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Two days later there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and Jesus' mother was present.

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Among the Pharisees there was a man named Nicodemus, a leader among the Jews.

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So when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had been told that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John??2 though it was not Jesus himself who baptized them, but his disciples??3 he left Judea and went back again to Galilee.

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He came to give testimony, to testify to the light, so that everyone might come to believe in it through him.

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And he made a lash out of rope, and drove them all, sheep and cattle, out of the Temple, and scattered the money-changers' coins on the ground, and overturned their tables.

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A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink."

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The wind blows wherever it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. That is the way with everyone who owes his birth to the Spirit."

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The sick man answered, "I have nobody, sir, to put me into the pool when the water stirs, but while I am getting down someone else steps in ahead of me."

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so that you may be reliably informed about the things you have been taught.

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This man went to Jesus one night, and said to him, "Master, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one can show the signs that you do, unless God is with him."

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Now these were the circumstances of the birth of Jesus Christ. Mary, his mother, was engaged to Joseph, but before they were married it was found that she was about to become a mother through the influence of the holy Spirit.

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Then an expert in the Law got up to test him and said, "Master, what must I do to make sure of eternal life?"

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and said to them, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up into the sky? This very Jesus who has been caught up from you into heaven will come in just the way that you have seen him go up to heaven."

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My brothers, what is the good of a man's saying he has faith, if he has no good deeds to show? Can faith save him?

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Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into union with Christ Jesus have been baptized into his death?

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Teach the older women, too, to be reverent in their behavior, and not to gossip or be slaves of drink, but to be teachers of what is right,

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But a time is coming??t is already here!??hen the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and sincerity, for the Father wants such worshipers.

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In those days an edict was issued by the Emperor Augustus that a census of the whole world should be taken.

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Do not be surprised at this, for the time is coming when all who are in their graves will listen to his voice,

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They are children of the world; that is why they speak as the world directs, and the world listens to them.

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When it was evening on that first day after the Sabbath, and the doors of the house where the disciples met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came in and stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you!"

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After this there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

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"Go in at the narrow gate. For the road that leads to destruction is broad and spacious, and there are many who go in by it.

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And he said, "A man had two sons.

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For it is always the one who asks who receives, and the one who searches who finds, and the one who knocks to whom the door opens.

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"You are the salt of the earth! But if salt loses its strength, how can it be made salt again? It is good for nothing but to be thrown away and trodden underfoot.

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For his disciples had gone into the town to buy some food.

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On the day after the Sabbath, very early in the morning while it was still dark, Mary of Magdala went to the tomb, and she saw that the stone had been removed from it.

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Philip answered, "Forty dollars' worth of bread would not be enough for each of them to have even a little."

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One Sabbath, when he went to take a meal at the house of a member of the council who was a Pharisee, they were watching him closely.

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And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath he went to the synagogue, as he was accustomed to do, and stood up to read the Scriptures.

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I left you behind in Crete expressly to correct what defects there were, and to appoint elders in each town, as I directed you??6 men of irreproachable character, who have been married only once, whose children are Christians, free from any suspicion of profligacy or disobedience.

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So Jesus answered them, "I tell you, the Son cannot do anything of his own accord, unless he sees the Father doing it. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does.

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Now after the birth of Jesus at Bethlehem in Judea, in the days of King Herod, astrologers from the east arrived at Jerusalem,

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"It is not for them only that I make this request. It is also for those who through their message come to believe in me.

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The brothers sent Paul and Silas away immediately, in the course of the following night, to Berea. On arriving there they went to the Jewish synagogue.

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For I am convinced that neither death nor life nor angels nor their hierarchies nor the present nor the future

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In my first volume, Theophilus, I dealt with all that Jesus did and taught from the beginning

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Afterward Jesus found him in the Temple, and said to him, "See! You are well again. Give up sin, or something worse may happen to you."

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God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ bless you and give you peace.

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Have you gone through so much, all for nothing???f it really is for nothing!

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As they continued their journey, he came to a certain village, and a woman named Martha welcomed him to her house.

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and you pay attention to the man in the fine clothes and say to him, "Sit here; this is a good place!" and say to the poor man, "Stand up, or sit on the floor at my feet,"

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Once as he was praying in a certain place, when he stopped, one of his disciples said to him, "Master, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples."

