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The Radical Love of Jesus · Abide Meditation App

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Speaker 1: John chapter fifteen. I am the true vine, and my
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Speaker 1: father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in
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Speaker 1: me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does
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Speaker 1: bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even
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Speaker 1: more fruitful. You are already clean because of the word
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Speaker 1: I have spoken to you. Remain in me as I
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Speaker 1: also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself.
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Speaker 1: It must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear
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Speaker 1: fruit unless you remain in me. I am the vine.
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Speaker 1: You are the branches. If you remain in me and
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Speaker 1: I in you, you will bear much fruit. Apart from me,
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Speaker 1: you can do nothing. If you do not remain in me.
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Speaker 1: You are like a branch that is thrown away and withers.
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Speaker 1: Such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire, and burned.
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Speaker 1: If you remain in me and my words remain in you,
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Speaker 1: ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
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Speaker 1: This is to my father's glory that you bear much fruit,
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Speaker 1: showing yourselves to be my disciples. As the Father has
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Speaker 1: loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in
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Speaker 1: my love. If you keep my commands, you will remain
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Speaker 1: in my love, just as I have kept my father's
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Speaker 1: commands and remain in his love. I have told you
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Speaker 1: this so that my joy may be in you, and
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Speaker 1: that your joy may be complete. My command is this,
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Speaker 1: love each other as I have loved you. Greater love
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Speaker 1: has no one than this, to lay down one's life
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Speaker 1: for one's friends. You are my friends if you do
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Speaker 1: what I command. I no longer call you servants, because
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Speaker 1: a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I
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Speaker 1: have called you friends. For everything that I learned from
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Speaker 1: my father, I have made known to you. You did
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Speaker 1: not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you
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Speaker 1: so that you might go and bear fruit, fruit that
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Speaker 1: will last, and so that whatever you ask in my name,
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Speaker 1: the Father will give you. This is my command. Love
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Speaker 1: each other. If the world hates you, keep in mind
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Speaker 1: that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world,
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Speaker 1: it would love you as its own. As it is.
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Speaker 1: You do not belong to the world. But I have
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Speaker 1: chosen you out of the world. That is why the
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Speaker 1: world hates you. Remember what I told you. A servant
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Speaker 1: is not greater than his master. If they persecuted me,
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Speaker 1: they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching.
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Speaker 1: They will obey yours. Also. They will treat you this
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Speaker 1: way because of my name, for they do not know
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Speaker 1: the one who sent me. If I had not come
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Speaker 1: and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin.
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Speaker 1: But now they have no excuse for their sin. Whoever
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Speaker 1: hates me hates my father as well. If I had
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Speaker 1: not done among them the works no one else did,
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Speaker 1: they would not be guilty of sin. As it is
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Speaker 1: they have seen. And yet they have hated both me
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Speaker 1: and my father. But this is to fulfill what is
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Speaker 1: written in their law. They hated me without recadon. When
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Speaker 1: the advocate comes, whom I will send to you from
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Speaker 1: the Father, the spirit of truth, who goes out from
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Speaker 1: the Father, he will testify about me. And you also
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Speaker 1: must testify, for you have been with me from the
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Speaker 1: beginning Luke, chapter twenty three. Then the whole assembly rose
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Speaker 1: and led him off to Pilot, and they began to
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Speaker 1: accuse him, saying, we have found this man subverting our nation.
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Speaker 1: He opposes payment of taxes to Caesar and claims to
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Speaker 1: be Messiah, a king. So Pilot asked, Jesus, are you
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Speaker 1: the king of the Jews. You have said so, Jesus replied,
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Speaker 1: Then Pilot announced to the chief priests and the crowd,
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Speaker 1: I find no basis for a charge against this man,
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Speaker 1: but they insisted he stirs up the people all over
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Speaker 1: Judea by his teaching. He started in Galilee and has
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Speaker 1: come all the way here. On hearing this, Pilot asked
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Speaker 1: if the man was a Galilean. When he learned that
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Speaker 1: Jesus was under Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod,
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Speaker 1: who was also in Jerusalem at that time. When Herod
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Speaker 1: saw Jesus, he was greatly pleased, because for a long
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Speaker 1: time he had been wanting to see him from what
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Speaker 1: he had heard about him. He hoped to see him
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Speaker 1: perform a sign of some sort. He plied him with
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Speaker 1: many questions, but Jesus gave him no answer. The chief
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Speaker 1: priests and the teachers of the law were standing there
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Speaker 1: vehemently accusing him. Then Herod and his soldiers ridiculed and
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Speaker 1: mocked him, dressing him in an elegant robe. They sent
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Speaker 1: him back to Pilot that day. Herod and Pilot became friends.
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Speaker 1: Before this, they had been enemies. Pilot called together the
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Speaker 1: chief priests, the rulers, and the people, and said to them,
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Speaker 1: you brought me this man as one who was inciting
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Speaker 1: the people to rebellion. I have examined him in your
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Speaker 1: presence and have found no basis for your charges against him.
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Speaker 1: Neither has Herod, for he sent him back to us.
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Speaker 1: As you can see, he has done nothing to deserve death. Therefore,
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Speaker 1: I will punish him and then release him. But the
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Speaker 1: whole crowd shouted away, with this man, release Barabbas to us.
