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Fall Asleep to the Words of Jesus _ Peaceful Bible Reading for Deep Sleep _ Anxiety Relief · truthunedited

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to divine rest. To night, we'll be resting
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  Speaker 1: in the words of Jesus, listening to his teachings spoken
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  Speaker 1: throughout the Gospels, with no ads to interrupt your rest.
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  Speaker 1: Let us know where you're listening from and what time
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  Speaker 1: it is for you right now, get comfortable, sleep well,
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  Speaker 1: and may peace be with you to night, Amen. Matthew
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  Speaker 1: Chapter five. Now, when Jesus saw the crowds, he went
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  Speaker 1: up on a mountain side and sat down. His disciples
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  Speaker 1: came to him, and he began to teach them. He said,
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  Speaker 1: Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the
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  Speaker 1: kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they
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  Speaker 1: will be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they will
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  Speaker 1: inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst
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  Speaker 1: for righteousness, for they will be filled. Blessed are the merciful,
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  Speaker 1: for they will be shown mercy. Blessed are the pure
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  Speaker 1: in heart, for they will see God. Blessed are the
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  Speaker 1: peace makers, for they will be called children of God.
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  Speaker 1: Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for
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  Speaker 1: theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when
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  Speaker 1: people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of evil against you because of me, Rejoice and be glad,
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  Speaker 1: because great is your reward in heaven. For in the
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  Speaker 1: same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
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  Speaker 1: You are the salt of the earth. But if the
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  Speaker 1: salt loses its sultaness, how can it be made salty again?
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  Speaker 1: It is no longer good for anything except to be
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  Speaker 1: thrown out and trampled under foot. You are the light
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  Speaker 1: of the world. A town built on a hill cannot
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  Speaker 1: be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put
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  Speaker 1: it under a bowl. Instead, they put it on its stand,
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  Speaker 1: and it gives light to every one in the house.
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  Speaker 1: In the same way, let your light shine before others,
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  Speaker 1: that they may see your good deeds and glorify your
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  Speaker 1: Father in heaven. Do not think that I have come
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  Speaker 1: to abolish the Law or the prophets. I have not
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  Speaker 1: come to abolish them, but to fulfill them. For truly,
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  Speaker 1: I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the
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  Speaker 1: smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will
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  Speaker 1: by any means, disappear from the law. Until everything is
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  Speaker 1: accomplished Therefore, any one who sets aside one of the
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  Speaker 1: least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be
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  Speaker 1: called least in the Kingdom of heaven. But whoever practices
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  Speaker 1: and teaches these commands will be called great in the
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  Speaker 1: kingdom of heaven. For I tell you that unless your
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  Speaker 1: righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of
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  Speaker 1: the law, you will certainly not enter the Kingdom of heaven.
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  Speaker 1: You have heard that it was said to the people
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  Speaker 1: long ago, you shall not murder, And anyone who murders
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  Speaker 1: will be subject to judgment. But I tell you that
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  Speaker 1: anyone who is angry with a brother or sister will
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  Speaker 1: be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to a
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  Speaker 1: brother or sister raca is answerable to the court. And
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  Speaker 1: anyone who says you fool will be in danger of
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  Speaker 1: the fire of hell. Therefore, if you are offering your
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  Speaker 1: gift of the altar, and there remember that your brother
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  Speaker 1: or sister has something against you, leave your gift there
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  Speaker 1: in front of the altar. First, go and be reconciled
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  Speaker 1: to them. Then come and offer your gift. Settle matters
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  Speaker 1: quickly with your adversary, who is taking you to court.
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  Speaker 1: Do it while you are still together on the way,
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  Speaker 1: or your adversary may hand you over to the judge,
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  Speaker 1: and the judge may hand you over to the officer,
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  Speaker 1: and you may be thrown into prison. Truly, I tell
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  Speaker 1: you will not get out until you have paid the
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  Speaker 1: last penny. You have heard that it was said you
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  Speaker 1: shall not commit adultery. But I tell you that any
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  Speaker 1: one who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed
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  Speaker 1: adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye
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  Speaker 1: causes you to stumble, gouge it out, and throw it away,
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  Speaker 1: it is better for you to lose one part of
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  Speaker 1: your body than for your whole body to be thrown
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  Speaker 1: into hell. And if your right hand causes you to stumble,
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  Speaker 1: cut it off, and throw it away, it is better
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  Speaker 1: for you to lose one part of your body than
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  Speaker 1: for your whole body to go into hell. It has
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  Speaker 1: been said any one who divorces his wife must give
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  Speaker 1: her a certificate of divorce. But I tell you that
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  Speaker 1: any one who divorces his wife except for sexual immorality,
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  Speaker 1: makes her the victim of adultery. And any one who
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  Speaker 1: marries a divorced woman commits a dultery. Again. You have
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  Speaker 1: heard that it was said to the people long ago,
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  Speaker 1: do not break your oath, but fulfill to the Lord
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  Speaker 1: the oaths you have made. But I tell you do
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  Speaker 1: not swear an oath at all, either by Heaven, for
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  Speaker 1: it is God's throne, or by the earth, for it
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  Speaker 1: is his footstool, or by Jerusalem, for it is the
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  Speaker 1: city of the great King. And do not swear by
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  Speaker 1: your head, for you cannot make even one hair white
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  Speaker 1: or black. All you need to say is simply yes
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  Speaker 1: or no. Anything beyond this comes from the evil one.
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  Speaker 1: You have heard that it was said I for eye
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  Speaker 1: and tooth for tooth. But I tell you do not
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  Speaker 1: resist an evil person. If any one slaps you on
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  Speaker 1: the right cheek, turn to then the other cheek also.
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  Speaker 1: And if any one wants to sue you and take
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  Speaker 1: your shirt, hand over your coat as well. If any
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  Speaker 1: one forces you to go one mile, go with them
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  Speaker 1: two miles. Give to the one who asks you, and
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  Speaker 1: do not turn away from the one who wants to
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  Speaker 1: borrow from you. You have heard that it was said
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  Speaker 1: love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I tell
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  Speaker 1: you love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
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  Speaker 1: that you may be children of your father in heaven.
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  Speaker 1: He causes his son to rise on the evil and
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  Speaker 1: the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
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  Speaker 1: If you love those who love you, what reward will
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  Speaker 1: you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that?
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  Speaker 1: And if you greet only your own people, what are
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  Speaker 1: you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that?
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  Speaker 1: Be perfect? Therefore, as your heavenly father is perfect, Matthew
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  Speaker 1: chapter six, be careful not to practice your righteousness in
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  Speaker 1: front of others to be seen by them. If you do,
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  Speaker 1: you will have no reward from your father in heaven.
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  Speaker 1: So when you give to the needy, do not announce
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  Speaker 1: it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues
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  Speaker 1: and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly,
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  Speaker 1: I tell you they have received their award in full.
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  Speaker 1: That when you give to the needy, do not let
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  Speaker 1: your left hand know what your right hand is doing,
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  Speaker 1: so that your giving may be in secret. Then your father,
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  Speaker 1: who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
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  Speaker 1: And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites,
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  Speaker 1: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and
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  Speaker 1: on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly,
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  Speaker 1: I tell you they have received their reward in full.
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  Speaker 1: But when you pray, go into your room, close the
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  Speaker 1: door and pray to your father, who is unseen. Then
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  Speaker 1: your father, who sees what is done in secret, will
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  Speaker 1: reward you. And when you pray, do not keep on
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  Speaker 1: babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard
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  Speaker 1: because of their many words. Do not be like them,
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  Speaker 1: for your father knows what you need before you ask him. This, then,
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  Speaker 1: is how you should pray. Our Father in heaven, hallowed
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  Speaker 1: be your name, your Kingdom. Come. Your will be done
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  Speaker 1: on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today
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  Speaker 1: our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we
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  Speaker 1: also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation,
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  Speaker 1: but deliver us from the evil one. For if you
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  Speaker 1: forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly
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  Speaker 1: father will also forgive you. But if you do not
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  Speaker 1: forgive others their sins, your father will not forgive your sins.
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  Speaker 1: When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do,
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  Speaker 1: for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting, truly,
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  Speaker 1: I tell you they have received their award in full.
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  Speaker 1: But when you fast, put oil on your head and
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  Speaker 1: wash your face, so that it will not be obvious
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  Speaker 1: to others that you are fasting. But only to your father,
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  Speaker 1: who is unseen. And your father, who sees what is
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  Speaker 1: done in secret, will reward you. Do not store up
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  Speaker 1: for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy,
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  Speaker 1: and where thieves break in and steal. But store up
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  Speaker 1: for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do
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  Speaker 1: not destroy, where thieves do not break in and steal.
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  Speaker 1: For where your treasure is there, your heart will be Also.
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  Speaker 1: The eye is the lamp of the body. If your
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  Speaker 1: eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light.
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  Speaker 1: But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will
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  Speaker 1: be full of darkness. If then the light within you
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  Speaker 1: is darkness, how great is that darkness. No one can
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  Speaker 1: can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one
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  Speaker 1: and love the other, or you will be devoted to
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  Speaker 1: the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both
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  Speaker 1: God and money. Therefore, I tell you do not worry
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  Speaker 1: about your life. What you will eat or drink, or
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  Speaker 1: about your body. What you will wear is not life
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  Speaker 1: more than food, and the body more than clothes. Look
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  Speaker 1: at the birds of the air. They do not sow
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  Speaker 1: or reap or store away in barns, and yet your
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  Speaker 1: heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable
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  Speaker 1: than they? Can? Any one of you by worrying add
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  Speaker 1: a single hour to your life? And why do you
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  Speaker 1: worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow.
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  Speaker 1: They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you
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  Speaker 1: that not even Solomon, in all his splendor, dressed like
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  Speaker 1: one of these. And if that is how God clothes
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  Speaker 1: the grass of the field, which is here today and
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much
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  Speaker 1: more clothe you, you of little faith. So do not worry,
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  Speaker 1: saying what shall we eat, or what shall we drink,
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  Speaker 1: or what shall we wear? For the pagans run after
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  Speaker 1: all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you
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  Speaker 1: need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness,
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  Speaker 1: and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: do not worry about tomorrow, that tomorrow will worry about itself.
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  Speaker 1: Each day has enough trouble of its own Matthew Chapter seven,
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  Speaker 1: Do not judge, or you too will be judged, for
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  Speaker 1: in the same way as you judge others, that you
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  Speaker 1: will be judged. And with the measure you use, it
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  Speaker 1: will be measured to you. Why do you look at
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  Speaker 1: the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay
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  Speaker 1: no attention to the plank in your own eye. How
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  Speaker 1: can you say to your brother, let me take the
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  Speaker 1: speck out of your eye, when all the time there
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  Speaker 1: is a plank in your own eye, You hypocrite. First
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  Speaker 1: take the plank out of your own eye, and then
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  Speaker 1: you will see clearly to remove the speck from your
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  Speaker 1: brother's eye. Do not give dogs what is sacred. Do
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  Speaker 1: not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they
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  Speaker 1: may trample them under their feet and turn and tear
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  Speaker 1: you to pieces. Ask and it will be given to you.
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  Speaker 1: Seek and you will find. Knock and the door will
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  Speaker 1: be open to you. For every one who asks receives,
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  Speaker 1: the one who seeks finds, And to the one who
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  Speaker 1: knocks the door will be opened. Which of you, if
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  Speaker 1: your son asks for bread, will give him a stone,
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  Speaker 1: Or if he asks for a fish, will give him
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  Speaker 1: a snake. If you, then, though you are evil, know
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  Speaker 1: how to give good gifts to your children, how much
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  Speaker 1: more will your father in heaven give good gifts to
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  Speaker 1: those who ask him. So. In everything, do to others
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  Speaker 1: what you would have them do to you. For this
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  Speaker 1: sums up the law, and the profits. Enter through the
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  Speaker 1: narrow gate. For wide is the gate, and broad is
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  Speaker 1: the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
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  Speaker 1: But small is the gate, and narrow the road that
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  Speaker 1: leads to life, and only a few find it. Watch
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  Speaker 1: out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing,
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  Speaker 1: but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. Buy their fruit, you
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  Speaker 1: will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thorn bushes
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  Speaker 1: or figs from thistles? Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit,
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  Speaker 1: but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree
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  Speaker 1: cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear
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  Speaker 1: good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit
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  Speaker 1: is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus by
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  Speaker 1: their fruit you will recognize them. Not every one who
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  Speaker 1: says to me, Lord Lord, will enter the Kingdom of heaven,
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  Speaker 1: but only the one who does the will of my father,
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  Speaker 1: who is in heaven. Many will say to me on
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  Speaker 1: that day, Lord Lord, did we not prophesy in your name,
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  Speaker 1: and in your name drive out demons, and in your
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  Speaker 1: name perform many miracles? Then I will tell them plainly,
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  Speaker 1: I never knew you away from me, you evil doers. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: every one who hears these words of mine and puts
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  Speaker 1: them into practice is like a wise man who built
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  Speaker 1: his house on the rock. The rain came down, the
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  Speaker 1: streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house.
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  Speaker 1: Yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation
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  Speaker 1: on the rock. But every one who hears these words
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  Speaker 1: of mine and does not put them into practice is
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  Speaker 1: like a foolish man who built his house on sand.
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  Speaker 1: The rain came down, the streams rose, and the wind
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  Speaker 1: blew and beat against that house, and it fell with
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  Speaker 1: a great crash. When Jesus had finished saying these things,
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  Speaker 1: the crowds were amazed at his teaching, because he taught
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  Speaker 1: as one who had authority, not as their teachers of
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  Speaker 1: the law. Matthew chapter eight. When Jesus came down from
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  Speaker 1: the mountain side, large crowds followed him. A man with
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  Speaker 1: leprosy came and knelt before him and said, Lord, if
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  Speaker 1: you are willing, you could make me clean. Jesus reached
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  Speaker 1: out his hand and touched the man. I am willing,
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  Speaker 1: he said, be clean. Immediately he was cleansed of his leprosy.
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  Speaker 1: Then Jesus said to him, see that you don't tell
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  Speaker 1: any one, but go show yourself to the priest and
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  Speaker 1: offer the gift Moses commanded as a testimony to them.
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  Speaker 1: When Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him,
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  Speaker 1: asking for help. Lord. He said, my servant lies at
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  Speaker 1: home paralyzed, suffering terribly. Jesus said to him, shall I
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  Speaker 1: come and heal him? The centurion replied, Lord, I do
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  Speaker 1: not deserve to have you come under my roof, but
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  Speaker 1: just say the word, 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 and said to those following him, Truly,
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  Speaker 1: I tell you I have not found anyone in Israel
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  Speaker 1: with such great faith. I say to you that many
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  Speaker 1: will come from the east and the West and will
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  Speaker 1: take their places at the feast with Abraham, Isaac and
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  Speaker 1: Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven. But the subjects of
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  Speaker 1: the kingdom will be thrown outside into the darkness, where
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  Speaker 1: there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then Jesus
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  Speaker 1: said to the centurion, go let it be done just
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  Speaker 1: as you believed it would, And his servant was healed
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  Speaker 1: at that moment. When Jesus came into Peter's house, he
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  Speaker 1: saw Peter's mother in law lying in bed with a fever.
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  Speaker 1: He touched her hand and the fever left her, and
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  Speaker 1: she got up and began to wait on him. When
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  Speaker 1: evening came, many who a demon possessed were brought to him,
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  Speaker 1: and he drove out the spirits with a word and
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  Speaker 1: healed all who were ill. This was to fulfill what
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  Speaker 1: was spoken through the prophet Isaiah. He took up our
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  Speaker 1: infirmities and bore our diseases. When Jesus saw the crowd
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  Speaker 1: around him, he gave orders to cross to the other
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  Speaker 1: side of the lake. Then a teacher of the law
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  Speaker 1: came to him and said, teach her, I will follow
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  Speaker 1: you wherever you go. Jesus replied, foxes have dens and
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  Speaker 1: birds have nests, but the son of man has nowhere
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  Speaker 1: to lay his head. Another disciple said to him, Lord, first,
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  Speaker 1: let me go and bury my father. But Jesus told
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  Speaker 1: him follow me and let the dead bury their own dead.
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  Speaker 1: Then he got into the boat and his disciples followed him.
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  Speaker 1: Suddenly a furious storm came up on the lake, so
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  Speaker 1: that the waves swept over the boat. But Jesus was sleeping.
