:; Deut.: and, "The one speaking evil of father or mother, let him expire by death." Ex.:


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But you say, If a man says to his father or mother, Corban, (which is, A gift!) whatever you may profit by me.


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making the Word of God of no effect by your tradition which you delivered. And many such like things you do.


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There is nothing from outside the man, having entered into him, which is able to defile him. But the things going out from him, those are the things defiling the man.


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And He said to them, Are you also so undiscerning? Do you not perceive that all that enters from the outside into the man is not able to defile him?


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This is because it does not enter into his heart, but into the belly, and goes out into the waste-bowl, purging all the foods.


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For from within, out of the heart of men, pass out the evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,


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thefts, greedy desires, iniquities, deceit, lustful desires, a wicked eye, blasphemy, pride, recklessness.


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And rising up from there, he went away into the borders of Tyre and Sidon. And entering into the house, He desired no one to know, but He could not be hidden.


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For hearing about Him, a woman came up, one whose daughter had an unclean spirit. And she fell down at His feet.


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And the woman was a Greek, a Syro-phoenician by race. And she asked Him, that He would cast out the demon from her daughter.


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And Jesus said to her, First, allow the children to be satisfied, for it is not good to take the children's bread and to throw it to the dogs.


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But she answered and said to Him, Yes, Lord; for even the dogs under the table eat from the crumbs of the children.


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And going away to her house, she found the demon had gone out, and her daughter was laid on the couch.


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And again going out from the borders of Tyre and Sidon, He came to the Sea of Galilee, in the midst of the borders of Decapolis.


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And they brought a deaf one to Him, hardly speaking. And they begged Him, that He put His hand on him.


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And taking him away from the crowd privately, He put His fingers into his ears; and spitting, He touched his tongue;


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And instantly his ears were opened, and the bond of his tongue was loosened, and he spoke correctly.


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And He ordered them that they should tell no one. But as much as He ordered them, much more abundantly they proclaimed.


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And they were most exceedingly amazed, saying, He has done all things well. He makes even the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.


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The crowd being very great in those days, and not having anything they may eat, Jesus, calling His disciples near, said to them,


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I have pity on the crowd because now three days they remain with Me, and they do not have what they may eat.


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And if I send them away fasting to their house, they will faint in the way, for some of them come from afar.


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And His disciples answered Him, From where will anyone here be able to satisfy these with loaves in the wilderness?


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And He ordered the crowd to recline on the ground. And taking the seven loaves, giving thanks, He broke and gave to His disciples, that they might serve. And they served the crowd.


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And the Pharisees went out and began to argue with Him, seeking from Him a sign from Heaven, tempting Him.


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And groaning in His spirit, He said, Why does this generation seek a sign? Truly I say to you, As if this generation will be given a sign!


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And the disciples forgot to take loaves. And they did not have any with them, except one loaf in the boat.


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And He charged them, saying, See! Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.


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And knowing, Jesus said to them, Why do you reason because you have no loaves? Do you not yet perceive nor realize? Have you still hardened your heart?


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When I broke the five loaves to the five thousand, how many hand baskets full of fragments did you take up? They said to Him, Twelve.


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And when the seven to the four thousand, how many lunch baskets did you take up with the fillings of fragments? And they said, Seven.


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And He came to Bethsaida. And they carried a blind one to Him, and begged Him that He would touch him.


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And having taken hold of the blind one's hand, He led him forth outside the village. And spitting into his eyes, laying His hands on him, He asked him if he saw anything.


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Then He placed His hands on his eyes again, and made him look up. And he was restored and saw all clearly.


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And He sent him to his house, saying, You may not go into the village, nor may tell anyone in the village.


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And Jesus and His disciples went out to the villages of Caesarea of Philip. And in the way, He questioned His disciples, saying to them, Whom do men say Me to be?


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And He said to them, And you, whom do you say Me to be? And answering, Peter said to Him, You are the Christ.


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And He began to teach them that it is necessary for the Son of Man to suffer many things and to be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and to be killed, and after three days to rise again.


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But turning around and seeing His disciples, He rebuked Peter, saying, Go behind Me, Satan, because you do not mind the things of God, but the things of men.


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And calling near the crowd with His disciples, He said to them, Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself and take his cross, and let him follow Me.


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For whoever desires to save his life, he shall lose it. But whoever shall lose his life for My sake and the gospel, that one shall save it.


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For whoever may be ashamed of Me and My Words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in the glory of His Father, along with the holy angels.


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And He said to them, Truly I say to you, There are some of those standing here who in no way shall taste of death until they see the kingdom of God coming in power.


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And after six days Jesus takes along Peter and James and John, and leads them into a high mount apart, alone. And He was transfigured before them.


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And His garments became shining, very white like snow, such as a fuller on earth is not able to whiten.


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And answering, Peter said to Jesus, Rabbi, it is good for us to be here; and, Let us make three tents, one for You, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah.


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And a cloud was overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is My Son," the Beloved; hear Him. Psa.:; Gen.:; Deut.:


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And as they were coming down from the mount, He commanded them that they should tell no one what they saw, except when the Son of Man should rise from the dead.


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And answering, He said to them, Indeed, Elijah coming first restores all things. And how it has been written of the Son of Man that He suffer many things and be despised!


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But I say to you, Elijah also has come and they did to him whatever they desired, even as it has been written of him.


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And wherever it seizes him, it dashes him; and he foams and gnashes his teeth. And he wastes away. And I told Your disciples, that they might expel it. And they were not able.


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And answering them, He said, O unbelieving generation! How long will I be with you? How long shall I endure you? Bring him to Me.


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And they brought him to Him. And seeing Him, the spirit immediately convulsed him. And falling on the ground, he wallowed, foaming.


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And He questioned his father, How long a time is it while this has happened to him? And he said, From childhood.


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And often it threw him both into fire and into water, that it might destroy him. But if You are able to do anything, help us, having pity on us.


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And immediately crying out, the father of the child said with tears, Lord, I believe! Help my unbelief!


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And seeing that a crowd is running together, Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, Dumb and deaf spirit, I command you, Come out from him, and you may no more go into him!


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And crying out, and convulsing him very much, it came out. And he became as if dead, so as for many to say that he died.


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And He entering into a house, His disciples questioned Him privately, Why were we not able to cast it out?


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For He taught His disciples, and said to them, The Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of men, and they will kill Him. And being killed, He will rise up the third day.


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And they came to Capernaum. And having come into the house, He questioned them, What were you disputing to yourselves in the way?


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And sitting, He called the Twelve and said to them, If anyone desires to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all.


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Whoever receives one of such children on My name receives Me. And whoever receives Me does not receive Me, but the One having sent Me.


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And John answered Him, saying, Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, who does not follow us. And we forbade him, because he does not follow us.


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But Jesus said, Do not forbid him. For there is no one who shall do a work of power in My name, yet be able to speak evil of Me quickly.


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For whoever gives you a cup of cold water to drink in My name, because you are of Christ, truly I say to you, In no way he will lose his reward.


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And whoever causes one of these little ones that believe in Me to offend, it is good for him if rather a millstone be laid about his neck, and he be thrown into the sea.


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And if your hand offend you, cut it off. For it is profitable for you to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go away into Hell, into the unquenchable fire,


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And if your foot causes you to offend, cut it off, for it is profitable for you to enter into life lame, than having two feet to be thrown into Hell, into the unquenchable fire,


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And if your eye offends you, cast it out. For it is profitable for you to enter into the kingdom of God one-eyed, than having two eyes to be thrown into the Hell of fire,


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Salt is good, but if the salt becomes saltless, by what will you season? Have salt in yourselves and be at peace with one another.


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And rising up from there, He came into the borders of Judea by the other side of the Jordan. And again crowds came together to Him, and as He usually did, He again taught them.


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And answering, Jesus said to them, With respect to your hardheartedness he wrote this command to you.


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And they brought children to Him, that He might touch them. But the disciples rebuked those carrying them.


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But seeing, Jesus was indignant. And He said to them, Allow the children to come to Me, and do not hinder them. For of such is the kingdom of God.


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Truly I say to you, Whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a child may not enter into it, never.


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And He having gone out into the highway, running up and kneeling down to Him, one questioned Him, Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?


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You know the commandments: Do not commit adultery, do not commit murder, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not defraud, honor your father and mother. Ex.:-


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And looking at him, Jesus loved him, and said to him, One thing is lacking to you. Go, sell what things 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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And having looked around, Jesus said to His disciples, How hardly those having riches will enter into the kingdom of God!


