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  Speaker 1: Download Abide from the app store today. Matthew Chapter one.
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  Speaker 1: This is the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son
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  Speaker 1: of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham was the father
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  Speaker 1: of Isaac. Isaac the father of Jacob. Jacob the father
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  Speaker 1: of Judah and his brothers. Judah the father of Perez
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  Speaker 1: and Zarah, whose mother was Tomorrow. Perez the father of Hesron, Heson,
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  Speaker 1: the father of Ram, the father of a Mendab a Meenedab,
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  Speaker 1: the father of Nashon. Nashon the father of Salmon. Samon
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  Speaker 1: the father of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab. Boaz the
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  Speaker 1: father of Obed, whose mother was Ruth. Obed the father
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  Speaker 1: of Jesse and Jesse, the father of King David. David
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  Speaker 1: was the father of Solomon, whose mother had been Uriah's wife.
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  Speaker 1: Solomon the father of Rioboam. Rihoboam the father of Abijah.
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  Speaker 1: Abijah the father of asa Asa, the father of Jehosaphad.
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  Speaker 1: Jehosaphad the father of Jehoram. Jehoram the father of Usiah, Usiah,
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  Speaker 1: the father of Jotham. Jotham the father of Ahaz, Ahaz
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  Speaker 1: the father of Hezekiah. Hezekiah the father of Manassa. Manassa
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  Speaker 1: the father of Amon. Ammon the father of Josiah and
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  Speaker 1: Josiah the father of Jaconia and his brothers at the
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  Speaker 1: time of the exile to Babylon. After the exile to Babylon,
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  Speaker 1: Jaconya was the father of Sheltil. Shealtil the father of Zerubabel.
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  Speaker 1: Zurubabel the father of Abehud. Abihud the father of Eliakim.
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  Speaker 1: Eliakim the father of Azor Azora, the father of Zadok,
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  Speaker 1: Zadok the father of Akim. Akim the father of Elihud.
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  Speaker 1: Elihud the father of Elizar. Elizar the father of Mathan.
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  Speaker 1: Mathan the father of Jacob and Jacob the father of Joseph,
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  Speaker 1: the husband of Mary, and Mary was the mother of Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: who was called the Messiah. Thus there were fourteen generations
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  Speaker 1: in all, from Abraham to David, fourteen from David to
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  Speaker 1: the exile to Babylon, and fourteen from the exile to
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  Speaker 1: the Messiah. This is how the birth of Jesus the
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  Speaker 1: Messiah came about. His mother Mary was pledged to be
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  Speaker 1: married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was
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  Speaker 1: found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit. Because Joseph,
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  Speaker 1: her husband, was faithful to the law and yet did
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  Speaker 1: not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had
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  Speaker 1: in mind to divorce her quietly. But after he had
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  Speaker 1: considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him
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  Speaker 1: in a dream and said, Joseph, son of David, do
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  Speaker 1: not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife,
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  Speaker 1: because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: She will give birth to a son, and you are
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  Speaker 1: to give him the name Jesus, because he will save
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  Speaker 1: his people from their sins. All this took place to
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  Speaker 1: fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet, the
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  Speaker 1: Virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and
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  Speaker 1: they will call him Emmanuel, which means God with us.
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  Speaker 1: When Joseph woke up, he did what the Angel of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as
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  Speaker 1: his wife. But he did not consummate their marriage until
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  Speaker 1: she gave birth to a son, and he gave him
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  Speaker 1: the name Jesus. Matthew chapter two. After Jesus was born
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  Speaker 1: in Bethlehem and Judea during the time of King Herod.
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  Speaker 1: Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, where
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  Speaker 1: is the one who has been born King of the Jews.
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  Speaker 1: We saw his star when it rose and have come
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  Speaker 1: to worship him. When King Herod heard this, he was disturbed,
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  Speaker 1: and all Jerusalem with him. When he had called together
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  Speaker 1: all the people's chief priests and teachers of the law,
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  Speaker 1: he asked them where the Messiah was to be born?
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  Speaker 1: In Bethlehem and Judea. They replied, for this is what
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  Speaker 1: the prophet has written. But you, Bethlehem, in the land
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  Speaker 1: of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers
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  Speaker 1: of Judah. For out of you will come a ruler
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  Speaker 1: who will shepherd my people Israel. Then Herod called the
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  Speaker 1: magi secretly and found out from them the exact time
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  Speaker 1: the star had appeared. He sent them to Bethlehem and said,
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  Speaker 1: go and search carefully for the child. As soon as
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  Speaker 1: you find him, report to me, so that I too
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  Speaker 1: may go and worship him. After they had heard the king,
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  Speaker 1: they went on their way, and the star they had
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  Speaker 1: seen when it rose when ahead of them until it
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  Speaker 1: stopped over the place where the child was. When they
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  Speaker 1: saw the star, they were overjoyed. On coming to the house,
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  Speaker 1: they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they
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  Speaker 1: bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures
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  Speaker 1: and presented him with gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. And,
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  Speaker 1: having been warned in a dream not to go back
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  Speaker 1: to Herod, they returned to their country by another route.
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  Speaker 1: When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared
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  Speaker 1: to Joseph in her dream. Get up, he said, take
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  Speaker 1: the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay
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  Speaker 1: there until I tell you, for Herod is going to
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  Speaker 1: search for the child to kill him. So he got up,
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  Speaker 1: took the child and his mother during the night, and
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  Speaker 1: left for Egypt, where he stayed until the death of Herod.
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  Speaker 1: And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through
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  Speaker 1: the prophet. Out of Egypt, I called my son. When
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  Speaker 1: Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi,
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  Speaker 1: he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all
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  Speaker 1: the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two
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  Speaker 1: years old and under, in accordance with the time he
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  Speaker 1: had learned from the Magi. Then what was said through
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  Speaker 1: the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled. A voice is heard in
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  Speaker 1: Ramah weeping and great morning Rachel weeping for her children
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  Speaker 1: and refusing to be comforted because they are no more.
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  Speaker 1: After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in
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  Speaker 1: a dream to Joseph in Egypt and said, get up,
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  Speaker 1: take the child and his mother, and go to the
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  Speaker 1: land of Israel, for those who were trying to take
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  Speaker 1: the child's life are dead. So he got up, took
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  Speaker 1: the child and his mother and went to the land
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  Speaker 1: of Israel. But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning
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  Speaker 1: in Judea in place of his father Herod, he was
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  Speaker 1: afraid to go there. Having been warned in a dream,
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  Speaker 1: he withdrew to the district of Galilee, and he went
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  Speaker 1: and lived in a town called Nazareth. So was fulfilled
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  Speaker 1: what was said through the prophets that he would be
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  Speaker 1: called a Nazarene Matthew, chapter three. In those days, John
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  Speaker 1: the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea and
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  Speaker 1: sang repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven has come near.
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  Speaker 1: This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah.
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  Speaker 1: A voice of one calling in the wilderness, prepare the
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  Speaker 1: way for the Lord. Make straight paths for him. John's
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  Speaker 1: clothes were made of camel's hair, and he had a
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  Speaker 1: leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and
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  Speaker 1: wild honey. People went out to him from Jerusalem and
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  Speaker 1: all Judea and the whole region of the Jordan, confessing
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  Speaker 1: their sins. They were baptized by him in the Jordan River.
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  Speaker 1: But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees
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  Speaker 1: coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them,
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  Speaker 1: you brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from
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  Speaker 1: the coming wrath, produce fruit in keeping with repentance. And
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  Speaker 1: do not think you can say to yourselves we have
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  Speaker 1: Abraham as our father. I tell you that out of
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  Speaker 1: these stones God can raise up children. Per Abraham. The
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  Speaker 1: axe is already at the root of the trees, and
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  Speaker 1: every tree that does not produce good fruit will be
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  Speaker 1: cut down and thrown into the fire. I baptize you
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  Speaker 1: with water for repentance. But after me comes one who
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  Speaker 1: is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not
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  Speaker 1: worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit and fire. His winnowing fork is in his hand,
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  Speaker 1: and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat
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  Speaker 1: into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
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  Speaker 1: Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be
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  Speaker 1: baptized by John. But John tried to deter him, saying,
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  Speaker 1: I need to be baptized by you, and do you
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  Speaker 1: come to me. Jesus replied, let it be so. Now
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  Speaker 1: it is proper for us to do this to fulfill
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  Speaker 1: all righteousness. Then John consented. As soon as Jesus was baptized,
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  Speaker 1: he went up out the water. At that moment, heaven
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  Speaker 1: was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending
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  Speaker 1: like a dove and alighting on him. And a voice
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  Speaker 1: from heaven said, this is my son, whom I love.