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  Speaker 1: The disciples went and woke him, saying, Lord, save us,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to drown. He replied, you of little faith,
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  Speaker 1: why are you so afraid? Then he got up and
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  Speaker 1: rebuked the winds and the waves, and it was completely calm.
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  Speaker 1: The men were amazed and asked, what kind of man
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  Speaker 1: is this? Even the winds and the waves obey him.
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  Speaker 1: When he arrived at the other side, in the region
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  Speaker 1: of the Gaderens, two demon possessed men coming from the
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  Speaker 1: tombs met him. They were so violent that no one
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  Speaker 1: could pass that way. What do you want with us,
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  Speaker 1: son of God? They shouted, have you come here to
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  Speaker 1: torture us before the appointed time? Some distance from them,
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  Speaker 1: a large herd of pigs was feeding. The demons. Begged Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: if you drive us out, send us into the herd
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  Speaker 1: of pigs. He said to them go. So they came
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  Speaker 1: out and went into the pigs, and the whole herd
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  Speaker 1: rushed down the steep bank into the lake and died
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  Speaker 1: in the water. Those tending the pigs ran off went
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  Speaker 1: into the town and reported all this, including what had
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  Speaker 1: happened to the demon possessed men. Then the whole town
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  Speaker 1: went out to meet Jesus, and when they saw him,
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  Speaker 1: they pleaded with him to leave their region. Matthew, Chapter nine.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus stepped into a boat, crushed over, and came to
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  Speaker 1: his own town. Some men brought to him a paralyzed
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  Speaker 1: man lying on a mat. When Jesus saw their faith,
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  Speaker 1: he said to the man, take heart, son, your sins
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  Speaker 1: are forgiven. At this, some of the teachers of the
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  Speaker 1: law said to themselves, this fellow is blaspheming. Knowing their thoughts,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said, why do you entertain evil thoughts in your hearts?
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  Speaker 1: Which is easier to say your sins are forgiven, or
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  Speaker 1: to say get up and walk. But I want you
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  Speaker 1: to know that the son of Man has authority on
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  Speaker 1: earth to forgive sins. So he said to the paralyzed
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  Speaker 1: man get up, take your mat, and go home. Then
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: the man got up and went home. When the crowds
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: saw this, they were filled with awe, and they praised
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: God who had given such authority to man. As Jesus
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: sitting at the tax collector's booth. Follow me, he told him,
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  Speaker 1: and Matthew got up and followed him. While Jesus was
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  Speaker 1: having dinner at Matthew's house, many tax collectors and sinners
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  Speaker 1: came and net with him and his disciples. When the
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  Speaker 1: Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, why does your
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  Speaker 1: teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners. On hearing this,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said, it is not the healthy who need a doctor,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: but those who are ill. But go and learn what
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  Speaker 1: this means. I desire mercy, not sacrifice, for I have
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  Speaker 1: not come to call the righteous, but sinners. Then John's
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  Speaker 1: disciples came and asked him, how is it the we
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  Speaker 1: and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus answered, how can the guests of the bridegroom mourn
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  Speaker 1: while he is with them? The time will come when
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  Speaker 1: the bridegroom will be taken from them. Then they will fast.
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  Speaker 1: No one sows a patch of unshrunk cloth on an
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  Speaker 1: old garment, for the patch will pull away from the garment,
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  Speaker 1: making the tear worse. Neither do people pour new wine
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  Speaker 1: into old wine skins. If they do, the skins will burst,
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  Speaker 1: the wine will run out, and the wine skins will
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wine skins,
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  Speaker 1: and both are preserved. While he was saying this, a
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  Speaker 1: synagogue leader came and knelt before him and said, my
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  Speaker 1: daughter has just died. But come and put your hand
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  Speaker 1: on her, and she will live. Jesus got up and
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  Speaker 1: went with him, and so did his disciples. Just then,
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  Speaker 1: a woman who had been subject to bleeding for twelve
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  Speaker 1: years came up behind him and touched the edge of
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  Speaker 1: his cloak. She said to herself, if I only touch
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  Speaker 1: his cloak, I will be healed. Jesus turned and saw her.
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  Speaker 1: Take heart, daughter. He said, your faith has healed you,
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  Speaker 1: and the woman was healed. At that moment. When Jesus
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  Speaker 1: enter the synagogue leader's house and saw the noisy crowd
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  Speaker 1: and the people playing pipes, he said, go away. The
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  Speaker 1: girl is not dead but asleep. But they laughed at him.
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  Speaker 1: After the crowd had been put outside, he went in
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  Speaker 1: and took the girl by the hand, and she got up.
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  Speaker 1: News of this spread through all that region. As Jesus
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: went on from there, two blind men followed him, calling out,
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  Speaker 1: have mercy on us, son of David. When he had
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  Speaker 1: gone indoors, the blind men came to him, and he
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: asked them, do you believe I am able to do this? Yes, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: they replied. Then he touched their eyes and said, according
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  Speaker 1: to your faith, let it be done to you, and
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  Speaker 1: their sight was restored. Jesus warned them sternly, see that
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  Speaker 1: no one knows about this. But they went out and
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  Speaker 1: spread the news about him all over that region. While
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  Speaker 1: they were going out, a man who was demon possessed
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  Speaker 1: and could not talk was brought to Jesus, and when
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: the demon was driven out, the man who had been
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  Speaker 1: mute spoke. The crowd was amazed and said, nothing like
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  Speaker 1: this has ever been seen in Israel. But the Pharisees said,
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  Speaker 1: it is by the prince of demons that he drives
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  Speaker 1: out demons. Jesus went through all the towns and villages,
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  Speaker 1: teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the
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  Speaker 1: Kingdom and healing every disease and illness. When he saw
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  Speaker 1: the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were
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  Speaker 1: harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: said to his disciples, the harvest is plentiful, but the
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  Speaker 1: workers have you ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore,
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  Speaker 1: to send out workers into his harvest field. Matthew Chapter ten.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus called his twelve disciples to him and gave them
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  Speaker 1: authority to drive out impure spirits and to heal every
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  Speaker 1: disease and illness. These are the names of the twelve apostles.
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  Speaker 1: First Simon, who is called Peter, and his brother Andrew,
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  Speaker 1: James son of Zebede and his brother John Philip, and
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  Speaker 1: Bartholomew Thomas and Matthew the tax collector, James son of Alpheus,
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  Speaker 1: and Thadeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.
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  Speaker 1: These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions. Do
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  Speaker 1: not go among the gentiles or enter any town of
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  Speaker 1: the Samaritans. Go rather to the lost cheep of Israel.
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  Speaker 1: As you go, proclaim this message. The Kingdom of Heaven
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  Speaker 1: has come near, Heal those who are ill, raise the dead,
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  Speaker 1: cleanse those who have leprosy, Drive out demons freely. You
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  Speaker 1: have received freely give. Do not get any gold or
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  Speaker 1: silver or copper to take with you in your belts.
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  Speaker 1: No bag for the journey, or extra shirt or sandals,
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  Speaker 1: or a staff for the worker is worth his keep.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever town or village you enter, search there for some
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  Speaker 1: worthy person, and stay at their house until you leave.
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  Speaker 1: As you enter the home, give it your greeting. If
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  Speaker 1: the home is deserving, let your peace rest on it.
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  Speaker 1: If it is not, let your peace return to you.
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  Speaker 1: If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: leave that home or town and shake the dust of
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: your feet. Truly, I tell you, it will be more
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  Speaker 1: bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment
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  Speaker 1: than for that town. I am sending you out like
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  Speaker 1: sheep among wolves. Therefore, be as shrewd as snakes, and
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  Speaker 1: as innocent as doves. Be on your guard. You will
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  Speaker 1: be handed over to the local councils and flogged in
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  Speaker 1: the synagogues. On my account. You will be brought before
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: governors and kings as witnesses to them and to the gentiles.
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  Speaker 1: But when they arrest you do not worry about what
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  Speaker 1: to say or how to say it. At that time
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  Speaker 1: you will be given what to say, for it will
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  Speaker 1: not be you speaking, but the spirit of your father
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  Speaker 1: speaking through you. Brother will betray brother to death, and
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  Speaker 1: a father his child. Children will rebel against their parents
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  Speaker 1: and have them put to death. You will be hated
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: by every one because of me, But the one who
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: stands firm to the end will be saved. When you
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: are persecuted in one place to another, Truly, I tell
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  Speaker 1: you will not finish going through the towns of Israel
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: before the Son of Man comes. The student is not
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  Speaker 1: above the teacher, nor a servant above his master. It
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  Speaker 1: is enough for students to be like their teachers, and
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: servants like their masters. If the head of the house
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  Speaker 1: has been called Beelzibal, how much more the members of
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  Speaker 1: his household. So do not be afraid of them. For
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  Speaker 1: there is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: hidden that will not be made known. What I tell
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: you in the dark, speak in the daylight what is
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  Speaker 1: whispered in your ear. Proclaim from the roofs. Do not
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: be afraid of those who kill the body, but cannot
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: kill the soul. Rather be afraid of the one who
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: can destroy both soul and body. In hell, are not
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: two sparrows sold for a penny, Yet not one of
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  Speaker 1: them will fall to the ground outside your father's care.
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  Speaker 1: And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
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  Speaker 1: So don't be afraid. You are worth more than many sparrows.
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  Speaker 1: Whoever acknowledges me before others, I will also acknowledge before
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  Speaker 1: my father in heaven. But whoever disowns me before others,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: I will disown before my father in heaven. Do not
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth.
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  Speaker 1: I did not come to bring peace but a sword.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: For I have come to turn a man against his father,
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  Speaker 1: a daughter against her mother, a daughter in law against
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: her mother in law. A man's enemies will be the
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: members of his own household. Any One who loves their
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: father or mother more than me is not worthy of me.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Any One who loves their son or daughter more than
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: me is not worthy of me. Whoever does not take
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  Speaker 1: up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
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  Speaker 1: Whoever finds their life will lose it, And whoever loses
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: their life for my sake will find it. Any One
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  Speaker 1: who welcomes you welcomes me, and any one who welcomes
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: me welcomes the one who sent me. Whoever welcomes a
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: prophet as a prophet will receive a prophet's reward, And
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: whoever welcomes a righteous person as a righteous person, will
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  Speaker 1: receive a righteous person's reward. And if any one gives
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: even a cup of cold water to one of these
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: little ones who is my disciple, truly I tell you
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: that person will certainly not lose their reward. Matthew, chapter eleven.
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  Speaker 1: After Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples, he went
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: on from there to teach and preach in the towns
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: of gal When John, who was in prison, heard about
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  Speaker 1: the deeds of the Messiah, he sent his disciples to
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: ask him, are you the one who is to come?
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  Speaker 1: Or should we expect someone else? Jesus replied, go back
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  Speaker 1: and report to John what you hear. And see the
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  Speaker 1: blind received sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy
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  Speaker 1: are cleansed the death. Here the dead are raised, and
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: the good news has proclaimed to the poor. Blessed is
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: anyone who does not stumble on account of me. As
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: John's disciples were leaving, Jesus began to speak to the
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: crowd about John. What did you go out into the
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: wilderness to see a reed swayed by the wind? If not,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: what did you go out to see a man dressed
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: in fine clothes? No, those who wear fine clothes are
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: in king's palaces. Then what did you go out to
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: a prophet, this is the one about whom it is written.
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  Speaker 1: I will send my messenger ahead of you, who will
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  Speaker 1: prepare your way before you. Truly, I tell you. Among
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: those born of women, there has not risen any one
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: greater than John the Baptist. Yet whoever is least in
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he. From the
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: days of John the Baptist until now, the Kingdom of
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Heaven has been subjected to violence, and violent people have
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: been raiding it. For all the prophets and the law
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  Speaker 1: prophesied until John. And if you are willing to accept it,
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: he is the Elijah who was to come. Whoever has ears,
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  Speaker 1: let them hear. Can I compare this generation? They are
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  Speaker 1: like children sitting in the market places and calling out
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  Speaker 1: to others. We played the pipe for you, and you
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: did not dance. We sang a dirge and you did
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: not moon. For John came neither eating nor drinking, and
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  Speaker 1: they say he has a demon. The son of Man
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: came eating and drinking, and they say, here is a
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: But wisdom is proved right by her deeds. Then Jesus
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: began to denounce the towns in which most of his
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  Speaker 1: miracles had been performed because they did not repent. Woe
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: to you, Coazin woe to you, bethsayda, For if the
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: miracles that were performed in you had been performed in
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Tire and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: sackcloth and ashes. But I tell you it will be
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: more bearable for Tire and Sidon on the day of
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: judgment than for you. And you, Capernium. Will you be
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: lifted to the heavens, No, you will go down to hades.
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  Speaker 1: For if the miracles that were performed in you had
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  Speaker 1: been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: But I tell you that it will be more bearable
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: for Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: At that time, Jesus said, I praise you, Father, Lord
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: of heaven and Earth, because you have hidden these things
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: from the wise and learned and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father,
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: for this is what you were pleased to do. All
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: things have been committed to me by my Father. No
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: one knows the Son except the Father, and no one
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: knows the Father except the Sun, and those to whom
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: the Son chooses to reveal him. Come to me, all
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you.
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  Speaker 1: Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: find rest for your souls, for my yoke is easy
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: and my burden is light Matthew chapter twelve. At that time,
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: Jesus went through the cornfields on the Sabbath. His disciples
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  Speaker 1: were hungry and began to pick some ears of corn
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: and eat them. When the Pharisees saw this, they said
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: to him, look, your disciples are doing what is unlawful
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  Speaker 1: on the sabbath. He answered, haven't you read what David did?
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: When he and his companions were hungry. He entered the
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  Speaker 1: House of God and he and his companions ate the
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: consecrated bread, which was not lawful for them to do,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: but only for the priests. Or haven't you read in
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: the law that the priests on Sabbath duty in the
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: temple secreate the Sabbath, And yet are innocent. I tell
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  Speaker 1: you that something greater than the temple is here. If
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  Speaker 1: you had known what these words mean, I desire mercy,
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the innocent, For
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: the son of Man is lord of the Sabbath. Going
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: on from that place, he went into their synagogue, and
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: a man with a shriveled hand was there, looking for
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: a reason to bring charges against Jesus. They asked him,
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath? He said
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: to them, if any of you has a sheep, and
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: it falls into a pit on the sabbath, will you
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: not take hold of it and lift it out? How
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: much more valuable is a person than a sheep. Therefore
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath. Then
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: he said to the man, stretch out your hand. So
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: he stretched it out, and it was completely restored, just
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: as sound as the other. But the Pharisees went out
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: and plotted how they might kill Jesus. Aware of this,
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: Jesus withdrew from that place. A large crowd followed him,
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: and he healed all who were ill. He warned them
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: not to tell others about him. This was to fulfill
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  Speaker 1: what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah. Here is my servant,
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: whom I have chosen, the one I love in whom
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: I delight. I will put my spirit on him, and
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: he will proclaim justice to the nations. He will not
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: quarrel or cry out. No one will hear his voice
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: in the streets. A bruised reed he will not break,
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: and the smoldering wick he will not snuff out. Till
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: he has brought justice through to victory. In his name,
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: the nations will put their hope. Then they brought him
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: a demon possessed man who was blind and mute, and
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: Jesus healed him so that he could both talk and see.
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  Speaker 1: All the people were astonished and said, could this be
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: the son of David. But when the Pharisees heard this,
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: they said, it is only by Beelzebal, the prince of demons,
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: that this fellow drives out demons. Jesus knew their thoughts,
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  Speaker 1: and said to them, every kingdom divided against itself will
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: be ruined, and every city or household divided against itself
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: will not stand. If Satan drives out Satan, he is
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: divided against himself, How then can his kingdom stand? And
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: if I drive out demons by beelzebal by whom do
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: your people drive them out? So then they will be
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: your judges. That if it is by the Spirit of
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: God that I drive out demons, then the Kingdom of
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: God has come upon you. Or again, how can anyone
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: enter a strong man's house and carry off his possessions
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: unless he first ties up the strong man, then he
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: can plunder his house. Whoever is not with me is
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: against me. And whoever does not gather with me scatters.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: And so I tell you every kind of sin and
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: slander can be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: not be forgiven. Anyone who speaks a word against the
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: Son of Man will be forgiven. But anyone who speaks
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: this age or in the age to come. Make a
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: tree good and its fruit will be good, or make
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: a tree bad and its fruit will be bad. For
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: a tree is recognized by its fruit, You brood of vipers.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: How can you, who are evil say anything good? For
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. Good
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: man brings good things out of the good stored up
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: in him, and an evil man brings evil things out
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: of the evils stored up in him. But I tell
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: you that every one will have to give account on
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: For by your words you will be acquitted, and by
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: your words you will be condemned. Then some of the
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: pharisees and teachers of the law said to him, Teacher,
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: we want to see a sign from you. He answered,
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign. But
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: none will be given it except the sign of the
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was three days and three
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: son of Man will be three days and three nights
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: in the heart of the earth. The men of Nineveh
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: will stand up at the judgment with this generation and
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: And now something greater than Jner is here. The queen
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: of the South will rise of the judgment with this
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: generation and condemn it. For she came from the ends
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: of the earth to listen to Solomon's wisdom, and now
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: something greater than Solomon is here. When an impure spirit
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: comes out of a person, it goes through arid places
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says,
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: I will return to the house I left. When it arrives,
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: it finds the house unoccupied, swept clean, and put in order.
