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Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, "Teacher, what should we do?"

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 in the field."

When he was alone, those around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.

Now when Jesus had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about the parable.

Then they asked him, "Why do the experts in the law say that Elijah must come first?"


In the house once again, the disciples asked him about this.

"Tell us, when will these things happen? And what will be the sign that all these things are about to take place?"

Now Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he stopped, one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples."

Now a certain ruler asked him, "Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?"

So then they said to him, "What must we do to accomplish the deeds God requires?"


Then when they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these do?" He replied, "Yes, Lord, you know I love you." Jesus told him, "Feed my lambs."





Then their children, who have not known this law, will also hear about and learn to fear the Lord your God for as long as you live in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess."

He established a rule in Jacob; he set up a law in Israel. He commanded our ancestors to make his deeds known to their descendants,

Who is the Lord trying to teach? To whom is he explaining a message? Those just weaned from milk! Those just taken from their mother's breast!





and to teach the Israelites all the statutes that the Lord has spoken to them through Moses."

so that the next generation, children yet to be born, might know about them. They will grow up and tell their descendants about them.

Moreover, they will teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to distinguish between the ceremonially unclean and the clean.



But they mocked God's messengers, despised his warnings, and ridiculed his prophets. Finally the Lord got very angry at his people and there was no one who could prevent his judgment.



The messengers journeyed from city to city through the land of Ephraim and Manasseh as far as Zebulun, but people mocked and ridiculed them.




Joshua read aloud every commandment Moses had given before the whole assembly of Israel, including the women, children, and resident foreigners who lived among them.


Throughout his lifetime Jehoash did what the Lord approved, just as Jehoiada the priest taught him.




His God instructs him; he teaches him the principles of agriculture.

O God, you have taught me since I was young, and I am still declaring your amazing deeds.

Indeed this is what the Lord told me. He took hold of me firmly and warned me not to act like these people:


Now as for you, the anointing that you received from him resides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things, it is true and is not a lie. Just as it has taught you, you reside in him.




Look! I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the Lord my God told me to do, so that you might carry them out in the land you are about to enter and possess.


It is written in the prophets, 'And they will all be taught by God.' Everyone who hears and learns from the Father comes to me.

Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things that are freely given to us by God.


if indeed you heard about him and were taught in him, just as the truth is in Jesus.







In this way they will save up a treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the future and so lay hold of what is truly life.

"The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure, hidden in a field, that a person found and hid. Then because of joy he went and sold all that he had and bought that field.

But accumulate for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal.



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