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  Speaker 1: With him, I am well pleased Matthew chapter four. Then
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  Speaker 1: Jesus was led by the spirit into the wilderness to
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  Speaker 1: be tempted by the devil. After fasting forty days and
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  Speaker 1: forty nights, he was hungry. The tempter came to him
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  Speaker 1: and said, if you are the son of God, tell
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  Speaker 1: these stones to become bred. Jesus answered, it is written
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  Speaker 1: man shall not live on bread alone, but on every
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  Speaker 1: word that comes from the mouth of God. Then the
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  Speaker 1: devil took him to the Holy City and had him
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  Speaker 1: stand on the highest point of the temple. If you
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  Speaker 1: are the son of God, he said, throw yourself down,
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  Speaker 1: for it is written he will command his angels concerning you,
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  Speaker 1: and they will lift you up in their hands, so
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  Speaker 1: that you will not strike your foot against a stone.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus answered him, it is also written, do not put
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  Speaker 1: the Lord your God to the test. Again. The devil
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  Speaker 1: took him to a very high mountain and showed him
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  Speaker 1: all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. All
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  Speaker 1: this I will give you, he said, if you will
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  Speaker 1: bow down and worship me. Jesus said to him, away
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  Speaker 1: from me, Satan, for it is written, worship the Lord
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  Speaker 1: your God and serve him. Only then the devil left him,
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  Speaker 1: and angels came and attended him. When Jesus heard that
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  Speaker 1: John had been put in prison, he withdrew to Galilee,
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  Speaker 1: leaving Nazareth. He went and lived in Capernaum, which was
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  Speaker 1: by the lake in the area of Zebulun and Naphthali.
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  Speaker 1: To fulfill what was said through the prophet Isaiah, land
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  Speaker 1: of Zebulun and land of Naftali, the way of the
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  Speaker 1: sea beyond the Jordan. Galilee of the Gentiles. The people
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  Speaker 1: living in darkness have seen a great light. On those
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  Speaker 1: living in the land of the shadow of death, a
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  Speaker 1: light has dawned. From that time on, Jesus began to
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  Speaker 1: preach repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven has come near.
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  Speaker 1: As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he
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  Speaker 1: saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and his brother Andrew.
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  Speaker 1: They were casting a net into the lake, for they
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  Speaker 1: were fishermen. Come follow me, Jesus said, and I will
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  Speaker 1: send you out to fish for people. At once, they
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  Speaker 1: left their nets and followed him. Going on from there,
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  Speaker 1: he saw two other brothers, James, son of Zebedee and
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  Speaker 1: his brother John. They were in a boat with their father, Zebede,
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  Speaker 1: preparing their nets. Jesus called them, and immediately they left
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  Speaker 1: the boat and their father and followed him. Jesus went
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  Speaker 1: through Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming good news of
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  Speaker 1: the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness among the people.
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  Speaker 1: News about him spread all over Syria, and people brought
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  Speaker 1: to him all who were ill with various diseases, those
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  Speaker 1: suffering severe pain the demon possessed, those having seizures and
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  Speaker 1: the paralyzed, and he healed them. Large crowds from Galilee,
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  Speaker 1: the Dicopolis, Jerusalem, Judaea, and the region across the Jordan
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  Speaker 1: followed him. Matthew chapter five. Now, when Jesus saw the crowds,
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  Speaker 1: he went up on a mountain side and sat down.
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  Speaker 1: His disciples came to him, and he began to teach them.
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  Speaker 1: He said, Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs
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  Speaker 1: is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn,
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  Speaker 1: for they will be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for
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  Speaker 1: they will inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger
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  Speaker 1: and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. Blessed
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  Speaker 1: are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. Blessed
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  Speaker 1: are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
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  Speaker 1: Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children
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  Speaker 1: of God. Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness,
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  Speaker 1: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you
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  Speaker 1: when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all
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  Speaker 1: kinds of evil against you because of me, Rejoice and
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  Speaker 1: be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, For
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  Speaker 1: in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were
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  Speaker 1: before you. You are the salt of the earth. But
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  Speaker 1: if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be
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  Speaker 1: made salty again. It is no longer good for anything,
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  Speaker 1: except to be thrown out and trampled under foot. You
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  Speaker 1: are the light of the world. A town built on
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  Speaker 1: a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a
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  Speaker 1: lamp and put it under a bull. Instead, they put
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  Speaker 1: it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone
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  Speaker 1: in the house. In the same way, let your light
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  Speaker 1: shine before others, that they may see your good deeds
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  Speaker 1: and glorify your Father in heaven. Do not think that
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  Speaker 1: I have come to abolish the law or the prophets.
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  Speaker 1: I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them.
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  Speaker 1: For truly, I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear,
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  Speaker 1: not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen,
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  Speaker 1: will by any means disappear from the law until everything
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  Speaker 1: is accomplished. Therefore, anyone 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: teaches these commands will be called great in the Kingdom
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  Speaker 1: of heaven. For I tell you that unless your righteousness
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  Speaker 1: surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law,
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  Speaker 1: you will certainly not enter the Kingdom of heaven. You
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  Speaker 1: have heard that it was said to the people long ago,
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  Speaker 1: you shall not murder, and anyone who murders will be
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  Speaker 1: subject to judgment. But I tell you that anyone who
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  Speaker 1: is angry with a brother or sister will be subject
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  Speaker 1: to judgment. Again. Anyone who says to a brother or
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  Speaker 1: sister raka is answerable to the court. And anyone who
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  Speaker 1: says you fool will be in danger of the fire
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  Speaker 1: of hell. Therefore, if you are offering your gift at
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  Speaker 1: the altar, and there remember that your brother or sister
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  Speaker 1: has something against you, leave your gift there in front
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  Speaker 1: of the altar. First, go and be reconciled to them.
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  Speaker 1: Then come and offer your gift. Settle matters quickly with
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  Speaker 1: your adversary who is ting you to court. Do it
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  Speaker 1: while you are still together on the way, or your
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  Speaker 1: adversary may hand you over to the judge, and the
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  Speaker 1: judge may hand you over to the officer, and you
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  Speaker 1: may be thrown into prison. Truly, I tell you you
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  Speaker 1: will not get out until you have paid the last penny.
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  Speaker 1: You have heard that it was said you shall not
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  Speaker 1: commit adultery. But I tell you that anyone who looks
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  Speaker 1: at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her
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  Speaker 1: in his heart. If your right eye causes you to stumble,
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  Speaker 1: gouge it out, 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 body to be thrown into hell. And if
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  Speaker 1: your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off
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  Speaker 1: and throw it away, it is better for you to
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  Speaker 1: lose one part of your body than for your whole
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  Speaker 1: body to go into hell. It has been said anyone
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  Speaker 1: who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.
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  Speaker 1: But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife,
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  Speaker 1: except for sexual immorality, makes her the victim of adultery.
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  Speaker 1: And anyone who marries a divorced woman commits adultery. Again,
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  Speaker 1: you have heard that it was said to the people
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  Speaker 1: long ago, do not break your oath, but fulfill to
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  Speaker 1: the Lord the vows you have made. But I tell
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  Speaker 1: you do not swear an oath at all, either by Heaven,
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  Speaker 1: for it is God's throne, or by the earth, for
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  Speaker 1: it is his footstool, or by Jerusalem, for it is
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  Speaker 1: the city of the great King. And do not swear
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  Speaker 1: by your head, for you cannot make even one hair
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  Speaker 1: white or black. All you need to say is simply
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  Speaker 1: yes or no. Anything beyond this comes from the evil one.
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  Speaker 1: You have heard that it was said eye 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 anyone slaps you on the
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  Speaker 1: right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also. And
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  Speaker 1: if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt,
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  Speaker 1: hand over your coat as well. If anyone forces you
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  Speaker 1: to go one mile, go with them two miles. Give
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  Speaker 1: to the one who asks you, and do not turn
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  Speaker 1: away from the one who wants to borrow from you.
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  Speaker 1: You have heard that it was said love your neighbor
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  Speaker 1: and hate your enemy. But I tell you love your enemies,
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  Speaker 1: and pray for those who persecute you, that you may
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  Speaker 1: be children of your father in heaven. He causes his
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  Speaker 1: son to rise on the evil and the good, and
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  Speaker 1: sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you
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  Speaker 1: love those who love you, what reward will you get?
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  Speaker 1: Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if
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  Speaker 1: you greet only your own people, what are you doing
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  Speaker 1: more than others? Do not even pagans do that? Be perfect. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: as your heavenly father is perfect Matthew chapter six, be
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  Speaker 1: careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others
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  Speaker 1: to be seen by them. If you do, you will
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  Speaker 1: have no reward from your father in heaven. So when
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  Speaker 1: you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets,
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  Speaker 1: as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the
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  Speaker 1: streets to be honored by others. Truly, I tell you
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  Speaker 1: they have received their reward in full. But when you
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  Speaker 1: give to the needy, do not let your left hand
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  Speaker 1: know what your right hand is doing, so that your
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  Speaker 1: giving may be in secret. Then your father, who sees
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  Speaker 1: what is done in secret, will reward you. And when
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  Speaker 1: you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they
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  Speaker 1: love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the
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  Speaker 1: street corners to be seen by others. Truly, I tell
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  Speaker 1: you they have received their reward in full. But when
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  Speaker 1: you pray, go into your room, close the door, and
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  Speaker 1: pray to your father, who is unseen. 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 keep on babbling like pagans,
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  Speaker 1: for they think they will be heard because of their
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  Speaker 1: many words. Do not be like them, For your father
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  Speaker 1: 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, and 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 fact, 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 reward 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, and 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: serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and
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  Speaker 1: love the other, or you will be devoted to the
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  Speaker 1: one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God
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  Speaker 1: and money. Therefore, I tell you do not worry about
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  Speaker 1: your life, what you will eat or drink, or about
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  Speaker 1: your body. What you will wear. Is not life more
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  Speaker 1: than food, and the body more than clothes. Look at
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  Speaker 1: the birds of the air. They do not sow or
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  Speaker 1: reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can?
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  Speaker 1: Any one of you by worrying add a single hour
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  Speaker 1: to your life. And why do you worry about clothes?