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: And the final condition of that person is worse than
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: the first. That is how it will be with this
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: wicked generation. While Jesus was still talking to the crowd,
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: his mother and brothers stood outside wanting to speak to him.
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: Someone told him, your mother and brothers are standing outside
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: wanting to speak to you. He replied to him, who
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: is my mother and who are my brothers? Pointing to
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: his disciples, he said, here are my mother and my brothers.
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: For whoever does the will of my father in heaven
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  Speaker 1: is my brother and sister and mother Matthew, chapter thirteen.
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  Speaker 1: That same day, Jesus went out of the house and
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  Speaker 1: sat by the lake. Such large crowds gathered round him
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  Speaker 1: that he got into a boat and sat in it
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  Speaker 1: while all the people stood on the shore. Then he
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  Speaker 1: told them many things in parables, saying a farmer went
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  Speaker 1: out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed,
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  Speaker 1: some fell along the path, and the birds came and
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  Speaker 1: et it up. Some fell on rocky places where it
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  Speaker 1: did not have much soil, sprang up quickly because the
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  Speaker 1: soil was shallow. But when the sun came up, the
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  Speaker 1: plants were scorched and they withered because they had no root.
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  Speaker 1: Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked
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  Speaker 1: the plants. Still other seed fell on good soil, where
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  Speaker 1: it produced a crop a hundred, sixty or thirty times
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  Speaker 1: what was sown. Whoever has ears, let them hear. The
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  Speaker 1: disciples came to him and asked, why do you speak
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  Speaker 1: to the people in parables. He replied, because the knowledge
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  Speaker 1: of the secrets of the Kingdom of Heaven has been
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  Speaker 1: given to you, but not to them. Whoever has will
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  Speaker 1: be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever
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  Speaker 1: does not have, even what they have will be taken
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  Speaker 1: from them. This is why I speak to them in parables.
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  Speaker 1: Though seeing they do not see, though hearing they do
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  Speaker 1: not hear, or understand. In them is fulfilled the prophecy
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  Speaker 1: of Isaiah. You will be ever hearing, but never understanding.
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  Speaker 1: You will be ever seeing, but never perceiving. For this
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  Speaker 1: people's heart has become calloused. They hardly hear with their ears,
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  Speaker 1: and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see
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  Speaker 1: with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts,
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  Speaker 1: and turn, and I would heal them. But blessed are
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  Speaker 1: your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.
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  Speaker 1: For truly, I tell you many prophets and righteous people
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  Speaker 1: longed to see what you see but did not see it,
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  Speaker 1: and to hear what you hear, but did not hear it. Listen, then,
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  Speaker 1: to what the parable of the soer means. When anyone
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  Speaker 1: hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand,
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  Speaker 1: the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown
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  Speaker 1: in their heart. This is the seed sown along the path.
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  Speaker 1: The seed falling on rocky ground refers to someone who
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  Speaker 1: hears the word and at once receives it with joy.
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  Speaker 1: But since they have no root, they last only a
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  Speaker 1: short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word,
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  Speaker 1: they quickly fall away. The seed falling among the thorns
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  Speaker 1: refers to someone who hears the word, But the worries
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  Speaker 1: of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word,
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  Speaker 1: making it unfruitful. But the seed falling on good soil
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  Speaker 1: refers to someone who hears the word and understands it.
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  Speaker 1: This is the one who produces a crop yielding one hundred,
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  Speaker 1: sixty or thirty times what was sown. Jesus told them
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  Speaker 1: another parable. The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man
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  Speaker 1: who sowed good seed in his feet, But while everyone
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  Speaker 1: was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat,
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  Speaker 1: and went away. When the wheat sprouted and formed ears,
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  Speaker 1: then the weeds also appeared. The owner's servants came to
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  Speaker 1: him and said, Sir, didn't you sow good seed in
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  Speaker 1: your field? Where then did the weeds come from? An enemy?
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  Speaker 1: Did this? He replied. The servants asked him, do you
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  Speaker 1: want us to go and pull them up? No, he answered,
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  Speaker 1: because while you're pulling up the weeds, you may uproot
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  Speaker 1: the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest.
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  Speaker 1: At that time, I will tell the harvesters first to
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  Speaker 1: collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned.
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  Speaker 1: Then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.
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  Speaker 1: He told them another parable. The Kingdom of Heaven is
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  Speaker 1: like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted
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  Speaker 1: in his field. Though it is the smallest of all seeds.
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  Speaker 1: When it grows, it is the largest of garden plants,
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  Speaker 1: and becomes a tree, so that the birds come and
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  Speaker 1: perch in its branches. He told them still another parable,
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  Speaker 1: The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast that a woman
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  Speaker 1: took and mixed into about thirty kilograms of flower, until
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  Speaker 1: it worked all through the dough. Jesus spoke all these
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  Speaker 1: things to the crowd in parables. He did not say
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  Speaker 1: anything to them without using a parable. So was fulfilled
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  Speaker 1: what was spoken through the prophet. I will open my
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  Speaker 1: mouth in parables. I will utter things hidden since the
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  Speaker 1: creation of the world. Then he left the crowd and
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  Speaker 1: went into the house. His disciples came to him and said,
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  Speaker 1: explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field.
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  Speaker 1: He answered, the one who sowed the good seed is
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  Speaker 1: the son of man. The field is the world, and
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  Speaker 1: the good seed stoud for the people of the kingdom.
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  Speaker 1: The weeds are the people of the evil one, and
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  Speaker 1: the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest
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  Speaker 1: is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.
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  Speaker 1: As the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire,
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  Speaker 1: so it will be at the end of the age.
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  Speaker 1: The Son of Man will send out his angels, and
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  Speaker 1: they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin,
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  Speaker 1: and all who do evil. They will throw them into
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  Speaker 1: the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing
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  Speaker 1: of teeth. Then the righteous will shine like the sun
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  Speaker 1: in the kingdom of their father. Whoever has ears, let
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  Speaker 1: them hear. The Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden
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  Speaker 1: in a field. When a man found it, he hid
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  Speaker 1: it again, and then, in his joy, went and sold
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  Speaker 1: all he had and bought that field again. The Kingdom
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  Speaker 1: of Heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls.
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  Speaker 1: When he found one of great value, he went away
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  Speaker 1: and sold everything he had and bought it once again.
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  Speaker 1: The Kingdom of Heaven is like a net that was
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  Speaker 1: let down into the lake and caught all kinds of
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  Speaker 1: fish When it was full, the fisherman pulled it up
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  Speaker 1: on the shore. Then they sat down and collected the
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  Speaker 1: good fish in baskets, but threw the bad away. This
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  Speaker 1: is how it will be at the end of the age.
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  Speaker 1: The angels will come and separate the wicket from the
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  Speaker 1: righteous and throw them into the blazing furnace, where there
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  Speaker 1: will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Have you understood
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  Speaker 1: all these things? Jesus asked, yes, they replied. He said
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  Speaker 1: to them, therefore, every teacher of the law who has
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  Speaker 1: become a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like
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  Speaker 1: the owner of a house who brings out his storeroom
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  Speaker 1: new treasures as well as old. When Jesus had finished
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  Speaker 1: these parables, he moved on from there, coming to his hometown.
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  Speaker 1: He began teaching the people in their synagogue, and they
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  Speaker 1: were amazed. Where did this man get this wisdom and
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  Speaker 1: these miraculous powers? They asked, isn't this the carpenter's son.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't his mother's name Mary? And aren't his brothers James, Joseph, Simon,
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  Speaker 1: and Judas aren't all his sisters with us? Where then,
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  Speaker 1: did this man get all these things? And they took
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  Speaker 1: offense at him. But Jesus said to them, a prophet
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  Speaker 1: is not without honor except in his own town and
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  Speaker 1: in his own home, And he did not do many
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  Speaker 1: miracles there because of their lack of faith Matthew, chapter nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: When Jesus had finished saying these things, he left Galilee
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  Speaker 1: and went into the region of Judea, to the other
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  Speaker 1: side of the Jordan. Large crowds followed him, and he
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  Speaker 1: healed them. There, some pharisees came to him to test him.
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  Speaker 1: They asked, is it lawful for a man to divorce
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  Speaker 1: his wife for any and every reason? Haven't you read?
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  Speaker 1: He replied that at the beginning, the Creator made them
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  Speaker 1: male and female, and said, for this reason, a man
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  Speaker 1: will leave his father a mother and be united to
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  Speaker 1: his wife, and the two will become one flesh. So
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  Speaker 1: they are no longer too, but one flesh. Therefore, what
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  Speaker 1: God has joined together, let no one separate. Why, then,
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: they asked, did Moses command that a man give his
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  Speaker 1: wife a certificate of divorce and send her away. Jesus replied,
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  Speaker 1: Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts
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  Speaker 1: were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: I tell you that any one who divorces his wife
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  Speaker 1: except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.
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  Speaker 1: The disciples said to him, if this is the situation
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  Speaker 1: between a husband and wife, it is better not to marry.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus replied, not every one can accept this word, but
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  Speaker 1: only those to whom it has been given. For there
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  Speaker 1: are eunuchs who were born that way, and there are
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  Speaker 1: eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others, and there
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  Speaker 1: are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the
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  Speaker 1: sake of the Kingdom of heaven. The one who can
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  Speaker 1: accept this should accept it. Then people brought little children
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  Speaker 1: to Jesus for him to place his hands on them
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  Speaker 1: and pray for them, but the disciples rebuked them. Jesus said,
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  Speaker 1: let the little children come to me, do not hinder them,
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  Speaker 1: for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to such as these.
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  Speaker 1: When he had placed his hands on them, he went
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  Speaker 1: on from there. Just then a man came up to
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  Speaker 1: Jesus and asked, teach her, what good thing must I
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  Speaker 1: do to get eternal life? Why do you ask me
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  Speaker 1: about what is good? Jesus replied, there is only one
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  Speaker 1: who is good if you want to enter life, keep
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  Speaker 1: the commandments. Which ones he inquired. Jesus replied, you shall
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  Speaker 1: not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal,
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  Speaker 1: you shall not give false testimony. Honor your father and mother,
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  Speaker 1: and love your neighbor as yourself. All these I have kept.
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  Speaker 1: The young man said, what do I still like? Jesus answered,
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  Speaker 1: if you want to be perfect, go sell your possessions
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  Speaker 1: and give to the poor, and you will have treasure
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  Speaker 1: in heaven. Then come follow me. When the young man
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  Speaker 1: heard this, he went away sad because he had great wealth.
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  Speaker 1: Then Jesus said to his disciples, Truly, I tell you
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  Speaker 1: it is hard for someone who is rich to enter
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  Speaker 1: the kingdom of Heaven. Again, I tell you it is
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  Speaker 1: easier for a camel to go through the eye of
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  Speaker 1: a needle than for someone who is rich to enter
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  Speaker 1: the Kingdom of God. When the disciples heard this, they
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  Speaker 1: were greatly astonished and asked, who then can be saved.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus looked at them and said, with man, this is impossible,
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  Speaker 1: but with God all things are possible. Peter answered him,
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  Speaker 1: we have left everything to follow you. What then will
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  Speaker 1: there be for us? Jesus said to them. Truly, I
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  Speaker 1: tell you, at the renewal of all things, when the
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  Speaker 1: Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who
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  Speaker 1: have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones judging
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  Speaker 1: the twelve tribes of Israel. And everyone who has left
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  Speaker 1: houses or brothers or sisters, or father or mother or wife,
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  Speaker 1: or children or fields for my sake will receive a
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  Speaker 1: hundred times as much, and will inherit eternal life. But
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  Speaker 1: many who are first will be last, and many who
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  Speaker 1: are last will be first. Luke chapter six. One sabbath,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus was going through the corn fields, and his disciples
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  Speaker 1: began to pick some ears of corn, rub them in
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  Speaker 1: their hands, and eat the grain. Some of the Phardisees asked,
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  Speaker 1: why are you doing what is unlawful on the sabbath.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus answered them, have you never read what David did?
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  Speaker 1: When he and his companions were hungry. He entered the
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  Speaker 1: House of God, and taking the consecrated bread, he ate
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  Speaker 1: what is lawful only for priests to eat, and he
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  Speaker 1: also gave some to his companions. Then and Jesus said
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  Speaker 1: to them, the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.
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  Speaker 1: On another sabbath, he went into the synagogue and was teaching,
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  Speaker 1: and a man was there whose right hand was shriveled.
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  Speaker 1: The Pharisees and the teachers of the Law were looking
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  Speaker 1: for a reason to accuse Jesus, so they watched him
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  Speaker 1: closely to see if he would heal on the Sabbath.
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  Speaker 1: For Jesus knew what they were thinking, and said to
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  Speaker 1: the man with the shriveled hand, get up and stand
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  Speaker 1: in front of every one. So he got up and
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  Speaker 1: stood there. Then Jesus said to them, I ask you
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  Speaker 1: which is lawful on the sabbath, to do good or
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  Speaker 1: to do evil, to save life or to destroy it.
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  Speaker 1: He looked around at them all and then said to
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  Speaker 1: the man, stretch out your hand. He did so, and
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  Speaker 1: his hand was completely restored. But the Pharisees and the
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  Speaker 1: teachers of the law were furious and began to discuss
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  Speaker 1: with one another what they might do to Jesus. One
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  Speaker 1: of those days, Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray,
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  Speaker 1: and spent the night praying to God. When morning came,
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  Speaker 1: he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them,
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  Speaker 1: whom he also designated apostles, Simon whom He named Peter,
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  Speaker 1: his brother Andrew, James, John Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew Thomas, James,
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  Speaker 1: son of Alpheus Simon, who was called the Zealot, Judas
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  Speaker 1: son of James, and Judas Ascariot, who became a traitor.
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  Speaker 1: He went down with them and stood on a level place.
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  Speaker 1: A large crowd of his disciples was there, and a
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  Speaker 1: great number of people from all over Judea, from Jerusalem
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  Speaker 1: and from the coastal region around Tire and Sidon, who
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  Speaker 1: had come to hear him and to be healed of
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  Speaker 1: their disease. Those troubled by impure spirits were cured, and
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  Speaker 1: all the people tried to touch him, because power was
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  Speaker 1: coming from him and healing them all. Looking at his disciples,
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  Speaker 1: he said, Blessed are you who are poor, for yours
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: is the Kingdom of God. Blessed are you who hunger now,
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: for you will be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep,
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  Speaker 1: now for you will laugh. Blessed are you when people
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  Speaker 1: hate you, when they exclude you and insult you and
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  Speaker 1: reject your name as evil because of the Son of Man.
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  Speaker 1: Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great
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  Speaker 1: is your reward in heaven, for that is how their
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  Speaker 1: ancestors treated the prophets. But woe to you who are rich,
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  Speaker 1: for you have already received your comfort. Woe to you
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  Speaker 1: who are well fed now, for you will go hungry.
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  Speaker 1: Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn
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  Speaker 1: and weep. Woe to you when everyone speaks well of you,
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  Speaker 1: for that is how their ancestors treated the false prophets.
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  Speaker 1: But to you who are listening, I say, love your enemies,
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  Speaker 1: do good to those who hate you, Bless those who
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  Speaker 1: curse you, Pray for those who ill treat you. If
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  Speaker 1: someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to them the other. Also,
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  Speaker 1: if someone takes your coat, do not withhold your shirt
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  Speaker 1: from them. Give to everyone who asks you, And if
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  Speaker 1: anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back.
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  Speaker 1: Do to others as you would have them do to you.
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  Speaker 1: If you love those who love you, what credit is
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  Speaker 1: that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.
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  Speaker 1: And if you do good to those who are good
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  Speaker 1: to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners
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  Speaker 1: do that. And if you lend to those from whom
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  Speaker 1: you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners.
