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as it is written in Isaiah the prophet: “I will send my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way”—
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And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.”
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The people were all so amazed that they asked each other, “What is this? A new teaching—and with authority! He even gives orders to impure spirits and they obey him.”
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and when they found him, they exclaimed: “Everyone is looking for you!”
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Jesus replied, “Let us go somewhere else—to the nearby villages—so I can preach there also. That is why I have come.”
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Which is easier: to say to this paralyzed man, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, take your mat and walk’?
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On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
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Jesus Questioned About Fasting
Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. Some people came and asked Jesus, “How is it that John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees are fasting, but yours are not?”
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Jesus answered, “How can the guests of the bridegroom fast while he is with them? They cannot, so long as they have him with them.
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Jesus Is Lord of the Sabbath
One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain.
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The Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?”
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In the days of Abiathar the high priest, he entered the house of God and ate the consecrated bread, which is lawful only for priests to eat. And he also gave some to his companions.”
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So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”
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Then Jesus asked them, “Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?” But they remained silent.
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But he gave them strict orders not to tell others about him.
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and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.
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When his family heard about this, they went to take charge of him, for they said, “He is out of his mind.”
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And the teachers of the law who came down from Jerusalem said, “He is possessed by Beelzebul! By the prince of demons he is driving out demons.”
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If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
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If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
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And if Satan opposes himself and is divided, he cannot stand; his end has come.
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Whoever does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother.”
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When he was alone, the Twelve and the others around him asked him about the parables.
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He told them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables
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Some people are like seed along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.