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  Speaker 1: See how the flowers of the field grow. They do
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  Speaker 1: not labor or spend. Yet I tell you that 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 today and tomorrow is
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  Speaker 1: thrown into the fire, will He not much more clothe you,
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  Speaker 1: you of little faith. So do not worry, saying what
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  Speaker 1: shall we eat? Or what shall we drink? Or what
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  Speaker 1: shall we wear? Before the pagans run after all these things,
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  Speaker 1: and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But
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  Speaker 1: seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these
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  Speaker 1: things will be given to you as well. Therefore, do
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  Speaker 1: not worry about tomorrow, for 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 you judge, you will be judged.
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  Speaker 1: And with the measure you use it will be measured
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  Speaker 1: to you. Why do you look at the speck of
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  Speaker 1: sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to
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  Speaker 1: the plank in your own eye. How can you say
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  Speaker 1: to your brother, let me take the speck out of
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  Speaker 1: your eye, when all the time there is a plank
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  Speaker 1: in your own eye, You hypocrite. First take the plank
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  Speaker 1: out of your own eye, and then you will see
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  Speaker 1: clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye. Do
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  Speaker 1: not give dogs what is sacred. Do not throw your
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  Speaker 1: pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them
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  Speaker 1: under their feet and turn and tear you to pieces. Asking,
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  Speaker 1: it will be given to you. Seek, and you will
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  Speaker 1: find knocking 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, if your son asks for bread, will
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  Speaker 1: give him a stone, Or if he asks for fish,
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  Speaker 1: will give him a snake. If you, then, though you
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  Speaker 1: are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children,
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  Speaker 1: how much more will your father in heaven give good
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  Speaker 1: gifts to those who ask him. So in everything, do
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  Speaker 1: to others what you would have them do to you.
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  Speaker 1: For this sums up the law, and the profits enter
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  Speaker 1: through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate, and
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  Speaker 1: broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many
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  Speaker 1: enter through it. But small is the gate, and narrow
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  Speaker 1: the road that leads to life, and only a few
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  Speaker 1: find it. Watch out for false prophets. They come to
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  Speaker 1: you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.
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  Speaker 1: By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick
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  Speaker 1: grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles. Likewise, every
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  Speaker 1: good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears
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  Speaker 1: bad fruit. A good tree can not bear bad fruit,
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  Speaker 1: and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Every tree
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  Speaker 1: that does not bear good fruit is cut down and
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  Speaker 1: thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will
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  Speaker 1: recognize them. Not everyone who says to me, Lord Lord,
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  Speaker 1: will enter the Kingdom of heaven, but only the one
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  Speaker 1: who does the will of my father, who is in heaven.
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  Speaker 1: Many will say to me on that day, Lord Lord,
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  Speaker 1: did we not prophesy in your name, and in your
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  Speaker 1: name drive out demons, and in your name perform many miracles?
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  Speaker 1: Then I will tell them plainly, I never knew you
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  Speaker 1: away from me, you evildoers. Therefore, everyone who hears these
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  Speaker 1: words of mine and puts them into practice is like
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  Speaker 1: a wise man who built his house on the rock.
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  Speaker 1: The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds
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  Speaker 1: blew and beat against that house. Yet it did not fall,
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  Speaker 1: because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone
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  Speaker 1: who hears these words of mine and does not put
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  Speaker 1: them into practice is like a foolish man who built
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  Speaker 1: his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose,
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  Speaker 1: and the winds blew and beat against that house, and
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  Speaker 1: it fell with a great crash. When Jesus had finished
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  Speaker 1: saying these things, the crowds were amazed at his teaching,
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  Speaker 1: because he taught as one who had authority, and not
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  Speaker 1: as their teachers of the law. Matthew, chapter eight. When
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  Speaker 1: Jesus came down from the mountain side, large crowds followed him.
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  Speaker 1: A man with leprosy came and knelt before him and said, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: if you are willing, you can make me clean. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: reached 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 Capronam, 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, and my servant will be healed.
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  Speaker 1: For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers
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  Speaker 1: under me. I tell this one go and he goes,
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  Speaker 1: and that one come and he comes. I say to
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  Speaker 1: my servant, do this, and he does it. When Jesus
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  Speaker 1: heard this, he was amazed and said to those following him, Truly,
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  Speaker 1: I tell you I have not found any one in
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  Speaker 1: Israel with such great faith. I say to you that
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  Speaker 1: many will come from the east and the West, and
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  Speaker 1: will take their places at the feast with Abraham, Isaac
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  Speaker 1: and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven. But the subjects
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  Speaker 1: of the kingdom will be thrown outside into the darkness,
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  Speaker 1: where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said to the centurion, go let it be done
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  Speaker 1: just 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 were demon possessed were brought to him,
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  Speaker 1: and he drove out the spirits with the word and
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  Speaker 1: healed all the sick. This was to fulfill what was
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  Speaker 1: spoken through the prophet Isaiah. He took up our infirmities
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  Speaker 1: and bore our diseases. When Jesus saw the crowd around him,
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  Speaker 1: he gave orders to cross to the other side of
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  Speaker 1: the lake. Then a teacher of the law came to
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  Speaker 1: him and said, Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus replied, foxes have dens and birds have nests, but
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  Speaker 1: the son of man has no place to lay his head.
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  Speaker 1: Another disciples said to him, Lord, first, let me go
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  Speaker 1: and bury my father. But Jesus told him follow me
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  Speaker 1: and let the dead bury their own dead. Then He
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  Speaker 1: got into the boat, and his disciples followed him. Suddenly,
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  Speaker 1: a furious storm came up on the lake, so that
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  Speaker 1: 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 Gathererines, 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 pig 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, crossed 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 was 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 these 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 man,
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  Speaker 1: get up, take your mat, and go home. Then the
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  Speaker 1: man got up and went home. When the crowd saw this,
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  Speaker 1: they were filled with awe, and they praised God who
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  Speaker 1: had given such authority to man. As Jesus went on
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  Speaker 1: from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at
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  Speaker 1: the tax collector's booth. Follow me, he told him, and
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  Speaker 1: Matthew got up and followed him. While Jesus was having
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  Speaker 1: dinner at Matthew's house, many tax collectors and sinners came
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: and ate with him and his disciples. When the Pharisees
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  Speaker 1: saw this, they asked his disciples, why does your teacher
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  Speaker 1: eat with tax collectors and sinners. On hearing this, Jesus said,
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  Speaker 1: it is not the hell who need a doctor, but
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  Speaker 1: the sick. But go and learn what this means. I
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  Speaker 1: desire mercy, not sacrifice, for I have not come to
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  Speaker 1: call the righteous but sinners. Then John's disciples came and
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  Speaker 1: asked him. How is it that we and the Pharisees
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  Speaker 1: fast often, but your disciples do not fast. Jesus answered,
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  Speaker 1: how can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while he
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  Speaker 1: is with them? The time will come when the bridegroom
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  Speaker 1: will be taken from them, then they will fast. No
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  Speaker 1: one sows a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment,
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  Speaker 1: for the patch will pull away from the garment, making
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  Speaker 1: the tear worse. Neither do people pour new wine into
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  Speaker 1: 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
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  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, the
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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 years,
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  Speaker 1: came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak.
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  Speaker 1: She said to herself, if I only touch his cloak,
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  Speaker 1: I will be healed. Jesus turned and saw her. Take heart, daughter.
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  Speaker 1: He said, your faith has healed you, and the woman
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  Speaker 1: was healed at that moment. When Jesus entered the synagogue
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  Speaker 1: leader's house and saw the noisy crowd and people playing pipes,
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  Speaker 1: he said, go away. The girl is not dead but asleep,
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  Speaker 1: but they laughed at him. After the crowd had been
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  Speaker 1: put outside, he went in and took the girl by
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  Speaker 1: the hand, and she got up. News of this spread
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  Speaker 1: through all that region. As Jesus went on from there,
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  Speaker 1: two blind men followed him, calling out have mercy on us,
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  Speaker 1: son of David. When he had gone indoors, the blind
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  Speaker 1: men came to him, and he asked them, do you
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: believe that 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
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: and could not talk, was brought to Jesus, and when
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  Speaker 1: the demon was driven out, the man who had been
• 37:51
  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 kingdom,
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  Speaker 1: and healing every disease and sickness. When he saw the crowds,
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  Speaker 1: he had compassion on them because they were harassed and helpless,
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  Speaker 1: like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples.
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  Speaker 1: The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask
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  Speaker 1: the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers
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  Speaker 1: into his harvest field. Matthew Chapter ten. Jesus called his
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  Speaker 1: twelve disciples to him and gave them authority to drive
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  Speaker 1: out impure spirits and to heal every disease and sickness.
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  Speaker 1: These are the names of the twelve apostles. First Simon,
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  Speaker 1: who is called Peter, and his brother Andrew, James son
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  Speaker 1: of Zebedee and his brother John, Philip and Bartholomew Thomas
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  Speaker 1: and Matthew the tax collector, James son of Alpheus, and Thaddeus,
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  Speaker 1: Simon the Zealot, and Judases carry It 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 sheep of Israel.