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There were great crowds accompanying him, and once he turned and said to them,

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When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, are you more devoted to me than these others are?" Peter said to him, "Yes, Master, you know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Then feed my lambs!"

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Then the Jews addressed him and said, "What sign have you to show us, for acting in this way?"

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It is what existed from the beginning, that we announce; what we have heard, what we have seen with our own eyes, what we have beheld, and touched with our hands; it is the very message of life??2 for life has been revealed, and we have seen it and testify to it and announce to you that eternal life that was with the Father and has been revealed to us??3 it is what we have seen and heard that we announce to you also, so that you may share our fellowship, for our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ,

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Now Saul, still breathing murderous threats against the Lord's disciples, went to the high priest,

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But the man who had been cured did not know who it was, for as there was a crowd there, Jesus had left the place.

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may mercy, peace, and love be granted you in abundance.

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including you who have been called to belong to Jesus Christ??7 to all those in Rome whom God loves, who are called to be his people; God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ bless you and give you peace.

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"Men of Israel, listen to what I say. Jesus of Nazareth, as you know, was a man whom God commended to you by the wonders, portents, and signs that God did right among you through him.

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Then some of his disciples said to one another, "What does he mean when he tells us, 'In a little while you will not see me any longer, and a little while after, you will see me again,' and 'Because I am going away to the Father'?"

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Then I saw a great white throne with a being seated on it from whose presence earth and sky fled so far that they could not be found.

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But he answered, "The man who cured me said to me, 'Pick up your mat and walk.' "

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Now he had to pass through Samaria.

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Many writers have undertaken to compose accounts of the movement which has developed among us,

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After this the Master appointed seventy-two others, and sent them on before him, two by two, to every town or place to which he intended to come.

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When he saw the crowds of people he went up on the mountain. There he seated himself, and when his disciples had come up to him,

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They had no children, for Elizabeth was barren; and they were both advanced in life.

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but on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking spices they had prepared.

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and Judah of Perez and Zerah, whose mother was Tamar. And Perez was the father of Hezron, and Hezron of Aram,

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Now I want to remind you, brothers, of the form in which I presented to you the good news I brought, which you accepted and have stood by,

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After John was arrested, Jesus went into Galilee proclaiming the good news from God,

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He said to her, "Go and call your husband and come back here."

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I tell you, whoever believes in me will do such things as I do, and things greater yet, because I am going to the Father.

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" 'It will come about in the last days, God says, That I will pour out my Spirit upon all mankind; Your sons and daughters will become prophets, Your young men will have visions, And your old men will have dreams.

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There appeared a man by the name of John, with a message from God.

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But now God's way of uprightness has been disclosed without any reference to law, though the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it.

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Give, and they will give to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, they will pour into your lap. For the measure you use with others they in turn will use with you."

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I will show you a far better way. If I can speak the languages of men and even of angels, but have no love, I am only a noisy gong or a clashing cymbal.

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while all the throng of people was outside, praying at the hour of the incense offering.

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And once when he ate with them, he instructed them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for what the Father had promised. "You have heard me speak of it," he said,

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I am amazed that you are so quickly turning away from him who called you by the mercy of Christ, to some different good news??7 not that there is any other, only that there are some people who are trying to unsettle you and want to turn the good news of the Christ around.

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But he said to him, "Who made me a judge or arbitrator of your affairs?"

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Once when he was acting as priest before God, when his division was on duty,

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There were at Antioch in the church there a number of prophets and teachers??arnabas, Symeon who was called Niger, Lucius the Cyrenian, Manaen, who had been brought up with Herod the governor, and Saul.

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No one should think when he is tempted that his temptation comes from God, for God is incapable of being tempted by what is evil, and he does not tempt anyone.

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to my dear child Timothy; God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord bless you and be merciful to you and give you peace.

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And so from one man, for any prospect of descendants as good as dead, there sprang a people in number like the stars in the heavens or the countless sands on the seashore.

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The wine gave out, and Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no more wine!"

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"For it is just like a man who was going on a journey, and called in his slaves, and put his property in their hands.

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and Aram of Aminadab, and Aminadab of Nahshon, and Nahshon of Salmon,

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Once as the crowd was pressing about him to hear God's message, he happened to be standing by the Lake of Gennesaret,

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There was but one heart and soul in the multitude who had become believers, and not one of them claimed anything that belonged to him as his own, but they shared everything they had with one another.