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  Speaker 1: Lend to sinners expecting to be repaid in full. But
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  Speaker 1: love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to
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  Speaker 1: them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reboard
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  Speaker 1: will be great, and you will be children of the
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.
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  Speaker 1: Be merciful, just as your father is merciful. Do not judge,
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  Speaker 1: and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and
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  Speaker 1: you will not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven.
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  Speaker 1: Give and it will be given to you. A good measure,
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be poured
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: into your lap. For with the measure you use, it
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: will be measure to you. He also told them this parable.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: Can the blind lead the blind? Will they not both
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: fall into a pit. The student is not above the teacher,
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  Speaker 1: but everyone who is fully trained will be like their teacher.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: in your own eye. How can you say to your
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: brother brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,
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  Speaker 1: when you yourself fail to see the plank in your
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: own eye. You hypocrite? First, take the plank out of
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove
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  Speaker 1: the speck from your brother's eye. No good tree bears
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: Each tree is recognized by its own fruit. People do
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  Speaker 1: not pick figs from thorn bushes or grapes from briars.
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  Speaker 1: A good man brings good things out of the good
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings
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  Speaker 1: evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart.
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  Speaker 1: For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you call me lord lord, and do not
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: do what I say? As for every one who comes
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  Speaker 1: to me and hears my words and puts them into practice,
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  Speaker 1: I will show you what they are like. They're like
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  Speaker 1: a man building a house who dug down deep and
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: laid the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: torrent struck that house, but could not shake it because
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: it was well built. But the one who hears my
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  Speaker 1: words and does not put them into practice is like
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  Speaker 1: a man who built a house on the ground without
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  Speaker 1: a foundation. The moment the torrent struck that house, it
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  Speaker 1: collapsed and its destruction was complete. Luke chapter eight. After
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: this Jesus traveled about from one town and village to another,
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  Speaker 1: proclaiming the good news of the Kingdom of God. The
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: Twelve were with him, and also some women who had
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  Speaker 1: been cured of evil spirits and diseases. Mary called Magdalen,
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  Speaker 1: from whom seven demons had come out, Joanna, the wife
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: of Chooser, the manager of Herod's household Susanna, and many others.
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  Speaker 1: These women were helping to support them out of their
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  Speaker 1: own means. While a large crowd was gathering and people
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: were coming to Jesus from town after town, He told
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: this parable. A farmer went out to sow his seed.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: It was trampled on, and the birds et it up.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: Some fell on rocky ground, and when it came up,
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  Speaker 1: the plants withered because they had no moisture. Other seed
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  Speaker 1: fell among thorns, which grew up with it and choked
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  Speaker 1: the plants. Still, the seed fell on good soil. It
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  Speaker 1: came up and yielded a crop a hundred times more
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  Speaker 1: than was sown. When he said this, he called out,
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  Speaker 1: whoever has ears to hear, let them hear. His disciples
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  Speaker 1: asked him what this parable meant. He said, the knowledge
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  Speaker 1: of the secrets of the Kingdom of God has been
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  Speaker 1: given to you, but to others I speak in parables,
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  Speaker 1: so that though seeing, they may not see, though hearing
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  Speaker 1: they may not understand. This is the meaning of the parable.
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  Speaker 1: The seed is the word of God. Those along the
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  Speaker 1: path are the ones who hear, and then the devil
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  Speaker 1: comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so
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  Speaker 1: that they may not believe and be saved. Those on
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  Speaker 1: the rocky ground are the ones who receive the word
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  Speaker 1: with joy when they hear it, but they have no root.
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  Speaker 1: They believe for a while, but in the time of
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  Speaker 1: testing they fall away. The seed that fell among thorns
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  Speaker 1: stands for those who hear, but as they go on
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  Speaker 1: their way, they are choked by life's worries, riches, and pleasures,
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  Speaker 1: and they do not mature. But the seed on good
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  Speaker 1: soil stands for those with a noble and good heart
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  Speaker 1: who hear the word, retain it, and by persevering, produce
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  Speaker 1: a crop. No one lights a lamp and hides it
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  Speaker 1: in a clay jar, or puts it under a bed. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: they put it on a stand so that those who
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  Speaker 1: come in can see the light. For there is nothing
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  Speaker 1: hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that
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  Speaker 1: will not be known or brought out into the open. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: consider carefully how you listen. Whoever has will be given more.
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  Speaker 1: Whoever does not have, even what they think they have,
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  Speaker 1: will be taken from them. Now Jesus, his mother and
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  Speaker 1: brothers came to see him, but they were not able
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  Speaker 1: to get near him because of the crowd. Some one
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  Speaker 1: told him, your mother and brothers are standing outside wanting
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  Speaker 1: to see you. He replied, My mother and brothers are
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  Speaker 1: those who hear God's word and put it into practice.
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  Speaker 1: One day Jesus said to his disciples, let us go
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  Speaker 1: over to the other side of the lake. So they
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  Speaker 1: got into a boat and set out. As they sailed,
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  Speaker 1: he fell asleep. A squawl came down on the lake,
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  Speaker 1: so that the boat was being swamped, and they were
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  Speaker 1: in great danger. The disciples went and woke him, saying, Master, Master,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to drown. He got up and rebuked the
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  Speaker 1: wind in the raging waters. The storm subsided and all
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  Speaker 1: was calm. Where is your faith? He asked his disciples.
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  Speaker 1: In fear and amazement, they asked one another, who is this?
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  Speaker 1: He commands even the winds and the water, and they
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  Speaker 1: obey him. They sailed to the region of the Ghercines,
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  Speaker 1: which is across the lake from Galilee. When Jesus stepped ashore,
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  Speaker 1: he was met by a demon possessed man from the
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  Speaker 1: town for a long time. This man had not worn
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  Speaker 1: clothes or lived in a house, but had lived in
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  Speaker 1: the tombs. When he saw Jesus, he cried out and
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  Speaker 1: fell at his feet, shouting at the top of his voice,
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  Speaker 1: what do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the
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  Speaker 1: Most High God? I beg you don't torture me. For
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  Speaker 1: Jesus had commanded the impure spirit to come out of
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  Speaker 1: the man many times. It had seized him, and though
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  Speaker 1: he was chained hand and foot and kept under guard,
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  Speaker 1: he had broken his chains had been driven by the
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  Speaker 1: demon into solitary places. Jesus asked him, what is your name, Legion?
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  Speaker 1: He replied, because many demons had gone into him, and
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  Speaker 1: they begged you. Jesus repeatedly not to order them to
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  Speaker 1: go into the abyss. A large herd of pigs was
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  Speaker 1: feeding there on the hillside. The demons begged Jesus to
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  Speaker 1: let them go into the pigs and he gave them permission.
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  Speaker 1: When the demons came out of the man, they went
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  Speaker 1: into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep
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  Speaker 1: bank into the lake and was drowned. When those tending
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  Speaker 1: the pigs saw what had happened, they ran off and
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  Speaker 1: reported this in the town and the countryside, and the
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  Speaker 1: people went out to see what had happened. When they
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  Speaker 1: came to Jesus, they found the man from whom the
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  Speaker 1: demons had gone out sitting at Jesus's feet, dressed and
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  Speaker 1: in his right mind, and they were afraid. Those who
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  Speaker 1: had seen it told the people how the demon possessed
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  Speaker 1: man of being cured. Then all the people of the
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  Speaker 1: region of the Gharrisines asked Jesus to leave them because
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  Speaker 1: they were overcome with fear. So he got into the
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  Speaker 1: boat and left. The man from whom the demon had
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  Speaker 1: gone out begged to go with him, but Jesus sent
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  Speaker 1: him away, saying, return home and tell how much God
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  Speaker 1: has done for you. So the man went away and
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  Speaker 1: told all over town how much Jesus had done for him. Now,
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  Speaker 1: when Jesus returned, a crowd welcomed him, for they were
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  Speaker 1: all expecting him. Then a man named Jyrus, a synagogue leader,
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  Speaker 1: came and fell at Jesus's feet, pleading with him to
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  Speaker 1: come to his house because his only daughter, a girl
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  Speaker 1: of about twelve, was dying. As Jesus was on his way,
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  Speaker 1: the crowds almost crushed him, and a woman was there
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  Speaker 1: who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years, but
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  Speaker 1: no one could heal her. She came up behind him
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  Speaker 1: and touched the edge of his cloak, and immediately her
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  Speaker 1: bleeding stopped. Who touched me, Jesus asked. When they all
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  Speaker 1: denied it, Peter said, the people are crowding and pressing
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  Speaker 1: against you. But Jesus said, someone touched me. I know
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  Speaker 1: the power has gone out from me. Then the woman,
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  Speaker 1: seeing that she could not go unnoticed, came trembling and
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  Speaker 1: fell at his feet in the presence of all the people.
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  Speaker 1: She told why she had touched him and how she
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  Speaker 1: had been instantly healed. Then he said to her daughter,
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  Speaker 1: your faith has healed you. Go in peace. While Jesus
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  Speaker 1: was still speaking, someone came from the house of Gyros,
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  Speaker 1: the synagogue leader. Your daughter is dead, he said, don't
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  Speaker 1: bother the teacher any more. Hearing this, Jesus said to Gyros.
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  Speaker 1: Don't be afraid, just believe, and she will be healed.
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  Speaker 1: When he arrived at the house of Gyros, he did
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  Speaker 1: not let anyone go in with him except Peter, John
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  Speaker 1: and James, and the child's father and mother. Meanwhile, all
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  Speaker 1: the people were wailing and mourning for her. Stop wailing.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said, she is not dead, but a sleep. They
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  Speaker 1: laughed at him, knowing that she was dead. But he
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  Speaker 1: took her by the hand and said, my child, get up.
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  Speaker 1: Her spirit returned, and at once she stood up. Then
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  Speaker 1: Jesus told them to give her something to eat. Her
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  Speaker 1: parents were astonished, but he ordered them not to tell
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  Speaker 1: any one what had happened Luke chapter ten. After this,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord appointed seventy two others and sent them two
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  Speaker 1: by two ahead of him to every town and place
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  Speaker 1: where he was about to go. He told them the
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  Speaker 1: harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Asked the
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  Speaker 1: Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into
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  Speaker 1: his harvest field. Go, I am sending you out like
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  Speaker 1: lambs among wolves. Do not take a purse or a
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  Speaker 1: bag or sandals. Do not greet anyone on the road.
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  Speaker 1: When you enter a house, first say peace to this house.
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  Speaker 1: If someone who promotes peace is there, your peace will
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  Speaker 1: rest on them. If not, it will return to you.
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  Speaker 1: Stay there, eating and drinking whatever they give you. For
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  Speaker 1: the worker deserves his wages. Do not move around from
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  Speaker 1: house to house. When you enter a town and are welcomed,
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  Speaker 1: eat what is offered to you. Heal the sick over there,
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  Speaker 1: and tell them the Kingdom of God has come near
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  Speaker 1: to you. But when you enter a town and are
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  Speaker 1: not welcomed, go into its streets and say, even the
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  Speaker 1: dust of your town we wipe from our feet as
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  Speaker 1: a warning to you. Yet be sure of this, the
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  Speaker 1: Kingdom of God has come near. I tell you it
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  Speaker 1: will be more bearable on them that day for sodom
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  Speaker 1: than for that time. Woe to you, Kazin, Woe to you,
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  Speaker 1: bethsaida For if the miracles that were performed in you
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  Speaker 1: had been performed in Tire and Sidon, they would have
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  Speaker 1: repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth the nashes. But it
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  Speaker 1: will be more bearable for Tire and Sidon of the
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  Speaker 1: judgment than for you and you Copernium, Will you be
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  Speaker 1: lifted to the heavens, No, you will go down to hades.
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  Speaker 1: Whoever listens to you, listens to me. Whoever rejects you
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  Speaker 1: rejects me. But whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.
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  Speaker 1: The seventy two returned with joy and said, Lord, even
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  Speaker 1: the demons submit to us in your name. He replied,
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  Speaker 1: I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. I have
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  Speaker 1: given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions, and
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  Speaker 1: to overcome all the power of the enemy. Nothing will
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  Speaker 1: harm you. However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit
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  Speaker 1: to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.
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  Speaker 1: At that time, Jesus, full of joy through the Holy Spirit, said,
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  Speaker 1: I praise you, Father, Lord of Heaven and Earth, because
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  Speaker 1: you have hidden these things from the wise and learned
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  Speaker 1: and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this
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  Speaker 1: is what you were pleased to do. All things have
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  Speaker 1: been committed to me by my father. No one knows
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  Speaker 1: who the son is except the father, And no one
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  Speaker 1: knows who the father is except the son and those
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  Speaker 1: to whom the son chooses to reveal him. Then he
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  Speaker 1: turned to his disciples and said, privately, blessed are the
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  Speaker 1: eyes that see what you see. For I tell you
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  Speaker 1: that many prophets and kings. Wanted to see what you
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  Speaker 1: see but did not see it, and to hear what
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  Speaker 1: you hear, but did not hear it. On one occasion,
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  Speaker 1: an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus teacher.
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  Speaker 1: He asked, what must I do to inherit eternal life?
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  Speaker 1: What is written in the law? He replied, how do
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  Speaker 1: you read it? He answered, Love the Lord your God,
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  Speaker 1: with all your heart, and with all your soul, and
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  Speaker 1: with all your strength, and with all your mind, and
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  Speaker 1: love your neighbor as yourself. You have answered correctly. Jesus replied,
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  Speaker 1: do this and you will live. But he wanted to
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  Speaker 1: justify himself, so he asked Jesus, and who is my neighbor?
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  Speaker 1: In reply, Jesus said, a man was going down from
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  Speaker 1: Jerusalem to Jericho when he was attacked by robbers. They
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  Speaker 1: stripped him of his clothes, beat him, and went away,
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  Speaker 1: leaving him half dead. A priest happened to be going
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  Speaker 1: down the same road, and when he saw the man,
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  Speaker 1: he passed by on the other side. So too, a Levite,
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  Speaker 1: when he came to the place and saw him pass
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  Speaker 1: by on the other side, that a Samaritan. As he
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  Speaker 1: traveled came where the man was, and when he saw him,
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  Speaker 1: he took pity on him. He went to him and
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  Speaker 1: bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he
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  Speaker 1: put the man on his own donkey, brought him to
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  Speaker 1: an inn and took care of him. The next day
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  Speaker 1: he took out two dinari and gave them to the innkeeper.
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  Speaker 1: Look after him, He said, and when I return, I
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  Speaker 1: will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.
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  Speaker 1: Which of these three do you think was a neighbor
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  Speaker 1: to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?
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  Speaker 1: The expert in the law replied, the one who had
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  Speaker 1: mercy on him. Jesus told him go and do likewise.
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  Speaker 1: As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he
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  Speaker 1: came to a village where a woman named Martha opened
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  Speaker 1: her home to him. She had a sister called Mary,
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  Speaker 1: who sat at the Lord's feet listening to what he said.
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  Speaker 1: But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had
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  Speaker 1: to be made. She came to him and asked, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: don't you care that my sister has left me to
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  Speaker 1: do the work by myself. Tell her to help me,
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  Speaker 1: Martha Martha. The Lord answered, you are worried and upset
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  Speaker 1: about many things, but few things are needed. Or indeed,
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  Speaker 1: only one Mary has chosen what is better, and it
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  Speaker 1: will not be taken away from her. Luke chapter eleven.
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  Speaker 1: One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When
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  Speaker 1: he finished, one of his disciples said to him, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.
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  Speaker 1: He said to them, when you pray, say Father, halloaed
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  Speaker 1: be your name, your kingdom. Come give us each day
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  Speaker 1: our daily bread. Forgive us our sins, for we also
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  Speaker 1: forgive every one who sins against us, and lead us
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  Speaker 1: not into temptation. Then Jesus said to them, suppose you
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  Speaker 1: have a friend, and you go to him at midnight
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  Speaker 1: and say, friend, lend me three loaves of bread. A
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  Speaker 1: friend of mine on a journey has come to me,
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  Speaker 1: and I have no food to offer him. And suppose
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  Speaker 1: the one inside answers, don't bother me. The door is
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  Speaker 1: already locked, and my children and I are in bed.
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  Speaker 1: I can't get up and give you anything. I tell you.
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  Speaker 1: Even though he will not get up and give you
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  Speaker 1: the bread because of friendship, yet because of your shame audacity,
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  Speaker 1: he will surely get up and give you as much
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  Speaker 1: as you need. So I say to you, ask and
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  Speaker 1: it will be given to you. Seek and you will find.