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Speaker 1: Barabbas had been thrown into prison for an insurrection in
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Speaker 1: the city and for murder. Wanting to release Jesus, Pilot
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Speaker 1: appealed to them again, but they kept shouting, crucify him,
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Speaker 1: crucify him. For the third time, he spoke to them,
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Speaker 1: why what crime has this man committed? I have found
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Speaker 1: in him no grounds for the death penalty. Therefore I
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Speaker 1: will have him punished and then release him. But with
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Speaker 1: loud shouts, they insistently demanded that he be crucified, and
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Speaker 1: their shouts prevailed, so Pilate decided to grant their demand.
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Speaker 1: He released the man who had been thrown into prison
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Speaker 1: for insurrection and murder, the one they asked for, and
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Speaker 1: surrendered Jesus to their will. As the soldiers led him away,
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Speaker 1: they seized Simon from Syreene, who was on his way
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Speaker 1: in from the country, and put the cross on him
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Speaker 1: and made him carry it behind Jesus. A large number
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Speaker 1: of people followed him, including women who mourned and wailed
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Speaker 1: for him. Jesus turned and said to them, daughters of Jerusalem,
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Speaker 1: do not weep for me. Weep for yourselves and for
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Speaker 1: your children. For the time will come when you will say,
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Speaker 1: blessed are the childless women, the wombs that never bore,
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Speaker 1: and the breasts that never nursed. Then they will say,
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Speaker 1: to the mountains fall on us, and to the hills
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Speaker 1: cover us. For if people do these things when the
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Speaker 1: tree is green, what will happen when it is dry.
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Speaker 1: Two other men, both criminals, were also led out with
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Speaker 1: him to be executed. When they came to the place
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Speaker 1: called the Skull, they crucified him there along with the criminals,
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Speaker 1: one on his right, the other on his left. Jesus said, Father,
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Speaker 1: forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing,
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Speaker 1: and they divided up his clothes by castle lots. The
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Speaker 1: people stood watching, and the rulers even sneered at him.
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Speaker 1: They said, he saved others, let him save himself. If
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Speaker 1: he is God's Messiah, the chosen one. The soldiers also
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Speaker 1: came up and mocked him. They offered him wine vinegar
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Speaker 1: and said, if you are the king of the Jews,
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Speaker 1: save yourself. There was a written notice above him which read,
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Speaker 1: this is the king of the Jews. One of the
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Speaker 1: criminals who hung there hurled insults at him, aren't you
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Speaker 1: the Messiah? Save yourself and us? But the other criminal
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Speaker 1: rebuked him, don't you fear God? He said, since you
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Speaker 1: are under the same sentence. We are punished justly, for
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Speaker 1: we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man
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Speaker 1: has done nothing wrong. Then he said, Jesus, remember me
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Speaker 1: when you come into your kingdom. Jesus answered him, truly,
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Speaker 1: I tell you today you will be with me in Paradise.
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Speaker 1: It was now about noon, and darkness came over the
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Speaker 1: whole land until three in the afternoon. For the sun
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Speaker 1: stopped shining, and the curtain of the temple was torn
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Speaker 1: in two. Jesus called out with a loud voice, Father,
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Speaker 1: into your hands, I commit my spirit. When he had
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Speaker 1: said this, he breathed his last. The centurion, seeing what
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Speaker 1: had happened, praised God and said, surely this was a
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Speaker 1: righteous man. When all the people who had gathered to
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Speaker 1: witness this sight saw what took place, they beat their
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Speaker 1: breasts and went away. All those who knew him, including
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Speaker 1: the women who had followed him from Galilee, stood at
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Speaker 1: a distance watching these things. Now there was a man
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Speaker 1: named Joseph, a member of the council, a good and
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Speaker 1: upright man who had not consented to their decision and action.
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Speaker 1: He came from the Judean town of Arimathea, and he
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Speaker 1: himself was waiting for the Kingdom of God. Going to Pilate,
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Speaker 1: he asked for Jesus's body. Then he took it down,
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Speaker 1: wrapped it in linen cloth, and placed it in a
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Speaker 1: tomb cut in the rock, one in which no one
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Speaker 1: had yet been laid. It was preparation day, and the
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Speaker 1: Sabbath was about to begin. The women who had come
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Speaker 1: with Jesus from Galilee followed Joseph and saw the tomb
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Speaker 1: and how his body was laid in it. Then went
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Speaker 1: home and prepared spices and perfumes. But they rested on
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Speaker 1: the sabbath in obedience to the commandment John chapter ten.
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Speaker 1: Very truly, I tell you, Pharisees, anyone who does not
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Speaker 1: enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in
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Speaker 1: by some other way is a thief and a robber.
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Speaker 1: The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd
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Speaker 1: of the sheep. The gatekeeper opens the gate for him,
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Speaker 1: and the sheep listened to his voice. He calls his
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Speaker 1: own sheep by name and leads them out. When he
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Speaker 1: has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead
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Speaker 1: of them, and his sheep follow him because they know
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Speaker 1: his voice. But they will never follow a stranger. In fact,
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Speaker 1: they will run away from him because they do not
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Speaker 1: recognize a stranger's voice. Jesus use this figure of speech,
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Speaker 1: but the parreses did not understand what he was telling them.
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Speaker 1: Therefore Jesus said again, very truly, I tell you, I
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Speaker 1: am the gate for the sheep. All who have come
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Speaker 1: before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep have
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Speaker 1: not listened to them. I am the gate. Whoever enters
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Speaker 1: through me will be saved. They will come in and
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Speaker 1: go out and find pasture. The thief comes only to
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Speaker 1: steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they
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Speaker 1: may have life and have it to the full. I
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Speaker 1: am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his
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Speaker 1: life for the sheep. The hired hand is not the
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Speaker 1: shepherd and does not own the sheep, so when he
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Speaker 1: sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away.
