# bible

book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Blow the horn in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah. Sound the alarm at Beth-aven; we follow you, O Benjamin!


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of punishment; among the tribes of Israel I make known what is sure.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
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  The princes of Judah have become like those who move the landmark; upon them I will pour out my wrath like water.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to the great king. But he is not able to cure you or heal your wound.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  For I will be like a lion to Ephraim, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear and go away; I will carry off, and no one shall rescue.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  I will return again to my place, until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face, and in their distress earnestly seek me. 


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  “Come, let us return to the LORD; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, that we may live before him.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Let us know; let us press on to know the LORD; his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth.”


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes early away.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth, and my judgment goes forth as the light.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  As robbers lie in wait for a man, so the priests band together; they murder on the way to Shechem; they commit villainy.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; Ephraim’s whoredom is there; Israel is defiled.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  when I would heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed, and the evil deeds of Samaria, for they deal falsely; the thief breaks in, and the bandits raid outside.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  But they do not consider that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds surround them; they are before my face.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  They are all adulterers; they are like a heated oven whose baker ceases to stir the fire, from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  On the day of our king, the princes became sick with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with mockers.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  For with hearts like an oven they approach their intrigue; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings have fallen, and none of them calls upon me.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Strangers devour his strength, and he knows it not; gray hairs are sprinkled upon him, and he knows it not.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him, for all this.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  As they go, I will spread over them my net; I will bring them down like birds of the heavens; I will discipline them according to the report made to their congregation.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Woe to them, for they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me! I would redeem them, but they speak lies against me.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  They do not cry to me from the heart, but they wail upon their beds; for grain and wine they gash themselves; they rebel against me.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  They return, but not upward; they are like a treacherous bow; their princes shall fall by the sword because of the insolence of their tongue. This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt. 


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Set the trumpet to your lips! One like a vulture is over the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant and rebelled against my law.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  They made kings, but not through me. They set up princes, but I knew it not. With their silver and gold they made idols for their own destruction.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  I have spurned your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  For it is from Israel; a craftsman made it; it is not God. The calf of Samaria shall be broken to pieces.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; it shall yield no flour; if it were to yield, strangers would devour it.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Though they hire allies among the nations, I will soon gather them up. And the king and princes shall soon writhe because of the tribute.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  As for my sacrificial offerings, they sacrifice meat and eat it, but the LORD does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins; they shall return to Egypt.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces, and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; so I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour her strongholds. 


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Rejoice not, O Israel! Exult not like the peoples; for you have played the whore, forsaking your God. You have loved a prostitute’s wages on all threshing floors.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  They shall not remain in the land of the LORD, but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  They shall not pour drink offerings of wine to the LORD, and their sacrifices shall not please him. It shall be like mourners’ bread to them; all who eat of it shall be defiled; for their bread shall be for their hunger only; it shall not come to the house of the LORD.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  For behold, they are going away from destruction; but Egypt shall gather them; Memphis shall bury them. Nettles shall possess their precious things of silver; thorns shall be in their tents.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  The days of punishment have come; the days of recompense have come; Israel shall know it. The prophet is a fool; the man of the spirit is mad, because of your great iniquity and great hatred.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  The prophet is the watchman of Ephraim with my God; yet a fowler’s snare is on all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity; he will punish their sins.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Like grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like the first fruit on the fig tree in its first season, I saw your fathers. But they came to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to the thing of shame, and became detestable like the thing they loved.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Even if they bring up children, I will bereave them till none is left. Woe to them when I depart from them!


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Ephraim, as I have seen, was like a young palm planted in a meadow; but Ephraim must lead his children out to slaughter.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Every evil of theirs is in Gilgal; there I began to hate them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house. I will love them no more; all their princes are rebels.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Ephraim is stricken; their root is dried up; they shall bear no fruit. Even though they give birth, I will put their beloved children to death.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  My God will reject them because they have not listened to him; they shall be wanderers among the nations. 


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Israel is a luxuriant vine that yields its fruit. The more his fruit increased, the more altars he built; as his country improved, he improved his pillars.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Their heart is false; now they must bear their guilt. The LORD will break down their altars and destroy their pillars.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  For now they will say: “We have no king, for we do not fear the LORD; and a king—what could he do for us?”


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  They utter mere words; with empty oaths they make covenants; so judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  The inhabitants of Samaria tremble for the calf of Beth-aven. Its people mourn for it, and so do its idolatrous priests— those who rejoiced over it and over its glory— for it has departed from them.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  The thing itself shall be carried to Assyria as tribute to the great king. Ephraim shall be put to shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his idol.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed. Thorn and thistle shall grow up on their altars, and they shall say to the mountains, “Cover us,” and to the hills, “Fall on us.”


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  From the days of Gibeah, you have sinned, O Israel; there they have continued. Shall not the war against the unjust overtake them in Gibeah?


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  When I please, I will discipline them, and nations shall be gathered against them when they are bound up for their double iniquity.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Ephraim was a trained calf that loved to thresh, and I spared her fair neck; but I will put Ephraim to the yoke; Judah must plow; Jacob must harrow for himself.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the LORD, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  You have plowed iniquity; you have reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your warriors,


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  therefore the tumult of war shall arise among your people, and all your fortresses shall be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel on the day of battle; mothers were dashed in pieces with their children.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Thus it shall be done to you, O Bethel, because of your great evil. At dawn the king of Israel shall be utterly cut off. 


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  The more they were called, the more they went away; they kept sacrificing to the Baals and burning offerings to idols.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk; I took them up by their arms, but they did not know that I healed them.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  I led them with cords of kindness, with the bands of love, and I became to them as one who eases the yoke on their jaws, and I bent down to them and fed them.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  They shall not return to the land of Egypt, but Assyria shall be their king, because they have refused to return to me.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  The sword shall rage against their cities, consume the bars of their gates, and devour them because of their own counsels.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  My people are bent on turning away from me, and though they call out to the Most High, he shall not raise them up at all.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  How can I give you up, O Ephraim? How can I hand you over, O Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart recoils within me; my compassion grows warm and tender.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  I will not execute my burning anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am God and not a man, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not come in wrath.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  They shall go after the LORD; he will roar like a lion; when he roars, his children shall come trembling from the west;


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  they shall come trembling like birds from Egypt, and like doves from the land of Assyria, and I will return them to their homes, declares the LORD.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Ephraim has surrounded me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit, but Judah still walks with God and is faithful to the Holy One. 


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Ephraim feeds on the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; they multiply falsehood and violence; they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried to Egypt.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  The LORD has an indictment against Judah and will punish Jacob according to his ways; he will repay him according to his deeds.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  He strove with the angel and prevailed; he wept and sought his favor. He met God at Bethel, and there God spoke with us—


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  “So you, by the help of your God, return, hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God.”


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Ephraim has said, “Ah, but I am rich; I have found wealth for myself; in all my labors they cannot find in me iniquity or sin.”


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  I am the LORD your God from the land of Egypt; I will again make you dwell in tents, as in the days of the appointed feast.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  If there is iniquity in Gilead, they shall surely come to nothing: in Gilgal they sacrifice bulls; their altars also are like stone heaps on the furrows of the field.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Ephraim has given bitter provocation; so his Lord will leave his bloodguilt on him and will repay him for his disgraceful deeds. 


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel, but he incurred guilt through Baal and died.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  And now they sin more and more, and make for themselves metal images, idols skillfully made of their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. It is said of them, “Those who offer human sacrifice kiss calves!”


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Therefore they shall be like the morning mist or like the dew that goes early away, like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor or like smoke from a window.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  But I am the LORD your God from the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  but when they had grazed, they became full, they were filled, and their heart was lifted up; therefore they forgot me.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  I will fall upon them like a bear robbed of her cubs; I will tear open their breast, and there I will devour them like a lion, as a wild beast would rip them open.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Where now is your king, to save you in all your cities? Where are all your rulers— those of whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”?


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  The pangs of childbirth come for him, but he is an unwise son, for at the right time he does not present himself at the opening of the womb.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  I shall ransom them from the power of Sheol; I shall redeem them from Death. O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your sting? Compassion is hidden from my eyes.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Though he may flourish among his brothers, the east wind, the wind of the LORD, shall come, rising from the wilderness, and his fountain shall dry up; his spring shall be parched; it shall strip his treasury of every precious thing.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Samaria shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword; their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open. 


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Take with you words and return to the LORD; say to him, “Take away all iniquity; accept what is good, and we will pay with bulls the vows of our lips.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride on horses; and we will say no more, ‘Our God,’ to the work of our hands. In you the orphan finds mercy.”


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  I will be like the dew to Israel; he shall blossom like the lily; he shall take root like the trees of Lebanon;


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  They shall return and dwell beneath my shadow; they shall flourish like the grain; they shall blossom like the vine; their fame shall be like the wine of Lebanon.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  O Ephraim, what have I to do with idols? It is I who answer and look after you. I am like an evergreen cypress; from me comes your fruit.


book: Hosea
label: Hos
content:
  Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them; for the ways of the LORD are right, and the upright walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them. 


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  Hear this, you elders; give ear, all inhabitants of the land! Has such a thing happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children to another generation.


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten, and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten.


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  Awake, you drunkards, and weep, and wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  For a nation has come up against my land, powerful and beyond number; its teeth are lions’ teeth, and it has the fangs of a lioness.


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  It has laid waste my vine and splintered my fig tree; it has stripped off their bark and thrown it down; their branches are made white.


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of the LORD. The priests mourn, the ministers of the LORD.


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  The fields are destroyed, the ground mourns, because the grain is destroyed, the wine dries up, the oil languishes.


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  Be ashamed, O tillers of the soil; wail, O vinedressers, for the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  The vine dries up; the fig tree languishes. Pomegranate, palm, and apple, all the trees of the field are dried up, and gladness dries up from the children of man.


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Go in, pass the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God! Because grain offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  Consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  The seed shrivels under the clods; the storehouses are desolate; the granaries are torn down because the grain has dried up.


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  How the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are perplexed because there is no pasture for them; even the flocks of sheep suffer.


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  To you, O LORD, I call. For fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and flame has burned all the trees of the field.


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  Even the beasts of the field pant for you because the water brooks are dried up, and fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness. 


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  Blow a trumpet in Zion; sound an alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming; it is near,


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains a great and powerful people; their like has never been before, nor will be again after them through the years of all generations.


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  Fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burns. The land is like the garden of Eden before them, but behind them a desolate wilderness, and nothing escapes them.


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  As with the rumbling of chariots, they leap on the tops of the mountains, like the crackling of a flame of fire devouring the stubble, like a powerful army drawn up for battle.


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  Like warriors they charge; like soldiers they scale the wall. They march each on his way; they do not swerve from their paths.


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  They do not jostle one another; each marches in his path; they burst through the weapons and are not halted.


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  They leap upon the city, they run upon the walls, they climb up into the houses, they enter through the windows like a thief.


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  The earth quakes before them; the heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  The LORD utters his voice before his army, for his camp is exceedingly great; he who executes his word is powerful. For the day of the LORD is great and very awesome; who can endure it?


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  “Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  and rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  Who knows whether he will not turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, a grain offering and a drink offering for the LORD your God?


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  gather the people. Consecrate the congregation; assemble the elders; gather the children, even nursing infants. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber.


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  Between the vestibule and the altar let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep and say, “Spare your people, O LORD, and make not your heritage a reproach, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  The LORD answered and said to his people, “Behold, I am sending to you grain, wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  “I will remove the northerner far from you, and drive him into a parched and desolate land, his vanguard into the eastern sea, and his rear guard into the western sea; the stench and foul smell of him will rise, for he has done great things.


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  Fear not, you beasts of the field, for the pastures of the wilderness are green; the tree bears its fruit; the fig tree and vine give their full yield.


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  “Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, for he has given the early rain for your vindication; he has poured down for you abundant rain, the early and the latter rain, as before.


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my great army, which I sent among you.


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  “You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, who has dealt wondrously with you. And my people shall never again be put to shame.


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  You shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God and there is none else. And my people shall never again be put to shame.


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  “And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes.


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the LORD has said, and among the survivors shall be those whom the LORD calls. 


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land,


book: Joel
label: Joel
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  and have cast lots for my people, and have traded a boy for a prostitute, and have sold a girl for wine and have drunk it.


book: Joel
label: Joel
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  “What are you to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, I will return your payment on your own head swiftly and speedily.


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their own border.


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  Behold, I will stir them up from the place to which you have sold them, and I will return your payment on your own head.


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far away, for the LORD has spoken.”


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  Proclaim this among the nations: Consecrate for war; stir up the mighty men. Let all the men of war draw near; let them come up.


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, “I am a warrior.”


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  Hasten and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves there. Bring down your warriors, O LORD.


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  Let the nations stir themselves up and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Go in, tread, for the winepress is full. The vats overflow, for their evil is great.


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  The LORD roars from Zion, and utters his voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth quake. But the LORD is a refuge to his people, a stronghold to the people of Israel.


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  “So you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who dwells in Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall never again pass through it.


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  “And in that day the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the streambeds of Judah shall flow with water; and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the LORD and water the Valley of Shittim.


book: Joel
label: Joel
content:
  “Egypt shall become a desolation and Edom a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the people of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.


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


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  And he said: “The LORD roars from Zion and utters his voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the top of Carmel withers.”


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Thus says the LORD: “For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  I will break the gate-bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of Aven, and him who holds the scepter from Beth-eden; and the people of Syria shall go into exile to Kir,” says the LORD.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Thus says the LORD: “For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they carried into exile a whole people to deliver them up to Edom.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  I will cut off the inhabitants from Ashdod, and him who holds the scepter from Ashkelon; I will turn my hand against Ekron, and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish,” says the Lord GOD.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Thus says the LORD: “For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they delivered up a whole people to Edom, and did not remember the covenant of brotherhood.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Thus says the LORD: “For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and cast off all pity, and his anger tore perpetually, and he kept his wrath forever.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Thus says the LORD: “For three transgressions of the Ammonites, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have ripped open pregnant women in Gilead, that they might enlarge their border.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  So I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour her strongholds, with shouting on the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind;


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Thus says the LORD: “For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because he burned to lime the bones of the king of Edom.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  So I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the strongholds of Kerioth, and Moab shall die amid uproar, amid shouting and the sound of the trumpet;


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Thus says the LORD: “For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have rejected the law of the LORD, and have not kept his statutes, but their lies have led them astray, those after which their fathers walked.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Thus says the LORD: “For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals—


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  those who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth and turn aside the way of the afflicted; a man and his father go in to the same girl, so that my holy name is profaned;


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  they lay themselves down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge, and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars and who was as strong as the oaks; I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Also it was I who brought you up out of the land of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  And I raised up some of your sons for prophets, and some of your young men for Nazirites. Is it not indeed so, O people of Israel?” declares the LORD.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “But you made the Nazirites drink wine, and commanded the prophets, saying, ‘You shall not prophesy.’


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not retain his strength, nor shall the mighty save his life;


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  he who handles the bow shall not stand, and he who is swift of foot shall not save himself, nor shall he who rides the horse save his life;


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  and he who is stout of heart among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day,” declares the LORD. 


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O people of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt:


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Does a lion roar in the forest, when he has no prey? Does a young lion cry out from his den, if he has taken nothing?


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Does a bird fall in a snare on the earth, when there is no trap for it? Does a snare spring up from the ground, when it has taken nothing?


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does disaster come to a city, unless the LORD has done it?


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Proclaim to the strongholds in Ashdod and to the strongholds in the land of Egypt, and say, “Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria, and see the great tumults within her, and the oppressed in her midst.”


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “They do not know how to do right,” declares the LORD, “those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds.”


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “An adversary shall surround the land and bring down your defenses from you, and your strongholds shall be plundered.”


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Thus says the LORD: “As the shepherd rescues from the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear, so shall the people of Israel who dwell in Samaria be rescued, with the corner of a couch and part of a bed.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “that on the day I punish Israel for his transgressions, I will punish the altars of Bethel, and the horns of the altar shall be cut off and fall to the ground.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  I will strike the winter house along with the summer house, and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall come to an end,” declares the LORD. 


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to your husbands, ‘Bring, that we may drink!’


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  The Lord GOD has sworn by his holiness that, behold, the days are coming upon you, when they shall take you away with hooks, even the last of you with fishhooks.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  And you shall go out through the breaches, each one straight ahead; and you shall be cast out into Harmon,” declares the LORD.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “Come to Bethel, and transgress; to Gilgal, and multiply transgression; bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days;


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim freewill offerings, publish them; for so you love to do, O people of Israel!” declares the Lord GOD.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places, yet you did not return to me,” declares the LORD.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “I also withheld the rain from you when there were yet three months to the harvest; I would send rain on one city, and send no rain on another city; one field would have rain, and the field on which it did not rain would wither;


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  so two or three cities would wander to another city to drink water, and would not be satisfied; yet you did not return to me,” declares the LORD.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “I struck you with blight and mildew; your many gardens and your vineyards, your fig trees and your olive trees the locust devoured; yet you did not return to me,” declares the LORD.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “I sent among you a pestilence after the manner of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, and carried away your horses, and I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils; yet you did not return to me,” declares the LORD.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “I overthrew some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were as a brand plucked out of the burning; yet you did not return to me,” declares the LORD.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!”


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  For behold, he who forms the mountains and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought, who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the heights of the earth— the LORD, the God of hosts, is his name! 


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  For thus says the Lord GOD: “The city that went out a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went out a hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel.”


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  but do not seek Bethel, and do not enter into Gilgal or cross over to Beersheba; for Gilgal shall surely go into exile, and Bethel shall come to nothing.”


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Seek the LORD and live, lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, with none to quench it for Bethel,


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  He who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns deep darkness into the morning and darkens the day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the surface of the earth, the LORD is his name;


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Therefore because you trample on the poor and you exact taxes of grain from him, you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  For I know how many are your transgressions and how great are your sins— you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe, and turn aside the needy in the gate.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so the LORD, the God of hosts, will be with you, as you have said.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the LORD, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord: “In all the squares there shall be wailing, and in all the streets they shall say, ‘Alas! Alas!’ They shall call the farmers to mourning and to wailing those who are skilled in lamentation,


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD! Why would you have the day of the LORD? It is darkness, and not light,


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  as if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him, or went into the house and leaned his hand against the wall, and a serpent bit him.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; and the peace offerings of your fattened animals, I will not look upon them.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  You shall take up Sikkuth your king, and Kiyyun your star-god—your images that you made for yourselves,


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who feel secure on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the first of the nations, to whom the house of Israel comes!