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  Speaker 1: Knock and the door will be open to you. For
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  Speaker 1: everyone who asks receives. The one who seeks finds, and
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  Speaker 1: to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
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  Speaker 1: Which of you, fathers, if your son asks for a fish,
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  Speaker 1: will give him a snake instead, Or if he asks
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  Speaker 1: for an egg, will give him a scorpion. If you, then,
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  Speaker 1: though you are evil, know how to give good gifts
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  Speaker 1: to your children, how much more will your father in
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  Speaker 1: Heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus was driving out a demon that was mute. When
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  Speaker 1: the demon left, the man who had been mute spoke,
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  Speaker 1: and the crowd was a made. But some of them said,
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  Speaker 1: by Beelzibal, the prince of demons, he is driving out demons.
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  Speaker 1: Others tested him by asking for a sign from heaven.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them, any kingdom
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  Speaker 1: divided against itself will be ruined, and a house divided
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  Speaker 1: against itself will fall. If Satan is divided against himself,
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  Speaker 1: how can his kingdom stand. I say this, because you
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  Speaker 1: claim that I drive out demons by Beelzibal. Now, if
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  Speaker 1: I drive out demons by Beelzibal, by whom do your
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  Speaker 1: followers drive them out? So then they will be your judges.
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  Speaker 1: That if I drive out demons by the finger of God,
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  Speaker 1: then the Kingdom of God has come upon you. When
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  Speaker 1: a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his
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  Speaker 1: possessions are safe. But when someone stronger attacks and overpower him,
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  Speaker 1: he takes away the armor in which the man trusted
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  Speaker 1: and divides up his plunder. Whoever is not with me
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  Speaker 1: is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.
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  Speaker 1: When an impure spirit comes out of a person, it
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  Speaker 1: goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it.
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  Speaker 1: Then it says, I will return to the house I left.
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  Speaker 1: When it arrives, it finds the house swept clean and
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  Speaker 1: put in order. Then it goes and takes seven other
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  Speaker 1: spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and
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  Speaker 1: live there. And the final condition of that person is
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  Speaker 1: worse than the first. As Jesus was saying these things,
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  Speaker 1: a woman in the crowd called out, blessed is the
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  Speaker 1: mother who gave you birth and nursed you. He replied,
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  Speaker 1: blessed rather of those who hear the word of God
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  Speaker 1: and obey it. As the crowds increased, Jesus said, this
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  Speaker 1: is a wicked generation. It asks for a sign, but
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  Speaker 1: none will be given it except the sign of Jonah.
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  Speaker 1: For as Jonah was assigned to the Ninevites, so also
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  Speaker 1: will the Son of Man be to this generation. The
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  Speaker 1: Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with
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  Speaker 1: the people of this generation and condemn them, for she
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  Speaker 1: came from the ends of the earth to listen to
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  Speaker 1: Solomon's wisdom, and now something greater than Solomon is here.
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  Speaker 1: The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment
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  Speaker 1: with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at
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  Speaker 1: the preaching of Jonah, and now something greater than Jonah
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  Speaker 1: is here. No one lights a lamp and puts it
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  Speaker 1: in a place where it will be hidden or under
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  Speaker 1: a bowl. Instead, they put it on its stand, so
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  Speaker 1: that those who come in may see the light. Your
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  Speaker 1: eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes
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  Speaker 1: are healthy, your whole body also is full of light.
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  Speaker 1: But when they are unhealthy, your body also is full
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  Speaker 1: of darkness. See to it then, that the light within
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  Speaker 1: you is not darkness. Therefore, if your whole body is
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  Speaker 1: full of light, and no part of it dark. It
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  Speaker 1: will be just as full of light as when a
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  Speaker 1: lamp shines its light on you. When Jesus had finished speaking,
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  Speaker 1: a pharisee invited him to eat with him. So he
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  Speaker 1: went in and reclined at the table. But the pharisee
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  Speaker 1: was surprised when he noticed that Jesus did not first
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  Speaker 1: wash before the meal. Then the Lord said to him, Now, then, you, Pharisees,
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  Speaker 1: clean the outside of the cup and dish, But inside
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  Speaker 1: you are full of greed and wickedness. You foolish people.
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  Speaker 1: Did not the one who made the outside make the
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  Speaker 1: inside also. But now, as for what is inside, you
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  Speaker 1: be generous to the poor, and everything will be clean
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  Speaker 1: for you. Woe to you, pharisees, because you give God
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  Speaker 1: a tenth of your mint rue and all other kinds
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  Speaker 1: of garden herbs, but you neglect justice and the love
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  Speaker 1: of God. You should have practiced the latter without leaving
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  Speaker 1: the former undone. Woe to you, pharisees, because you love
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  Speaker 1: the most important seats in the synagogues and respectful greetings
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  Speaker 1: in the market places. Woe to you because you are
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  Speaker 1: like unmarked graves which people walk over without knowing it.
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  Speaker 1: One of the experts in the law answered him, Teacher,
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  Speaker 1: when you say these things, you insult us. Also, Jesus replied,
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  Speaker 1: and you experts in the law, Woe to you, because
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  Speaker 1: you load people down with burdens they can hardly carry,
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  Speaker 1: and you, yourselves will not lift one finger to help them.
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  Speaker 1: Woe to you because you build tombs for the prophets,
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  Speaker 1: and it was your ancestors who killed them. So you
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  Speaker 1: testify that you approve of what your ancestors did. They
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  Speaker 1: killed the prophets, and you build their tombs. Because of this,
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  Speaker 1: God in his wisdom, said, I will send them prophets
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  Speaker 1: and apostles, some of whom they will kill, and others
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  Speaker 1: they will persecute. Therefore, this generation will be held responsible
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  Speaker 1: for the blood of all the prophets that has been
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  Speaker 1: shed since the beginning of the world, from the blood
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  Speaker 1: of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed
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  Speaker 1: between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you,
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  Speaker 1: this generation will be held responsible for it all. Woe
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  Speaker 1: to you, experts in the law, because you have taken
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  Speaker 1: away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered,
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  Speaker 1: and you have hindered those who were entering. When Jesus
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  Speaker 1: went out side, the pharacies and the teachers of the
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  Speaker 1: law began to oppose him fiercely and to beseech him
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  Speaker 1: with questions, waiting to catch him in something he might
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  Speaker 1: say Luke chapter twelve. Meanwhile, when a crowd of many
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  Speaker 1: thousands had gathered so that they were trampling on one another,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus began to speak first to his disciples, saying, be
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  Speaker 1: on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which
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  Speaker 1: is hypocrisy. There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed,
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  Speaker 1: or hidden that will not be made known. What you
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  Speaker 1: have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight,
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  Speaker 1: and what you have whispered in the ear in the
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  Speaker 1: inner rooms will be proclaimed from the roofs. I tell you,
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  Speaker 1: my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill
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  Speaker 1: the body, and after that can do no more. But
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  Speaker 1: I will show you whom you should fear. Fear him who,
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  Speaker 1: after your body has been killed, has authority to throw
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  Speaker 1: you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him. Are
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  Speaker 1: not five sparrows sold for two pennies, Yet not one
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  Speaker 1: of them is forgotten by God. Indeed, the very hairs
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  Speaker 1: of your head are all numbered. Don't be afraid you
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  Speaker 1: are worth more than many sparrows. I tell you, whoever
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  Speaker 1: publicly acknowledges me before others, the Son of Man will
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  Speaker 1: also acknowledge before the angels of God. But whoever disowns
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  Speaker 1: me before others will be disowned before the angels of God.
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  Speaker 1: And every one who speaks a word against the Son
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  Speaker 1: of Man will be forgiven. But any one who blasphemes
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  Speaker 1: against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven. When you
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  Speaker 1: are brought before synagogues, rulers, and authorities, do not worry
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  Speaker 1: about how you will defend yourselves or what you will say,
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  Speaker 1: for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that time
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  Speaker 1: what you should say. Some one in the crowd said
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  Speaker 1: to him, Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance
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  Speaker 1: with me. Jesus replied, man who appointed me a judge
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  Speaker 1: or an arbiter between you. Then he said to them,
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  Speaker 1: watch out, be on your guard against all kinds of greed.
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  Speaker 1: Life does not consist in an abundance of possessions. And
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  Speaker 1: he told them this parable the ground of a certain
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  Speaker 1: rich man yielded an abundant harvest. He thought to himself
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  Speaker 1: what shall I do? I have no place to store
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  Speaker 1: my crops. Then he said, this is what I'll do.
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  Speaker 1: I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones,
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  Speaker 1: and there I will store my surplice grain. And I'll
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  Speaker 1: say to myself, you have plenty of grain laid up
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  Speaker 1: for many. Take life easy, eat, drink, and be merry.
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  Speaker 1: But God said to him, you fool, this very night,
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  Speaker 1: your life will be demanded from you. Then who will
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  Speaker 1: get when you have prepared for yourself? This is how
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  Speaker 1: it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves
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  Speaker 1: but is not rich towards God. Then Jesus said to
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  Speaker 1: his disciples, therefore, I tell you, do not worry about
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  Speaker 1: your life, what you will eat, or about your body
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  Speaker 1: what you will wear. For life is more than food,
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  Speaker 1: and the body more than clothes. Consider the ravens. They
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  Speaker 1: do not sow or reap. They have no store room
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  Speaker 1: or barn, Yet God feeds them. And how much more
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  Speaker 1: valuable you are than birds? Who of you, by worrying,
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  Speaker 1: can add a single hour to your life. Since you
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  Speaker 1: cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry
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  Speaker 1: about the rest. Consider how the wild flowers grow. They
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  Speaker 1: do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you not
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  Speaker 1: even Solomon, in all his splendor, was dressed like one
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  Speaker 1: of these. If that is how God clothes the grass
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  Speaker 1: of the field, which is here to day and to
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  Speaker 1: morrow is thrown into the fire, how much more will
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  Speaker 1: he clothe you, you of little faith. And do not
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  Speaker 1: set your heart on what you will eat or drink.
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  Speaker 1: Do not worry about it, for the pagan world runs
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  Speaker 1: after all such things, and your father knows that you
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  Speaker 1: need them. But seek his kingdom, and these things will
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  Speaker 1: be given to you as well. Do not be afraid,
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  Speaker 1: little flock, for your father has been pleased to give
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  Speaker 1: you the kingdom. Sell your possessions and give to the poor.
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  Speaker 1: Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a
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  Speaker 1: treasure in heaven that will never fail, where no thief
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  Speaker 1: comes near, and no moth destroys. For where your treasure
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  Speaker 1: is there, your heart will be also. Be dressed ready
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  Speaker 1: for service, and keep your lamps burning, like servants waiting
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  Speaker 1: for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so
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  Speaker 1: that when he comes and knocks, they can immediately open
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  Speaker 1: the door for him. It will be good for those
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  Speaker 1: servants whose master finds them watching when he comes, Truly,
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  Speaker 1: I tell you, he will dress himself to serve, will
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  Speaker 1: have them recline at the table, and will come and
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  Speaker 1: wait on them. It will be good for those servants
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  Speaker 1: whose master finds them ready, even if he comes in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the night or toward daybreak. But understand this,
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  Speaker 1: If the owner of the house had known what hour
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  Speaker 1: the thief was coming, he would not have let his
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  Speaker 1: house be broken into. You also must be ready, because
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  Speaker 1: the son of man will come at an hour when
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  Speaker 1: you do not expect him. Peter asked, Lord, are you
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  Speaker 1: telling this parable to us or to every one? The
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  Speaker 1: Lord answered, who then is the faithful and wise manager
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  Speaker 1: whom the master puts in charge of his servants, to
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  Speaker 1: give them their food allowance at the proper time. It
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  Speaker 1: will be good for that servant whom the master finds
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  Speaker 1: doing so when he returns, Truly, I tell you, he
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  Speaker 1: will put him in charge of all his possessions. But
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  Speaker 1: suppose the servant says to himself, my master is taking
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  Speaker 1: a long time in coming, and he then begins to
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  Speaker 1: beat the other servants, both men and women, and to
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  Speaker 1: eat and drink and get drunk. The master of that
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  Speaker 1: servant will come on a day when he does not
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  Speaker 1: expect him, and at an hour he is not aware of,
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  Speaker 1: he will cut him to pieces and assign him a
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  Speaker 1: place with the unbelievers. The servant who knows the master's
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  Speaker 1: will and does not get ready or does not do
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  Speaker 1: what the master wants, will be beaten with many blows.
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  Speaker 1: But the one who does not know and does things
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  Speaker 1: deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows. From every
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  Speaker 1: one who has been given much, much will be demanded,
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  Speaker 1: and from the one who has been entrusted with much
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  Speaker 1: much more will be asked. I have come to bring
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  Speaker 1: fire on the earth, and how I wish it were
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  Speaker 1: already kindled. But I have a baptism to undergo, and
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  Speaker 1: what constraint I am under until it is completed? Do
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  Speaker 1: you think I came to bring peace on earth? Now
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 1: I tell you but division. From now on there will
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  Speaker 1: be five in one family divided against each other, three
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  Speaker 1: against two and two against three. They will be divided,
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  Speaker 1: father against son, and son against father, mother against daughter,
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  Speaker 1: and daughter against mother, mother in law against daughter in law,
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  Speaker 1: and daughter in law against mother in law. He said
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  Speaker 1: to the crowd, when you see a cloud rising in
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  Speaker 1: the west, immediately you say it's going to rain, and
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  Speaker 1: it does. And when the south wind blows, you say
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be hot, and it is hypocrites. You
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  Speaker 1: know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 1: the sky. How is it that you don't know how
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  Speaker 1: to interpret this present time? Why don't you judge for
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  Speaker 1: yourselves what is right? As you are going with your
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  Speaker 1: adversary to the magistrate, try hard to be reconciled on
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  Speaker 1: the way, or your adversary may drag you after the judge,
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  Speaker 1: and the judge turn you over to the officer, and
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  Speaker 1: the officer throw you into prison. I tell you will
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  Speaker 1: not get out until you have paid the last penny Luke,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter fifteen. Now the tax collectors and sinners were all
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  Speaker 1: gathering around to hear Jesus. But the pharisees and the
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  Speaker 1: teachers of the law muttered, this man welcomes sinners and
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  Speaker 1: eats with them. Then Jesus told them this parable. Suppose
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  Speaker 1: one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one
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  Speaker 1: of them, doesn't he leave the ninety nine in the
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  Speaker 1: open country and go after the lost sheep until he
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  Speaker 1: finds it. And when he finds it, he joyfully puts
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  Speaker 1: it on his shoulders and goes home. Then he calls
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  Speaker 1: his friends and neighbors together and says, rejoice with me,
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  Speaker 1: I found my lost sheep. I tell you that in
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  Speaker 1: the same way, there will be more rejoicing in heaven
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  Speaker 1: over one sinner who repents than over ninety nine righteous
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  Speaker 1: people who do not need to repent. Or Suppose a
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  Speaker 1: woman has ten silver coins and loses one, doesn't she
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  Speaker 1: light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until
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  Speaker 1: she finds it. And when she finds it, she calls
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  Speaker 1: her friends and neighbors together and says, rejoice with me,
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  Speaker 1: I've found my lost coin. In the same way, I
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  Speaker 1: tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the
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  Speaker 1: angels of God over one sinner who repents. Jesus continued.
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  Speaker 1: There was a man who had two sons. The younger
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  Speaker 1: one said to his father, father, give me my share
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  Speaker 1: of the estate. So he divided his property between them.
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  Speaker 1: Not long after that, the younger son got together all
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  Speaker 1: he had set off for a distant country, and there
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  Speaker 1: squandered his wealth in wild living. After he had spent everything,
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  Speaker 1: there was a severe famine in that whole country, and
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  Speaker 1: he began to be in need so he went and
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  Speaker 1: hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who
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  Speaker 1: sent him to his fields to feed pigs. He longed
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  Speaker 1: to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs
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  Speaker 1: were eating, but no one gave them anything. When he
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  Speaker 1: came to his senses, he said, how many of my
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  Speaker 1: father's hired servants have food to spare, and here I
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  Speaker 1: am starving to death. I will set out and go
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  Speaker 1: back to my father and say to him, father, I
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  Speaker 1: have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no
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  Speaker 1: longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like
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  Speaker 1: one of your hired servants. So he got up and
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  Speaker 1: went to his father, But while he was still a
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  Speaker 1: long way of his father saw him and was filled
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  Speaker 1: with compassion for him. He ran to his son, threw
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  Speaker 1: his arms around him, and kissed him. The son said
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  Speaker 1: to him, father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.
