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And, behold, a woman who was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years came behind [him] and touched the hem of his garment;


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But Jesus turned around, and when he saw her, he said, Trust, daughter; thy faith has made thee free. And the woman was free from that hour.


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And when Jesus departed from there, two blind men followed him, crying out and saying, [Thou] Son of David, have mercy on us.


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And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him; and Jesus said unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yes, Lord.


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And when the demon was cast out, the dumb man spoke; and the multitude marvelled, saying, Such a thing has never been seen in Israel.


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And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing every sickness and every weakness among the people.


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And when he saw the multitude, he was moved with compassion on them because they fainted and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.


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Then calling his twelve disciples, he gave them power [against] unclean spirits, to cast them out and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of weakness.


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Now the names of the twelve apostles are these: the first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James [the son] of Zebedee and John his brother;


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Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the publican; James [the son] of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus;


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These twelve Jesus sent forth and commanded them, saying, Do not go into the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter into [any] city of the Samaritans,


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Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons; freely ye have received, freely give.


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nor bag for [your] journey, neither two coats, neither shoes nor a staff, for the workman is worthy of his food.


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And into whatever city or town ye shall enter, search out [with diligence] who in it is worthy; and there abide until ye go from there.


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And if the house is worthy, your peace shall come upon it; but if it is not worthy, your peace shall return to you.


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And whosoever shall not receive you nor hear your words, depart out of that house or city and shake off the dust of your feet.


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Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of those of Sodom and those of Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.


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Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves; be ye therefore prudent as serpents and innocent as doves.


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But keep yourselves from men, for they will deliver you up in councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;


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and ye shall even be brought before princes and kings for my sake, for testimony unto them and to the Gentiles.


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But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak, for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.


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And brother shall deliver up brother unto death, and [the] father [the] child, and children shall rise up against [their] parents and cause them to be put to death.


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But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another, for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel until the Son of man be come.


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It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the husband of the house Beelzebub, how much more [shall they call] those of his household?


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Fear them not therefore, for there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed, nor hid that shall not be known.


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What I tell you in darkness, [that] speak ye in light, and what ye hear in the ear, [that] preach ye from the housetops.


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And fear not those who kill the body but are not able to kill the soul, but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.


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Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? And one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.


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Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I also confess before my Father who is in [the] heavens.


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But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father who is in the heavens.


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Think not that I have come to introduce peace into the land; I came not to introduce peace, but a sword.


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For I have come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.


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He that loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and he that loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.


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He that receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward, and he that receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward.


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And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold [water] only in the name of [a] disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.:


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And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished giving commandments to his twelve disciples, he departed from there to teach and to preach in their cities.


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


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And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind?


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But what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, those that wear soft [clothing] are in kings' houses.


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For this is [he] of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.


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Verily I say unto you, Among those that are born of women there has not risen a greater than John the Baptist; notwithstanding, he that is least in the kingdom of the heavens is greater than he.


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From the days of John the Baptist until now, life is given unto the kingdom of the heavens, and the valiant take hold of it.


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But unto whom shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets and shouting unto their fellows


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and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.


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The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified by her children.


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Then he began to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done because they repented not:


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


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But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment than for you.


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And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to Hades, for if the mighty works which have been done in thee had been done in those of Sodom, it would have remained until this day.


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Therefore I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for thee.


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At that time Jesus answered and said, I praise thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and understanding and hast revealed them unto children.


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All things are delivered unto me of my Father, and no one has known the Son but the Father, neither has anyone known the Father except the Son and [he] unto whom the Son will reveal [him].


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Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am meek and humble of heart, and ye shall find rest for your souls.


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At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the planted fields, and his disciples were hungry and began to pluck the ears of grain and to eat.


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But when the Pharisees saw [it], they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day.


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But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, and those that were with him, when he was hungry,


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


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Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath and are blameless?


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But if ye knew what [this] means, I will have mercy and not sacrifice, ye would not condemn the innocent.


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and, behold, there was a man who had [his] hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him.


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And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you that shall have one sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it and lift [it] out?


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Therefore, how much more is a man worth than a sheep? So that it is lawful to do good on the sabbath days.


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Then he said to the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched [it] forth; and it was restored whole, like the other.


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But when Jesus knew [it], he withdrew himself from there; and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all;


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Behold my servant, whom I have chosen, my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased; I will put my Spirit upon him, and he shall declare judgment unto the Gentiles.


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A bruised reed he shall not break, and a smoking flax he shall not quench until he sends forth judgment unto victory.


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Then was brought unto him one possessed with a demon, blind, and dumb, and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spoke and saw.


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But when the Pharisees heard [it], they said, This [fellow] does not cast out demons but by Beelzebub the prince of the demons.


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And Jesus knew their thoughts and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself shall not remain;


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And if I by Beelzebub cast out demons, by whom do your sons cast [them] out? Therefore they shall be your judges.


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But if I cast out the demons by the Spirit of God, then certainly the kingdom of God is come unto you.


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Or else how can one enter into the strong man's house and spoil his goods except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.


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Therefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men, but the blasphemy [against] the Spirit shall not be forgiven unto men.


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And whosoever speaks a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him, but whosoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this age, neither in the [age] to come.


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


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O generation of vipers, how can ye, 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 brings forth good things, and the evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things.


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But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.


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Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we desire to see a sign from thee.


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But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there no sign shall be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonah;


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for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale's belly, so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.


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The men of Nineveh shall rise in the judgment with this generation and shall condemn it because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and, behold, a greater than Jonah [is] here.


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


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When the unclean spirit is gone out of the man, it walks through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none.


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Then it says, I will return into my house from which I came out; and when it is come, it finds [it] empty, swept, and garnished.


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Then it goes and takes with itself seven other spirits worse than itself, and they enter in and dwell there; and the last [state] of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it also be unto this wicked generation.


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While he yet talked to the people, behold, [his] mother and his brothers stood without, desiring to speak with him.


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Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brothers stand without, desiring to speak with thee.


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For whosoever shall do the will of my Father who is in the heavens, the same is my brother and sister and mother.:


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And a great multitude was gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship and sat, and the whole multitude stood on the shore.


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Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth; and forthwith they sprang up because they had no deepness of earth;


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But some fell into good ground and brought forth fruit: one a hundredfold and another sixtyfold and another thirtyfold.


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He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but to them it is not given.


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For whosoever has, to him shall be given, and he shall have in abundance; but whosoever has not, from him shall be taken away even that [which] he has.


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


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And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which says, By hearing ye shall hear and shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see and shall not perceive;


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for this people's heart is waxed gross, and [their] ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed lest at any time they should see with [their] eyes and hear with [their] ears and should understand with [their] heart and should be converted, and I should heal them.


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For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous [men] have desired to see [those things] which ye see and have not seen [them] and to hear [those things] which ye hear and have not heard [them].


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When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand [it], then the wicked [one] comes and catches away that which was sown in his heart. This is he who was planted beside the way.


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But he that was planted in stony places, the same is he that hears the word and receives it immediately with joy;


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yet he has no root in himself but is temporal, for when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, by and by he is offended.


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And he that was planted among the thorns is he that hears the word, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.


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But he that was planted in good ground is he that hears the word and understands [it] and who also bears the fruit and brings forth: one a hundredfold and another sixty and another thirty.


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He put forth another parable unto them, saying, The kingdom of the heavens is likened unto a man who sows good seed in his field


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So the servants of the husband of the house came and said unto him, Lord, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? From where then does it have tares?


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He said unto them, [The] enemy, a man, has done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?


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Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.


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He put forth another parable unto them, saying, The kingdom of the heavens is like unto a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field;


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which indeed is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the heaven come and make their nests in its branches.


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He spoke another parable unto them: The kingdom of the heavens is like unto leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal until the whole was leavened.


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Jesus spoke all these things unto the multitude in parables and said nothing unto them without parables


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that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.


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Then Jesus sent the multitude away and went into the house, and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field.


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the field is the world; the good seed are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the wicked;


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


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The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend and those who do iniquity


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Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. [He] who has ears to hear, let him hear.


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Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like unto treasure hid in the field, which when found, a man hides it and, for the joy thereof, goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.


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Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like unto a net that was cast into the sea and gathered of every kind [of fish],


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which, when it was full, they drew to shore and sat down and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away.


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So shall it be at the end of the age; the angels shall come forth and separate the wicked from among the just


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And he said unto them, Therefore every scribe [who is] instructed in the kingdom of the heavens is like unto a man, a husband of a house, who brings forth out of his treasure [things] new and old.


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And when he was come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished and said, From where does this [man] have this wisdom and [these] mighty works?


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Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brothers, James and Joseph and Simon and Judas?


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And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour except in his own country and in his own house.


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and said unto his servants, This is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead, and therefore mighty works do show forth themselves in him.


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


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


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And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist's head in a platter.


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And the king was sorry; nevertheless because of the oath and of those who sat with him at the table, he commanded [it] to be given [her].


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When Jesus heard [of it], he departed from there by ship into a desert place apart; and when the people had heard [of it], they followed him on foot out of the cities.


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And Jesus went forth and saw a great multitude and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick.


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And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away that they may go into the villages and buy themselves food.


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And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass and took the five loaves and the two fishes; and looking up to heaven, he blessed and broke and gave the loaves to [his] disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.


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And they all ate and were filled, and they took up of the fragments that remained, twelve baskets full.


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And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship and to go before him unto the other side while he sent the multitude away.


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And when he had sent the multitude away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray; and when the evening was come, he was there alone.


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And when the disciples saw him walking upon the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a ghost; and they cried out for fear.


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And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked upon the water to go to Jesus.


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But seeing that the wind was strong, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried out, saying, Lord, save me.


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And immediately Jesus stretched forth [his] hand and caught him and said unto him, O thou of little faith, why didst thou doubt?


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And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent out into all that country round about and brought unto him all that were sick


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and besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment, and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.:


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Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.


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But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?


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For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother, and, He that curses father or mother, let him die without recourse.


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But ye say, Whosoever shall say to [his] father or [his] mother, Whatever I might have helped thee with is already my offering [unto God],


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and [now] has no need to honour his father or his mother [with succour]. Thus ye have made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.


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This people draws nigh unto me with their mouth and honours me with [their] lips, but their heart is far from me.


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not that which goes into the mouth defiles the man; but that which comes out of the mouth, this defiles the man.


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Then his disciples came and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this word?


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Let them alone; they are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into a pit.


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Do not ye yet understand that whatever enters in at the mouth goes into the belly and is cast out into the draught?


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For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:


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these are [the things] which defile the man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man.


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And, behold, a woman of Canaan having come out of the same borders cried unto him, saying, Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me; my daughter is sick, possessed by a demon.


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But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away, for she cries [out] after us.


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But he answered and said, It is not good to take the children's bread and to cast [it] to the little dogs.


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And she said, Yes, Lord, yet the little dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.


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Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great [is] thy faith; be it unto thee even as thou desire. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.


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And Jesus left there and came nigh unto the sea of Galilee and went up into the mountain and sat down there.


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And many people came unto him, having with them [those that were] lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many other sick and cast them down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them,


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insomuch that the multitude wondered when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see, and they glorified the God of Israel.


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Then Jesus called his disciples [unto him] and said, I have mercy on the multitude because they persevere with me now three days and have nothing to eat, and I desire not to send them away fasting lest they faint in the way.


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Then his disciples say unto him, From where [do] we have so much bread in the wilderness as to satisfy so great a multitude?


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And he took the seven loaves and the fishes and gave thanks and broke [them] and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.


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And they all ate and were filled, and they took up of the broken [food] that was left seven baskets full.


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The Pharisees and the Sadducees came to tempt him; they asked him to show them a sign from the heaven.


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But he answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, [It will be] fair weather, for the heaven [is glowing] with an aurora.


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And in the morning, [It will be] foul weather today, for the heaven has an aurora and is cloudy. O [ye] hypocrites, ye know how to make decisions based on the face of the heaven, and regarding the signs of the times are ye unable?


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A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and no sign shall be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonah. And he left them and departed.


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Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and keep [yourselves] from the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.


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[Which] when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves that ye have brought no bread?


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Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?


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How is it that ye do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread that ye should keep [yourselves] from the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?


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Then they understood that he bade [them] not to keep themselves from the leaven of bread, but from the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.


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When Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?


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And they said, Some [say that thou art] John the Baptist; some, Elijah; and others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.


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And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon son of Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed [it] unto thee, but my Father who is in the heavens.


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And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, [a small rock] and upon the [large] rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against her.


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And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of the heavens, and whatever thou shalt bind on the earth shall be bound in the heavens, and whatever thou shalt loose on the earth shall be loosed in the heaven.


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From that time forth Jesus began to declare unto his disciples, how it was expedient for him to go unto Jerusalem and to suffer many things of the elders and the princes of the priests and of the scribes and to be killed and to be raised again the third day.


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Then Peter, taking him aside, began to rebuke him, saying, Lord, be it far from thee; in no wise shall this happen unto thee.


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But he turned and said unto Peter, Remove thyself from before me, Satan; thou art an offence unto me, for thou dost not understand that which [is] of God, but that which [is] of men.


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Then Jesus said unto his disciples, If anyone will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his stake and follow me.


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


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For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?


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For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he shall reward everyone according to their works.


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Verily I say unto you, There are some standing here who shall not taste of death until they have seen the Son of man coming in his kingdom.:


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And after six days Jesus takes Peter, James, and John, his brother, and brings them apart up into a high mountain


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and was transfigured before them, and his face shined as the sun, and his raiment was [as] white as the light.


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Then Peter answered and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to remain here; if thou desire, let us make three tabernacles here: one for thee and one for Moses and one for Elijah.


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While he yet spoke, behold, a cloud of light overshadowed them, and, behold, a voice out of the cloud, [which] said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.


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And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no one until the Son of man is risen from the dead.


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But I say unto you, That Elijah is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatever they pleased. Likewise the Son of man shall also suffer of them.


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And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a [certain] man, kneeling down to him, and saying,


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Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is lunatic and suffers miserably; for many times he has fallen into the fire and often into the water.


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Then Jesus answered and said, O unfaithful and crooked generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I suffer you? Bring him here to me.


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And Jesus rebuked him, and the demon departed out of him and the child was cured from that very hour.


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And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unfaithfulness; for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove from here to yonder place, and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.


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And while they abode in Galilee, Jesus said unto them, The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men;


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And when they were come to Capernaum, those that received the two drachmas came to Peter and said, Does not your master pay the two drachmas?


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He said, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus spoke unto him first, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own sons or of strangers?


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Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea and cast a hook and take up the first fish that comes up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a stater [a coin worth four drachmas]; take that, and give it unto them for me and thee.:


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At the same time the disciples came unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of the heavens?


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and said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of the heavens.


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Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of the heavens.


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But whosoever shall cause one of these little ones who believe in me to fall, it would be better for him that a millstone such as is turned by an ass be hanged about his neck and [that] he be sunk in the depth of the sea.


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Woe unto the world because of offenses! For it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense comes!


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Therefore if thy hand or thy foot cause thee to fall, cut them off and cast [them] from thee; it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into eternal fire.


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And if thine eye causes thee to fall, pluck it out and cast [it] from thee; it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the hell of fire.


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Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in the heavens their angels always behold the face of my Father who is in the heavens.


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What [do] you think? If a man had a hundred sheep and one of them went astray, would he not leave the ninety-nine and go into the mountains and seek that which is gone astray?


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And if so be that he finds it, verily I say unto you, he rejoices more of that [one] than of the ninety-nine who [did] not go astray.


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


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Therefore if thy brother shall sin against thee, go and reprove him between thee and him alone; if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.


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But if he will not hear [thee, then] take with thee one or two more that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.


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And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell [it] unto the church; but if he neglects to hear the church, let him be unto thee as a worldly man and a publican.


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Verily I say unto you, Whatever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in the heaven; and whatever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in the heaven.


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Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father who is in the heavens.


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


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Therefore is the kingdom of the heavens likened unto a man who is king who would take account of his servants.


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But he not having [wherewith] to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife and children and all that he had, to make payment.


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The servant therefore fell down and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.


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But as the same servant was leaving, he found one of his fellowservants who owed him a hundred denarius, and he laid hands on him and took [him] by the throat, saying, Pay me what thou owest.


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And his fellowservant fell down at his feet and besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.


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So when his fellowservants saw what was done, they were very grieved and came and declared unto their lord all that was done.


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Then his lord, after he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt because thou didst beseech me;


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And his lord was wroth and delivered him to the tormentors until he should pay all that was due unto him.


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So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you unless from your hearts ye forgive every one his brother their trespasses.:


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And it came to pass [that] when Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee and came into the borders of Judaea beyond the Jordan;


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Then the Pharisees came unto him, tempting him and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for any cause?


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And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he who made [them] at the beginning made them male and female?


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And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be two in one flesh.


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Therefore they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.


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He said unto them, Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, suffered you to put away your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.


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And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except [it be] for fornication and shall marry another, commits adultery, and whosoever marries her that is put away commits adultery.


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His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with [his] wife, it is not expedient to marry.


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For there are some eunuchs who were so born from [their] mother's womb; and there are some eunuchs who were made eunuchs of men; and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs because of the kingdom of the heavens. He that is able to receive [it], let him receive [it].


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Then were there brought unto him little children that he should put [his] hands on them and pray, and the disciples rebuked them.


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But Jesus said, Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of the heavens.


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And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life?


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And he said unto him, Why dost thou call me good? [There is] none good but one, [that is], God, but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.


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He said unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt not murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,


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Jesus said unto him, If thou desire to be perfect, go [and] sell what thou hast and give it to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven; and come [and] follow me.


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Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, It is difficult that a rich man shall enter into the kingdom of the heavens.


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And again I say unto you, It is easier to put a cable through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.


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But Jesus beheld [them] and said unto them, With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.


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Then Peter answered and said unto him, Behold, we have forsaken all and followed thee; what shall we have therefore?


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And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, to judge the twelve tribes of Israel.


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And every one that has forsaken houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for my name's sake shall receive a hundredfold and shall inherit eternal life.


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For the kingdom of the heavens is like unto a man, the husband of a house, who went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.


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and said unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you. And they went.


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And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle and said unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?


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They say unto him, Because no one has hired us. He said unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatever is right, [that] shall ye receive.


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So when evening was come, the lord of the vineyard said unto his steward, Call the labourers and give them [their] hire, beginning from the last unto the first.


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But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more but they likewise received each one a denarius.


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saying, These last have worked [but] one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us who have borne the burden and heat of the day.


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But he answered one of them and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong; didst not thou agree with me for a denarius?


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Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the princes of the priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death


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and shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock and to scourge and to crucify; and the third day he shall rise again.


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Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, worshipping [him] and desiring a certain thing of him.


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And he said unto her, What dost thou desire? She said unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit the one on thy right hand and the other on the left in thy kingdom.


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But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able.


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And he said unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with; but to sit on my right hand and on my left is not mine to give, but [it shall be given to those] for whom it is prepared of my Father.


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But Jesus called them [unto him] and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and those that are great wield power over them.


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even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister and to give his life a ransom for many.


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And, behold, two blind men sitting by the way side, when they heard that Jesus passed by, cried out, saying, Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us.


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And the multitude rebuked them, that they should be silent; but they cried the more, saying, Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us.


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Then Jesus, having mercy [on them], touched their eyes; and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him.:


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And when they drew near unto Jerusalem and were come to Bethphage unto the mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,


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saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied and a colt with her; loose [them] and bring [them] unto me.


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And if anyone says anything unto you, ye shall say, The Lord has need of them; and straightway he will send them.


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Say unto the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King comes unto thee, meek and sitting upon an ass and a colt the foal of a [beast] under yoke.


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And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut down branches from the trees and spread [them] in the way.


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And the people that went before and that followed, cried out, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David; Blessed [is] he that comes in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.


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And Jesus went into the temple of God and cast out all those that sold and bought in the temple and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of those that sold doves


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and said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called [the] house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.


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But when the princes of the priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did and the children crying out in the temple and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David, they were sore displeased


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and said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus said unto them, Yes; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of children and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?


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And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it and found nothing upon it, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee from now on for ever. And then the fig tree withered away.


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Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith and doubt not, ye shall not only do this to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea, it shall be done.


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And when he was come into the temple, the princes of the priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority?


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And Jesus answered and said unto them, I also will ask you a word, which if ye tell me, I will also tell you by what authority I do these things.


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The baptism of John, where was it from? from heaven or of men? And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven, he will say unto us, Why did ye not then believe him?


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And they answered Jesus and said, We cannot tell. And he said unto them, Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.


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


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And he came to the second and said likewise. And he answered and said, I [will go], Lord, and went not.


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Which of the two did the will of [his] father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go ahead of you into the kingdom of God.


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For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not, but the publicans and the harlots believed him, and ye, when ye had seen [it], repented not afterward that ye might believe him.


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Hear another parable: There was a certain husband of a house who planted a vineyard and hedged it round about and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and let it out to husbandmen and went into a far country,


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and when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen that they might receive the fruits of it.


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But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us take his inheritance.


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They say unto him, He will destroy those wicked men without mercy and will let out [his] vineyard unto other husbandmen who shall render him the fruits in their seasons.


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Jesus said unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?


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Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you and given to a people bringing forth the fruits thereof.


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And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken, but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.


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And as the princes of the priests and Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he spoke of them.


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But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude because they held him as a prophet.:


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The kingdom of the heavens is like unto a certain man, a king, who made a marriage [feast] for his son


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and sent forth his servants to call those that were invited to the wedding, and they would not come.


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Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell those who are invited, Behold, I have prepared my dinner; my bulls and [my] fatlings [are] killed, and all things [are] ready; come unto the marriage.


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But when the king heard [of this], he became angry and sent forth his armies and destroyed those murderers and burned up their city.


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Go ye therefore into the entrances of the highways and call as many as ye shall find to the marriage.


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So those servants went out into the highways and gathered together everyone that they found, both bad and good; and the wedding was filled with guests.


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And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who did not have on a wedding garment,


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and he said unto him, Friend, how didst thou come in here not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.


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Then the king said to the servants, Bind him hand and foot and take him away and cast [him] into the darkness outside; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.


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And they sent out unto him their disciples with those of Herod, saying, Master, we know that thou art a lover of truth and teachest the way of God with truth and that thou takest care for no [man], for thou art no respecter of persons of men.


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They say unto him, Caesar's. Then said he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's and unto God the things that are God's.


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saying, Master, Moses said, If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up seed unto his brother.


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Now there were with us seven brothers, and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no seed, left his wife unto his brother;


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For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.


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But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which is spoken unto you by God, who saith,


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I AM the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of [the] dead, but of [the] living.


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And one of them, [who was] an interpreter of the law, asked [him a question], tempting him and saying,


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Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind.


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And no one was able to answer him a word, neither dared anyone from that day forth ask him any more [questions].:


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therefore, whatever they bid you to observe, observe it and do it, but do not act according to their works, for they say and do not [do it].


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For they bind burdens that are heavy and grievous to bear and lay [them] on men's shoulders, but they [themselves] will not move them with one of their fingers.


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But they do all their works that they may be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries and enlarge the borders of their garments


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But, [as for] you, desire not to be called Rabbi, for one is your Master, the Christ; and you are all brothers.


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And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled, and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.


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But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of the heavens in front of men, for ye neither go in [yourselves], neither suffer ye those that are entering to go in.


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Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses and for a pretence make long prayer; therefore, ye shall receive the greater judgment.


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Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more a son of hell than yourselves.


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Woe unto you, [ye] blind guides, who say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!


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And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever swears by the gift that is upon it, he is a debtor.


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Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin and have omitted that which is more important of the law: judgment, mercy, and faith; these were expedient for ye to have done, and not to leave the other [undone].


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Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup or of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and incontinence.


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[Thou] blind Pharisee, cleanse first that [which is] within the cup and platter that the outside of them may be clean also.


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Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whitewashed sepulchres, who indeed appear beautiful outside, but inside are full of dead [men's] bones and of all uncleanness.


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Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.


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Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the sepulchres of the righteous


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and 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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Therefore, behold, I send unto you prophets and wise men and scribes, and [some] of them ye shall kill and crucify, and [some] of them ye shall scourge in your synagogues and persecute [them] from city to city,


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that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye murdered between the temple and the altar.


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O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, [thou] that didst kill the prophets and stone those who are sent unto thee, how often I desired to gather thy children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under [her] wings, and ye would not!


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For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me from now on until ye shall say, Blessed [is] he that comes in the name of the Lord.:


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And Jesus went out and departed from the temple, and his disciples came to [him] to show him the buildings of the temple.


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And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down.


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And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what [shall be] the sign of thy coming and of the end of the age?


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And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars; see that ye be not troubled, for it is necessary that all these things must take place; but the end is not yet.


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For nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in [different] places.


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Then they shall deliver you up to be afflicted and shall kill you, and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.


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And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations, and then shall the end come.


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Therefore, when ye see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, which shall stand in the holy place (whosoever reads, let him understand),


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for then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.


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And if those days were not shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.


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For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets and shall show great signs and wonders in such a manner that they shall deceive, if possible, the very elect.


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Therefore if they say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert, go not forth; Behold, [he is] in the secret chambers, believe [it] not.


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For as the lightning that comes out of the east and shines even unto the west, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.


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Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken,


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and then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven, and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with great power and glory.


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And he shall send his angels with a trumpet and a great voice, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.


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Now learn a parable of the fig tree: When his branch is yet tender and puts forth leaves, ye know that summer [is] nigh;


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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 that Noah entered into the ark,


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and they knew not until the flood came and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.


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But know this that if the husband of the house knew in what watch the thief would come, he would watch and would not suffer his house to be broken into.


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Who then is the faithful and prudent servant, whom his lord has made ruler over his household to give them food in due season?


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the lord of that servant shall come in a day when he does not look for [him] and in an hour that he is not aware of


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and shall cut him off and appoint [him] his portion with the hypocrites; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.:


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Then shall the kingdom of the heavens be likened unto ten virgins who, taking their lamps, went forth to meet the bridegroom.