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Pass over to Calneh, and see, and from there go to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are you better than these kingdoms? Or is their territory greater than your territory,


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “Woe to those who lie on beds of ivory and stretch themselves out on their couches, and eat lambs from the flock and calves from the midst of the stall,


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp and like David invent for themselves instruments of music,


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  who drink wine in bowls and anoint themselves with the finest oils, but are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph!


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Therefore they shall now be the first of those who go into exile, and the revelry of those who stretch themselves out shall pass away.”


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  The Lord GOD has sworn by himself, declares the LORD, the God of hosts: “I abhor the pride of Jacob and hate his strongholds, and I will deliver up the city and all that is in it.”


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  And when one’s relative, the one who anoints him for burial, shall take him up to bring the bones out of the house, and shall say to him who is in the innermost parts of the house, “Is there still anyone with you?” he shall say, “No”; and he shall say, “Silence! We must not mention the name of the LORD.”


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  For behold, the LORD commands, and the great house shall be struck down into fragments, and the little house into bits.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Do horses run on rocks? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  you who rejoice in Lo-debar, who say, “Have we not by our own strength captured Karnaim for ourselves?”


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “For behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD, the God of hosts; “and they shall oppress you from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of the Arabah.” 


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  This is what the Lord GOD showed me: behold, he was forming locusts when the latter growth was just beginning to sprout, and behold, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said, “O Lord GOD, please forgive! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!”


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  This is what the Lord GOD showed me: behold, the Lord GOD was calling for a judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  This is what he showed me: behold, the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  And the LORD said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said, “Behold, I am setting a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel; I will never again pass by them;


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  the high places of Isaac shall be made desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste, and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  For thus Amos has said, “‘Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel must go into exile away from his land.’”


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  And Amaziah said to Amos, “O seer, go, flee away to the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and prophesy there,


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  but never again prophesy at Bethel, for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a temple of the kingdom.”


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah, “I was no prophet, nor a prophet’s son, but I was a herdsman and a dresser of sycamore figs.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  But the LORD took me from following the flock, and the LORD said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Now therefore hear the word of the LORD. “You say, ‘Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not preach against the house of Isaac.’


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Therefore thus says the LORD: “‘Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided up with a measuring line; you yourself shall die in an unclean land, and Israel shall surely go into exile away from its land.’” 


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  And he said, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the LORD said to me, “The end has come upon my people Israel; I will never again pass by them.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  The songs of the temple shall become wailings in that day,” declares the Lord GOD. “So many dead bodies!” “They are thrown everywhere!” “Silence!”


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  saying, “When will the new moon be over, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, that we may make the ephah small and the shekel great and deal deceitfully with false balances,


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  that we may buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and sell the chaff of the wheat?”


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Shall not the land tremble on this account, and everyone mourn who dwells in it, and all of it rise like the Nile, and be tossed about and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?”


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “And on that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on every waist and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord GOD, “when I will send a famine on the land— not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  They shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east; they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the LORD, but they shall not find it.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Those who swear by the Guilt of Samaria, and say, ‘As your god lives, O Dan,’ and, ‘As the Way of Beersheba lives,’ they shall fall, and never rise again.” 


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said: “Strike the capitals until the thresholds shake, and shatter them on the heads of all the people; and those who are left of them I will kill with the sword; not one of them shall flee away; not one of them shall escape.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “If they dig into Sheol, from there shall my hand take them; if they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  If they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, from there I will search them out and take them; and if they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  And if they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it shall kill them; and I will fix my eyes upon them for evil and not for good.”


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  The Lord GOD of hosts, he who touches the earth and it melts, and all who dwell in it mourn, and all of it rises like the Nile, and sinks again, like the Nile of Egypt;


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  who builds his upper chambers in the heavens and founds his vault upon the earth; who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the surface of the earth— the LORD is his name.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “Are you not like the Cushites to me, O people of Israel?” declares the LORD. “Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor and the Syrians from Kir?


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the surface of the ground, except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” declares the LORD.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “For behold, I will command, and shake the house of Israel among all the nations as one shakes with a sieve, but no pebble shall fall to the earth.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, who say, ‘Disaster shall not overtake or meet us.’


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “In that day I will raise up the booth of David that is fallen and repair its breaches, and raise up its ruins and rebuild it as in the days of old,


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations who are called by my name,” declares the LORD who does this.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when the plowman shall overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed; the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and all the hills shall flow with it.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel, and they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine, and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit.


book: Amos
label: Amos
content:
  I will plant them on their land, and they shall never again be uprooted out of the land that I have given them,” says the LORD your God. 


book: Obadiah
label: Oba
content:
  The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom: We have heard a report from the LORD, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: “Rise up! Let us rise against her for battle!” 


book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me.”


book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of the LORD.


book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  But the LORD hurled a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship threatened to break up.


book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  Then the mariners were afraid, and each cried out to his god. And they hurled the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten it for them. But Jonah had gone down into the inner part of the ship and had lain down and was fast asleep.


book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  So the captain came and said to him, “What do you mean, you sleeper? Arise, call out to your god! Perhaps the god will give a thought to us, that we may not perish.”


book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  And they said to one another, “Come, let us cast lots, that we may know on whose account this evil has come upon us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.


book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  Then they said to him, “Tell us on whose account this evil has come upon us. What is your occupation? And where do you come from? What is your country? And of what people are you?”


book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  And he said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.”


book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  Then the men were exceedingly afraid and said to him, “What is this that you have done!” For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.


book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  Then they said to him, “What shall we do to you, that the sea may quiet down for us?” For the sea grew more and more tempestuous.


book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  He said to them, “Pick me up and hurl me into the sea; then the sea will quiet down for you, for I know it is because of me that this great tempest has come upon you.”


book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  Nevertheless, the men rowed hard to get back to dry land, but they could not, for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them.


book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  Therefore they called out to the LORD, “O LORD, let us not perish for this man’s life, and lay not on us innocent blood, for you, O LORD, have done as it pleased you.”


book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  And the LORD appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. 


book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  saying, “I called out to the LORD, out of my distress, and he answered me; out of the belly of Sheol I cried, and you heard my voice.


book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  For you cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the flood surrounded me; all your waves and your billows passed over me.


book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  The waters closed in over me to take my life; the deep surrounded me; weeds were wrapped about my head


book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  at the roots of the mountains. I went down to the land whose bars closed upon me forever; yet you brought up my life from the pit, O LORD my God.


book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  When my life was fainting away, I remembered the LORD, and my prayer came to you, into your holy temple.


book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  But I with the voice of thanksgiving will sacrifice to you; what I have vowed I will pay. Salvation belongs to the LORD!”


book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey in breadth.


book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  Jonah began to go into the city, going a day’s journey. And he called out, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”


book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  And the people of Nineveh believed God. They called for a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.


book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  The word reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.


book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  And he issued a proclamation and published through Nineveh, “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not feed or drink water,


book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them call out mightily to God. Let everyone turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands.


book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it. 


book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  And he prayed to the LORD and said, “O LORD, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster.


book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  Jonah went out of the city and sat to the east of the city and made a booth for himself there. He sat under it in the shade, till he should see what would become of the city.


book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  Now the LORD God appointed a plant and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to save him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the plant.


book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  But when dawn came up the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant, so that it withered.


book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  When the sun rose, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he was faint. And he asked that he might die and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”


book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  But God said to Jonah, “Do you do well to be angry for the plant?” And he said, “Yes, I do well to be angry, angry enough to die.”


book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  And the LORD said, “You pity the plant, for which you did not labor, nor did you make it grow, which came into being in a night and perished in a night.


book: Jonah
label: Jonah
content:
  And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?” 


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  The word of the LORD that came to Micah of Moresheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  Hear, you peoples, all of you; pay attention, O earth, and all that is in it, and let the Lord GOD be a witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  For behold, the LORD is coming out of his place, and will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  And the mountains will melt under him, and the valleys will split open, like wax before the fire, like waters poured down a steep place.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  All this is for the transgression of Jacob and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what is the high place of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  Therefore I will make Samaria a heap in the open country, a place for planting vineyards, and I will pour down her stones into the valley and uncover her foundations.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  All her carved images shall be beaten to pieces, all her wages shall be burned with fire, and all her idols I will lay waste, for from the fee of a prostitute she gathered them, and to the fee of a prostitute they shall return.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make lamentation like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  For her wound is incurable, and it has come to Judah; it has reached to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  Pass on your way, inhabitants of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame; the inhabitants of Zaanan do not come out; the lamentation of Beth-ezel shall take away from you its standing place.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  For the inhabitants of Maroth wait anxiously for good, because disaster has come down from the LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  Harness the steeds to the chariots, inhabitants of Lachish; it was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion, for in you were found the transgressions of Israel.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  Therefore you shall give parting gifts to Moresheth-gath; the houses of Achzib shall be a deceitful thing to the kings of Israel.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  I will again bring a conqueror to you, inhabitants of Mareshah; the glory of Israel shall come to Adullam.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  Make yourselves bald and cut off your hair, for the children of your delight; make yourselves as bald as the eagle, for they shall go from you into exile. 


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  Therefore thus says the LORD: behold, against this family I am devising disaster, from which you cannot remove your necks, and you shall not walk haughtily, for it will be a time of disaster.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  In that day they shall take up a taunt song against you and moan bitterly, and say, “We are utterly ruined; he changes the portion of my people; how he removes it from me! To an apostate he allots our fields.”


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  “Do not preach”—thus they preach— “one should not preach of such things; disgrace will not overtake us.”


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  Should this be said, O house of Jacob? Has the LORD grown impatient? Are these his deeds? Do not my words do good to him who walks uprightly?


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  But lately my people have risen up as an enemy; you strip the rich robe from those who pass by trustingly with no thought of war.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  The women of my people you drive out from their delightful houses; from their young children you take away my splendor forever.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  Arise and go, for this is no place to rest, because of uncleanness that destroys with a grievous destruction.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  If a man should go about and utter wind and lies, saying, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,” he would be the preacher for this people!


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  I will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob; I will gather the remnant of Israel; I will set them together like sheep in a fold, like a flock in its pasture, a noisy multitude of men.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  He who opens the breach goes up before them; they break through and pass the gate, going out by it. Their king passes on before them, the LORD at their head. 


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  And I said: Hear, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel! Is it not for you to know justice?—


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  you who hate the good and love the evil, who tear the skin from off my people and their flesh from off their bones,


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  who eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones in pieces and chop them up like meat in a pot, like flesh in a cauldron.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  Then they will cry to the LORD, but he will not answer them; he will hide his face from them at that time, because they have made their deeds evil.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who lead my people astray, who cry “Peace” when they have something to eat, but declare war against him who puts nothing into their mouths.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  Therefore it shall be night to you, without vision, and darkness to you, without divination. The sun shall go down on the prophets, and the day shall be black over them;


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  the seers shall be disgraced, and the diviners put to shame; they shall all cover their lips, for there is no answer from God.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the LORD, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  Hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who detest justice and make crooked all that is straight,


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  Its heads give judgment for a bribe; its priests teach for a price; its prophets practice divination for money; yet they lean on the LORD and say, “Is not the LORD in the midst of us? No disaster shall come upon us.”


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  Therefore because of you Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the house a wooded height. 


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and it shall be lifted up above the hills; and peoples shall flow to it,


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  and many nations shall come, and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  He shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide disputes for strong nations far away; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore;


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  but they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree, and no one shall make them afraid, for the mouth of the LORD of hosts has spoken.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  For all the peoples walk each in the name of its god, but we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  In that day, declares the LORD, I will assemble the lame and gather those who have been driven away and those whom I have afflicted;


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  and the lame I will make the remnant, and those who were cast off, a strong nation; and the LORD will reign over them in Mount Zion from this time forth and forevermore.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  And you, O tower of the flock, hill of the daughter of Zion, to you shall it come, the former dominion shall come, kingship for the daughter of Jerusalem.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  Now why do you cry aloud? Is there no king in you? Has your counselor perished, that pain seized you like a woman in labor?


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  Writhe and groan, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in labor, for now you shall go out from the city and dwell in the open country; you shall go to Babylon. There you shall be rescued; there the LORD will redeem you from the hand of your enemies.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  Now many nations are assembled against you, saying, “Let her be defiled, and let our eyes gaze upon Zion.”


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD; they do not understand his plan, that he has gathered them as sheaves to the threshing floor.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion, for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs bronze; you shall beat in pieces many peoples; and shall devote their gain to the LORD, their wealth to the Lord of the whole earth. 


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  Now muster your troops, O daughter of troops; siege is laid against us; with a rod they strike the judge of Israel on the cheek.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  Therefore he shall give them up until the time when she who is in labor has given birth; then the rest of his brothers shall return to the people of Israel.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  And he shall stand and shepherd his flock in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God. And they shall dwell secure, for now he shall be great to the ends of the earth.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  And he shall be their peace. When the Assyrian comes into our land and treads in our palaces, then we will raise against him seven shepherds and eight princes of men;


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  they shall shepherd the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod at its entrances; and he shall deliver us from the Assyrian when he comes into our land and treads within our border.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  Then the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the LORD, like showers on the grass, which delay not for a man nor wait for the children of man.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep, which, when it goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is none to deliver.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  And in that day, declares the LORD, I will cut off your horses from among you and will destroy your chariots;


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  and I will cut off your carved images and your pillars from among you, and you shall bow down no more to the work of your hands;


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  Hear what the LORD says: Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  Hear, you mountains, the indictment of the LORD, and you enduring foundations of the earth, for the LORD has an indictment against his people, and he will contend with Israel.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  For I brought you up from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery, and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  O my people, remember what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him, and what happened from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of the LORD.”


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  “With what shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?”


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  The voice of the LORD cries to the city— and it is sound wisdom to fear your name: “Hear of the rod and of him who appointed it!


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  Can I forget any longer the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is accursed?


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  Your rich men are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  You shall eat, but not be satisfied, and there shall be hunger within you; you shall put away, but not preserve, and what you preserve I will give to the sword.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  You shall sow, but not reap; you shall tread olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil; you shall tread grapes, but not drink wine.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  For you have kept the statutes of Omri, and all the works of the house of Ahab; and you have walked in their counsels, that I may make you a desolation, and your inhabitants a hissing; so you shall bear the scorn of my people.” 


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  Woe is me! For I have become as when the summer fruit has been gathered, as when the grapes have been gleaned: there is no cluster to eat, no first-ripe fig that my soul desires.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  The godly has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among mankind; they all lie in wait for blood, and each hunts the other with a net.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  Their hands are on what is evil, to do it well; the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  The best of them is like a brier, the most upright of them a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, of your punishment, has come; now their confusion is at hand.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  Put no trust in a neighbor; have no confidence in a friend; guard the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms;


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  for the son treats the father with contempt, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  But as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  Rejoice not over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD will be a light to me.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  I will bear the indignation of the LORD because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light; I shall look upon his vindication.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  Then my enemy will see, and shame will cover her who said to me, “Where is the LORD your God?” My eyes will look upon her; now she will be trampled down like the mire of the streets.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  In that day they will come to you, from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, and from Egypt to the River, from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, who dwell alone in a forest in the midst of a garden land; let them graze in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might; they shall lay their hands on their mouths; their ears shall be deaf;


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  they shall lick the dust like a serpent, like the crawling things of the earth; they shall come trembling out of their strongholds; they shall turn in dread to the LORD our God, and they shall be in fear of you.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.


book: Micah
label: Micah
content:
  You will show faithfulness to Jacob and steadfast love to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old. 


book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  The LORD is a jealous and avenging God; the LORD is avenging and wrathful; the LORD takes vengeance on his adversaries and keeps wrath for his enemies.


book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  The LORD is slow to anger and great in power, and the LORD will by no means clear the guilty. His way is in whirlwind and storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.


book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  He rebukes the sea and makes it dry; he dries up all the rivers; Bashan and Carmel wither; the bloom of Lebanon withers.


book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  The mountains quake before him; the hills melt; the earth heaves before him, the world and all who dwell in it.


book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the heat of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken into pieces by him.


book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  But with an overflowing flood he will make a complete end of the adversaries, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.


book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  What do you plot against the LORD? He will make a complete end; trouble will not rise up a second time.


book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  For they are like entangled thorns, like drunkards as they drink; they are consumed like stubble fully dried.


book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  Thus says the LORD, “Though they are at full strength and many, they will be cut down and pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.


book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  The LORD has given commandment about you: “No more shall your name be perpetuated; from the house of your gods I will cut off the carved image and the metal image. I will make your grave, for you are vile.”


book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  Behold, upon the mountains, the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah; fulfill your vows, for never again shall the worthless pass through you; he is utterly cut off. 


book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  The scatterer has come up against you. Man the ramparts; watch the road; dress for battle; collect all your strength.


book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  For the LORD is restoring the majesty of Jacob as the majesty of Israel, for plunderers have plundered them and ruined their branches.


book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  The shield of his mighty men is red; his soldiers are clothed in scarlet. The chariots come with flashing metal on the day he musters them; the cypress spears are brandished.


book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  The chariots race madly through the streets; they rush to and fro through the squares; they gleam like torches; they dart like lightning.


book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  He remembers his officers; they stumble as they go, they hasten to the wall; the siege tower is set up.


book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  its mistress is stripped; she is carried off, her slave girls lamenting, moaning like doves and beating their breasts.


book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  Plunder the silver, plunder the gold! There is no end of the treasure or of the wealth of all precious things.


book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  Desolate! Desolation and ruin! Hearts melt and knees tremble; anguish is in all loins; all faces grow pale!


book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  Where is the lions’ den, the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and lioness went, where his cubs were, with none to disturb?


book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  The lion tore enough for his cubs and strangled prey for his lionesses; he filled his caves with prey and his dens with torn flesh.


book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  Behold, I am against you, declares the LORD of hosts, and I will burn your chariots in smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers shall no longer be heard. 


book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  Horsemen charging, flashing sword and glittering spear, hosts of slain, heaps of corpses, dead bodies without end— they stumble over the bodies!


book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  And all for the countless whorings of the prostitute, graceful and of deadly charms, who betrays nations with her whorings, and peoples with her charms.


book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  Behold, I am against you, declares the LORD of hosts, and will lift up your skirts over your face; and I will make nations look at your nakedness and kingdoms at your shame.


book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  And all who look at you will shrink from you and say, “Wasted is Nineveh; who will grieve for her?” Where shall I seek comforters for you?


book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  Are you better than Thebes that sat by the Nile, with water around her, her rampart a sea, and water her wall?