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Speaker 1: Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. The
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Speaker 1: man runs away because he is a hired hand and
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Speaker 1: cares nothing for the sheep. I am the good shepherd.
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Speaker 1: I know my sheep, and my sheep know me, just
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Speaker 1: as the father knows me, and I know the Father.
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Speaker 1: And I lay down my life for the sheep. I
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Speaker 1: have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen
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Speaker 1: I must bring them also. They too will listen to
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Speaker 1: my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd.
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Speaker 1: The reason my father loves me is that I lay
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Speaker 1: down my life, only to take it up again. No
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Speaker 1: one takes it from me, but I lay it down
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Speaker 1: of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down,
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Speaker 1: and authority to take it up again. This command I
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Speaker 1: received from my father. The Jews who heard these words
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Speaker 1: were again divided. Many of them said, he is demon
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Speaker 1: possessed and raving mad. Why listen to him? But others said,
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Speaker 1: these are not the sayings of a man possessed by
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Speaker 1: a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind.
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Speaker 1: Then came the festival of Dedication at Jerusalem. It was winter,
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Speaker 1: and Jesus was in the temple courts, walking in Solomon's colonnade.
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Speaker 1: The Jews who were there gathered around him, saying, how
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Speaker 1: long will you keep us in suspense? If you are
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Speaker 1: the Messiah? Tell us plainly, Jesus answered, I did tell you,
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Speaker 1: but you do not believe. The works I do and
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Speaker 1: my father's name testify about me. But you do not
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Speaker 1: believe because you are not my sheep. My sheep listened
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Speaker 1: to my voice. I know them, and they follow me.
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Speaker 1: I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish.
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Speaker 1: No one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father,
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Speaker 1: who has given them to me, is greater than all.
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Speaker 1: No one can snatch them out of my father's hand.
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Speaker 1: I and the Father are one again. His Jewish opponents
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Speaker 1: picked up stones to stone him, But Jesus said to them,
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Speaker 1: I have shown you many good works from the Father.
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Speaker 1: For which of these do you stone me. We are
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Speaker 1: not stoning you for any good work. They replied, but
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Speaker 1: for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.
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Speaker 1: Jesus answered them, is it not written in your law.
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Speaker 1: I have said you are gods. If he called them
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Speaker 1: gods to whom the word of God came, and scripture
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Speaker 1: cannot be set aside. What about the one whom the
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Speaker 1: Father set apart as his very own and sent into
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Speaker 1: the world. Why then, do you accuse me of blasphemy
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Speaker 1: because I said, I am God's son. Do not believe
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Speaker 1: me unless I do the works of my Father. But
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Speaker 1: if I do them, even though you do not believe me,
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Speaker 1: believe the works that you may know and understand that
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Speaker 1: the Father is in me and I in the Father. Again,
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Speaker 1: they tried to seize him, but he escaped their grasp.
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Speaker 1: Then Jesus went back across the Jordan to the place
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Speaker 1: where John had been baptizing in the early days. There
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Speaker 1: he stayed, and many people came to him. They said,
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Speaker 1: though John never performed a sign, all that John said
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Speaker 1: about this man was true, and in that place many
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Speaker 1: believed in Jesus Luke chapter fifteen. Now the tax collectors
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Speaker 1: and sinners were all gathering around to hear Jesus. But
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Speaker 1: the Pharisees and the teachers of the law muttered, this
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Speaker 1: man welcomes sinners and eats with them. Then Jesus told
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Speaker 1: them this parable. Suppose one of you has a hundred
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Speaker 1: sheep and loses one of them, doesn't he leave the
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Speaker 1: ninety nine in the open country and go after the
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Speaker 1: lost sheep until he finds it. And when he finds it,
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Speaker 1: he joyfully puts it on his shoulders and goes home.
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Speaker 1: Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says,
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Speaker 1: rejoice with me, I have found my lost sheep. I
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Speaker 1: tell you that in the same way there will be
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Speaker 1: more rejoicing in heaven over one who repents than over
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Speaker 1: ninety nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.
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Speaker 1: Or Suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one,
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Speaker 1: doesn't she light a lamp, sweep the house, and search
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Speaker 1: carefully until she finds it. And when she finds it,
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Speaker 1: she calls her friends and neighbors together and says, rejoice
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Speaker 1: with me, I have found my lost coin. In the
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Speaker 1: same way, I tell you there is rejoicing in the
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Speaker 1: presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.
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Speaker 1: Jesus continued, there was a man who had two sons.
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Speaker 1: The younger one said to his father, father, give me
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Speaker 1: my share of the estate. So he divided his property
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Speaker 1: between them. Not long after that, the younger son got
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Speaker 1: together all he had set off for a distant country,
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Speaker 1: and there squandered his wealth in wild living. After he
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Speaker 1: had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that
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Speaker 1: whole country, and he began to be in need. So
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Speaker 1: he went and hired himself out to a citizen of
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Speaker 1: that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs.
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Speaker 1: He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that
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Speaker 1: the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.