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  Speaker 1: I am no longer worthy to be called your son.
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  Speaker 1: But the father said to his servants, quick, bring the
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  Speaker 1: best robe and put it on him, put a ring
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  Speaker 1: on his finger, and sandals on his feet. Bring the
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  Speaker 1: fattened calf and kill it. Let's have a feast and
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  Speaker 1: celebrate for this son. Of mine was dead and is
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  Speaker 1: alive again. He was lost and is found, so they
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  Speaker 1: began to celebrate. Meanwhile, the older son was in the field.
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  Speaker 1: When he came near the house, he heard music and dancing,
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  Speaker 1: so he called one of the servants and asked him
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  Speaker 1: what was going on. Your brother has come, he replied,
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  Speaker 1: and your father has killed the fattened calf because he
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  Speaker 1: has him back safe and sound. The older brother became
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  Speaker 1: angry and refused to go in, so his father went
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  Speaker 1: out and pleaded with him. But he answered his father, Look,
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  Speaker 1: all these years I've been slaving for you and never
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  Speaker 1: disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a
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  Speaker 1: young goat so I could celebrate with my friends. But
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  Speaker 1: when this son of yours, who has squandered your property
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  Speaker 1: with prostitutes, comes home, you killed the fattened calf for him.
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  Speaker 1: My son, The father said, you are always with me,
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  Speaker 1: and everything I have is yours. But we had to
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  Speaker 1: celebrate and be glad because this brother of yours was
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  Speaker 1: dead and is alive again. He was lost and is found.
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  Speaker 1: Luke chapter sixteen, Jesus told his disciples there was a
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  Speaker 1: rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his possessions.
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  Speaker 1: So he called him in and asked, him, what is
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  Speaker 1: this I hear about? You give an account of your management,
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  Speaker 1: because you cannot be manager any longer. The manager said
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  Speaker 1: to himself, what I do now? My master is taking
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  Speaker 1: away my job. I'm not strong enough to dig, and
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 1: I'm ashamed to beg I know what I'll do so
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  Speaker 1: that when I lose my job here people will welcome
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  Speaker 1: me into their houses. So he called in each one
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  Speaker 1: of his master's debtors. He asked the first, how much
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 1: do you owe my master? Three thousand liters of olive oil?
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  Speaker 1: He replied. The manager told him take your bill, sit
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  Speaker 1: down quickly, and make it fifteen hundred. Then he asked
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  Speaker 1: the second, how much do you owe? Thirty tons of wheat?
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  Speaker 1: He replied. He told him, take your bill and make
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  Speaker 1: it twenty four. The master commended the dishonest manager because
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  Speaker 1: he had acted shrewdly. For the people of this world
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  Speaker 1: are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than
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  Speaker 1: other people of the light. I tell you use worldly
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  Speaker 1: wealth to gain friends for you yourselves, so that when
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  Speaker 1: it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.
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  Speaker 1: Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be
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  Speaker 1: trusted with much. And whoever is dishonest with very little
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  Speaker 1: will also be dishonest with much. So if you have
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  Speaker 1: not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust
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  Speaker 1: you with true riches? And if you have not been
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  Speaker 1: trustworthy with someone else's property, who will give you property
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  Speaker 1: of your own. No one can serve two masters. Either
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  Speaker 1: you will hate the one and love the other, or
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  Speaker 1: you will be devoted to the one and despise the other.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot serve both God and money. The Pharisees who
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  Speaker 1: loved money heard all this and were sneering at Jesus.
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 1: He said to them, you are the ones who justify
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  Speaker 1: yourselves in the eyes of others. But God, God knows
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  Speaker 1: your hearts. What people value highly is detestable in God's sight.
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  Speaker 1: The Law and the prophets were proclaimed until John. Since
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  Speaker 1: that time, the good news of the Kingdom of God
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 1: is being preached, and everyone is forcing their way into it.
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  Speaker 1: It is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than
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  Speaker 1: for the least stroke of a pen to drop out
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  Speaker 1: of the law. Anyone who divorces his wife and marries
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 1: another woman commits adultery. And the man who marries a
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  Speaker 1: divorced woman commits adultery. There was a rich man who
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  Speaker 1: was dressed in purple and fine linen, and lived in
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  Speaker 1: luxury every day, and his gait was laid a beggar
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 1: named Lazarus, covered with saws, and longing to eat what
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 1: fell from the rich man's table. Even the dogs came
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 1: and licked his saws. The time came when the beggar died,
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 1: the angels carried him to Abraham's side. The rich man
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  Speaker 1: also died and was buried in Hades, where he was
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 1: in torment. He looked up and saw Abraham far away,
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  Speaker 1: with Lazarus by his side. So he called to him, Father, Abraham,
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  Speaker 1: have pity on me, and send Lazarus to dip the
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  Speaker 1: tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue,
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  Speaker 1: because I am in agony in this fire. But Abraham replied, son,
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  Speaker 1: remember that in your lifetime you received your good things,
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  Speaker 1: while Lazarus received bad things. But now he is comforted
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  Speaker 1: here and you are in agony. And besides all this,
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  Speaker 1: between us and you, a great chasm has been set
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  Speaker 1: in place, so that those who want to go from
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  Speaker 1: here to you cannot nor can anyone cross over from
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  Speaker 1: there to us. He answered, then, I beg you, Father,
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  Speaker 1: send Lazarus to my family. I have five brothers. Let
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  Speaker 1: him warn them so that they will not also come
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  Speaker 1: to this place of torment. Abraham replied, they have Moses
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  Speaker 1: and the prophets. Let them listen to them. No, Father, Abraham,
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  Speaker 1: he said, but if someone from the dead goes to them,
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  Speaker 1: they will repent. He said to him. If they do
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  Speaker 1: not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not
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  Speaker 1: be convinced, even if some one rises from the dead.
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  Speaker 1: Luke chapter seventeen. Jesus said to his disciples things that
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  Speaker 1: cause people to stumble are bound to come. But woe
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  Speaker 1: to any one through whom they come. It would be
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  Speaker 1: better for them to be thrown into the sea with
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  Speaker 1: a millstone tied around their neck than to cause one
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  Speaker 1: of these little ones to stumble. So watch yourselves. If
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  Speaker 1: your brother or sister sins against you, rebuke them. If
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  Speaker 1: they repent, forgive them. Even if they sin against you
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  Speaker 1: seven times in a day, and seven times come back
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  Speaker 1: to you saying I repent, you must forgive them. The
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  Speaker 1: apostles said to the Lord, increase our faith. He replied,
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  Speaker 1: if you have faith as small as a mustard seed.
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  Speaker 1: You can say to this mulberry tree be uprooted and
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  Speaker 1: planted in the sea, and it will obey you. Suppose
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  Speaker 1: one of you has a servant plowing or looking after
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  Speaker 1: the sheep. Will he say to the servant when he
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  Speaker 1: comes in from the field, come along now and sit
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  Speaker 1: down to eat. When't he rather say, prepare my supper.
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  Speaker 1: Get yourself ready and wait on me while I eat
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  Speaker 1: and drink. After that you may eat and drink. Will
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  Speaker 1: he thank the servant because he did what he was
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  Speaker 1: told to do. So you, also, when you have done
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  Speaker 1: everything you were told to do, should say we are
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  Speaker 1: unworthy servants. We have only done our duty. Now. On
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  Speaker 1: his way to Jerusalem, Jesus traveled along the border between
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  Speaker 1: Samaria and Galilee. As he was going into a village,
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  Speaker 1: ten men who had leprosy met him. They stood at
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  Speaker 1: a distance and called out in a loud voice, Jesus, master,
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  Speaker 1: have pity on us. When he saw them, he said,
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  Speaker 1: go show yourselves to the priests. And as they went
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  Speaker 1: they were cleansed. One of them, when he saw he
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  Speaker 1: was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice.
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  Speaker 1: He threw himself at Jesus's feet and thanked him, and
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  Speaker 1: he was a Samaritan. Jesus asked, were not all ten
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  Speaker 1: cleansed where the other nine? Has no one returned to
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  Speaker 1: give praise to God except this foreigner. Then he said
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  Speaker 1: to him, rise and go. Your faith has made you well.
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  Speaker 1: Once on being asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom
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  Speaker 1: of God would come, Jesus replied, the coming of the
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  Speaker 1: Kingdom of God is not something that can be observed,
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  Speaker 1: nor will people say here it is or there it is,
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  Speaker 1: because the Kingdom of God is in your midst. Then
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  Speaker 1: he said to his disciples, the time is coming when
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  Speaker 1: you will long to see one of the days of
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  Speaker 1: the Son of Man, but you will not see it.
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  Speaker 1: People will tell you there he is or here he is.
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  Speaker 1: To not go running off after them, For the Son
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  Speaker 1: of Man in his day will be like the lightning
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  Speaker 1: which flashes and lights up the sky from one end
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  Speaker 1: to the other. But first he must suffer many things
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  Speaker 1: and be rejected by this generation. Just as it was
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  Speaker 1: in the days of Noah, so also will it be
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  Speaker 1: in the days of the Son of Man. People were eating, drinking, marrying,
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  Speaker 1: and being given in marriage up to the day Noah
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  Speaker 1: entered the Ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
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  Speaker 1: It was the same in the days of Lot. People
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  Speaker 1: were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.
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  Speaker 1: But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained
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  Speaker 1: down from heaven and destroyed them all. It will be
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  Speaker 1: just like this on the day the Son of Man
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  Speaker 1: is revealed. On that day, no one who is on
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  Speaker 1: the housetop with possessions inside should go down to get them. Likewise,
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  Speaker 1: no one in the fields should go back for anything.
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  Speaker 1: Remember Lot's wife, whoever tries to keep their life will
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  Speaker 1: lose it, and whoever loses their life will preserve it.
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  Speaker 1: I tell you, on that night, two people will be
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  Speaker 1: in one bed. One will be taken and the other left.
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  Speaker 1: Two women will be grinding corn together. One will be
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  Speaker 1: taken the other left. Where Lord, they asked, He replied,
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  Speaker 1: where there is a dead body. There the vultures will
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  Speaker 1: gather Luke chapter eighteen. Then Jesus told his disciples a
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  Speaker 1: parable to show them that they should always pray and
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  Speaker 1: not give up. He said, in a certain town there
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  Speaker 1: was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what
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  Speaker 1: people thought, And there was a widow in that town
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  Speaker 1: who kept coming to him with a plea grant to
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  Speaker 1: meet justice against my adversary. For some time he refused,
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  Speaker 1: but finally he said to himself, even though I don't
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  Speaker 1: fear God or care what people think, yet because this
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  Speaker 1: widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets
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  Speaker 1: justice so that she won't eventually come and attack me.
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  Speaker 1: And the Lord said, listen to what the unjust judge says,
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  Speaker 1: and will not God bring about justice for his chosen
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  Speaker 1: ones who cry out to him day and night? Will
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  Speaker 1: he keep putting them off? I tell you, he will
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  Speaker 1: see that they get justice and quickly. However, when the
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  Speaker 1: Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the
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  Speaker 1: earth to some who were confident of their own righteousness
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  Speaker 1: and look down on every one else? Jesus told this
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  Speaker 1: parable Two men went up to the temple to pray,
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  Speaker 1: one a pharisee and the other a tax collector. The
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  Speaker 1: pharisee stood by himself and prayed God, I thank you
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  Speaker 1: that I am not like other people, robbers, evil doers, adulterers,
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  Speaker 1: or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a
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  Speaker 1: week and give a tenth of all I get. But
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 1: the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not
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  Speaker 1: even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, God,
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  Speaker 1: have mercy on me a sinner. I tell you that
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  Speaker 1: this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God.
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  Speaker 1: For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and
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  Speaker 1: those who humble themselves will be exalted. People were also
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  Speaker 1: bringing babies to Jesus for him to place his hands
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  Speaker 1: on them. When the disciples saw this, they rebuked them.
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  Speaker 1: But Jesus called the children to him and said, let
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  Speaker 1: the little children come to me, and do not hinder them,
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 1: for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these. Truly,
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 1: I tell you, any one who will not receive the
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  Speaker 1: Kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.
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  Speaker 1: A certain ruler asked him, good teacher, what must I
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 1: do to inherit eternal life? Why do you call me good?
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  Speaker 1: Jesus answered, no one is good except God alone. You
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  Speaker 1: know the commandments. You shall not commit adultery, you shall
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  Speaker 1: not murder, you shall not steal, you shall not give
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  Speaker 1: false testimony. Honor your father and mother. All these I've
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  Speaker 1: kept since I was a boy. He said, when Jesus
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  Speaker 1: heard this, he said to him, you still lack one thing,
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  Speaker 1: Sell everything you have and give to the poor, and
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  Speaker 1: you will have treasure in heaven. Then come follow me.
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  Speaker 1: When he heard this, he became very sad, because because
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  Speaker 1: he was very wealthy. Jesus looked at him and said,
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  Speaker 1: how hard it is for the rich to enter the
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  Speaker 1: Kingdom of God. Indeed, it is easier for a camel
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  Speaker 1: to go through the eye of a needle than for
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  Speaker 1: someone who is rich to enter the Kingdom of God.
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 1: Those who heard this asked, who then can be saved.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus replied, what is impossible with man is possible with God.
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  Speaker 1: Peter said to him, we have left all we had
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  Speaker 1: to follow you, Truly, I tell you. Jesus said to them,
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  Speaker 1: no one who has left home or wife, or brothers
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  Speaker 1: or sisters, or parents or children for the sake of
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 1: the Kingdom of God will fail to receive many times
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  Speaker 1: as much in this age and in the age to
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  Speaker 1: come eternal life. Jesus took the twelve a side and
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  Speaker 1: told them we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything
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  Speaker 1: that is written by the prophets about the Son of
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  Speaker 1: Man will be fulfilled. He will be handed over to
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  Speaker 1: the Gentiles. They will mock him, insult him, and spit
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  Speaker 1: on him. They will flog him and kill him. On
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  Speaker 1: the third day he will rise again. The disciples did
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  Speaker 1: not understand any of this. Its meaning was hidden from them,
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  Speaker 1: and they did not know what he was talking about.
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 1: As Jesus approached Jericho, a blind man was sitting by
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  Speaker 1: the roadside begging. When he heard the crowd going by,
• 1:56:37
  Speaker 1: he asked what was happening. They told him Jesus of
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  Speaker 1: Nazareth is passing by. He called out, Jesus, son of David,
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  Speaker 1: have mercy on me. Those who led the way rebuked
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  Speaker 1: him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted,
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  Speaker 1: all the more, son of David, have mercy on me.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus stopped and ordered the man to be brought to him.
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  Speaker 1: When he came near, Jesus asked him, what do you
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  Speaker 1: want me to do for you? Lord? I want to see,
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  Speaker 1: he replied. Jesus said to him, receive your sight. Your
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  Speaker 1: faith has healed you. Immediately he received his sight and
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  Speaker 1: followed Jesus, praising God. When all the people saw it,
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 1: they also praised God Mark chapter four. Again, Jesus began
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  Speaker 1: to teach by the lake. The crowd that gathered round
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  Speaker 1: him was so large that he got into a boat
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  Speaker 1: and sat in it out on the lake. While all
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  Speaker 1: the people were along the shore of the water's edge.
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  Speaker 1: He taught them many things by parables, and in his teaching, said, listen,
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  Speaker 1: a farmer went out to sow his seed. As he
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  Speaker 1: was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and
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  Speaker 1: the birds came and eate it up. Some fell on
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  Speaker 1: rocky places where it did not have much soil. It
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  Speaker 1: sprang up quickly because the soil was shallow, But when
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  Speaker 1: the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they
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  Speaker 1: withered because they had no root. Other seed fell among thorns,
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  Speaker 1: which grew up and choked the plants so that they
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  Speaker 1: did not bear grain. Still, other seed fell on good soil.
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  Speaker 1: It came up, grew and produced a crop, some multiplying thirty,
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  Speaker 1: some sixty, some a hundred times. Then Jesus said, whoever
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  Speaker 1: has ears to hear, let them hear. When he was alone,
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 1: the twelve and the others around him asked him about
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 1: the parables. He told them, the secret of the Kingdom
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  Speaker 1: of God has been given to you. But to those
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 1: on the outside everything is said in parables, so that
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  Speaker 1: they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever
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  Speaker 1: hearing but never understanding. Otherwise they might turn and be forgiven. Then,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said to them, don't you understand this parable? How
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  Speaker 1: then will you understand any parable? The farmer sows the word.