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  Speaker 1: As you go, proclaim this message. The Kingdom of Heaven
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: has come near. Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: those who have leprosy, drive out demons freely you have
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: received freely give. Do not get any gold or silver
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: or copper to take with you in your belts. No
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: bag for the journey, or extra shirt or sandals or staff,
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  Speaker 1: for the worker is worth his keep. Whatever town or
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  Speaker 1: village you enter, search there for some worthy person, and
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  Speaker 1: stay at their house until you leave. As you enter
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  Speaker 1: the home, give it your greeting. If the home is deserving,
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  Speaker 1: let your peace rest on it. If it is not,
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: let your peace return to you. If anyone will not
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  Speaker 1: welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home
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  Speaker 1: or town and shake the dust off your feet. Truly,
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  Speaker 1: I tell you it will be more bearable for Sodom
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore,
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: be as shrewd as snakes, and as innocent as doves.
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  Speaker 1: Be on your guard. You will be handed over to
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  Speaker 1: the local councils and be flogged in the synagogues. On
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: my account. You will be brought before governors and kings
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: as witnesses to them and to the gentiles. But when
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  Speaker 1: they arrest you do not worry about what to say
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: or how to say it. At that time you will
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: be given what to say, for it will not be
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: use speaking, but the spirit of your Father speaking through you. Brother,
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  Speaker 1: will betray brother to death, and a father his child.
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  Speaker 1: Children will rebel against their parents and have them put
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  Speaker 1: to death. You will be hated by everyone because of me,
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: But the one who stands firm to the end will
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: be saved. When you are persecuted in one place, flee
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: to another. Truly, I tell you you will not finish
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: going through the towns of Israel before the Son of
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: Man comes. The student is not above the teacher, nor
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: a servant above his master. It is enough for students
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: to be like their teachers, and servants like their masters.
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  Speaker 1: If the head of the house has been called beelsible,
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: how much more the members of this household. So do
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  Speaker 1: not be afraid of them. For there is nothing concealed
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  Speaker 1: that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: be made known. What I tell you in the dark,
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: speak in the daylight what is whispered in your ear,
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  Speaker 1: proclaim from the roofs. Do not be afraid of those
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: be afraid of the one who can destroy both soul
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: and body. In hell, are not two sparrows sold for
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: a penny, Yet not one of them will fall to
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  Speaker 1: the ground outside your father's care, and even the very
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: hairs of your head are all numbered. So don't be
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  Speaker 1: afraid you are worth more than many sparrows. Whoever acknowledges
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: me before others, I will also acknowledge before my father
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  Speaker 1: in heaven. But whoever disowns me before others, I will
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  Speaker 1: disown before my father in heaven. Do not suppose that
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  Speaker 1: I have come to bring peace to the earth. I
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  Speaker 1: do not come to bring peace but a sword. For
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  Speaker 1: 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
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  Speaker 1: her mother in law. A man's enemies will be the
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  Speaker 1: members of his household. Anyone who loves their father or
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  Speaker 1: mother more than me is not worthy of me. Anyone
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  Speaker 1: who loves their son or daughter more than me is
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  Speaker 1: not worthy of me. Whoever does not take up their
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  Speaker 1: cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever
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  Speaker 1: finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their
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  Speaker 1: life for my sake will find it. Anyone who welcomes
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  Speaker 1: you welcomes me, and anyone who welcomes me welcomes the
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  Speaker 1: one who sent me. Whoever welcomes a prophet as a
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  Speaker 1: prophet will receive a prophet's reward. And whoever welcomes a
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  Speaker 1: righteous person as a righteous person will receive a righteous
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  Speaker 1: person's reward. And if anyone gives even a cup of
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  Speaker 1: cold water to one of these little ones, who is
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  Speaker 1: my disciple, truly, I tell you that person will certainly
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  Speaker 1: not lose their reward. Matthew chapter eleven. After Jesus had
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  Speaker 1: finished and struck his twelve disciples, he went on from
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  Speaker 1: there to teach and preach in the towns of Galilee.
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  Speaker 1: When John, who was in prison, heard about the deeds
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  Speaker 1: of the Messiah, he sent his disciples to ask him,
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  Speaker 1: are you the one who is to come? Or should
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  Speaker 1: we expect someone else? Jesus replied, go back and report
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  Speaker 1: to John what you hear, and see the blind receive sight,
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  Speaker 1: the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cleansed the deaf.
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  Speaker 1: Here the dead are raised, and the good news is
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  Speaker 1: proclaimed to the poor. Blessed is anyone who does not
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  Speaker 1: stumble on account of me. As John's disciples were leaving,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus began to speak to the crowd about John. What
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  Speaker 1: did you go out into the wilderness to see? Or
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  Speaker 1: reed swayed by the wind? If not, what did you
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  Speaker 1: go out to see a man dressed in find clothes. No,
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  Speaker 1: those who wear fine clothes are in king's palaces. Then
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  Speaker 1: what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I tell you, and more than a prophet, this is
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  Speaker 1: the one about whom it is written. I will send
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  Speaker 1: my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way
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  Speaker 1: before you. Truly, I tell you, among those born of women,
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  Speaker 1: there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist.
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  Speaker 1: Yet whoever is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is
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  Speaker 1: greater than he. From the days of John the Baptist
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  Speaker 1: until now the Kingdom of Heaven has been subjected to violence,
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  Speaker 1: and violent people have been rating it. For all the
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  Speaker 1: prophets in the law prophesied until John. And if you
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  Speaker 1: are willing to accept it, he is the Elijah who
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  Speaker 1: was to come. Whoever has ears, let them hear to
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  Speaker 1: What can I compare this generation? They are like children
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  Speaker 1: sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to others. We
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  Speaker 1: played the pipe for you and you did not dance.
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  Speaker 1: We sang a dirsh and you did not mourn. For
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  Speaker 1: John came neither eating nor drinking, And they say he
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  Speaker 1: has a demon, the son of Man came eating and drinking,
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  Speaker 1: and they say, here is a glutton and a drunkard,
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  Speaker 1: a friend of tax collectors and sinners. But wisdom is
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  Speaker 1: proved right by her deeds. Then Jesus began to denounce
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  Speaker 1: the towns in which most of his miracles had been
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  Speaker 1: performed because they did not repent. Woe to you Toizin.
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  Speaker 1: Woe to you that Sayida, For if the miracles there
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  Speaker 1: were performed in you had been performed entire and sidon,
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  Speaker 1: they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
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  Speaker 1: But I tell you it will be more. No are
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  Speaker 1: bearable for attire and Sidon on the day of judgment
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  Speaker 1: than for you. And you Copernaium. Will you be lifted
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  Speaker 1: 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.
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  Speaker 1: But I tell you that it will be more bearable
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  Speaker 1: for Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.
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  Speaker 1: At that time, Jesus said, I praise you, Father, Lord
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  Speaker 1: of Heaven and Earth, because you have hidden these things
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  Speaker 1: from the wise and learned and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father,
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  Speaker 1: for this is what you were pleased to do. All
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  Speaker 1: things have been committed to me by my father. No
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  Speaker 1: one knows the son except the father, and no one
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  Speaker 1: knows the father except the son, and those to whom
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  Speaker 1: the son chooses to reveal him. Come to me, all
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  Speaker 1: you who are weary and burdened, and I will give
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  Speaker 1: you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me,
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  Speaker 1: for I am gentle and humble at heart, and you
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  Speaker 1: will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is
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  Speaker 1: easy and my burden is light Matthew chapter twelve. At
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  Speaker 1: that time, Jesus went through the grain fields on the Sabbath.
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  Speaker 1: His disciples were hungry and began to pick some heads
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  Speaker 1: of grain and eat them. When the Pharisees saw this,
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  Speaker 1: they said to him, look, your disciples are doing what
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  Speaker 1: is unlawful on the Sabbath. He answered, haven't you read
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  Speaker 1: what David did when he and his companions were hungry.
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  Speaker 1: He entered the House of God, and he and his
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  Speaker 1: companions ate the consecrated bread, which was not lawful for
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  Speaker 1: them to do, but only for the priests. Or haven't
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  Speaker 1: you read in the law that the priests on Sabbath
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  Speaker 1: duty and the temple, desecrate the Sabbath. And yet, innocent,
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  Speaker 1: I tell you that something greater than the temple is here.
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  Speaker 1: If you had known what these words mean, I desire mercy,
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  Speaker 1: not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the innocent, for
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  Speaker 1: the son of Man is lord of the Sabbath. Going
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  Speaker 1: on from that place, he went into their synagogue, and
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  Speaker 1: a man with the shriveled hand was there, looking for
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  Speaker 1: a reason to bring charges against Jesus. They asked him,
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  Speaker 1: is it lawful to heal on the sabbath? He said
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  Speaker 1: to them, if any of you has a sheep, and
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  Speaker 1: it falls into a pit on the sabbath, will you
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  Speaker 1: not take hold of it and lift it out? How
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  Speaker 1: much more valuable is a person than a sheep. Therefore
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  Speaker 1: it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath. Then
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  Speaker 1: he said to the man, stretch out your hand. So
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  Speaker 1: he stretched it out, and it was completely restored, just
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  Speaker 1: as sound as the other. But the pharisees went out
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  Speaker 1: and plotted how they might kill Jesus. Aware of this,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus withdrew from that place. A large crowd followed him,
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  Speaker 1: and he healed all who were ill. He warned them
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  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,
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  Speaker 1: whom I have chosen, that when I love in whom
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  Speaker 1: I delight, I will put my spirit on him, and
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  Speaker 1: he will proclaim justice to the nations. He will not
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  Speaker 1: quarrel or cry out. No one will hear his voice
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  Speaker 1: in the streets. A bruised reed he will not break,
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  Speaker 1: and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out. Till
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  Speaker 1: he has brought justice through to victory. In his name,
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  Speaker 1: the nations will put their hope. Then they brought him
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  Speaker 1: a demon possessed man who was blind and mute, and
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  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
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  Speaker 1: the son of David? But when the Pharisee heard this,
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  Speaker 1: they said, it is only by beelsible, the prince of demons,
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  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
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  Speaker 1: be ruined, and every city or household divided against itself
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  Speaker 1: will not stand. If Satan drives out Satan, he is
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  Speaker 1: divided against himself how then can his kingdom stand? And
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  Speaker 1: if I drive out demons by beelsible, by whom do
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  Speaker 1: your people drive them out? So then they will be
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  Speaker 1: your judges. But if it is by the Spirit of
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  Speaker 1: God that I drive out demons, then the kingdom of
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  Speaker 1: God has come upon you. Or again, how can anyone
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  Speaker 1: enter a strong man's house and carry off his possessions
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  Speaker 1: unless he first ties up the strong man, then he
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  Speaker 1: can plunder his house. Whoever is not with me is
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  Speaker 1: against me, And whoever does not gather with me scatters.