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No, I tell you; unless you repent, you will all perish as they did!

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When Zechariah saw him he was startled and overcome with fear.

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So those who were present asked him, "Master, is this the time when you are going to re-establish the kingdom for Israel?"

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One Sabbath he was teaching in one of the synagogues,

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Jesus answered, "The first one is, 'Hear, Israel! The Lord our God is one lord,

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Such a man must not expect to get anything from the Lord??8 an irresolute person like him, who is uncertain about everything he does.

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But a man named Ananias, who, with his wife Sapphira, had sold a piece of property,

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Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not a kingdom of this world. If my kingdom were a kingdom of this world, my men would have fought to keep me from being handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my kingdom has no such origin."

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When the Sabbath was over, Mary of Magdala, Mary, James's mother, and Salome bought spices, in order to go and anoint him.

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"You are right when you say you have no husband, for you have had five husbands and the man you are now living with is not your husband. What you say is true."

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Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, another of his disciples, said to him,

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For the sun comes up with its scorching heat and dries up the grass, and the flowers wither, and all their beauty is gone. That is the way rich men will fade and die in the midst of their pursuits.

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That same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem,

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For our appeal does not rest on a delusion, nor spring from any impure motive; there is no fraud about it.

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The younger men got up and wrapping his body up carried it out and buried it.

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I warn everyone who hears the message of prophecy in this book read, that if anyone adds anything to it, God will inflict upon him the plagues that are described in this book;

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One of the scribes came up and heard them arguing. He saw that Jesus had answered them well, and he asked him, "Which is the first of all the commands?"

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"Everyone, therefore, who listens to this teaching of mine and acts upon it, will be like a sensible man who built his house on rock.

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As he passed along, he saw a man who had been blind from his birth.

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But I can tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot share in the Kingdom of God, and decay will not share in what is imperishable.

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For I myself received from the Lord the account that I passed on to you, that the Lord Jesus the night he was betrayed took some bread

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"I tell you, any man who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs over at some other place, is a thief and robber.

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It was while Apollos was in Corinth that Paul, after passing through the interior, reached Ephesus. Finding some disciples there,

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"You have heard that they were told, 'You must love your neighbor and hate your enemy.'

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for you know that you have not been ransomed with anything perishable like silver or gold, from the futile way of living in which you were brought up,

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Then I saw thrones with beings seated on them, who were empowered to act as judges. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded on account of the testimony of Jesus and the message of God, who refused to worship the animal and its statue, and would not have its mark put on their foreheads or on their hands. They were restored to life and reigned with the Christ a thousand years.

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And do you suppose, when you sit in judgment upon those who do such things and yet do them yourself, that you will escape the judgment of God?

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and found him and brought him to Antioch. The result was that for a whole year they met with the church, and taught large numbers of people, and it was at Antioch that the disciples first came to be known as Christians.

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it fell to his lot, according to the priests' practice, to go into the sanctuary of the Lord and burn the incense,

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Yet no one has gone up into heaven except the Son of Man who came down from heaven.

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For before the children were born or had done anything either good or bad, in order to carry out God's purpose of selection, which depends not on what men do but on his calling them,

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while here he says again, "They shall never be admitted to my Rest!"

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So the Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that a Jew like you asks a Samaritan woman like me for a drink?" For Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans.

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As they were eating Jesus took a loaf and blessed it, and he broke it in pieces and gave it to his disciples, saying, "Take this and eat it. It is my body!"

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Some days later he came back to Capernaum, and people heard that he was at home,

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When Jesus reached the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, "Who do people say that the Son of Man is?"

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Someone in the crowd said to him, "Master, tell my brother to give me my share of our inheritance."

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Then I saw an angel come down from heaven with the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.

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Now a man named Lazarus was sick; he lived in Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

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As you read that, you will be able to understand the insight I have into the secret of the Christ

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For anyone who obeys the whole of the Law but makes one single slip is guilty of breaking it all.

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Do not wonder at my telling you that you must be born over again from above.

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If your hand makes you fall, cut it off. You might better enter upon life maimed, than go with both your hands to the pit, into the fire that cannot be put out.

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but one who is rich ought to rejoice at being reduced in circumstances, for the rich will disappear like the wild flowers.

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Some people came down from Judea and began to teach the brothers that unless they were circumcised as Moses prescribed, they could not be saved.