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And the disciples were astonished at His Words. And answering again, Jesus said to them, Children, how hard it is for those trusting on riches to enter into the kingdom of God!


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It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle, than for a rich one to enter into the kingdom of God.


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But looking at them, Jesus said, From men it is impossible, but not from God. For all things are possible from God.


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But answering, Jesus said, Truly I say to you, There is no one who forsook house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for My sake and the gospel,


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that will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the coming age, eternal life.


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And they were in the highway, going up to Jerusalem. And Jesus was going before them, and following they were astonished and were afraid. And taking the Twelve again, He began to tell them the things about to happen to Him:


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Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem. And the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and to the scribes. And they will condemn Him to death and will betray Him to the nations.


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And they will mock Him and will flog Him and will spit at Him, and will kill Him. And on the third day He will rise again.


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And coming up to Him, James and John, the sons of Zebedee, said, Teacher, we desire that whatever we may ask You would do for us.


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And they said to Him, Give us that we may sit one off the right of You and one off the left of You in Your glory.


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But Jesus said to them, You do not know what you ask. Are you able to drink the cup which I drink, and to be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with?


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And they said to Him, We are able. But Jesus said to them, Indeed you will drink the cup which I drink, and you will be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized.


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But having called them near, Jesus said to them, You know that those seeming to rule the nations 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 desires to become great among you shall be your servant.


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For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.


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And they come into Jericho. And He and His disciples and a large crowd having gone out from Jericho, a son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus the blind, sat beside the highway begging.


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And hearing that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out and to say, Son of David, Jesus, have mercy on me!


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And standing still, Jesus said for him to be called. And they called the blind one, saying to him, Be comforted, rise up, He calls you.


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And answering, Jesus said to him, What do you desire I should do to you? And the blind one said to Him, My Lord, that I may see again.


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And Jesus said to him, Go, your faith has healed you. And instantly he saw again, and followed Jesus in the highway.


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And when they draw near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, toward the Mount of Olives, He sent two of His disciples,


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and said to them, Go into the village opposite you. And going into it, at once you will find a colt tied, on which no one of men has sat. Untying it, bring it.


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And if anyone says to you, Why do you do this? say, The Lord has need of it. And he will at once send it here.


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And many spread their garments on the highway, and others were cutting branches from the trees and were spreading them on the highway.


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And those going before, and those following after, were crying out, saying, Hosanna! "Blessed is the One coming in the name of the Lord!" Psa.:


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And Jesus entered into Jerusalem, and into the temple. And having looked around at all things, the hour already being late, He went out to Bethany with the Twelve.


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And seeing afar off a fig tree having leaves, He went toward it, if perhaps He would find anything on it. And coming on it, He found nothing except leaves, for it was not the season of figs.


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And answering, Jesus said to it, Let no one eat fruit of you any more to the age. And His disciples heard.


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And they came to Jerusalem. And entering into the temple, Jesus began to throw out those selling and buying in the temple; also He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those selling the doves.


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And He taught, saying to them, Has it not been written, "My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations." "But you have made it a den of plunderers."? Isa.:; Jer.:


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And the scribes and the chief priests heard. And they sought how they might destroy Him, for they feared Him, because all the crowd was astonished at His doctrine.


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For truly I say to you, Whoever says to this mountain, Be taken up and be thrown into the sea, and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will happen, it will be to him, whatever he says.


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Therefore I say to you, All things, whatever you ask, praying, believe that you will receive, and it will be to you.


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And when you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive it, so that your Father in Heaven may also forgive your deviations.


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And they come 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 said to Him, By what authority do You do these things? And who gave You this authority that You do these things?


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And answering, Jesus said to them, I will also ask you one thing, and answer Me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things:


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And they argued to themselves, saying, If we say, From Heaven, He will say, Why then did you not believe him?


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And answering, they said to Jesus, We do not know. And answering, Jesus said to them, Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.


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And He began to speak to them in parables: "A man planted a vineyard, and set a fence around it," and dug a winevat, "and built a tower." And he rented it to vinedressers and went away. Isa.:,


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And at the season, he sent a slave to the vinedressers, that he might receive from the vinedressers the fruit of the vineyard.


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And again he sent to them another slave; stoning that one, they struck him in the head and sent him away, insulting him.


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And again, he sent another, and they killed that one; also many others, indeed beating these, and killing these.


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Yet having one son, his own beloved, then he sent him to them also, last of all, saying, They will have respect for my son.


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But these vinedressers said to themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him and the inheritance will be ours.


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What, then, will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and will destroy the vinedressers and will give the vineyard to others.


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Have you not even read this Scripture: The "Stone which the builders rejected, this One came to be Head of the Corner;


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And they sought to seize Him, yet feared the crowd. For they knew that He spoke the parable against them. And leaving Him, they went away.


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And they sent some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians to Him, that they might catch Him in a word.


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And coming, they said to Him, Teacher, we know that You are true, and there is not a care to You about anyone, for You do not look to the face of men, but teach on the way of God in truth: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?


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Should we give, or should we not give? But knowing their hypocrisy, He said to them, Why do you tempt Me? Bring Me a denarius that I may see.


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And they brought one. And He said to them, Whose image and inscription is this? And they said to Him, Caesar's.


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And answering, Jesus said to them, Give back the things of Caesar to Caesar, and the things of God to God. And they marveled at Him.


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Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a brother of anyone should die and leave behind a wife, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife and raise up seed to his brother. Deut.:


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Then in the resurrection, when they rise again, of which of them will she be the wife? For the seven had her as wife.


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And answering, Jesus said to them, Do you not err because of this, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God?


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For when they rise again from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are as angels in Heaven.


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But concerning the dead, that they are raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, as God spoke to him at the Bush, saying, "I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob"? Ex.:


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And coming up, one of the scribes, hearing them arguing, knowing that He answered them well, he questioned Him, What is the first commandment of all?


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And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is: "Hear, Israel. The Lord our God is one Lord,


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and 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. Deut.:,


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And the second is like this, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." There is not another commandment greater than these. Lev.:


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And the scribe said to Him, You say well, Teacher. You have spoken according to truth, "that God is one," Deut.:, and "there is no other besides Him;" Deut.:


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"and to love Him from all the heart", and from all the understanding, "and from all the soul, and from all the strength;" Deut.:, and "to love one's neighbor as oneself" Lev.: is more than all the burnt offerings and the sacrifices.


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And seeing that he answered intelligently, Jesus said to him, You are not far from the kingdom of God. And no one dared to question Him any more.


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And teaching in the temple, answering, Jesus said, How do the scribes say that Christ is the son of David?


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For David himself said by the Holy Spirit, "The Lord said to my Lord, Sit off My right until I place Your enemies as a footstool for Your feet." LXX-Psa.:; MT-Psa.:


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Then David himself calls Him Lord. And from where is He his son? And the large crowd heard Him gladly.


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And He said to them in His teaching, Be careful of the scribes, those desiring to walk about in robes, and greetings in the markets,


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those devouring the houses of widows, and for a pretense praying at length. These will receive more abundant judgment.


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And sitting down opposite the treasury, Jesus watched how the crowd threw copper coins into the treasury. And many rich ones threw in much.


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And having called His disciples near, He said to them, Truly I say to you that this poor widow has thrown in more than all of those casting into the treasury.


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For all threw in out of that abounding to them, but she out of her poverty threw in all, as much as she had, her whole livelihood.


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And as He was going out of the temple, one of His disciples said to Him, Teacher, Behold! What kind of stones and what kind of buildings!


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And answering, Jesus said to him, Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone shall be left upon a stone which shall not be thrown down.


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And as He was sitting in the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew questioned Him privately:


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Tell us when these things shall be? And what is the sign when all these things are about to be done?


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But when you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be disturbed, for it must occur; but the end is not yet.


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For nation will be raised against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there shall be earthquakes in many places. And there shall be famines and troubles. These things are the beginnings of anguishes.


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But you yourselves be careful, for they will deliver you up to sanhedrins and to synagogues. You will be beaten, and you will be led before governors and kings for My sake, for a testimony to them.


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But whenever they lead you away, delivering you, do not be anxious beforehand, what you should say, nor meditate. But whatever may be given to you in that hour, speak that. For you are not those speaking, but the Holy Spirit.


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And a brother will deliver up a brother to death, and a father the child. And children will rise up on parents and will put them to death.


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And you will be hated by all on account of My name. But the one enduring to the end, that one will be kept safe.


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But when you see "the abomination of desolation," the one spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not (he reading, let him understand), then let those in Judea flee into the mountains. Dan.:;:


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And he on the housetop, let him not go down into the house, nor go in to take a thing out of his house.