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But the prudent answered, saying, Lest there be not enough for us and you, but go ye rather to them that sell and buy for yourselves.


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And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and those that were ready went in with him to the marriage, and the door was shut.


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For [it is] like a man travelling into a far country, [who] called his own servants and delivered unto them his goods.


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And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, to each one according to his faculty, and straightway took his journey.


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And after he was gone, he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same and made another five talents.


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And so he that had received five talents came and brought another five talents, saying, Lord, thou didst deliver unto me five talents; behold, I have gained beside them five talents more.


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His lord said unto him, Well done, [thou] good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things; I will set thee over many things; enter thou into the joy of thy lord.


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He also that had received two talents came and said, Lord, thou didst deliver unto me two talents; behold, I have gained two other talents beside them.


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His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things; I will set thee over many things; enter thou into the joy of thy lord.


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Then he who had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art a hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown and gathering where thou hast not scattered;


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His lord answered and said unto him, [Thou] wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I did not sow and gather where I have not scattered;


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therefore, it was expedient for thee to have put my money to the bankers, and [then] at my coming I should have received mine own with interest.


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For unto every one that has shall be given, and he shall have abundance, but from him that has not shall be taken away even that which he has.


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And cast ye the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.


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When the Son of man shall come in his glory and all the holy angels with him, then he shall sit upon the throne of his glory,


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and before him shall be gathered all nations; and he shall separate them one from another as a shepherd divides [his] sheep from the goats,


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Then shall the King say unto those on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;


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for I was hungry, and ye gave me food; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in;


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Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when did we see thee hungry and feed [thee]? or thirsty and give [thee] drink?


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And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done [it] unto one of the least of these my brothers, ye have done [it] unto me.


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Then he shall also say unto those who [shall be] on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into eternal fire, prepared for the devil and his angels;


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I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye clothed me not; sick and in prison, and ye visited me not.


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Then they shall also answer him, saying, Lord, when did we see thee hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison and did not minister unto thee?


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Then he shall answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did [it] not to one of the least of my brothers, ye did [it] not to me.


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Then the princes of the priests and the scribes and the elders of the people assembled together in the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,


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a woman came unto him having an alabaster box of very precious ointment and poured it on his head as he sat [at the table].


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But Jesus, understanding this, said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she has wrought a good work upon me.


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Verily I say unto you, Wherever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, [there] shall also this, that this woman has done, be told for a memorial of her.


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and said [unto them], What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.


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Now the first [day] of the [feast of] unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?


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And he said, Go into the city to a certain man and say unto him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at thy house with my disciples.


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The Son of man goes as it is written of him, but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! It had been good for that man if he had not been born.


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Then Judas, who was betraying him, answered and said, Master, is it I? He said unto him, Thou hast said.


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And as they were eating, Jesus took the bread and, having blessed [it], broke [it] and gave [it] to the disciples and said, Take, eat; this is my body.


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But I say unto you, I will not drink from now on of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.


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Then Jesus said unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night; for it is written, I will smite the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.


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Peter answered and said unto him, Though all [men] shall be offended in thee, [yet] I will never be offended.


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Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this night before the cock crows, thou shalt deny me three times.


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Peter said unto him, Though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee. Likewise also said all the disciples.


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Then Jesus came with them unto a place called Gethsemane and said unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder.


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Then he said unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death; tarry ye here and watch with me.


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And he went a little further and fell on his face, praying and saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless not as I will, but as thou [wilt].


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And he came unto the disciples and found them asleep and said unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour?


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Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation; the spirit indeed [is] willing, but the flesh [is] weak.


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He went away again the second time and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me except I drink it, thy will be done.


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Then he came unto his disciples and said unto them, Sleep on now and take [your] rest; behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.


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And while he yet spoke, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the princes of the priests and elders of the people.


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Now he that betrayed him had given them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he; hold him fast.


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And Jesus said unto him, Friend, why art thou come? Then they came and laid hands on Jesus and took him.


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And, behold, one of those who was with Jesus stretched out [his] hand and drew his sword and struck a servant of the high priest and smote off his ear.


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Then Jesus said unto him, Put up again thy sword into its place, for all those that take the sword shall perish by the sword.


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Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?


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In that same hour Jesus said to the multitude, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me.


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But all this was done that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him and fled.


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And those that had laid hold on Jesus led [him] away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled.


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But Peter followed him afar off unto the patio of the high priest and went in and sat with the servants to see the end.


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Now the princes of the priests and the elders and all the council sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;


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but found none; though many false witnesses came, [yet] found they none. At the last came two false witnesses


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And the high priest arose and said unto him, Answerest thou nothing [to] what these witness against thee?


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But Jesus remained silent. And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou art the Christ, the Son of God.


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Jesus said unto him, Thou hast said [it]; nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power and coming in the clouds of heaven.


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Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He has spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? Behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy.


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Now Peter sat outside in the patio; and a damsel came unto him, saying, Thou also wast with Jesus of Galilee.


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And when he was gone out into the porch, another [maid] saw him and said unto those that were there, This [fellow] was also with Jesus of Nazareth.


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And after a while those that stood by came unto [him] and said to Peter, Surely thou also art [one] of them, for thy speech makes thee manifest.


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And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, who said unto him, Before the cock crows, thou shalt deny me three times. And he went out and wept bitterly.:


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When the morning was come, all the princes of the priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death,


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Then Judas, who had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the princes of the priests and the elders,


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saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What [is that] to us? Thou shalt see [to it].


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And the princes of the priests taking the silver pieces, said, It is not lawful to put them into the treasury because it is the price of blood.


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Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty [pieces] of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the sons of Israel did value,


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And Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And Jesus said unto him, Thou sayest.


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Now at [that] feast the governor was accustomed to release unto the people a prisoner, whoever they desired.


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Therefore when they were gathered together, Pilate said unto them, Whom desire ye that I release unto you? Barabbas or Jesus who is called Christ?


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When he was seated upon the judgement seat, his wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man, for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.


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But the princes of the priests and the elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask for Barabbas and destroy Jesus.


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The governor answered and said unto them, Which of the two desire ye that I release unto you? They said, Barabbas.


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Pilate said unto them, What shall I do then with Jesus who is called Christ? [They] all say unto him, Let him be crucified.


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And the governor said, Why, what evil has he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified.


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When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but [that] rather a tumult was made, he took water and washed [his] hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person; see ye [to it].


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Then he released Barabbas unto them; and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered [him] to be crucified.


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Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall and gathered unto him the whole band [of soldiers].


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And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put [it] upon his head and a reed in his right hand; and they bowed the knee before him and mocked him, saying, Receive joy, King of the Jews!


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And after they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him and put his own raiment on him and led him away to crucify him.


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And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name; him they compelled to bear his stake.


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they gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall; and when he had tasted [of it], he would not drink.


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And they crucified him and parted his garments, casting lots, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my raiment did they cast lots.


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and saying, Thou that wouldst destroy the temple and build [it] in three days, save thyself. If thou art the Son of God, come down from the stake.


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He saved others; he cannot save himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him now come down from the stake, and we will believe him.


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And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? That is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?


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And straightway one of them ran and took a sponge and filled [it] with vinegar and put [it] on a reed and gave him to drink.


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And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;


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and came out of the graves after his resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared unto many.


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Now when the centurion and those that were with him, guarding Jesus, saw the earthquake and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was God's Son.


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And many women were there beholding afar off, who followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto 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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When the evening was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also had been a disciple of Jesus;


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and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock, and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre and departed.


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Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the princes of the priests and the Pharisees came together unto Pilate,


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saying, Lord, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.


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Command therefore that the sepulchre be made secure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night and steal him away and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead; so the last error shall be worse than the first.


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Now well along on the sabbath, as it began to dawn on the first of the sabbaths, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.


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And, behold, there was a great earthquake, for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone from the door and sat upon it.


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And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye, for I know that ye seek Jesus, who was crucified.


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And go quickly and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goes before you into Galilee; there ye shall see him; behold, I have told you.


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And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy and ran to bring his disciples word.


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And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, Receive joy. And they came and held him by the feet and worshipped him.


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Then Jesus said unto them, Be not afraid; go tell my brothers that they may go into Galilee, and there they shall see me.


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Now when they were going, behold, some of the guard came into the city and reported unto the chief priests all the things that were done.


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And when they were assembled with the elders and had taken counsel, they gave a large [amount of] money to the soldiers,


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So they took the money and did as they were taught, and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.


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Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,


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teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you; and, behold, I am with you always [even] unto the end of the age. Amen.:


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as it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.


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And there went out unto him all the land of Judaea and those of Jerusalem and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins.


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John was clothed with camel's hair and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he ate locusts and wild honey


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and preached, saying, There comes one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.


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And it came to pass in those days that Jesus came from Nazareth [a city] of Galilee and was baptized of John in the Jordan.


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And as soon as he was come out of the water, [John] saw the heavens opened and the Spirit like a dove descending [and resting] upon him;


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And he was there in the wilderness forty [days and forty nights] and was tempted of Satan and was with the wild beasts, and the angels ministered unto him.


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Now after John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom of God


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and saying, The time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is at hand; repent ye and believe the Gospel.


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Now as he walked by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea, for they were fishers.


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And when he had gone a little further from there, he saw James the [son] of Zebedee and John his brother, who also were in the ship mending their nets.


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And straightway he called them; and leaving their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, they went after him.


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And they entered into Capernaum, and straightway on the sabbath days he entered into the synagogue and taught.


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And they marvelled at his learning, for he taught them as one that had power with him, and not as the scribes.


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saying, Let [us] alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? Art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.


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And they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned among themselves, saying, What thing is this? What new doctrine [is] this? for he commands the unclean spirits with power, and they obey him.


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And forthwith, when they were come out of the synagogue, they entered into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.


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And he came and took her by the hand and lifted her up; and the fever left her by and by, and she ministered unto them.


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In the evening, when the sun was down, they brought unto him all that were diseased and those that were possessed with devils.


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And he healed many that were sick of diverse diseases and cast out many devils and suffered not the devils to speak because they knew him.


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And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out and departed into a solitary place and prayed there.


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And he said unto them, Let us go into the next towns that I may preach there also, for truly I came forth for that purpose.


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And a leper came to him, beseeching him and kneeling down to him and saying unto him, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.


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And Jesus, having mercy on him, put forth [his] hand and touched him and said unto him, I will; be thou clean.


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and said unto him, See thou say nothing to any man, but go, show thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing those things which Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.


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But he went out and began to publish [it] much and to blaze abroad the matter, insomuch that Jesus could no more openly enter into the city, but was without in desert places; and they came to him from every quarter.:


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And soon many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room to receive [them], no, not so much as about the door; and he preached the word unto them.


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And when they could not come near unto him for the crowd, they uncovered the roof [of the house] where he was; and when they had broken it open, they let down the bed in which the paralytic lay.


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And Jesus, knowing afterward in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said unto them, Why think ye these things in your hearts?


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What is easier to say to the paralytic, [Thy] sins are forgiven thee, or to say, Arise and take up thy bed and walk?


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But that ye may know that the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins (he spoke to the sick of the palsy),


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And by and by he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before them all; insomuch that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, We never saw anything like unto this.


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And as he passed by, he saw Levi the [son] of Alphaeus sitting at the receipt of custom and said unto him, Follow me. And he arose and followed him.


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And it came to pass, that as Jesus sat at the table in his house, many publicans and sinners sat also at the table together with Jesus and his disciples: for there were many and they had followed him.


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And the scribes and Pharisees, seeing him eat with publicans and sinners, said unto his disciples, How is it that he eats and drinks with publicans and sinners?


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When Jesus heard [it], he said unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick; I came not to call the righteous, but the sinners to repentance.


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And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees did fast and therefore came and said unto him, Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not?


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And Jesus said unto them, Can those who are in a wedding fast while the bridegroom is with them? as long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.


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But the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then they shall fast in those days.


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No one mends an old garment with a new piece of cloth, [or] else the new piece that filled it up tears away from the old, and the rent is made worse.


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And no one pours new wine into old wineskins; [or] else the new wine bursts the wineskins, and the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are lost; but new wine must be poured into new wineskins.


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And it came to pass that as he went through the planted fields [again] on the sabbath day, his disciples began, as they walked, to pluck the ears of grain.


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And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did when he had need and was hungry, he and those that were with him?


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How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest and ate the showbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to those who were with him?


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And he said unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days or to do evil? to save the person or to kill them? But they were silent.


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And looking round about on them with anger, being grieved for the blindness of their hearts, he said unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched [it] out and his hand was restored whole as the other.


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But Jesus withdrew himself with his disciples to the sea, and a great multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judaea


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and from Jerusalem and from Idumaea and [from] beyond Jordan. And those who dwell around Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, hearing what great things he did, came unto him.


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And he spoke to his disciples that a small ship should wait on him because of the multitude, lest they should throng him.


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And the unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him and cried out, saying, Thou art the Son of God.


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And he established twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach


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and James the [son] of Zebedee and John the brother of James, whom he surnamed them Boanerges, which is The sons of thunder;


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and Andrew and Philip and Bartholomew and Matthew and Thomas and James the [son] of Alphaeus and Thaddaeus and Simon the Canaanite


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And when his [friends] and family heard [of it], they went out to lay hold on him; for they said, He is beside himself.


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But the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem said that he had Beelzebub and that by the prince of the devils he cast out devils.


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No man can enter into a strong man's house and spoil his goods except he will first bind the strong man, and then he will spoil his house.


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Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men and whatever blasphemies with which they shall blaspheme,


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but whosoever shall blaspheme against the Holy Spirit shall never have forgiveness but is obligated to eternal judgment,


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The multitude was sitting all around him, and they said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brothers [and sisters] seek thee without.


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And he began again to teach by the sea side, and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship and sat in the sea, and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land.


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and it came to pass as he sowed some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up.


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And some fell on stony ground where it had not much earth, and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of earth;


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And other fell on good ground and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased and brought forth: some thirty and some sixty and some a hundred.


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And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but unto those that are without, all [these] things are done in parables,


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that seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand, lest at any time they should be converted, and [their] sins should be forgiven them.


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And these are those by the way side, in whom the word is sown, but when they have heard, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts.


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And likewise these are those who are sown on stony ground, who when they have heard the word immediately receive it with gladness


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but have no root in themselves and are temporal; afterward, when tribulation or persecution arises for the word's sake, immediately they are offended.


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and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.


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And these are those who are sown in good ground, such as hear the word and receive [it] and bring forth fruit: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred.


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And he also said unto them, Is the lamp brought to be put under the bushel or under the bed? and not to be set in the lampstand?


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And he also said unto them, Take heed what ye hear; with the measure ye measure by, ye shall be measured by others, and unto you that hear shall more be added.


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For he that has, to him shall be given; and he that has not, from him shall be taken even that which he has.


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and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring [forth] and grow up, he knows not how.


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For the earth brings forth fruit of herself: first the blade, then the ear, after that the full grain in the ear.


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He also said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? Or with what parable shall we compare it?


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[It is] like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that are in the earth;


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but when it is sown, it grows up and becomes greater than all herbs and shoots out great branches, so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.


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But without a parable he did not speak unto them; and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.


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And when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even as he was in the ship. And there were also with him other little ships.


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And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow; and they awoke him and said unto him, Master, dost thou not care that we perish?


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And as he arose, he rebuked the wind and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.


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And they feared exceedingly and said one to another, Who is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?:


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And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him a man of the tombs, with an unclean spirit,


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because many times he had been bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been broken in pieces by him, and the fetters shattered; neither could anyone tame him.


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And always, night and day, he was in the mountains and in the tombs, crying out and hurting himself with stones.


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Crying out with a loud voice, he said, What hast thou with me, Jesus, [thou] Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.


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And he asked him, What [is] thy name? And he answered, saying, My name [is] Legion, for we are many.


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And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out and entered into the swine, and the herd fell over a cliff into the sea (they were about two thousand) and were choked in the sea.


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And those that fed the swine fled and told [it] in the city and in the country. And [people] went out to see what it was that had happened.


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And they come to Jesus and see him that was tormented by the demon and had the legion sitting and clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.


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And those that saw [it] told them what happened to him that had the demon and [also] concerning the swine.


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And as he was entering into the ship, he that had been troubled by the demon besought him that he might be with him.


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But Jesus suffered him not but said unto him, Go home to thy [friends] and family and tell them what great things the Lord has done with thee and [how] he has had mercy on thee.


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And he went and began to publish in Decapolis what great things Jesus had done with him, and everyone marveled.


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And when Jesus was passed over again by ship unto the other side, a great multitude gathered unto him, and he was near the sea.


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And one of the princes of the synagogue came, Jairus by name; and when he saw him, he fell at his feet


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and besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lies at the point of death; come and lay thy hands on her that she may be saved, and she shall live.


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and had suffered many things of many physicians and had spent all that she had and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse;


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And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in [her] body that she was healed of that plague.


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And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned to the crowd and said, Who touched my clothes?


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And his disciples said unto him, Thou seest the multitude thronging thee and sayest thou, Who touched me?


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But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him and told him all the truth.


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And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith has made thee saved; go in peace and remain whole of thy plague.


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While he yet spoke, there came from the ruler of the synagogue's [house certain] who said, Thy daughter is dead: why troublest thou the Master any further?


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As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he said unto the prince of the synagogue, Be not afraid, only believe.


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And they came to the house of the prince of the synagogue and saw the tumult and those that wept and wailed greatly.


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And when he was come in, he said unto them, Why make ye this ado and weep? The damsel is not dead, but sleeps.


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And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all out, he took the father and the mother of the damsel and those that were with him and entered in where the damsel was lying.


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And taking the damsel by the hand, he said unto her, Talitha cumi, which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I say unto thee, arise.


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And straightway the damsel arose and walked, for she was twelve years old. And they were astonished with a great astonishment.


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And he charged them straitly that no one should know it and commanded that [something] should be given her to eat.:


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And when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue; and many hearing [him] were astonished, saying, From where has this [man] these things? and what wisdom is this which is given unto him and such mighty works that are wrought by his hands?


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Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James and Joses and of Juda and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.


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But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not dishonoured except in his own country and among his own kin and in his own house.


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And he could do no mighty work there except that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk and healed [them].


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And he called [unto him] the twelve and began to send them forth by two and two and gave them power [over] the unclean spirits


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and commanded them that they should take nothing for [their] journey except a staff only: no provision bag, no bread, no money in [their] purse;


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And he said unto them, In whatever place ye enter into a house, there abide until ye depart from that place.


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And whosoever shall not receive you nor hear you, when ye depart from there, shake off the dust under your feet in testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment than for that city.


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And king Herod heard [of him] (for his name was spread abroad), and he said, John the Baptist has risen from the dead, and therefore virtues operate in him.


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For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John and bound him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife, for he had married her.


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for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a just and holy man, and respected him; and when he heard him, he did many things and heard him gladly.


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And when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his birthday made a supper to his princes and tribunes and to the principal [people] of Galilee;


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and when the daughter of Herodias came in and danced and pleased Herod and those that sat with him, the king said unto the damsel, Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt, and I will give [it unto] thee.


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And he swore unto her, Whatsoever thou shalt ask of me, I will give [it unto] thee, unto the half of my kingdom.


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And she went forth, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist.


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And she came in with haste unto the king and asked, saying, I will that thou give me immediately in a platter the head of John the Baptist.


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And the king was exceeding sorry, [yet] for his oath's sake and for the sakes of those who sat with him, he would not reject her.


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And straightway the king sent an executioner and commanded his head to be brought, and he went and beheaded him in the prison


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And the apostles gathered themselves together unto Jesus and told him everything they had done and what they had taught.


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And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place and rest a while; for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.


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And many saw them departing and knew him and ran there afoot out of the cities and arrived before them and came together unto him.


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And [Jesus], when he came out, saw a great multitude and had mercy on them because they were as sheep not having a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things.


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And when the day was now far spent, his disciples came unto him and said, This is a desert place, and now the time [is] far passed;


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send them away that they may go into the country round about and into the villages and buy themselves bread, for they have nothing to eat.


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He answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they said unto him, Shall we go and buy bread for two hundred denarius and give them to eat?


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He said unto them, How many loaves have ye? go and see. And when they knew, they said, Five, and two fishes.


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And when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, looking up to heaven, he blessed and broke the loaves and gave [them] to his disciples to set before them, and the two fishes he divided among them all.


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And straightway he told his disciples to get quickly into the ship and to go to the other side before him unto Bethsaida while he dispatched the people.


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And he saw them toiling in rowing, for the wind was contrary unto them; and about the fourth watch of the night he came unto them, walking upon the sea, and would have passed by them.


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For they all saw him and were troubled. And immediately he talked with them and said unto them, Be of good cheer; I AM; be not afraid.


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And he went up unto them into the ship, and the wind ceased; and they were sore amazed in themselves beyond measure and wondered.


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and ran through that whole region round about and began to carry about in beds those that were sick, where they heard he was.


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And wherever he entered, into villages or cities or fields, they laid the sick in the streets and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment, and as many as touched him were saved.:


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who upon seeing some of his disciples eat bread with common, that is to say, with unwashed, hands, they condemned them.


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(For the Pharisees and all the Jews, unless they wash [their] hands often, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.


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And [when they come] from the market, unless they wash, they eat not. And there are many other things which they took upon themselves to hold [such as] the washing of cups and pots, brasen vessels and of tables.)


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Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why do thy disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders but eat bread with unwashed hands?


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He answered and said unto them, Well has Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honours me with [their] lips, but their heart is far from me.


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For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men [as] the washing of pots and cups, and many other such like things ye do.


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And he also said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.


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For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother, and, Whosoever curses father or mother shall most definitely die.


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But ye say, It is enough if a man shall say to his father or mother, [It is] all Corban, (that is to say, my gift to God) whatever with which thou mightest be profited by me.


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invalidating the word of God with your tradition, which ye have given; and many such like things do ye.


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And when he had called all the people [unto him], he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one [of you] and understand;


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there is nothing from outside the man that entering into him can defile him, but the things which come out of him, those are what defile the man.


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And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.


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And he said unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not understand that anything from outside that enters into the man cannot defile him?


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Because it enters not into his heart, but into the belly, and [the man] goes out to the privy and purges all foods.


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For from within, out of the heart of men, come forth the evil thoughts, the adulteries, the fornications, the murders,


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the thefts, the covetousness, the wickedness, the deceit, the lasciviousness, the evil eye, the slander, the pride, the unwiseness:


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And from there he arose and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entering into a house, desired that no man know [of it]; but he could not be hid.


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For a [certain] woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him and came and fell at his feet;


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the woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation, and she besought him that he would cast forth the demon out of her daughter.


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But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled, for it is not good to take the children's bread and to cast [it] unto the dogs.


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And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord, but even the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.


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And when she came to her house, she found that the demon had gone out, and the daughter lay upon the bed.


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And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre, he came by Sidon unto the sea of Galilee through the midst of the borders of Decapolis.


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And they bring unto him one that was deaf and had an impediment in his speech, and they beseech him to put his hand upon him.


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And taking him aside from the multitude, he put his fingers into the man's ears; and spitting, he touched the man's tongue [with the saliva];


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And straightway his ears were opened, and that which bound his tongue was loosed, and he spoke plainly.


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And he charged them that they should tell no one; but the more he commanded them, so much more and more they published [it]


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and were beyond measure astonished, saying, He has done all things well: he makes both the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak.:


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In those days, as before, there was a great multitude, and they had nothing to eat; Jesus called his disciples [unto him] and said unto them,


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I have mercy on the multitude because they have now been with me three days and have nothing to eat;


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And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way, for some of them came from afar.


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And his disciples answered him, From where can anyone satisfy these [men] with bread here in the wilderness?


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And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground; and taking the seven loaves and having given thanks, he broke [them] and gave to his disciples to set before [them]; and they set [them] before the multitude.


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And they also had a few small fishes; and he blessed them and commanded to set them also before [them].


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And the Pharisees came forth and began to argue with him, demanding of him a sign from heaven, tempting him.


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And crying out in his spirit, he said, Why does this generation seek after a sign? verily I say unto you, There shall no sign be given unto this generation.


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Now [the disciples] had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the ship with them more than one loaf.


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And he commanded them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and [of] the leaven of Herod.


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And as Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why argue ye because ye have no bread? Do ye not consider nor understand? is your heart yet blind?


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When I broke the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They said unto him, Twelve.


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And when the seven loaves among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven.


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So, taking the blind man by the hand, he led him out of the town; and spitting into his eyes and putting his hands upon [them], he asked him if he saw anything.


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After that, he put [his] hands again upon his eyes and caused him to see; and he was whole and saw everyone, far away and clearly.


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And he sent him away to his house, saying, Neither go into the town, nor tell [it] to any in the town.


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And Jesus and his disciples went out into the towns of Caesarea Philippi; and by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them, Whom do men say that I am?


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Then he said unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Peter answered and said unto him, Thou art the Christ!


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And he began to teach them that it was convenient that the Son of man must suffer many things and be rejected of the elders and [of] the princes of the priests and of the scribes, and be killed and after three days rise again.


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And he, turning about and looking at his disciples, rebuked Peter, saying, Get thyself from me, Satan, for thou knowest not the things that are of God, but the things that [are] of men.


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And calling the multitude [unto him] with his disciples, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his stake and follow me.


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For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.


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Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.:


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He also said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there are some of those who are here who shall not taste of death until they have seen the kingdom of God which comes with power.


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And six days afterwards Jesus took Peter and James and John, and separated them apart by themselves unto a high mountain; and he was transfigured before them.


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Then Peter answering, said unto Jesus, Master, it shall be good for us to remain here; and let us make three tabernacles: one for thee, and another for Moses, and another for Elijah.


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And a cloud came that overshadowed them, and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son; hear ye him.


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And suddenly, when they had looked around, they saw no one any more, except Jesus only with themselves.