book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity; her infants were dashed in pieces at the head of every street; for her honored men lots were cast, and all her great men were bound in chains.


book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  All your fortresses are like fig trees with first-ripe figs— if shaken they fall into the mouth of the eater.


book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  Behold, your troops are women in your midst. The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire has devoured your bars.


book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  Draw water for the siege; strengthen your forts; go into the clay; tread the mortar; take hold of the brick mold!


book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  There will the fire devour you; the sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the locust. Multiply yourselves like the locust; multiply like the grasshopper!


book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  You increased your merchants more than the stars of the heavens. The locust spreads its wings and flies away.


book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  Your princes are like grasshoppers, your scribes like clouds of locusts settling on the fences in a day of cold— when the sun rises, they fly away; no one knows where they are.


book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  Your shepherds are asleep, O king of Assyria; your nobles slumber. Your people are scattered on the mountains with none to gather them.


book: Nahum
label: Nah
content:
  There is no easing your hurt; your wound is grievous. All who hear the news about you clap their hands over you. For upon whom has not come your unceasing evil? 


book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  O LORD, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not hear? Or cry to you “Violence!” and you will not save?


book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  Why do you make me see iniquity, and why do you idly look at wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise.


book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  So the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous; so justice goes forth perverted.


book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  “Look among the nations, and see; wonder and be astounded. For I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe if told.


book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, who march through the breadth of the earth, to seize dwellings not their own.


book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  Their horses are swifter than leopards, more fierce than the evening wolves; their horsemen press proudly on. Their horsemen come from afar; they fly like an eagle swift to devour.


book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  At kings they scoff, and at rulers they laugh. They laugh at every fortress, for they pile up earth and take it.


book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  Are you not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O LORD, you have ordained them as a judgment, and you, O Rock, have established them for reproof.


book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  You who are of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong, why do you idly look at traitors and remain silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?


book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  He brings all of them up with a hook; he drags them out with his net; he gathers them in his dragnet; so he rejoices and is glad.


book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  Therefore he sacrifices to his net and makes offerings to his dragnet; for by them he lives in luxury, and his food is rich.


book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  I will take my stand at my watchpost and station myself on the tower, and look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.


book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end—it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.


book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  “Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him, but the righteous shall live by his faith.


book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  “Moreover, wine is a traitor, an arrogant man who is never at rest. His greed is as wide as Sheol; like death he has never enough. He gathers for himself all nations and collects as his own all peoples.”


book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  Shall not all these take up their taunt against him, with scoffing and riddles for him, and say, “Woe to him who heaps up what is not his own— for how long?— and loads himself with pledges!”


book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  Will not your debtors suddenly arise, and those awake who will make you tremble? Then you will be spoil for them.


book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you, for the blood of man and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell in them.


book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  “Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house, to set his nest on high, to be safe from the reach of harm!


book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  Behold, is it not from the LORD of hosts that peoples labor merely for fire, and nations weary themselves for nothing?


book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.


book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  “Woe to him who makes his neighbors drink— you pour out your wrath and make them drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness!


book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  You will have your fill of shame instead of glory. Drink, yourself, and show your uncircumcision! The cup in the LORD’s right hand will come around to you, and utter shame will come upon your glory!


book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  The violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, as will the destruction of the beasts that terrified them, for the blood of man and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell in them.


book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  “What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it, a metal image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation when he makes speechless idols!


book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  Woe to him who says to a wooden thing, Awake; to a silent stone, Arise! Can this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in it.


book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  O LORD, I have heard the report of you, and your work, O LORD, do I fear. In the midst of the years revive it; in the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy.


book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah His splendor covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.


book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  He stood and measured the earth; he looked and shook the nations; then the eternal mountains were scattered; the everlasting hills sank low. His were the everlasting ways.


book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  Was your wrath against the rivers, O LORD? Was your anger against the rivers, or your indignation against the sea, when you rode on your horses, on your chariot of salvation?


book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  You stripped the sheath from your bow, calling for many arrows. Selah You split the earth with rivers.


book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  The mountains saw you and writhed; the raging waters swept on; the deep gave forth its voice; it lifted its hands on high.


book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  The sun and moon stood still in their place at the light of your arrows as they sped, at the flash of your glittering spear.


book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed. You crushed the head of the house of the wicked, laying him bare from thigh to neck. Selah


book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  You pierced with his own arrows the heads of his warriors, who came like a whirlwind to scatter me, rejoicing as if to devour the poor in secret.


book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  I hear, and my body trembles; my lips quiver at the sound; rottenness enters into my bones; my legs tremble beneath me. Yet I will quietly wait for the day of trouble to come upon people who invade us.


book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls,


book: Habakkuk
label: Hab
content:
  GOD, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer’s; he makes me tread on my high places. To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. 


book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  The word of the LORD that came to Zephaniah the son of Cushi, son of Gedaliah, son of Amariah, son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.


book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  “I will sweep away man and beast; I will sweep away the birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea, and the rubble with the wicked. I will cut off mankind from the face of the earth,” declares the LORD.


book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  “I will stretch out my hand against Judah and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off from this place the remnant of Baal and the name of the idolatrous priests along with the priests,


book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  those who bow down on the roofs to the host of the heavens, those who bow down and swear to the LORD and yet swear by Milcom,


book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  Be silent before the Lord GOD! For the day of the LORD is near; the LORD has prepared a sacrifice and consecrated his guests.


book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  And on the day of the LORD’s sacrifice— “I will punish the officials and the king’s sons and all who array themselves in foreign attire.


book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  On that day I will punish everyone who leaps over the threshold, and those who fill their master’s house with violence and fraud.


book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  “On that day,” declares the LORD, “a cry will be heard from the Fish Gate, a wail from the Second Quarter, a loud crash from the hills.


book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  Wail, O inhabitants of the Mortar! For all the traders are no more; all who weigh out silver are cut off.


book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are complacent, those who say in their hearts, ‘The LORD will not do good, nor will he do ill.’


book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  Their goods shall be plundered, and their houses laid waste. Though they build houses, they shall not inhabit them; though they plant vineyards, they shall not drink wine from them.”


book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  The great day of the LORD is near, near and hastening fast; the sound of the day of the LORD is bitter; the mighty man cries aloud there.


book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  A day of wrath is that day, a day of distress and anguish, a day of ruin and devastation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness,


book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  a day of trumpet blast and battle cry against the fortified cities and against the lofty battlements.


book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  I will bring distress on mankind, so that they shall walk like the blind, because they have sinned against the LORD; their blood shall be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung.


book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them on the day of the wrath of the LORD. In the fire of his jealousy, all the earth shall be consumed; for a full and sudden end he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth. 


book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  before the decree takes effect —before the day passes away like chaff— before there comes upon you the burning anger of the LORD, before there comes upon you the day of the anger of the LORD.


book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  Seek the LORD, all you humble of the land, who do his just commands; seek righteousness; seek humility; perhaps you may be hidden on the day of the anger of the LORD.


book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  For Gaza shall be deserted, and Ashkelon shall become a desolation; Ashdod’s people shall be driven out at noon, and Ekron shall be uprooted.


book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  Woe to you inhabitants of the seacoast, you nation of the Cherethites! The word of the LORD is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines; and I will destroy you until no inhabitant is left.


book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  The seacoast shall become the possession of the remnant of the house of Judah, on which they shall graze, and in the houses of Ashkelon they shall lie down at evening. For the LORD their God will be mindful of them and restore their fortunes.


book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  “I have heard the taunts of Moab and the revilings of the Ammonites, how they have taunted my people and made boasts against their territory.


book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  Therefore, as I live,” declares the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, “Moab shall become like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a land possessed by nettles and salt pits, and a waste forever. The remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the survivors of my nation shall possess them.”


book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  This shall be their lot in return for their pride, because they taunted and boasted against the people of the LORD of hosts.


book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  The LORD will be awesome against them; for he will famish all the gods of the earth, and to him shall bow down, each in its place, all the lands of the nations.


book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  And he will stretch out his hand against the north and destroy Assyria, and he will make Nineveh a desolation, a dry waste like the desert.


book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  Herds shall lie down in her midst, all kinds of beasts; even the owl and the hedgehog shall lodge in her capitals; a voice shall hoot in the window; devastation will be on the threshold; for her cedar work will be laid bare.


book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  This is the exultant city that lived securely, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is no one else.” What a desolation she has become, a lair for wild beasts! Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist. 


book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  She listens to no voice; she accepts no correction. She does not trust in the LORD; she does not draw near to her God.


book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  Her officials within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves that leave nothing till the morning.


book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  Her prophets are fickle, treacherous men; her priests profane what is holy; they do violence to the law.


book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  The LORD within her is righteous; he does no injustice; every morning he shows forth his justice; each dawn he does not fail; but the unjust knows no shame.


book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  “I have cut off nations; their battlements are in ruins; I have laid waste their streets so that no one walks in them; their cities have been made desolate, without a man, without an inhabitant.


book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  I said, ‘Surely you will fear me; you will accept correction. Then your dwelling would not be cut off according to all that I have appointed against you.’ But all the more they were eager to make all their deeds corrupt.


book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  “Therefore wait for me,” declares the LORD, “for the day when I rise up to seize the prey. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all my burning anger; for in the fire of my jealousy all the earth shall be consumed.


book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  “For at that time I will change the speech of the peoples to a pure speech, that all of them may call upon the name of the LORD and serve him with one accord.


book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  From beyond the rivers of Cush my worshipers, the daughter of my dispersed ones, shall bring my offering.


book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  “On that day you shall not be put to shame because of the deeds by which you have rebelled against me; for then I will remove from your midst your proudly exultant ones, and you shall no longer be haughty in my holy mountain.


book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  But I will leave in your midst a people humble and lowly. They shall seek refuge in the name of the LORD,


book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  those who are left in Israel; they shall do no injustice and speak no lies, nor shall there be found in their mouth a deceitful tongue. For they shall graze and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.”


book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  Sing aloud, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel! Rejoice and exult with all your heart, O daughter of Jerusalem!


book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  The LORD has taken away the judgments against you; he has cleared away your enemies. The King of Israel, the LORD, is in your midst; you shall never again fear evil.


book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  The LORD your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.


book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  Behold, at that time I will deal with all your oppressors. And I will save the lame and gather the outcast, and I will change their shame into praise and renown in all the earth.


book: Zephaniah
label: Zeph
content:
  At that time I will bring you in, at the time when I gather you together; for I will make you renowned and praised among all the peoples of the earth, when I restore your fortunes before your eyes,” says the LORD. 


book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by the hand of Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest:


book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  “Thus says the LORD of hosts: These people say the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD.”


book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  You have sown much, and harvested little. You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.


book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that I may take pleasure in it and that I may be glorified, says the LORD.


book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  You looked for much, and behold, it came to little. And when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? declares the LORD of hosts. Because of my house that lies in ruins, while each of you busies himself with his own house.


book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  And I have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on the grain, the new wine, the oil, on what the ground brings forth, on man and beast, and on all their labors.”


book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him. And the people feared the LORD.


book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  Then Haggai, the messenger of the LORD, spoke to the people with the LORD’s message, “I am with you, declares the LORD.”


book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people. And they came and worked on the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,


book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  In the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by the hand of Haggai the prophet:


book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  “Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to all the remnant of the people, and say,


book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  ‘Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Is it not as nothing in your eyes?


book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, declares the LORD. Be strong, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land, declares the LORD. Work, for I am with you, declares the LORD of hosts,


book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  according to the covenant that I made with you when you came out of Egypt. My Spirit remains in your midst. Fear not.


book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  For thus says the LORD of hosts: Yet once more, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land.


book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  And I will shake all nations, so that the treasures of all nations shall come in, and I will fill this house with glory, says the LORD of hosts.


book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  The latter glory of this house shall be greater than the former, says the LORD of hosts. And in this place I will give peace, declares the LORD of hosts.’”


book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet,


book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  ‘If someone carries holy meat in the fold of his garment and touches with his fold bread or stew or wine or oil or any kind of food, does it become holy?’” The priests answered and said, “No.”


book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  Then Haggai said, “If someone who is unclean by contact with a dead body touches any of these, does it become unclean?” The priests answered and said, “It does become unclean.”


book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  Then Haggai answered and said, “So is it with this people, and with this nation before me, declares the LORD, and so with every work of their hands. And what they offer there is unclean.


book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  Now then, consider from this day onward. Before stone was placed upon stone in the temple of the LORD,


book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  how did you fare? When one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were but twenty.


book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  I struck you and all the products of your toil with blight and with mildew and with hail, yet you did not turn to me, declares the LORD.


book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  Consider from this day onward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month. Since the day that the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid, consider:


book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  Is the seed yet in the barn? Indeed, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have yielded nothing. But from this day on I will bless you.”


book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  and to overthrow the throne of kingdoms. I am about to destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations, and overthrow the chariots and their riders. And the horses and their riders shall go down, every one by the sword of his brother.


book: Haggai
label: Hag
content:
  On that day, declares the LORD of hosts, I will take you, O Zerubbabel my servant, the son of Shealtiel, declares the LORD, and make you like a signet ring, for I have chosen you, declares the LORD of hosts.” 


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, son of Iddo, saying,


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Therefore say to them, Thus declares the LORD of hosts: Return to me, says the LORD of hosts, and I will return to you, says the LORD of hosts.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried out, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.’ But they did not hear or pay attention to me, declares the LORD.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? So they repented and said, ‘As the LORD of hosts purposed to deal with us for our ways and deeds, so has he dealt with us.’”


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, son of Iddo, saying,


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  “I saw in the night, and behold, a man riding on a red horse! He was standing among the myrtle trees in the glen, and behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Then I said, ‘What are these, my lord?’ The angel who talked with me said to me, ‘I will show you what they are.’


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  So the man who was standing among the myrtle trees answered, ‘These are they whom the LORD has sent to patrol the earth.’


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And they answered the angel of the LORD who was standing among the myrtle trees, and said, ‘We have patrolled the earth, and behold, all the earth remains at rest.’


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Then the angel of the LORD said, ‘O LORD of hosts, how long will you have no mercy on Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, against which you have been angry these seventy years?’


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  So the angel who talked with me said to me, ‘Cry out, Thus says the LORD of hosts: I am exceedingly jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And I am exceedingly angry with the nations that are at ease; for while I was angry but a little, they furthered the disaster.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Therefore, thus says the LORD, I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy; my house shall be built in it, declares the LORD of hosts, and the measuring line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Cry out again, Thus says the LORD of hosts: My cities shall again overflow with prosperity, and the LORD will again comfort Zion and again choose Jerusalem.’”


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And I said to the angel who talked with me, “What are these?” And he said to me, “These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And I said, “What are these coming to do?” He said, “These are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no one raised his head. And these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations who lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter it.” 


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Then I said, “Where are you going?” And he said to me, “To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its width and what is its length.”


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  and said to him, “Run, say to that young man, ‘Jerusalem shall be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of people and livestock in it.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And I will be to her a wall of fire all around, declares the LORD, and I will be the glory in her midst.’”


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Up! Up! Flee from the land of the north, declares the LORD. For I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heavens, declares the LORD.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  For thus said the LORD of hosts, after his glory sent me to the nations who plundered you, for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye:


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  “Behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they shall become plunder for those who served them. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion, for behold, I come and I will dwell in your midst, declares the LORD.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And many nations shall join themselves to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people. And I will dwell in your midst, and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And the LORD said to Satan, “The LORD rebuke you, O Satan! The LORD who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is not this a brand plucked from the fire?”


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And the angel said to those who were standing before him, “Remove the filthy garments from him.” And to him he said, “Behold, I have taken your iniquity away from you, and I will clothe you with pure vestments.”


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And I said, “Let them put a clean turban on his head.” So they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the LORD was standing by.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  “Thus says the LORD of hosts: If you will walk in my ways and keep my charge, then you shall rule my house and have charge of my courts, and I will give you the right of access among those who are standing here.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, you and your friends who sit before you, for they are men who are a sign: behold, I will bring my servant the Branch.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  For behold, on the stone that I have set before Joshua, on a single stone with seven eyes, I will engrave its inscription, declares the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of this land in a single day.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  In that day, declares the LORD of hosts, every one of you will invite his neighbor to come under his vine and under his fig tree.” 


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And the angel who talked with me came again and woke me, like a man who is awakened out of his sleep.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And he said to me, “What do you see?” I said, “I see, and behold, a lampstand all of gold, with a bowl on the top of it, and seven lamps on it, with seven lips on each of the lamps that are on the top of it.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Then the angel who talked with me answered and said to me, “Do you not know what these are?” I said, “No, my lord.”


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Then he said to me, “This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the LORD of hosts.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain. And he shall bring forward the top stone amid shouts of ‘Grace, grace to it!’”


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  “The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also complete it. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  For whoever has despised the day of small things shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. “These seven are the eyes of the LORD, which range through the whole earth.”


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And a second time I answered and said to him, “What are these two branches of the olive trees, which are beside the two golden pipes from which the golden oil is poured out?”


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And he said to me, “What do you see?” I answered, “I see a flying scroll. Its length is twenty cubits, and its width ten cubits.”


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Then he said to me, “This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole land. For everyone who steals shall be cleaned out according to what is on one side, and everyone who swears falsely shall be cleaned out according to what is on the other side.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  I will send it out, declares the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter the house of the thief, and the house of him who swears falsely by my name. And it shall remain in his house and consume it, both timber and stones.”


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Then the angel who talked with me came forward and said to me, “Lift your eyes and see what this is that is going out.”


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And I said, “What is it?” He said, “This is the basket that is going out.” And he said, “This is their iniquity in all the land.”


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And he said, “This is Wickedness.” And he thrust her back into the basket, and thrust down the leaden weight on its opening.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Then I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, two women coming forward! The wind was in their wings. They had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between earth and heaven.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  He said to me, “To the land of Shinar, to build a house for it. And when this is prepared, they will set the basket down there on its base.” 


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Again I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, four chariots came out from between two mountains. And the mountains were mountains of bronze.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And the angel answered and said to me, “These are going out to the four winds of heaven, after presenting themselves before the Lord of all the earth.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  The chariot with the black horses goes toward the north country, the white ones go after them, and the dappled ones go toward the south country.”


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  When the strong horses came out, they were impatient to go and patrol the earth. And he said, “Go, patrol the earth.” So they patrolled the earth.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Then he cried to me, “Behold, those who go toward the north country have set my Spirit at rest in the north country.”