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for there will be affliction in those days, such as has not been the like from the beginning of creation which God created until now, and never will be.


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And if the Lord had not shortened the days, not any flesh would be saved; but because of the elect whom He chose, He has shortened the days.


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And then if anyone says to you, Behold, here is the Christ! Or, Behold, there! You shall not believe.


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For false christs and false prophets will be raised, and they will give miraculous signs and wonders in order to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.


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But in those days, after that affliction, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give her light;


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And then He will send His angels and will gather His elect from the four winds, from the end of earth to the end of heaven.


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And from the fig tree learn the parable: When its branch becomes tender and puts out leaves, you know the summer is near.


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But concerning that day and the hour, no one knows, not the angels, those in Heaven, nor the Son, except the Father.


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then you watch, for you do not know when the lord of the house is coming, at evening, or at midnight, or at cockcrowing, or early;


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And it was the Passover, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread after two days. And the chief priests and the scribes sought how, having seized Him by guile, they might kill Him.


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And He being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as He reclined, a woman came, having an alabaster vial of pure, costly ointment of nard. And breaking the alabaster vial, she poured it down His head.


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And some were being indignant within themselves, and saying, To what has this waste of the ointment occurred?


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For this could be sold for over three hundred denarii, and to be given to the poor. And they were incensed with her.


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For you have the poor with you always, and when you wish, you can do well toward them. But you do not have Me always.


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Truly I say to you, Wherever this gospel is proclaimed in all the world, what this one did will also be spoken of for a memorial of her.


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And Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went away to the chief priests, that he might betray Him to them.


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And hearing, they rejoiced and promised to give him silver. And he sought how he might opportunely betray Him.


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And on the first day of the Unleavened Bread, when they killed the Passover, His disciples said to Him, Where do You desire that going we may prepare that You may eat the Passover?


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And He sent two of His disciples, and said to them, Go into the city. And you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him.


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And wherever he goes in, say to the housemaster, The Teacher says, Where is the guest room where I may eat the Passover with My disciples?


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And His disciples went out and came into the city and found it as He told them. And they prepared the Passover.


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And as they were reclining and eating, Jesus said, Truly I say to you, One of you will betray Me, the one eating with Me.


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And they began to be grieved, and to say to Him one by one, Not at all I, is it? And another, Not at all I, is it?


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Truly the Son of Man goes as it has been written concerning Him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It were good for him if that man had never been born.


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And as they were eating, Jesus taking a loaf, blessing, He broke and gave to them. And He said, Take, eat, this is My body.


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And He said to them, This is My blood, that of the New Covenant, which is poured out concerning many.


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Truly I say to you, No more, I may not drink from the produce of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God, never!


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And Jesus said to them, All of you will be offended in Me in this night, because it has been written: "I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered." Zech.:


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And Jesus said to him, Truly I say to you that today, in this night, before a cock crows twice, you will deny Me three times.


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But he said more fervently, If I must die with You, I will not deny You, never! And all said likewise.


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And they came to a place which was named Gethsemane. And He said to His disciples, Sit here while I pray.


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And He took along Peter and James and John with Him. And He began to be much amazed and to be deeply troubled.


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And going forward a little, He fell on the ground and prayed that if it were possible, the hour might pass from Him.


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And He said, Abba, Father, all things are possible to You; take this cup from Me. Yet not what I will, but what You will.


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And He came and found them sleeping. And He said to Peter, Simon, do you sleep? Were you not strong enough to watch one hour?


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Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit truly is willing, but the flesh is weak.


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And returning, He found them sleeping again, for their eyes were heavy. And they did not know what to answer Him.


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And He came a third time, and said to them, Sleep on now, and rest. It is enough. The hour has come. Behold, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.


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And at once, He yet speaking, Judas comes up, being one of the Twelve. And with him was a great crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders.


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And the one betraying Him had given them a sign, saying, Whomever I kiss, it is He; seize Him and lead Him away safely.


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But a certain one of those standing by, drawing a sword, struck the slave of the high priest and took off his ear.


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And answering, Jesus said to them, Have you come out with swords and clubs to take Me, as against a robber?


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I was with you daily teaching in the temple, and you did not seize Me. But it is that the Scriptures may be fulfilled.


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And one, a certain young man, was following Him, having thrown a linen cloth about his naked body. And the young men seized him.


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And they led Jesus away to the high priest. And all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes came together to him.


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And Peter followed Him from a distance, to the inside of the courtyard of the high priest. And he was sitting with the under-officers, also warming himself toward the light.


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And the chief priests and the whole sanhedrin sought testimony against Jesus, to put Him to death. And they found none.


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We heard Him saying, I will throw down this temple made with hands, and through three days I will build another not made with hands.


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And standing in the middle, the high priest questioned Jesus, saying, Do you not answer? Nothing? What do these testify against you?


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But He was silent and answered nothing. Again the high priest questioned Him, and said to Him, Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?


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And Jesus said, I AM! And you will see the Son of Man sitting off the right hand of power, and coming with the clouds of the heaven. Psa.:; Dan.:


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And some began to spit at Him, and to cover His face, and to beat Him with a fist, and to say to Him, Prophesy! And the under-officers struck Him with slaps.


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But he denied, saying, I do not know nor understand what you say. And he went out into the forecourt. And a cock crowed.


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And again he denied. And after a little, those standing by again said to Peter, Truly you are from them, for you are both a Galilean and your speech agrees.


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And a second time a cock crowed. And Peter remembered the word Jesus said to him, Before a cock crows twice, you will deny Me three times. And thinking on it, he wept.


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And immediately in the morning, the chief priests with the elders and scribes and all the sanhedrin having made a council, having bound Jesus, they led Him away and delivered Him to Pilate.


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But Pilate again questioned Him, saying, Do You answer nothing? Behold, how many things they testify against You.


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And there was one called Barabbas, having been bound with the insurgents, who in the insurrection had committed murder.


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But answering again, Pilate said to them, What then do you desire I do to him whom you call king of the Jews?


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And having decided to do the easiest to the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them. And having flogged Him, he delivered up Jesus, that He might be crucified.


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And the soldiers led Him away inside the court, which is the praetorium. And they called together all the cohort.


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And when they had mocked Him, they took the purple off Him, and put His own garments on Him. And they led Him out, that they might crucify Him.


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And they forced one passing by, Simon, a Cyrenian, coming from a field, the father of Alexander and Rufus, that he might carry His cross.


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And having crucified Him, they divided His garments, casting a lot on them, who and what each should take. Psa.:


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And those passing by blasphemed Him, shaking their heads, and saying, Aha! You razing the temple, and in three days building it,


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And also the chief priests and the scribes mocking to one another said likewise, He saved others; He is not able to save Himself.


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The Christ, the king of Israel? Let Him now come down from the cross, that we may see and believe. And the ones crucified with Him defamed Him.


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And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? (Which being translated is, "My God, My God, why did You forsake Me?") Psa.:


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And one running up, and filling a sponge with "vinegar," and putting it on a reed, "gave Him to drink." But they said, Leave alone, let us see if Elijah comes to take Him down. Psa.:


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And standing off across from Him, seeing that He had cried out so, and He expired, the centurion said, Truly, this Man was Son of God.


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And also women were watching from a distance, among whom also was Mary Magdalene; also Mary the mother of James the less, and of Joses, and Salome,


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who also followed Him and ministered to Him when He was in Galilee; and many other women who came up to Jerusalem with Him.


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Joseph of Arimathea came, an honorable councillor, who himself was also waiting for the kingdom of God. And taking courage, he went in to Pilate and begged the body of Jesus.


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And Pilate marveled if He had already died. And calling the centurion near, he asked him if He died already.


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And having bought a linen cloth, and having taken Him down, he wrapped Him in the linen, and laid Him in a tomb which was cut out of rock. And he rolled a stone against the mouth of the tomb.


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And the sabbath passing, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Salome, bought spices, so that coming they might anoint Him.


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And having entered into the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right, having been clothed in a white robe. And they were much amazed.


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But he said to them, Do not be amazed. You seek Jesus the Nazarene who has been crucified. He was raised. He is not here. See the place where they put Him?


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But go, say to the disciples and to Peter, He goes before you into Galilee. You will see Him there, even as He told you.


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And going out quickly, they fled from the tomb. And trembling and ecstasy took hold of them. And they told no one, not a thing, for they were afraid.


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And having risen early on the first of the sabbath, He first appeared to Mary Magdalene, from whom He had cast out seven demons.