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Speaker 1: When he came to his senses, he said, how many
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Speaker 1: of my father's hired servants have food to spare, and
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Speaker 1: here I am starving to death. I will set out
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Speaker 1: and go back to my father and say to him, father,
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Speaker 1: I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am
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Speaker 1: no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me
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Speaker 1: like one of your hired servants. So he got up
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Speaker 1: up and went to his father. But while he was
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Speaker 1: still a long way off, his father saw him and
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Speaker 1: was filled with compassion for him. He ran to his son,
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Speaker 1: threw his arms around him, and kissed him. The son
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Speaker 1: said to him, father, I have sinned against heaven and
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Speaker 1: against you. I am no longer worthy to be called
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Speaker 1: your son. But the father said to his servants, quick,
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Speaker 1: bring the best robe and put it on him, put
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Speaker 1: a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet.
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Speaker 1: Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let's have a
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Speaker 1: feast and celebrate, for this son of mine was dead
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Speaker 1: and is alive again. He was lost and is found.
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Speaker 1: So they began to celebrate. Meanwhile, the older son was
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Speaker 1: in the field. When he came near the house, he
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Speaker 1: heard music and dancing, so he called one of the
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Speaker 1: servants and asked him what was going on. Your brother
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Speaker 1: has come, he replied, and your father has killed the
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Speaker 1: fattened calf because he has him back safe and sound.
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Speaker 1: The older brother became angry and refused to go in,
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Speaker 1: so his father went out and pleaded with him. But
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Speaker 1: he answered his father, Look, all these years I've been
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Speaker 1: slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you
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Speaker 1: never gave me even a young goat so I could
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Speaker 1: celebrate with my friends. But when this son of yours,
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Speaker 1: who has squandered your property with prostitutes, comes home, you
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Speaker 1: kill the fattened calf for him, my son, The father said,
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Speaker 1: you are always with me and everything I have is yours.
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Speaker 1: But we had to celebrate and be glad because this
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Speaker 1: brother of yours was dead and is alive again. He
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Speaker 1: was lost and is found John chapter thirteen. It was
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Speaker 1: just before the Passover festival. Jesus knew that the hour
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Speaker 1: had come for him to leave this world and go
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Speaker 1: to the Father. Having loved his own who were in
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Speaker 1: the world, he loved them to the end. The evening
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Speaker 1: meal was in progress, and the devil had already prompted Judas,
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Speaker 1: the son of Simon Escariot, to betray Jesus. Jesus knew
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Speaker 1: that the Father had put all things under his power,
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Speaker 1: and that he had come from God and was returning
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Speaker 1: to God. So he got up from the meal, took
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Speaker 1: off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist.
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Speaker 1: After that, he poured water into a basin and began
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Speaker 1: to wash his disciples feet, drying them with a towel
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Speaker 1: that was wrapped around him. He came to Simon Peter,
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Speaker 1: who said to him, Lord, are you going to wash
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Speaker 1: my feet? Jesus replied, you do not realize now what
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Speaker 1: I am doing, but later you will understand. No, said Peter,
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Speaker 1: you shall never wash my feet, Jesus answered, Unless I
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Speaker 1: wash you, you have no part with me. Then, Lord
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Speaker 1: Simon Peter replied, not just my feet, but my hands
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Speaker 1: and my head as well. Jesus answered, those who have
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Speaker 1: had a bath need only to wash their feet. Their
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Speaker 1: whole body is clean, and you are clean, though not
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Speaker 1: every one of you. For he knew who was going
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Speaker 1: to betray him, and that was why he said not
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Speaker 1: every one was clean. When he had finished washing their feet,
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Speaker 1: he put on his clothes and returned to his place.
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Speaker 1: Do you understand what I have done for you? He
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Speaker 1: asked them. You call me teacher and lord, and rightly so,
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Speaker 1: for that is what I am. Now that I, your
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Speaker 1: lord and teacher, have washed your feet, you also should
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Speaker 1: wash one another's feet. I have set you an example
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Speaker 1: that you should do as I have done for you.
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Speaker 1: Very truly, I tell you, no servant is greater than
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Speaker 1: his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one
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Speaker 1: who sent him. Now that you know these things, you
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Speaker 1: will be blessed if you do them. I am not
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Speaker 1: referring to all of you. I know those I have chosen,
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Speaker 1: But this is to fulfill this passage of scripture. He
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Speaker 1: who shared my bread, has turned against me. I am
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Speaker 1: telling you now before it happens, so that when it
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Speaker 1: does happen, you will believe that I am who I am.
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Speaker 1: Very truly. I tell you, whoever accepts anyone I send
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Speaker 1: accepts me, and whoever accepts me accepts the one who
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Speaker 1: sent me. After he had said this, Jesus was troubled
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Speaker 1: in spirit and testified, very truly, I tell you, one
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Speaker 1: of you is going to betray me. His disciples stared
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Speaker 1: at one another, at a loss to know which of
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Speaker 1: them he meant. One of them, the disciple whom Jesus loved,
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Speaker 1: back against Jesus. He asked him, Lord, who is it?
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Speaker 1: Jesus answered, it is the one to whom I will
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Speaker 1: give this piece of bread when I have dipped it
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Speaker 1: in the dish. Then dipping the piece of bread, he
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Speaker 1: gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. As
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Speaker 1: soon as Judas took the bread, Satan entered into him.
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Speaker 1: So Jesus told him, what you are about to do,
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Speaker 1: do quickly, But no one at the meal understood why
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Speaker 1: Jesus said this to him. Since Judas had charge of
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Speaker 1: the money, some thought Jesus was telling him to buy
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Speaker 1: what was needed for the festival, or to give something
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Speaker 1: to the poor. As soon as Judas had taken the bread,
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Speaker 1: he went out, and it was night when he was gone.
