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April 10 - Greatness Expressed Through Service · Bible Chat Devotional

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  Welcome to Bible Chat, where we have devotional conversations
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  rooted in Scripture and relevant for today, April 10th.
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  The right path matters. A wrong turn can happen so
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  easily. Sometimes in travel, sometimes
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  in relationships, sometimes in the hidden direction of your
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  heart. You think you are fine, and then
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  suddenly you realize you are farther from where you were
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  meant to be than you expected. Proverbs chapter 14 verse 8 says
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  the wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way.
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  Psalm chapter 41 verse 4 says, O Lord, be gracious to me, heal
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  me, for I have sinned against you.
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  And in Mark chapter 10 verse 52, Jesus tells the blind man, go
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  your way. Your faith has made you well.
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  And immediately the man receives sight and follows him on the
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  way. That is such a powerful picture.
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  He was not only healed, he was redirected.
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  His eyes were opened, and he began to follow Jesus.
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  That is what God's wisdom does. It does not just help you avoid
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  disaster. It opens your eyes so you can
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  walk in the right direction. There are times when we need
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  clarity because we truly do not know what to do.
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  But there are also times when we need honesty because deep down
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  we already know we have been ignoring God's direction.
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  David's prayer in Psalm chapter 41 is so important because he
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  does not pretend. He admits his need for mercy and
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  healing. And that is often where
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  discernment begins, with honesty before God.
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  The right path matters because direction shapes destination.
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  Small choices matter. Quiet compromises matter.
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  Repeated habits matter. But so does faith.
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  The blind man trusted Jesus before he could see, and then
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  his sight led him into a new way of living.
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  Today, ask God not just to bless your path, but to reveal it.
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  Ask Him to show you where you are drifting, where you need
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  healing, and where you need courage to obey.
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  He does not only want to rescue you when you are lost, He wants
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  to teach you how to walk closely with Him.
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  Let's pray. Heavenly Father, thank You that
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  you see the whole path even when I cannot give me wisdom to
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  discern what is right, humility to admit where I need healing,
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  and faith to follow You with confidence.
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  Open my eyes to anything that is leading me away from You and
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  guide my steps into truth, peace, and purpose.
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  Help me stay close to You and walk the way You desire for me
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  chains of premature death and generational attacks.
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  preservation. Book 4.
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  Now I invite you to spend time with God in today's three-year
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  Bible reading plan. Proverbs chapter 14 verses 8 to
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  9 World English Bible The wisdom of the prudent is to think about
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  his way. But the folly of fools is
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  deceit. Fools mock at making atonement
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  for sins, but among the upright there is goodwill.
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  Psalm chapter 41 World English Bible for the chief musician A
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  Psalm by David. Blessed is he who considers the
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  poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the
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  day of evil. Yahweh will preserve him and
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  keep him alive. He shall be blessed on the earth
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  and He will not surrender him to the will of His enemies.
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  Yahweh will sustain him on His sick bed and restore him from
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  His bed of illness. I said Yahweh, have mercy on me,
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  heal me, for I have sinned against you.
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  My enemies speak evil against me.
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  When will He die and His name perish?
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  If He comes to see me? He speaks falsehood.
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  His heart gathers iniquity to itself.
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  When He goes abroad, He tells it All who hate me whisper together
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  against me. They imagine the worst for me.
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  An evil disease they say, has afflicted him.
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  Now that he lies, he shall rise up no more.
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  Yes, my own familiar friend in whom I trusted, who ate bread
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  with me, has lifted up his heel against me.
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  But you, Yahweh, have mercy on me and raise me up that I may
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  repay them. By this.
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  I know that you delighted me because my enemy doesn't triumph
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  over me. As for me, you uphold me in my
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  integrity and set me in your presence forever.
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  Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to
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  everlasting, Amen and Amen. Mark chapter 10 World English
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  Bible. He arose from there and came
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  into the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan.
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  Multitudes came together to him again, as he usually did.
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  He was again teaching them. Pharisees came to him, testing
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  him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?
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  He answered, What did Moses command you?
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  They said Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be
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  written and to divorce her. But Jesus said to them, For your
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  hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment.