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  “Take from the exiles Heldai, Tobijah, and Jedaiah, who have arrived from Babylon, and go the same day to the house of Josiah, the son of Zephaniah.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Take from them silver and gold, and make a crown, and set it on the head of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, “Behold, the man whose name is the Branch: for he shall branch out from his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  It is he who shall build the temple of the LORD and shall bear royal honor, and shall sit and rule on his throne. And there shall be a priest on his throne, and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.”’


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And the crown shall be in the temple of the LORD as a reminder to Helem, Tobijah, Jedaiah, and Hen the son of Zephaniah.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  “And those who are far off shall come and help to build the temple of the LORD. And you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you. And this shall come to pass, if you will diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God.” 


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chislev.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech and their men to entreat the favor of the LORD,


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  saying to the priests of the house of the LORD of hosts and the prophets, “Should I weep and abstain in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?”


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  “Say to all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth month and in the seventh, for these seventy years, was it for me that you fasted?


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Were not these the words that the LORD proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and prosperous, with her cities around her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?’”


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.”


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears that they might not hear.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  They made their hearts diamond-hard lest they should hear the law and the words that the LORD of hosts had sent by his Spirit through the former prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of hosts.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  “As I called, and they would not hear, so they called, and I would not hear,” says the LORD of hosts,


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  “and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known. Thus the land they left was desolate, so that no one went to and fro, and the pleasant land was made desolate.” 


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  “Thus says the LORD of hosts: I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Thus says the LORD: I have returned to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, and Jerusalem shall be called the faithful city, and the mountain of the LORD of hosts, the holy mountain.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Thus says the LORD of hosts: Old men and old women shall again sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each with staff in hand because of great age.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Thus says the LORD of hosts: If it is marvelous in the sight of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be marvelous in my sight, declares the LORD of hosts?


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Thus says the LORD of hosts: Behold, I will save my people from the east country and from the west country,


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  and I will bring them to dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in faithfulness and in righteousness.”


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Thus says the LORD of hosts: “Let your hands be strong, you who in these days have been hearing these words from the mouth of the prophets who were present on the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  For before those days there was no wage for man or any wage for beast, neither was there any safety from the foe for him who went out or came in, for I set every man against his neighbor.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  But now I will not deal with the remnant of this people as in the former days, declares the LORD of hosts.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  For there shall be a sowing of peace. The vine shall give its fruit, and the ground shall give its produce, and the heavens shall give their dew. And I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And as you have been a byword of cursing among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you, and you shall be a blessing. Fear not, but let your hands be strong.”


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  For thus says the LORD of hosts: “As I purposed to bring disaster to you when your fathers provoked me to wrath, and I did not relent, says the LORD of hosts,


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  so again have I purposed in these days to bring good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah; fear not.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace;


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath, for all these things I hate, declares the LORD.”


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  “Thus says the LORD of hosts: The fast of the fourth month and the fast of the fifth and the fast of the seventh and the fast of the tenth shall be to the house of Judah seasons of joy and gladness and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  The inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, ‘Let us go at once to entreat the favor of the LORD and to seek the LORD of hosts; I myself am going.’


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem and to entreat the favor of the LORD.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Thus says the LORD of hosts: In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue shall take hold of the robe of a Jew, saying, ‘Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’” 


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  The oracle of the word of the LORD is against the land of Hadrach and Damascus is its resting place. For the LORD has an eye on mankind and on all the tribes of Israel,


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Tyre has built herself a rampart and heaped up silver like dust, and fine gold like the mud of the streets.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  But behold, the Lord will strip her of her possessions and strike down her power on the sea, and she shall be devoured by fire.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Ashkelon shall see it, and be afraid; Gaza too, and shall writhe in anguish; Ekron also, because its hopes are confounded. The king shall perish from Gaza; Ashkelon shall be uninhabited;


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  I will take away its blood from its mouth, and its abominations from between its teeth; it too shall be a remnant for our God; it shall be like a clan in Judah, and Ekron shall be like the Jebusites.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Then I will encamp at my house as a guard, so that none shall march to and fro; no oppressor shall again march over them, for now I see with my own eyes.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the war horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off, and he shall speak peace to the nations; his rule shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  For I have bent Judah as my bow; I have made Ephraim its arrow. I will stir up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and wield you like a warrior’s sword.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Then the LORD will appear over them, and his arrow will go forth like lightning; the Lord GOD will sound the trumpet and will march forth in the whirlwinds of the south.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  The LORD of hosts will protect them, and they shall devour, and tread down the sling stones, and they shall drink and roar as if drunk with wine, and be full like a bowl, drenched like the corners of the altar.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  On that day the LORD their God will save them, as the flock of his people; for like the jewels of a crown they shall shine on his land.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  For how great is his goodness, and how great his beauty! Grain shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the young women. 


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Ask rain from the LORD in the season of the spring rain, from the LORD who makes the storm clouds, and he will give them showers of rain, to everyone the vegetation in the field.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  For the household gods utter nonsense, and the diviners see lies; they tell false dreams and give empty consolation. Therefore the people wander like sheep; they are afflicted for lack of a shepherd.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  “My anger is hot against the shepherds, and I will punish the leaders; for the LORD of hosts cares for his flock, the house of Judah, and will make them like his majestic steed in battle.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  From him shall come the cornerstone, from him the tent peg, from him the battle bow, from him every ruler—all of them together.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  They shall be like mighty men in battle, trampling the foe in the mud of the streets; they shall fight because the LORD is with them, and they shall put to shame the riders on horses.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  “I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph. I will bring them back because I have compassion on them, and they shall be as though I had not rejected them, for I am the LORD their God and I will answer them.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Then Ephraim shall become like a mighty warrior, and their hearts shall be glad as with wine. Their children shall see it and be glad; their hearts shall rejoice in the LORD.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  “I will whistle for them and gather them in, for I have redeemed them, and they shall be as many as they were before.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Though I scattered them among the nations, yet in far countries they shall remember me, and with their children they shall live and return.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  I will bring them home from the land of Egypt, and gather them from Assyria, and I will bring them to the land of Gilead and to Lebanon, till there is no room for them.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  He shall pass through the sea of troubles and strike down the waves of the sea, and all the depths of the Nile shall be dried up. The pride of Assyria shall be laid low, and the scepter of Egypt shall depart.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen, for the glorious trees are ruined! Wail, oaks of Bashan, for the thick forest has been felled!


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  The sound of the wail of the shepherds, for their glory is ruined! The sound of the roar of the lions, for the thicket of the Jordan is ruined!


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Those who buy them slaughter them and go unpunished, and those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the LORD, I have become rich,’ and their own shepherds have no pity on them.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of this land, declares the LORD. Behold, I will cause each of them to fall into the hand of his neighbor, and each into the hand of his king, and they shall crush the land, and I will deliver none from their hand.”


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  So I became the shepherd of the flock doomed to be slaughtered by the sheep traders. And I took two staffs, one I named Favor, the other I named Union. And I tended the sheep.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  In one month I destroyed the three shepherds. But I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  So I said, “I will not be your shepherd. What is to die, let it die. What is to be destroyed, let it be destroyed. And let those who are left devour the flesh of one another.”


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And I took my staff Favor, and I broke it, annulling the covenant that I had made with all the peoples.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  So it was annulled on that day, and the sheep traders, who were watching me, knew that it was the word of the LORD.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Then I said to them, “If it seems good to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.” And they weighed out as my wages thirty pieces of silver.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Then the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—the lordly price at which I was priced by them. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the LORD, to the potter.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  For behold, I am raising up in the land a shepherd who does not care for those being destroyed, or seek the young or heal the maimed or nourish the healthy, but devours the flesh of the fat ones, tearing off even their hoofs.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  “Woe to my worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May the sword strike his arm and his right eye! Let his arm be wholly withered, his right eye utterly blinded!” 


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  The oracle of the word of the LORD concerning Israel: Thus declares the LORD, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the spirit of man within him:


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  “Behold, I am about to make Jerusalem a cup of staggering to all the surrounding peoples. The siege of Jerusalem will also be against Judah.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples. All who lift it will surely hurt themselves. And all the nations of the earth will gather against it.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  On that day, declares the LORD, I will strike every horse with panic, and its rider with madness. But for the sake of the house of Judah I will keep my eyes open, when I strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Then the clans of Judah shall say to themselves, ‘The inhabitants of Jerusalem have strength through the LORD of hosts, their God.’


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  “On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a blazing pot in the midst of wood, like a flaming torch among sheaves. And they shall devour to the right and to the left all the surrounding peoples, while Jerusalem shall again be inhabited in its place, in Jerusalem.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  “And the LORD will give salvation to the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not surpass that of Judah.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  On that day the LORD will protect the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the feeblest among them on that day shall be like David, and the house of David shall be like God, like the angel of the LORD, going before them.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  On that day the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning for Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  The land shall mourn, each family by itself: the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves;


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the Shimeites by itself, and their wives by themselves;


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  “On that day there shall be a fountain opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and uncleanness.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  “And on that day, declares the LORD of hosts, I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that they shall be remembered no more. And also I will remove from the land the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And if anyone again prophesies, his father and mother who bore him will say to him, ‘You shall not live, for you speak lies in the name of the LORD.’ And his father and mother who bore him shall pierce him through when he prophesies.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  “On that day every prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies. He will not put on a hairy cloak in order to deceive,


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And if one asks him, ‘What are these wounds on your back?’ he will say, ‘The wounds I received in the house of my friends.’


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  “Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, against the man who stands next to me,” declares the LORD of hosts. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; I will turn my hand against the little ones.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  In the whole land, declares the LORD, two thirds shall be cut off and perish, and one third shall be left alive.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call upon my name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are my people’; and they will say, ‘The LORD is my God.’” 


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped. Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley, so that one half of the Mount shall move northward, and the other half southward.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And you shall flee to the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal. And you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And there shall be a unique day, which is known to the LORD, neither day nor night, but at evening time there shall be light.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  On that day living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to the eastern sea and half of them to the western sea. It shall continue in summer as in winter.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  The whole land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. But Jerusalem shall remain aloft on its site from the Gate of Benjamin to the place of the former gate, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king’s winepresses.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And it shall be inhabited, for there shall never again be a decree of utter destruction. Jerusalem shall dwell in security.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And this shall be the plague with which the LORD will strike all the peoples that wage war against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And on that day a great panic from the LORD shall fall on them, so that each will seize the hand of another, and the hand of the one will be raised against the hand of the other.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Even Judah will fight at Jerusalem. And the wealth of all the surrounding nations shall be collected, gold, silver, and garments in great abundance.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And a plague like this plague shall fall on the horses, the mules, the camels, the donkeys, and whatever beasts may be in those camps.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  Then everyone who survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem shall go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Booths.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And if any of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, there will be no rain on them.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And if the family of Egypt does not go up and present themselves, then on them there shall be no rain; there shall be the plague with which the LORD afflicts the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of Booths.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  This shall be the punishment to Egypt and the punishment to all the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of Booths.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And on that day there shall be inscribed on the bells of the horses, “Holy to the LORD.” And the pots in the house of the LORD shall be as the bowls before the altar.


book: Zechariah
label: Zech
content:
  And every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be holy to the LORD of hosts, so that all who sacrifice may come and take of them and boil the meat of the sacrifice in them. And there shall no longer be a trader in the house of the LORD of hosts on that day. 


book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  “I have loved you,” says the LORD. But you say, “How have you loved us?” “Is not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the LORD. “Yet I have loved Jacob


book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  but Esau I have hated. I have laid waste his hill country and left his heritage to jackals of the desert.”


book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  If Edom says, “We are shattered but we will rebuild the ruins,” the LORD of hosts says, “They may build, but I will tear down, and they will be called ‘the wicked country,’ and ‘the people with whom the LORD is angry forever.’”


book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the LORD of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. But you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’


book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  By offering polluted food upon my altar. But you say, ‘How have we polluted you?’ By saying that the LORD’s table may be despised.


book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  When you offer blind animals in sacrifice, is that not evil? And when you offer those that are lame or sick, is that not evil? Present that to your governor; will he accept you or show you favor? says the LORD of hosts.


book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  And now entreat the favor of God, that he may be gracious to us. With such a gift from your hand, will he show favor to any of you? says the LORD of hosts.


book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, says the LORD of hosts, and I will not accept an offering from your hand.


book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering. For my name will be great among the nations, says the LORD of hosts.


book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  But you profane it when you say that the Lord’s table is polluted, and its fruit, that is, its food may be despised.


book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  But you say, ‘What a weariness this is,’ and you snort at it, says the LORD of hosts. You bring what has been taken by violence or is lame or sick, and this you bring as your offering! Shall I accept that from your hand? says the LORD.


book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  Cursed be the cheat who has a male in his flock, and vows it, and yet sacrifices to the Lord what is blemished. For I am a great King, says the LORD of hosts, and my name will be feared among the nations. 


book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the LORD of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart.


book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  Behold, I will rebuke your offspring, and spread dung on your faces, the dung of your offerings, and you shall be taken away with it.


book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  So shall you know that I have sent this command to you, that my covenant with Levi may stand, says the LORD of hosts.


book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  My covenant with him was one of life and peace, and I gave them to him. It was a covenant of fear, and he feared me. He stood in awe of my name.


book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  True instruction was in his mouth, and no wrong was found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and he turned many from iniquity.


book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.


book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  But you have turned aside from the way. You have caused many to stumble by your instruction. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the LORD of hosts,


book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  and so I make you despised and abased before all the people, inasmuch as you do not keep my ways but show partiality in your instruction.”


book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers?


book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  Judah has been faithless, and abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the LORD, which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.


book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  May the LORD cut off from the tents of Jacob any descendant of the man who does this, who brings an offering to the LORD of hosts!


book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  And this second thing you do. You cover the LORD’s altar with tears, with weeping and groaning because he no longer regards the offering or accepts it with favor from your hand.


book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  But you say, “Why does he not?” Because the LORD was witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.


book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth.


book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  “For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the LORD, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the LORD of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”


book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  You have wearied the LORD with your words. But you say, “How have we wearied him?” By saying, “Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delights in them.” Or by asking, “Where is the God of justice?” 


book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  “Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the LORD of hosts.


book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap.


book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the LORD.


book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the LORD as in the days of old and as in former years.


book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  “Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts.


book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the LORD of hosts. But you say, ‘How shall we return?’


book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In your tithes and contributions.


book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.


book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your soil, and your vine in the field shall not fail to bear, says the LORD of hosts.


book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  “Your words have been hard against me, says the LORD. But you say, ‘How have we spoken against you?’


book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God. What is the profit of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the LORD of hosts?


book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  And now we call the arrogant blessed. Evildoers not only prosper but they put God to the test and they escape.’”


book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  Then those who feared the LORD spoke with one another. The LORD paid attention and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the LORD and esteemed his name.


book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  “They shall be mine, says the LORD of hosts, in the day when I make up my treasured possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.


book: Malachi
label: Mal
content:
  Then once more you shall see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him. 


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers,


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram,


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  and Ram the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon,


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse,


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  and Solomon the father of Rehoboam, and Rehoboam the father of Abijah, and Abijah the father of Asaph,


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  and Asaph the father of Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, and Joram the father of Uzziah,


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  and Hezekiah the father of Manasseh, and Manasseh the father of Amos, and Amos the father of Josiah,


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And after the deportation to Babylon: Jechoniah was the father of Shealtiel, and Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel,


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  and Zerubbabel the father of Abiud, and Abiud the father of Eliakim, and Eliakim the father of Azor,


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  and Eliud the father of Eleazar, and Eleazar the father of Matthan, and Matthan the father of Jacob,


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  So all the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ fourteen generations.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” (which means, God with us).


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem,


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  and assembling all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “‘And you, O Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for from you shall come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.’”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Then Herod summoned the wise men secretly and ascertained from them what time the star had appeared.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And he sent them to Bethlehem, saying, “Go and search diligently for the child, and when you have found him, bring me word, that I too may come and worship him.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  After listening to the king, they went on their way. And behold, the star that they had seen when it rose went before them until it came to rest over the place where the child was.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And going into the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Then, opening their treasures, they offered him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed to their own country by another way.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  and remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet, “Out of Egypt I called my son.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, became furious, and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had ascertained from the wise men.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children; she refused to be comforted, because they are no more.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  saying, “Rise, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the child’s life are dead.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there, and being warned in a dream he withdrew to the district of Galilee.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And he went and lived in a city called Nazareth, so that what was spoken by the prophets might be fulfilled, that he would be called a Nazarene. 


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah when he said, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord; make his paths straight.’”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Now John wore a garment of camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  But Jesus answered him, “Let it be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he consented.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him;


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, “‘He will command his angels concerning you,’ and “‘On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.’”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Then Jesus said to him, “Be gone, Satan! For it is written, “‘You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.’”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And leaving Nazareth he went and lived in Capernaum by the sea, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali,


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles—


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  the people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light, and for those dwelling in the region and shadow of death, on them a light has dawned.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  While walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon (who is called Peter) and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And going on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and he called them.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And he went throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction among the people.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  So his fame spread throughout all Syria, and they brought him all the sick, those afflicted with various diseases and pains, those oppressed by demons, those having seizures, and paralytics, and he healed them.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And great crowds followed him from Galilee and the Decapolis, and from Jerusalem and Judea, and from beyond the Jordan. 


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Come to terms quickly with your accuser while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “Again you have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform to the Lord what you have sworn.’


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  that your fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal,


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light,


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin,


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. 


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye?


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And behold, a leper came to him and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I will; be clean.” And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And Jesus said to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a proof to them.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  But the centurion replied, “Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof, but only say the word, and my servant will be healed.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  For I too am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. And I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes, and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  When Jesus heard this, he marveled and said to those who followed him, “Truly, I tell you, with no one in Israel have I found such faith.


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  I tell you, many will come from east and west and recline at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven,


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  while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”


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label: Matt
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  And to the centurion Jesus said, “Go; let it be done for you as you have believed.” And the servant was healed at that very moment.


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label: Matt
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  That evening they brought to him many who were oppressed by demons, and he cast out the spirits with a word and healed all who were sick.


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label: Matt
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  This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah: “He took our illnesses and bore our diseases.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
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  And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”


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label: Matt
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  And behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by the waves; but he was asleep.


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  And he said to them, “Why are you afraid, O you of little faith?” Then he rose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.


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  And when he came to the other side, to the country of the Gadarenes, two demon-possessed men met him, coming out of the tombs, so fierce that no one could pass that way.


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  And behold, they cried out, “What have you to do with us, O Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?”


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  And he said to them, “Go.” So they came out and went into the pigs, and behold, the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the waters.