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Speaker 1: Jesus said, Now the son of Man is glorified, and
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Speaker 1: God is glorified in him. If God is glorified in him,
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Speaker 1: God will glorify the sun in himself, and will glorify
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Speaker 1: him at once, My children, I will be with you
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Speaker 1: only a little Lord, longer you will look for me.
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Speaker 1: And just as I told the Jews, so I tell
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Speaker 1: you now where I am going. You cannot come. A
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Speaker 1: new command. I give you love one another as I
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Speaker 1: have loved you, So you must love one another. By this,
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Speaker 1: everyone will know that you are my disciples. If you
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Speaker 1: love one another. Simon Peter asked him, Lord, where are
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Speaker 1: you going. Jesus replied, where I am going. You cannot
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Speaker 1: follow now, but you will follow later. Peter asked, Lord,
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Speaker 1: why can't I follow you now? I will lay down
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Speaker 1: my life for you. Then, Jesus answered, will you really
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Speaker 1: lay down your life for me? Very truly? I tell
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Speaker 1: you before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times.
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Speaker 1: First John, chapter four. Dear friends, do not believe every spirit,
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Speaker 1: but test the spirits to see whether they are from God,
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Speaker 1: because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
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Speaker 1: This is how you can recognize the spirit of God.
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Speaker 1: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in
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Speaker 1: the flesh is from God. But every spirit that does
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Speaker 1: not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the
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Speaker 1: spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard is coming,
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Speaker 1: and even now is already in the world. You, dear children,
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Speaker 1: are from God and have overcome them, because the one
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Speaker 1: who is in you is greater than the one who
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Speaker 1: is in the world. They are from the world, and
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Speaker 1: therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the
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Speaker 1: world listens to them. We are from God, and whoever
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Speaker 1: knows God listens to us. But whoever is not from
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Speaker 1: God does not listen to us. This is how we
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Speaker 1: recognize the spirit of truth and the spirit of falsehood.
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Speaker 1: Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes
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Speaker 1: from God. Every one who loves has been born of
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Speaker 1: God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not
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Speaker 1: know God. Because God is love. This is how God
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Speaker 1: showed his love among us. He sent his one and
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Speaker 1: only son into the world that we might live through him.
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Speaker 1: This is love. Not that we loved God, but that
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Speaker 1: He loved us and sent his son as an atoning
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Speaker 1: sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, Since God so loved us,
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Speaker 1: we also ought to love one another. No one has
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Speaker 1: ever seen God. But if we love one another, God
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Speaker 1: lives in us, and his love is made complete in us.
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Speaker 1: This is how we know that we live in Him
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Speaker 1: and he in us. He has given us of his spirit,
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Speaker 1: and we have seen and testify that the Father has
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Speaker 1: sent his son to be the savior of the world.
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Speaker 1: If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the son of God,
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Speaker 1: God lives in them and they in God. And so
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Speaker 1: we know and rely on the love God has for us.
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Speaker 1: God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God
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Speaker 1: and God in them. This is how love is made
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Speaker 1: complete among us, so that we will have confidence on
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Speaker 1: the day of judgment. In this world we are like Jesus.
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Speaker 1: There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives
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Speaker 1: out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The
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Speaker 1: one who fears is not made perfect in love. We
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Speaker 1: love because He first loved us. Whoever claims to love
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Speaker 1: God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar.
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Speaker 1: For whoever does not love their brother and sister whom
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Speaker 1: they have seen, cannot love God whom they have not seen.
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Speaker 1: And He has given us this command. Anyone who loves
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Speaker 1: God must also love their brother and sister Ephesians chapter three.
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Speaker 1: For this reason, I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus,
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Speaker 1: for the sake of you, gentiles. Surely you have heard
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Speaker 1: about the administration of God's grace that was given to
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Speaker 1: me for you. That is the mystery made known to
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Speaker 1: me by revelation, as I have all ready written briefly.
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Speaker 1: In reading this, then you will be able to understand
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Speaker 1: my insight into the mystery of Christ, which was not
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Speaker 1: made known to people in other generations, as it has
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Speaker 1: now been revealed by the Spirit to God's holy apostles
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Speaker 1: and prophets. This mystery is that through the Gospel, the
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Speaker 1: Gentiles are heirs together with Israel, members together of one body,
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Speaker 1: and sharers together in the promise in Christ Jesus. I
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Speaker 1: became a servant of this gospel by the gift of
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Speaker 1: God's grace given me through the working of His power.
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Speaker 1: Although I am less than the least of all the
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Speaker 1: Lord's people, this grace was given me to preach to
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Speaker 1: the gentiles the boundless riches of Christ, and to make
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Speaker 1: plain to everyone the administration of this mystery, which for
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Speaker 1: ages past was kept hidden in God, who created all things.