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  Speaker 1: And so I tell you every kind of sin and
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  Speaker 1: slander can be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will
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  Speaker 1: not be forgiven. Anyone who speaks a word against the
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  Speaker 1: Son of Man will be forgiven, But anyone who speaks
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  Speaker 1: against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in
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  Speaker 1: this age or in the age to come. Make a
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  Speaker 1: tree good and its fruit will be good, or make
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  Speaker 1: a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, For
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  Speaker 1: a tree is recognized by its fruit. You brood of vipers,
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  Speaker 1: How can you who are evil say anything good? For
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  Speaker 1: the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. A
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  Speaker 1: good man brings good things out of the goods stored
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  Speaker 1: up in him, and an evil man brings evil things
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  Speaker 1: out of the evil stored up in him. But I
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  Speaker 1: tell you that everyone will have to give a count
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  Speaker 1: on the day of judgment for every empty word they
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  Speaker 1: have spoken. For by your words you will be acquitted,
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  Speaker 1: and by your words you will be condemned. Then some
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: of the pharisee and teachers of the law said to him, Teacher,
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  Speaker 1: we want to see a sign from you. He answered,
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  Speaker 1: A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign. But
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  Speaker 1: none will be given it except the sign of the
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  Speaker 1: prophet Jonah. For as Yonah was three days and three
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  Speaker 1: nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the
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  Speaker 1: son of Man will be three days and three nights
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  Speaker 1: in the heart of the earth. The men of Nineveh
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  Speaker 1: will stand up at the judgment with this generation and
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  Speaker 1: condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah,
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  Speaker 1: and now something greater than Jonah is here. The Queen
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  Speaker 1: of the South will rise at the judgment with this
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  Speaker 1: generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends
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  Speaker 1: of the earth to listen to Solomon's wisdom, and now
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  Speaker 1: something greater than Solomon is here. When an impure spirit
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  Speaker 1: comes out of a person. It goes through arid places
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  Speaker 1: seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says,
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  Speaker 1: I will return to the house I left. Rives, it
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  Speaker 1: finds the house unoccupied, swept clean, and put in order.
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  Speaker 1: Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits,
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  Speaker 1: more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there.
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  Speaker 1: And the final condition of that person is worse than
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  Speaker 1: the first. That is how it will be with this
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  Speaker 1: wicked generation. While Jesus was still talking to the crowd,
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  Speaker 1: his mother and brothers stood outside wanting to speak to him.
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  Speaker 1: Someone told him, your mother and brothers are standing outside
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  Speaker 1: wanting to speak to you. He replied to him, who
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  Speaker 1: is my mother? And who are my brothers? Pointing to
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  Speaker 1: his disciples, he said, here are my mother and my brothers.
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  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 around 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: ate it up. Some fell on rocky places where it
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  Speaker 1: did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly because
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  Speaker 1: the soil was shallow. But when the sun came up,
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  Speaker 1: the plants were scorched and they withered because they had
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  Speaker 1: no root. Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up
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  Speaker 1: and choked the plants. Still other seed fell on good soil,
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  Speaker 1: where it produced a crop one hundred, sixty or thirty
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  Speaker 1: times what was sown. Whoever has ears, let them hear.
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  Speaker 1: The disciples came to him and asked, why do you
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  Speaker 1: speak to the people and arribles. He replied, because the
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  Speaker 1: knowledge of the secrets of the Kingdom of Heaven has
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  Speaker 1: been given to you, but not to them. Whoever has
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  Speaker 1: will be given more, and they will have in abundance.
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  Speaker 1: Whoever does not have, even what they have will be
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  Speaker 1: taken from them. This is why I speak to them
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  Speaker 1: in parables. Though seeing they do not see, though hearing
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  Speaker 1: they do not hear, or understand. In them has fulfilled
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  Speaker 1: the prophecy of Isaiah. You will be ever hearing, but
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  Speaker 1: never understanding. You will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
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  Speaker 1: For this people's heart has become calloused. They hardly hear
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  Speaker 1: with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise
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  Speaker 1: they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears,
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  Speaker 1: understand what their hearts in turn, and I would heal them.
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  Speaker 1: But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your
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  Speaker 1: ears because they hear. For truly, I tell you many
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  Speaker 1: prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see,
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  Speaker 1: but did not see it, and to hear what you hear,
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  Speaker 1: but did not hear it. Listen, then, to what the
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  Speaker 1: parable of the sower means. When anyone hears the message
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  Speaker 1: about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil
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  Speaker 1: one comes and snatches away what was sown in their heart.
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  Speaker 1: This is the seed sown along the path. The seed
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  Speaker 1: falling on rocky ground refers to someone who hears the
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  Speaker 1: word and at once receives it with joy, But since
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  Speaker 1: they have no root, they last only a short time.
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  Speaker 1: When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they
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  Speaker 1: quickly fall away. The seed falling among the thorns refers
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  Speaker 1: to someone who hears the word, but the worries of
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  Speaker 1: this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word 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 field, 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 weeds sprouted and formed heads,
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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 are pulling the weeds, you may uproot
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  Speaker 1: the word wheat with them. Let both grow together until
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  Speaker 1: the harvest. At that time, I will tell the harvesters,
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  Speaker 1: first collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to
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  Speaker 1: be burned. Then gather the wheat and bring it into
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  Speaker 1: my barn. He told them another parable, the Kingdom of
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  Speaker 1: Heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took
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  Speaker 1: and planted in his field, though it is the smallest
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  Speaker 1: of all seeds, Yet when it grows, it is the
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  Speaker 1: largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that
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  Speaker 1: the birds come and perch in its branches. He told
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  Speaker 1: them still another parable. The Kingdom of Heaven is like
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  Speaker 1: yeast that a woman took and mixed into about sixty
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  Speaker 1: pounds of flour, until it worked all through the dough.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus spoke all these things to the crowd and parables.
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  Speaker 1: He did not say anything to them without using a parable.
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  Speaker 1: So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet, I
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  Speaker 1: will open my mouth, and parables, I will utter things
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  Speaker 1: hidden since the creation of the world. Then he left
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  Speaker 1: the crowd and went into the house. His disciples came
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  Speaker 1: to him and said, explain to us the parable of
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  Speaker 1: the weeds in the field. He answered, the one who
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  Speaker 1: sowed the good seed is the son of Man. The
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  Speaker 1: field is the world, and the good seed stands for
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  Speaker 1: the people of the kingdom. The weeds are the people
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  Speaker 1: of the evil one, and the enemy who sows them
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age,
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  Speaker 1: and the harvesters are angels, as the weeds are pulled
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  Speaker 1: up and burned in the fire. So it will be
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the age. The son of Man
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: will send out his angels. They will weed out of
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: his kingdom everything that causes sin, and all who do evil.
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  Speaker 1: They will throw them into the blazing furnace, where there
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  Speaker 1: will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: will shine like the sun and the kingdom of their father.
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  Speaker 1: Whoever has ears, let them hear. The Kingdom of Heaven
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  Speaker 1: is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: found it, he hid it again, and then, in his joy,
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: went and sold all he had and bought that field again.
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  Speaker 1: The Kingdom of Heaven is like a merchant looking for
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: fine pearls. When he found one of great value, he
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: went away and sold everything he had and bought it
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: once again. The Kingdom of Heaven is like a net
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  Speaker 1: that was let down into the lake and caught all
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: kinds of fish. When it was full, the fishermen pulled
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: it up on the shore. Then they sat down and
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: collected the good fish in baskets, but threw the bad away.
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  Speaker 1: This is how it will be at the end of
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: the age. The angels will come and separate the wicked
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  Speaker 1: from the righteous, and throw them into the blazing furnace,
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Have
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: you understood all these things? Jesus asked, yes, they replied.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: He said to them, therefore, every teacher of the law
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  Speaker 1: who has become a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven
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  Speaker 1: is like the owner of a house who brings out
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: of his storeroom new treasures as well as old. When
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: Jesus had finished these parables, he moved on from there,
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: coming to his home town. He began teaching the people
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: in their synagogue, and they were amazed. Where did this
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers? They asked,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: isn't this the carpenter's son. Isn't his mother's name Mary?