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  Speaker 1: Some people are like seed along the path where the
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  Speaker 1: word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan
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  Speaker 1: comes and takes away the word that was sown in them. Others,
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  Speaker 1: like seed sown on rocky places, hear the word and
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  Speaker 1: at once receive it with joy that, since they have
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  Speaker 1: no route, they last only a short time. When trouble
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  Speaker 1: or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.
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  Speaker 1: Still Others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word,
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  Speaker 1: but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth,
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  Speaker 1: and the desires for other things come in and choke
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  Speaker 1: the word, making it unfruitful. Others, like seed sown on
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  Speaker 1: good soil, hear the word, accept it and produce a crop,
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  Speaker 1: some thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times what was sown.
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  Speaker 1: He said to them, do you bring in a lamp
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  Speaker 1: to put it under a bowl or a bed instead?
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  Speaker 1: Don't you put it on its stand. For whatever is
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  Speaker 1: hidden is meant to be disclosed, and whatever is concealed
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  Speaker 1: is meant to be brought out into the open. If
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  Speaker 1: any one has ears to hear, let them hear. Consider
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  Speaker 1: carefully what you hear, he continued, with the measure you use,
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  Speaker 1: it will be measured to you. And even more, whoever
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  Speaker 1: has will be given more. Whoever does not have, even
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  Speaker 1: what they have, will be taken from them. He also said,
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  Speaker 1: this is what the Kingdom of God is like. A
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  Speaker 1: man scatters seed on the ground night and day, whether
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  Speaker 1: he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows,
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  Speaker 1: though he does not know how all by itself. The
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  Speaker 1: soil produces corn, first the stalk, then the ear, then
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  Speaker 1: the full grain in the ear. As soon as the
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  Speaker 1: corn is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because
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  Speaker 1: the harvest is come again. He said, what shall we
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  Speaker 1: say the Kingdom of God is like? Or what parable
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  Speaker 1: shall we use to describe it. It is like a
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  Speaker 1: mustard seed, which is the smallest of all seeds on earth,
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  Speaker 1: Yet when planted it grows and becomes the largest of
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  Speaker 1: all garden plants, with such big branches that the birds
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  Speaker 1: can perch in its shade. With many similar parables. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: spoke the word to them as much as they could understand.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't say anything to them without using a parable,
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  Speaker 1: But when he was alone with his own disciples he
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  Speaker 1: explained everything. That day, when evening came, he said to
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  Speaker 1: his disciples, let us go over to the other side.
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  Speaker 1: Leaving the crowd behind. They took him along. Just as
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  Speaker 1: he was in the boat, there were also other boats
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  Speaker 1: with him. A furious squall came up, and the waves
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  Speaker 1: broke over the boat, so that it was nearly swamped.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. The
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  Speaker 1: disciples woke him and said to him, teacher, don't you
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  Speaker 1: care if we'd drown. He got up, rebuked the wind
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  Speaker 1: and said to the waves quiet, be still. Then the
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  Speaker 1: wind died down and it was completely calm. He said
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  Speaker 1: to his disciples, why are you so afraid? Do you
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  Speaker 1: still have no faith? They were terrified and asked each other,
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  Speaker 1: who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey
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  Speaker 1: him Mark chapter seven. The Pharisees and some teachers of
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  Speaker 1: the law who had come from Jerusalem gathered round Jesus
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  Speaker 1: and saw some of his disciples eating food with hands
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  Speaker 1: that were defiled, that is, unwashed. The Pharases and all
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  Speaker 1: the Jews do not eat unless they give their hands
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  Speaker 1: a ceremonial washing, holding to the tradition of the elders.
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  Speaker 1: When they come from the market place, they do not
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  Speaker 1: eat unless they wash, and they observe many other traditions,
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  Speaker 1: such as the washing of cups, pitchers, and kettles. So
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  Speaker 1: the Pharisees and teachers of the law ask Jesus, why
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  Speaker 1: don't your disciples live according to the tradition of the
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  Speaker 1: elders instead of eating their food with defiled hands. He replied,
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  Speaker 1: Isiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites. As
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  Speaker 1: it is written, these people honor me with their lips,
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  Speaker 1: but their hearts are far from me. They worship me
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  Speaker 1: in vain. Their teachings are merely human rules. You have
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  Speaker 1: let go of the commands of God and are holding
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  Speaker 1: on to human traditions. And he continued, you have a
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  Speaker 1: fine way of setting aside the commands of God in
• 2:04:14
  Speaker 1: order to observe your own traditions. For Moses said, honor
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  Speaker 1: your father and mother, and any one who curses their
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  Speaker 1: father or mother is to be put to death. But
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  Speaker 1: you say that if anyone declares that what might have
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  Speaker 1: been used to help their father or mother is combon
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  Speaker 1: that is devoted to God, then you no longer let
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  Speaker 1: them do anything for their father or mother. Thus you
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  Speaker 1: nullify the word of God by your tradition that you've
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 1: handed downe And you do many things like that. Again,
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 1: Jesus called the crowd to him and said, listen to me,
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  Speaker 1: every one, and understand this. Nothing outside a person can
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  Speaker 1: defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what
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  Speaker 1: comes out of a person that defiles them. After he
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  Speaker 1: had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples
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  Speaker 1: asked him about this. Parable are you so dull? He asked,
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  Speaker 1: don't you see that nothing that enters a person from
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  Speaker 1: the outside can defile them, for it doesn't go into
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  Speaker 1: their heart, put into their stomach, and then out of
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  Speaker 1: the body. In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.
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  Speaker 1: He went on, what comes out of a person is
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  Speaker 1: what defiles them, For it is from within out of
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  Speaker 1: a person's heart that evil thoughts come sexual, immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance,
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  Speaker 1: and folly. All these evils come from inside and defile
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  Speaker 1: a person. Jesus left that place and went to the
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  Speaker 1: Vicinity of Tire. He entered a house and did not
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  Speaker 1: want anyone to know it. Yet he couldn't keep his
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  Speaker 1: present secret. In fact, as soon as she heard about him,
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  Speaker 1: a woman whose little daughter was possessed by an impure spirit,
• 2:06:09
  Speaker 1: came and fell at his feet. The woman was a
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  Speaker 1: Greek born in Syrian Phoenicia. She begged Jesus to drive
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  Speaker 1: the demon out of her daughter. First, let the children
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  Speaker 1: eat all they want, he told her, for it is
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  Speaker 1: not right to take the children's bread and toss it
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  Speaker 1: to the dogs. Lord, she replied, even the dogs under
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  Speaker 1: the table eat the children's crumbs. Then he told her,
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  Speaker 1: for such a reply, you may go. The demon has
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  Speaker 1: left your daughter. She went home and found her child
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  Speaker 1: lying on the bed, and the demon gone. Then Jesus
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  Speaker 1: left the Vicinity of Tire and went through Sidon, down
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  Speaker 1: to the Sea of Galilee and into the region of
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  Speaker 1: the Dacapolis. There some people brought to him a man
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  Speaker 1: who was deaf and could hardly talk, and they begged
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  Speaker 1: Jesus to place his hand on him. After he took
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  Speaker 1: him aside away from the crowd, Jesus put his fingers
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  Speaker 1: into the man's ears. Then he spat and touched the
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  Speaker 1: man's tongue. He looked up to heaven and with a
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  Speaker 1: deep sigh, said to him ev fatha, which means be opened.
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  Speaker 1: At this the man's ears were opened, his tongue was loosed,
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  Speaker 1: and he began to speak plainly. Jesus commanded them not
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  Speaker 1: to tell anyone, but the more he did so, the
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  Speaker 1: more they kept talking about it. People were overwhelmed with amazement.
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  Speaker 1: He has done everything well, they said. He even makes
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  Speaker 1: the deaf hear and the mute speak Mark chapter ten.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus then left that place and went into the region
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 1: of June and across the Jordan. Again. Crowds of people
• 2:08:03
  Speaker 1: came to him, and, as was his custom, he taught them.
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  Speaker 1: Some Pharisees came and tested him by asking is it
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  Speaker 1: lawful for a man to divorce his wife? What did
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  Speaker 1: Moses command you, he replied. They said, Moses permitted a
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  Speaker 1: man to write a certificate of divorce and send her away.
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  Speaker 1: It was because your hearts were hard that Moses wrote
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  Speaker 1: you this law, Jesus replied, But at the beginning of creation,
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  Speaker 1: God made them male and female. For this reason, a
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  Speaker 1: man will leave his father and mother and be united
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  Speaker 1: to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.
• 2:08:42
  Speaker 1: So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore,
• 2:08:46
  Speaker 1: what God has joined together, let no one separate. When
• 2:08:52
  Speaker 1: they were in the house again, the disciples asked Jesus
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  Speaker 1: about this. He answered, any one who divorces his wife
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  Speaker 1: and marries another woman commit it's adultery against her. And
• 2:09:02
  Speaker 1: if she divorces her husband and marries another man, she
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  Speaker 1: commits adultery. People were bringing little children to Jesus for
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 1: him to place his hands on them, but the disciples
• 2:09:14
  Speaker 1: rebuked them. When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 1: said to them, let the little children come to me,
• 2:09:21
  Speaker 1: and do not hinder them, For the Kingdom of God
• 2:09:23
  Speaker 1: belongs to such as these. Truly, I tell you, any
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  Speaker 1: one who will not receive the Kingdom of God like
• 2:09:29
  Speaker 1: a little child will never enter it. And he took
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  Speaker 1: the children in his arms, placed his hands on them,
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  Speaker 1: and blessed them. As Jesus started on his way, a
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  Speaker 1: man ran up to him and fell on his knees
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  Speaker 1: before him. Good teacher, he asked, what must I do
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  Speaker 1: to inherit eternal life? Why do you call me good?
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 1: Jesus answered, no one is good except God alone. You
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  Speaker 1: know the commandments. You shall not murder, you shall not
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  Speaker 1: commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give
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  Speaker 1: false testimony, you shall not defraud. Honor your father and
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  Speaker 1: mother teacher, he declared, All these have kept since I
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  Speaker 1: was a boy. Jesus looked at him and loved him.
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  Speaker 1: One thing you lack, he said, Go sell everything you
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  Speaker 1: have and give to the poor, and you will have
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  Speaker 1: treasure in heaven. Then come follow me. At this, the
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  Speaker 1: man's face fell. He went away sad because he had
• 2:10:42
  Speaker 1: great wealth. Jesus looked round and said to his disciples,
• 2:10:47
  Speaker 1: how hard it is for the rich to enter the
• 2:10:50
  Speaker 1: Kingdom of God. The disciples were amazed at his words.
• 2:10:55
  Speaker 1: But Jesus said again, children, how hard it is to
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  Speaker 1: enter the Kingdom of God. It is easier for a
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  Speaker 1: camel to go through the eye of a needle than
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  Speaker 1: for someone who is rich to enter the Kingdom of God.
• 2:11:09
  Speaker 1: The disciples were even more amazed and said to each other,
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  Speaker 1: who then can be saved. Jesus looked at them and said,
• 2:11:17
  Speaker 1: with man, this is impossible, but not with God. All
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  Speaker 1: things are possible. With God. Then Peter spoke up, We
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  Speaker 1: have left everything to follow you, truly, I tell you,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus replied, No one who has left home, or brothers
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  Speaker 1: or sisters, or mother or father, or children or fields
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  Speaker 1: for me and the gospel will fail to receive a
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  Speaker 1: hundred times as much in this present age homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children,
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  Speaker 1: and fields, along with persecutions, and in the age to
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  Speaker 1: come eternal life, that many who are first will be last,
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  Speaker 1: and the love first. They were on their way up
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  Speaker 1: to Jerusalem, with Jesus leading the way, and the disciples
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  Speaker 1: were astonished, while those who followed were afraid. Again, he
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  Speaker 1: took the twelve a side and told them what was
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  Speaker 1: going to happen to him. We are going up to Jerusalem,
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  Speaker 1: he said, and the son of Man will be delivered
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  Speaker 1: over to the chief priests and the teachers of the law.
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  Speaker 1: They will condemn him to death and will hand him
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  Speaker 1: over to the gentiles, who will mock him and spit
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  Speaker 1: on him, flog him, and kill him. Three days later
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  Speaker 1: he will rise. Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee,
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  Speaker 1: came to him teacher, They said, we want you to
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  Speaker 1: do for us whatever we ask. What do you want
• 2:12:50
  Speaker 1: me to do for you? He asked, They replied, let
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  Speaker 1: one of us sit at your right and the other
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  Speaker 1: at your left in your glory. You don't know what
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  Speaker 1: you are asking. Jesus said, can you drink the cup
• 2:13:04
  Speaker 1: I drink or be baptized with the baptism I am
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  Speaker 1: baptized with? We can, they answered. Jesus said to them,
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  Speaker 1: you will drink the cup I drink and be baptized
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  Speaker 1: with the baptism I am baptized with. But to sit
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  Speaker 1: at my right or left is not for me to grant.
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  Speaker 1: These places belong to those for whom they have been prepared.
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  Speaker 1: When the ten heard about this, they became indignant with
• 2:13:30
  Speaker 1: James and John. Jesus called them together and said, you
• 2:13:34
  Speaker 1: know that those who were regarded as rulers of the
• 2:13:37
  Speaker 1: gentiles lauded over them, and their high officials exercise authority
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  Speaker 1: over them, But not so with you. Instead, whoever wants
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  Speaker 1: to become great among you must be your servant, and
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  Speaker 1: whoever wants to be first must be slave of all.
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  Speaker 1: For even the son of Man didn't come to be served,
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  Speaker 1: but to serve and to give his life as a
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  Speaker 1: ransom for many. Then they came to Jericho. As Jesus
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  Speaker 1: and his disciples, together with a large crowd, were leaving
• 2:14:09
  Speaker 1: the city, a blind man, Bartimaeus which means son of Timaeus,
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  Speaker 1: was sitting by the roadside begging. When he heard that
• 2:14:17
  Speaker 1: it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout, Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: son of David, have mercy on me. Many rebuked him
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  Speaker 1: and told him to be quiet, but he shouted all
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  Speaker 1: the more, son of David, have mercy on me. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: stopped and said, call him. So they called to the
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  Speaker 1: blind man, cheer up on your feet, he's calling you.
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  Speaker 1: Throwing his cloak aside, he jumped to his feet and
• 2:14:45
  Speaker 1: came to Jesus. What do you want me to do
• 2:14:49
  Speaker 1: for you, Jesus asked him. The blind man said, Rabbi,
• 2:14:54
  Speaker 1: I want to see go, said Jesus, your faith as
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  Speaker 1: he Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus along
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  Speaker 1: the road. John chapter thirteen. It was just before the
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  Speaker 1: Passover festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for
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  Speaker 1: him to leave this world and go to the Father.
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  Speaker 1: Having loved his own who were in the world. He
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  Speaker 1: loved them to the end. The evening meal was in progress,
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  Speaker 1: and the devil had already prompted Judas, the son of Simon,
• 2:15:32
  Speaker 1: a scariot, to betray Jesus. Jesus knew that the Father
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  Speaker 1: had put all things under his power, and that he
• 2:15:39
  Speaker 1: had come from God and was returning to God. So
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  Speaker 1: he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing,
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  Speaker 1: and wrapped a towel round his waist. After that, he
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  Speaker 1: poured water into a basin and began to wash his
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  Speaker 1: disciples feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped
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  Speaker 1: around him. He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, Lord,
• 2:16:02
  Speaker 1: are you going to wash my feet? Jesus replied, you
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  Speaker 1: do not realize now what I am doing, but later
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  Speaker 1: you will understand. No, said Peter, you shall never wash
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  Speaker 1: my feet. Jesus answered, unless I wash you, you have
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  Speaker 1: no part with me. Then, Lord Simon Peter replied, not
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  Speaker 1: just my feet, but my hands and my head as well.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus answered, those who have had a bath need only
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  Speaker 1: to wash their feet. The whole body is clean, and
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  Speaker 1: you are clean, though not every one of you. For
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  Speaker 1: he knew who was going to betray him, and that
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  Speaker 1: was why he said not every one was clean. When
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  Speaker 1: he had finished washing their feet, he put on his
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  Speaker 1: clothes and returned to his place. Do you understand what
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  Speaker 1: I have done for you? He asked them. You call
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  Speaker 1: me teacher and lord, and rightly so, for that is
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  Speaker 1: what I am. Now that I, your lord and teacher,
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  Speaker 1: have washed your feet, you also should wash one another's feet.