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And after these things, He was revealed in a different form to two of them walking and going into the country.


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Afterward, as they reclined, He was revealed to the Eleven. And He reproached their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen Him, having been raised.


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And miraculous signs will follow to those believing these things: they will cast out demons in My name; they will speak new languages;


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they will take up snakes; and if they drink anything deadly, it will in no way hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will be well.


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Then indeed, after speaking to them, the Lord was taken up into Heaven, and sat off the right of God. Psa.:


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And going out, they preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the Word through the miraculous signs following after. Amen.


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Since many took in hand to draw up an account concerning the matters having been borne out among us,


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it seemed good also to me, having traced out all things accurately from the first, to write in order to you, most excellent Theophilus,


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In the days of Herod the king of Judea, there was a certain priest named Zacharias, of the daily course of Abijah. And his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.


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And they were both righteous before God, walking blameless in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.


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according to the custom of the priests, entering into the Holy Place of the Lord, it was Zacharias' lot to burn incense.


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But the angel said to him, Do not fear, Zacharias, because your prayer was heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear a son to you, and you shall call his name John.


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For he shall be great in the eyes of the Lord, and he shall not drink wine or strong drink. And he will be filled of the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.


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And he will go out before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah "to turn the hearts of fathers to their children," and disobedient ones to the wisdom of the just, to make ready a people having been prepared for the Lord. Mal.:,


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And Zacharias said to the angel, By what shall I know this? For I am old and my wife is advanced in her days.


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And answering, the angel said to him, I am Gabriel, who stands before God, and I was sent to speak to you and to announce to you the good news of these things.


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And behold, you shall be silent and not able to speak until the day these things take place, because you did not believe my words which shall be fulfilled in their season.


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But coming out, he was not able to speak to them, and they recognized that he had seen a vision in the temple. And he was making signs to them and continued dumb.


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to a virgin who had been betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.


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And entering, the angel said to her, Hail, one having received grace! The Lord is with you. You are blessed among women!


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This One will be great and will be called Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David.


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And answering, the angel said to her, The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you, and for this reason that Holy One being born of you will be called Son of God.


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And behold, your kinswoman Elizabeth! She also conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month to her who was called barren;


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And Mary said, Behold, the slave woman of the Lord! May it be to me according to your word. And the angel departed from her.


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And it happened, as Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the babe in her womb leaped, and Elizabeth was filled of the Holy Spirit.


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And she cried out with a loud voice and said, You are being blessed among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb!


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For behold, as the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the babe in my womb leaped in exultation.


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And blessed is she believing, because there will be a completion to the things spoken to her from the Lord.


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For He looked upon the humiliation of His slave woman. For, behold, from now on all generations will count me blessed. Sam.:


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And the neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord magnified His mercy with her, and they rejoiced with her.


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And it happened on the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child and were calling it by his father's name, Zacharias.


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And fear came on all those living around them. And in all the hill country of Judea all these things were talked about.


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And all who heard laid them up in their hearts, saying, What then will this child be? And the hand of the Lord was with him.


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to give to us, that we being delivered out of the hand of those hostile to us, in order to serve Him without fear,


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And you, child, will be called Prophet of the Most High, for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways, Mal.:


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to appear to those sitting in darkness and in shadow of death, to direct our feet into the way of peace. Isa.:


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And the child grew, and became strong in spirit. And he was in deserted places until the day of his showing to Israel.


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And it happened in those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus for all the habitable world to be registered.


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And Joseph also went from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth to Judea, to the city of David which is called Bethlehem, because of his being of the house and family of David,


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And she bore her son, the First-born. And she wrapped Him and laid Him in the manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.


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And shepherds were in the same country living in the fields and keeping guard over their flock by night.


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And, behold, an angel of the Lord came on them. And the glory of the Lord shone around them. And they feared with a great fear.


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And the angel said to them, Do not fear. For, behold, I proclaim good news to you, a great joy, which will be to all people,


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And it happened as the angels departed from them into the heaven, even the men, the shepherds, said to one another, Indeed, let us go over to Bethlehem, and let us see this thing occurring, which the Lord made known to us.


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And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all things which they heard and saw, even as was spoken to them.


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And when eight days were fulfilled to circumcise the child His name was called Jesus, the name called by the angel before He was conceived in the womb.


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And when the days of her cleansing according to the Law of Moses were fulfilled, they took Him up to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord,


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as it has been written in the Law of the Lord: Every male opening a womb shall be called holy to the Lord; Ex.:


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and to offer a sacrifice according to that said in the Law of the Lord, a pair of turtledoves, or two nestlings of doves. Lev.:


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And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. And this man was righteous and devout, eagerly expecting the Consolation of Israel. And the Holy Spirit was upon him.


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And it happened to him, having been divinely instructed by the Holy Spirit, he was not to see death before he would see the Christ of the Lord.


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And by the Spirit he came into the temple. And as the parents were bringing in the child Jesus for them to do according to the custom of the Law concerning Him,


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And Simeon blessed them and said to His mother Mary, Behold, this One is set for the fall and rising up of many in Israel, and for a sign spoken against;


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And there was Anna, a prophetess, a daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was advanced in many days, having lived seven years with a husband from her virginity;


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and she was a widow of eighty four years, who did not depart from the temple, serving night and day with fastings and prayers.


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And coming on at the very hour, she gave thanks to the Lord, and spoke concerning Him to all those in Jerusalem eagerly expecting redemption.


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And as they finished all things according to the Law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to Nazareth their city.


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And the Child grew, and became strong in spirit, being filled with wisdom. And the grace of God was upon Him.


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and fulfilling the days, in their returning, the boy Jesus stayed in Jerusalem. And Joseph and His mother did not know.


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But supposing Him to be in the company, they went a day on the way. And they looked for Him among the relatives and friends.


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And it happened after three days they found Him in the temple sitting in the midst of the teachers, even hearing them and questioning them.


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And seeing Him, they were astounded. And His mother said to Him, Child, why did You do so to us? Behold, Your father and I were looking for You, greatly distressed.


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And He said to them, Why did you look for me? Did you not know that I must be busy in the affairs of My Father?


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And He went with them and came to Nazareth and was being subject to them. And His mother carefully kept all these words in her heart.


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And in the fifteenth year of the government of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate governing Judea, and Herod ruling as tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruling as tetrarch of Iturea and the Trachonitis country, and Lysanias ruling as tetrarch of Abilene,


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upon the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the Word of God came on John the son of Zacharias in the desert.


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And he came into the neighborhood of the Jordan proclaiming a baptism of repentance for remission of sins,


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as it has been written in the scroll of the Words of Isaiah the prophet, saying: "The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of the Lord, make His paths straight.


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Every valley shall be filled up, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the crooked places shall be made into straight, and the rough into smooth ways;"


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Then he said to the crowds going out to be baptized by him, Offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?


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Then bring forth fruits worthy of repentance, and do not begin to say within yourselves, We have Abraham as father. For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham out of these stones.


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And also the axe is already laid to the root of the trees; therefore, every tree not producing good fruit is being cut down and being thrown into the fire.


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And answering, he said to them, The one that has two tunics, let him give to him that has not. And the one that has food, let him do the same.


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And also ones serving as soldiers asked him, saying, And we, what shall we do? And he said to them, Do not shake violently anyone nor accuse falsely, and be satisfied with your wages.


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But the people were expecting, and all reasoning in their hearts about John, lest perhaps he is the Christ,


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John answered all, saying, I indeed baptize you with water; but He stronger than I comes, of whom I am not fit to loosen the thong of His sandals. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire,


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whose sifting fan is in His hand; and He will fully purge His threshing-floor, and will gather the wheat into His storehouse, but the chaff He will burn up with fire that cannot be put out.


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But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him concerning Herodias, the wife of his brother, Philip, and concerning all the evil things Herod did,


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And it happened, in the baptizing of all the people, Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened;


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and the Holy Spirit came down in a bodily form as a dove upon Him. And there was a voice out of Heaven, saying, You are My Son, the Beloved; in You I have been delighting. Psa.:; Gen:; Isa.:


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And Jesus Himself was beginning to be about thirty years old, being, as was supposed, the son of Joseph, the son of Heli,


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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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And full of the Holy Spirit, Jesus returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,


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forty days, being tried by the Devil. And He ate nothing in those days, and they being ended, He afterwards hungered.


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And Jesus answered to him, saying, It has been written: "Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every Word of God." Deut.:


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And leading Him up into a high mountain, the Devil showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.


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And the Devil said to Him, I will give all this authority and their glory to You, because it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I wish.