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Speaker 1: His intent was that now, through the Church, the manifold
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Speaker 1: wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers
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Speaker 1: and authorities in the heavenly realms, according to his eternal
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Speaker 1: purpose that he accomplished in Christ, Jesus our Lord. In
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Speaker 1: Him and through faith in Him, we may approach God
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Speaker 1: with freedom and confidence. I ask you, therefore, not to
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Speaker 1: be discouraged because of my sufferings for you, which are
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Speaker 1: your glory. For this reason I kneel before the Father,
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Speaker 1: from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives
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Speaker 1: its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches,
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Speaker 1: He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in
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Speaker 1: your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your
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Speaker 1: hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted
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Speaker 1: and established in love, may have power together with all
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Speaker 1: the Lord's Holy People, to grasp how wide and long,
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Speaker 1: and high and deep is the love of Christ, and
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Speaker 1: to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may
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Speaker 1: be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
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Speaker 1: Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more
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Speaker 1: than all we ask or imagine, according to His power
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Speaker 1: that is at work within us. To Him be glory
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Speaker 1: in the Church and in Christ Jesus, throughout all generations,
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Speaker 1: forever and ever, Amen. John chapter three. Now there was
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Speaker 1: a pharisee, a man named Nicodemus, who was a member
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Speaker 1: of the Jewish ruling council. He came to Jesus at
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Speaker 1: night and said, Rabbi, we know that you are a
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Speaker 1: teacher who has come from God, for no one could
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Speaker 1: perform the signs you are doing if God were not
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Speaker 1: with him. Jesus replied, very truly, I tell you, no
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Speaker 1: one can see the Kingdom of God unless they are
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Speaker 1: born again. How can someone be born when they are old,
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Speaker 1: Nicodemus asked, surely, they cannot enter a second time into
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Speaker 1: their mother's womb to be born. Jesus answered, very truly,
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Speaker 1: I tell you, no one can enter the Kingdom of
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Speaker 1: God unless they are born of water and the spirit.
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Speaker 1: Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the spirit gives birth
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Speaker 1: to spirit. You should not be surprised at my saying
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Speaker 1: you must be born again. The wind blows wherever it pleases.
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Speaker 1: You hear it sound, but you cannot tell where it
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Speaker 1: comes from or where it is going. So it is
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Speaker 1: with every one born of the spirit. How can this be?
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Speaker 1: Nicodemus asked, you are Israel's teacher, said Jesus, and do
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Speaker 1: you not understand these things? Very truly, I tell you,
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Speaker 1: we speak of what we know, and we testify to
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Speaker 1: what we have seen. But still you people do not
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Speaker 1: accept our testimony. I have spoken to you of earthly things,
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Speaker 1: and you do not believe. How then will you believe
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Speaker 1: if I speak of heavenly things. No one has ever
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Speaker 1: gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven,
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Speaker 1: the Son of Man. Just as Moses lifted up the
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Speaker 1: snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must
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Speaker 1: be lifted up, that every one who believes may have
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Speaker 1: eternal life in him. For God so loved the world
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Speaker 1: that he gave his one and only son, that whoever
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Speaker 1: believes in him shall not perish, But have eternal life.
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Speaker 1: For God did not send his son into the world
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Speaker 1: to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
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Speaker 1: Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does
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Speaker 1: in the name of God's one and only son. This
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Speaker 1: is the verdict. Light has come into the world, but
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Speaker 1: people love darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.
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Speaker 1: Every One who does evil hates the light and will
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Speaker 1: not come into the light for fear that their deeds
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Speaker 1: into the light, so that it may be seen plainly
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Speaker 1: that what they have done has been done in the
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Speaker 1: sight of God. After this, Jesus and his disciples went
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Speaker 1: out into the Judean countryside, where he spent some time
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Speaker 1: Anon near Salim, because there was plenty of water and
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Speaker 1: people were coming and being baptized. This was before John
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Speaker 1: was put in prison. An argument developed between some of
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Speaker 1: John's disciples and a certain Jew over the matter of
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Speaker 1: ceremonial washing. They came to John and said to him
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Speaker 1: Rabbi that man who was with you on the other
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Speaker 1: side of the Jordan, the one you testified about. Look,
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Speaker 1: he is baptizing and everyone is going to him. To this,
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Speaker 1: John replied, a person can receive only what is given
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Speaker 1: I am not the Messiah, but am sent ahead of him.
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Speaker 1: The bride belongs to the groom. The friend who attends
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Speaker 1: the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full
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Speaker 1: of joy when he hears the bridegroom's voice that joy
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Speaker 1: is mine, and it is now complete. He must become greater.
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Speaker 1: I must become less. The one who comes from above
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Speaker 1: The one who comes from heaven is above all. He
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Speaker 1: testifies to what he has seen and heard, but no
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Speaker 1: one accepts his testimony. Whoever has accepted it has certified
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Speaker 1: that God is truthful. For the one whom God has
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Speaker 1: sent speaks the words of God. For God gives the
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Speaker 1: spirit without limit. The Father loves the son and has
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Speaker 1: placed everything in his hands. Whoever believes in the sun
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Speaker 1: has eternal life, but whoever rejects. The sun will not
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Speaker 1: see life, for God's wrath remains on them. Luke chapter seven.
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Speaker 1: When Jesus had finished saying all this to the people
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Speaker 1: who were listening, he entered Capernaum. There a centurion servant
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Speaker 1: whom his master valued highly, was sick and about to die.
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Speaker 1: The centurion heard of Jesus and sent some elders of
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Speaker 1: the Jews to him, asking him to come and heal
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Speaker 1: his servant. When they came to Jesus, they pleaded earnestly
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Speaker 1: with him, this man deserves to have you do this
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Speaker 1: because he loves our nation and has built our synagogue.
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Speaker 1: So Jesus went with them. He was not far from
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Speaker 1: the house when the centurion sent friends to say to him, Lord,
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Speaker 1: don't trouble yourself, for I do not deserve to have
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Speaker 1: you come under my roof. That is why I did
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Speaker 1: not even consider myself worthy to come to you. But
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Speaker 1: say the word, and my servant will be healed. For
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Speaker 1: I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me.