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  But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and
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  female. For this cause a man will leave
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  his father and mother and will join to his wife, and the two
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  will become one flesh, so that they are no longer 2, but one
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  flesh. What therefore God has joined
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  together? Let no man separate in the
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  house. His disciples asked Him again
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  about the same matter. He said to them, Whoever
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  divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against
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  her. If a woman herself divorces her
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  husband and marries another, she commits adultery.
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  They were bringing to him little children, that he should touch
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  them, But the disciples rebuked those who are bringing them.
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  But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation and said
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  to them, Allow the little children to come to me, don't
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  forbid them, for God's Kingdom belongs to such as these.
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  Most certainly I tell you, whoever will not receive God's
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  Kingdom like a little child, he will in no way enter into it.
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  He took them in his arms and blessed them, laying his hands
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  on them. As he was going out into the
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  way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, Good
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  teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?
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  Jesus said to him, Why do you call me good?
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  No one is good except one God. You know the commandments, do
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  not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not
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  give false testimony, do not defraud, honor your father and
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  mother. He said to him, Teacher, I have
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  observed all these things from my youth.
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  Jesus looking at him, loved him and said to him, One thing you
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  lack, Go sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you
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  will have treasure in heaven, and come follow me taking up the
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  cross. But his face fell at that
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  saying, and he went away sorrowful, for he was one who
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  had great possessions. Jesus looked around and said to
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  his disciples, How difficult it is for those who have riches to
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  enter into God's Kingdom. The disciples were amazed at his
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  words, but Jesus answered again, Children, how hard it is for
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  those who trust in riches to enter into God's Kingdom.
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  It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye than for
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  a rich man to enter into God's Kingdom.
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  They were exceedingly astonished, saying to him, Then
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  Who can be saved? Jesus, looking at them, said,
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  With men it is impossible, but not with God, for all things are
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  possible with God. Peter began to tell him, Behold,
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  we have left all and have followed you.
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  Jesus said, most certainly. I tell you there is no one who
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  has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or
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  wife or children or land, for my sake and for the sake of the
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  good news. But he will receive 100 times
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  more. Now in this time houses,
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  brothers, sisters, mothers, children and land with
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  persecutions and in the age to come eternal life.
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  But many who are first will be last, and the last first.
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  They were on the way, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was
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  going in front of them, and they were amazed.
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  And those who followed were afraid.
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  He again took the 12 and began to tell them the things that
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  were going to happen to him. Behold, we are going up to
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  Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be delivered
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  to the chief priests and the scribes.
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  They will condemn him to death and will deliver him to the
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  Gentiles. They will mock him, spit on him,
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  scourge him, and kill him. On the third day he will rise
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  again. James and John, the sons of
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  Zebedee, came near to him saying, Teacher, we want you to
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  do for us whatever we will ask. He said to them, What do you
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  want me to do for you? They said to him, Grant to us
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  that we may sit one at your right hand and one at your left
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  hand in your glory. But Jesus said to them, You
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  don't know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup
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  that I drink, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am
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  baptized with? They said to him, We are able.
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  Jesus said to them, You shall indeed drink the cup that I
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  drink, and you shall be baptized with the baptism that I am
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  baptized with. But to sit at my right hand and
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  at my left hand is not mine to give, but for whom it has been
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  prepared. When the 10 heard it, they began
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  to be indignant toward James and John.
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  Jesus summoned them and said to them, You know that they who are
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  recognized as rulers over the nation's, lorded over them, and
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  they're great ones, exercise authority over them.
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  But it shall not be so among you.
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  But whoever wants to become great among you shall be your
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  servant. Whoever of you wants to become
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  first among you shall be bond servant of all.
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  For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve and
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  to give his life as a ransom for many.
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  They came to Jericho. As he went out from Jericho with
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  his disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timius
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  Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road.
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  When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene.
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  He began to cry out and say, Jesus, you son of David, have
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  mercy on me. Many rebuked him that he should
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  be quiet, but he cried out much more.
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  You son of David, have mercy on me.
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  Jesus stood still and said, Call him.
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  They called the blind man saying to him, Cheer up, get up, he is
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  calling you. He casting away his cloak,
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  sprang up and came to Jesus. Jesus asked him, what do you
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  want me to do for you? The blind man said to him,
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  Rabboni, that I may see again. Jesus said to him, go your way,
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  your faith has made you well. Immediately he received his
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  sight and followed Jesus on the way.
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