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And answering, to him, Jesus said, Go behind Me, Satan! For it has been written: "You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve." Deut.:


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And he led Him to Jerusalem, and stood Him on the wing of the temple, and said to Him, If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down from here;


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"that on their hands they shall bear You, that you not strike Your foot against a stone." LXX-Psa.:,; MT-Psa.:,


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And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee. And a report went out through all the neighborhood about Him.


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And He came to Nazareth where He was brought up. And as was His custom, He went in on the day of the sabbaths, into the synagogue, and He stood up to read.


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And the scroll of Isaiah the prophet was handed to Him. And unrolling the book, He found the place where it was written:


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" The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me. Because of this He anointed Me to proclaim the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me" to heal the brokenhearted, "to proclaim remission to captives, and to the blind to see again," to send away the ones being crushed, in remission,


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And rolling up the scroll, returning it to the attendant, He sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on Him.


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And all bore witness to Him, and marveled at the gracious words coming out of His mouth. And they said, Is this not the son of Joseph?


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And He said to them, Undoubtedly you will speak this parable to Me, Physician, heal yourself. What things we heard were happening in Capernaum, do also here in your fatherland.


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But truthfully I say to you, Many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah when the heaven was shut up over three years and six months, when a great famine came on all the land;


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And many lepers were in Israel during the time of Elisha the prophet, and none of them was made clean except Naaman the Syrian.


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And rising up, they threw Him outside the city, and led Him up to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, in order to throw Him down.


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And in the synagogue was a man who had a spirit of an unclean demon. And he cried out with a loud voice,


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saying, Aha! What is to us and to You, Jesus, Nazarene? Did You come to destroy us? I know You, who You are, the Holy One of God.


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And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Be silent, and come out from him! And throwing him into the midst, the demon came out from him, not harming him.


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And astonishment came on all. And they spoke with one another, saying, What word is this, that He commands the unclean spirits with authority and power, and they come out?


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And rising up from the synagogue, He went into the house of Simon. And the mother-in-law of Simon was being seized with a great fever. And they asked Him concerning her.


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And standing over her, He rebuked the fever; and it left her. And rising up instantly, she served them.


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And the sun sinking, all, as many as had sick ones with various diseases, brought them to Him. And laying hands on each one of them, He healed them.


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And also demons came out from many, crying out and saying, You are the Christ, the Son of God! And rebuking them, He did not allow them to speak, for they knew Him to be the Christ.


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And day having come, going out, He went into a deserted place. And the crowds looked for Him, and came up to Him, and held Him fast, not to pass away from them.


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But He said to them, It is right for Me to proclaim the gospel, the kingdom of God, to the other cities, because I was sent on this mission.


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And it happened that the crowd was pressing on Him to hear the Word of God. And He was standing by Lake Gennesaret.


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And He saw two boats standing by the lake, but the fishermen had left them and were washing the nets.


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And entering into one of the boats, which was Simon's, He asked him to put out a little from the land. And sitting down, He taught the crowd from the boat.


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And answering, Simon said to Him, Master, laboring all through the night we took nothing. But at Your word I will let down the net.


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And they signaled the partners, those in the other boat, to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they were sinking.


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And seeing, Simon Peter fell at the knees of Jesus, saying, Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord.


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and in the same way also, James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, Do not fear. From now on you will be taking men alive.


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And it happened, in His being in one of the cities, even behold, a man full of leprosy! And seeing Jesus, falling on his face, he begged Him, saying, Lord, if You be willing, You are able to cleanse me.


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And stretching out the hand, He touched him, saying, I will! Be cleansed! And instantly the leprosy departed from him.


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And He charged him to tell no one. But going away, show yourself to the priest and offer concerning your cleansing, as Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.


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But the word about Him spread even more. And large crowds were coming to hear and to be healed from their infirmities by Him.


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And it happened on one of the days, even He was teaching. And Pharisees and teachers of the Law were sitting by, who were coming out of every village of Galilee and Judea, and Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was there, for the curing of them.


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And, behold, men carrying on a cot a man who was paralyzed. And they sought to bring him in, and to lay him before Him.


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And not finding a way through which they might bring him in through the crowd, going up on the housetop, they let him down through the tiles with the cot, into the midst, in front of Jesus.


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And the scribes and Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who is able to forgive sins except God alone?


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But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on the earth to forgive sins, He said to the paralytic, I say to you, Rise up, and take your cot and go to your house.


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And rising up at once before them, taking up that on which he was lying, he went to his house glorifying God.


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And amazement seized all, and they glorified God, and were filled with fear, saying, We saw wonderful things today.


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And after these things, He went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, Follow Me!


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And Levi made a great feast for Him in his house. And there was a crowd of many tax collectors reclining, and of others who were with them.


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And their scribes and the Pharisees murmured at His disciples, saying, Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?


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And answering, Jesus said to them, Those who are sound have no need of a healer, but those badly having illness.


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But they said to Him, Why do John's disciples fast often, and make prayers, and likewise those of the Pharisees, but those close to You eat and drink?


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But He said to them, You are not able to make the sons of the bridechamber fast while the bridegroom is with them.


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But days will come, even when the bridegroom is taken away from them, then in those days they will fast.


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And He also told a parable to them: No one puts a piece of a new garment on an old garment; otherwise both the new will tear, and the old does not match the piece from the new.


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And no one puts new wine into old skins; otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be poured out, and the skins will perish.


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And it happened on the second chief sabbath, He passed along through the sown fields. And His disciples plucked the heads and were eating, rubbing with the 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 sabbaths?


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And answering, Jesus said to them, Have you never read this, what David did when he hungered, and those being with him?


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How he went into the house of God, and he took the Loaves of Presentation, and ate, and even gave to those with him, which it is not lawful to eat, except only the priests?


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And it also happened on another sabbath, He going into the synagogue and teaching. And a man was there, and his right hand was withered.


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And the scribes and the Pharisees kept close by Him, to see if He would heal on the sabbath, so that they might find a charge against Him.


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But He knew their reasonings. And He said to the man having the withered hand, Rise up and stand in the middle! And rising up, he stood.


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Then Jesus said to them, I will ask you one thing, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbaths, or to do ill, to save a life, or to destroy it?


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And having looked around at them all, He said to the man, Stretch out your hand! And he did so. And his hand was restored sound as the other.


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And it happened in these days, He went out into the mountain to pray. And He was spending the night in prayer to God.


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And when it became day, He called His disciples, also choosing out twelve from them, whom He also named apostles:


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And coming down with them, He stood on a level place. And a crowd of His disciples, and a great multitude of the people were there from all Judea and Jerusalem, and from the coast country of Tyre and Sidon. These came to hear Him, and to be healed from their diseases,


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And lifting up His eyes to His disciples, He said: Blessed are the poor, for the kingdom of God is yours.


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Blessed are those hungering now, for you will be filled. Blessed are those weeping now, for you will laugh.


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Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they cut you off, and will reproach you, and will cast out your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man;


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rejoice in that day, and leap for joy; for, behold, your reward is much in Heaven! For their fathers did according to these things to the prophets.


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Woe to you, those having been filled, for you will hunger! Woe to you, those laughing now, for you will mourn and lament!


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Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for their fathers did according to these things to the false prophets.


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To those striking you on the cheek, turn the other also. And from those taking your garment, do not keep back the tunic also.


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And if you love those who love you, what thanks is there to you? For even sinners love those who love them.


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And if you do good to those who do good to you, what thanks is there to you? For even the sinners do the same.


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And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what thanks is there to you? For the sinners lend to sinners so that they may receive the equal things.


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But love the ones hostile to you, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be much; and you will be sons of the Most High, for He is kind to the unthankful and evil ones.


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Judge not, and in no way be judged. Do not condemn, and in no way you will be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.


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Give, and good measure will be given to you, pressed down and shaken together, and running over, they will give into your bosom. For the same measure which you measure, it will be measured back to you.


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And He spoke a parable to them: A blind one is not able to guide a blind one. Will they not both fall into the ditch?


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But why do you look on the chip in your brother's eye, but do not consider the beam in your own eye?


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Or how can you say to your brother, Brother, allow me to take out the chip in your eye, not yourself seeing the log in your eye? Hypocrite! First take the beam out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the chip in your brother's eye.


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For each tree is known from its own fruit. For they do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.


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The good man brings forth good out of the good treasure of his heart. And the evil man brings forth evil out of the evil treasure of his heart, for his mouth speaks out of the abundance of his heart.