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  Speaker 1: And aren't his brothers James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas aren't
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: all his sisters with us? Where then did this man
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: get all these things? And they took offense at him.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: But Jesus said to them, a prophet is not without
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  Speaker 1: honor except in his own town and in his own home.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: And he did not do many miracles there because of
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  Speaker 1: their lack of faith. Matthew chapter fourteen. At that time,
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  Speaker 1: Herod the Tetrarch heard the reports about Jesus, and he
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  Speaker 1: said to his attendants, this is John the Baptist. He
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  Speaker 1: has risen from the dead. That is why miraculous powers
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  Speaker 1: are at work in him. Now Herod had arrested John
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  Speaker 1: and bound him and put him in prison. Because of Herodias,
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  Speaker 1: his brother, Philip's wife, for John had been saying to him,
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  Speaker 1: it is not lawful for you to have her. Herod
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  Speaker 1: wanted to kill John, but he was afraid of the
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  Speaker 1: people because they considered John a prophet. On Herod's birthday,
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  Speaker 1: the daughter of Herodias danced for the guests and pleased
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  Speaker 1: Herod so much that he promised with an oath to
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  Speaker 1: give her whatever she asked. Prompted by her mother, she said,
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  Speaker 1: give me here on a platter, the head of John
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  Speaker 1: the Baptist. The king was distressed, but because of his
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  Speaker 1: oaths and his dinner guests, he ordered that her request
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  Speaker 1: be granted and had John beheaded in the prison. His
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  Speaker 1: head was brought in on a platter and given to
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  Speaker 1: the girl, who carried it to her mother. John's disciples
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  Speaker 1: came and took his body and buried it. Then they
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  Speaker 1: went and told Jesus. When Jesus heard what had happened,
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  Speaker 1: he withdrew by boat privately to a solitary place. Hearing
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  Speaker 1: of this, the crowds followed him on foot from the towns.
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  Speaker 1: When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had
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  Speaker 1: compassion on them and healed their sick As evening approached,
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  Speaker 1: the disciples came to him and said, this is a
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  Speaker 1: remote place and it's already getting late. Send the crowds
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  Speaker 1: so they can go to the villages and buy themselves
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  Speaker 1: some food. Jesus replied, they do not need to go away.
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  Speaker 1: You give them something to eat. We have here only
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  Speaker 1: five loaves of bread and two fish, they answered. Bring
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  Speaker 1: them here to me, he said, and he directed the
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  Speaker 1: people to sit down on the grass. Taking the five
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  Speaker 1: loaves and the two fish, and looking up to Heaven,
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  Speaker 1: he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave
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  Speaker 1: them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to
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  Speaker 1: the people. They all ate and were satisfied, and the
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  Speaker 1: disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were
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  Speaker 1: left over. The number of those who ate was about
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  Speaker 1: five thousand men, besides women and children. Immediately, Jesus made
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  Speaker 1: the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead
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  Speaker 1: of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowd.
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  Speaker 1: After he had dismissed them, he went up on a
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  Speaker 1: mountain side by himself to pray. Later that night, he
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  Speaker 1: was there alone, and the boat was already a considerable
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  Speaker 1: distance from land, buffeted by the waves because the wind
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  Speaker 1: was against it. Shortly before dawn, Jesus went out to
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  Speaker 1: them walking on the lake. When the disciples saw him
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  Speaker 1: walking on the lake, they were terrified. It's a ghost,
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: they said, and cried out in fear. But Jesus immediately
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  Speaker 1: said to them, take courage it is I. Don't be
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  Speaker 1: afraid Lord, if it's you, Peter replied, tell me to
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  Speaker 1: come to you on the water. Come, he said. Then
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  Speaker 1: Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the
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  Speaker 1: water and came toward Jesus. But when he saw the wind,
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: he was afraid and beginning to sink. Cried out, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: save me. Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him.
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  Speaker 1: You of little faith, he said, why did you doubt?
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  Speaker 1: And when they climbed into the boat, the wind died down.
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  Speaker 1: Then those who were in the boat worshiped him, saying, truly,
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  Speaker 1: you are the son of God. When they had crossed over,
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  Speaker 1: they landed in Genessaret, and when the men of that
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  Speaker 1: place recognized Jesus, they sent word to all the surrounding country.
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  Speaker 1: People brought all their sick to him and begged him
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  Speaker 1: to let the sick just touch the edge of his cloak,
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  Speaker 1: and all who touched it were healed. Matthew chapter fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: Then some pharisees and teachers of the law came to
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  Speaker 1: Jesus from Jerusalem and asked, why do your disciples break
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  Speaker 1: the tradition of the elders. They don't wash their hands
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  Speaker 1: before they eat. Jesus replied, and why do you break
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  Speaker 1: the command of God for the sake of your tradition?
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  Speaker 1: For God said, honor your father and mother, and anyone
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  Speaker 1: who curses their father or mother is to be put
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  Speaker 1: to death. But you say that if anyone declares that
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  Speaker 1: what might have been used to help their father or
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  Speaker 1: mother is devoted to God, they are not to honor
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  Speaker 1: their father or mother with it. Thus you nullify the
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  Speaker 1: word of God for the sake of your tradition. You hypocrites.
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you. These people
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  Speaker 1: honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far
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  Speaker 1: from me. They worship me in vain. Their teachings are
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  Speaker 1: merely human rules. Jesus called the crowd to him and said,
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  Speaker 1: listen and understand. What goes into someone's mouth does not
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  Speaker 1: defile them. But what comes out of their mouth, that
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  Speaker 1: is what defiles them. Then the disciples came to him
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  Speaker 1: and asked, do you know that the Pharisees were offended
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  Speaker 1: when they heard this. He replied, Every plant that my
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: heavenly fother has not planted will be pulled up by
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  Speaker 1: the roots. Leave them. They are blind guides. If the
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  Speaker 1: blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.
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  Speaker 1: Peter said, explain the parable to us. Are you still
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  Speaker 1: so dull? Jesus asked them, don't you see that whatever
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  Speaker 1: enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out
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  Speaker 1: of the body. But the things that come out of
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  Speaker 1: a person's mouth come from the heart, and these that
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  Speaker 1: file them. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery,
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  Speaker 1: sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. These are what defile
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  Speaker 1: a person. But eating with unwashed hands does not defile them.
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  Speaker 1: Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the region of tire
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  Speaker 1: and Sidon. A Cannonite woman from that vicinity came to him,
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  Speaker 1: crying out, Lord, son of David, have mercy on me.
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  Speaker 1: My daughter is demon zest and suffering terribly. Jesus did
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  Speaker 1: not answer a word, so his disciples came to him
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  Speaker 1: and urged him. Sent her away, for she keeps crying
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  Speaker 1: out after us. He answered, I was sent only to
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  Speaker 1: the lost sheep of Israel. The woman came and knelt
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  Speaker 1: before him, Lord, help me, she said. He replied, it
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  Speaker 1: is not right to take the children's bread and toss
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  Speaker 1: it to the dogs. Yes it is, Lord, she said,
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  Speaker 1: even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their
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  Speaker 1: master's table. Then Jesus said to her, woman, you have
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  Speaker 1: great faith. Your request is granted, and her daughter was healed.
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  Speaker 1: At that moment. Jesus left there and went along the
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  Speaker 1: Sea of Galante. Then he went up on a mountain
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  Speaker 1: side and sat down. Great crowds came to him, bringing
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others,
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  Speaker 1: and laid them at his and he healed them. The
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  Speaker 1: people were amazed when they saw the mute speaking, the
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  Speaker 1: crippled made well, the lame walking, and the blind seeing,
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: and they praised the God of Israel. Jesus called his
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  Speaker 1: disciples to him and said, I have compassion for these people.
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  Speaker 1: They have already been with me three days and have
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  Speaker 1: nothing to eat. I do not want to send them
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  Speaker 1: away hungry, or they may collapse on the way. His
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  Speaker 1: disciples answered, where could we get enough bread in this
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: remote place to feed such a crowd. How many loaves
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  Speaker 1: do you have, Jesus asked, seven, they replied, and a
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  Speaker 1: few small fish. He told the crowd to sit down
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  Speaker 1: on the ground. Then he took the seven loaves and
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: the fish, and when he had given thanks, he broke
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: them and gave them to the disciples, and they in
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  Speaker 1: turned to the people. They all ate and were satisfied. Afterwards,
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: the disciples picked up seven basketfuls of broken pieces that
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  Speaker 1: were left over. The number of those who ate was
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  Speaker 1: four thousand men, besides women and children. After Jesus had
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  Speaker 1: sent the crowd away, he got into the boat and
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  Speaker 1: went to the vicinity of Magadin. Matthew chapter sixteen. The
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  Speaker 1: Pharisees and Sadducees came to Jesus and tested him by
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: asking him to show them a sign from heaven. He replied,
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  Speaker 1: when evening comes, you say it will be fair weather,
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  Speaker 1: for the sky is red, and in the morning, today
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  Speaker 1: it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.
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  Speaker 1: You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky,
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  Speaker 1: but you cannot interpret the signs of the times. A
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  Speaker 1: wicked and adulterous generation looks for a sign, but none
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  Speaker 1: will be given in except the sign of Jonah. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: then left them and went away. When they went across
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  Speaker 1: the lake, the disciples forgot to take bread. Be careful,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said to them, be on your guard against the
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  Speaker 1: yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees. They discussed this among
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  Speaker 1: themselves and said it is because we didn't bring any bread.
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  Speaker 1: Aware of their discussion, Jesus asked, you of little faith,
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  Speaker 1: why are you talking among yourselves about having no bread?