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And as they came down from the mountain, he commanded them that they should tell no one what things they had seen until the Son of man was risen from the dead.


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And they kept the word within themselves, questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should be.


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And he answered and told them, Elijah verily shall come first and restore all things and how it is written of the Son of man, that he must suffer many things and be esteemed as nothing.


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But I say unto you, That Elijah has [indeed] come, and they have done unto him whatsoever they wished, as it is written of him.


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And as he came to the disciples, he saw a great multitude about them and scribes that disputed with them.


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And straightway all the people, when they beheld him, were greatly amazed, and running to [him] saluted him.


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And one of the multitude answering, said, Master, I have brought unto thee my son, who has a dumb spirit;


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and wherever he takes him, he tears him, and he foams and gnashes with his teeth and pines away; and I spoke to thy disciples that they should cast him out, and they could not.


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Answering, he said unto him, O unfaithful generation, how long shall I be with you? How long must I suffer you? Bring him unto me.


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And they brought him unto him; and when he saw him, straightway the spirit tore him; and he fell on the ground and wallowed foaming.


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And ofttimes it has cast him into the fire and into the waters to kill him, but if thou canst do any thing, help us, having mercy on us.


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And Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe this, all things [are] possible to him that believes.


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And straightway the father of the child crying out with tears, said, Lord, I believe; help thou my unbelief.


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When Jesus saw that the multitude concurred, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying unto him, [Thou] dumb and deaf spirit, I command thee, come out of him and enter no more into him.


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Then the spirit, crying out and rending him sore, came out; and [he] remained as one dead, [insomuch] that many said that he was dead.


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And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out?


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And having left there, they walked together through Galilee; and he did not wish that anyone should know of it.


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For he went on teaching his disciples and said unto them, The Son of man is delivered into hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after he is dead, he shall rise the third day.


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And he came to Capernaum; and being in the house he asked them, What was it that ye disputed among yourselves on the way?


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But they were silent; for on the way they had disputed among themselves, who [should be] the greatest.


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Then, sitting down, he called the twelve and said unto them, If anyone desires to be first, [the same] shall be last of all and servant of all.


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Whosoever shall receive one of such children in my name, receives me; and whosoever shall receive me, receives not me, but him that sent me.


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And John answered him, saying, Master, we saw one casting out demons in thy name and he does not follow us; and we forbade him because he does not follow us.


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But Jesus said, Forbid him not, for there is no one who does a miracle in my name that can then speak evil of me.


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For whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name because ye are of the Christ, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose his reward.


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And whosoever shall be a stumbling block to one of [these] little ones that believe in me, it would be better for him if a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.


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And if thy hand causes thee to fall, cut it off; it is better for thee to enter into life maimed than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that can never be quenched,


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And if thy foot causes thee to fall, cut it off; it is better for thee to enter halt into life than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that can never be quenched,


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And if thine eye causes thee to fall, pluck it out; it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye than having two eyes to be cast into hell,


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Salt [is] good, but if the salt has lost its saltness, with what will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.:


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And he left there and came into the borders of Judaea and behind the Jordan; and the multitude joined him again, and he taught them again as was his custom.


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And the Pharisees came to him and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away [his] wife? tempting him.


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And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this commandment.


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And he said unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife and marry another commits adultery against her.


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And they brought young children to him that he should touch them, and [his] disciples rebuked those that brought [them].


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And Jesus seeing it, became angry and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me and hinder them not, for of such is the kingdom of God.


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Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.


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And as he was leaving to continue his way, [there came] one running, [who] kneeled before him and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?


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Thou knowest the commandments: Do not commit adultery, Do not murder, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.


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Then Jesus beholding him loved him and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go, sell all that thou hast and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven; and come, take up the stake, and follow me taking up thy stake (if thy desire is to be perfect).


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Then Jesus, looking around, said unto his disciples, How hardly shall those that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!


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And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus answered again and said unto them, Children, how hard is it for those that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God!


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It is easier to pass a cable through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.


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Then Jesus looking upon them said, For men [it is] impossible, but not for God because all things are possible for God.


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And answering him, Jesus said, Verily I say unto you, There is no one that has left house or brethren or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for my sake and the gospel's


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who shall not receive one hundredfold now in this time: houses and brethren and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the world to come eternal life.


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And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus went before them; and they were amazed, and they followed him with fear. Then, taking the twelve [aside] again, he began to tell them what things would happen unto him,


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[saying], Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the princes of the priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death and shall deliver him to the Gentiles,


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and they shall mock him and shall scourge him and shall spit upon him and shall kill him; but the third day he shall rise again.


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Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came unto him, saying, Master, we would that thou should do for us whatever we shall ask.


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They said unto him, Grant unto us that we may sit, one at thy right hand and the other at thy left hand in thy glory.


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Then Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask; can ye drink the cup that I drink? Or be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?


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And they said unto him, We can. And Jesus said unto them, Ye shall indeed drink the cup that I drink, and of the baptism that I am baptized with ye shall be baptized;


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but to sit at my right hand and at my left hand is not mine to give, but [it shall be given to those] for whom it is prepared.


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But Jesus, calling unto them, said unto them, Ye know that those who are seen to be princes among the Gentiles exercise lordship over them, and those that are great among them wield power over them.


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But it shall not be like this among you, for whosoever desires to make himself great among you shall be your servant;


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For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to serve and to give his life in ransom for many.


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And so they come to Jericho, and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a [great] multitude, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the highway side begging.


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And hearing that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, Jesus, [thou] Son of David, have mercy on me.


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Then Jesus stood still and commanded him to be called. And they call the blind man, saying unto him, Have confidence, rise; he calls thee.


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And Jesus, answering, said unto him, What wilt thou that I should do unto thee? And the blind man said unto him, Master, that I might receive my sight.


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And Jesus said unto him, Go; thy faith has saved thee. And immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus in the way.:


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And when they came near to Jerusalem unto Bethphage and Bethany at the mount of Olives, he sends forth two of his disciples


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and said unto them, Go to the place which is before you; and as soon as ye are entered into it, ye shall find a colt tied, upon which no man ever sat; loose him and bring [him].


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And if anyone says unto you, Why do ye this? say ye that the Lord has need of him, and straightway he will send him here.


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And many spread their garments in the way, and others cut down leaves off the trees and spread [them] in the way.


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And those that went before and those that followed cried out, saying, Hosanna; Blessed [is] he that comes in the name of the Lord;


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blessed [be] the kingdom of our father David, that comes in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.


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And the Lord entered into Jerusalem and into the temple; and when he had looked around upon all things, and it being now late, he went out unto Bethany with the twelve.


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and seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing upon her; but when he came to her, he found nothing but leaves, for the time of figs was not [yet].


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Then Jesus, answering, said to the fig tree, Never again shall anyone eat fruit of thee [hereafter] for ever. And his disciples heard [it].


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And they come to Jerusalem, and Jesus, entering into the temple, began to cast out those that sold and bought in the temple and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of those that sold doves


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And he taught them, saying, Is it not written that my house shall be called House of prayer by all the nations? but ye have made it a den of thieves.


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And the scribes and the princes of the priests heard [it] and sought how they might kill him, for they feared him because all the multitude was astonished at his doctrine.


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Then Peter, remembering, said unto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which thou didst curse is withered away.


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For verily I say unto you that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Remove thyself and cast thyself into the sea, and shall not doubt in his heart but shall believe that what he says shall be done whatsoever he says shall be done unto him.


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Therefore I say unto you that everything that ye ask for, praying, believe that ye receive it, and it shall come upon you.


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And when ye are praying, forgive if ye have anything against anyone, so that your Father who [is] in the heavens will also forgive you your trespasses.


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And they returned to Jerusalem, and as he was walking in the temple, there come to him the princes of the priests and the scribes and the elders


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and say unto him, By what faculty doest thou these things? and who gave thee this faculty to do these things?


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Then Jesus, answering, said unto them, I will also ask of you one word, and respond unto me, and I will tell you with what faculty I do these things.


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Then they thought inside themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven, he will say, Why then did ye not believe him?


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But if we shall say, Of men, we fear the people, for everyone judged regarding John that he truly was a prophet.


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And answering, they said unto Jesus, We do not know. And Jesus, answering, said unto them, Neither shall I tell you with what faculty I do these things.:


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And he began to speak unto them by parables. A [certain] man planted a vineyard and set a hedge about [it] and dug [a place for] the winefat and built a tower and let it out to husbandmen and went far away.


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And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.


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And again he sent unto them another servant, and casting stones at him, they wounded [him] in the head and sent [him] away shamefully handled.


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Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him also last unto them, saying, They will reverence my son.


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But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the place shall be ours.


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What, therefore, shall the lord of the vineyard do? He shall come and destroy those husbandmen and shall give his vineyard unto others.


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And have ye not read this scripture: The stone which the builders rejected is placed as the head of the corner;


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And they sought to lay hold on him but feared the multitude, for they understood that he had spoken the parable against them, and leaving him, they went away.


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And when they were come, they say unto him, Master, we know that thou art [a] man of truth [who] regards no man; for thou dost not look upon [the] appearance of men, but dost with truth teach the way of God; is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar or not?


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Shall we give or shall we not give? Then he, understanding their hypocrisy, said unto them, Why tempt ye me? Bring me the coin that I may see it.


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And they brought it. And he said unto them, Of whom is this image and inscription? And they said unto him, Of Caesar.


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And Jesus, answering, said unto them, Render that which [is] of Caesar unto Caesar, and that which is of God unto God. And they marvelled at this.


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Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother dies and leaves [his] wife [behind him] and leaves no children, that his brother should take his wife and raise up seed unto his brother.


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In the resurrection, therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife.


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Then Jesus, answering, said unto them, Do ye not therefore err because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?


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For when they shall rise from the dead, neither shall they marry nor husbands take women nor women, husbands; but are as the angels who are in the heavens.


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And regarding the dead who are to rise, have ye not read in the book of Moses how in the bush God spoke unto him, saying, I Am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob?


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And one of the scribes came, having heard their dispute and knowing that he had given a good response unto them, asked him, Which is the principal commandment of all?


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And Jesus responded unto him, The principal of all the commandments [is], Hear, O Israel, The Lord our God, the Lord is one;


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and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy thought and with all thy strength: this [is] the principal commandment.


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And the second [is] like it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is no other commandment greater than these.


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Then the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth, that God is one, and there is none other outside of him;


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and to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the soul and with all the strength and to love [his] neighbour as himself is more than all the burnt offerings and sacrifices.


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Then Jesus, seeing that he responded wisely, said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that dared ask him [any question].


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And answering, Jesus said, while he taught in the temple, How do the scribes say that the Christ is Son of David?


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For David himself said by [the] Holy Spirit, The LORD said to my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.


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David therefore himself calls him Lord, and where [then] is he his son? And the many people heard him gladly.


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And he said unto them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, who love to go in long clothing and [love] the salutations in the marketplaces


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which devour widows' houses and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater judgment.


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And with Jesus sitting in front of the ark of the offering, he beheld how the people cast money into the ark and many that were rich cast in much.


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Then calling his disciples, he said unto them, Verily I say unto you that this poor widow has cast more in than all those who have cast into the treasury,


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for [they] all did cast in of their abundance, but she of her want did cast in all that she had, [even] all her living.:


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And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples said unto him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings [are here]!


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And Jesus, answering, said unto him, Seest thou these great buildings? There shall not be left one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down.


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And as he sat upon the mount of Olives over against the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately,


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Tell us, when shall these things be? and what [shall be] the sign when all things are to be finished?


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And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled, for [such things] must needs be; but the end [shall] not [be] yet.


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For people shall rise against people and kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be earthquakes in each place, and there shall be famines and troubles: these [shall be] the beginnings of sorrows.


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But take heed to yourselves, for they shall deliver you up in [the] councils, and in [the] synagogues ye shall be beaten; and ye shall be called before rulers and kings for my sake for a testimony unto them.


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But when they shall bring you to deliver you up, do not premeditate beforehand what ye shall speak, neither think ye regarding [it], but whatever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye, for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Spirit.


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Now the brother shall deliver the brother unto death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against [their] parents and shall kill them.


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And ye shall be hated by everyone for my name, but he that shall persevere unto the end, the same shall be saved.


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But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation (spoken [of] by Daniel the prophet) standing where it ought not, he that reads, [let him] understand, then let those that [are] in Judaea flee to the mountains;


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and let him that [is] on the housetop not go down into the house, neither enter [therein] to take any thing out of his house;


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For those days shall be of affliction such as never was from the beginning of the creation [of the things] which God created unto this time, neither shall be.


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And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved, but for the elect's sake, whom he has chosen, he has shortened those days.


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And then if anyone should say to you, Behold, here is the Christ, or, Behold, [he is] there, do not believe [him];


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for false Christs and false prophets shall rise and shall show signs and wonders to seduce, if possible, even the elect.


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But in those days after that affliction, the sun shall darken, and the moon shall not give her light,


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And then shall he send his angels and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth unto the uttermost part of the heaven.


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Learn the similitude from the fig tree: When her branch is yet tender and puts forth leaves, ye know that summer is near;


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so ye in like manner, when ye shall see these things come to pass, know that it is near, [even] at the doors.


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But of that day and [that] hour no one knows, no, not even the angels who are in the heaven, neither the Son, but only the Father.


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As the man who, taking a far journey, left his house and gave his estate to his servants and to each one his responsibility and commanded the porter to watch.


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Watch ye therefore, for ye know not when the Lord of the house comes: at evening or at midnight or at the cockcrowing or in the morning,


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Two days after was the passover and [the days] of unleavened bread; and the princes of the priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, that they might kill him.


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And he being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, sitting at the table, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and breaking the alabaster, she poured [it] over his head.


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And there were some that had indignation within themselves and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?


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For it might have been sold for more than three hundred denarius and given to the poor. And they murmured against her.


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For ye have the poor with you always, and whenever ye will, ye may do them good; but me ye have not always.


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Verily I say unto you, Wherever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, [this] also that she has done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.


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Then Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, came unto the princes of the priests to deliver him unto them.


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And when they heard [it], they were glad and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him.


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And the first day [of the feast of] unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou may eat the passover?


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And he sends forth two of his disciples and said unto them, Go into the city, and a man shall meet you bearing a pitcher of water; follow him.


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And wherever he shall go in, say to the husband of the house, The Master says, Where is the guestchamber where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?


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And his disciples went forth and came into the city and found as he had said unto them, and they made ready the passover.


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And when they sat at the table and ate, Jesus said, Verily I say unto you, One of you who eats with me shall betray me.


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And they began to be sorrowful and to say unto him one by one, [shall it be] I? and another [said, shall it be] I?


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The Son of man indeed goes, as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! good were it for that man if he had never been born.


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And as they were eating, Jesus took bread and, blessing it, broke [it] and gave to them and said, Take, eat: this is my body.


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Verily I say unto you, I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God.


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Then Jesus said unto them, All ye shall be scandalized in me this night; for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.


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And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this day, [even] in this night, before the cock crows twice, thou shalt deny me three times.


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But he spoke the more vehemently, If I should die with thee, I will not deny thee in any wise. Likewise also said the others.


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And they come to the place which is named Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, Sit ye here while I pray.


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And he went forward a little and 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 unto thee; take away this cup from me; nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt.


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And he came and found them sleeping and said unto Peter: Simon, sleepest thou? Could thou not watch one hour?


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And when he returned, he found them asleep again (for their eyes were heavy), nor did they know what to answer him.


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And he came the third time and said unto them, Sleep on now and rest; it is enough, the hour is come; behold, the Son of man is betrayed into [the] hands of the sinners.


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And immediately, while he yet spoke, Judas came, who was one of the twelve, and with him a multitude with swords and staves from the princes of the priests and of the scribes and of the elders.


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And he that betrayed him had given them a token, saying, Whoever I shall kiss, that same is he; take him and lead [him] away securely.


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And one of them that stood by drew a sword and smote the servant of the high priest and cut off his ear.


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And Jesus, answering, said unto them, Are ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and [with] staves to take me?


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I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and ye took me not, but it is this way that the scriptures might be fulfilled.


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And there followed him a certain young man having a linen cloth cast about [his] naked [body], and the young men laid hold on him,


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And they brought Jesus to the high priest, and with him were assembled all the princes of the priests and the elders and the scribes.


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But Peter followed him afar off, even into the palace of the high priest, and he was seated with the servants and warming himself at the fire.


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And the princes of the priests and all the council sought for witness against Jesus to put him to death and found none.


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We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.


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So the high priest, standing up in the midst, asked Jesus, saying, Answerest thou nothing [to what] these witness against thee?


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But he was silent and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him and said unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?


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And Jesus said unto him, I AM, and ye shall see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of the power [of God] and coming in the clouds of the heaven.


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And some began to spit on him and to cover his face and to buffet him and to say unto him, Prophesy. And the servants struck him with the palms of their hands.


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and when she saw Peter warming himself, looking upon him, said, And thou also wast with Jesus of Nazareth.


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But he denied, saying, I know [him] not, neither understand I what thou sayest. And he went out into the porch; and the cock crew.


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But he denied it again. And a little after, those that stood by said again to Peter, Surely thou art [one] of them, for thou art a Galilaean, and thy speech agrees [unto it].


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And the second time the cock crew. And Peter called to mind the words that Jesus had said unto him, Before the cock crows twice, thou shalt deny me three times. And thinking on this, he wept.:


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And straightway in the morning the princes of the priests having held a consultation with the elders and with the scribes and with the whole council, took Jesus away bound and delivered him to Pilate.


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And Pilate asked him, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he, answering, said unto him, Thou sayest [it].


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And Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou nothing? behold how many things they accuse thee of.


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Now at [that] feast [it was customary that] he release unto them one prisoner, whoever they desired.


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And there was [one] named Barabbas, [who lay] bound with those that had made insurrection with him, who had committed murder in the insurrection.


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But the princes of the priests moved the multitude that he should rather release Barabbas unto them.


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And Pilate answered and said again unto them, What will ye then that I shall do [unto him] whom ye call the King of the Jews?


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Then Pilate said unto them, Why, what evil has he done? And they cried out the more exceedingly, crucify him.


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And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged [him], to be crucified.


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And the soldiers led him away into the hall called Praetorium, and they call together the whole band.


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And they smote him on the head with a reed and spit upon him and bowing [their] knees worshipped him.


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And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple from him and put his own clothes on him and led him out to crucify him.


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And they compel one Simon, a Cyrenian, who passed by coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his stake.


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And when they had crucified him, they parted his garments, casting lots upon them, what every man should take.


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And those that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads and saying, Ah, thou that would destroy the temple of God and build [it] in three days,


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Likewise also the princes of the priests mocking said among themselves with the scribes, He saved others; himself he cannot save.


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Let the Christ, King of Israel, descend now from the stake that we may see and believe. And those that were crucified with him reviled him.


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And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?


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And one ran and filled a sponge full of vinegar and put [it] on a reed and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let us see whether Elijah will come to take him down.


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And when the centurion, who stood in front of him, saw that he so cried out and expired, he said, Truly this man was the Son of God.


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There were also [some] women looking on afar off, among whom was Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James the lesser and of Joses, and Salome


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(who also, when he was in Galilee, followed him and ministered unto him), and many other women who came up with him unto Jerusalem.


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And now when the evening was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,


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Joseph of Arimathaea, a noble senator, who also waited for the kingdom of God, came and went in boldly unto Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.


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And Pilate marvelled that he was already dead; and calling [unto him] the centurion, he asked him whether he was already dead.


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And he bought fine linen and took him down and wrapped him in the linen and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.


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And when the sabbath [of the great feast of the passover] was past, Mary Magdalene and Mary [the] mother of James, and Salome had bought sweet spices that they might come and anoint him.


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And very early in the morning the first of the sabbaths, they come unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.


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And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting to the right hand [side], covered in a long white garment; and they were frightened.


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But he said unto them, Do not be frightened; Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified; he is risen; he is not here; behold the place where they laid him.


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But go tell his disciples and Peter that he goes before you into Galilee: there shall ye see him as he said unto you.


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And they went out quickly and fled from the sepulchre, for they trembled and were amazed; neither said they any thing to anyone, for they were afraid.


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Now as [Jesus] rose early the first of the sabbaths, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.


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Finally he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at the table and upbraided them for their unbelief and hardness of heart because they did not believe those who had seen him after he was risen.


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And these signs shall follow those that believe: In my name they shall cast out demons; they shall speak with new tongues;


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they shall take away serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands upon the sick, and they shall be healed.


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So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven and sat at the right hand of God.


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And they, going forth, preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word with the signs which followed them. [Amen].:


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Forasmuch as many have attempted to set forth in order the history of those things which among us have been most certain,


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even as those who were eyewitnesses from the beginning taught us and [thus] were ministers of the word,


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it seemed good also to me, after having understood all the things from the beginning with great diligence, to write them unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,


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There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia, and his wife [was] of the daughters of Aaron, and her name [was] Elisabeth.


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And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord, blameless.


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And they had no child because Elisabeth was barren, and they both were [now] well advanced in years.


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And it came to pass that while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his course,


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according to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense entering into the temple of the Lord.


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And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense.


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But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias, for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.


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For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.


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And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the rebellious to the prudence of the just, to make ready a prepared people for the Lord.


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And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife [is] well advanced in years.


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And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God, and am sent to speak unto thee and to show thee this gospel.


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And, behold, thou shalt be dumb and not able to speak until the day that these things shall be performed, because thou didst not believe my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.


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And when he came out, he could not speak unto them; and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple, for he communicated with signs and remained speechless.


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And it came to pass that as soon as the days of his ministration were accomplished, he departed to his own house.


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Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on [me], to take away my reproach among men.


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to a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David and the virgin's name [was] Mary.


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And the angel came in unto her and said, Hail, [thou that art] highly favoured, the Lord [is] with thee; blessed [art] thou among women.


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And when she saw [him], she was troubled at his words and wondered in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.


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He shall be great and shall be called the Son of the Highest, and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David;


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And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee; therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called [the] Son of God.


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And, behold, thy relative Elisabeth, she has also conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her, who [was] called barren.


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Then Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.


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And it came to pass that when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit;


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and she spoke out with a loud voice and said, Blessed [art] thou among women, and blessed [is] the fruit of thy womb.


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For, behold, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in my ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.


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And blessed [is] she that believed, for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.


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for he has regarded the low estate of his handmaiden; for, behold, from now on all generations shall call me blessed.


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And her neighbours and her relatives heard how the Lord had showed great mercy upon her, and they rejoiced with her.


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And it came to pass that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they called him Zacharias after the name of his father.


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And fear came on all that dwelt round about them, and all these things were spoken of throughout all the hill country of Judaea.


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And all those that heard [them] laid [them] up in their hearts, saying, Who shall this child be! And the hand of the Lord was with him.


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that he would grant unto us, that without fear delivered out of the hand of our enemies, we might serve him


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And thou, child, shalt be called prophet of the Most High, for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways,


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to give light to those that dwell in darkness and [in] the shadow of death, to direct our feet into the way of peace.


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And the child grew and was comforted of the Spirit and was in the deserts until the day of his showing unto Israel.:


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And it came to pass in those days that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.


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And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth into Judaea unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem (because he was of the house and family of David)


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And she brought forth her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger because there was no room for them in the inn.


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And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.


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And, behold, [the] angel of the Lord came upon them, and [the] clarity of [the] Lord shone round about them, and they feared greatly.


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But the angel said unto them, Fear not; for, behold, I bring you [a] gospel of great joy, which shall be to all the people.


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And this [shall be] a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.


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And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go unto Bethlehem and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord has made known unto us.


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And when they had seen [it], they made known abroad that which had been told them concerning this child.


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And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.


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And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called Jesus, which he was called by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.


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And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem to present [him] to the Lord


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(as it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord)


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and to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons.


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And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name [was] Simeon, and the same man [was] just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.


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And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death before he should see the Christ of [the] Lord.


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And he came by the Spirit into the temple, and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law,


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And Simeon blessed them and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, this [child] is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel and for a sign which shall be spoken against


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(yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.


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And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser; she was of a great age and had lived with [her] husband seven years from her virginity,


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and she [was] a widow eighty-four years, who departed not from the temple, serving night and day with fastings and prayers.


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And she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the Lord and spoke of him to all those that looked for redemption in Jerusalem.


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And when they had completed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee to their own city Nazareth.


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And the child grew and was comforted of [the] Spirit, filled with wisdom and the grace of God was upon him.


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And having completed the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew not [of it].


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But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day's journey, and they sought him among [their] kinsfolk and acquaintances.


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And it came to pass that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them and asking them questions.


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And when they saw him, they were amazed; and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? Behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.


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And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? Knew ye not that it behooves me to be about my Father's business?


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And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was subject unto them, but his mother kept all these things in her heart.


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Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,


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Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came upon John the son of Zachariah in the wilderness.


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And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching [the] baptism of repentance for [the] remission of sins;


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as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord; make his paths straight.


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Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low, and the crooked [ways] shall be made straight, and the rough ways [shall be] made smooth;


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Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who taught you to flee from the wrath to come?


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Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham [for our] father; for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.


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And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees; every tree therefore which does not bring forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire.


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He answered and said unto them, He that has two coats, let him impart to him that has none; and he that has food, let him do likewise.


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And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Oppress no one, neither accuse [anyone] falsely; and be content with your wages.


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And as the people were in expectation, and all men mused in their hearts of John, whether he were the Christ, or not,


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John answered, saying unto [them] all, I indeed baptize you in water, but one mightier than I comes, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose; he shall baptize you in [the] Holy Spirit and fire;


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whose fan [is] in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his [threshing] floor and will gather the wheat into his storehouse, but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.


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Then Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip's wife and for all the evils which Herod had done,


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Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass that, Jesus also being baptized and praying, the heaven was opened,


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and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee is my delight.