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He is like a man building a house, who dug and deepened, and laid a foundation on the rock. And a flood having occurred, the stream burst against that house and could not shake it, for it had been founded on the rock.


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But he who heard and did not perform, he is like a man having built his house on the earth without a foundation, on which the stream burst, and it immediately fell; and the ruin of that house was great.


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And having heard about Jesus, he sent elders of the Jews to Him, asking Him that He might come to restore his slave.


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And Jesus went with them. But He being yet not far away from the house, the centurion sent friends to Him, saying to Him, Lord, do not trouble, for I am not worthy that You come under my roof.


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For this reason I did not count myself worthy to come to You. But say in a word, and let my servant be cured.


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For I also am a man having been set under authority, having soldiers under myself. And I say to this one, Go! And he goes. And to another, Come! And he comes. And to my slave, Do this! And he does it.


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And hearing these things, Jesus marveled at him. And turning to the crowd following Him, He said, I say to you, I did not find such faith in Israel.


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And it happened on the next day, He went into a city being called Nain. And many of His disciples went with Him; also a great crowd.


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And as He drew near to the gate of the city, even behold, one having died was being borne, an only son born to his mother; and she was a widow. And a considerable crowd of the city was with her.


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And coming up, He touched the coffin; and those carrying it stood still. And He said, Young man, I say to you, Arise!


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And fear took hold of all; and they glorified God, saying, A great prophet has risen up among us; and, God has visited His people.


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And having called near a certain two of his disciples, John sent to Jesus, saying, Are You the One coming? Or should we expect another?


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And having come to Him, the men said, John the Baptist sent us to You, saying, Are You the One coming, or should we expect another?


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And in the same hour He healed many from diseases and plagues and evil spirits. And He gave to many blind ones ability to see.


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And answering, Jesus said to them, Going, report to John what you saw and heard; that blind ones are seeing again, lame ones are walking about, leprous ones are being cleansed, deaf ones are hearing, dead ones are being raised, poor ones are preached the Gospel. Isa.:,;:


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And John's messengers going away, He began to speak to the crowds about John: What did you go out to the deserted places to see? A reed being shaken by the wind?


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But what did you go out to see? A man who had been dressed in soft clothing? Behold, those in splendid clothing and being in luxury are in king's palaces.


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This is he about whom it has been written: "Behold, I send My messenger" before Your face, who "will prepare Your way before You." Mal.:


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For I say to you, Among those born of a woman, no prophet is greater than John the Baptist. But the least one in the kingdom of God is greater than he is.


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And all the people and the tax collectors hearing, they justified God, having been baptized with the baptism of John.


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But the Pharisees and the lawyers set aside God's counsel as to themselves, not being baptized by him.


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And the Lord said, Then to what shall I compare the men of this generation? And to what are they like?


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They are like children sitting in a market and calling to one another, and saying, We piped to you, and you did not dance; we mourned to you, and you did not weep.


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The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, Behold, a man, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.


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And a certain one of the Pharisees asked Him that He eat with him. And going into the Pharisee's house, He reclined.


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And, behold, a woman who was a sinner in the city, knowing that He reclined in the Pharisee's house, taking an alabaster vial of ointment,


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and standing at His feet, weeping behind Him, she began to wash His feet with tears. And she was wiping with the hairs of her head. And she ardently kissed His feet and was anointing them with the ointment.


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But seeing, the Pharisee who invited Him spoke within himself, saying, This one, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what the woman who touches him is; for she is a sinner.


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And answering, Jesus said to the man, Simon, I have a thing to say to you. And he said, Teacher, speak.


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There were two debtors to a certain creditor: the one owed five hundred denarii and the other fifty.


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But they not having a thing to pay, he freely forgave both. Then which of them do you say will love him most?


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And answering, Simon said, I suppose the one to whom he freely forgave the most. And He said to him, You have judged rightly.


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And turning to the woman, He said to Simon, Do you see this woman? I came into your house. You did not give water for My feet, but she washed My feet with tears and wiped off with the hairs of her head.


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For this reason I say to you, Her many sins are remitted, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, he loves little.


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And it happened afterwards, even He traveled in every city and village, preaching and announcing the gospel of the kingdom of God. And the Twelve were with Him;


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also certain women who were healed from evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, having been called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out,


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and Joanna, wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, who were ministering to Him of their possessions.


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And a great crowd coming together, and those in each city coming to Him, He spoke through a parable:


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The one sowing went out to sow his seed. And in his sowing, one indeed fell beside the way, and was trampled; and the birds of the heaven ate it.


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And other fell in the middle of the thorn bushes, and growing up with the thorn bushes, they choked it.


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And other fell on the good earth, and growing it produced fruit a hundredfold. Saying these things, He cried out, The one having ears to hear, let him hear.


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And He said, To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest in parables, that seeing they might not see, and hearing, they might not understand. Isa.:


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And those by the roadside are those who hear, then the Devil comes and takes away the Word from their heart, lest believing they may be saved.


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And those on the rock are those who, when they hear, receive the Word with joy; and these have no root, who believe for a time, and in time of trial draw back.


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And those falling in the thorn bushes, these are those hearing, but under cares and riches and pleasures of life, moving along, they are choked, and do not bear to maturity.


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And those in the good ground, these are the ones who in a right and good heart, hearing the Word, they hold it and bear fruit in patience.


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But no one lighting a lamp covers it with a vessel, or puts it underneath a couch, but sets it on a lampstand, that those coming in may see the light.


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For nothing is hidden which will not be revealed, nor secret which will not be known and come to be revealed.


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Then observe how you hear; for whoever may have, it will be given to him; and whoever may not have, even what he seems to have will be taken from him.


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And His mother and His brothers came to Him, and were not able to come up with Him through the crowd.


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And it was told to Him, saying Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside wishing to see You.


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And answering, He said to them, My mother and My brothers are these: the ones hearing the Word of God, and doing it.


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And it happened on one of the days that He and His disciples entered into a boat. And He said to them, Let us go over to the other side of the lake. And they put out to sea.


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And as they sailed He fell asleep. And a storm of wind came onto the lake, and they were being filled and were in danger.


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And coming up they awakened Him, saying, Master! Master! We are perishing! And being aroused, He rebuked the wind and the roughness of the water; and they ceased, and there was a calm.


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And He said to them, Where is your faith? And being afraid, they marveled, saying to one another, Who then is this One, that He commands even the wind and the water, and they obey Him?


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And He going out onto the land, a certain man out of the city met Him, who had demons from a long time. (And he put no garment on; and he did not stay in a house, but among the tombs).


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And seeing Jesus, and crying out, he fell down before Him, and with a loud voice said, What to me and to You, Jesus, Son of God the Most High? I beg You, do not torment me.


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For He charged the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For many times it had seized him, and he was bound with chains and fetters, being guarded. And tearing apart the bonds, he was driven by the demons into the deserted places.


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And Jesus asked him, saying, What is your name? And he said, Legion (because many demons entered into him).


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And there was a herd of many pigs feeding there in the mount. And they begged Him that He would allow them to enter into those. And He allowed them.


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And coming out from the man, the demons entered into the pigs; and the herd rushed down the cliff into the lake and was choked.


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And seeing the thing, those feeding the pigs fled. And leaving, they reported to the city and to the farms.


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And they went out to see the thing happening, and came to Jesus. And they found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and of sound mind. And they were afraid.


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And all the multitude of the neighborhood of the Gadarenes were seized with a great fear. And they asked Him to depart from them. And entering into the boat, He returned.


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And the man from whom the demons had gone out begged Him, desiring to be with Him. But Jesus sent him away, saying,


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Go back to your house and tell what God did to you. And he went away proclaiming through all the city what things Jesus did to him.


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And it happened as Jesus returned, the crowd gladly received Him, for they were all waiting for Him.


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And, behold, a man named Jairus came, and this one was a synagogue ruler. And falling at the feet of Jesus, he begged Him to come into his house,


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because an only daughter was born to him, about twelve years old; and she was dying. And in His going, the crowd pressed on Him.


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And a woman being in a flow of blood from twelve years, who had spent her whole living on physicians, and could not be cured by anyone,


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coming up behind she touched the fringe of His garment. And instantly the flow of her blood stopped.


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And Jesus said, Who was touching Me? And all denying it, Peter and those with Him said, Master, the crowds press on You and jostle. And do You say, Who was touching Me?


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And seeing that she was not hidden, the woman came trembling and kneeled down before Him and told Him before all the people for what reason she touched Him, and how she was instantly cured.


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As He was yet speaking, someone came from the synagogue ruler, saying to him, Your daughter has died. Do not trouble the Teacher.