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  The herdsmen fled, and going into the city they told everything, especially what had happened to the demon-possessed men.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
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  And behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus, and when they saw him, they begged him to leave their region. 


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label: Matt
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  And behold, some people brought to him a paralytic, lying on a bed. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Take heart, my son; your sins are forgiven.”


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  But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he then said to the paralytic—“Rise, pick up your bed and go home.”


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label: Matt
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  When the crowds saw it, they were afraid, and they glorified God, who had given such authority to men.


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label: Matt
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  As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him.


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label: Matt
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  And as Jesus reclined at table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and were reclining with Jesus and his disciples.


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label: Matt
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  And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”


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label: Matt
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  But when he heard it, he said, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.


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label: Matt
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  Go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”


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label: Matt
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  Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?”


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label: Matt
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  And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.


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


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label: Matt
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  Neither is new wine put into old wineskins. If it is, the skins burst and the wine is spilled and the skins are destroyed. But new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved.”


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label: Matt
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  While he was saying these things to them, behold, a ruler came in and knelt before him, saying, “My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live.”


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  And behold, a woman who had suffered from a discharge of blood for twelve years came up behind him and touched the fringe of his garment,


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  Jesus turned, and seeing her he said, “Take heart, daughter; your faith has made you well.” And instantly the woman was made well.


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label: Matt
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  And when Jesus came to the ruler’s house and saw the flute players and the crowd making a commotion,


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label: Matt
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  And as Jesus passed on from there, two blind men followed him, crying aloud, “Have mercy on us, Son of David.”


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label: Matt
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  When he entered the house, the blind men came to him, and Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They said to him, “Yes, Lord.”


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  And when the demon had been cast out, the mute man spoke. And the crowds marveled, saying, “Never was anything like this seen in Israel.”


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label: Matt
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  And Jesus went throughout all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction.


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label: Matt
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  When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.


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label: Matt
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  And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction.


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  The names of the twelve apostles are these: 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 tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus;


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  These twelve Jesus sent out, instructing them, “Go nowhere among the Gentiles and enter no town of the Samaritans,


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  Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. You received without paying; give without pay.


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  And whatever town or village you enter, find out who is worthy in it and stay there until you depart.


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


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  And if anyone will not receive you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet when you leave that house or town.


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  Truly, I say to you, it will be more bearable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town.


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  “Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.


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  and you will be dragged before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness before them and the Gentiles.


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  When they deliver you over, do not be anxious how you are to speak or what you are to say, for what you are to say will be given to you in that hour.


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  Brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death,


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  When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next, for truly, I say to you, you will not have gone through all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.


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  It is enough for the disciple to be like his teacher, and the servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household.


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  “So have no fear of them, for nothing is covered that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known.


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  What I tell you in the dark, say in the light, and what you hear whispered, proclaim on the housetops.


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  And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.


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  Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.


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  So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven,


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  “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.


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


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  Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.


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  The one who receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward, and the one who receives a righteous person because he is a righteous person will receive a righteous person’s reward.


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  And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward.” 


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  When Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples, he went on from there to teach and preach in their cities.


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


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  As they went away, Jesus began to speak to the crowds concerning John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?


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  What then did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft clothing? Behold, those who wear soft clothing are in kings’ houses.


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label: Matt
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  This is he of whom it is written, “‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.’


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label: Matt
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  Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there has arisen no one greater than John the Baptist. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.


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  From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence, and the violent take it by force.


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  “But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to their playmates,


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  The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds.”


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  Then he began to denounce the cities where most of his mighty works had been done, because they did not repent.


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


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  And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You will be brought down to Hades. For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.


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


book: Matthew
label: Matt
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  At that time Jesus declared, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children;


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  All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.


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


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label: Matt
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  At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat.


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  But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, “Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.”


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  how he entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him to eat nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests?


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  Or have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless?


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label: Matt
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  And if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless.


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label: Matt
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  And a man was there with a withered hand. And they asked him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”—so that they might accuse him.


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label: Matt
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  He said to them, “Which one of you who has a sheep, if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it out?


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  Then he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And the man stretched it out, and it was restored, healthy like the other.


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label: Matt
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  “Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved with whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit upon him, and he will proclaim justice to the Gentiles.


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  a bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not quench, until he brings justice to victory;


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label: Matt
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  Then a demon-oppressed man who was blind and mute was brought to him, and he healed him, so that the man spoke and saw.


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label: Matt
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  But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “It is only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, that this man casts out demons.”


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  Knowing their thoughts, he said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand.


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  And if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.


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  But if it is by the Spirit of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.


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label: Matt
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  Or how can someone enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? Then indeed he may plunder his house.


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


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label: Matt
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  And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.


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label: Matt
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  “Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for the tree is known by its fruit.


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label: Matt
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  You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
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  The good person out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure brings forth evil.


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label: Matt
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  Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying, “Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.”


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label: Matt
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  But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
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  For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.


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


book: Matthew
label: Matt
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  The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.


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  “When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, but finds none.


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  Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when it comes, it finds the house empty, swept, and put in order.


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  Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there, and the last state of that person is worse than the first. So also will it be with this evil generation.”


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label: Matt
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  While he was still speaking to the people, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, asking to speak to him.


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label: Matt
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  And great crowds gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat down. And the whole crowd stood on the beach.


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  Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil,


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label: Matt
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  And he answered them, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.


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label: Matt
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  For to the one who has, more will be given, and he will have an abundance, but from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.


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label: Matt
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  This is why I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.


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label: Matt
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  Indeed, in their case the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says: “‘“You will indeed hear but never understand, and you will indeed see but never perceive.”


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  For this people’s heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.’


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  For truly, I say to you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
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  When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the path.


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label: Matt
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  As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy,


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  yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while, and when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately he falls away.


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label: Matt
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  As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.


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label: Matt
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  As for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty.”


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  He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field,


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label: Matt
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  And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him, ‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have weeds?’


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label: Matt
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  He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ So the servants said to him, ‘Then do you want us to go and gather them?’


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label: Matt
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  Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, “Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”


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  He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field.


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  It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
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  He told them another parable. “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened.”


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  All these things Jesus said to the crowds in parables; indeed, he said nothing to them without a parable.


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label: Matt
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  This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet: “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter what has been hidden since the foundation of the world.”


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label: Matt
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  Then he left the crowds and went into the house. And his disciples came to him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds of the field.”


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  The field is the world, and the good seed is the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one,


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


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label: Matt
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  The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all law-breakers,


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label: Matt
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  Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.


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label: Matt
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  “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.


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  “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was thrown into the sea and gathered fish of every kind.


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label: Matt
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  When it was full, men drew it ashore and sat down and sorted the good into containers but threw away the bad.


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label: Matt
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  So it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous


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label: Matt
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  And he said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house, who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.”


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  and coming to his hometown he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, “Where did this man get this wisdom and these mighty works?


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  Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary? And are not his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas?


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label: Matt
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  And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own household.”


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label: Matt
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  and he said to his servants, “This is John the Baptist. He has been raised from the dead; that is why these miraculous powers are at work in him.”


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  For Herod had seized John and bound him and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife,


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label: Matt
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  And though he wanted to put him to death, he feared the people, because they held him to be a prophet.


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label: Matt
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  But when Herod’s birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced before the company and pleased Herod,


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label: Matt
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  Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat to a desolate place by himself. But when the crowds heard it, they followed him on foot from the towns.


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label: Matt
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  Now when it was evening, the disciples came to him and said, “This is a desolate place, and the day is now over; send the crowds away to go into the villages and buy food for themselves.”


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label: Matt
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  Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass, and taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and said a blessing. Then he broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.


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label: Matt
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  And they all ate and were satisfied. And they took up twelve baskets full of the broken pieces left over.


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label: Matt
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  Immediately he made the disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds.


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label: Matt
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  And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up on the mountain by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone,


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label: Matt
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  but the boat by this time was a long way from the land, beaten by the waves, for the wind was against them.


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label: Matt
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  But when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were terrified, and said, “It is a ghost!” and they cried out in fear.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
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  Jesus immediately reached out his hand and took hold of him, saying to him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?”


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label: Matt
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  And when the men of that place recognized him, they sent around to all that region and brought to him all who were sick


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label: Matt
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  and implored him that they might only touch the fringe of his garment. And as many as touched it were made well. 


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label: Matt
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  “Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat.”


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label: Matt
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  For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’


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label: Matt
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  But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or his mother, “What you would have gained from me is given to God,”


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label: Matt
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  he need not honor his father.’ So for the sake of your tradition you have made void the word of God.


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label: Matt
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  it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person.”


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label: Matt
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  Then the disciples came and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?”


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label: Matt
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  For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.


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label: Matt
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  And behold, a Canaanite woman from that region came out and was crying, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is severely oppressed by a demon.”


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label: Matt
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  But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away, for she is crying out after us.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
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  Then Jesus answered her, “O woman, great is your faith! Be it done for you as you desire.” And her daughter was healed instantly.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Jesus went on from there and walked beside the Sea of Galilee. And he went up on the mountain and sat down there.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them,


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  so that the crowd wondered, when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled healthy, the lame walking, and the blind seeing. And they glorified the God of Israel.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Then Jesus called his disciples to him and said, “I have compassion on the crowd because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat. And I am unwilling to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the way.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And the disciples said to him, “Where are we to get enough bread in such a desolate place to feed so great a crowd?”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  he took the seven loaves and the fish, and having given thanks he broke them and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And they all ate and were satisfied. And they took up seven baskets full of the broken pieces left over.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and to test him they asked him to show them a sign from heaven.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And in the morning, ‘It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.” So he left them and departed.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  But Jesus, aware of this, said, “O you of little faith, why are you discussing among yourselves the fact that you have no bread?


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Do you not yet perceive? Do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you gathered?


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  How is it that you fail to understand that I did not speak about bread? Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Then they understood that he did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And they said, “Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, “Far be it from you, Lord! This shall never happen to you.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me. For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.” 


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James, and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain by themselves.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became white as light.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good that we are here. If you wish, I will make three tents here, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  He was still speaking when, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And as they were coming down the mountain, Jesus commanded them, “Tell no one the vision, until the Son of Man is raised from the dead.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  But I tell you that Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but did to him whatever they pleased. So also the Son of Man will certainly suffer at their hands.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  said, “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he has seizures and he suffers terribly. For often he falls into the fire, and often into the water.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And Jesus answered, “O faithless and twisted generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him here to me.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  As they were gathering in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men,


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  When they came to Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma tax went up to Peter and said, “Does your teacher not pay the tax?”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  He said, “Yes.” And when he came into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, saying, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do kings of the earth take toll or tax? From their sons or from others?”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
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  However, not to give offense to them, go to the sea and cast a hook and take the first fish that comes up, and when you open its mouth you will find a shekel. Take that and give it to them for me and for yourself.” 


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label: Matt
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  and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.


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label: Matt
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  but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “Woe to the world for temptations to sin! For it is necessary that temptations come, but woe to the one by whom the temptation comes!


book: Matthew
label: Matt
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  And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into the eternal fire.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into the hell of fire.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray?


book: Matthew
label: Matt
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  And if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his servants.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  So the servant fell on his knees, imploring him, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you everything.’


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  But when that same servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii, and seizing him, he began to choke him, saying, ‘Pay what you owe.’


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  When his fellow servants saw what had taken place, they were greatly distressed, and they went and reported to their master all that had taken place.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Then his master summoned him and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart.” 


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he went away from Galilee and entered the region of Judea beyond the Jordan.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female,


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let the one who is able to receive this receive it.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Then children were brought to him that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples rebuked the people,


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  but Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And he said to him, “Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. If you would enter life, keep the commandments.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  He said to him, “Which ones?” And Jesus said, “You shall not murder, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness,


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Jesus said to him, “If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly, I say to you, only with difficulty will a rich person enter the kingdom of heaven.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you, in the new world, when the Son of Man will sit on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing. And he said to them, ‘Why do you stand here idle all day?’


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last, up to the first.’


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Now when those hired first came, they thought they would receive more, but each of them also received a denarius.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  saying, ‘These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.’


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  But he replied to one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius?


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And as Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to them,


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “See, we are going up to Jerusalem. And the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  and deliver him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified, and he will be raised on the third day.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came up to him with her sons, and kneeling before him she asked him for something.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And he said to her, “What do you want?” She said to him, “Say that these two sons of mine are to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your kingdom.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Jesus answered, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am to drink?” They said to him, “We are able.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  He said to them, “You will drink my cup, but to sit at my right hand and at my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  But Jesus called them to him and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And behold, there were two blind men sitting by the roadside, and when they heard that Jesus was passing by, they cried out, “Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  The crowd rebuked them, telling them to be silent, but they cried out all the more, “Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Now when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  saying to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and he will send them at once.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your king is coming to you, humble, and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.’”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Most of the crowd spread their cloaks on the road, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And the crowds that went before him and that followed him were shouting, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant,


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  and they said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” And Jesus said to them, “Yes; have you never read, “‘Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise’?”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And seeing a fig tree by the wayside, he went to it and found nothing on it but only leaves. And he said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again!” And the fig tree withered at once.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And Jesus answered them, “Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And when he entered the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came up to him as he was teaching, and said, “By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Jesus answered them, “I also will ask you one question, and if you tell me the answer, then I also will tell you by what authority I do these things.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  The baptism of John, from where did it come? From heaven or from man?” And they discussed it among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say to us, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  So they answered Jesus, “We do not know.” And he said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “What do you think? A man had two sons. And he went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes go into the kingdom of God before you.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. And even when you saw it, you did not afterward change your minds and believe him.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and leased it to tenants, and went into another country.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and have his inheritance.’


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  They said to him, “He will put those wretches to a miserable death and let out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the fruits in their seasons.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: “‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And the one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he was speaking about them.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And although they were seeking to arrest him, they feared the crowds, because they held him to be a prophet. 


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Again he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “See, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast.”’


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And those servants went out into the roads and gathered all whom they found, both bad and good. So the wedding hall was filled with guests.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot and cast him into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are true and teach the way of God truthfully, and you do not care about anyone’s opinion, for you are not swayed by appearances.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  They said, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Therefore render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  The same day Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection, and they asked him a question,


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies having no children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.’


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Now there were seven brothers among us. The first married and died, and having no offspring left his wife to his brother.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  But Jesus answered them, “You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not God of the dead, but of the living.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  saying, “What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?” They said to him, “The son of David.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And no one was able to answer him a word, nor from that day did anyone dare to ask him any more questions. 


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  so do and observe whatever they tell you, but not the works they do. For they preach, but do not practice.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  They do all their deeds to be seen by others. For they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long,


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it is nothing, but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.’


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And you say, ‘If anyone swears by the altar, it is nothing, but if anyone swears by the gift that is on the altar, he is bound by his oath.’


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside also may be clean.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people’s bones and all uncleanness.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous,


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  saying, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town,


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  so that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  For I tell you, you will not see me again, until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’” 


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name’s sake.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “So when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  So, if they say to you, ‘Look, he is in the wilderness,’ do not go out. If they say, ‘Look, he is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  For as the lightning comes from the east and shines as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark,


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time?


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  and will cut him in pieces and put him with the hypocrites. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  But the wise answered, saying, ‘Since there will not be enough for us and for you, go rather to the dealers and buy for yourselves.’


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And while they were going to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here, I have made five talents more.’


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here, I have made two talents more.’


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed,


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed?


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me,


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink?


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Then they also will answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?’


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he reclined at table.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, “Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a beautiful thing to me.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Truly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  and said, “What will you give me if I deliver him over to you?” And they paid him thirty pieces of silver.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Where will you have us prepare for you to eat the Passover?”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  He said, “Go into the city to a certain man and say to him, ‘The Teacher says, My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.’”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  The Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink of it, all of you,


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  I tell you I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Then Jesus said to them, “You will all fall away because of me this night. For it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Jesus said to him, “Truly, I tell you, this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Peter said to him, “Even if I must die with you, I will not deny you!” And all the disciples said the same.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, “Sit here, while I go over there and pray.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And he came to the disciples and found them sleeping. And he said to Peter, “So, could you not watch with me one hour?


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Again, for the second time, he went away and prayed, “My Father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, your will be done.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Then he came to the disciples and said to them, “Sleep and take your rest later on. See, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  While he was still speaking, Judas came, one of the twelve, and with him a great crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the elders of the people.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Jesus said to him, “Friend, do what you came to do.” Then they came up and laid hands on Jesus and seized him.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And behold, one of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest and cut off his ear.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place. For all who take the sword will perish by the sword.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels?


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  At that hour Jesus said to the crowds, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs to capture me? Day after day I sat in the temple teaching, and you did not seize me.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  But all this has taken place that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Then those who had seized Jesus led him to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders had gathered.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And Peter was following him at a distance, as far as the courtyard of the high priest, and going inside he sat with the guards to see the end.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Now the chief priests and the whole council were seeking false testimony against Jesus that they might put him to death,


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  and said, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to rebuild it in three days.’”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And the high priest stood up and said, “Have you no answer to make? What is it that these men testify against you?”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  But Jesus remained silent. And the high priest said to him, “I adjure you by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Jesus said to him, “You have said so. But I tell you, from now on you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power and coming on the clouds of heaven.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Then the high priest tore his robes and said, “He has uttered blasphemy. What further witnesses do we need? You have now heard his blasphemy.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. And a servant girl came up to him and said, “You also were with Jesus the Galilean.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And when he went out to the entrance, another servant girl saw him, and she said to the bystanders, “This man was with Jesus of Nazareth.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  After a little while the bystanders came up and said to Peter, “Certainly you too are one of them, for your accent betrays you.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Then he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, “I do not know the man.” And immediately the rooster crowed.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And Peter remembered the saying of Jesus, “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” And he went out and wept bitterly. 