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  Speaker 1: Do you still not understand? Don't you remember the five
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  Speaker 1: loaves for the five thousand and how many basketfuls you gathered,
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  Speaker 1: or the seven loaves for the four thousand and how
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  Speaker 1: many basketfuls you gathered, how is it you don't understand
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  Speaker 1: that I was not talking to you about bread, but
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  Speaker 1: be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees
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  Speaker 1: and Sadducees. Then they understood that he was not telling
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: them to guard against the yeast used in bread, but
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees. When Jesus
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  Speaker 1: came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples,
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: who do people say the son of Man is? They replied,
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and still
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: others Jeremiah or one of the prophets. But what about you,
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: He asked, who do you say I am Simon. Peter answered,
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  Speaker 1: you are the Messiah, the son of the Living God.
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: Jesus replied, blessed are you, Simon, son of Jonah. For
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood,
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: but by my Father in Heaven. And I tell you
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: that you are Peter, and on this rock I will
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  Speaker 1: build my church, and the gates of Hades will not
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: overcome it. I will give you the keys of the
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: Kingdom of Heaven. Whatever you mind on earth will be
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: be loosed in heaven. Then he ordered his disciples not
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: to tell anyone that he was the man Siah. From
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  Speaker 1: that time on, Jesus began to explain to his disciples
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: at the hands of the elders, the chief priests, and
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: the teachers of the law, and that he must be
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  Speaker 1: killed and on the third day be raised to life.
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. Never Lord,
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: he said, this shall never happen to you. Jesus turned
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: and said to Peter, get behind me, Satan. You are
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: a stumbling block to me. You do not have in
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns. Then
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: Jesus said to his disciples, whoever wants to be my
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and
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  Speaker 1: follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: lose it. But whoever loses their life for me will
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  Speaker 1: find it. What good will it be for someone to
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  Speaker 1: gain the whole world yet forfeit their soul, Or what
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  Speaker 1: can anyone give in exchange for their soul? For the
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: Son of Man is going to come in his father's
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  Speaker 1: glory with his angels, and then he will reward each
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  Speaker 1: person according to what they have done. Truly, I tell you,
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  Speaker 1: some who are standing here will not taste death before
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  Speaker 1: they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom. Matthew,
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  Speaker 1: chapter seventeen. After six days, Jesus took with him Peter, James,
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  Speaker 1: and John, the brother of James, and led them up
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  Speaker 1: a high mountain by themselves. There he was transfigured before them.
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  Speaker 1: His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became
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  Speaker 1: as white as the light. Just then there appeared before
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: them Moses and Elijah. Talking with Jesus. Peter said to Jesus, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: it is good for us to be here. If you wish,
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: I will put up three shelters, one for you, one
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: for Moses, and one for a life. While he was
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: still speaking, a bright cloud covered them, and a voice
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: from the cloud said, this is my son, whom I love.
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  Speaker 1: With him, I am well pleased listen to him. When
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  Speaker 1: the disciples heard this, they fell face down to the ground, terrified,
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: But Jesus came and touched them. Get up. He said,
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  Speaker 1: don't be afraid. When they looked up they saw no
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  Speaker 1: one except Jesus. As they were coming down the mountain,
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: Jesus instructed them, don't tell anyone what you have seen
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: until the Son of Man has been raised from the dead.
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: The disciples asked him, why then, do the teachers of
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: the law say that Elijah must come first. Jesus replied,
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: to be sure, Elijah comes and will restore all things.
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: But I tell you Elijah has already come, and they
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: did not recognize him, but have done to him everything
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: they wished. In the same way, the Son of Man
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: is going to suffer at their hands. Then the disciples
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  Speaker 1: understood that he was talking to them about John the Baptist.
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: When they came to the crowd, a man approached Jesus
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  Speaker 1: and knelt before him. Lord, have mercy on my son.
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: He said, he has seizures and is suffering greatly. He
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: often falls into the fire or into the water. I
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  Speaker 1: brought him to your disciples, but they could not heal him. You,
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: unbelieving in perverse generation, Jesus replied, how long shall I
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: stay with you? How long shall I put up with you?
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  Speaker 1: Bring the boy here to me. Jesus rebuked the demon,
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: and it came out of the boy, and he was
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: healed at that moment. Then the disciples came to Jesus
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  Speaker 1: in private and asked, why couldn't we drive it out.
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: He replied, because you have so little faith. Truly, I
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  Speaker 1: tell you, if you have faith as small as mustard seed,
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  Speaker 1: you can say to this mountain, move from here to there,
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  Speaker 1: and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.
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  Speaker 1: When they came together in Galilee, he said to them,
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  Speaker 1: the son of Man is going to be delivered into
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: the hands of men. They will kill him, and on
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  Speaker 1: the third day he will be raised to life. And
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: the disciples were filled with grief. After Jesus and his
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: disciples arrived at Capernaum, the collectors of the two drachma
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: temple tax came to Peter and asked, doesn't your teacher
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: pay the temple tax? Yes, he does, he replied. When
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: Peter came into the house, Jesus was the first to speak,
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  Speaker 1: What do you think, Simon? He asked, from whom do
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  Speaker 1: the kings of the earth collect duty and taxes from
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  Speaker 1: their own children or from others? From others? Peter answered,
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: then the children are exempt, Jesus said to him, But
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  Speaker 1: so that we may not cause offence. Go to the
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  Speaker 1: lake and throw out your line. Take the first fish
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  Speaker 1: you catch, open its mouth, and you will find a
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  Speaker 1: four drachma coin. Take it and give it to them
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  Speaker 1: for my tax and yours Matthew chapter eighteen. At that time,
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  Speaker 1: the disciples came to Jesus and asked, who then is
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: the greatest in the Kingdom of heaven. He called a
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: little child to him and placed the child among them,
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: and he said, truly, I tell you, unless you change
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: and become like little children, you will never enter the
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: Kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of
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  Speaker 1: this child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.
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  Speaker 1: And whoever welcomes one such child, and my name welcomes me.
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  Speaker 1: If anyone causes one of these little ones, those who
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: believe in me to stumble, it would be better for
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: them to have a large millstone hung around their neck
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  Speaker 1: and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.
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  Speaker 1: Woe to the world because of the things that cause
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  Speaker 1: people to stumble. Such things must come, but woe to
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  Speaker 1: the person through whom they come. If your hand or
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  Speaker 1: your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and
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  Speaker 1: throw it away. It is better for you to enter
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or
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  Speaker 1: two feet and to be thrown into eternal fire. And
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  Speaker 1: if your eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out
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  Speaker 1: and throw it away. It is better for you to
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  Speaker 1: enter life with one eye than to have two eyes
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  Speaker 1: and be thrown into the fire of hell. See that
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  Speaker 1: you do not despise one of these little ones, for
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 1: I tell you that their angels in heaven always see
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: the face of my father in heaven. What do you
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: think if a man owns a hundred sheep and one
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety
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  Speaker 1: nine on the hills and go to look for the
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  Speaker 1: one that wandered off? And if he finds it, Truly,
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: I tell you, he is happier about that one sheep
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  Speaker 1: than about the ninety nine that did not wander off.
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  Speaker 1: In the same way, your father in heaven is not
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  Speaker 1: willing that any of these little ones should perish. If
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  Speaker 1: your brother or sister sins go and point out their
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  Speaker 1: fault just between the two of you, if they listen
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  Speaker 1: to you, you have won them over. But if they
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  Speaker 1: will not listen, take one or two others along, so
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  Speaker 1: that every matter may be established by the testimony of
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  Speaker 1: two or three witnesses. If they still refuse to listen,
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  Speaker 1: tell it to the church. And if they refuse to
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  Speaker 1: listen even to the Church, treat them as you would
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  Speaker 1: a pagan or a tax collector. Truly, I tell you,
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  Speaker 1: whatever you mind on earth will be bound in heaven,
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  Speaker 1: and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. Again, Truly,
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  Speaker 1: I tell you that if two of you on earth
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  Speaker 1: agree about anything they ask for, it will be done
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  Speaker 1: for them by my Father in Heaven. For where two
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  Speaker 1: or three gather in my name, there am I with them.
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  Speaker 1: And then Peter came to Jesus and asked, Lord, how
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  Speaker 1: many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who
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  Speaker 1: sins against me? Up to seven times? Jesus answered, I
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  Speaker 1: tell you not seven times, but seventy seven times. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: the Kingdom of Heaven is like a king who wanted
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  Speaker 1: to settle accounts with his servants. As he began the settlement,
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  Speaker 1: a man who owed him ten thousand bags of gold
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  Speaker 1: was brought to him. Since he was not able to pay,
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  Speaker 1: the master ordered that he and his wife and his
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  Speaker 1: children and all that he had be sold to repay
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  Speaker 1: the debt. At this, the servant fell on his knees
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  Speaker 1: before him. Be patient with me, he begged, and I
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  Speaker 1: will pay back everything. The servant's master took pity on him,
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  Speaker 1: canceled the debt and let him go. But when that
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  Speaker 1: servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants
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  Speaker 1: who owed him a hundred silver coins. He grabbed him
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  Speaker 1: and began to choke him. Pack what you owe me,
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  Speaker 1: he demanded. His fellow servant fell to his knees and
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  Speaker 1: begged him be patient with me, and I will pay
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  Speaker 1: it back. But he refused. Instead, he went off and
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  Speaker 1: had the man thrown into prison until he could pay
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  Speaker 1: the debt. When the other servants saw what had happened,
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  Speaker 1: they were outraged and went and told their master everything
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  Speaker 1: that had happened. Then the master called the servant in You,
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  Speaker 1: wicked servant, He said, I canceled all that debt of
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  Speaker 1: yours because you begged me to. Shouldn't you have had
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  Speaker 1: mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you.