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Speaker 1: I tell this one go and he goes, and that
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Speaker 1: one come and he comes. I say to my servant,
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Speaker 1: do this, and he does it. When Jesus heard this,
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Speaker 1: He was amazed at him, and turning to the crowd
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Speaker 1: following him, he said, I tell you, I have not
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Speaker 1: found such great faith even in Israel. Then the men
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Speaker 1: who had been sent returned to the house and found
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Speaker 1: the servant well. Soon afterward, Jesus went to a town
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Speaker 1: called Nine, and his disciples and a large crowd went
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Speaker 1: along with him. As he approached the town gate, a
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Speaker 1: dead person was being carried out, the only son of
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Speaker 1: his mother, and she was a widow, and a large
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Speaker 1: crowd from the town was with her. When the Lord
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Speaker 1: saw her, his heart went out to her, and he said,
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Speaker 1: they were carrying him on, and the bearers stood still.
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Speaker 1: He said, young man, I say to you, get up.
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Speaker 1: The dead man sat up and began to talk, and
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Speaker 1: filled with awe and praised God. A great prophet has
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Speaker 1: appeared among us, They said, God has come to help
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Speaker 1: his people. This news about Jesus spread throughout Judea and
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Speaker 1: the surrounding country. John's disciples told him about all these things.
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Speaker 1: Calling two of them, he sent them to the Lord
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Speaker 1: to ask, are you the one who is to come?
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Speaker 1: Or should we expect some one else. When the men
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Speaker 1: came to Jesus, they said, John the Baptist sent us
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Speaker 1: to you to ask, are you the one who is
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Speaker 1: to come? Or should we expect some one else? At
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Speaker 1: that very time, Jesus cured many who had diseases, sicknesses,
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Speaker 1: and evil spirits, and gave sight to many who were blind.
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Speaker 1: So he replied to the messengers, go back and report
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Speaker 1: receives sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are
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Speaker 1: cleansed the deaf. Here the dead are raised, and the
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Speaker 1: good news is proclaimed to the poor. Blessed is any
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Speaker 1: one who does not stumble on account of me. After
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Speaker 1: John's messengers left, Jesus began to speak to the crowd
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Speaker 1: of John. What did you go out into the wilderness
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Speaker 1: to see a reed swayed by the wind? If not,
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Speaker 1: what did you go out to see a man dressed
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Speaker 1: in fine clothes? No, those who wear expensive clothes and
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Speaker 1: indulge in luxury are in palaces. But what did you
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Speaker 1: go out to see a prophet? Yes, I tell you,
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Speaker 1: and more than a prophet. This is the one about
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Speaker 1: whom it is written, I will send my messenger ahead
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Speaker 1: of you, who will prepare your way before you. I
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Speaker 1: tell you, among those born of women, there is no
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Speaker 1: one greater than John. Yet the one who is least
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Speaker 1: in the Kingdom of God is greater than he. All
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Speaker 1: the people, even the tax collectors, when they heard Jesus' words,
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Speaker 1: acknowledged that God's way was right because they had been
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Speaker 1: baptized by John. But the Pharisees and the experts in
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Speaker 1: the law rejected God's purpose for themselves because they had
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Speaker 1: not been baptized by John. Jesus went on to say,
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Speaker 1: to what, then, can I compare the people of this generation?
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Speaker 1: What are they like? They are like children sitting in
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Speaker 1: the pipe for you, and you did not dance. We
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Speaker 1: sang a dirge, and you did not cry. For John
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Speaker 1: the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and
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Speaker 1: you say he has a demon. The son of Man
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Speaker 1: came eating and drinking, and you say, here is a
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Speaker 1: glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.
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Speaker 1: But wisdom is proved right by all her children. When
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Speaker 1: one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to have dinner with him.
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Speaker 1: He went to the Pharisees house and reclined at the table.
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Speaker 1: A woman in that town who lived a sinful life,
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Speaker 1: learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisees house, so
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Speaker 1: she came there with an alabaster jar of perfume. As
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Speaker 1: she stood behind him at his feet, weeping, she began
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Speaker 1: to wet his feet with her tears. Then she wiped
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Speaker 1: them with her hair, kissed them, and poured perfume on them.
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Speaker 1: When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he
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Speaker 1: said to himself, if this man were a prophet, he
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Speaker 1: would know who was touching him, and what kind of
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Speaker 1: woman she is, that she is a sinner. Jesus answered him, Simon,
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Speaker 1: I have something to tell you. Tell me, teacher, He said,
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Speaker 1: two people owed money to a certain money lender. One
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Speaker 1: owed him five hundred day nari and the other fifty.
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Speaker 1: Neither of them had the money to pay him back,
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Speaker 1: so he forgave the debts of both. Now which of
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Speaker 1: them will love him more? Simon replied, I suppose the
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Speaker 1: one who had the bigger debt forgiven you have judged correctly,
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Speaker 1: Jesus said. Then he turned toward the woman and said
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Speaker 1: to Simon, do you see this woman I came into
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Speaker 1: and wiped them with her hair. You did not give
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Speaker 1: me a kiss, but this woman, from the time I
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Speaker 1: entered has not stopped kissing my feet. You did not
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Speaker 1: put oil on my head, but she has poured perfume
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Speaker 1: on my feet. Therefore, I tell you her, many sins
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Speaker 1: have been forgiven, as her great love has shown. But
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Speaker 1: whoever has been forgiven little loves little. Then Jesus said
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Speaker 1: to her, your sins are forgiven. The other guests began
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Speaker 1: Jesus said to the woman, your faith has saved you.