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  When morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Then when Judas, his betrayer, saw that Jesus was condemned, he changed his mind and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders,


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” They said, “What is that to us? See to it yourself.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And throwing down the pieces of silver into the temple, he departed, and he went and hanged himself.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  But the chief priests, taking the pieces of silver, said, “It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is blood money.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Then was fulfilled what had been spoken by the prophet Jeremiah, saying, “And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him on whom a price had been set by some of the sons of Israel,


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Now Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” Jesus said, “You have said so.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to release for the crowd any one prisoner whom they wanted.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  So when they had gathered, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release for you: Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Besides, while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered much because of him today in a dream.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  The governor again said to them, “Which of the two do you want me to release for you?” And they said, “Barabbas.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Pilate said to them, “Then what shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?” They all said, “Let him be crucified!”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  So when Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this man’s blood; see to it yourselves.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the governor’s headquarters, and they gathered the whole battalion before him.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on his head and put a reed in his right hand. And kneeling before him, they mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the robe and put his own clothes on him and led him away to crucify him.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  As they went out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name. They compelled this man to carry his cross.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And over his head they put the charge against him, which read, “This is Jesus, the King of the Jews.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  and saying, “You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  “He saved others; he cannot save himself. He is the King of Israel; let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And one of them at once ran and took a sponge, filled it with sour wine, and put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  When the centurion and those who were with him, keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place, they were filled with awe and said, “Truly this was the Son of God!”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  There were also many women there, looking on from a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering to him,


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  among whom were Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Joseph and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who also was a disciple of Jesus.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut in the rock. And he rolled a great stone to the entrance of the tomb and went away.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  The next day, that is, after the day of Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  and said, “Sir, we remember how that impostor said, while he was still alive, ‘After three days I will rise.’


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Therefore order the tomb to be made secure until the third day, lest his disciples go and steal him away and tell the people, ‘He has risen from the dead,’ and the last fraud will be worse than the first.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone and sat on it.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  But the angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Then go quickly and tell his disciples that he has risen from the dead, and behold, he is going before you to Galilee; there you will see him. See, I have told you.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And behold, Jesus met them and said, “Greetings!” And they came up and took hold of his feet and worshiped him.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid; go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee, and there they will see me.”


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  While they were going, behold, some of the guard went into the city and told the chief priests all that had taken place.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  And when they had assembled with the elders and taken counsel, they gave a sufficient sum of money to the soldiers


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  So they took the money and did as they were directed. And this story has been spread among the Jews to this day.


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,


book: Matthew
label: Matt
content:
  teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” 


book: Mark
label: Mark
content:
  As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, “Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way,


book: Mark
label: Mark
content:
  John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.


book: Mark
label: Mark
content:
  And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.


book: Mark
label: Mark
content:
  Now John was clothed with camel’s hair and wore a leather belt around his waist and ate locusts and wild honey.


book: Mark
label: Mark
content:
  And he preached, saying, “After me comes he who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie.


book: Mark
label: Mark
content:
  And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.


book: Mark
label: Mark
content:
  And he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan. And he was with the wild animals, and the angels were ministering to him.


book: Mark
label: Mark
content:
  and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”


book: Mark
label: Mark
content:
  Passing alongside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.


book: Mark
label: Mark
content:
  And going on a little farther, he saw James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, who were in their boat mending the nets.


book: Mark
label: Mark
content:
  And immediately he called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants and followed him.


book: Mark
label: Mark
content:
  And they went into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath he entered the synagogue and was teaching.


book: Mark
label: Mark
content:
  And they were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one who had authority, and not as the scribes.


book: Mark
label: Mark
content:
  “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God.”


book: Mark
label: Mark
content:
  And they were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, “What is this? A new teaching with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him.”


book: Mark
label: Mark
content:
  And immediately he left the synagogue and entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.


book: Mark
label: Mark
content:
  And he came and took her by the hand and lifted her up, and the fever left her, and she began to serve them.


book: Mark
label: Mark
content:
  And he healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons. And he would not permit the demons to speak, because they knew him.


book: Mark
label: Mark
content:
  And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed.


book: Mark
label: Mark
content:
  And he said to them, “Let us go on to the next towns, that I may preach there also, for that is why I came out.”


book: Mark
label: Mark
content:
  And a leper came to him, imploring him, and kneeling said to him, “If you will, you can make me clean.”


book: Mark
label: Mark
content:
  and said to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, for a proof to them.”


book: Mark
label: Mark
content:
  But he went out and began to talk freely about it, and to spread the news, so that Jesus could no longer openly enter a town, but was out in desolate places, and people were coming to him from every quarter. 


book: Mark
label: Mark
content:
  And many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even at the door. And he was preaching the word to them.


book: Mark
label: Mark
content:
  And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and when they had made an opening, they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay.


book: Mark
label: Mark
content:
  And immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they thus questioned within themselves, said to them, “Why do you question these things in your hearts?


book: Mark
label: Mark
content:
  Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise, take up your bed and walk’?


book: Mark
label: Mark
content:
  But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he said to the paralytic—


book: Mark
label: Mark
content:
  And he rose and immediately picked up his bed and went out before them all, so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!”


book: Mark
label: Mark
content:
  And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him.


book: Mark
label: Mark
content:
  And as he reclined at table in his house, many tax collectors and sinners were reclining with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who followed him.


book: Mark
label: Mark
content:
  And the scribes of the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”


book: Mark
label: Mark
content:
  And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”


book: Mark
label: Mark
content:
  Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. And people came and said to him, “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?”


book: Mark
label: Mark
content:
  And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.


book: Mark
label: Mark
content:
  The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.


book: Mark
label: Mark
content:
  No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the patch tears away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made.


book: Mark
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  And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins—and the wine is destroyed, and so are the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins.”


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  One Sabbath he was going through the grainfields, and as they made their way, his disciples began to pluck heads of grain.


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  And he said to them, “Have you never read what David did, when he was in need and was hungry, he and those who were with him:


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  how he entered the house of God, in the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those who were with him?”


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  And they watched Jesus, to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse him.


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  And he said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to kill?” But they were silent.


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  And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.


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  The Pharisees went out and immediately held counsel with the Herodians against him, how to destroy him.


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  and Jerusalem and Idumea and from beyond the Jordan and from around Tyre and Sidon. When the great crowd heard all that he was doing, they came to him.


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  And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, “You are the Son of God.”


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  And he appointed twelve (whom he also named apostles) so that they might be with him and he might send them out to preach


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  James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James (to whom he gave the name Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder);


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  Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Zealot,


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  And when his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for they were saying, “He is out of his mind.”


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  And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem were saying, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and “by the prince of demons he casts out the demons.”


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  But no one can enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man. Then indeed he may plunder his house.


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  “Truly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the children of man, and whatever blasphemies they utter,


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  but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin”—


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  And a crowd was sitting around him, and they said to him, “Your mother and your brothers are outside, seeking you.”


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  Again he began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea, and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land.


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  Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and immediately it sprang up, since it had no depth of soil.


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  And other seeds fell into good soil and produced grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.”


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  And he said to them, “To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables,


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  so that “‘they may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand, lest they should turn and be forgiven.’”


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  And he said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables?


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  And these are the ones along the path, where the word is sown: when they hear, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that is sown in them.


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  And these are the ones sown on rocky ground: the ones who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy.


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  And they have no root in themselves, but endure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately they fall away.


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  but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.


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  But those that were sown on the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.”


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  And he said to them, “Is a lamp brought in to be put under a basket, or under a bed, and not on a stand?


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  And he said to them, “Pay attention to what you hear: with the measure you use, it will be measured to you, and still more will be added to you.


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  For to the one who has, more will be given, and from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.”


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  It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown on the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth,


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  yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants and puts out large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.”


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  He did not speak to them without a parable, but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.


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  And leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. And other boats were with him.


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  And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling.


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  But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?”


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  And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.


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  And they were filled with great fear and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?” 


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  And when Jesus had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit.


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  for he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he wrenched the chains apart, and he broke the shackles in pieces. No one had the strength to subdue him.


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  Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out and cutting himself with stones.


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  And crying out with a loud voice, he said, “What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me.”


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  So he gave them permission. And the unclean spirits came out and entered the pigs; and the herd, numbering about two thousand, rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the sea.


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  The herdsmen fled and told it in the city and in the country. And people came to see what it was that had happened.


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  And they came to Jesus and saw the demon-possessed man, the one who had had the legion, sitting there, clothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid.


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  And those who had seen it described to them what had happened to the demon-possessed man and to the pigs.


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  As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed with demons begged him that he might be with him.


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  And he did not permit him but said to him, “Go home to your friends and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.”


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  And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him, and everyone marveled.


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  And when Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered about him, and he was beside the sea.


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  and implored him earnestly, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well and live.”


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  and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse.


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  And immediately the flow of blood dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease.


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  And Jesus, perceiving in himself that power had gone out from him, immediately turned about in the crowd and said, “Who touched my garments?”


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  And his disciples said to him, “You see the crowd pressing around you, and yet you say, ‘Who touched me?’”


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  But the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and trembling and fell down before him and told him the whole truth.


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  And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.”


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  While he was still speaking, there came from the ruler’s house some who said, “Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the Teacher any further?”


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  But overhearing what they said, Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, “Do not fear, only believe.”


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  They came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and Jesus saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly.


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  And when he had entered, he said to them, “Why are you making a commotion and weeping? The child is not dead but sleeping.”


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  And they laughed at him. But he put them all outside and took the child’s father and mother and those who were with him and went in where the child was.


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  Taking her by the hand he said to her, “Talitha cumi,” which means, “Little girl, I say to you, arise.”


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  And immediately the girl got up and began walking (for she was twelve years of age), and they were immediately overcome with amazement.


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  And he strictly charged them that no one should know this, and told them to give her something to eat. 


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  And on the Sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things? What is the wisdom given to him? How are such mighty works done by his hands?


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  Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him.


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  And Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his hometown and among his relatives and in his own household.”


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  And he could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them.


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  And he called the twelve and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits.


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  He charged them to take nothing for their journey except a staff—no bread, no bag, no money in their belts—


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  And if any place will not receive you and they will not listen to you, when you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet as a testimony against them.”


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  King Herod heard of it, for Jesus’ name had become known. Some said, “John the Baptist has been raised from the dead. That is why these miraculous powers are at work in him.”


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  But others said, “He is Elijah.” And others said, “He is a prophet, like one of the prophets of old.”


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  For it was Herod who had sent and seized John and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, because he had married her.


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  for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and he kept him safe. When he heard him, he was greatly perplexed, and yet he heard him gladly.


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  But an opportunity came when Herod on his birthday gave a banquet for his nobles and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee.


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  For when Herodias’s daughter came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests. And the king said to the girl, “Ask me for whatever you wish, and I will give it to you.”


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  And she went out and said to her mother, “For what should I ask?” And she said, “The head of John the Baptist.”


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  And she came in immediately with haste to the king and asked, saying, “I want you to give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter.”


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  And the king was exceedingly sorry, but because of his oaths and his guests he did not want to break his word to her.


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  And immediately the king sent an executioner with orders to bring John’s head. He went and beheaded him in the prison


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  And he said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a desolate place and rest a while.” For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat.


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  Now many saw them going and recognized them, and they ran there on foot from all the towns and got there ahead of them.


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  When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. And he began to teach them many things.


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  And when it grew late, his disciples came to him and said, “This is a desolate place, and the hour is now late.


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  Send them away to go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.”


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  But he answered them, “You give them something to eat.” And they said to him, “Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread and give it to them to eat?”


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  And he said to them, “How many loaves do you have? Go and see.” And when they had found out, they said, “Five, and two fish.”


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  And taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and said a blessing and broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples to set before the people. And he divided the two fish among them all.


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  Immediately he made his disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd.


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  And he saw that they were making headway painfully, for the wind was against them. And about the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea. He meant to pass by them,


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  for they all saw him and were terrified. But immediately he spoke to them and said, “Take heart; it is I. Do not be afraid.”


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  and ran about the whole region and began to bring the sick people on their beds to wherever they heard he was.


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  And wherever he came, in villages, cities, or countryside, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and implored him that they might touch even the fringe of his garment. And as many as touched it were made well. 


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  (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands properly, holding to the tradition of the elders,


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  and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions that they observe, such as the washing of cups and pots and copper vessels and dining couches.)


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  And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?”


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  And he said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, “‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;


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  And he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition!


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  For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’


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  But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban”’ (that is, given to God)—


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  thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do.”


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  There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.”


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  And he said to them, “Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him,


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  since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.)


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  For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,


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  And from there he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered a house and did not want anyone to know, yet he could not be hidden.


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  But immediately a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard of him and came and fell down at his feet.


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  Now the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophoenician by birth. And she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter.


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  And he said to her, “Let the children be fed first, for it is not right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”


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  Then he returned from the region of Tyre and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis.


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  And they brought to him a man who was deaf and had a speech impediment, and they begged him to lay his hand on him.


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  And taking him aside from the crowd privately, he put his fingers into his ears, and after spitting touched his tongue.


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  And Jesus charged them to tell no one. But the more he charged them, the more zealously they proclaimed it.


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  And they were astonished beyond measure, saying, “He has done all things well. He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.” 


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  In those days, when again a great crowd had gathered, and they had nothing to eat, he called his disciples to him and said to them,


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  “I have compassion on the crowd, because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat.


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  And if I send them away hungry to their homes, they will faint on the way. And some of them have come from far away.”


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  And his disciples answered him, “How can one feed these people with bread here in this desolate place?”


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  And he directed the crowd to sit down on the ground. And he took the seven loaves, and having given thanks, he broke them and gave them to his disciples to set before the people; and they set them before the crowd.


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  And they had a few small fish. And having blessed them, he said that these also should be set before them.


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  And he sighed deeply in his spirit and said, “Why does this generation seek a sign? Truly, I say to you, no sign will be given to this generation.”


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  And he cautioned them, saying, “Watch out; beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.”


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  And Jesus, aware of this, said to them, “Why are you discussing the fact that you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive or understand? Are your hearts hardened?


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  When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” They said to him, “Twelve.”


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  “And the seven for the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” And they said to him, “Seven.”


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  And he took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village, and when he had spit on his eyes and laid his hands on him, he asked him, “Do you see anything?”


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  Then Jesus laid his hands on his eyes again; and he opened his eyes, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly.


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  And Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?”


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  And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again.


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  But turning and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.”


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  And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.


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  For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it.


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  For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.” 


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  And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God after it has come with power.”


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  And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before them,


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  And Peter said to Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good that we are here. Let us make three tents, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah.”


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  And a cloud overshadowed them, and a voice came out of the cloud, “This is my beloved Son; listen to him.”


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  And as they were coming down the mountain, he charged them to tell no one what they had seen, until the Son of Man had risen from the dead.


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  And he said to them, “Elijah does come first to restore all things. And how is it written of the Son of Man that he should suffer many things and be treated with contempt?


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  But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they did to him whatever they pleased, as it is written of him.”


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  And when they came to the disciples, they saw a great crowd around them, and scribes arguing with them.


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  And immediately all the crowd, when they saw him, were greatly amazed and ran up to him and greeted him.


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  And someone from the crowd answered him, “Teacher, I brought my son to you, for he has a spirit that makes him mute.


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  And whenever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams and grinds his teeth and becomes rigid. So I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they were not able.”


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  And he answered them, “O faithless generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him to me.”


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  And they brought the boy to him. And when the spirit saw him, immediately it convulsed the boy, and he fell on the ground and rolled about, foaming at the mouth.


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  And Jesus asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said, “From childhood.


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  And it has often cast him into fire and into water, to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”


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  And when Jesus saw that a crowd came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.”


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  And after crying out and convulsing him terribly, it came out, and the boy was like a corpse, so that most of them said, “He is dead.”


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  And when he had entered the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why could we not cast it out?”


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  for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, “The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him. And when he is killed, after three days he will rise.”


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  And they came to Capernaum. And when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you discussing on the way?”


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  And he sat down and called the twelve. And he said to them, “If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.”


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  “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me.”


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  John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he was not following us.”


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  But Jesus said, “Do not stop him, for no one who does a mighty work in my name will be able soon afterward to speak evil of me.


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  For truly, I say to you, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ will by no means lose his reward.


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  “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea.


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  And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire.


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  And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than with two feet to be thrown into hell.


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  And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into hell,


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  Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, how will you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.” 


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  And he left there and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again. And again, as was his custom, he taught them.


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  But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.


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  And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”


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  You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.’”


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  And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”


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  And Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How difficult it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!”


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  And the disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said to them again, “Children, how difficult it is to enter the kingdom of God!


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  It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”


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  Jesus looked at them and said, “With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.”


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  Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel,


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  who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.


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  And they were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking ahead of them. And they were amazed, and those who followed were afraid. And taking the twelve again, he began to tell them what was to happen to him,


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  saying, “See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death and deliver him over to the Gentiles.


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  And they will mock him and spit on him, and flog him and kill him. And after three days he will rise.”


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  And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came up to him and said to him, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.”


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  And they said to him, “Grant us to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your glory.”


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  Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or to be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?”


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  And they said to him, “We are able.” And Jesus said to them, “The cup that I drink you will drink, and with the baptism with which I am baptized, you will be baptized,


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  but to sit at my right hand or at my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared.”


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  And Jesus called them to him and said to them, “You know that those who are considered rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.


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


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  And they came to Jericho. And as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a great crowd, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, the son of Timaeus, was sitting by the roadside.


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  And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”


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  And many rebuked him, telling him to be silent. But he cried out all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”


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  And Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.” And they called the blind man, saying to him, “Take heart. Get up; he is calling you.”


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  And Jesus said to him, “What do you want me to do for you?” And the blind man said to him, “Rabbi, let me recover my sight.”


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  And Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your faith has made you well.” And immediately he recovered his sight and followed him on the way. 


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  Now when they drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples


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  and said to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately as you enter it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it.


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  If anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord has need of it and will send it back here immediately.’”


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  And many spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut from the fields.


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  And those who went before and those who followed were shouting, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!


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  And he entered Jerusalem and went into the temple. And when he had looked around at everything, as it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.


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  And seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.


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  And they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons.


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  And he was teaching them and saying to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.”


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  And the chief priests and the scribes heard it and were seeking a way to destroy him, for they feared him, because all the crowd was astonished at his teaching.


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  Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.


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  Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.


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  And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”


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  And they came again to Jerusalem. And as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders came to him,


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  and they said to him, “By what authority are you doing these things, or who gave you this authority to do them?”


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  Jesus said to them, “I will ask you one question; answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.


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  And they discussed it with one another, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’


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  But shall we say, ‘From man’?”—they were afraid of the people, for they all held that John really was a prophet.


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  So they answered Jesus, “We do not know.” And Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.” 


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  And he began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and leased it to tenants and went into another country.


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  When the season came, he sent a servant to the tenants to get from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.


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  And he sent another, and him they killed. And so with many others: some they beat, and some they killed.


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  He had still one other, a beloved son. Finally he sent him to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’


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  But those tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’


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  What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenants and give the vineyard to others.


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  Have you not read this Scripture: “‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone;


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  And they were seeking to arrest him but feared the people, for they perceived that he had told the parable against them. So they left him and went away.


