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He will bring back many of the people of Israel to the Lord their God.
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He has helped his servant Israel, remembering to be merciful
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“Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, because he has come to his people and redeemed them.
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And the child grew and became strong in spirit; and he lived in the wilderness until he appeared publicly to Israel.
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Now there was a man in Jerusalem called Simeon, who was righteous and devout. He was waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.
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a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory of your people Israel.”
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Then Simeon blessed them and said to Mary, his mother: “This child is destined to cause the falling and rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be spoken against,
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I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land.
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And there were many in Israel with leprosy in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian.”
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When Jesus heard this, he was amazed at him, and turning to the crowd following him, he said, “I tell you, I have not found such great faith even in Israel.”
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so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
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but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. And what is more, it is the third day since all this took place.