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And coming into the house, He did not allow anyone to enter, except Peter and James and John, and the father and mother of the girl.


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And all were weeping and bewailing her. But He said, Stop weeping. She has not died, but is sleeping.


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And her spirit returned, and she rose up immediately. And He ordered something to eat be given to her.


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And having called together His twelve disciples, He gave them power and authority over all the demons, and to heal diseases.


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And He said to them, Take nothing for the way, neither staffs, nor moneybags, nor bread, nor silver, nor each to have two tunics.


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And as many as may not receive you, going out from that city even shake off the dust from your feet, for a testimony against them.


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And going out, they passed through the villages, having announced the gospel, and healing everywhere.


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And Herod the tetrarch heard all the things happening by Him, and was puzzled, because of the saying by some that John had been raised from the dead,


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And Herod said, I beheaded John, but who is this about whom I hear such things? And he sought to see Him.


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And having returned, the disciples told Him what things they did. And taking them, He went out privately to a deserted place of a city called Bethsaida.


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But knowing this, the crowds followed Him. And having received them, He spoke to them about the kingdom of God. And He cured those having need of healing.


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But the day began to decline. And coming up, the Twelve said to Him, Let the crowd go that going to the surrounding villages and farms they may lodge and find food supplies, because here we are in a deserted place.


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But He said to them, You give them to eat. But they said, There are not to us more than five loaves and two fish, unless going we buy food for all this people.


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For they were about five thousand men. But He said to His disciples, Make them recline in groups, by fifties.


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And taking the five loaves and the two fish, looking up to Heaven, He blessed them, and broke, and gave to the disciples to set before the crowd.


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And they ate and were all filled. And twelve hand-baskets of fragments of that left over to them were taken up.


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And it happened as He was praying alone, the disciples were with Him. And He questioned them, saying, Whom do the crowds say Me to be?


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And answering, they said, John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and others that some prophet of the ancients has risen again.


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saying, The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day.


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And He said to all, If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily. And let him follow Me.


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For whoever desires to save his life, he will lose it. But whoever loses his life for My sake, this one will save it.


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For whoever is ashamed of Me and My Words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of that one when He comes in His glory, and that of the Father, and of the holy angels.


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But truly I say to you, There are some of those standing here who in no way shall taste of death until they see the kingdom of God.


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And about eight days after these sayings, it happened: also taking Peter and John and James, He went into the mountain to pray.


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And in His praying, the appearance of His face became different, and His clothing was dazzling white.


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But Peter and those with him were pressed down with sleep. But fully awakening, they saw His glory, and the two men standing with Him.


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And it happened in their parting from Him, Peter said to Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here. And, Let us make three tents, one for You, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah, not knowing what he said.


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And he saying these things, a cloud came and overshadowed them. And they feared as they entered into the cloud.


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And a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is My Son, the Beloved; hear Him! Psa.:; Isa.:; Deut.:


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And as the voice occurred, Jesus was found alone. And they were quiet. And they reported to no one in those days, nothing which they had seen.


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And, behold, a man called aloud from the crowd, saying, Teacher, I beg You to look at my son, because he is my only born.


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And, behold, a spirit takes him, and he suddenly cries out, and it throws him into convulsions, with foaming. And it departs from him with pain, bruising him.


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And answering, Jesus said, O unbelieving generation, and being perverted, until when shall I be with you and endure you? Bring your son here.


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But as he was yet coming up, the demon tore him and violently convulsed him. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit and healed the child, and gave him back to his father.


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And all were astonished at the majesty of God. And as all were marveling at all things which He did, Jesus said to His disciples,


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You lay into your ears these sayings, for the Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men.


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But they did not understand this saying, and it was veiled from them so that they might not perceive it. And they feared to ask Him about this word.


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and said to them, Whoever receives this child on My name receives Me. And whoever receives Me receives Him who sent Me. For the one being least among you all, this one shall be great.


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And answering, John said, Master, we saw someone casting out demons on Your name, and we stopped him because he does not follow with us.


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And it happened in the fulfilling of the days of His taking up, even He set His face to go to Jerusalem.


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And He sent messengers before His face. And going they went into a village of Samaritans, so as to make ready for Him.


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And seeing, His disciples, James and John, said Lord, do You desire that we tell fire to come down from Heaven, and to destroy them even as Elijah did? K.:-


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For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men's lives, but to save. And they went to another village.


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And it happened as they were going in the way, one said to Him, I will follow You everywhere You may go, Lord.


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But Jesus said to him, Leave the dead to bury their dead, but going out, you announce the kingdom of God.


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And also another said, I will follow You, Lord, but first allow me to take leave of those in my house.


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But Jesus said to him, No one putting his hand on the plow, and looking at the things behind, is fit for the kingdom of God.


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And after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two before His face into every city and place, even to where He was about to come.


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Therefore He said to them, Indeed, the harvest is much, but the laborers are few. Therefore, pray to the Lord of the harvest, that He send out workers into His harvest.


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And if a son of peace is truly there, your peace shall rest on it; but if not so, it shall return to you.


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And remain in the same house, eating and drinking the things shared by them; for the laborer is worthy of his hire. Do not move from house to house.


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Even the dust clinging to us out of your city, we shake off against you! Yet know this, that the kingdom of God has drawn near to you!


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Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the works of power which have been occurring in you had occurred in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago sitting in sackcloth and ashes!


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The one hearing you hears Me, and the one rejecting you also rejects Me, and the one rejecting Me also rejects the One having sent Me.


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And the seventy returned with joy, saying, Lord, even the demons are subject to us through Your Name.


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Behold, I have given you the authority to tread on snakes and scorpions, and on all the power of the hostile one, and nothing shall hurt you, no, never!


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But stop rejoicing in this, that the evil spirits submit to you. But rather rejoice that your names are written in Heaven.


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In the same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Spirit, and said, I praise You, Father, Lord of Heaven and of earth, that You hid these things from the sophisticated and cunning and revealed them to babes; yes, Father, because so it was pleasing before You.


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All things were delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father; and who is the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son may desire to reveal Him.


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For I say to you that many prophets and kings desired to see what you see, and did not see, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear.


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And behold, a certain lawyer stood up, testing Him and saying, Teacher, What shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?


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And answering, he said, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength," and with all your mind, and "your neighbor as yourself." Deut.:; Lev.:


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And taking it up, Jesus said, A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell in with plunderers, who both stripping him and laying on blows, went away, leaving him being half dead.


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But by a coincidence, a certain priest was going on that road; and seeing him, he passed on the opposite side.


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And in the same way, a Levite, also being at the place, coming and seeing him, he passed on the opposite side.


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And coming near, he bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. And putting him on his own animal, he brought him to an inn and cared for him.


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And going forth on the morrow, taking out two denarii, he gave them to the innkeeper, and said to him, Care for him, and whatever more you spend, on my return I will repay to you.


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Who, then, of these three seems to you to have become a neighbor to the one having fallen among the plunderers?


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And he said, The one doing the deed of mercy with him. Then Jesus said to him, Go, and you do likewise.


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And as they went on, it happened, He also entered into a certain village. And a certain woman, Martha by name, received Him into her house.


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And to this one was a sister being called Mary, who also was sitting alongside, at the feet of Jesus, and heard His Word.


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But Martha was distracted about much serving. And coming on she said, Lord, is it not a care to You that my sister left me alone to serve? Then tell her that she should help me.


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And it happened as He was praying in a certain place, when He ceased, one of His disciples said to Him, Lord teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.


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And He said to them: When you pray, say, Our Father who is in Heaven, hallowed be Your name, let Your kingdom come, let Your will be done on earth as it also is in Heaven.


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and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil.


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And He said to them, Who of you shall have a friend, and will come to him at midnight and say to him, Friend, lend me three loaves.


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And answering from within that one may say, Do not cause me troubles. The door has already been shut, and my children are in bed with me. I cannot rise up to give to you.


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I say to you, Even if rising up he will not give to him because he is a friend, yet because of his shameless insisting, rising up he will give him as many as he needs.


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And I say to you, Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.


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For everyone asking receives, and the one seeking finds, and to the one knocking, it will be opened.


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And what father of you, if the son asks for bread, will he give him a stone? And if a fish, will he give him a snake instead of a fish?


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Then if you being evil know to give good gifts to your children, how much more the Father out of Heaven will give the Holy Spirit to those asking Him.


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And He was casting out a demon, and it was dumb. And it happened as the demon was going out, the dumb one spoke. And the crowds marveled.


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But knowing their thoughts, He said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to ruin, and a house against a house falls.