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  And they came and said to him, “Teacher, we know that you are true and do not care about anyone’s opinion. For you are not swayed by appearances, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not? Should we pay them, or should we not?”


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  But, knowing their hypocrisy, he said to them, “Why put me to the test? Bring me a denarius and let me look at it.”


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  And they brought one. And he said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is this?” They said to him, “Caesar’s.”


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  Jesus said to them, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” And they marveled at him.


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  And Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection. And they asked him a question, saying,


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  “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife, but leaves no child, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.


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  Jesus said to them, “Is this not the reason you are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God?


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  For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.


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  And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God spoke to 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 up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?”


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  And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’


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  The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”


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  And the scribe said to him, “You are right, Teacher. You have truly said that he is one, and there is no other besides him.


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  And to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”


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  And when Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And after that no one dared to ask him any more questions.


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  And as Jesus taught in the temple, he said, “How can the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?


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  David himself, in the Holy Spirit, declared, “‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet.”’


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  And in his teaching he said, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes and like greetings in the marketplaces


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  who devour widows’ houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”


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  And he sat down opposite the treasury and watched the people putting money into the offering box. Many rich people put in large sums.


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  And he called his disciples to him and said to them, “Truly, I say to you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the offering box.


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  For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on.” 


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  And as he came out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Look, Teacher, what wonderful stones and what wonderful buildings!”


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  And Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.”


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  And as he sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately,


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  “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign when all these things are about to be accomplished?”


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  And when you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed. This must take place, but the end is not yet.


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  For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines. These are but the beginning of the birth pains.


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  “But be on your guard. For they will deliver you over to councils, and you will be beaten in synagogues, and you will stand before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness before them.


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  And when they bring you to trial and deliver you over, do not be anxious beforehand what you are to say, but say whatever is given you in that hour, for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.


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  And brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death.


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  “But when you see the abomination of desolation standing where he ought not to be (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.


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  For in those days there will be such tribulation as has not been from the beginning of the creation that God created until now, and never will be.


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  And if the Lord had not cut short the days, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, whom he chose, he shortened the days.


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  And then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘Look, there he is!’ do not believe it.


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  For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform signs and wonders, to lead astray, if possible, the elect.


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  “But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light,


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  And then he will send out the angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven.


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  “But concerning that day or that hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.


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  It is like a man going on a journey, when he leaves home and puts his servants in charge, each with his work, and commands the doorkeeper to stay awake.


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  Therefore stay awake—for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning—


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  It was now two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to arrest him by stealth and kill him,


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  And while he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he was reclining at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it over his head.


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  For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor.” And they scolded her.


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  For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want, you can do good for them. But you will not always have me.


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  And truly, I say to you, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told in memory of her.”


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  Then Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went to the chief priests in order to betray him to them.


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  And when they heard it, they were glad and promised to give him money. And he sought an opportunity to betray him.


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  And on the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrificed the Passover lamb, his disciples said to him, “Where will you have us go and prepare for you to eat the Passover?”


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  And he sent two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him,


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  and wherever he enters, say to the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says, Where is my guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’


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  And the disciples set out and went to the city and found it just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover.


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  And as they were reclining at table and eating, Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me, one who is eating with me.”


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  For the Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.”


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  And as they were eating, he took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to them, and said, “Take; this is my body.”


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  Truly, I say to you, I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.”


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  And Jesus said to them, “You will all fall away, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’


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  And Jesus said to him, “Truly, I tell you, this very night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.”


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  But he said emphatically, “If I must die with you, I will not deny you.” And they all said the same.


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  And going a little farther, he fell on the ground and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him.


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  And he said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible for you. Remove this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.”


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  And he came and found them sleeping, and he said to Peter, “Simon, are you asleep? Could you not watch one hour?


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  And again he came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy, and they did not know what to answer him.


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  And he came the third time and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and taking your rest? It is enough; the hour has come. The Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.


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  And immediately, while he was still speaking, Judas came, one of the twelve, and with him a crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders.


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  Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, “The one I will kiss is the man. Seize him and lead him away under guard.”


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  But one of those who stood by drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest and cut off his ear.


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  And Jesus said to them, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs to capture me?


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  Day after day I was with you in the temple teaching, and you did not seize me. But let the Scriptures be fulfilled.”


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  And they led Jesus to the high priest. And all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes came together.


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  And Peter had followed him at a distance, right into the courtyard of the high priest. And he was sitting with the guards and warming himself at the fire.


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  Now the chief priests and the whole council were seeking testimony against Jesus to put him to death, but they found none.


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  “We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another, not made with hands.’”


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  And the high priest stood up in the midst and asked Jesus, “Have you no answer to make? What is it that these men testify against you?”


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  But he remained silent and made no answer. Again the high priest asked him, “Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?”


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  And Jesus said, “I am, and you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.”


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  You have heard his blasphemy. What is your decision?” And they all condemned him as deserving death.


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  And some began to spit on him and to cover his face and to strike him, saying to him, “Prophesy!” And the guards received him with blows.


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  and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him and said, “You also were with the Nazarene, Jesus.”


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  But he denied it, saying, “I neither know nor understand what you mean.” And he went out into the gateway and the rooster crowed.


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  But again he denied it. And after a little while the bystanders again said to Peter, “Certainly you are one of them, for you are a Galilean.”


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  And immediately the rooster crowed a second time. And Peter remembered how Jesus had said to him, “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” And he broke down and wept. 


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  And as soon as it was morning, the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council. And they bound Jesus and led him away and delivered him over to Pilate.


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  And Pilate again asked him, “Have you no answer to make? See how many charges they bring against you.”


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  And among the rebels in prison, who had committed murder in the insurrection, there was a man called Barabbas.


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  And Pilate said to them, “Why? What evil has he done?” But they shouted all the more, “Crucify him.”


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  So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released for them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.


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  And the soldiers led him away inside the palace (that is, the governor’s headquarters), and they called together the whole battalion.


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  And they clothed him in a purple cloak, and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on him.


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  And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put his own clothes on him. And they led him out to crucify him.


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  And they compelled a passerby, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross.


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  And they crucified him and divided his garments among them, casting lots for them, to decide what each should take.


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  And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads and saying, “Aha! You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,


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  So also the chief priests with the scribes mocked him to one another, saying, “He saved others; he cannot save himself.


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  Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross that we may see and believe.” Those who were crucified with him also reviled him.


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  And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”


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  And someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink, saying, “Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to take him down.”


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  And when the centurion, who stood facing him, saw that in this way he breathed his last, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God!”


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  There were also women looking on from a distance, among whom were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome.


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  When he was in Galilee, they followed him and ministered to him, and there were also many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem.


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  And when evening had come, since it was the day of Preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath,


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  Joseph of Arimathea, a respected member of the council, who was also himself looking for the kingdom of God, took courage and went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.


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  Pilate was surprised to hear that he should have already died. And summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he was already dead.


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  And Joseph bought a linen shroud, and taking him down, wrapped him in the linen shroud and laid him in a tomb that had been cut out of the rock. And he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb.


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  When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him.


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  And they were saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance of the tomb?”


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  And entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were alarmed.


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  And he said to them, “Do not be alarmed. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen; he is not here. See the place where they laid him.


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  But go, tell his disciples and Peter that he is going before you to Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you.”


book: Mark
label: Mark
content:
  And they went out and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had seized them, and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.


book: Mark
label: Mark
content:
  [[Now when he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.


book: Mark
label: Mark
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  After these things he appeared in another form to two of them, as they were walking into the country.


book: Mark
label: Mark
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  Afterward he appeared to the eleven themselves as they were reclining at table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen.


book: Mark
label: Mark
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  And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;


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label: Mark
content:
  they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”


book: Mark
label: Mark
content:
  So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.


book: Mark
label: Mark
content:
  And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by accompanying signs.]] 


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label: Luke
content:
  Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the things that have been accomplished among us,


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word have delivered them to us,


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  it seemed good to me also, having followed all things closely for some time past, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus,


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, of the division of Abijah. And he had a wife from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  according to the custom of the priesthood, he was chosen by lot to enter the temple of the Lord and burn incense.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.


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label: Luke
content:
  for he will be great before the Lord. And he must not drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.


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label: Luke
content:
  and he will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And Zechariah said to the angel, “How shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in years.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And the angel answered him, “I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God, and I was sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And behold, you will be silent and unable to speak until the day that these things take place, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their time.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And when he came out, he was unable to speak to them, and they realized that he had seen a vision in the temple. And he kept making signs to them and remained mute.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  “Thus the Lord has done for me in the days when he looked on me, to take away my reproach among people.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin’s name was Mary.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  But she was greatly troubled at the saying, and tried to discern what sort of greeting this might be.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David,


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And the angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And behold, your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son, and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And Mary said, “Behold, I am the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit,


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label: Luke
content:
  and she exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  for he has looked on the humble estate of his servant. For behold, from now on all generations will call me blessed;


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child. And they would have called him Zechariah after his father,


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And fear came on all their neighbors. And all these things were talked about through all the hill country of Judea,


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  and all who heard them laid them up in their hearts, saying, “What then will this child be?” For the hand of the Lord was with him.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And the child grew and became strong in spirit, and he was in the wilderness until the day of his public appearance to Israel. 


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David,


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with great fear.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And this will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  When the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, as it had been told them.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And at the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And when the time came for their purification according to the Law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord


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label: Luke
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  (as it is written in the Law of the Lord, “Every male who first opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord”)


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  and to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in the Law of the Lord, “a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  Now there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon, and this man was righteous and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And he came in the Spirit into the temple, and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him according to the custom of the Law,


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, “Behold, this child is appointed for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is opposed


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  (and a sword will pierce through your own soul also), so that thoughts from many hearts may be revealed.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And there was a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was advanced in years, having lived with her husband seven years from when she was a virgin,


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  and then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She did not depart from the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And coming up at that very hour she began to give thanks to God and to speak of him to all who were waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And when they had performed everything according to the Law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And when the feast was ended, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not know it,


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  but supposing him to be in the group they went a day’s journey, but then they began to search for him among their relatives and acquaintances,


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And when his parents saw him, they were astonished. And his mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us so? Behold, your father and I have been searching for you in great distress.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And he said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was submissive to them. And his mother treasured up all these things in her heart.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And he went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall become straight, and the rough places shall become level ways,


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  He said therefore to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  Bear fruits in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And he answered them, “Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  Soldiers also asked him, “And we, what shall we do?” And he said to them, “Do not extort money from anyone by threats or by false accusation, and be content with your wages.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  As the people were in expectation, and all were questioning in their hearts concerning John, whether he might be the Christ,


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  John answered them all, saying, “I baptize you with water, but he who is mightier than I is coming, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  His winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  But Herod the tetrarch, who had been reproved by him for Herodias, his brother’s wife, and for all the evil things that Herod had done,


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the heavens were opened,


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form, like a dove; and a voice came from heaven, “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  Jesus, when he began his ministry, was about thirty years of age, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  the son of Amminadab, the son of Admin, the son of Arni, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah,


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan,


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  and said to him, “To you I will give all this authority and their glory, for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whom I will.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And Jesus answered him, “It is written, “‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.’”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And he took him to Jerusalem and set him on the pinnacle of the temple and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here,


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and a report about him went out through all the surrounding country.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written,


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And he rolled up the scroll and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And all spoke well of him and marveled at the gracious words that were coming from his mouth. And they said, “Is not this Joseph’s son?”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And he said to them, “Doubtless you will quote to me this proverb, ‘“Physician, heal yourself.” What we have heard you did at Capernaum, do here in your hometown as well.’”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  But in truth, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heavens were shut up three years and six months, and a great famine came over all the land,


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  and Elijah was sent to none of them but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And they rose up and drove him out of the town and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they could throw him down the cliff.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And in the synagogue there was a man who had the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice,


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  “Ha! What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  But Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent and come out of him!” And when the demon had thrown him down in their midst, he came out of him, having done him no harm.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And they were all amazed and said to one another, “What is this word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And he arose and left the synagogue and entered Simon’s house. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was ill with a high fever, and they appealed to him on her behalf.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And he stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her, and immediately she rose and began to serve them.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  Now when the sun was setting, all those who had any who were sick with various diseases brought them to him, and he laid his hands on every one of them and healed them.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And demons also came out of many, crying, “You are the Son of God!” But he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And when it was day, he departed and went into a desolate place. And the people sought him and came to him, and would have kept him from leaving them,


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  but he said to them, “I must preach the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns as well; for I was sent for this purpose.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  On one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret,


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  and he saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, he asked him to put out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the people from the boat.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And when he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And Simon answered, “Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  They signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching men.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  While he was in one of the cities, there came a man full of leprosy. And when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and begged him, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I will; be clean.” And immediately the leprosy left him.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And he charged him to tell no one, but “go and show yourself to the priest, and make an offering for your cleansing, as Moses commanded, for a proof to them.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  But now even more the report about him went abroad, and great crowds gathered to hear him and to be healed of their infirmities.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  On one of those days, as he was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there, who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was with him to heal.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And behold, some men were bringing on a bed a man who was paralyzed, and they were seeking to bring him in and lay him before Jesus,


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  but finding no way to bring him in, because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down with his bed through the tiles into the midst before Jesus.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And the scribes and the Pharisees began to question, saying, “Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he said to the man who was paralyzed—“I say to you, rise, pick up your bed and go home.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And immediately he rose up before them and picked up what he had been lying on and went home, glorifying God.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And amazement seized them all, and they glorified God and were filled with awe, saying, “We have seen extraordinary things today.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  After this he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth. And he said to him, “Follow me.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And Levi made him a great feast in his house, and there was a large company of tax collectors and others reclining at table with them.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And the Pharisees and their scribes grumbled at his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And they said to him, “The disciples of John fast often and offer prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  He also told them a parable: “No one tears a piece from a new garment and puts it on an old garment. If he does, he will tear the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  On a Sabbath, while he was going through the grainfields, his disciples plucked and ate some heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And Jesus answered them, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him:


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  how he entered the house of God and took and ate the bread of the Presence, which is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those with him?”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  On another Sabbath, he entered the synagogue and was teaching, and a man was there whose right hand was withered.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And the scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, so that they might find a reason to accuse him.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  But he knew their thoughts, and he said to the man with the withered hand, “Come and stand here.” And he rose and stood there.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And Jesus said to them, “I ask you, is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to destroy it?”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And after looking around at them all he said to him, “Stretch out your hand.” And he did so, and his hand was restored.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  Simon, whom he named Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew,


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And he came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon,


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases. And those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  “Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you shall be satisfied. “Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  “Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man!


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for so their fathers did to the prophets.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  “Woe to you who are full now, for you shall be hungry. “Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  To one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from one who takes away your cloak do not withhold your tunic either.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  “If you love those who love you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And if you do good to those who do good to you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And if you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to get back the same amount.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  “Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven;


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother’s eye.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush.


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label: Luke
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  The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.


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  he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built.


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label: Luke
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  But the one who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the stream broke against it, immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.” 


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label: Luke
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  When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come and heal his servant.


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  And when they came to Jesus, they pleaded with him earnestly, saying, “He is worthy to have you do this for him,


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label: Luke
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  And Jesus went with them. When he was not far from the house, the centurion sent friends, saying to him, “Lord, do not trouble yourself, for I am not worthy to have you come under my roof.


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  For I too am a man set under authority, with soldiers under me: and I say to 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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label: Luke
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  When Jesus heard these things, he marveled at him, and turning to the crowd that followed him, said, “I tell you, not even in Israel have I found such faith.”


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label: Luke
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  As he drew near to the gate of the town, behold, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow, and a considerable crowd from the town was with her.


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label: Luke
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  Then he came up and touched the bier, and the bearers stood still. And he said, “Young man, I say to you, arise.”


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label: Luke
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  Fear seized them all, and they glorified God, saying, “A great prophet has arisen among us!” and “God has visited his people!”


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label: Luke
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  calling two of his disciples to him, sent them to the Lord, saying, “Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?”


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label: Luke
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  And when the men had come to him, they said, “John the Baptist has sent us to you, saying, ‘Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?’”


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label: Luke
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  In that hour he healed many people of diseases and plagues and evil spirits, and on many who were blind he bestowed sight.


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label: Luke
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  And he answered them, “Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, the poor have good news preached to them.


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label: Luke
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  When John’s messengers had gone, Jesus began to speak to the crowds concerning John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?


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label: Luke
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  What then did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft clothing? Behold, those who are dressed in splendid clothing and live in luxury are in kings’ courts.


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label: Luke
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  I tell you, among those born of women none is greater than John. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.”


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label: Luke
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  (When all the people heard this, and the tax collectors too, they declared God just, having been baptized with the baptism of John,


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  but the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the purpose of God for themselves, not having been baptized by him.)


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label: Luke
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  They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one another, “‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not weep.’


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label: Luke
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  The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’


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label: Luke
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  One of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee’s house and reclined at table.


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label: Luke
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  And behold, a woman of the city, who was a sinner, when she learned that he was reclining at table in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster flask of ointment,


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  and standing behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment.


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label: Luke
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  Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would have known who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him, for she is a sinner.”


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label: Luke
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  And Jesus answering said to him, “Simon, I have something to say to you.” And he answered, “Say it, Teacher.”


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label: Luke
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  Simon answered, “The one, I suppose, for whom he cancelled the larger debt.” And he said to him, “You have judged rightly.”


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label: Luke
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  Then turning toward the woman he said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.


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label: Luke
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  Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven—for she loved much. But he who is forgiven little, loves little.”


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label: Luke
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  Then those who were at table with him began to say among themselves, “Who is this, who even forgives sins?”


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label: Luke
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  Soon afterward he went on through cities and villages, proclaiming and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God. And the twelve were with him,


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label: Luke
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  and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out,


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label: Luke
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  and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod’s household manager, and Susanna, and many others, who provided for them out of their means.


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label: Luke
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  And when a great crowd was gathering and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable,


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label: Luke
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  “A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell along the path and was trampled underfoot, and the birds of the air devoured it.


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label: Luke
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  And some fell into good soil and grew and yielded a hundredfold.” As he said these things, he called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”


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label: Luke
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  he said, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but for others they are in parables, so that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’


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label: Luke
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  The ones along the path are those who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved.


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label: Luke
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  And the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear the word, receive it with joy. But these have no root; they believe for a while, and in time of testing fall away.


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label: Luke
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  And as for what fell among the thorns, they are those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature.


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label: Luke
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  As for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patience.


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label: Luke
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  “No one after lighting a lamp covers it with a jar or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a stand, so that those who enter may see the light.