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As he was starting again on his journey, a man came running up to him, and knelt at his feet and asked him, "Good master, what must I do to make sure of eternal life?"

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But how are they to call upon him if they have not believed in him? And how are they to believe him if they have never heard him? And how are they to hear unless someone preaches to them?

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All the tax-collectors and irreligious people were crowding up to hear him.

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Therefore I tell you, whenever you pray or ask for anything, have faith that it has been granted you, and you shall have it.

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and to ask that somehow by God's will I may some day at last succeed in reaching you.

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Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?

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"Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten bridesmaids who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.

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Yet you have a few at Sardis who have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me clad in white, for they deserve to.

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in the abundance of his mercy which he has lavished upon us.

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'The very dust of your town that sticks to our feet we wipe off in protest. But understand this: the Kingdom of God is at hand!'

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And he went into Jericho and was passing through it.

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I appeal therefore to those who are elders among you; I am their brother-elder and a witness to what the Christ suffered, and I am to share in the glory that is to be revealed??2 be shepherds of the flock of God that is among you, not as though it were forced upon you but of your own free will, and not from base love of gain but freely,

614

And that testimony is that God has given us eternal life, and that this life is found in his Son.

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This girl would follow Paul and the rest of us, crying out, "These men are slaves of the Most High God, and they are making known to you a way of salvation."

622

And the eleven disciples went to Galilee to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them.

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It was in those days that Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan.

632

For when one man says, "I am a follower of Paul," and another, "I am a follower of Apollos," are you not simply human?

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Jesus himself was about thirty years old when he began his work. He was the son, it was supposed, of Joseph, the son of Eli,

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No one can deny the profundity of the divine truth of our religion! "He was revealed in flesh, He was vindicated by the Spirit, He was seen by the angels, He was proclaimed among the heathen, He was believed in throughout the world, He was taken up into glory."

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That is why God has so greatly exalted him, and given him the name above all others,

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Jesus said to her, "You must not cling to me, for I have not yet gone up to my Father, but go to my brothers and say to them that I am going up to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God."

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When Jesus had said all this he raised his eyes to heaven and said, "Father, the time has come. Do honor to your son, that your son may do honor to you,

661

Just then some people came up to bring him word of the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with that of their sacrifices.

663

"You have heard that the men of old were told 'You shall not murder,' and 'Whoever murders will have to answer to the court.'

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"So when you see the dreadful desecration, of which the prophet Daniel spoke, set up in the Holy Place"??he reader must take note of this??16 "then those who are in Judea must fly to the hills;

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And anyone who listens to this teaching of mine and does not act upon it, will be like a foolish man who built his house on sand.

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So remember that you were once physically heathen, and called uncircumcised by those who called themselves circumcised, though only physically, by human hands.

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and really came to know it, in the form in which Epaphras, my dear fellow-slave, taught it to you. He is my faithful representative as a servant of Christ,

681

After this Jesus again showed himself to the disciples at the Sea of Tiberias, and he did so in this way.

682

In these there used to lie a great number of people who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed.

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On account of this the Jews were all the more eager to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath but actually called God his Father, thus putting himself on an equality with God.

696

For a time will come when they will not listen to wholesome instruction, but will overwhelm themselves with teachers to suit their whims and tickle their fancies,

697

And they did not forget what he said, but discussed with one another what he meant by the rising from the dead.

702

In the fifteenth year of the reign of the Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod governor of Galilee, while his brother Philip was governor of the territory of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was the governor of Abilene,

703

Now the Jewish Passover was approaching, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

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Be very careful, then, about the way you live. Do not act thoughtlessly, but like sensible men,

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For if you have these qualities in their fulness, they will make you neither idle nor unproductive when it comes to the understanding of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Then Peter stood up with the eleven around him, and raising his voice addressed them. "Men of Judea," he said, "and all you residents of Jerusalem, let me explain this to you, and pay attention to what I say.

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standing by the message that can be relied on, just as he was taught it, so that he may be qualified both to encourage others with wholesome teaching and to show the error of those who oppose him.

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But they did not insist that even my companion Titus, although he was a Greek, should be circumcised,

734

Then he fixed his eyes on his disciples, and said, "Blessed are you who are poor, for the Kingdom of God is yours!

744

A man came up to him and said, "Master, what good deed must I do to obtain eternal life?"

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But if their false step has so enriched the world, and their defeat has so enriched the heathen, how much more good the addition of their full number will do!

753

Once as we were on our way to the praying place a slave-girl met us who had the gift of ventriloquism, and made her masters a great deal of money by her fortune-telling.

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I will tell you a secret. We shall not all fall asleep, but we shall all be changed,

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Before Peter had finished saying these words, the holy Spirit fell on all who were listening to his message.

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"To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: " 'The Amen, the true and faithful witness, the origin of God's creation, speaks thus:

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John too was baptizing at Aenon, near Salim, for there was plenty of water there, and people came there and were baptized.

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I have come to bring fire down to the earth, and how I wish it were kindled already!

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In the days when Herod was king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah who belonged to the division of Abijah. His wife was also a descendant of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.

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Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan, to John, to be baptized by him.

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I want you to understand, brothers, that I have often intended to come to see you (though thus far I have been prevented) in order to produce some results among you, as well as among the rest of the heathen.

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Why do you call me: 'Lord! Lord!' and not do what I tell you?

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As they went on along the road, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "Here is some water! What is there to prevent my being baptized?"

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and Josiah of Jeconiah and his brothers, at the period of the Babylonian Exile.

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For the Father loves the Son and lets him see everything that he himself is doing, and he will let him see greater deeds than these, to make you wonder.

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Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead, was living.

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And he said to the pigeon-dealers, "Take these things away! Do not turn my Father's house into a market!"

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I was circumcised when I was eight days old. I am a descendant of Israel. I belong to the tribe of Benjamin. I am a Hebrew, and the son of Hebrews. As to the Law, I was a Pharisee;

816

Even ships, great as they are, and driven by strong winds, are steered with a very small rudder wherever the pilot pleases.

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If those to whom God's message was addressed were called gods??nd the Scripture cannot be set aside??36 do you mean to say to me whom the Father has consecrated and made his messenger to the world, 'You are blasphemous,' because I said, 'I am God's Son'?

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Look at my hands and feet, for it is I myself! Feel of me and see, for a ghost has not flesh and bones, as you see I have."

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After this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, or Tiberias, and a great crowd followed him,

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That same day when it was evening he said to them, "Let us cross to the other side."

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For it makes me exceedingly happy to have some brothers come and testify to the truth of your life, for you are guided by truth.

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Nicodemus said to him, "How can that be?"

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I tell you, on that Day Sodom will fare better than that town!

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There was at Caesarea a man named Cornelius, a captain in what was known as the Italian regiment.

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And they began to discuss with one another which of them it was who was going to do this.

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Now when all the people were baptized and when Jesus also after his baptism was praying, heaven opened

864

After this Jesus went into the country of Judea with his disciples, and stayed there with them and baptized.

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As the time approached when he was to be taken up to heaven, he set his face toward Jerusalem,

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So what I mean and insist upon in the Lord's name is this: You must no longer live like the heathen, with their frivolity of mind and darkened understanding.

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And people brought children to him to have him touch them, but the disciples reproved them for it.

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It was about eight days after Jesus said this that he took Peter, John, and James, and went up on the mountain to pray.

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To him be glory forever and ever! Amen.

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You must remain united to me and I will remain united to you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains united to the vine, you cannot unless you remain united to me.

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For it is impossible to arouse people to a fresh repentance when they have once for all come into the light and had a taste of the gift from heaven, and shared in the holy Spirit

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Not that I have secured it yet, or already reached perfection, but I am pressing on to see if I can capture it, because I have been captured by Jesus Christ.

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And he immediately made his disciples get into the boat and cross before him to the other side while he dismissed the crowds.

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They asked him, "Who was it that said to you, 'Pick it up and walk'?"

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And he said to his disciples, "There was a rich man who had a manager, and it was reported to him that this man was squandering his property.

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Now there were six stone water jars there, for the ceremonial purification practiced by the Jews, each large enough to hold twenty or thirty gallons.

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So they reached the other side of the sea, and landed in the region of Gerasa.

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Is he not clearly speaking in our interests? Of course this law was written in our interests, because the plowman ought to plow, and the thresher to thresh, in the expectation of sharing in the crop.

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For to keep you from thinking too well of yourselves, brothers, I do not want you to miss this secret, that only partial insensibility has come upon Israel, to last until all the heathen have come in,

912

He was once asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God would come, and he answered, "The Kingdom of God is not coming visibly,

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So afterward when he had risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the passage of Scripture and what Jesus had said.

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The Pharisees gathered about him with some scribes who had come from Jerusalem.

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And Saul entirely approved of his being put to death. A great persecution of the church in Jerusalem broke out that day, and they were all scattered over Judea and Samaria except the apostles.

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Yet I think it right, as long as I live in my present tent, to arouse you by a reminder,

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Our forefathers worshiped God on this mountain, and yet you Jews say that the place where people must worship God is at Jerusalem."

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For if we choose to go on sinning after we have so fully learned the truth, there is no sacrifice left to be offered for our sins,

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But do not overlook this one fact, dear friends, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years are like one day.

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The Jews said, "It has taken forty-six years to build this sanctuary, and are you going to raise it in three days?"

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Jesus said to her, "Do not try to direct me. It is not yet time for me to act."

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This is what I said in my letter, so that I might avoid coming and having my feelings hurt by the very people who might have been expected to make me happy, for I felt sure about you all, that what made me happy would make you all happy.

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His disciples asked him what this figure meant.

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Not that I have anything to complain of, for I have learned how to be contented with the condition I am in.

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So they kept saying "What does he mean by 'In a little while'? We do not know what he is talking about."

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and Asa of Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat of Joram, and Joram of Uzziah,

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Then Jesus and his disciples went away to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he questioned his disciples and said to them, "Who do people say that I am?"

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Then Paul stood up in the middle of the council and said, "Men of Athens, from every point of view I see that you are extremely religious.

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Come to him, as to a living stone rejected by men, but chosen and prized in the sight of God,

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Another figure which he used in speaking to them was this: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,

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and if a woman divorces her husband and marries another man, she is an adulteress."

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His parents used to go to Jerusalem every year at the Passover Festival.

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I write you in full reliance upon your obedience; I know that you will do even more than I ask.

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Jesus answered, "Anyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,

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It happened that, on his way to Jerusalem, he passed through Samaria and Galilee.

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Therefore you have no excuse, whoever you are, if you pose as a judge, for when you pass judgment on someone else, you are condemning yourself, for you, who sit in judgment, do the very same things yourself.

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There were many other signs that Jesus showed before his disciples which are not recorded in this book.

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This was why the Jews used to persecute Jesus, because he did things like this on the Sabbath.

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Remember this: The man who sows sparingly will reap sparingly, and the man who sows generously will reap generously.

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While they were still talking of these things, he himself stood among them.

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So I tell you, ask, and what you ask will be given you. Search, and you will find what you search for. Knock, and the door will open to you.

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I am this living bread that has come down out of heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever, and the bread that I will give for the world's life is my own flesh!"

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Every hollow must be filled up, And every mountain and hill leveled. What is crooked is to be made straight, And the rough roads are to be made smooth,

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If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead has taken possession of you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give your mortal bodies life through his Spirit that has taken possession of you.

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"Master, what command is greatest in the Law?"

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And they came to Jericho. As he was leaving the town with his disciples and a great crowd, Timaeus' son Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting at the roadside.

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Everyone there, high and low, made much of him, and said, "He must be what is known as the Great Power of God!"

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And the other one came in and said, 'Here is your twenty dollars, sir. I have kept it put away in a handkerchief,

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But the crowds learned of it and followed him, and he welcomed them and spoke to them about the Kingdom of God, and he cured those who needed to be cured.

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Thus they crossed Phrygia and Galatia. The holy Spirit prevented them from delivering the message in Asia,

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You senseless Galatians! Who has bewitched you, when you had Jesus Christ shown crucified right before your eyes?

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But the leader of the synagogue, in his vexation because Jesus had cured her on the Sabbath, spoke out and said to the crowd, "There are six days on which it is right to work. Come on them and be cured, but not on the Sabbath day."

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and said to them, "The Scriptures said that Christ should suffer as he has done, and rise from the dead on the third day,

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John to the seven churches in Asia, blessing and peace to you from him who is and was and is coming, and from the seven spirits before his throne,

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And he will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. Make your preparations for us there."

1071

When they entered the city they went to the upstairs room where they were staying. There were Peter, John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James, the son of Alpheus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas, the son of James.

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A member of the council asked him, "Good master, what must I do to make sure of eternal life?"

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Then I stood on the sand of the seashore, and I saw an animal come up out of the sea with ten horns and seven heads, and with ten diadems on its horns, and blasphemous titles on its heads.

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One of our hearers was a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple goods, from the town of Thyatira. She was a believer in God, and the Lord touched her heart, and led her to accept Paul's teaching.

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for I know that I must soon put it away, as our Lord Jesus Christ has shown me.

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Soon afterward he happened to go to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a great throng of people were with him.

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Now we know that everything the Law says is addressed to those under its authority, so that every mouth may be shut, and the whole world be made accountable to God.

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So they did so, and inclosed such a shoal of fish that their nets began to break.

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But he knew what they were thinking, and he said to the man with the withered hand, "Get up and stand in front." And he got up and stood there.

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Six days after this Jesus took Peter, James, and John with him, and led them up on a high mountain, off by themselves. And his appearance underwent a change in their presence,

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This is why we must give the very closest attention to the message we have heard, to keep from ever losing our hold upon it.

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Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a snake?

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Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who are scattered as foreigners over Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

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and Hezekiah of Manasseh, and Manasseh of Amon, and Amon of Josiah,

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What does this mean? Are we Jews at a disadvantage? Not at all. We have already charged Jews and Greeks all alike with being under the control of sin.

1116

Many of the Jews read this placard, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.

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Then he said to the man, "Hold out your hand!" And he held it out, and it was restored and became as well as the other.

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When the heathen heard this they were delighted, and praised God's message, and all who were destined for eternal life believed,

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Zechariah said to the angel, "How am I to know that this is so? For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in life."

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No! This is what it says: "God's message is close to you, on your lips and in your mind"??hat is, the message about faith that we preach.

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All this comes from God, who through Christ has reconciled me to himself, and has commissioned me to proclaim this reconciliation??19 how God through Christ reconciled the world to himself, refusing to count men's offenses against them, and intrusted me with the message of reconciliation.

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Six days after this, Jesus took Peter and James and his brother John, and led them up on a high mountain, by themselves.

1130

Jesus replied, "A man was on his way down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he fell into the hands of robbers, and they stripped him and beat him and went off leaving him half dead.

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It was at that time that Peter got up among the brothers??here were about a hundred and twenty persons present??nd said,

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As he was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came up to him by themselves, and said to him, "Tell us when this is to happen, and what will be the sign of your coming, and of the close of the age."

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For I am myself under the orders of others and I have soldiers under me, and I tell one to go, and he goes, and another to come, and he comes, and my slave to do something, and he does it."

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For he is only a hired man, and does not care about the sheep.

1148

The angel said to them, "Do not be frightened, for I bring you good news of a great joy that is to be felt by all the people,

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I know that after I am gone savage wolves will get in among you and will not spare the flock,

1157

You are to become a mother and you will give birth to a son, and you are to name him Jesus.

1158

Jesus said to her, "Believe me, the time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor at Jerusalem.

1163

As they were eating, he took a loaf and blessed it, and he broke it in pieces and gave it to them saying, "Take this. It is my body."

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After this Jesus went down to Capernaum with his mother, his brothers, and his disciples, and they stayed there for a few days.

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In those days Mary set out and hurried to the hill-country, to a town in Judah,

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So the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was caught up into heaven and took his seat at God's right hand.

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So they took him and brought him to the council of the Areopagus and said, "May we know just what this new teaching of yours is?

1174

They will fall by the edge of the sword, and be carried off as prisoners among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled under foot by the heathen, until the time of the heathen comes.

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That was the time of the Rededication Festival at Jerusalem. It was winter time

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Near Jesus' cross stood his mother and her sister Mary, the daughter of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala.

1182

While Paul waited for them at Athens, he was exasperated to see how idolatrous the city was.

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With these words he went on ahead of them, on his way to Jerusalem.

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Some of it fell on rocky ground, and where there was not much soil, and it sprang up at once because the soil was not deep,

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He looked at them, supposing that they were going to give him something.

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For whoever lacks these qualities is blind or near-sighted, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his former sins.

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When King Herod heard of this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

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Paul, a slave of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to arouse faith in those whom God has chosen, and the comprehension of religious truth,

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Dear friends, do not be surprised that a test of fire is being applied to you, as though a strange thing were happening to you,

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When they heard this, they made no further objection, but they gave honor to God, and said, "Then God has given even the heathen repentance and the hope of life!"