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And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, who was [the son] of Heli,


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who was [the son] of Matthat, who was [the son] of Levi, who was [the son] of Melchi, who was [the son] of Janna, who was [the son] of Joseph,


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who was [the son] of Mattathias, who was [the son] of Amos, who was [the son] of Naum, who was [the son] of Esli, who was [the son] of Nagge,


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who was [the son] of Maath, who was [the son] of Mattathias, who was [the son] of Semei, who was [the son] of Joseph, who was [the son] of Juda,


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who was [the son] of Joanna, who was [the son] of Rhesa, who was [the son] of Zorobabel, who was [the son] of Salathiel, who was [the son] of Neri,


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who was [the son] of Melchi, who was [the son] of Addi, who was [the son] of Cosam, who was [the son] of Elmodam, who was [the son] of Er,


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who was [the son] of Joshua, who was [the son] of Eliezer, who was [the son] of Jorim, who was [the son] of Matthat, who was [the son] of Levi,


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who was [the son] of Simeon, who was [the son] of Juda, who was [the son] of Joseph, who was [the son] of Jonan, who was [the son] of Eliakim,


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who was [the son] of Melea, who was [the son] of Menan, who was [the son] of Mattatha, who was [the son] of Nathan, who was [the son] of David,


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who was [the son] of Jesse, who was [the son] of Obed, who was [the son] of Booz, who was [the son] of Salmon, who was [the son] of Naasson,


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who was [the son] of Aminadab, who was [the son] of Aram, who was [the son] of Esrom, who was [the son] of Phares, who was [the son] of Juda,


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who was [the son] of Jacob, who was [the son] of Isaac, who was [the son] of Abraham, who was [the son] of Thara, who was [the son] of Nachor,


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who was [the son] of Saruch, who was [the son] of Ragau, who was [the son] of Peleg, who was [the son] of Heber, who was [the son] of Sala,


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who was [the son] of Cainan, who was [the son] of Arphaxad, who was [the son] of Shem, who was [the son] of Noah, who was [the son] of Lamech,


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who was [the son] of Mathusala, who was [the son] of Enoch, who was [the son] of Jared, who was [the son] of Maleleel, who was [the son] of Cainan,


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who was [the son] of Enos, who was [the son] of Seth, who was [the son] of Adam, who was [the son] of God.:


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And Jesus being full of the Holy Spirit returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness


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for forty days and was tempted of the devil. And in those days he ate nothing; and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.


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And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.


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And the devil took him up into a high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the sphere of the world in a moment of time.


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And the devil said unto him, All this authority I will give thee and the glory of them, for that is delivered unto me, and to whomsoever I will I give it.


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And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan; for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.


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And he brought him to Jerusalem and set him on a pinnacle of the temple and said unto him, If thou art the Son of God, cast thyself down from here;


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And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and his fame went out through all the region round about.


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And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up; and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day and stood up to read.


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And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,


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The Spirit of the Lord [is] upon me because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those that are broken,


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And he closed the book, and he gave [it] again to the minister and sat down. And the eyes of all those that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.


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And all bore him witness and marvelled at the words of grace which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph's son?


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And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself; whatever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.


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But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land,


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but unto none of them was Elijah sent, except unto Sarepta, [a city] of Sidon, unto a woman [that was] a widow.


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And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and none of them was cleansed, except Naaman the Syrian.


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and rose up and thrust him out of the city and led him unto the brow of the hill upon which their city was built that they might cast him down headlong.


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And in the synagogue there was a man who had a spirit of an unclean demon and cried out with a loud voice,


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saying, Let [us] alone; what have we to do with thee, [thou] Jesus of Nazareth? Art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art: the Holy One of God.


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And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Be silent and come out of him. And the demon, throwing him down in the midst, came out of him and hurt him not.


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And they were all amazed and spoke among themselves, saying, What word [is] this! For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out.


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And he arose out of the synagogue, and entered into Simon's house. And Simon's wife's mother was taken with a great fever, and they besought him for her.


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And he stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her, and immediately she arose and ministered unto them.


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Now when the sun was setting, all those who had anyone sick with diverse diseases brought them unto him, and laying his hands on each one of them, he healed them.


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And demons also came out of many, crying out and saying, Thou art the Christ, the Son of God. And he rebuking [them] suffered them not to speak, for they knew that he was the Christ.


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And when it was day, he departed and went into a desert place, and the people sought him and came unto him and stayed him, that he should not depart from them.


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And he said unto them, I must announce the gospel of the kingdom of God to other cities also because for this am I sent.


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And it came to pass that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret


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and saw two ships that were by [the shore of] the lake, but the fishermen were gone out of them and were washing [their] nets.


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And he entered into one of the ships, which was Simon's, and prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the people out of the ship.


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Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.


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And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night and have taken nothing; nevertheless, at thy word I will let down the net.


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And they beckoned unto [their] partners, who were in the other ship, that they should come and help them. And they came and filled both the ships, so that they began to sink.


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When Simon Peter saw [it], he fell down on [his] knees before Jesus, saying, Depart from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man.


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For he was overcome with fear, and all that [were] with him, at the catch of the fishes which they had taken;


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and likewise James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto Simon, Fear not; from now on thou shalt catch men.


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And it came to pass when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy who, seeing Jesus, fell on [his] face and besought him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.


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And he put forth [his] hand and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him.


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And he charged him to tell no one. But go and show thyself to the priest and offer for thy cleansing, according as Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.


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But so much the more his fame went forth, and great multitudes came together to hear and to be healed by him of their infirmities.


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And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, who were come out of every town of Galilee and Judaea and Jerusalem; and the power of the Lord was [present] to heal them.


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And, behold, men brought in a bed a man who was paralysed, and they sought [means] to bring him in and to lay [him] before him.


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And when they could not find any way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop and let him down through the tiling with [his] couch into the midst before Jesus.


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And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?


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But that ye may know that the Son of man has power upon earth to forgive sins (he said unto the paralytic), I say unto thee, Arise and take up thy couch and go to thine house.


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And immediately he rose up before them and took up that upon which he lay and departed to his own house, glorifying God.


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And they were all amazed, and they glorified God and were filled with fear, saying, We have seen marvels today.


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And after these things he went forth and saw a publican, named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom, and he said unto him, Follow me.


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And Levi made a great banquet in his own house and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down at the table with them.


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But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners?


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And Jesus answering said unto them, Those that are whole have no need of a physician, but those that are sick.


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Then they said unto him, Why do the disciples of John fast often and make prayers and likewise [the disciples] of the Pharisees, but thine eat and drink?


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And he said unto them, Can ye make the sons of the bridechamber fast while the bridegroom is with them?


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But the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.


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And he also spoke a parable unto them: No one takes a piece of a new garment to mend an old one; if otherwise, then the new one is rent, and the piece that was [taken] out of the new does not agree with the old.


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And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; [or] else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled and the wineskins shall perish.


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And it came to pass on [the] second sabbath after the first that he went through the grain fields and his disciples plucked the ears of grain and ate, rubbing [them] in [their] hands.


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And certain of the Pharisees said unto them, Why do ye that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days?


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And Jesus answering them said, Have ye not read so much as this, what David did, when he and those that were with him were hungry,


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how he went into the house of God and did take and eat the showbread and gave also to those that were with him, which it is not lawful to eat but for the priests alone?


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And it came to pass also on another sabbath that he entered into the synagogue and taught, and a man was there whose right hand was withered.


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And the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath day, that they might find an accusation against him.


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But he knew their thoughts and said to the man who had the withered hand, Rise up and stand forth in the midst. And he arose and stood forth.


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Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing: Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good or to do evil? to save [a] person or to destroy [them]?


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And looking round about upon them all, he said unto the man, Stretch forth thy hand. And he did so, and his hand was restored whole as the other.


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And it came to pass in those days that he went out into the mountain to pray and continued all night in prayer to God.


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And when it was day, he called [unto him] his disciples; and of them he chose twelve, whom he also named apostles:


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And he came down with them and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples and a great multitude of people out of all Judaea and Jerusalem and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases;


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And the whole multitude sought to touch him, for there went virtue out of him and healed [them] all.


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And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples and said, Blessed [are] the poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.


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Blessed [are those] that hunger now, for ye shall be filled. Blessed [are those] that weep now, for ye shall laugh.


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Blessed are ye when men shall hate you and when they shall separate you [from their company] and shall reproach [you] and cast out your name as evil for the sake of the Son of man.


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Rejoice ye in that day and leap for joy; for, behold, your reward [is] great in heaven, for their fathers treated the prophets in the same manner.


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Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.


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Woe unto you when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers treat the false prophets.


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And unto the one that smites thee on the [one] cheek offer also the other, and to the one that takes away thy cloak defend not [thy] coat also.


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Give to everyone that asks of thee, and of the one that takes away thy goods ask [them] not to return them.


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For if ye love those who love you, what grace shall ye have? for sinners also love those that love them.


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And if ye do good to those who do good to you, what grace shall ye have? for sinners also do even the same.


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And if ye lend [to those] of whom ye hope to receive, what grace shall ye have? for sinners also lend to sinners to receive as much again.


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But rather love ye your enemies and do good and lend, hoping for nothing again, and your reward shall be great; and ye shall be the sons of the Most High, for he is kind [even] unto the unthankful and [to] the evil.


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Judge not, and ye shall not be judged; condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned; forgive, and ye shall be forgiven;


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give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down and shaken together and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye measure out it shall be measured to you again.


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And he spoke a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? Shall they not both fall into the pit?


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And why dost thou behold the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but not perceive the beam that is in thine own eye?


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Or how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself dost not behold the beam that is in thine own eye? Hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother's eye.


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For a good tree does not bring forth corrupt fruit; neither does a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.


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For every tree is known by its own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush do they gather grapes.


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The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth that which is evil, for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.


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he is like a man who built a house and dug deep and laid the foundation upon rock; and when the flood arose, the river beat vehemently upon that house and could not shake it, for it was founded upon rock.


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But he that hears and does not do is like a man that built a house upon the earth without a foundation against which the river beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.:


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And when he heard of Jesus, he sent unto him the elders of the Jews, beseeching him that he would come and free his servant.


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And when they came to Jesus, they besought him instantly, saying, That he is worthy that this should be done for him,


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Then Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying unto him, Lord, trouble not thyself, for I am not worthy that thou should enter under my roof;


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therefore neither did I think myself worthy to come unto thee but say the word, and my servant shall be healed.


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For I also am a man set under authority, having soldiers under me, and I say unto one, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this, and he does [it].


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When Jesus heard these things, he marvelled at him and turned about and said unto the people that followed him, I say unto you [that] not even in Israel have I found such great faith.


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And it came to pass the day after that he went into a city called Nain, and many of his disciples went with him, and many people.


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Now when he came near to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow; and many people from the city were with her.


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And he came and touched the bier, and those that bore [him] stood still. And he said, Young man, I say unto thee, Arise.


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And there came a fear on all, and they glorified God, saying, That a great prophet is risen up among us, and, That God has visited his people.


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And John calling [unto him] two of his disciples sent [them] to Jesus, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another?


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When the men were come unto him, they said, John the Baptist has sent us unto thee, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another?


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And in that same hour he cured many of [their] infirmities and plagues and of evil spirits, and unto many [that were] blind he gave sight.


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Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go and tell John the things ye have seen and heard: how the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached;


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And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak unto the people concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?


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But what went ye out to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, those that are gorgeously apparelled and live delicately are in kings' courts.


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This is [he] of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.


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For I say unto you, Among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist, but he that is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.


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And all the people that heard [him] and the publicans justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.


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But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.


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And the Lord said, Unto whom then shall I compare the men of this generation? and to what are they like?


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They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace and calling one to another and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.


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The Son of man is come eating and drinking, and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!


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And one of the Pharisees asked him if he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee's house and sat down to food.


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And, behold, a woman who had been a sinner in the city, when she knew that [Jesus] sat at food in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment,


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and stood at his feet behind [him] weeping and began to wash his feet with tears and wiped [them] with the hairs of her head and kissed his feet and anointed [them] with the ointment.


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Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw [it], he spoke within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman [this is] that touches him, for she is a sinner.


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And Jesus answering said unto him, Simon, I have something to say unto thee. And he said, Master, say on.


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There was a certain creditor who had two debtors: the one owed five hundred denarius, and the other fifty.


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And when they had nothing to pay, he released them both [from their debt]. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most?


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Simon answered and said, I suppose that [he] to whom he forgave most. And he said unto him, Thou hast rightly judged.


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And he turned to the woman and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thy house, thou didst give me no water for my feet; but she has washed my feet with tears and wiped [them] with the hairs of her head.


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Therefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much; but to whom little is forgiven, [the same] loves little.


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And those that sat at food with him began to say within themselves, Who is this that forgives sins also?


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And it came to pass afterward that he went throughout every city and village, preaching and announcing the gospel of the kingdom of God, and the twelve with him,


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and certain women, who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils,


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and Joanna the wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others who ministered unto him of their substance.


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And when many people were gathered together and were come to him out of every city, he spoke by a parable:


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A sower went out to sow his seed, and as he sowed, some fell along the way, and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.


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And some fell upon the rock, and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away because it lacked moisture.


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And some fell on good ground and sprang up and bore fruit a hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that has ears to hear, let him hear.


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And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the others in parables that seeing they might not see and hearing they might not understand.


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Those along the way are those that hear; then comes the devil and takes away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.


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Those on the rock [are] those that when they hear, receive the word with joy, but these have no root, who for a while believe and in time of temptation fall away.


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And that which fell among thorns are those who when they have heard go forth and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of [this] life and bring no fruit to perfection.


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But that on the good ground are those who in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep [it] and bring forth fruit with patience.


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No one when they have lighted a lamp cover it with a vessel or put [it] under a bed, but set [it] on a candlestick, that those who enter in may see the light.


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For nothing is secret that shall not be made manifest, neither [any thing] hid that shall not be known and come to light.


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Take heed therefore how ye hear, for whosoever has, to him shall be given; and whosoever has not, from him shall be taken even that which he seems to have.


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And it was told him [by certain] who said, Thy mother and thy brethren stand outside, desiring to see thee.


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And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are those who hear the word of God and do it.


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Now it came to pass on a certain day, that he went into a ship with his disciples, and he said unto them, Let us go over unto the other side of the lake. And they launched forth.


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But as they sailed, he fell asleep; and there came down a storm of wind on the lake; and they were being filled [with] [water] and were in jeopardy.


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And they came to him and awoke him, saying, Master, master, we perish. Then he arose and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water, and they ceased, and there was a calm.


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And he said unto them, Where is your faith? And they, being afraid, wondered, saying one to another, Who is this! for he even commands the winds and the water, and they obey him.


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And when he went forth to land, there met him out of the city a certain man, who had demons for a long time and wore no clothes, neither abode in [any] house, but in the tombs.


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When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell down before him and with a loud voice said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, [thou] Son of God most high? I beseech thee, torment me not.


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(For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him, and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters, and he broke the bands and was driven of the demon into the wilderness.)


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And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion, because many demons were entered into him.


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And there was there a herd of many swine feeding on the mountain, and they besought him that he would allow them to enter into them. And he allowed them.


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Then the demons went out of the man and entered into the swine, and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake and were choked.


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When those that fed [them] saw what was done, they fled and went and told [it] in the city and in the country.


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Then they went out to see what was done and came to Jesus and found the man, out of whom the demons were departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed, and in his right mind; and they were afraid.


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Then the whole multitude of the country of the Gadarenes round about besought him to depart from them, for they were taken with great fear; and he went up into the ship and returned back again.


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Now the man out of whom the demons were departed besought him that he might be with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying,


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Return to thine own house and tell what great things God has done unto thee. And he went, preaching throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done unto him.


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And it came to pass that when Jesus returned, the people received him, for they were all waiting for him.


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And, behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was [a] prince of the synagogue, and he fell down at Jesus' feet and besought him that he would come into his house;


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for he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay dying. But as he went, the people thronged him.


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And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, who had spent all her living upon physicians but could not be healed by any,


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came behind [him] and touched the border of his garment, and immediately her issue of blood stopped.


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Then Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter and those that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng thee and press [thee], and sayest thou, Who touched me?


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And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and falling down before him, she declared unto him before all the people for what cause she had touched him and how she was healed immediately.


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While he yet spoke, there came one from the ruler of the synagogue's [house], saying to him, Thy daughter is dead; trouble not the Master.


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But when Jesus heard [it], he answered him, saying, Fear not; only believe, and she shall be made whole.


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And when he came into the house, he allowed no one to go in except Peter and James and John and the father and the mother of the maiden.


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Then he called his twelve disciples together and gave them power and authority over all the demons and to cure diseases.


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And he said unto them, Take nothing for [your] journey: neither staves nor provision bag neither bread neither money, neither have two coats apiece.


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And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.


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Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him, and he was perplexed because it was said of some that John was risen from the dead,


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And Herod said, I have beheaded John, but who is this of whom I hear such things? And he desired to see him.


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And the apostles, when they were returned, told him all that they had done. And he took them and went aside privately into a desert place belonging to the city called Bethsaida.


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And the people, when they knew [it], followed him, and he received them and spoke unto them of the kingdom of God and healed those that had need of healing.


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And when the day began to wear away, then came the twelve and said unto him, Send the multitude away that they may go into the towns and country round about and lodge and get victuals, for we are here in a desert place.


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But he said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they said, We have no more than five loaves and two fishes, unless we should go and buy food for all these people.


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For they were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, Make them sit down in companies of fifty.


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Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them and broke and gave to the disciples to set before the multitude.


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And they ate and were all filled, and there was taken up of fragments that remained to them twelve baskets.


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And it came to pass as he was alone praying, his disciples were with him, and he asked them, saying, Who do the people say that I am?


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They answering said, John the Baptist; but some [say], Elijah; and others [say] that one of the old prophets is risen again.


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saying, The Son of man must suffer many things and be rejected of the elders and of the princes of the priests and scribes and be slain and be raised the third day.


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And he said to [them] all, If anyone will come after me, let them deny themself and take up their stake daily and follow me.


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For whosoever desires to save his soul shall lose it, but whosoever will lose his soul for my sake, the same shall save it.


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For what is a man advantaged if he gains the whole world, having destroyed himself or having suffered the loss of [himself]?


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For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed when he shall come in his own glory and [in his] Father's and of the holy angels.


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But I tell you in truth, there are some standing here who shall not taste of death until they see the kingdom of God.


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And it came to pass about eight days after these words, he took Peter and John and James and went up into the mountain to pray.


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And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment [was] white [and] glistering.


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But Peter and those that were with him were heavy with sleep, and when they awoke, they saw his glory and the two men that stood with him.


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And it came to pass as they departed from him, Peter said unto Jesus, Master, it is good for us to remain here; and let us make three tabernacles: one for thee and one for Moses and one for Elijah, not knowing what he said.


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While he was speaking this, a cloud came and overshadowed them; and they feared as they entered into the cloud.


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And when the voice was past, Jesus was found alone. And they kept silent and told no one in those days any of those things which they had seen.


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And it came to pass, that on the next day, when they were come down from the mountain, many people met him.


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And, behold, a man of the multitude cried out, saying, Master, I beseech thee, look upon my son, for he is my only child.


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And, behold, a spirit takes him, and he suddenly cries out; and it throws him into convulsions with foaming, and with difficulty it departs from him, bruising him.


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And Jesus answering said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and suffer you? Bring thy son here.


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And as he was yet a coming, the demon threw him down into convulsions; but Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit and healed the child and delivered him again to his father.


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And they were all amazed at the mighty power of God. But while they all wondered at all [the] things which Jesus did, he said unto his disciples,


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Let these words sink down into your ears, for the Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men.


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But they did not understand this word, and it was hid from them that they should not understand, and they feared to ask him regarding this.


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and said unto them, Whosoever shall receive this child in my name receives me, and whosoever shall receive me receives him that sent me; for he that is least among you all, the same shall be great.


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And John answered and said, Master, we saw one casting out demons in thy name; and we forbade him, because he does not follow with us.


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And it came to pass when the time was come that he should be received up, he steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem


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and sent messengers before his face; and they went and entered into a village of the Samaritans to make ready for him.


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And when his disciples James and John saw [this], they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven and consume them, even as Elijah did?


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For the Son of man is not come to lose men's souls, but to save [them]. And they went to another village.


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And it came to pass that as they went in the way, a certain [man] said unto him, Lord, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.


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And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the heaven [have] nests, but the Son of man has not where to lay [his] head.


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And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee, but let me first go bid farewell those who are at home at my house.


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And Jesus said unto him, No one having put his hand to the plough and looking back is fit for the kingdom of God.:


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After these things the Lord appointed another seventy also and sent them two by two before his face into every city and place where he himself would come.


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Therefore he said unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers [are] few; pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.


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And if indeed there is a son of peace there, your peace shall rest upon it; if not, it shall turn to you again.


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And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give, for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.


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But into whatever city ye enter and they receive you not, go out into the streets of the same and say,


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Even the very dust of your city which cleaves on us we do wipe off against you; notwithstanding be ye sure of this that the kingdom of God is come near unto you.


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Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which have been done in you, they would have repented a long while ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.


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He that hears you hears me, and he that despises you despises me, and he that despises me despises him that sent me.


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And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the demons are subject unto us in thy name.


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Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.


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Notwithstanding, rejoice not in this, that the spirits are subject unto you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in the heavens.


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In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them unto babes; even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.


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All things are delivered to me of my Father, and no one knows who the Son is, but the Father, and who the Father is, but the Son and [he] to whom the Son will reveal [him].


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And he turned him unto [his] disciples and said privately, Blessed [are] the eyes which see the things that ye see,


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for I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see those things which ye see and did not see [them] and to hear those things which ye hear and did not hear [them].


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And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?


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And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy strength and with all thy understanding, and thy neighbour as thyself.


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And Jesus answering said, A certain [man] went down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment and wounded [him] and departed, leaving [him] half dead.


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And it so happened that a certain priest came down that way; and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.


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And likewise a Levite, when he came near the place and looked [on him, he] passed by on the other side.


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But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was; and when he saw him, he was moved with compassion


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and went to [him] and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast and brought him to an inn and took care of him.


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And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two denarius and gave [them] to the host and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee.


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Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a certain village; and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house.


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But Martha was cumbered about in much serving and came to him and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Bid her therefore that she help me.


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And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things;


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but [only] one thing is necessary, and Mary has chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.:


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And it came to pass that as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray as John also taught his disciples.


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And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father who art in the heavens, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so also in the earth.


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And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.


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And he said unto them, Which of you shall have a friend and shall go unto him at midnight and say unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves;


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And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee.


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I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity, he will rise and give him as many as he needs.


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And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.


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For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened.


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If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if [he ask] a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?


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If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall [your] heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those that ask him?


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And he was casting out a demon, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the demon was gone out, [the one who had been] dumb spoke; and the people marvelled.


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But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every house or city [divided] against itself will not remain.


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If Satan also is divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? because ye say that I cast out demons through Beelzebub.


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And if I by Beelzebub cast out demons, by whom do your sons cast [them] out? therefore shall they be your judges.


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but when another stronger than he shall come upon him and overcome him, he takes from him all his arms in which he trusted and divides his spoils.


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When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walks through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he says, I will return unto my house from which I came out.


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Then he goes, and takes [unto him] seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in and dwell there, and the last [state] of that man is worse than the first.


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And it came to pass as he spoke these things, a certain woman of the crowd lifted up her voice and said unto him, Blessed [is] the womb that bare thee and the breasts which thou hast sucked.


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And gathering the people unto him, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign, and no sign shall be given it but the sign of Jonah the prophet.


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The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment against the men of this generation and condemn them, for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon [is] here.


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The men of Nineve shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and, behold, a greater than Jonah [is] here.


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No one, when he has lighted a lamp, puts [it] in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a lampstand that those who come in may see the light.


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The lamp of the body is the eye; therefore when thine eye is sincere, thy whole body also is full of light; but when [thine eye] is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.


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If thy whole body therefore [is] full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light as when the bright shining of a lamp doth give thee light.


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And as he spoke, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him, and he went in and sat down to food.


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And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.


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But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs and pass over the judgment and the charity of God; these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.


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Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the first seats in the synagogues and greetings in the markets.


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Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which are not seen, and the men that walk over [them] are not aware [of them].


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Then one of the lawyers answered and said unto him, Master, saying these things, thou dost reproach us also.


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And he said, Woe unto you also, [ye] lawyers! for ye burden men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.


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Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.


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Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and [some] of them they shall slay and [others] they shall persecute:


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that the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation,


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from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, who perished between the altar and the temple; verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation.


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Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and those that were entering in, ye hindered.


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And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge [him] vehemently and to provoke him to speak of many things,


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In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.


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Therefore whatever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light, and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.


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And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of those that kill the body and, after that, have no more that they can do.


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But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, who, after being killed, has power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.


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But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not, therefore; ye are of more value than many sparrows.


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Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God;


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And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, there is forgiveness for him; but unto him that blasphemes against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven.


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And when they bring you unto the synagogues and [unto] magistrates and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer or what ye shall say;


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And one of the crowd said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me.


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And he said unto them, Take heed and beware of [all] covetousness; for a man's life consists not in the abundance of the things which he possesses.


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And he spoke a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully;


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and he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?


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And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my storehouses and build greater, and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.


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And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, [and] be merry.


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But God said unto him, [Thou] fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee; then whose shall those things be which thou hast stored up?


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And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.


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Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap, which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feeds them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?


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Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.


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If then God so clothes the grass, which is today in the field and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more [will he clothe] you, O ye of little faith?


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For all these things do the Gentiles of the world seek after, and your Father knows that ye have need of these things.


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Sell what ye have and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that fails not, where no thief approaches neither moth corrupts.


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and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he comes and knocks, they may open unto him immediately.


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Blessed [are] those servants, whom the lord when he comes shall find watching; verily I say unto you that he shall gird himself and make them to sit down to food and will come forth and serve them.


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And if he shall come in the second watch or come in the third watch and find [them] so, blessed are those servants.


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And know this: that if the husband of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not have suffered his house to be broken through.


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And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward whom [his] lord shall make ruler over his household to give [them their] portion of food in due season?


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But and if that servant [shall] say in his heart, My lord delays his coming, and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens and to eat and drink and to be drunken,


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the lord of that servant will come in a day when he does not look for [him] and at an hour when he is not aware and will cut him off and will appoint him his portion with the unfaithful.


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And that servant who knew his lord's will and prepared not [himself], neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many [stripes].


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But he that knew not and did commit things worthy of stripes shall be beaten with few [stripes]. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required; and to whom much was committed, more will be asked of him.


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The father shall be divided against the son and the son against the father, the mother against the daughter and the daughter against the mother, the mother-in-law against her daughter- in-law and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.


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And he said also to the people, When ye see the cloud rising out of the west, straightway ye say, A shower comes, and so it is.


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[Ye] hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?


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When thou goest with thine adversary to the magistrate, [as thou art] in the way, give diligence that thou may be delivered from him, lest he drag thee away to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison.


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There were present at the same time some that told him of the Galilaeans whose blood Pilate had mingled with his sacrifices.


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And Jesus, answering, said unto them, Think ye that these Galilaeans suffered such things because they were greater sinners than all the [other] Galilaeans?


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Or those eighteen upon whom the tower in Siloam fell and slew them, think ye that they were greater debtors than [all the other] men that dwelt in Jerusalem?


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And He spoke this parable: A certain [man] had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came and sought fruit upon it and found none.


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Then he said unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree and find none; cut it down; why does it cumber the ground?


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And he, answering, said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also until I shall dig about it and dung [it],


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And, behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years and was bowed together and could in no wise lift [herself] up.


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And when Jesus saw her, he called [her] and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.


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And the prince of the synagogue answered with indignation because Jesus had healed on the sabbath, and said unto the people, There are six days in which it behooves [men] to work; in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.


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The Lord then answered him and said, [Thou] hypocrite, does not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or [his] ass from the stall and lead [it] away to drink?


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And [regarding] this daughter of Abraham, who, behold, Satan had bound eighteen years, does it not behoove [us] to release her from this bond on the Sabbath day?


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And as he said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed, but all the people rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.


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It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and cast into his garden; and it grew and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the heaven lodged in the branches of it.


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It is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal until the whole was leavened.


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Strive to enter in at the narrow gate; for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in and shall not be able.


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When once the husband of the house is risen up and shall have shut the door, and ye begin to stand without and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not from where ye are,


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then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets.


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But he shall say unto you, I know you not from where ye are; depart from me, all [ye] workers of iniquity.


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In that place shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth when ye shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you [yourselves] thrust out.


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And [others] shall come from the east and [from] the west and from the north and [from] the south and shall sit [at the table] in the kingdom of God.


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The same day there came certain of the Pharisees, saying unto him, Go out and depart from here, for Herod will kill thee.


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And he said unto them, Go ye and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out demons, and I do cures today and tomorrow, and the third [day] I shall be perfected.


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Nevertheless I must walk today and tomorrow and the [day] following, for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem.


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O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which kills the prophets and stones those that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together as a hen [gathers] her brood under [her] wings, and ye would not!


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Behold, your house is left unto you desolate; and verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me until [the time] comes when ye shall say, Blessed [is] he that comes in the name of the Lord.:


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And it came to pass as he went into the house of one of the princes of the Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day that they watched him.


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And Jesus, answering, spoke unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day?


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and answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?


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And observing how they chose the first seats at the table, he put forth a parable to those who were invited, saying unto them,


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When thou art called to a wedding by anyone, do not sit down in the highest place, lest a more honourable man than thou be invited of him,


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and he that called thee and him come and say to thee, Give this man place, and thou begin with shame to have the lowest place.


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But when thou art called, go and sit down in the lowest place that when he that invited thee comes, he may say unto thee, Friend, come up higher; then shalt thou have glory in the presence of those that sit [at the table] with thee.


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Then said he also to him that invited him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends nor thy brethren neither thy kinsmen nor [thy] rich neighbours, lest they also invite thee again, and a recompense be made thee.


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and thou shalt be blessed, for they cannot recompense thee; for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.


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And when one of those that sat [at the table] with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed [is] he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.


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and sent his servant at supper time to say to those that were called, Come, for all things are now ready.


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And they all with one [consent] began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a field, and I have need to go and see it; I pray thee have me excused.


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And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them; I pray thee have me excused.


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So that servant came and showed his lord these things. Then the husband of the house, being angry, said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city and bring in here the poor and the maimed and the halt and the blind.


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And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges and compel [them] to come in that my house may be filled.


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If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters, and even his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.


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For which of you intending to build a tower does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has [sufficient] to finish [it]?


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Lest perhaps after he has laid the foundation and is not able to finish [it], all that behold [it] begin to mock him,


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Or what king going to make war against another king does not sit down first and consult whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him that comes against him with twenty thousand?


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Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an embassy and desires conditions of peace.


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It is neither good for the land, nor for the dunghill; it is cast out. He that has ears to hear, let him hear.:


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What man of you having a hundred sheep if he lose one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after that which is lost until he finds it?


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And when he comes home, he calls together [his] friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost.


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I say unto you that likewise there shall be more joy in heaven over one sinner that repents than over ninety-nine just persons, who need no repentance.


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Or what woman having ten drachmas, if she loses one drachma, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds [it]?


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And when she has found [it], she calls [her] friends and [her] neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.


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Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repents.


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and the younger of them said to [his] father, Father, give me the portion of the estate that falls [to me]. And he divided unto them [his] living.


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And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together and took his journey into a far country and there wasted his estate with riotous living.


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And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.


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And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have abundance of bread, and I perish [here] with hunger!


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I will arise and go to my father and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee


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And he arose and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him and was moved with compassion and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.


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And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight and am no longer worthy to be called thy son.


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But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe and put [it] on him and put a ring on his hand and shoes on [his] feet


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Now his elder son was in the field, and as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing.


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And he said unto him, Thy brother is come, and thy father has killed the fatted calf because he has received him safe and sound.


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And he, answering, said to [his] father, Behold, these many years I have served thee, neither at any time have I transgressed thy commandment; and yet thou never gavest me a kid that I might make merry with my friends.


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But as soon as this thy son was come who has devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed the fatted calf for him.


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It was necessary that we should make merry and be glad, for this thy brother was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.:


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And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.


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And he called him and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? Give an account of thy stewardship, for thou may no longer be steward.


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Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord takes the stewardship away from me; I cannot dig, [and] I am ashamed to beg.


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I know what I shall do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.


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So he called each one of his lord's debtors [unto him] and said unto the first, How much dost thou owe unto my lord?


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And he said, A hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill and sit down quickly and write fifty.


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Then said he to another, And how much dost thou owe? And he said, A hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill and write eighty.


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And the lord commended the unjust steward because he had done discreetly; for the sons of this age are in their generation more prudent than the sons of light.


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And I say unto you, Make friends unto yourselves with the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when these fail, you may be received into eternal dwellings.


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He that is faithful with little is faithful also with much, and he that is unjust with little is unjust also with much.


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If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true?


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And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?


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No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.


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And he said unto them, Ye are they who justify themselves before men, but God knows your hearts, for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.


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The law and the prophets [were] until John; since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and whosoever [will] presses into it.


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Whosoever puts away his wife and marries another commits adultery, and whosoever marries her that is put away of [her] husband commits adultery.


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There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day;


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and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.


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And it came to pass that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom; the rich man also died and was buried;


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and in Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and saw Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom.


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And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.


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But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime didst receive thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted [here], and thou art tormented.


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And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who would pass from here to you cannot; neither can they pass from there to us.


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for I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.


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And he said unto him, If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, [even] though one rose from the dead.:


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Then he said unto the disciples, It is impossible that offenses will not come, but woe unto the one through whom they come!


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It would be better for him if a millstone turned by an ass were placed around his neck and he [were] cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.


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Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother [should] trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.


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And if he trespasses against thee seven times in a day and seven times in a day turns again to thee, saying, I repent, thou shalt forgive him.


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And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamore tree, Pluck thyself up by the root, and plant thyself in the sea, and it would obey you.


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But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by when he is come from the field, Go and sit down at the table?


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And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup and gird thyself and serve me until I have eaten and drunken, and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?


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So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.


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And it came to pass as he went to Jerusalem that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.


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When he saw [them], he said unto them, Go show yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass that as they went, they were cleansed.


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And when he was asked of the Pharisees when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God does not come with observation;


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neither shall they say, Behold it here! or, Behold it there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.


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And he said unto the disciples, The days will come when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see [it].


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For as the lightning, which shines from the region under heaven, shines in that which is under heaven; so also shall the Son of man be in his day.


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They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.


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Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;


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but the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed [them] all.


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In that day, he who shall be upon the housetop and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away; and he that is in the field, let him likewise not turn back.


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Whosoever shall seek to save his soul shall lose it, and whosoever shall lose it shall cause it to live.


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I tell you in that night there shall be two [men] in one bed: the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.


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And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Where the body [is], there will the eagles be gathered together.:


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And he would not for a while, but afterward he said within himself, Though I do not fear God, nor regard man,


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yet because this widow troubles me, I will do her justice, lest by her continual coming she weary me.


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And shall not God avenge his own elect who cry day and night unto him though he bears long regarding them?


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I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man comes, shall he find faith on the earth?


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And he spoke this parable unto some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and despised others:


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The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee that I am not as other men [are]: extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.


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And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as [his] eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God, reconcile me, a sinner.


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I tell you, this man went down to his house justified [rather] than the other; for anyone that exalts himself shall be humbled, and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.


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And they brought unto him also infants that he would touch them; but when [his] disciples saw [it], they rebuked them.


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But Jesus called them [unto him] and said, Suffer [the] little children to come unto me and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of God.


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Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein.


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Thou knowest the commandments, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not murder, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.


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Now when Jesus heard this, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.


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And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How difficultly shall those that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!


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For it is easier to put a cable through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.


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And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no one that has left house or parents or brethren or wife or children for the kingdom of God's sake


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Then he took [unto him] the twelve and said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished.


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For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles and shall be mocked and spitefully treated and spitted on;


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And they understood none of these things, and this word was hid from them, and they did not know what was said.


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And it came to pass that as he came near unto Jericho, a certain blind man sat beside the way begging,


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And those who went before rebuked him that he should remain silent; but he cried out so much the more, [Thou] Son of David, have mercy on me.


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And Jesus stopped and commanded him to be brought unto him, and when he was come near, he asked him,


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And immediately he saw and followed him, glorifying God; and all the people, when they saw [it], gave praise unto God.:


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And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him and said unto him, Zacchaeus, make haste and come down; for today I must abide at thy house.


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And when they saw [it], they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner.


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Then Zacchaeus stood and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore [him] fourfold.


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And Jesus said unto him, This day saving health is come to this house, inasmuch as he also is a son of Abraham.


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And as they heard these things, he added and spoke a parable because he was near to Jerusalem and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately be manifested.


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He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.


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And having called ten of his servants, he delivered them ten minas and said unto them, Trade until I come.


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But his citizens hated him and sent an embassy after him, saying, We will not have this [man] to reign over us.


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And it came to pass that when he was returned, having received the kingdom, then he commanded these servants to be called unto him, to whom he had given the money, that he might know how much each one had gained by trading.


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And he said unto him, Well done, thou good servant; because thou hast been faithful in a very little, thou [shalt] have authority over ten cities.


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for I feared thee because thou art an austere man: thou takest up that which thou didst not lay down and dost reap that which thou didst not sow.


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Then he said unto him, Out of thine own mouth I will judge thee, [thou] wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that which I did not lay down, and reaping that which I did not sow;


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why then didst thou not give my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required my own with interest?


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And he said unto those that stood by, Take from him the mina and give [it] to him that has the ten minas.


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For I say unto you, That unto every one who has shall be given; and from him that has not, even that which he has shall be taken away from him.


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Moreover, those enemies of mine, who were unwilling that I should reign over them, bring them here and slay [them] before me.


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And it came to pass, when he was come nigh to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount called [the mount] of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,


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saying, Go ye into the village over against [you], in which at your entering ye shall find a colt tied, upon whom no one has ever sat; loose him, and bring [him here].


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And if anyone asks you, Why do ye loose [him]? thus shall ye say unto him, Because the Lord has need of him.


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And they brought him to Jesus, and they cast their garments upon the colt, and they set Jesus upon it.


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And when he was come near, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen,


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saying, Blessed [be] the King that comes in the name of the Lord; peace in heaven, and glory in [the] highest.


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And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that if these should be silent the stones would immediately cry out.


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saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things [which belong] unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.


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For the days shall come upon thee that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee and compass thee round and constrain thee on every side


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and shall cast thee down to the ground and thy children within thee, and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.


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saying unto them, It is written, My house is a house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of thieves.


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And he taught daily in the temple. But the princes of the priests and the scribes and the principals of the people sought to kill him


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And it came to pass [that] on one of those days as he taught the people in the temple and preached the gospel, the princes of the priests and the scribes came upon [him] with the elders


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and spoke unto him, saying, Tell us, by what authority doest thou these things? or who is he that gave thee this authority?


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And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven, he will say, Why then did ye not believe him?


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But and if we say, Of men, all the people will stone us; for they are certain that John was a prophet.


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And he began to speak this parable to the people: A certain man planted a vineyard and let it out to husbandmen and went into a far country for a long time.


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And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard, but the husbandmen beat him and sent [him] away empty.


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And again he sent another servant, and they beat him also and treated [him] shamefully and sent [him] away empty.


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Then said the lord of the vineyard, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; it may be they will reverence [him] when they see him.


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But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir; come, let us kill him that the inheritance may be ours.


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So they cast him out of the vineyard and killed [him]. What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do unto them?


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He shall come and destroy these husbandmen and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard [it], they said, May it not be!


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But he beheld them and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner?


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Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken, but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.


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And the princes of the priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him, for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them; but they feared the people.


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And they watched [him] and sent forth spies who feigned themselves just men that they might take hold of him as he was speaking, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.


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And they asked him, saying, Master, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, neither dost thou accept the person [of any], but teachest the way of God with truth;


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And he said unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's and unto God the things which are God's.


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And they could not take hold of his words before the people, and they marvelled at his answer and were silent.


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saying, Master, Moses wrote unto us, If any man's brother dies, having a wife, and he dies without children, that his brother should take his wife and raise up seed unto his brother.


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but those who are accounted worthy to obtain that age and the resurrection from the dead neither marry, nor are given in marriage;


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for neither can they die any more, for they are equal unto the angels and are the sons of God, being the sons of the resurrection.


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Now that the dead are raised, even Moses showed [this] at the bush when he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.


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Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk in long robes and love greetings in the markets and the first seats in the synagogues and the first places at suppers;


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who devour the houses of the widows and for a pretext make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.:


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for all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God, but she out of her poverty has cast in all the living that she had.


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[As for] these things which ye behold, the days will come in which there shall not be left one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down.


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And they asked him, saying, Master, but when shall these things be? and what sign [will there be] when these things shall begin to come to pass?


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Then he said, Take heed that ye not be deceived, for many shall come in my name, saying, I am; and the time draws near; therefore, go ye not after them.


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But when ye shall hear of wars and seditions, be not terrified; for these things must first come to pass, but the end is not yet.


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and there shall be great earthquakes in different places and famines and pestilences, and there shall be fearful sights and great signs from heaven.


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But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you and persecute [you], delivering [you] up to the synagogues and into prisons, being brought before kings and governors for my name's sake.


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for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.


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And ye shall be betrayed both by parents and brethren and kinsfolk and friends, and [some] of you they shall cause to be put to death.


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And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is near.


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Then let those who are in Judaea flee to the mountains, and let those who are in the midst of it depart out, and let not those that are in the country enter thereinto.


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But woe unto those that are with child and to those that give suck in those days! For there shall be great distress in the land and wrath upon this people.


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And they shall fall by the edge of the sword and shall be led away captive into all nations, and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.


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Then there shall be signs in the sun and in the moon and in the stars, and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;


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men's hearts failing them for fear and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth; for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.


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And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up and lift up your heads, for your redemption draws near.


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So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is near at hand.


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And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with excess and drunkenness and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.


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Watch ye therefore and pray always that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass and to stand before the Son of man.


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And in the daytime he was teaching in the temple, and at night he went out and abode in the mount that is called [the mount] of Olives.


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And the princes of the priests and scribes sought how they might kill him, but they feared the people.


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And he went and spoke with the princes of the priests and captains, how he might betray him unto them.


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And he said unto them, Behold, when ye are entered into the city, there ye shall find a man bearing a pitcher of water; follow him into the house where he enters in.


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And ye shall say unto the husband of the house, The Master saith unto thee, Where is the guestchamber where I shall eat the passover [lamb] with my disciples?


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And he said unto them, With desire I have greatly desired to eat this passover [lamb] with you before I suffer;


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for I say unto you, I will not drink [again] of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God shall come.


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And taking bread, having given thanks, he broke [it] and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of me.


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Likewise also [he took and gave them] the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.


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Then he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them, and those that exercise authority upon them are called well-doers.


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But ye [shall] not [be] so, but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is prince, as he that doth serve.


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For who [is] greater, he that sits [at the table] or he that serves? [Is] it not he that sits [at the table]? But I am among you as he that serves.


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that ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.


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And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has desired [to have] you that he may sift [you] as wheat;


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but I have prayed for thee that thy faith fail not; and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.


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And he said, I tell thee, Peter, thou shalt deny three times that thou knowest me before the cock shall crow this day.


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And he said unto them, When I sent you without purse and provision bag and shoes, lacked ye anything? And they said, Nothing.


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Then he said unto them, But now, he that has a purse, let him take [it] and likewise [his] provision bag; and he that has no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one.


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For I say unto you that this that is written must yet be accomplished in me, And he was reckoned among the transgressors; for the things [written] concerning me have a fulfillment.


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And he came out and went as he was wont to the mount of Olives, and his disciples also followed him.


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saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me; nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.


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And being in agony, he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.


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And while he yet spoke, behold a multitude, and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them and drew near unto Jesus to kiss him.


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When those who were about him saw what would follow, they said unto him, Lord, shall we smite with the sword?


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Then Jesus said unto the princes of the priests and captains of the temple and the elders, who were come to him, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves?


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When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me; but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.


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Then they took him and led [him] and brought him into the house of the prince of the priests. And Peter followed afar off.


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And when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the hall and were set down together, Peter sat down among them.


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But a certain maid beheld him as he sat by the fire and earnestly looked upon him and said, This man was also with him.


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And after a little while another saw him and said, Thou art also of them. And Peter said, Man, I am not.


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And about the space of one hour after, another confidently affirmed, saying, Of a truth this [fellow] also was with him, for he is a Galilaean.


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And Peter said, Man, I know not what thou sayest. And immediately while he yet spoke, the cock crew.


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Then the Lord turned and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord how he had said unto him, Before the cock crows, thou shalt deny me three times.


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And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face and asked him, saying, Prophesy, who is it that smote thee?


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And as soon as it was day, the elders of the people and the princes of the priests and the scribes came together and led him into their council, saying,


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And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this [fellow] perverting the nation and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King.


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Then Pilate asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answered him and said, Thou sayest [it].


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And they were the more fierce, saying, He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee to this place.


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And as soon as he knew that he belonged unto Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who himself also was at Jerusalem at that time.


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And when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad, for he was desirous to see him of a long [season] because he had heard many things of him, and he hoped to see some sign done by him.


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And Herod with his court despised him and mocked [him] and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe and sent him again to Pilate.


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And the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together, for before they were at enmity between themselves.


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said unto them, Ye have brought this man unto me as one that perverts the people; and, behold, I, having examined [him] before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things of which ye accuse him;


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And he said unto them the third time, Why, what evil has he done? I have found no cause of death in him; I will therefore chastise him and let [him] go.


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And they insisted with loud voices, asking that he be crucified. And the voices of them and of the princes of the priests prevailed.


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And he released unto them him that for sedition and murder had been cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered Jesus to their will.


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And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the stake, that he might bear [it] after Jesus.


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But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.


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For, behold, the days are coming, in which they shall say, Blessed [are] the barren and the wombs that never bare and the breasts which never gave suck.


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And when they were come to the place, which is called of the Skull, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.


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Then Jesus said, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment and cast lots.


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And the people stood beholding. And the princes also with them derided [him], saying, He saved others; let him save himself if he is the Christ, the chosen of God.


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And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek and Latin and Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.


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And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If thou art the Christ, save thyself and us.


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But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?


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And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward of our deeds; but this man has done nothing amiss.


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Then Jesus cried out with a loud voice and said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit; and having said thus, he gave up the spirit.


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Now when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man.


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And all the people that came together to that sight, beholding the things which were done, returned smiting their breasts.


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And all his acquaintance and the women that had followed him from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things.


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(the same had not consented in the counsel nor in their deeds); [he was] of Arimathaea, a city of Judea, who also himself waited for the kingdom of God.


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And he took it down and wrapped it in linen and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, where no one had ever been placed.


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And the women who had come with him from Galilee also followed after and beheld the sepulchre and how his body was laid.


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And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.:


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Now upon the first of the sabbaths, very early in the morning they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain [others] with them.


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And it came to pass as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments;


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and as they were afraid and bowed down [their] faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?


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saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified, and the third day rise again.


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It was Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary [the mother] of James and other [women that were] with them who told these things unto the apostles.


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But Peter arose and ran unto the sepulchre, and stooping down, he beheld the linen clothes laid by themselves and departed, wondering in himself at that which was come to pass.


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And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was [about] sixty furlongs from Jerusalem.


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And it came to pass, that, while they communed [together] and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near and went together with them.


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And he said unto them, What manner of communications [are] these that ye have one to another as ye walk and are sad?


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And one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days?


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Then he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people,


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and how the princes of the priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death and crucified him.


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But we were hoping that it was he who should redeem Israel, and beside all this, today is the third day since these things were done.


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Although also certain women of our company made us astonished, who before daybreak were at the sepulchre;


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and when they did not find his body, they came, saying that they had also seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive.


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And certain of those who were with us went to the sepulchre, and found [it] even so as the women had said; but they did not see him.


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And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded [this] unto them in all the scriptures concerning himself.


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And they drew near unto the village where they went, and he made as though he would have gone further.


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But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us, for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them.


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And it came to pass as he sat [at the table] with them, he took bread and blessed [it] and broke and gave to them.


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And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us while he talked with us in the way and while he opened to us the scriptures?


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And they rose up the same hour and returned to Jerusalem and found the eleven gathered together and those that were with them,


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And they told what things [were done] in the way and how he was known to them in the breaking of the bread.


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And as they spoke these things, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them and said unto them, Peace [be] unto you.


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Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself; handle me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones, as ye see me have.


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And [as they were] not believing him yet for joy and wondering, he said unto them, Have ye here any food?


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And he said unto them, These [are] the words which I spoke unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses and [in] the prophets and [in] the psalms, concerning me.


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and said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behooved the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day;


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and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.


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And, behold, I shall send the promise of my Father upon you, but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem until ye are endued with power from on high.


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The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all [men] through him might believe.


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But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become sons of God, [even] to them that believe on his name,


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And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth.


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John bore witness of him and cried, saying, This is he of whom I spoke, He that comes after me is preferred before me, for he was before me.


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For the law was given through Moses, [but] the grace and the truth [of God] came through Jesus, the Christ.


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No man has seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared [him].


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And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou?


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And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elijah? And he said, I am not. Art thou the prophet? And he answered, No.


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Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to those that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?


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He said, I [am] the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Isaiah.


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And they asked him and said unto him, Why dost thou baptize then if thou art not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?


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he it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose.


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The next day John saw Jesus coming unto him and said, Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.


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And I knew him not; but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.


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And John gave testimony, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.


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And I knew him not; but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending and abiding on him, the same is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.


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Then Jesus turned and saw them following and said unto them, What seek ye? They said unto him, Rabbi (which is to say, being interpreted, Master), where dwellest thou?


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He said unto them, Come and see. They came and saw where he dwelt and abode with him that day, for it was about the tenth hour.


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He first found his own brother Simon and said unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ.


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And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jonah: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone.


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The day following Jesus desired to go forth into Galilee and found Philip and said unto him, Follow me.


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Philip found Nathanael and said unto him, We have found him of whom Moses in the law and the prophets wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.


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And Nathanael said unto him, Can any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip said unto him, Come and see.


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Nathanael said unto him, From where dost thou know me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee.


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Jesus answered and said unto him, Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, believest thou? thou shalt see greater things than these.


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And he said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see the heaven open and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.:


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And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.


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When the butler had tasted the water that was made wine and knew not where it was [from] (but the servants who drew the water knew), the butler called the bridegroom


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and said unto him, Every man at the beginning sets forth the good wine, and when they are well satisfied, then that which is worse; [but] thou hast kept the good wine until now.


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This beginning of the signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee and manifested forth his glory, and his disciples believed on him.


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After this he went down to Capernaum, he and his mother and his brethren and his disciples, and they continued there not many days.


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and when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers' money and overthrew the tables


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and said unto those that sold the doves, Take these things away from here; do not make my Father's house a house of merchandise.


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Then the Jews answered and said unto him, What sign showest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?


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Then said the Jews, This temple was forty-six years in building, and wilt thou raise it up in three days?


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Therefore when he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture and the word which Jesus had said.


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Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast [day], many believed in his name, seeing the signs which he did.


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the same came to Jesus by night and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that thou doest unless God is with him.


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Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a person be born again, they cannot see the kingdom of God.


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Nicodemus said unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb and be born?


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Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Unless a man is born of water and [of] the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.


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The wind blows where it desires, and thou hearest the sound of it, but canst not tell from where it comes or where it goes; so is every one that is born of the Spirit.


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Verily, verily, I say unto thee that we speak what we know and testify that which we have seen, and ye do not receive our witness.


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If I have told you earthly things and ye do not believe, how shall ye believe if I tell you [of] heavenly things?


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And no one has ascended up to the heaven but he that came down from the heaven, [even] the Son of man, who is in the heaven.


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For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.


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For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved.


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He that believes on him is not condemned, but he that does not believe is condemned already because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.


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And this is the condemnation, that the light is come into the world, and men loved darkness more than the light because their deeds were evil.


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For every one that does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.


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But he that does truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.


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After these things Jesus and his disciples came into the land of Judaea, and he tarried there with them and baptized.


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And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim because there was much water there, and they came and were baptized.


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And they came unto John and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan of whom thou gave witness, behold, the same baptizes, and all [men] come to him.


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He that has the bride is the bridegroom, but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice; this my joy therefore is fulfilled.


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He that comes from above is above all; he that is of the earth is earthly and speaks earthly things: he that comes from heaven is above all.


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For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God does not give the Spirit by measure [unto him].


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He that believes in the Son has eternal life, and he that does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.:


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When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John


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Then he came to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.


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Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus, therefore, being wearied with [his] journey, sat thus on the well; [and] it was about the sixth hour.


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Then said the Samaritan woman unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, who am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.


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Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.


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The woman said unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep; from where then hast thou that living water?


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Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank thereof himself, and his sons and his cattle?


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but whosoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst, but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a fountain of water springing up into eternal life.


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The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband;


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for thou hast had five husbands, and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband; this hast thou said with truth.


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Our fathers worshipped in this mountain, and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where it is necessary to worship.


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Jesus said unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour comes when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem shall ye worship the Father.


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But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father seeks such to worship him.


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The woman said unto him, I know that [the] Messiah is to come, who is called the Christ; when he is come, he will declare [unto] us all things.


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And upon this came his disciples and marvelled that he talked with [that] woman; yet no one said, What askest thou? or, What talkest thou with her?


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[Do] ye not say, There are yet four months and [then] comes harvest? Behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes and look on the fields, for they are white already to harvest.


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And he that reaps receives wages and gathers fruit unto eternal life, that both he that sows and he that reaps may rejoice together.


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I have sent you to reap that upon which ye bestowed no labour; others laboured, and ye have entered into their labours.


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And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in him by the word of the woman, who testified, He told me all that I have done.


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So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they asked him to abide with them; and he abode there two days.


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and said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy speech; for we have heard [him] ourselves and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.


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Then when he was come into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him, having seen all the things that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast, for they had also gone to the feast.


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So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.


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When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him and besought him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.


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Jesus said unto him, Go; thy son lives. And the man believed the word that Jesus spoke unto him, and he went.


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Then he enquired of them the hour when he began to get better. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.


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So the father knew that [it was] at the same hour in which Jesus said unto him, Thy son lives; and he believed, and his whole house.


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Now in Jerusalem there is a pool by the sheep [gate], which in Hebrew is called, Bethesda, having five porches.


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In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.


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For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and troubled the water; whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatever disease he had.


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When Jesus saw him lying [there] and knew that he had been now a long time [in that case], he said unto him, Dost thou desire to be made whole?


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The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man when the water is troubled to put me into the pool, but while I am coming, another steps down before me.


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And immediately the man was made whole and took up his bed and walked, and on that day was the sabbath.


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The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day; it is not lawful for thee to carry [thy] bed.


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And he that was healed did not know who it was; for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in [that] place.


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Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole; sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.


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And for this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus and sought to kill him: because he had done these things on a sabbath.


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Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.


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Then Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself but what he sees the Father do; for all that he does, this also the Son does together with [him].


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For the Father loves the Son and shows him all the things that he does, and he will show him greater works than these that ye may marvel.


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For as the Father raises up the dead and gives [them] life; even so the Son gives life unto whom he will.


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that everyone should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that does not honour the Son does not honour the Father who has sent him.


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Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that hears my word and believes him that sent me has eternal life and shall not come into judgment but has passed from death unto life.


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Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour shall come, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall live.


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and those that have done good shall come forth unto the resurrection of life; but those that have done evil, unto the resurrection of judgment.


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I can of my own self do nothing; as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father who has sent me.


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There is another that bears witness of me, and I know that the witness which he witnesses of me is true.


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But I have greater testimony than [that] of John; for the works which the Father has given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me that the Father has sent me.


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And the Father himself, who has sent me, has borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time nor seen his appearance.


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Search the scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life; and they are those who testify of me.


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I have come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not; if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.


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How can ye believe, who take glory one from another, and seek not the glory that [comes] only from God?


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Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father; there is [one] that accuses you, [even] Moses, in whom ye trust.


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Then Jesus lifted up [his] eyes and saw a great company come unto him; he said unto Philip, From where shall we buy bread that these may eat?


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Philip answered him, Two hundred denarius of bread is not sufficient for them, that each one of them may take a little.


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There is a lad here, who has five barley loaves and two small fishes, but what are they among so many?


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Then Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.


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And Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples and the disciples to those that were sitting down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they desired.


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When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain that nothing be lost.


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Therefore they gathered [them] together and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves which were left over from those that had eaten.


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Then those men, as they had seen the sign that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth the prophet that was to come into the world.


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Jesus therefore knowing that they would come and take him by force to make him king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.


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and entered into a ship and were crossing the sea toward Capernaum. And it was now dark, and Jesus had not come to them.


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So when they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty furlongs, they saw Jesus walking upon the sea and drawing nigh unto the ship, and they were afraid.


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Then they willingly received him into the ship, and immediately the ship was at the land where they went.


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The day following when the multitude which was on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there except the one in which his disciples had entered and that Jesus had not gone with his disciples into the boat, but [that] his disciples had gone away alone


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(but other boats came from Tiberias near unto the place where they ate bread after the Lord had given thanks);


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when the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they also entered into the boats and came to Capernaum, seeking for Jesus.


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And when they had found him on the other side of the sea, they said unto him, Rabbi, when didst thou come here?


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Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye have seen the signs, but because ye ate of the loaves and were filled.


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Labour not for the food which perishes, but for the food which abides unto eternal life, which the Son of man shall give unto you, for him has God the Father sealed.


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Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe in him whom he has sent.


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They said therefore unto him, What sign showest thou then that we may see and believe thee? what dost thou work?


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Our fathers ate manna in the desert, as it is written, He gave them [of] the bread from the heaven to eat.


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Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from the heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from the heaven.


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And Jesus said unto them, I AM the bread of life; he that comes to me shall never hunger, and he that believes in me shall never thirst.


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And this is the Father's will who has sent me, that of all whom he has given me I should lose nothing but should raise it up again in the last day.


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And this is the will of him that sent me, That every one who sees the Son and believes in him may have eternal life, and I will raise him up in the last day.


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And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How is it then that he says, I descended from heaven?


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No one can come to me unless the Father who has sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.


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It is written in the prophets, And they shall all be taught of God. Every man therefore that has heard from the Father and has learned comes unto me.


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I AM the living bread which came down from heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, they shall live for ever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.


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The Jews therefore contended among themselves, saying, How is he able to give us [his] flesh to eat?


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Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Unless ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, ye shall have no life in you.


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Whosoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.


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As the living Father has sent me, and I live by the Father, so he that eats me, he shall also live by me.


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This is the bread which came down from heaven; not as your fathers ate manna and are dead; he that eats of this bread shall live eternally.


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Many therefore of his disciples when they had heard [this] said, This is a hard word; who can hear it?


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But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at it, said unto them, Does this offend you?


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The Spirit is he that gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken unto you, [they] are Spirit and [they] are life.


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But there are some of you that do not believe. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that did not believe and who should betray him.


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And he said, Therefore I said unto you that no one can come unto me unless it is given unto them of my Father.


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He spoke of Judas Iscariot [the son] of Simon, for it was he that should betray him, being one of the twelve.:


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After these things Jesus walked in Galilee, for he would not walk in Judea because the Jews sought to kill him.


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His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart from this place and go into Judea that thy disciples also may see the works that thou doest.


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For no one who seeks to be clearly known does anything in secret. If thou doest these things, show thyself to the world.


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But when his brethren were gone up, then he also went up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.


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And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him, for some said, He is [a] good [man]; others said, No, but he deceives the people.


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If anyone desires to do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it is of God or [whether] I speak of myself.


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He that speaks of himself seeks his own glory, but he that seeks the glory of him that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.


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Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man.


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If a man on the sabbath day receives circumcision without the law of Moses being broken, are ye angry at me because I have made a man entirely whole on the sabbath day?


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But, behold, he speaks boldly, and they say nothing unto him. Have the rulers truly understood that this is indeed the Christ?


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Then Jesus cried out in the temple as he taught, saying, Ye know me, and ye know from where I come, but I have not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not.


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And many of the people believed in him and said, When the Christ comes, will he do more signs than these which this [man] has done?


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The Pharisees heard the people that murmured such things concerning him, and the princes of the priests and the Pharisees sent officers to take him.


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Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while I shall be with you, and [then] I shall go unto him that sent me.


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Then the Jews said among themselves, Where will he go that we shall not find him? Will he go unto the dispersed among the Greeks and teach the Greeks?


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What [manner of] saying is this that he said, Ye shall seek me and shall not find [me], and where I shall be ye shall not be able to come?


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In the last day, that great [day] of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, If any man thirsts, let him come unto me and drink.


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He that believes in me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.


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(But this he spoke concerning the Spirit, which those that believe on him should receive, for the Holy Spirit was not yet [given] because Jesus was not yet glorified.)


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Has not the scripture said, That the Christ comes of the seed of David and out of the town of Bethlehem where David was?


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Then the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees came, and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him?


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They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search and see, for a prophet has never arisen out of Galilee.


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And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down and taught them.


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Then the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery, and when they had set her in the midst,


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This they said, tempting him, that they might be able to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down and with [his] finger wrote on the ground.


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So when they continued asking him, he lifted himself up and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him [be] the first to cast a stone at her.


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And those who heard [it], being convicted by [their own] conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest [even] unto the last; and Jesus was left alone and the woman that had been in the midst.


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Jesus, lifting himself up and seeing no one but the woman, said unto her, Woman, where are thine accusers? Has no one condemned thee?


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And she said, No one, Lord. Then Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee; go and sin no more.


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Then Jesus spoke again unto them, saying, I AM the light of the world; he that follows me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life.


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Jesus answered and said unto them, Though I bear witness of myself, my witness is true, for I know from where I came and where I go; but ye do not know where I came from and where I go.


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Then they said unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father; if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.


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Jesus spoke these words in the treasury as he taught in the temple, and no one laid hands on him, for his hour was not yet come.


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Then Jesus said again unto them, I [am] going away, and ye shall seek me, but ye shall die in your sins; where I go, ye shall not be able to come.


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Then the Jews said, Will he kill himself? because he says, Where I go, ye shall not be able to come.


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And he said unto them, Ye are from below, I am from above; ye are of this world, I am not of this world.


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Therefore I said unto you that ye shall die in your sins, for if ye do not believe that I AM, ye shall die in your sins.


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And said they unto him, Who art thou? Then Jesus said unto them, He that I said unto you also from the beginning.


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I have many things to say and to judge regarding you, but he that sent me is true; and those things which I have heard of him, I speak in the world.


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Then Jesus said unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then ye shall know that I AM and [that] I do nothing of myself, but as my Father has taught me, I speak these things.


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And he that sent me is with me: the Father has not left me alone, for I always do those things that please him.


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Then Jesus said to those Jews who had believed him, If ye abide in my word, ye shall be my disciples indeed;


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They answered him, We are Abraham's seed, and we have never served anyone; how sayest thou, Ye shall be set free?


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They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus said unto them, If ye were Abraham's sons, ye would do the works of Abraham.


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But now ye seek to kill me, a man that has told you the truth, which I have heard of God; Abraham did not [do] this.


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Ye do the deeds of your father. Then they said to him, We are not born of fornication; we have one Father, [even] God.


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Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would surely love me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither did I come of myself, but he sent me.


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Ye are of [your] father the devil, and the desires of your father ye desire to do. He was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it.


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Then the Jews answered, and said unto him, Do we not say well that thou art a Samaritan and hast a demon?


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Then the Jews said unto him, Now we know that thou hast a demon. Abraham died and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keeps my word, he shall not taste death forever?


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Jesus answered, If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing; it is my Father that glorifies me, of whom ye say that he is your God;


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yet ye have not known him, but I know him; and if I should say, I do not know him, I shall be a liar like unto you; but I know him and keep his word.


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Then they took up stones to cast at him, but Jesus concealed himself and went out of the temple, and going through the midst of them, went away.:


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And his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?


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Jesus answered, Neither has this man sinned nor his parents, but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.


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It is expedient that I do the works of him that sent me while it is day; the night comes, when no one can work.


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When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay


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and said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam (which is by interpretation, Sent). Then he went and washed and came back seeing.


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The neighbours, therefore, and those who before had seen him that he was blind said, Is not this he that sat and begged?


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He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash; and I went and washed, and I received sight.


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Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He said unto them, He put clay upon my eyes, and I washed and do see.


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Therefore some of the Pharisees said, This man is not of God because he does not keep the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such signs? And there was a division among them.


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They said unto the blind man again, What sayest thou of him, that has opened thine eyes? He said, He is a prophet.


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But the Jews did not believe concerning him that he had been blind and received his sight until they called the parents of him that had received his sight.


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but by what means he now sees, we know not; or who has opened his eyes, we know not; he is of age, ask him; he shall speak for himself.


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These [words] spoke his parents because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had agreed already that if anyone did confess that he was the Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.


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Then they called again the man that had been blind and said unto him, Give glory to God; we know that this man is a sinner.


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He answered and said, Whether he is a sinner [or not], I [do] not know; one thing I know, that having been blind, now I see.


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He answered them, I have told you already, and ye have heard; what more would ye hear? [Do] ye also desire to be his disciples?


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The man answered and said unto them, Indeed this is a marvellous thing that ye do not know where he is from, and [yet] he has opened my eyes.


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Now we know that God does not hear sinners, but if anyone should fear God and do his will, him he will hear.


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Since the world began it has not been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of one that was born blind.


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They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.


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Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and finding him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe in the Son of God?


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And Jesus said, For judgment I have come into this world, that those who do not see might see and that those who see might be blinded.


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And [some] of the Pharisees who were with him heard these words and said unto him, Are we blind also?


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Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin; but now because ye say, We see, therefore your sin abides.:


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Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that enters not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.


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To him the porter opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.


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And when he puts forth his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.


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And they will not follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.


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Jesus spoke this parable unto them, but they did not understand what it was that he spoke unto them.


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The thief comes not but for to steal and to kill and to destroy [the sheep]; I am come that they might have life and that they might have [it] in abundance.


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But the hireling, who is not a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches them and scatters the sheep.


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And I have other sheep which are not of this fold; it is expedient that I bring them also, and they shall hear my voice, and there shall be one fold [and] one shepherd.


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No man takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment I have received of my Father.


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Others said, These are not the words of him that has a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?


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Then the Jews came round about him and said unto him, Until when wilt thou hold our soul in suspense? If thou art the Christ, tell us plainly.


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Jesus answered them, I have told you, and ye do not believe; the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.


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and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall anyone pluck them out of my hand.


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My Father, who gave [them to] me, is greater than all; and no one is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.


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Jesus answered them, Many good works have I showed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?


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The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we do not stone thee, but for blasphemy; and because thou, being a man, makest thyself God.


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do ye say of him whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest, because I said, I am the Son of God?


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But if I do, though ye do not believe me, believe the works that ye may know and believe that the Father [is] in me and I in him.


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And many came unto him and said, John certainly did no sign, but all [the] things that John spoke of this man were true.


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(It was [that] Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair whose brother Lazarus was sick.)


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When Jesus heard [that], he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.


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When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was.


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[His] disciples said unto him, Rabbi, the Jews of late sought to stone thee, and goest thou there again?


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Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble because he sees the light of this world.


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Having said that he said unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleeps, but I go that I may awake him out of sleep.


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And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, in order that ye may believe; nevertheless let us go unto him.


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Then Thomas said, who is called Didymus, unto his fellowdisciples, Let us go also, that we may die with him.


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Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him; but Mary sat [still] in the house.


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Jesus said unto her, I AM the resurrection and the life; he that believes in me, though he is dead, yet shall he live;


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She said unto him, Yes, Lord, I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, who should come into the world.


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And having said this, she went away and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calls for thee.


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Then the Jews who were with her in the house and comforted her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up hastily and went out, followed her, saying, She goes unto the grave to weep there.


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Then when Mary was come where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother would not have died.


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When Jesus therefore saw her weeping and the Jews also weeping who came with her, he became enraged in [the] Spirit and stirred himself up


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And some of them said, Could not this [man], who opened the eyes of the blind, have also caused that this [man] should not have died?


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Jesus therefore, becoming enraged again in himself, came to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.


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Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that had died, said unto him, Lord, by this time he stinks, for he has been [dead] four days.


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Jesus said unto her, Did I not say unto thee that if thou wouldest believe thou shalt see the glory of God?


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Then they took away the stone [from the place] where the dead was laid. And Jesus, lifting up [his] eyes, said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.


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And I knew that thou hearest me always, but because of the people who stand by I said [it], that they may believe that thou hast sent me.


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Then he that had been dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes, and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus said unto them, Loose him, and let him go.


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Then the high priests and the Pharisees gathered a council and said, What shall we do? for this man does many signs.


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If we let him thus alone, everyone will believe on him, and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and the nation.


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And one of them, [named] Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all


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nor consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people, and not that the whole nation be lost.


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And this he spoke not of himself; but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation;


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and not for that nation only, but that he should also gather together in one the sons of God that were scattered abroad.


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Jesus therefore no longer walked openly among the Jews, but went from there unto a country near to the wilderness into a city called Ephraim and there continued with his disciples.


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And the passover of the Jews was now at hand, and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover to purify themselves;


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and they sought for Jesus and spoke among themselves as they stood in the temple, What think ye, that he will not come to the feast?


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Now both the high priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that if anyone knew where he was he should show [it], that they might take him.:


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Jesus, therefore, six days before the passover, came to Bethany, where Lazarus was who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.


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There they made him a supper; and Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those that sat at the table with him.


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Then Mary took a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.


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This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and had the bag and would take [from] what was put therein.


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A great multitude of the Jews therefore knew that he was there; and they came not only for Jesus' sake, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.


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On the next day the multitude that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,


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took branches of palm trees and went forth to meet him and cried, Hosanna; Blessed [is] he that comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel.


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His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written of him and [that] they had done these things unto him.


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The multitude, therefore, that was with him when he called Lazarus out of his grave and raised him from the dead, bore witness.


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The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Perceive ye how ye prevail nothing? behold, the world is gone after him.


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the same came therefore to Philip, who was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, Lord, we desire to see Jesus.


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Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except the grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it abides alone; but if it dies, it brings forth much fruit.


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He that loves his life shall lose it, and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.


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If anyone serves me, let them follow me; and where I am, there shall my servant be also; the one that serves me, will my Father honour.


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Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour, but for this have I come in this hour.


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Father, clarify thy name. Then there came a voice from the heaven, [saying], I have clarified it and will clarify it again.


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The people, therefore, that were present and heard [it], said that it thundered; others said, An angel spoke to him.


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The people answered him, We have heard out of the law that the Christ abides for ever; and how sayest thou, It is expedient that the Son of man be lifted up? Who is this Son of man?


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Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the Light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you; for he that walks in darkness does not know where he goes.


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While ye have the Light, believe in the Light that ye may be the sons of light. Jesus spoke these things and departed and hid himself from them.


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that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, Lord, who shall believe our report? and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?


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He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, that they should not see with [their] eyes nor understand with [their] heart and be converted, and I should heal them.


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Nevertheless, even among the princes many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess [him], lest they should be put out of the synagogue;


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And if anyone hears my words and believes not, I judge him not, for I came not to judge the world but to save the world.


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He that rejects me and does not receive my words has one that judges him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.


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For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say and what I should speak.


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And I know that his commandment is eternal life; whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.:


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Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them unto the end.


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And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's [son], to betray him,


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Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands and that he had come from God and was going to God,


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After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe [them] with the towel with which he was girded.


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Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou dost not understand now, but thou shalt understand afterwards.


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Peter said unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou shalt have no part with me.


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Jesus said to him, He that is washed needs only to wash [his] feet because he is completely clean, and ye are clean, but not all.


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So after he had washed their feet and had taken his garments and had sat down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you?


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If I then, the Lord and the Master, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another's feet.


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Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither is the apostle greater than he that sent him.


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I speak not of you all; I know whom I have chosen; but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me,


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Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receives whomsoever I send receives me, and he that receives me receives him that sent me.


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When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit and testified and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.


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Jesus answered, He it is to whom I shall give a sop when I have dipped [it]. And when he had dipped the sop, he gave [it] to Judas Iscariot, [the son] of Simon.


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And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said unto him, That which thou shalt do, do it more quickly.


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For some [of them] thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus had said unto him, Buy [those things] that we need for the feast, or that he should give something to the poor.


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Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man clarified, and God is clarified in him.


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If God is clarified in him, God shall also clarify him in himself and shall straightway clarify him.


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Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me; and as I said unto the Jews, Where I go, ye cannot come, so now I say to you.


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A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.


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Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, where goest thou? Jesus answered him, Where I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards.


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Jesus answered him, Wilt thou lay down thy soul for my sake? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, The cock shall not crow until thou hast denied me three times.:


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In my Father's house are many dwelling places; if [it were] not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.


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And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you unto myself; that where I am, [there] ye may be also.


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Jesus said unto him, I AM the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes unto the Father, but by me.


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If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also; and from now on ye know him and have seen him.


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Jesus said unto him, Have I been [such a] long time with you, and yet thou hast not known me, Philip? He that has seen me has seen the Father; and how sayest thou [then], Show us the Father?


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Believest thou not that I [am] in the Father and the Father in me? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself; but the Father that dwells in me, he does the works.


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Believe me that I [am] in the Father and the Father in me, or else believe me for the very works' sake.


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Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believes in me, the works that I do he shall do also; and greater [works] than these shall he do because I go unto my Father.


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And whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.


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and I will ask the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever,


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[even] the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because it does not see him, or know him; but ye know him, for he dwells with you and shall be in you.


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Yet a little while, and the world shall see me no more, but ye shall see me; because I live, ye shall live also.


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He that has my commandments and keeps them, he it is that loves me; and he that loves me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him and will manifest myself to him.


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Judas, not Iscariot, said unto him, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us and not unto the world?


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Jesus answered and said unto him, He who loves me will keep my words, and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him and make our abode with him.


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He that does not love me does not keep my words, and the word which ye have heard is not mine, but of the Father who sent me.


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But the Comforter, [which is] the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all the things that I have said unto you.


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Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you; not as the world gives, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.


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Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away and come [again] unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice because I said, I go unto the Father; for my Father is greater than I.


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But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go from here.:


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Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he shall take away; and every one that bears fruit, he shall purge that they may bring forth more fruit.


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Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abides in the vine, no more can ye, except ye abide in me.


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I AM the vine, ye [are] the branches: he that abides in me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit; for without me ye can do nothing.


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He who does not abide in me shall be cast forth as an [unsound] branch and shall wither, and they are gathered and cast into the fire and are burned.


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If ye abide in me and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.


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In this is my Father clarified, in that ye bear much fruit; and in this manner ye shall be my disciples.


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If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love, even as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.


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These things I have spoken unto you that my joy may abide in you and [that] your joy might be fulfilled.


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From now on I do not call you servants, for the servant does not know what his lord does; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.


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Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and [that] your fruit should remain; that whatever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it [unto] you.


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If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.


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Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my word, they will keep yours also.


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But they will do all these things unto you for my name's sake, because they do not know him that sent me.


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If I had not come and spoken unto them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.


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If I had not done among them works which no other man has done, they would not have sin; but now they have seen [them] and hate both me and my Father.


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But [this comes to pass] that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.


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But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, [even] the Spirit of truth, which proceeds from the Father, he shall testify of me;


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They shall put you out of the synagogues, and the hour will even come when whosoever kills you will think that he does God service.


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But I have told you these things that when that hour shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And I did not say these things unto you at the beginning because I was with you.


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Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is expedient for you that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.


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Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth, for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, [that] shall he speak, and he will cause you to know the things which are to come.


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All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he shall take of that which is mine and shall cause you to know [it].


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A little while, and ye shall not see me; and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father.


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Then [some] of his disciples said among themselves, What is this that he says unto us, A little while, and ye shall not see me; and again, a little while, and ye shall see me; and, Because I go to the Father?


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Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him and said unto them, Do ye enquire among yourselves of what I said, A little while, and ye shall not see me; and again, a little while, and ye shall see me?


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Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, and the world shall rejoice; but even though ye shall be sorrowful, your sorrow shall be turned into joy.


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The woman, when she is in travail, has pain, because her hour is come; but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembers the anguish no more, for joy that a man is born into the world.


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And ye now therefore have sorrow; but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and no one shall take your joy from you.


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And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give you.


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Until now ye have asked nothing in my name; ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be fulfilled.


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I have spoken these things unto you in proverbs, but the hour comes when I shall no longer speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall show you plainly of the Father.


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for the Father himself loves you because ye have loved me and have believed that I came out from God.


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I came forth from the Father and am come into the world; again, I leave the world and go to the Father.


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Now we understand that thou knowest all things and needest not that anyone should ask thee; by this we believe that thou didst come forth from God.


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Behold, the hour comes and is now come, that ye shall be scattered, each one to his own, and shall leave me alone; and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.


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These things I have spoken unto you that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation; but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.:


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Jesus spoke these words and lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, Father, the hour is come; clarify thy Son, that thy Son may also clarify thee,


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as thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.


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And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.


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And now, O Father, clarify thou me with thine own self with that clarity which I had with thee before the world was.


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I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou didst give me out of the world; thine they were, and thou didst give them me; and they have kept thy word.


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For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received [them] and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.


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I pray for them; I do not pray for the world, but for those whom thou hast given me; for they are thine.


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And now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, those whom thou hast given me, keep them in thy name, that they may be one, as we [are].


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While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name; those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled.


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And now I come to thee; and these things I speak in the world that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.


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I have given them thy word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.


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I do not pray that thou should take them out of the world, but that thou should keep them from the evil.


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that they all may be one; as thou, Father, [art] in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us, that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.


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I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfect in one and that the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them as thou hast loved me.


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Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am, that they may behold my clarity, which thou hast given me, for thou hast loved me from before the foundation of the world.


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O righteous Father, the world has not known thee; but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.


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And I have manifested unto them thy name and will manifest it still, that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.:


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When Jesus had spoken these things, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where there was a garden, into which he entered, and his disciples.


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And Judas also, who betrayed him, knew the place: for Jesus gathered there often with his disciples.


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Judas then, taking a company of soldiers and ministers of the high priests and of the Pharisees, came there with lanterns and torches and weapons.


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Jesus therefore, knowing all the things that should come upon him, went forth, and said unto them, Whom seek ye?


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They answered him, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus said unto them, I AM. And Judas also, who betrayed him, stood with them.


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Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it and smote the high priest's servant and cut off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus.


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Then Jesus said unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath; the cup which my Father has given me, shall I not drink it?


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and led him away to Annas first, for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was the high priest of that year [and he sent him bound unto Caiaphas, the high priest].


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Now Caiaphas was he who had given the counsel to the Jews that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.


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And Simon Peter followed Jesus, and [so did] another disciple; that disciple was known unto the high priest and went in with Jesus into the palace of the high priest.


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But Peter stood at the door without. Then that other disciple, who was known unto the high priest, went out and spoke unto her that kept the door and brought in Peter.


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Then the damsel that kept the door said unto Peter, Art not thou also [one] of this man's disciples? He said, I am not.


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And the servants and ministers stood there, who had made a fire of coals, for it was cold, and they warmed themselves; and Peter stood with them and warmed himself.


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Jesus answered him, I spoke openly to the world; I always taught in the synagogue and in the temple, where all the Jews gather; and I have said nothing in secret.


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Why dost thou ask me? Ask those who heard me what I have said unto them; behold, they know what I said.


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And when he had thus spoken, one of the servants who stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Answerest thou the high priest so?


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Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil, but if well, why dost thou smite me?


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And Simon Peter stood and warmed himself. They said therefore unto him, Art not thou also [one] of his disciples? He denied [it] and said, I am not.


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One of the servants of the high priest, kinsman of the one whose ear Peter had cut off, said, Did I not see thee in the garden with him?


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Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgement, and it was early; and they themselves did not go into the judgement hall, lest they should be defiled, but that they might eat the passover.


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They answered and said unto him, If he were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him up unto thee.


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Then Pilate said unto them, Take him, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said unto him, It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death;


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Then Pilate entered into the judgement hall again and called Jesus and said unto him, Art thou the King of the Jews?


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Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Thine own nation and the chief priests have delivered thee unto me; what hast thou done?


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Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world; if my kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews; now, therefore, my kingdom is not from here.


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Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I AM king. To this end I was born, and for this cause I came into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth hears my voice.


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Pilate said unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and said unto them, I find no fault [at all] in him.


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But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the passover; will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews?


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And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns and put [it] on his head, and they put a purple robe on him


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Pilate therefore went forth again and said unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him.


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Then Jesus came forth, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. And [Pilate] said unto them, Behold the man!


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When the princes of the priests and the servants saw him, they cried out, saying, crucify him, crucify him. Pilate said unto them, Take him, and crucify him, for I find no fault in him.


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The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die because he made himself the Son of God.


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and went again into the judgement hall and said unto Jesus, Where art thou from? But Jesus gave him no answer.


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Then Pilate said unto him, Speakest thou not unto me? knowest thou not that I have power to hang thee on a stake and have power to release thee?


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Jesus answered, Thou could have no power [at all] against me, unless it were given thee from above; therefore he that delivered me unto thee has the greater sin.


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And from then on Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar's friend; whosoever makes himself a king speaks against Caesar.


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Therefore when Pilate heard that word, he brought Jesus forth and sat down in the judgement seat in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha.


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And it was the preparation of the passover and about the sixth hour; then he said unto the Jews, Behold your King!


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But they cried out, Away with [him], away with [him], crucify him. Pilate said unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The high priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.


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And he, bearing his stake, went forth into a place called [the place] of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew, Golgotha,


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And Pilate also wrote a title and put [it] above the stake. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS.


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And many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near to the city; and it was written in Hebrew [and] Greek [and] Latin.


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Then the high priests of the Jews said to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews, but that he said, I AM King of the Jews.


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Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts (to each soldier a part); and also [his] coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.


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They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be; that the scripture might be fulfilled, which says, They parted my garments among them, and for my raiment they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.


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Now there stood by the stake of Jesus his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the [wife] of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.


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When Jesus therefore saw his mother and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he said unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son!


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Then he said to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own [home].


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After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, said, I thirst.


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Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar, and they filled a sponge with vinegar and put [it] upon hyssop and put [it] to his mouth.


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When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished, and he bowed his head and gave the Spirit.


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The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the stake on the sabbath day (for that sabbath day was a high day) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken and [that] they might be taken away.


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Then the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and of the other who were crucified with him.


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And he that saw [it] gives testimony, and his testimony is true, and he knows that he says [the] truth, that ye also might believe.


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For these things were done that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.


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After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave [him] leave. He came therefore and took the body of Jesus.


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Then Nicodemus came also, who at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about one hundred pounds.


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And they took the body of Jesus and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as is the manner of the Jews to bury.


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Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new sepulchre, in which no one had yet been laid.


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Therefore they laid Jesus there because of the Jews' preparation [day], for the sepulchre was near.:


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The first of the sabbaths, Mary Magdalene came early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre and saw the stone taken away from the sepulchre.


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Then she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and said unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him.


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and the napkin, that had been [placed] over his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.


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But Mary stood outside [near] the sepulchre weeping, and as she wept, she stooped down [and looked] into the sepulchre


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and saw two angels in white sitting, the one at the head and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had been placed.


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And they said unto her, Woman, why dost thou weep? She said unto them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him.


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And when she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing [there] and did not know that it was Jesus.


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Jesus said unto her, Woman, why dost thou weep? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, said unto him, Lord, if thou didst carry him off, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away.


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Jesus said unto her, Mary! Turning herself around, she said unto him, Rabboni, which is to say, Master.


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Jesus said unto her, Touch me not, for I have not yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brethren and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father and your Father, and [to] my God and your God.


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Mary Magdalene came giving the news to the disciples, That I have seen the Lord, and he spoke these things unto me.


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Then the same day at evening, being the first of the sabbaths, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst and said unto them, Peace [be] unto you.


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And having said this, he showed them [his] hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord.


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unto those whose sins ye release, they shall be released; [and] unto those whose [sins] ye retain, they shall be retained.


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The other disciples, therefore, said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Unless I shall see in his hands the print of the nails and put my finger into the print of the nails and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.


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And again eight days later, his disciples were within and Thomas with them; [then] Jesus came, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst and said, Peace [be] unto you.


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Then he said to Thomas, Reach here thy finger and behold my hands and reach here thy hand and thrust [it] into my side and be not unbelieving, but faithful.


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Jesus said unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed; blessed [are] those that have not seen and [yet] have believed.


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And Jesus truly did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book;


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but these are written that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye might have life in his name.:


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After these things Jesus manifested himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias, and he manifested himself in this manner:


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Simon Peter and Thomas, called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee and the [sons] of Zebedee and two other of his disciples were together.


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Simon Peter said unto them, I am going fishing. They said unto him, Let us also go with thee. They went forth and entered into a ship immediately, and that night they caught nothing.


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But when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore, but the disciples did not understand that it was Jesus.


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And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right hand side of the ship, and ye shall find. They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes.


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Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved said unto Peter, It is the Lord. Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt [his] fisher's coat [unto him] (for he was naked) and cast himself into the sea.


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And the other disciples came in the [little] ship (for they were not far from land, but as it were two hundred cubits), dragging the net with [the] fishes.


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As soon then as they were come to land, they saw a fire of coals there, and a fish laid thereon, and bread.


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Simon Peter went up and drew the net to land full of great fishes, one hundred and fifty-three; and being so many, yet the net was not broken.


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Jesus said unto them, Come [and] dine. And none of the disciples dared to ask him, Who art thou? knowing that it was the Lord.


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This [was] now the third time that Jesus manifested himself to his disciples, after he was risen from the dead.


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So when they had dined, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, [son] of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He said unto him, Yes, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. He said unto him, Feed my lambs.


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He said to him again the second time, Simon, [son] of Jonas, lovest thou me? He said unto him, Yes, Lord thou knowest that I love thee. He said unto him, Feed my sheep.


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He said unto him the third time, Simon, [son] of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus said unto him, Feed my sheep.


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Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou didst gird thyself and walk where thou wouldest, but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee and carry [thee] where thou wouldest not.


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This he spoke, signifying by what death he should clarify God. And when he had spoken this, he said unto him, Follow me.


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Then Peter, turning about, saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following, who also leaned on his breast at supper, and said, Lord, which is he that betrays thee?


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Then this saying went abroad among the brethren that that disciple should not die; yet Jesus did not say unto him, He shall not die, but, If I will that he tarry until I come, what [is that] to thee?


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This is the disciple who testifies of these things and wrote these things, and we know that his testimony is true.


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And there are also many other things which Jesus did, which, if they should be written every one, I think that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.:


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until the day in which, having given commandments by [the] Holy Spirit unto the apostles whom he had chosen, he was received on high;


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unto whom he also showed himself alive, after he had suffered, by many infallible proofs, appearing unto them for forty days and speaking to them of the kingdom of God;


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and gathering them together, he commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, Which, [he said], ye have heard of me.


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For John truly baptized in water, but ye shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now.


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Then those that were come together asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?


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And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father has put under his authority only.


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But ye shall receive the virtue of the Holy Spirit which shall come upon you, and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem and in all Judaea and in Samaria and unto the uttermost part of the earth.


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And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.


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And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel,


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who also said, Ye men of Galilee, what do ye stand gazing at [up] into heaven? This same Jesus, who is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.


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Then they returned unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day's journey.


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And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where Peter and James and John and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James [the son] of Alphaeus and Simon Zelotes, and Judas [the brother] of James were.


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These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women and Mary, the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.


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And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples and said (the number of names together were about one hundred and twenty),


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Men [and] brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit by the mouth of David spoke before concerning Judas, who was guide to those that took Jesus.


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He, therefore, purchased a field with the reward of [his] iniquity; and hanging himself, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.


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And it was known unto all the dwellers of Jerusalem, in such a manner that the field is called in their proper tongue, Aceldama, that is to say, The field of blood.


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For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no one dwell therein, and let another take his office.


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It behooves, therefore, of these men who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,


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beginning from the baptism of John unto that same day that he was received on high from [among] us, that one must be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection.


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And they prayed and said, Thou, Lord, who knowest the hearts of everyone, show which of these two thou hast chosen,


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that he may take the lot [or inheritance] of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas rebelled that he might go to his own place.


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And they gave forth their lots, and the lot fell upon Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.:


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And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.


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And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.


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Now at this sound, the multitude came together and were confounded because each one heard them speak in his own tongue.


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And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these who speak Galilaeans?


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Parthians and Medes and Elamites and the dwellers in Mesopotamia and in Judaea and Cappadocia, in Pontus and Asia,


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Phrygia and Pamphylia, in Egypt and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,


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Then Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea and all [ye] that dwell in Jerusalem, be this known unto you and hearken to my words;


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And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams;


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and [for] certain on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit, and they shall prophesy;


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and I will show wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath: blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke;


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the sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood before that great and notable day of the Lord [shall] come;


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Ye men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know,


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him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken and by wicked hands have crucified and slain,


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whom God has raised up, having loosed the pains of death because it was not possible for him to be held by it.


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For David speaks concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved,


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because thou wilt not leave my soul in Hades, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.


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Men [and] brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.


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Therefore being a prophet and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne;


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he, seeing this before, spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, that his soul was not left in Hades, neither did his flesh see corruption.


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Therefore being raised up by the right hand of God and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this which ye now see and hear.


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For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he saith himself, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand


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Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.


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Now when they heard [this], they were pricked in their heart and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men [and] brethren, what shall we do?


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Then Peter said unto them, Repent and be baptized each one of you into the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.


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For the promise is unto you and to your children and to all that are afar off, [even] as many as the Lord our God shall call.


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And with many other words he testified and exhorted, saying, Be saved from this perverse generation.


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So that those who gladly received his word were baptized, and the same day there were added [unto them] about three thousand souls.


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And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship and in breaking of bread and in prayers.


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And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple and breaking bread from house to house, [they] ate their food together with gladness and singleness of heart,


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praising God and having grace with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.:


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Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, [being] the ninth [hour].


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And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of those that entered into the temple,


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Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have I give thee: in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.


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And he took him by the right hand and lifted [him] up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.


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And he, leaping up, stood and walked and entered with them into the temple, walking and leaping and praising God.


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and they knew that it was he who sat for alms at the Beautiful gate of the temple, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him.


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And as the lame man who was healed held [onto] Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch that is called Solomon's, greatly wondering.


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And when Peter saw [it], he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own virtue or godliness we had made this man walk?


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The God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Son Jesus, whom ye delivered up and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he had judged to let [him] go.


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And in the faith of his name, unto this man whom ye see and know, has confirmed his name; and the faith which is by him has given this man this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.


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But God has thus fulfilled those things which he had showed in advance by the mouth of all his prophets, that his Christ should suffer.


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Repent ye therefore and be converted that your sins may be blotted out, for the times of refreshing of the presence of the Lord are come;


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whom it is certainly necessary that the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the age [began].


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For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things [doing] whatever he shall say unto you.


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And it shall come to pass [that] every soul which will not hear that prophet shall be destroyed from among the people.


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And all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.


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Ye are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.


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Unto you first, God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, that each one of you might turn from his iniquities.:


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And as they spoke unto the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them,


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and Annas, the high priest, and Caiaphas and John and Alexander and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest were gathered together at Jerusalem.


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And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what power or by what name have ye done this?


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Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said unto them, Ye princes of the people and elders of Israel,


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if we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole,


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be it known unto you all and to all the people of Israel that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, [even] by him does this man stand here before you whole.


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Neither is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men in which we can be saved.


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Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled, and they took knowledge of them that they had been with Jesus.


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saying, What shall we do to these men? for that indeed a notable miracle has been done by them [is] manifest to all those that dwell in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny [it].


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But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them that from now on they speak to no man in this name.


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Then Peter and John answered and said unto them, Judge whether it is right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God.


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So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way how they might punish them because of the people, for everyone glorified God for that which was done.


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And being let go, they went to their own company and reported all that the princes of the priests and the elders had said unto them.


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And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord and said, Lord, thou [art the] God, who hast made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them,


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who (in the Holy Spirit) by the mouth of thy servant David (our father) hast said, Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples imagine vain things?


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The kings of the earth were present, and the princes were gathered together against the Lord and against his Christ.


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For of a truth against thy holy servant Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together (in this city),


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And now, Lord, behold their threatenings and grant unto thy servants that with all boldness they may speak thy word,


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that thou might stretch forth thine hand so that healings and signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy servant Jesus.


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And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.


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And of the multitude of those that had believed was one heart and one soul; no one said that anything he possessed was his own, but they had all things common.


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And with great power the apostles gave witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all.


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Neither was there any among them that lacked, for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them and brought the prices of the things that were sold


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and laid [them] down at the apostles' feet; and distribution was made unto each one according to their need.


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Then Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation), a Levite, [and] of the country of Cyprus,


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and defrauded of the price, his wife also being aware of [it], and brought a certain part and laid [it] at the apostles' feet.


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But Peter said, Ananias, why has Satan filled thy heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to defraud of the price of the land?


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Retaining it, was it not thy own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? Why hast thou conceived this thing in thy heart? Thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.


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Then Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and gave up the spirit; and great fear came on all those that heard these things.


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Then Peter answered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much? And she said, Yes, for so much.


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Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried thy husband [are] at the door and shall carry thee out.


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Then she fell down straightway at his feet and yielded up the spirit; and the young men came in and found her dead and, carrying [her] forth, buried [her] by her husband.


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And by the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were wrought in the people. (And they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch.


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So much that they brought forth the sick into the streets and laid [them] on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.


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There came also a multitude [out] of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks and those who were tormented with unclean spirits, and they were healed every one.


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Then the prince of the priests rose up, and all those that were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees) were filled with jealousy


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And when they heard [that], they entered into the temple early in the morning and taught. In the meantime, the prince of the priests came, and those that were with him, and called the council together and all the elders of the sons of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.


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saying, We certainly found the prison shut with all security and the keepers standing outside before the doors, but when we had opened, we found no one within.


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Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the princes of the priests heard these things, they were perplexed regarding what this would come to.


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Then someone came and told them, saying, Behold, the men whom ye put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people.


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Then the captain with the officers went and brought them without violence, for they feared being stoned by the people.


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And when they had brought them, they set [them] before the council, and the prince of the priests asked them,


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saying, Did we not strictly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine and intend to bring this man's blood upon us.


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God has exalted him with his right hand as Prince and Saviour, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.


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And we are his witnesses of these things, and [so is] also the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those that persuade him.


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Then a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, who had a reputation among all the people, stood up in the council and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space


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and said unto them, Ye men of Israel, take heed to yourselves what ye intend to do as concerning these men.


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For before these days, rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves; who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered and brought to nought.


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After this man rose up Judas of Galilee in the days of the taxing and drew away many people after him; he also perished, and all those that consented with him were dispersed.


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And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men and let them alone; for if this counsel or this work is of men, it will come to nought,


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And they agreed with him; and when they had called the apostles and beaten [them], they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus and let them go.


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And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.


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And daily in the temple and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach the gospel of Jesus the Christ.:


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And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, that their widows were neglected in the daily ministry.


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Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples [unto them] and said, It is not right that we should leave the word of God and serve tables;


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therefore, brethren, seek out among you seven men of whom you bear witness, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.


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And the saying pleased the whole multitude, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip and Prochorus and Nicanor and Timon and Parmenas and Nicolas, a proselyte of Antioch:


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And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly, and also a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.


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Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called [the synagogue] of the Libertines, and Cyrenians and Alexandrians and of those of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen.


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Then they suborned men, who said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and [against] God.


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And they stirred up the people and the elders and the scribes and came upon [him] and caught him and brought [him] to the council


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and set up false witnesses, who said, This man does not cease to speak blasphemous words against this holy place and the law,


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for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place and shall change the traditions which Moses delivered us.


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Then all that sat in the council, looking steadfastly on him, saw his face as the face of an angel.:


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And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken. The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran,


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and said unto him, Get thee out of thy country and from thy kindred and come into the land which I shall show thee.


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Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans and dwelt in Haran; and from there, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, in which ye now dwell.


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And he gave him no inheritance in it, no, not [so much as] to set his foot on; yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession and to his seed after him, when [as yet] he had no child.


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And God spoke thus, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage and mistreat [them] four hundred years.


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And the Gentiles unto whom they shall be in bondage I will judge, said God; and after that they shall come forth and serve me in this place.


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And he gave him the covenant of circumcision; and so [Abraham] begat Isaac and circumcised him the eighth day, and Isaac [begat] Jacob, and Jacob [begat] the twelve patriarchs.


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and delivered him out of all his afflictions and gave him grace and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.


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Now there came a famine over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great tribulation, and our fathers found no sustenance.


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And in the second Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph's lineage was made known unto Pharaoh.


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who were carried over into Shechem and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor of Shechem.


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But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,


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The same dealt subtly with our kindred and mistreated our fathers so that they exposed their babies [to death], to the end that the generation would cease.


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In which time Moses was born and was beautiful to God and was nourished in his father's house three months;


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And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the sons of Israel.


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And seeing one [of them] suffer wrong, he defended [him] and smote the Egyptian, avenging the oppressed;


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for he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God was to give them saving health by his hand, but they had not understood.


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And the next day he showed himself unto them as they strove and urged them to peace, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?


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But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us?


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And when forty years were expired, the angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.


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When Moses saw [it], he wondered at the vision; and as he drew near to consider [it], the voice of the Lord came unto him,


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[saying], I [am] the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled and dared not to behold.


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Then the Lord said to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet; for the place where thou dost stand is holy ground.


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I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.


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This Moses, whom they had refused, saying, Who made thee a prince and a judge? the same did God send as prince and redeemer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.


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He brought them out, showing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and in the Red sea and in the wilderness for forty years.


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This is that Moses, who said unto the sons of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren like unto me; him shall ye hear.


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This is he, who was in the church in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him in the mount Sinai and [with] our fathers, who received the oracles of life to give unto us;


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to whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust [him] from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,


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saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us; for [as for] this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him.


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And then they made a calf and offered sacrifice unto the idol and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.


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Then God withdrew and gave them up to worship the host of the heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices [by the space of] forty years in the wilderness?


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On the contrary, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them; and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.


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Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen,


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which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers unto the days of David,


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Heaven [is] my throne, and earth [is] my footstool; what house will ye build me? saith the Lord, or what [is] the place of my rest?


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Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers [did], so [do] ye.


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Who of the prophets have your fathers not persecuted? and they have slain those who announced before the coming of the Just One, of whom ye have now been the betrayers and murderers,


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When they heard these things, they were divided in their hearts and gnashed on him with [their] teeth.


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But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing on the right hand of God


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and casting [him] out of the city, they stoned [him]; and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul.


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And he kneeled down and cried with a loud voice, Lord, impute not this sin to their charge. And having said this, he fell asleep in the Lord.:


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And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem, and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles.


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As for Saul, he made havoc of the church; entering into the houses and dragging [out] men and women, he committed [them] to prison.


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And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spoke, hearing and seeing the signs which he did.


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For many unclean spirits, crying with a loud voice, came out of those who were possessed [with them], and many paralytics and that were lame were healed.


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But there was a certain man called Simon, who before this in the same city used magic arts and amazed the people of Samaria, giving out that [he] himself was some great one,


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to whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This is the great virtue of God.


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But when they believed Philip preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.


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Then Simon himself believed also; and when he was baptized, he continued with Philip and wondered, beholding the miracles and signs which were being done.


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Now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John unto them,


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(For as yet he was fallen upon none of them; they were baptized only in the name of the Lord Jesus.)


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And when Simon saw that through the laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Spirit was given, he offered them money,


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But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.


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Repent therefore of this thy wickedness and pray God, if perhaps this thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.


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Then Simon answered and said, Pray ye to the Lord for me that none of these things which ye have spoken come upon me.


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And they, when they had testified and preached the word of God, returned to Jerusalem and preached the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans.


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And the angel of the Lord spoke unto Philip, saying, Arise and go toward the south unto the way that goes down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert.


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Then he arose and went, and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure and had come to Jerusalem to worship,


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And Philip ran there to [him] and heard him read the prophet Isaiah and said, Dost thou understand what thou readest?


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And he said, How can I, except someone should guide me? And he besought Philip to come up and sit with him.


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The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter, and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth;


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in his humiliation his judgment was taken away, and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth.


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And the eunuch answered Philip and said, I pray thee, of whom does the prophet speak this? of himself or of some other?


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Then Philip opened his mouth and began at the same scripture and preached unto him the gospel of Jesus.


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And as they went on [their] way, they came unto a certain water; and the eunuch said, See, [here is] water; what hinders me to be baptized?


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And Philip said, If thou dost believe with all thine heart, thou may. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.


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And he commanded the chariot to stand still, and they went both down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.


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And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, [so] that the eunuch saw him no more, and he went on his way rejoicing.


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But Philip was found at Azotus, and passing through, he preached the gospel in all the cities until he came to Caesarea.:


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And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, came unto the prince of the priests


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and asked him for letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.


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And as he proceeded, he came near Damascus; and suddenly there shone round about him a light from heaven;


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And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I AM Jesus whom thou dost persecute; [it is] hard for thee to kick against the pricks.


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And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord [said] unto him, Arise and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what it behooves thee to do.


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Then Saul arose from the earth; and opening his eyes, he saw no one; so they led him by the hand and brought [him] into Damascus


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And there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; to whom the Lord said in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I [am here], Lord.


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And the Lord [said] unto him, Arise and go into the street which is called Straight and enquire in the house of Judas for [one] called Saul, of Tarsus; for, behold, he prays


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and has seen in a vision a man named Ananias coming in and putting [his] hand on him, that he might receive his sight.


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Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man, [of] how much evil he has done to thy saints in Jerusalem,


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But the Lord said unto him, Go; for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles and kings and the sons of Israel;


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Then Ananias went and entered into the house; and putting his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus who appeared unto thee in the way as thou didst come, has sent me, that thou might receive thy sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.


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And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales; and he received sight immediately and arose and was baptized.


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And when he had received food, he was comforted. Then Saul was certain days with the disciples who were at Damascus.


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But all that heard [him] were amazed and said, Is not this he that destroyed those who called on this name in Jerusalem and came here for that intent that he might bring them bound unto the princes of the priests?


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But Saul increased the more in strength and confounded the Jews who dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.


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And when Saul was come to Jerusalem, he tried to join himself to the disciples; but they were all afraid of him and did not believe that he was a disciple.


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But Barnabas took him and brought [him] to the apostles and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way and that he had spoken to him and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus.


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and he spoke boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus and disputed against the Greeks; but they went about to slay him,


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Then the churches had rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria and were edified, walking in the fear of the Lord, and with the comfort of the Holy Spirit they were multiplied.


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And it came to pass, as Peter passed throughout all [quarters], he came down also to the saints who dwelt at Lydda.


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And there he found a certain man named Aeneas, who had been in bed eight years, for he was a paralytic.