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label: Luke
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  For nothing is hidden that will not be made manifest, nor is anything secret that will not be known and come to light.


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label: Luke
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  Take care then how you hear, for to the one who has, more will be given, and from the one who has not, even what he thinks that he has will be taken away.”


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label: Luke
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  One day he got into a boat with his disciples, and he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side of the lake.” So they set out,


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label: Luke
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  and as they sailed he fell asleep. And a windstorm came down on the lake, and they were filling with water and were in danger.


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label: Luke
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  And they went and woke him, saying, “Master, Master, we are perishing!” And he awoke and rebuked the wind and the raging waves, and they ceased, and there was a calm.


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label: Luke
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  He said to them, “Where is your faith?” And they were afraid, and they marveled, saying to one another, “Who then is this, that he commands even winds and water, and they obey him?”


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label: Luke
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  When Jesus had stepped out on land, there met him a man from the city who had demons. For a long time he had worn no clothes, and he had not lived in a house but among the tombs.


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label: Luke
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  When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell down before him and said with a loud voice, “What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, do not torment me.”


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label: Luke
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  For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. (For many a time it had seized him. He was kept under guard and bound with chains and shackles, but he would break the bonds and be driven by the demon into the desert.)


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  Now a large herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside, and they begged him to let them enter these. So he gave them permission.


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label: Luke
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  Then the demons came out of the man and entered the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and drowned.


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  Then people went out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus and found the man from whom the demons had gone, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid.


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label: Luke
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  Then all the people of the surrounding country of the Gerasenes asked him to depart from them, for they were seized with great fear. So he got into the boat and returned.


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  The man from whom the demons had gone begged that he might be with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying,


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  “Return to your home, and declare how much God has done for you.” And he went away, proclaiming throughout the whole city how much Jesus had done for him.


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  And there came a man named Jairus, who was a ruler of the synagogue. And falling at Jesus’ feet, he implored him to come to his house,


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label: Luke
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  for he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. As Jesus went, the people pressed around him.


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label: Luke
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  And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and though she had spent all her living on physicians, she could not be healed by anyone.


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label: Luke
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  She came up behind him and touched the fringe of his garment, and immediately her discharge of blood ceased.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And Jesus said, “Who was it that touched me?” When all denied it, Peter said, “Master, the crowds surround you and are pressing in on you!”


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  And when the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling, and falling down before him declared in the presence of all the people why she had touched him, and how she had been immediately healed.


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  While he was still speaking, someone from the ruler’s house came and said, “Your daughter is dead; do not trouble the Teacher any more.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  And when he came to the house, he allowed no one to enter with him, except Peter and John and James, and the father and mother of the child.


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  And all were weeping and mourning for her, but he said, “Do not weep, for she is not dead but sleeping.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  And her spirit returned, and she got up at once. And he directed that something should be given her to eat.


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  And he called the twelve together and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases,


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  And he said to them, “Take nothing for your journey, no staff, nor bag, nor bread, nor money; and do not have two tunics.


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label: Luke
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  And wherever they do not receive you, when you leave that town shake off the dust from your feet as a testimony against them.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  Now Herod the tetrarch heard about all that was happening, and he was perplexed, because it was said by some that John had been raised from the dead,


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  Herod said, “John I beheaded, but who is this about whom I hear such things?” And he sought to see him.


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label: Luke
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  On their return the apostles told him all that they had done. And he took them and withdrew apart to a town called Bethsaida.


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label: Luke
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  When the crowds learned it, they followed him, and he welcomed them and spoke to them of the kingdom of God and cured those who had need of healing.


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  Now the day began to wear away, and the twelve came and said to him, “Send the crowd away to go into the surrounding villages and countryside to find lodging and get provisions, for we are here in a desolate place.”


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label: Luke
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  But he said to them, “You give them something to eat.” They said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish—unless we are to go and buy food for all these people.”


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label: Luke
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  For there were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, “Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  And taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and said a blessing over them. Then he broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples to set before the crowd.


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label: Luke
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  And they all ate and were satisfied. And what was left over was picked up, twelve baskets of broken pieces.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  Now it happened that as he was praying alone, the disciples were with him. And he asked them, “Who do the crowds say that I am?”


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label: Luke
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  And they answered, “John the Baptist. But others say, Elijah, and others, that one of the prophets of old has risen.”


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label: Luke
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  saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.


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label: Luke
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  For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  But I tell you truly, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  Now about eight days after these sayings he took with him Peter and John and James and went up on the mountain to pray.


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label: Luke
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  And as he was praying, the appearance of his face was altered, and his clothing became dazzling white.


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label: Luke
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  Now Peter and those who were with him were heavy with sleep, but when they became fully awake they saw his glory and the two men who stood with him.


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  And as the men were parting from him, Peter said to Jesus, “Master, it is good that we are here. Let us make three tents, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah”—not knowing what he said.


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label: Luke
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  As he was saying these things, a cloud came and overshadowed them, and they were afraid as they entered the cloud.


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  And when the voice had spoken, Jesus was found alone. And they kept silent and told no one in those days anything of what they had seen.


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label: Luke
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  And behold, a man from the crowd cried out, “Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, for he is my only child.


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label: Luke
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  And behold, a spirit seizes him, and he suddenly cries out. It convulses him so that he foams at the mouth, and shatters him, and will hardly leave him.


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  Jesus answered, “O faithless and twisted generation, how long am I to be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  While he was coming, the demon threw him to the ground and convulsed him. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit and healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  And all were astonished at the majesty of God. But while they were all marveling at everything he was doing, Jesus said to his disciples,


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  “Let these words sink into your ears: The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men.”


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label: Luke
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  But they did not understand this saying, and it was concealed from them, so that they might not perceive it. And they were afraid to ask him about this saying.


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label: Luke
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  and said to them, “Whoever receives this child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For he who is least among you all is the one who is great.”


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label: Luke
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  John answered, “Master, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he does not follow with us.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  And he sent messengers ahead of him, who went and entered a village of the Samaritans, to make preparations for him.


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  And when his disciples James and John saw it, they said, “Lord, do you want us to tell fire to come down from heaven and consume them?”


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  And Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead. But as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.” 


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go.


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label: Luke
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  And he said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.


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label: Luke
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  And remain in the same house, eating and drinking what they provide, for the laborer deserves his wages. Do not go from house to house.


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label: Luke
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  ‘Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that the kingdom of God has come near.’


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label: Luke
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  “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.


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label: Luke
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  “The one who hears you hears me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects him who sent me.”


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label: Luke
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  Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you.


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label: Luke
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  Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”


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label: Luke
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  In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.


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label: Luke
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  All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  For I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  Jesus replied, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead.


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label: Luke
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  Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side.


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label: Luke
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  He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him.


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  And the next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, ‘Take care of him, and whatever more you spend, I will repay you when I come back.’


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label: Luke
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  Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village. And a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house.


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label: Luke
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  But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she went up to him and said, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me.”


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label: Luke
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  but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.” 


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  Now Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.”


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label: Luke
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  and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation.”


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label: Luke
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  And he said to them, “Which of you who has a friend will go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves,


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label: Luke
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  and he will answer from within, ‘Do not bother me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I cannot get up and give you anything’?


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label: Luke
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  I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his impudence he will rise and give him whatever he needs.


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label: Luke
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  And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.


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label: Luke
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  If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”


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label: Luke
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  Now he was casting out a demon that was mute. When the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke, and the people marveled.


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and a divided household falls.


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  And if Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebul.


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  But if it is by the finger of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.


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label: Luke
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  but when one stronger than he attacks him and overcomes him, he takes away his armor in which he trusted and divides his spoil.


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label: Luke
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  “When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and finding none it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’


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label: Luke
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  Then it goes and brings seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there. And the last state of that person is worse than the first.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  As he said these things, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts at which you nursed!”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  When the crowds were increasing, he began to say, “This generation is an evil generation. It seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.


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label: Luke
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  “No one after lighting a lamp puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, so that those who enter may see the light.


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label: Luke
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  Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is bad, your body is full of darkness.


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label: Luke
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  If then your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly bright, as when a lamp with its rays gives you light.”


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  While Jesus was speaking, a Pharisee asked him to dine with him, so he went in and reclined at table.


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  And the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  “But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seat in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces.


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  And he said, “Woe to you lawyers also! For you load people with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.


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label: Luke
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  So you are witnesses and you consent to the deeds of your fathers, for they killed them, and you build their tombs.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  Therefore also the Wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,’


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label: Luke
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  so that the blood of all the prophets, shed from the foundation of the world, may be charged against this generation,


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label: Luke
content:
  from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation.


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering.”


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label: Luke
content:
  As he went away from there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press him hard and to provoke him to speak about many things,


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label: Luke
content:
  In the meantime, when so many thousands of the people had gathered together that they were trampling one another, he began to say to his disciples first, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.


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label: Luke
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  Therefore whatever you have said in the dark shall be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in private rooms shall be proclaimed on the housetops.


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  “I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do.


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  But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him!


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  Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows.


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  “And I tell you, everyone who acknowledges me before men, the Son of Man also will acknowledge before the angels of God,


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  And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but the one who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.


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  And when they bring you before the synagogues and the rulers and the authorities, do not be anxious about how you should defend yourself or what you should say,


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  And he said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”


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  And he said, ‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.


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  And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.”’


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  But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’


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  And he said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on.


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  Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds!


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  Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.


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  But if God so clothes the grass, which is alive in the field today, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith!


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  Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.


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  and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the wedding feast, so that they may open the door to him at once when he comes and knocks.


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  Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will dress himself for service and have them recline at table, and he will come and serve them.


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  But know this, that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have left his house to be broken into.


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  And the Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom his master will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the proper time?


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  But if that servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk,


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  the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces and put him with the unfaithful.


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  And that servant who knew his master’s will but did not get ready or act according to his will, will receive a severe beating.


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  But the one who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, will receive a light beating. Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more.


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  They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”


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  He also said to the crowds, “When you see a cloud rising in the west, you say at once, ‘A shower is coming.’ And so it happens.


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  You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky, but why do you not know how to interpret the present time?


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  As you go with your accuser before the magistrate, make an effort to settle with him on the way, lest he drag you to the judge, and the judge hand you over to the officer, and the officer put you in prison.


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  There were some present at that very time who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.


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  And he answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered in this way?


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  Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them: do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who lived in Jerusalem?


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label: Luke
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  And he told this parable: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none.


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  And he said to the vinedresser, ‘Look, for three years now I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and I find none. Cut it down. Why should it use up the ground?’


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  And behold, there was a woman who had had a disabling spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not fully straighten herself.


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  When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said to her, “Woman, you are freed from your disability.”


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  But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the people, “There are six days in which work ought to be done. Come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day.”


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  Then the Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger and lead it away to water it?


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  And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?”


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  As he said these things, all his adversaries were put to shame, and all the people rejoiced at all the glorious things that were done by him.


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  It is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his garden, and it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air made nests in its branches.”


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  “Strive to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.


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  When once the master of the house has risen and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, open to us,’ then he will answer you, ‘I do not know where you come from.’


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  But he will say, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of evil!’


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  In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but you yourselves cast out.


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  And people will come from east and west, and from north and south, and recline at table in the kingdom of God.


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label: Luke
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  At that very hour some Pharisees came and said to him, “Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you.”


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label: Luke
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  And he said to them, “Go and tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I finish my course.


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  Nevertheless, I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the day following, for it cannot be that a prophet should perish away from Jerusalem.’


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  O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!


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  Behold, your house is forsaken. And I tell you, you will not see me until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’” 


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  One Sabbath, when he went to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, they were watching him carefully.


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label: Luke
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  And Jesus responded to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?”


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label: Luke
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  And he said to them, “Which of you, having a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?”


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label: Luke
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  Now he told a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the places of honor, saying to them,


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  “When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest someone more distinguished than you be invited by him,


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  and he who invited you both will come and say to you, ‘Give your place to this person,’ and then you will begin with shame to take the lowest place.


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  But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when your host comes he may say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at table with you.


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  He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid.


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  and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”


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  When one of those who reclined at table with him heard these things, he said to him, “Blessed is everyone who will eat bread in the kingdom of God!”


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  And at the time for the banquet he sent his servant to say to those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is now ready.’


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label: Luke
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  But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. Please have me excused.’


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label: Luke
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  And another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to examine them. Please have me excused.’


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label: Luke
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  So the servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house became angry and said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly to the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor and crippled and blind and lame.’


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label: Luke
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  And the master said to the servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedges and compel people to come in, that my house may be filled.


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label: Luke
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  “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.


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  For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?


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  Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him,


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label: Luke
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  Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?


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  And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace.


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label: Luke
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  It is of no use either for the soil or for the manure pile. It is thrown away. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.” 


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  “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?


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  And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.’


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  Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.


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  “Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, 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 together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.’


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label: Luke
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  And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of property that is coming to me.’ And he divided his property between them.


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label: Luke
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  Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living.


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label: Luke
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  And when he had spent everything, a severe famine arose in that country, and he began to be in need.


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label: Luke
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  So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.


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label: Luke
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  “But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have more than enough bread, but I perish here with hunger!


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label: Luke
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  I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you.


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label: Luke
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  And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.


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label: Luke
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  And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’


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label: Luke
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  But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring quickly the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet.


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label: Luke
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  For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.’ And they began to celebrate.


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label: Luke
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  “Now his older son was in the field, and as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing.


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label: Luke
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  And he said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and sound.’


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label: Luke
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  but he answered his father, ‘Look, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed your command, yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.


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label: Luke
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  But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your property with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!’


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label: Luke
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  It was fitting to celebrate and be glad, for this your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost, and is found.’” 


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label: Luke
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  He also said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his possessions.


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  And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’


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label: Luke
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  And the manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg.


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label: Luke
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  I have decided what to do, so that when I am removed from management, people may receive me into their houses.’


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label: Luke
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  So, summoning his master’s debtors one by one, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’


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label: Luke
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  He said, ‘A hundred measures of oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’


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label: Luke
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  Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A hundred measures of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’


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label: Luke
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  The master commended the dishonest manager for his shrewdness. For the sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light.


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label: Luke
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  And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous wealth, so that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal dwellings.


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label: Luke
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  “One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.


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  If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches?


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label: Luke
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  And if you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own?


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label: Luke
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  No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”


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label: Luke
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  And he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.


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label: Luke
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  “The Law and the Prophets were until John; since then the good news of the kingdom of God is preached, and everyone forces his way into it.


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label: Luke
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  “Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.


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label: Luke
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  “There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day.


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label: Luke
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  who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores.


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label: Luke
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  The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried,


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label: Luke
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  and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side.


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label: Luke
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  And he called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in this flame.’


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label: Luke
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  But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish.


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label: Luke
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  And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.’


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label: Luke
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  He said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead.’” 


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label: Luke
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  And he said to his disciples, “Temptations to sin are sure to come, but woe to the one through whom they come!


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label: Luke
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  It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin.


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label: Luke
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  and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”


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label: Luke
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  And the Lord said, “If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.


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  “Will any one of you who has a servant plowing or keeping sheep say to him when he has come in from the field, ‘Come at once and recline at table’?


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label: Luke
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  Will he not rather say to him, ‘Prepare supper for me, and dress properly, and serve me while I eat and drink, and afterward you will eat and drink’?


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label: Luke
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  So you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done what was our duty.’”


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label: Luke
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  When he saw them he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went they were cleansed.


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label: Luke
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  Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, he answered them, “The kingdom of God is not coming in ways that can be observed,


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label: Luke
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  nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There!’ for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.”


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label: Luke
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  And he said to the disciples, “The days are coming when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.


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label: Luke
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  For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.


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  They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.


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label: Luke
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  Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot—they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building,


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label: Luke
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  but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all—


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label: Luke
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  On that day, let the one who is on the housetop, with his goods in the house, not come down to take them away, and likewise let the one who is in the field not turn back.


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label: Luke
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  And they said to him, “Where, Lord?” He said to them, “Where the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.” 


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label: Luke
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  And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’


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label: Luke
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  For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man,


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label: Luke
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  yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.’”


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label: Luke
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  And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them?


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label: Luke
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  I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”


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label: Luke
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  He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt:


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label: Luke
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  The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.


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label: Luke
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  But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’


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label: Luke
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  I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”


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  Now they were bringing even infants to him that he might touch them. And when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them.


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label: Luke
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  But Jesus called them to him, saying, “Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.


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label: Luke
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  You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery, Do not murder, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother.’”


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label: Luke
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  When Jesus heard this, he said to him, “One thing you still lack. Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”


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label: Luke
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  Jesus, seeing that he had become sad, said, “How difficult it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!


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label: Luke
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  For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”


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label: Luke
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  And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God,


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  And taking the twelve, he said to them, “See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written about the Son of Man by the prophets will be accomplished.


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  For he will be delivered over to the Gentiles and will be mocked and shamefully treated and spit upon.


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label: Luke
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  But they understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they did not grasp what was said.


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label: Luke
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  And those who were in front rebuked him, telling him to be silent. But he cried out all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”


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label: Luke
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  And immediately he recovered his sight and followed him, glorifying God. And all the people, when they saw it, gave praise to God. 


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label: Luke
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  And he was seeking to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was small in stature.


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label: Luke
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  So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was about to pass that way.


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label: Luke
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  And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for I must stay at your house today.”


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label: Luke
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  And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor. And if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I restore it fourfold.”


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label: Luke
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  As they heard these things, he proceeded to tell a parable, because he was near to Jerusalem, and because they supposed that the kingdom of God was to appear immediately.


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label: Luke
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  He said therefore, “A nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and then return.


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label: Luke
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  Calling ten of his servants, he gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Engage in business until I come.’


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label: Luke
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  But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’


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label: Luke
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  When he returned, having received the kingdom, he ordered these servants to whom he had given the money to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by doing business.


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label: Luke
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  And he said to him, ‘Well done, good servant! Because you have been faithful in a very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.’


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  for I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man. You take what you did not deposit, and reap what you did not sow.’


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  He said to him, ‘I will condemn you with your own words, you wicked servant! You knew that I was a severe man, taking what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  Why then did you not put my money in the bank, and at my coming I might have collected it with interest?’


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  And he said to those who stood by, ‘Take the mina from him, and give it to the one who has the ten minas.’


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  ‘I tell you that to everyone who has, more will be given, but from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  But as for these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slaughter them before me.’”


book: Luke
label: Luke
content:
  When he drew near to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount that is called Olivet, he sent two of the disciples,


book: Luke
label: Luke
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  saying, “Go into the village in front of you, where on entering you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever yet sat. Untie it and bring it here.