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  Speaker 1: I have set you an example that you should do
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  Speaker 1: as I have done for you. Very truly, I tell you,
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  Speaker 1: no servant is greater than his master, nor is a
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  Speaker 1: messenger greater than the one who sent him. Now that
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  Speaker 1: you know these things, you will be blessed if you
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  Speaker 1: do them. I am not referring to all of you.
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  Speaker 1: I know those I have chosen. That this is to
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  Speaker 1: fulfill this passage of scripture. He who shared my bread
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  Speaker 1: has turned against me. I am telling you now before
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  Speaker 1: it happens, so that when it does happen, you will
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  Speaker 1: believe that I am who I am. Very truly, I
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  Speaker 1: tell you, whoever accepts any one I send accepts me,
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  Speaker 1: and whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me.
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  Speaker 1: After he had said this, Jesus was troubled in spirit.
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  Speaker 1: And testified, very truly, I tell you, one of you
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  Speaker 1: is going to betray me. His disciples stared at one another,
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  Speaker 1: at a loss to know which of them he meant.
• 2:18:24
  Speaker 1: One of them, the disciple whom Jesus loved, was reclining
• 2:18:28
  Speaker 1: next to him. Simon Peter motioned to this disciple and said,
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  Speaker 1: ask him which one he means. Leaning back against Jesus,
• 2:18:37
  Speaker 1: he asked him, Lord, who is it? Jesus answered, it
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  Speaker 1: is the one to whom I will give this piece
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  Speaker 1: of bread when I have dipped it in the dish. Then,
• 2:18:49
  Speaker 1: dipping the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas,
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  Speaker 1: the son of Simon, a scariot. As soon as Judas
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  Speaker 1: took the bread, Satan entered into him. So Jesus told him,
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  Speaker 1: what you are about to do, do quickly. But no
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  Speaker 1: one of the meal understood why Jesus said this to him.
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  Speaker 1: Since Judas had charge of the money, some thought Jesus
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  Speaker 1: was telling him to buy what was needed for the festival,
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  Speaker 1: or to give something to the poor. As soon as
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  Speaker 1: Judas had taken the bread, he went out, and it
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  Speaker 1: was night. When he was gone, Jesus said, now the
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  Speaker 1: son of Man is glorified and God is glorified in him.
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  Speaker 1: If God is glorified in him, God will glorify the
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  Speaker 1: Sun in himself and will glorify him. At once, My children,
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  Speaker 1: I will be with you only a little longer. You
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  Speaker 1: will look for me. And just as I told the Jews,
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  Speaker 1: so I tell you now where I am going. You
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  Speaker 1: cannot come. A new command I give you love one another.
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  Speaker 1: I have loved you, so you must love one another.
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  Speaker 1: By this, every one will know that you are my disciples.
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  Speaker 1: If you love one another. Simon Peter asked him, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: where are you going. Jesus replied, where I am going.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot 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 you,
• 2:20:34
  Speaker 1: before the cock crows, you will disown me three times.
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  Speaker 1: John chapter fourteen. Do not let your hearts be troubled.
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  Speaker 1: You believe in God, believe also in me. My father's
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  Speaker 1: house has many rooms. If that were not so, would
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  Speaker 1: I have told you that I'm going there to prepare
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  Speaker 1: a place for you. And if I go and prepare
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  Speaker 1: a place for you. I will come back and take
• 2:21:07
  Speaker 1: you to be with me, that you also may be
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  Speaker 1: where I am. You know the way to the place
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  Speaker 1: where I'm going, Thomas said to him, Lord, we don't
• 2:21:18
  Speaker 1: know where you're going, so how can we know the way?
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  Speaker 1: Jesus answered, I am the Way and the truth and
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  Speaker 1: the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
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  Speaker 1: If you really know me, you will know my Father
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  Speaker 1: as well. From now on. You do know him and
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  Speaker 1: have seen him. Philip said, Lord, show us the Father,
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  Speaker 1: and that will be enough for us. Jesus answered, don't
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  Speaker 1: you know me, Philip, even after I've been among you
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  Speaker 1: such a long time. Any one who has seen me
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  Speaker 1: has seen the Father. How can you say, show us
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  Speaker 1: the Father? Don't you believe that I am in the
• 2:22:06
  Speaker 1: Father and that the Father is in me? The words
• 2:22:10
  Speaker 1: I say to you, I do not speak on my
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  Speaker 1: own authority. Rather, it is the Father living in me
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  Speaker 1: who is doing his work. Believe me when I say
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  Speaker 1: that I am in the Father and the Father is
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  Speaker 1: in me, or at least believe on the evidence of
• 2:22:25
  Speaker 1: the works themselves. Very truly. I tell you, whoever believes
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  Speaker 1: in me will do the works I have been doing,
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  Speaker 1: and they will do even greater things than these, because
• 2:22:36
  Speaker 1: I am going to the Father, and I will do
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  Speaker 1: whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father
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  Speaker 1: may be glorified in the Son. You may ask me
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  Speaker 1: for anything in my name, and I will do it.
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  Speaker 1: If you love me, keep my commands, and I will
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  Speaker 1: ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate
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  Speaker 1: to help you and be with you forever, the Spirit
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  Speaker 1: of truth. The world cannot accept him because it neither
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  Speaker 1: sees him nor knows him, but you know him, for
• 2:23:11
  Speaker 1: he lives with you and will be in you. I
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  Speaker 1: will not leave you as orphans. I will come to you.
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  Speaker 1: Before long. The world will not see me any more,
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  Speaker 1: but you will see me. Because I live, you also
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  Speaker 1: will live. On that day, you will realize that I
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  Speaker 1: am in my Father, and you are in me, and
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  Speaker 1: I am in you. Whoever has my commands and keeps
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  Speaker 1: them is the one who loves me. The one who
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  Speaker 1: loves me will be loved by my Father, and I
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  Speaker 1: too will love them and show myself to them. Then
• 2:23:50
  Speaker 1: Judas not Judas Iscariot said, but Lord, why do you
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  Speaker 1: intend to show yourself to us and not to the world.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus replied, any one who loves me will obey my teaching.
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  Speaker 1: My Father will love them, and we will come to
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  Speaker 1: them and make our home with them. Any One who
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  Speaker 1: does not love me will not obey my teaching. These
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  Speaker 1: words you hear are not my own. They belong to
• 2:24:17
  Speaker 1: the Father who sent me. All this I have spoken
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  Speaker 1: was still with you. But the advocate, the Holy Spirit,
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  Speaker 1: whom the Father will send in my name, will teach
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  Speaker 1: you all things and will remind you of everything I
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  Speaker 1: have said to you. Peace I leave with you My
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  Speaker 1: peace I give you. I do not give to you
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  Speaker 1: as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled.
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  Speaker 1: And do not be afraid. You heard me say I
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  Speaker 1: am going away and I am coming back to you.
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  Speaker 1: If you loved me, you would be glad that I
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  Speaker 1: am going to the Father, For the Father is greater
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  Speaker 1: than I. I have told you now before it happens,
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  Speaker 1: so that when it does happen, you will believe. I
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  Speaker 1: will not say much more to you, for the Prince
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  Speaker 1: of this world is coming. He has no hold over me,
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  Speaker 1: but he comes so that the world may learn that
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  Speaker 1: I love the Father and do exactly what my Father
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  Speaker 1: has commanded me. Come now, let us leave. John Chapter fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: I am the true vine, and my father is the gardener.
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  Speaker 1: He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit,
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  Speaker 1: while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so
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  Speaker 1: that it will be even more fruitful. You are already
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  Speaker 1: clean because of the word I've spoken to you. Remain
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  Speaker 1: in me as I also remain in you. No branch
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  Speaker 1: can bear fruit by itself. It must remain in the vine.
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  Speaker 1: Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.
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  Speaker 1: I am the vine. You are the branches. If you
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  Speaker 1: remain in me and I in you, you will bear
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  Speaker 1: much fruit. Apart from me, you can do nothing. If
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  Speaker 1: you do not remain in me. You are like a
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  Speaker 1: branch that is thrown away and withers. Such branches are
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  Speaker 1: picked up, thrown into the fire, and burned. If you
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  Speaker 1: remain in me and my words remain in you, ask
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  Speaker 1: 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
• 2:26:44
  Speaker 1: loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in
• 2:26:49
  Speaker 1: my love. If you keep my commands, you will remain
• 2:26:54
  Speaker 1: in my love, just as I have kept my Father's
• 2:26:57
  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
• 2:27:04
  Speaker 1: that your joy may be complete. My command is this,
• 2:27:09
  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 reason. 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 John chapter sixteen. All this I have told you
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  Speaker 1: so that you will not fall away. They will put
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  Speaker 1: you out of the synagogue. In fact, the time is
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  Speaker 1: coming when any one who kills you will think their
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  Speaker 1: offering a service to God. They will do such things
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  Speaker 1: because they have not known the Father or me. I
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  Speaker 1: have told you this so that when their time comes,
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  Speaker 1: you will remember that I warned you about them. I
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  Speaker 1: did not tell you this from the beginning, because I
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  Speaker 1: was with you. But now I am going to him
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  Speaker 1: who sent me. None of you asks me where are
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  Speaker 1: you going. Rather, you are filled with grief because I
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  Speaker 1: have said these things. But very truly I tell you
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  Speaker 1: it is for your good that I am going away.
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  Speaker 1: Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you.
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  Speaker 1: But if I go, I will send him to you.
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  Speaker 1: When he comes, he will prove the world to be
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  Speaker 1: in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment. About
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  Speaker 1: sin because people do not believe in me. About righteousness
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  Speaker 1: because I am going to the Father, where you can
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  Speaker 1: see me no longer. And about judgment, because the prince
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  Speaker 1: of this world now stands condemned. I have much more
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  Speaker 1: to say to you, more than you can now bear.
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  Speaker 1: But when he, the Spirit of Truth, comes, he will
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  Speaker 1: guide you into all the truth. He will not speak
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  Speaker 1: on his own. He will speak only what he hears,
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  Speaker 1: and he will tell you what is yet to come.
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  Speaker 1: He will glorify me because it is from me that
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  Speaker 1: he will receive what he will make known to you.
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  Speaker 1: All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is
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  Speaker 1: why I said, the Spirit will receive from me what
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  Speaker 1: he will make known to you. Jesus went on to say,
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  Speaker 1: in a little while, you will see me no more,
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  Speaker 1: and then after a little while, you will see me.
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  Speaker 1: At this, some of his disciples said to one another,
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  Speaker 1: what does he mean by saying, in a little while
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  Speaker 1: you will see me no more, and then after a
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  Speaker 1: little while you will see me. And because I am
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  Speaker 1: going to the father, they kept asking, what does he
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  Speaker 1: mean by a little while? We don't understand what he's saying.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus saw that they wanted to ask him about this,
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  Speaker 1: so he said to them, are you asking one another
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  Speaker 1: what I meant when I said, in a little while,
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  Speaker 1: you will see me no more, and then after a
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  Speaker 1: little while you will see me. Very truly, I tell you,
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  Speaker 1: you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices. You
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  Speaker 1: will grieve. Your grief will turn to joy. A woman
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  Speaker 1: giving birth to a child has pain because her time
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  Speaker 1: has come, but when her baby is born, she forgets
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  Speaker 1: the anguish because of her joy that a child is
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  Speaker 1: born into the world. So with you, now is your
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  Speaker 1: time of grief. But I will see you again, and
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  Speaker 1: you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.
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  Speaker 1: In that day, you will no longer ask me anything
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  Speaker 1: very truly. I tell you, my Father will give you
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  Speaker 1: whatever you ask in my name. Until now you have
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  Speaker 1: not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you
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  Speaker 1: will receive, and your joy will be complete. Though I
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  Speaker 1: have been speaking figuratively, a time is coming when I
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  Speaker 1: will no longer use this kind of language, but will
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  Speaker 1: tell you plainly about my Father. In that day, you
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  Speaker 1: will ask in my name. I am not saying that
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  Speaker 1: I will ask the Father on your behalf. No, the
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  Speaker 1: Father himself loves you because you have loved me and
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  Speaker 1: have believed that I came from God. I came from
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  Speaker 1: the Father and entered the world. Now I am leaving
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  Speaker 1: the world and going back to the Father. Then Jesus's
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  Speaker 1: disciples said, now you are speaking clearly and without figures
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  Speaker 1: of speech. Now we can see that you know all things,
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  Speaker 1: and that you do not even need to have any
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  Speaker 1: one ask you questions. This makes us believe that you
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  Speaker 1: came from God. Do you now believe? Jesus replied, A
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  Speaker 1: time is coming, and in fact has come, when you
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  Speaker 1: will be scattered each to your own home. You will
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  Speaker 1: leave me all alone. Yet I am not alone, for
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  Speaker 1: my Father is with me. I have told you these
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  Speaker 1: things so that in me you may have peace. In
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  Speaker 1: this world you will have trouble, But take heart, I
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  Speaker 1: have overcome the world. John chapter seventeen. After Jesus said this,
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  Speaker 1: he looked towards heaven and prayed, Father, the hour has come.
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  Speaker 1: Glorify your son, that your son may glorify you, for
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  Speaker 1: you granted him authority over all people, that he might
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  Speaker 1: give eternal life to all those you have given him.
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  Speaker 1: Now this is eternal life that they know you, the
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  Speaker 1: only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
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  Speaker 1: I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the
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  Speaker 1: work you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify
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  Speaker 1: me in your presence, with the glory I had with
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  Speaker 1: you before the world began. I have revealed you to
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  Speaker 1: those whom you gave me out of the world. They
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  Speaker 1: were yours. You gave them to me, and they have
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  Speaker 1: obeyed your word. Now they know that everything you have
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  Speaker 1: given me comes from you. For I gave them the
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  Speaker 1: words you gave me, and they accepted them. They knew
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  Speaker 1: with certainty that I came from you, and they believed
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  Speaker 1: that you sent me. I pray for them. I am
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  Speaker 1: not praying for the world, but for those you have
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  Speaker 1: given me, for they are yours. All I have is yours,
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  Speaker 1: and all you have is mine, and glory has come
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  Speaker 1: to me through them. I will remain in the world
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  Speaker 1: no longer, but they are still in the world, and
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  Speaker 1: I am coming to you, Holy Father. Protect them by
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  Speaker 1: the power of your name, the name you gave me,
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  Speaker 1: so that they may be one as we are one.
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  Speaker 1: While I was with them, I protected them and kept
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  Speaker 1: them safe by that name you gave me. None has
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  Speaker 1: been lost, except the one doomed to destruction, so that
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  Speaker 1: scripture would be fulfilled. I am coming to you now,
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  Speaker 1: but I say these things while I am still in
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  Speaker 1: the world, so that they may have the full measure
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  Speaker 1: of my joy within them. I have given them your word,
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  Speaker 1: and the world has hated them, for they are not
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  Speaker 1: of the world any more than I am of the world.
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  Speaker 1: My prayer is not that you take them out of
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  Speaker 1: the world, but that you protect them from the evil one.
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  Speaker 1: They are not of the world, even as I am
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  Speaker 1: not of it. Sanctify then by the truth. Your word
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  Speaker 1: is truth. As you send me into the world, I
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  Speaker 1: have sent them into the world. For them I sanctify myself,
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  Speaker 1: that they too may be truly sanctified. My prayer is
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  Speaker 1: not for them alone. I pray also for those who
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  Speaker 1: will believe in me through their message, that all of
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  Speaker 1: them may be one. Father, just as you are in
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  Speaker 1: me and I am in you, may they also be
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  Speaker 1: in us, so that the world may believe that you
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  Speaker 1: have sent me. I have given them the glory that
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  Speaker 1: you gave me, that they may be one as we
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  Speaker 1: are one, I in them and you in me, so
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  Speaker 1: that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the
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  Speaker 1: world will know that you sent me and have loved them,
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  Speaker 1: even as you have loved me. Father, I want those
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  Speaker 1: you have given me to be with me where I am,
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  Speaker 1: and to see my glory, the glory you have given
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  Speaker 1: me because you loved me before the creation of the world.
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  Speaker 1: Righteous Father. Though the world does not know you, I
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  Speaker 1: know you, and they know that you have sent me.
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  Speaker 1: I have made you known to them and will continue
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  Speaker 1: to make you known, in order that the love you
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  Speaker 1: have for me may be in them, and that I
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  Speaker 1: myself may be in them.