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And Peter said unto him, Aeneas, the Lord Jesus, the Christ, makes thee whole; arise and make thy bed. And he arose immediately.


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Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas; this woman was full of good works and alms-deeds which she did.


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And it came to pass in those days that she was sick and died, whom when they had washed, they laid [her] in an upper chamber.


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And since as Lydda was close to Joppa and the disciples had heard that Peter was there, they sent unto him two men, asking [him] that he not delay to come to them.


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Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas had made them while she was with them.


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Then Peter put them all out and knelt down and prayed and turned to the body said, Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes; and when she saw Peter, she sat up.


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And he gave her [his] hand and lifted her up; and calling the saints and widows, he presented her alive.


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There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the company called the Italian,


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[a] devout [man] and one that feared God with all his house, who gave many alms to the people and prayed to God always.


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He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him and saying unto him, Cornelius.


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And when he looked on him, he was afraid and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God.


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he lodges with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea side; he shall tell thee what it behooves thee to do.


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And when the angel who spoke unto Cornelius was departed, he called two of his household servants and a devout soldier of those that waited on him continually;


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On the morrow, as they went on their journey and drew near unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour;


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and he became very hungry and would have eaten; but while they made ready, he fell into a rapture of understanding


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and saw the heaven opened and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners and let down to the earth,


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in which were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth and wild beasts and reptiles and fowls of the air.


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And the voice [spoke] unto him again the second time, That which God has cleansed, do not call common.


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Now while Peter doubted in himself what this vision which he had seen should mean, behold, the men who were sent from Cornelius had made enquiry for Simon's house and stood before the gate


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Then Peter went down to the men who were sent unto him from Cornelius and said, Behold, I am he whom ye seek; what [is] the cause for which ye are come?


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And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man and one that fears God and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by a holy angel to send for thee into his house and to hear words of thee.


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Then he called them in and lodged [them]. And on the morrow Peter went away with them, and certain brethren from Joppa accompanied him.


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And the next day they entered into Caesarea. And Cornelius waited for them and had called together his kinsmen and near friends.


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And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an abominable thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company or come unto one of another nation; but God has showed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.


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Therefore I came [unto you] without doubting, as soon as I was sent for; I ask therefore for what intent ye have sent for me?


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And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour; and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and, behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing


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Send therefore to Joppa, and call here Simon, whose surname is Peter; he is lodged in the house of [one] Simon a tanner by the sea side, who, when he comes, shall speak unto thee.


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Immediately therefore I sent to thee, and thou hast done well to come. Now therefore we are all here present before God to hear all things that are commanded thee of God.


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The word which [God] sent unto the sons of Israel, preaching the gospel: peace by Jesus Christ (he is Lord of all),


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that word, [I say], ye know, which was published throughout all Judaea and began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached,


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how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil, for God was with him.


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And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of Judea and in Jerusalem, whom they slew hanging him on a tree.


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not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God, [even] to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.


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And he commanded us to preach unto the people and to testify that it is he who is ordained of God [to be] the Judge of living and dead.


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Unto him all the prophets give witness, that whosoever believes in him shall receive remission of sins through his name.


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And those of the circumcision who believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, that also on the Gentiles the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out.


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Can anyone forbid water that these should not be baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit as well as we?


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And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then they begged him to tarry certain days.:


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And the apostles and brethren that were in Judaea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.


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I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a rapture of understanding I saw a vision: A certain vessel descended like a great sheet let down from heaven by the four corners, and it came unto me,


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upon which when I had fastened my eyes, I considered and saw fourfooted beasts of the earth and wild beasts and reptiles and fowls of the air.


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And, behold, immediately there were three men already come unto the house where I was, sent from Caesarea unto me.


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And the Spirit bade me go with them, doubting nothing. Moreover these six brethren accompanied me, and we entered into the man's house:


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And he showed us how he had seen an angel in his house, who stood and said unto him, Send to Joppa and call for Simon, whose surname is Peter,


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Then I remembered the word of the Lord, when he said, John indeed baptized in water, but ye shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit.


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So then, if God gave them the same gift as [he did] unto us, who have believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I should withstand God?


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When they heard these things, they were silent and glorified God, saying, Then God has also granted repentance unto life to the Gentiles.


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Now those who were scattered abroad by the tribulation that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice and Cyprus and Antioch, preaching the word to no one except only unto the Jews.


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And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they came into Antioch, spoke unto the Greeks, preaching the gospel of the Lord Jesus.


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Then tidings of these things came unto the ears of the church which was in Jerusalem, and they sent forth Barnabas that he should go unto Antioch.


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Who, when he came and had seen the grace of God, was glad and exhorted them all to remain in [their] purpose of heart in the Lord.


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For he was a good man and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and many people were added unto the Lord.


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Then Barnabas departed to Tarsus to seek Saul, and when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch.


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And it came to pass that for a whole year they gathered themselves together with the church and taught many people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.


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And one of them named Agabus stood up and signified by the Spirit that there should be great famine throughout all the world, which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar.


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Then the disciples, each one according to what he had, determined to send relief unto the brethren who dwelt in Judea,


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And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.)


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And when he had apprehended him, he put [him] in prison and delivered [him] to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him, intending after the Passover to bring him forth to the people.


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And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and the guards before the door that kept the prison.


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And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon [him], and a light shone in the prison, and he smote Peter on the side and woke him up, saying, Arise quickly. And his chains fell off from [his] hands.


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And the angel said unto him, Gird thyself and bind on thy sandals. And so he did. And he said unto him, Cast thy garment about thee and follow me.


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And he went out and followed him and knew not that it was true which was done by the angel, but thought he saw a vision.


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When they were past the first and the second guard, they came unto the iron gate that leads unto the city, which opened to them of its own accord, and they went out and passed on through one street, and then the angel departed from him.


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And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a surety that the Lord has sent his angel and has delivered me out of the hand of Herod and [from] all the people of the Jews who waited for me.


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And considering [this], he came to the house of Mary the mother of John, whose surname was Mark, where many were gathered together praying.


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And when she recognized Peter's voice, she opened not the gate for gladness, but ran in and told how Peter stood at the gate.


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And they said unto her, Thou art mad. But she constantly affirmed that it was even so. Then they said, It is his angel.


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But Peter continued knocking, and when they had opened [the door] and saw him, they were astonished.


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But he, beckoning unto them with the hand to be silent, declared unto them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, Go make these things known unto James and to the brethren. And he departed and went to another place.


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Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers [concerning] what was become of Peter.


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And when Herod had sought for him and found him not, he examined the guards and commanded that [they] should be taken away. Then he went down from Judaea to Caesarea and abode there.


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And Herod was highly displeased with those of Tyre and Sidon, but they came with one accord to him, and, having bribed Blastus, the king's chamberlain, they asked for peace because their lands were supplied through those of the king's.


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And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne and made an oration unto them.


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And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him because he did not give God the glory, and he expired eaten of worms.


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And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, when they had fulfilled [their] ministry, and took with them John, whose surname was Mark.:


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Now there were in the church that was at Antioch prophets and teachers: Barnabas and Simeon that was called Niger and Lucius of Cyrene and Manaen, who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.


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As they ministered to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work unto which I have called them.


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So they, being sent forth by the Holy Spirit, departed unto Seleucia, and from there they sailed to Cyprus.


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And when they arrived at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews, and they also had John as an attendant.


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And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain wise man, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name [was] Barjesus,


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who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man, who called for Barnabas and Saul and desired to hear the word of God.


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But Elymas the wise man (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the proconsul from the faith.


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and said, O full of all deception and all licentiousness, [thou] son of the devil, [thou] enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?


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And now, behold, the hand of the Lord [is] against thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness, and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.


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Then the proconsul, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord.


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Now when Paul and his company sailed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia; then John, departing from them, returned to Jerusalem.


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But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day and sat down.


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And after the reading of the law and the prophets the princes of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, [Ye] men [and] brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, speak.


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The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with a high arm he brought them out of it.


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And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he divided their land to them by lot.


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And after that he gave [unto them] judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.


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And afterward they asked for a king, and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.


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And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king, to whom also he gave testimony, saying, I have found David, the [son] of Jesse, a man after my own heart, who shall fulfil all my will.


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John having first proclaimed before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.


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And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think ye that I am? I am not [he]. But, behold, there comes one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.


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Men [and] brethren, sons of the lineage of Abraham, and whosoever among you fears God, unto you is this word of saving health sent.


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For those that dwell at Jerusalem and their princes, because they knew him not nor yet the voices of the prophets who are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled [them] in condemning [him].


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And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took [him] down from the tree and laid [him] in a sepulchre.


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and he was seen many days by those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who until now are his witnesses unto the people.


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which God has fulfilled unto us their children, in that he has raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.


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And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, [now] no more to return to corruption, he said this, I will give you the sure mercies [promised] to David.


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For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell asleep and was gathered unto his fathers and saw corruption;


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Be it known unto you, therefore, men [and] brethren, that through this one is preached unto you the remission of sins;


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and in him all that believe are justified from all the things from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.


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Behold, ye despisers, and wonder and perish, for I do a work in your days, a work which ye would in no wise believe, if one should declare it unto you.


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And when they were gone out of the synagogue of the Jews, the Gentiles besought that these words might be spoken to them the next sabbath.


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Now when the synagogue was dismissed, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking to them, persuaded them to remain in the grace of God.


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But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy and spoke against that which Paul said, contradicting and blaspheming.


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Then Paul and Barnabas speaking with freedom, said, It was necessary indeed that the word of God should first have been spoken to you; but seeing ye put it from you and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.


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For so has the Lord commanded us, [saying], I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles that thou should be for saving health unto the ends of the earth.


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And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and glorified the word of the Lord, and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.


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But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women and the principals of the city and raised up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and expelled them out of their borders.


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And it came to pass in Iconium that they went [both] together into the synagogue of the Jews and so spoke, that a great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed.


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With all this, they abode there a long time speaking with freedom in the Lord, who gave testimony unto the word of his grace and granted that signs and wonders be done by their hands.


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And when there was an assault made both of the Gentiles and also of the Jews with their princes, to insult [them] and to stone them,


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they were aware of [it] and fled unto Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and unto the region that lies round about.


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And a certain man sat at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked;


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this [man] heard Paul speak, who steadfastly beholding him and perceiving that he had faith to be healed,


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And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.


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Then the priest of Jupiter, who was before their city, brought bulls and garlands unto the gates and would have done sacrifice unto them with the people.


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[Which] when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard [of it], they rent their clothes and ran in among the people, crying out


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and saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all the things that are therein,


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Nevertheless he did not leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.


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And [certain] Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, who persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew [him] out of the city, supposing he was dead.


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But as the disciples stood round about him, he rose up and came into the city, and the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe.


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And when they had preached the gospel to that city and had taught many, they returned again to Lystra and [to] Iconium and Antioch,


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confirming the souls of the disciples [and] exhorting them to remain in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.


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And having ordained elders for them in every church and having prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord on whom they believed.


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and from there sailed to Antioch, where they had been recommended to the grace of God for the work which they fulfilled.


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And when they were come and had gathered the church together, they related what great things God had done with them and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.


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Then certain men who came down from Judaea taught the brethren [and said], Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.


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When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas and certain other of them should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.


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And they, being accompanied by [some from] the church, passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles, and they caused great joy unto all the brethren.


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And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received by the church and [by] the apostles and elders, and they declared all the things that God had done with them.


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But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees who had believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them and to command [them] to keep the law of Moses.


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And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up and said unto them, Men [and] brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God chose that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel and believe.


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And God, who knows the hearts, bore them witness, giving them the Holy Spirit, even as [he did] unto us,


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Now therefore why tempt ye God, putting a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?


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Then all the multitude kept silence and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what great miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.


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After this I will return and will restore the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will repair its ruins, and I will set it up again,


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that the men that are left might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who does all these things.


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Therefore my sentence is that those from among the Gentiles who are converted to God not be troubled,


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but that we write unto them that they abstain from pollutions of idols and [from] fornication and [from] things strangled and [from] blood.


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For Moses of old time has in every city those that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.


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Then it pleased the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; [namely], Judas surnamed Barsabas and Silas, principal men among the brethren;


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and they wrote [letters] by them after this manner: The apostles and elders and brethren [send] greeting unto the brethren who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia;


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forasmuch as we have heard that certain [ones] who went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, [Ye must] be circumcised and keep the law, to whom we gave no [such] commandment,


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it seemed good unto us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,


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For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things:


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that ye abstain from foods offered to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication; from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.


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So when they were dismissed, they came to Antioch; and when they had gathered the multitude together, they delivered the epistle,


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And Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves, exhorted the brethren with many words and confirmed [them].


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And after they had tarried [there] a space, they were let go in peace from the brethren unto the apostles.


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Paul also and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching the word of the Lord and announcing the gospel, with many others also.


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And some days after, Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us go again and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord [and see] how they do.


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But Paul thought [it] not good to take him with them, who departed from them from Pamphylia and did not go with them to the work.


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And the contention was so sharp between them that they departed asunder one from the other, and so Barnabas took Mark and sailed unto Cyprus;


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Then he came to Derbe and Lystra; and, behold, a certain disciple was there named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman, who was faithful, but his father [was] a Gentile,


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Paul desired to have him go forth with him and took and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those quarters, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.


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And as they went through the cities, they asked them to keep the decrees that had been determined by the apostles and elders who were at Jerusalem.


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Now passing through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia;


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And a vision was shown to Paul in the night: There stood a man of Macedonia, asking him, saying, Come over into Macedonia and help us.


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And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel unto them.


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Therefore loosing from Troas, we came with a straight course to Samothracia, and the next [day] to Neapolis,


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and from there to Philippi, which is the chief city of that part of Macedonia, [and] a colony; and we were in that city abiding certain days.


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And on one of the sabbaths we went out of the city by a river side, where it was customary to pray; and we sat down and spoke unto the women who gathered [there].


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Then a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, who feared God, heard [us], whose heart the Lord opened that she attended unto the things which were spoken by Paul.


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And when she was baptized, with her household, she besought [us], saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and abide [there]. And she constrained us.


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And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a Pythian spirit met us, which brought her masters much gain by divination:


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she followed Paul and us and cried out, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, who announce unto us the way of saving health.


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And she did this [for] many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour.


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And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas and drew [them] into the marketplace unto the rulers


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And the multitude rose up together against them, and the magistrates rent off their clothes and commanded to beat [them].


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And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast [them] into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely,


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who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison and made their feet fast in the stocks.


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then suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed.


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And the keeper of the prison, awaking out of his sleep and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had fled.


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And he took them the same hour of the night and washed [their] stripes and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.


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And when he had brought them into his house, he set food before them and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.


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And the keeper of the prison made these words known unto Paul, The magistrates have sent to let you go; now therefore depart and go in peace.


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But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast [us] into prison; and now do they thrust us out in secret? no indeed; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.


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And the sergeants returned and told these words unto the magistrates; and they feared when they heard that they were Romans.


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And leaving the prison, they entered into [the house of] Lydia; and when they had seen the brethren, they comforted them and departed.:


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Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where the synagogue of the Jews was.


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And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,


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declaring openly and proposing that it behooved the Christ to have suffered and risen again from the dead and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is the Christ.


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And some of them believed and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the noble women not a few.


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But the disobedient Jews, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort and gathered a company and set all the city on an uproar and assaulted the house of Jason and sought to bring them out to the people.


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And when they did not find them, they brought Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down have come here also,


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whom Jason has received, and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, [one] Jesus.


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And the brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night unto Berea, who when they got [there] went into the synagogue of the Jews.


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These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all diligence and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.


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But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was preached by Paul at Berea, they came there also and stirred up the people.


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And then immediately the brethren sent Paul to go away towards the sea, but Silas and Timothy abode there still.


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And those that conducted Paul brought him unto Athens; and receiving an order from him unto Silas and Timothy to come unto him as soon as possible, they departed.


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Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him when he saw the city completely given [over] to idolatry.


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Therefore he disputed in the synagogue with the Jews and with the devout persons and in the market daily with those that he met with.


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Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans and of the Stoics encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? others, He seems to be a setter forth of new gods, because he preached unto them Jesus and the resurrection.


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And they took him and brought him unto the Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine [is], of which thou speakest?


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For thou bringest certain new things to our ears; we desire, therefore, to know what these things mean.


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(For all the Athenians and strangers who were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.)


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Then Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus, and said, [Ye] men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.


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For as I passed by and beheld your sanctuaries, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him I declare unto you.


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The God that made the world and all the things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands;


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neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he gives to all life and breath and all things


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and has made of one blood all the lineage of men to dwell on all the face of the earth and has determined the seasons (which he has limited) and the bounds of their habitation;


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that they should seek the Lord, if in any manner they might [reach out to] touch him and find him though he is not far from each one of us;


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for in him we live and move and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also of his lineage.


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Being therefore of the lineage of God, we ought not to think that which is Divine is like unto gold or silver or stone, bearing the mark of art and man's imagination.


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because he has appointed a day, in which he will judge the world in righteousness by [that] man whom he has ordained; [of whom] he has given assurance unto all [men] in that he has raised him from the dead.


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And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; and others said, We will hear thee again of this [matter].


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But certain men believed and joined themselves with him, among whom [was] Dionysius of the Areopagus and a woman named Damaris and others with them.:


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and found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla (for Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome) and came unto them.


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And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them and worked, for by their occupation they were tentmakers.


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And when Silas and Timothy were come from Macedonia, Paul was impressed by the Spirit and testified to the Jews [that] Jesus [was] the Christ.


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And when they opposed themselves and blasphemed, he shook [his] raiment and said unto them, Your blood [be] upon your own heads; I [am] clean; from now on I will go unto the Gentiles.


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And he departed from there and entered into a certain [man's] house, named Titus the Just, [one] that feared God, whose house was next to the synagogue.


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And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians, hearing, believed and were baptized.


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Then the Lord spoke to Paul in the night by a vision, Do not be afraid, but speak and do not be silent,


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And when Gallio was the proconsul of Achaia, the Jews rose up with one accord against Paul and brought him to the judgement seat,


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And when Paul was now about to open [his] mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O [ye] Jews, reason would that I should bear with you;


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but if it is a question of words and names and of your law, look ye [to it], for I will be no judge of such [matters].


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Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat [him] before the judgement seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things.


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And Paul [after this] tarried [there] yet a good while and then took his leave of the brethren and sailed from there into Syria and with him Priscilla and Aquila, having shorn [his] head in Cenchrea, for he had a vow.


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And he came to Ephesus and left them there, but he himself entered into the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews.


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but bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that comes in Jerusalem, but I will return again unto you, if God wills. And he sailed from Ephesus.


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And when he had landed at Caesarea and gone up [to Jerusalem] and after greeting the church, he went down to Antioch.


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And after he had spent some time [there], he departed and went over [all] the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order, confirming all the disciples.


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And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man [and] mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus.


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This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spoke and taught diligently the things of the Lord, teaching only in the baptism of John.


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And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue, but when Aquila and Priscilla had heard him, they took him unto [them] and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.


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And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the exhorted brethren wrote the disciples to receive him, who, when he was come, was very helpful through grace unto those who had believed;


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And it came to pass that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper coasts, came to Ephesus, and finding certain disciples,


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he said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Spirit since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there is any Holy Spirit.


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Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people that they should believe on him who should come after him, that is, on Christ, Jesus.


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And when Paul had laid [his] hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke in tongues and prophesied.


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And he went into the synagogue and spoke freely for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God.


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But when some were hardened and disobedient, but cursing the way before the multitude, he departed from them and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.


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And this continued by the space of two years so that all those who dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.


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so that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.


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Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon themselves to invoke over those who had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches.


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And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them and overcame them and prevailed against them so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.


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And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.


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In the same manner many who had practiced vain arts brought their books together and burned them before everyone, and they counted the price of them and found [it] fifty thousand [pieces] of silver.


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After these things were ended, Paul purposed by [the] Spirit to go to Jerusalem, after he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, saying, After I have been there, it behooves me to see Rome also.


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So he sent into Macedonia two of those that ministered unto him, Timothy and Erastus, but he himself stayed in Asia for a season.


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For a certain [man] named Demetrius, a silversmith who made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen,


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whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation and said, Sirs, ye know that by this gain we have our wealth.


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Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are not gods which are made with hands


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so that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought, but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worship.


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And when they heard [these sayings], they were full of wrath and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.


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And the whole city was filled with confusion, and having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel, they rushed with one accord into the theatre.


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And certain of the chief [persons] of Asia, who were his friends, sent unto him, asking [him] that he not present himself in the theatre.


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Some therefore cried one thing, and some another, for the assembly was confused; and most of them did not know why they were come together.


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And they drew Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. And Alexander beckoned with the hand and would have made his defense unto the people.


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But when they knew that he was a Jew, all with one voice about the space of two hours cried out, Great [is] Diana of the Ephesians.


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Then the [town] scribe, appeasing the people, said, [Ye] men of Ephesus, what man is there that does not know how the city of the Ephesians is honored of the great goddess Diana and of the [image] which fell down from Jupiter?


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For ye have brought here these men, who are neither [guilty of] sacrilege, nor blasphemers of your goddess.


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Therefore if Demetrius and the craftsmen who are with him have a matter against any man, the law is open, and there are proconsuls; let them accuse one another.


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For we are in danger of being accused of sedition for this day's uproar, there being no cause by which we may give an account of this concourse.


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And after the uproar was ceased, Paul called the disciples and embraced [them] and departed to go into Macedonia.


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and [there] abode three months. And when the Jews laid [in] wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syria, he took counsel to return through Macedonia.


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And there accompanied him into Asia Sopater of Berea; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe and Timothy; and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.


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And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread and came unto them to Troas in five days, where we abode seven days.


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And the first of the sabbaths, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart the next day, and continued his word until midnight.


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And a certain young man named Eutychus sat in a window, being fallen into a deep sleep; and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep and fell down from the third loft and was taken up dead.


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And Paul went down and fell on him and, embracing [him], said, Trouble not yourselves, for his soul is [still] in him.


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When he therefore was come up again and had broken bread and eaten and talked a long while, even until day break, thus he departed.


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And we went into the ship and sailed unto Assos, intending to take in Paul there, for so he had determined that he should go by land.


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And we sailed from there and came the next [day] over against Chios, and the next [day] we arrived in port at Samos; and having rested in Trogyllium, the next [day] we came to Miletus.


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For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, not to detain himself in Asia, for he hasted to keep the day of Pentecost, if it were possible for him, in Jerusalem.


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And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you at all seasons,


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serving the Lord with all humility and with many tears and temptations, which have befallen me by the ambushes of the Jews,


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[and] how I kept back nothing that was profitable [unto you], but have showed you and have taught you publicly and from house to house,


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testifying both to the Jews and also to the Gentiles, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.


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And now, behold, I go bound of the Spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there,


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But none of these things move me, neither do I count my life dear unto myself, only that I might finish my course with joy and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.


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And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more.


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Take heed therefore unto yourselves and to all the flock, over which the Holy Spirit has placed you as bishops to feed the church of God, which he has purchased with his own blood.


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For I know this, that after my departing grievous wolves shall enter in among you, not sparing the flock.


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Also from among your own selves, men shall arise, speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after themselves.


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Therefore watch and remember that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.


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And now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is powerful to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.


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Moreover, ye yourselves know that these hands have ministered unto my necessities and to those that were with me.


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I have showed you [in] all things how that so labouring, ye ought to support the weak and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.


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sorrowing most of all for the word which he spoke, that they should see his face no more. And they accompanied him unto the ship.:


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And it came to pass that after we had left them and had launched, we came with a straight course unto Coos, and the [day] following unto Rhodes, and from there unto Patara;


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Now when we had sighted Cyprus, we left it on the left hand and sailed into Syria and landed at Tyre, for there the ship was to unload her cargo.


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And finding the disciples, we tarried there seven days, who said to Paul through the Spirit that he should not go up to Jerusalem.


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And when we had accomplished those days, we departed; and they all brought us on our way, with wives and children, until [we were] out of the city; and we knelt down on the shore and prayed.


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And when we had taken our leave one of another, we embarked [on the] ship, and they returned home again.


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And when we had finished [our] course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais and saluted the brethren and abode with them one day.


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And the next [day] Paul and those of us that were with him departed and came unto Caesarea; and we entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was [one] of the seven, and abode with him.


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And when he was come unto us, he took Paul's girdle and bound his own hands and feet and said, Thus saith the Holy Spirit, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owns this girdle and shall deliver [him] into the hands of the Gentiles.


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And when we heard these things, both we and those of that place besought him not to go up to Jerusalem.


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Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.


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There went with us also [certain] of the disciples of Caesarea and brought with them one Mnason of Cyprus, an old disciple, with whom we should lodge.


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And when he had saluted them, he declared particularly what things God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry.


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And when they heard [it], they glorified the Lord and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are who have believed, and they are all zealous of the law;


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and they are informed of thee that thou teachest all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise [their] children, neither to walk after the customs.


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What is it therefore? The multitude must needs come together, for they will hear that thou art come.


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them take, and purify thyself with them, and pay their expenses, that they may shave [their] heads, and all may know that those things, of which they were informed concerning thee, are nothing, but [that] thou thyself dost also walk orderly and keep the law.


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As touching the Gentiles who believe, we have written [and] concluded that they observe no such thing, except only that they keep themselves from [things] offered to idols and from blood and from [that which has been] strangled and from fornication.


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Then Paul took the men and the next day, purifying himself with them, entered into the temple to signify the accomplishment of the days of purification until an offering should be offered for each one of them.


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And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews, who were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people and laid hands on him,


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crying out, Men of Israel, help; this is the man that teaches everyone everywhere against the people and the law and this place and further brought Greeks also into the temple and has polluted this holy place.


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(For before [this] they had seen Trophimus, an Ephesian, with him in the city, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)


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So that all the city was moved, and the people ran together; and they took Paul and drew him out of the temple, and immediately the doors were shut.