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And also if Satan is divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? Because you say I cast out the demons by Beelzebub.


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And if I cast out the demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons cast them out? Because of this they shall be your judges.


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But as soon as one stronger than he having come, he overcomes him; he takes away his armor on which he relied, and deals out his arms.


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When the unclean spirit goes out from the man, he goes through dry places seeking rest. And not finding, he says, I will return to my house from where I came out.


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Then he goes and takes seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and entering he dwells there. And the last things of that man become worse than the first.


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And it happened in His saying these things, lifting up her voice out of the crowd a certain woman said to Him, Blessed is the womb having borne You and the breasts which You sucked.


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But the crowds pressing on Him, He began to say, This is an evil generation. It seeks a miraculous sign, and a sign will not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet.


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For even as Jonah became a miraculous sign to the Ninevites, so also the Son of Man will be to this generation.


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The queen of the south will be raised in the Judgment with the men of this generation and will condemn them because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon. And, behold, a Greater-than-Solomon is here.


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Men, Ninevites will rise up in the Judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah. And, behold, a Greater-than-Jonah is here.


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But no one having lit a lamp places it in secret, nor under the grain-measure, but on the lampstand, that the ones entering may see the light.


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The lamp of the body is the eye. Then when your eye is sound, also all your body is light. But when it is evil, also your body is dark.


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If, then, your whole body is light, not having any part dark, all will be light, as when the lamp enlightens you with its shining.


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And as He was speaking, a certain Pharisee asked Him that He would dine with him. And going in, He reclined.


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But the Lord said to him, Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but your inside is full of robbery and evil.


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But woe to you, Pharisees, for you pay tithes of the mint, and the rue, and every plant, and pass by the judgment and the love of God. It was right to do these things, but not to leave aside those.


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Woe to you, Pharisees! For you love the chief seat in the synagogues and the greetings in the marketplaces.


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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees! Hypocrites! For you are as the unseen tombs, and the men walking above do not know.


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And He said, Woe to you also, lawyers! Because you burden men with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.


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So you bear witness and consent to the works of your fathers; for they indeed killed them, and you build their tombs.


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And because of this, the wisdom of God said, I will send prophets and apostles to them, and they will kill and drive out some of them,


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that the blood of all the prophets which has been shed from the foundation of the world may be required from this generation,


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from the blood of Abel until the blood of Zechariah who perished between the altar and the House. Yea, I say to you, It will be required from this generation.


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Woe to you, lawyers! Because you took the key of knowledge; you yourselves did not enter, and you kept out the ones entering.


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And as He was saying these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw Him out concerning many things,


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lying in ambush for Him, and seeking to catch something out of His mouth that they might accuse Him.


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At which time the myriads of the crowd being gathered together, so as to trample on one another, He began to say to His disciples first, Take heed to yourselves of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.


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But there is nothing which has been completely concealed which will not be uncovered, nor hidden which will not be known.


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Therefore, whatever you said in the darkness will be heard in the light; and whatever you spoke in the ear in the secret rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.


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But I say to you, My friends, stop being afraid of the ones killing the body, and after these things not having anything more they can do.


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But I will warn you whom you should fear; fear the One who after the killing has authority to cast into Hell; yea, I say to you, Fear that One!


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But even the hairs of your head have all been numbered. Then stop being afraid; you differ from many sparrows.


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But I say to you, Everyone who may confess Me before men, the Son of Man will also confess him before the angels of God.


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And everyone who shall say a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven Him; but the ones blaspheming against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven.


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But when they bring you in before synagogues and rulers and the authorities, do not be anxious how or what you shall reply, or what you should say;


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And He said to them, Beware, and keep back from covetousness; for one's life is not in the abundance of the things which are his.


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And he said, I will do this; I will tear down my barns and I will build larger; and I will gather there all my produce and my goods.


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And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take rest, eat, drink, and be glad.


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But God said to him, Fool! This night they demand your soul from you; and that which you prepared, to whom will it be?


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And He said to His disciples, Because of this I say to you, Do not be anxious as to your life, what you should eat; nor as to the body, what you should put on.


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Consider the ravens, for they do not sow, nor do they reap; to which there is no storehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much rather you differ from the birds!


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Consider the lilies, how they grow: they do not labor, nor do they spin, but I say to you, Not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed as one of these.


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But if God so dresses the grass, which today is in the field and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much rather you, little-faiths?


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For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need these things.


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Sell your possessions and give alms. Make for yourselves purses that do not grow old, an unfailing treasure in Heaven, where a thief cannot come near, nor moth can corrupt.


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and you be like men awaiting their lord when he returns from the feasts, so that he coming and knocking, they will at once open to him.


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Blessed are those slaves whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Truly I say to you that he will gird himself and will make them recline, and coming up he will serve them.


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And if he comes in the second watch, or he comes in the third watch, and finds it so, blessed are those slaves.


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But know this, that if the house-master had known the hour the thief is coming, he would have watched and would not have allowed his house to be dug through.


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And the Lord said, Who then is the faithful and wise steward whom the Lord will set over his house servants, to give the portion of food in season?


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But if that slave should say in his heart, My Lord delays to come, and should begin to beat the men servants and the female servants, and to eat and to drink and be drunk,


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the Lord of that slave will come in the day in which he does not expect, and in an hour which he does not know. And He will cut him apart and will put his portion with the unbelievers.


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But that slave knowing the will of his Lord, and not preparing, nor doing according to His will, will be beaten with many stripes.


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But he not knowing, and doing things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few. And everyone given much, much will be demanded from him. And to whom much was deposited, more exceedingly they will ask of him.


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Father will be divided against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against mother; mother-in-law against her bride, "and the bride against her mother-in-law." Mic.:


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And He also said to the crowd, When you see the cloud rising up from the west, you immediately say, A storm is coming; and it happens so.


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Hypocrites! You know to discern the face of the earth and of the heaven, but how is it you do not discern this time?


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For as you go with your adversary to a judge, give pains in the way to be set free from him, that he not drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.


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And some were present at the same time reporting to Him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate mixed with their sacrifices.


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And answering, Jesus said to them, Do you think that these Galileans were sinners beyond all the 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 these were sinners beyond all men who lived in Jerusalem?


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And He spoke this parable: A certain one had planted a fig tree in his vineyard. And he came looking for fruit on it and did not find any.


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And he said to the vinedresser, Behold, three years I come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down, and why does it waste the ground?


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And the vinedresser said to him, Sir, leave it also this year until I shall dig around it and throw manure;


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And, behold, there was a woman having a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bent together and was not able to be completely erect.


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And seeing her, Jesus called her near and said to her, Woman, you have been freed from your infirmity.


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But answering, being angry that Jesus healed on the sabbath, the synagogue ruler said to the crowd, There are six days in which it is right to work. Therefore, coming in these, be healed, and not on the sabbath day.


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Then the Lord answered him and said, Hypocrite! Each one of you on the sabbath, does he not untie his ox or ass from the manger, and leading it away, give it drink?


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And this one being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound, lo, eighteen years, ought she not to be freed from this bond on the sabbath day?


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And on His saying these things, all who were opposed to Him were ashamed. And all the crowd rejoiced over all the glorious things taking place by Him.


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It is like a grain of mustard which a man having taken threw into his garden. And it grew and became a great tree, and the birds of the heaven roosted in its branches.


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Labor to enter in through the narrow gate, for I say to you that many will seek to enter in and will not have strength.


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From the time the Master of the house shall have risen up, and He shuts the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. And answering, He will say to you, I do not know you, from where you are.


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And He will say, I tell you I do not know you, from where you are. "Stand back from Me all workers of unrighteousness!" Psa.:


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There will be weeping and gnashing of the teeth when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but yourselves being thrust outside.


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And they will come from east and west, and from north and south, and will recline in the kingdom of God.


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In the same day, certain Pharisees came saying to Him, Go out and go on from here, for Herod desires to kill you.


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And He said to them, Going, say to that fox, Behold, today and tomorrow I cast out demons and I complete cures, and the third day I am being perfected.


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But today and tomorrow and on the following day I must travel on. For it is not possible for a prophet to perish outside Jerusalem.


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Jerusalem! Jerusalem! The one killing the prophets, and stoning those having been sent to her, how often I desired to gather your children in the way a hen gathers her brood under the wings, and you did not desire it.


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Behold, "your house is left" to you "desolate". Jer.: And truly I say to you, You shall not at all see Me until it comes when you say, "Blessed is the One coming in the name of the Lord." Psa.:


