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Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
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He will not quarrel or cry out; no one will hear his voice in the streets.
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But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, “It is only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, that this fellow drives out demons.”
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You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
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For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
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Whoever has ears, let them hear.”
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This is why I speak to them in parables: “Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.
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In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: “‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
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For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’
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But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.
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For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.
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When anyone hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in their heart. This is the seed sown along the path.
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The seed falling on rocky ground refers to someone who hears the word and at once receives it with joy.
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The seed falling among the thorns refers to someone who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, making it unfruitful.
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But the seed falling on good soil refers to someone who hears the word and understands it. This is the one who produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.”
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Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Whoever has ears, let them hear.
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John the Baptist Beheaded
At that time Herod the tetrarch heard the reports about Jesus,
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Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand
When Jesus heard what had happened, he withdrew by boat privately to a solitary place. Hearing of this, the crowds followed him on foot from the towns.
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“‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.
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Then the disciples came to him and asked, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this?”
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But the things that come out of a person’s mouth come from the heart, and these defile them.
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For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
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When the disciples heard this, they fell facedown to the ground, terrified.
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“This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother or sister from your heart.”
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Jesus replied, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning.