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Speaker 1: Go in peace. John chapter eleven. Now a man named
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Speaker 1: Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of
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Speaker 1: Mary and her sister Martha. This Mary, whose brother Lazarus
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Speaker 1: now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume
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Speaker 1: So the sisters sent word to Jesus Lord the one
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Speaker 1: you love is sick. When he heard this, Jesus said,
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Speaker 1: through it. Now, Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus,
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Speaker 1: they said, a short while ago the Jews there tried
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Speaker 1: he sleeps, he will get better. Jesus had been speaking
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Speaker 1: also known as Didymus, said to the rest of the disciples,
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Speaker 1: let us also go, that we may die with him.
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Speaker 1: On his arrival, Jesus found that Lazarus had already been
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Speaker 1: than two miles from Jerusalem, and many Jews had come
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Speaker 1: she went out to meet him, but Mary stayed at home. Lord,
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Speaker 1: Martha said to Jesus, if you had been here, my
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Speaker 1: brother would not have died. But I know that even
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Speaker 1: now God will give you whatever you ask. Jesus said
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Speaker 1: to her, your brother will rise again. Martha answered, I
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Speaker 1: know he will rise again in the resurrection at the
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Speaker 1: last day. Jesus said to her, I am the Resurrection
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Speaker 1: and the life. The one who believes in me will
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Speaker 1: live even though they die, and whoever lives by believing
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Speaker 1: in Me will never die. Do you believe this, yes, Lord,
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Speaker 1: she replied, I believe that you are the Messiah, the
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Speaker 1: Son of God, who is to come into the world
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Speaker 1: After she had said this, she went back and called
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Speaker 1: her sister Mary aside. The teacher is here, she said,
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Speaker 1: and is asking for you. When Mary heard this, she
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Speaker 1: got up quickly and went to him. Now Jesus had
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Speaker 1: not yet entered the village, but was still at the
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Speaker 1: place where Martha had met him. When the Jews, who
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Speaker 1: had been with Mary in the house comforting her, noticed
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Speaker 1: how quickly she got up and went out, they followed her,
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Speaker 1: supposing she was going to the tomb to mourn there.
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Speaker 1: When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him,
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Speaker 1: she fell at his feet and said, Lord, if you
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Speaker 1: had been here, my brother would not have died. When
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Speaker 1: Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come
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Speaker 1: along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in
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Speaker 1: spirit and troubled. Where have you laid him? He asked,
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Speaker 1: Come and see, Lord, they replied. Jesus wept. Then the
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Speaker 1: Jews said, see how he loved him. But some of
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Speaker 1: them said, could not he who opened the eyes of
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Speaker 1: the blind man have kept this man from dying. Jesus,
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Speaker 1: once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was
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Speaker 1: a cave with a stone laid across the entrance. Take
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Speaker 1: away the stone, he said, But Lord, said Martha, the
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Speaker 1: sister of the dead man. By this time there is
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Speaker 1: a bad odor, for he has been there four days.
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Speaker 1: Then Jesus said, did I not tell you that if
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Speaker 1: you believe, you will see the glory of God. So
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Speaker 1: they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, Father,
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Speaker 1: I thank you that you have heard me. I knew
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Speaker 1: that you always hear me, but I said this for
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Speaker 1: the benefit of the people standing here, that they may
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Speaker 1: believe that you sent me. When he had said this,
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Speaker 1: Jesus called in a loud voice, Lazarus come out. The
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Speaker 1: dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with
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Speaker 1: strips of linen and a cloth around his face. Jesus
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Speaker 1: said to them, take off the grave clothes and let
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Speaker 1: him go. Therefore, many of the Jews, who had come
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Speaker 1: to visit Mary and had seen what Jesus did, believed
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Speaker 1: in him. But some of them went to the Pharisees
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Speaker 1: and told them what Jesus had done. Then the chief
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Speaker 1: priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin.
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Speaker 1: What are we accomplishing, they asked, Here is this man
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Speaker 1: performing many signs. If we let him go on like this,
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Speaker 1: every one will believe in him, and then the Romans
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Speaker 1: will come and take away both our temple and our nation.
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Speaker 1: Then one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest
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Speaker 1: that year, spoke up, you know nothing at all. You
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Speaker 1: do not realize that it is better for you that
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Speaker 1: one man die for the people than that the whole
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Speaker 1: nation perish. He did not say this on his own,
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Speaker 1: but as high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus
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Speaker 1: would die for the Jewish nation, and not only for
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Speaker 1: that nation, but also for the scattered children of God,
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Speaker 1: to bring them together and make them one. So from
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Speaker 1: that day on they plotted to take his life. Therefore,
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Speaker 1: Jesus no longer moved about publicly among the people of Judea. Instead,
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Speaker 1: he withdrew to a region near the wilderness, to a
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Speaker 1: village called Ephrium, where he stayed with his disciples. When
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Speaker 1: it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, many went
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Speaker 1: up from the country to Jerusalem for their ceremonial cleansing.
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Speaker 1: Before the passover, they kept looking for Jesus, and as
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Speaker 1: they stood in the temple courts, they asked one another
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Speaker 1: what do you think isn't he coming to the festival
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Speaker 1: at all? But the chief priests and the pharisees had
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Speaker 1: given orders that any one who found out where Jesus
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Speaker 1: was should report it so that they might arrest him.