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  Speaker 1: In anger, his master handed him over to the jailers
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  Speaker 1: to be tortured until he should pay back all he owed.
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  Speaker 1: This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of
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  Speaker 1: you unless you forgive your brother or sister from your
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  Speaker 1: heart Matthew, chapter nineteen. When Jesus had finished saying these things,
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  Speaker 1: he left Galilee and went into the region of Judea,
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  Speaker 1: to the other side of the Jordan. Large crowds followed him,
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  Speaker 1: and he healed them. There, some pharisees came to him
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  Speaker 1: to test him. They asked, is it lawful for man
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  Speaker 1: to divorce his wife for any end? Every reason? Haven't
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  Speaker 1: you read? He replied that at the beginning, the Creator
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  Speaker 1: made the male and female, and said, for this reason,
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  Speaker 1: a man will leave his father and mother and united
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  Speaker 1: to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.
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  Speaker 1: So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: what God has joined together, let no one separate. Why, then,
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  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 anyone who divorces his wife except
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  Speaker 1: for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery. The
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  Speaker 1: disciples said to him, if this is the situation between
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  Speaker 1: a husband and wife, it is better not to marry.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus replied, not everyone can accept this word, but only
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  Speaker 1: those to whom it has been given. For there are
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  Speaker 1: eunuchs who were born that way, and there are eunuchs
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  Speaker 1: who have been made eunuchs by others, and there are
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  Speaker 1: those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake
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  Speaker 1: of the Kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept
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  Speaker 1: this should accept it. Then people brought little children to
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  Speaker 1: Jesus for him to place his hands on them and
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  Speaker 1: pray for them. But the disciples rebuke to them. Jesus said,
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  Speaker 1: let the little children come to me, and do not
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  Speaker 1: hinder them, for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to such
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  Speaker 1: as these. When he had placed his hands on them,
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  Speaker 1: he went to go on from there. Just then a
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  Speaker 1: man came up to Jesus and asked, Teacher, what good
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  Speaker 1: things must I do to get eternal life? Why do
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  Speaker 1: you ask me about what is good? Jesus replied, there
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  Speaker 1: is only one who is good. If you want to
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  Speaker 1: enter life, keep the commandments. Which ones he inquired? Jesus replied,
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  Speaker 1: you shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you
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  Speaker 1: shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony. Honor
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  Speaker 1: your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.
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  Speaker 1: All these I have kept. The young man said, what
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  Speaker 1: do I still lack? Jesus answered, if you want to
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  Speaker 1: be perfect, go sell your possessions and give to the poor,
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  Speaker 1: and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come follow me.
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  Speaker 1: When the young man heard this, he went away sad
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  Speaker 1: because he had great wealth. Then Jesus said to his disciples, truly,
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  Speaker 1: I tell you it is hard for someone who is
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  Speaker 1: rich to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Again, I tell you,
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  Speaker 1: it is easier for a camel to go through the
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  Speaker 1: eye of a needle than for someone who is rich
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  Speaker 1: to enter the Kingdom of God. When the disciples heard this,
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  Speaker 1: they 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. Matthew chapter twenty. For the
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  Speaker 1: Kingdom of Heaven is like a landowner who went out
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  Speaker 1: early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
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  Speaker 1: He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day
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  Speaker 1: and sent them into his vineyard. About nine in the morning,
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  Speaker 1: he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace
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  Speaker 1: doing nothing. He told them, you also go and work
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  Speaker 1: in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.
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  Speaker 1: So they went. He went out again about noon and
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  Speaker 1: about three in the afternoon and did the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: About five in the afternoon, he went out and found
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  Speaker 1: still others standing around. He asked them, why have you
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  Speaker 1: been standing here all day long doing nothing? Because no
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  Speaker 1: one has hired us. They answered. He said to them,
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  Speaker 1: you also go and work in my vineyard. When evening came,
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  Speaker 1: the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, call
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  Speaker 1: the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the
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  Speaker 1: last ones hired, and going on to the first. The
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  Speaker 1: workers who were hired about five in the afternoon came
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  Speaker 1: and each received a denarius. So when those came who
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  Speaker 1: were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each
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  Speaker 1: one of them also received a denarius. When they received it,
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  Speaker 1: they began to grumble against the landowner. These who were
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  Speaker 1: hired last worked only one hour, they said, and you
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  Speaker 1: have made them equal to us, who have borne the
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  Speaker 1: burden of the work and the heat of the day.
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  Speaker 1: But he answered one of them, I am not being
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  Speaker 1: unfair to you. Friend. Didn't you agree to work for
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 1: a denarius? Take your pay and go. I want to
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  Speaker 1: give the one who has hired last the same as
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 1: I gave you. Don't I have the right to do
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  Speaker 1: what I want with my own money? Or are you envious?
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  Speaker 1: Because I am generous. So the last will be the first,
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  Speaker 1: and the first will be the last. Now Jesus was
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  Speaker 1: going up to Jerusalem. On the way, he took the
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  Speaker 1: twelve aside and said to them, we are going up
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  Speaker 1: to Jerusalem, 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 to be mocked and flogged and crucified.
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  Speaker 1: On the third day he will be raised to life.
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  Speaker 1: Then the mother of Zebede's sons came to Jesus with
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  Speaker 1: her sons, and, kneeling down, asked a favor of him.
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  Speaker 1: What is it you want, he asked, She said, grant
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  Speaker 1: that one of these two sons of mine may sit
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  Speaker 1: at your right and the other at your left in
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: your kingdom. You don't know what you are asking. Jesus
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 1: said to them, can you drink the cup I am
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 1: going to drink? We can, they answered. Jesus said to them,
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  Speaker 1: you will indeed drink from my cup, 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
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  Speaker 1: prepared by my father. When the ten heard about this,
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  Speaker 1: they were indignant with the two brothers. Jesus called them
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  Speaker 1: together and said, you know that the rulers of the
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 1: Gentiles lorded over them, and their high officials exercised authority
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  Speaker 1: over them, not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to
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  Speaker 1: become great among you must be your servant, and whoever
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  Speaker 1: wants to be first, must be your slave, just as
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  Speaker 1: the Son of Man did not come to be served,
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  Speaker 1: but to serve, and to give his life as a
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 1: ransom for many. As Jesus and his disciples were leaving Jericho,
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 1: a large crowd followed him. Two blind men were sitting
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 1: by the roadside, and when they heard that Jesus was
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 1: going by, they shot it. Lord, son of David, have
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  Speaker 1: mercy on us. The row rebuked them and told them
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  Speaker 1: to be quiet, but they shouted all the louder, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: son of David, have mercy on us. Jesus stopped and
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 1: called them, what do you want me to do for you?
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  Speaker 1: He asked, Lord the answer, we want our sight. Jesus
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 1: had compassion on them and touched their eyes. Immediately, they
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  Speaker 1: received their sight and followed him Matthew chapter twenty one.
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  Speaker 1: As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethpage on the
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  Speaker 1: Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them,
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  Speaker 1: go to the village ahead of you, and at once
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  Speaker 1: you will find a donkey tied there with her colt
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  Speaker 1: by her Untie them and bring them to me. If
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  Speaker 1: anyone says anything to you, say that the Lord needs them,
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  Speaker 1: and he will send them right away. This took place
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  Speaker 1: to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet. Say to
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  Speaker 1: daughter Zion, see your king comes to you, gentle in
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  Speaker 1: riding on a donkey and on a colt the foal
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  Speaker 1: of a donkey. The disciples went and did as Jesus
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  Speaker 1: had instructed them. They brought the donkey and the colt
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  Speaker 1: and placed their cloaks on them for Jesus to sit on.
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  Speaker 1: A very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road,
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  Speaker 1: while others cut branches from the trees and spread them
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  Speaker 1: on the road. The crowds that went ahead of him
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  Speaker 1: and those that followed shouted, Hosanna to the son of David.
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  Speaker 1: Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: Hosanna in the highest heaven. When Jesus entered Jerusalem, the
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  Speaker 1: whole city was stirred and asked who is this. The
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  Speaker 1: crowds answered, this is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth. In Galilee,
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 1: Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who
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  Speaker 1: were buying and selling. There he overturned the tables of
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  Speaker 1: the money changers and the benches of those selling doves.
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  Speaker 1: It is written he said to them, my house will
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  Speaker 1: be called a house of prayer, but you are making
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  Speaker 1: it into a din of robbers. The blind and the
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  Speaker 1: lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them.
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: But when the chief priests and the teachers of the
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 1: law saw the wonderful things he did, and the children
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: shouting in the temple courts Hosanna to the son of David,
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 1: they were indignant. Do you hear what these children are saying?
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  Speaker 1: They asked him. Yes, replied Jesus, Have you never read
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  Speaker 1: from the lips of children and infants? You Lord have
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 1: called forth your praise. And he left them and went
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 1: out of the city to bethany where he spent the night.
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 1: Early in the morning, as Jesus was on his way
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 1: back to the city, he was hungry. Seeing a fig
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: tree by the road. He went up to it, but
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 1: found nothing on it except leaves. Then he said to it,
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  Speaker 1: may you never bear fruit again. Immediately the tree withered.
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 1: When the disciples saw this, they were amazed. How did
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  Speaker 1: the fig tree withers so quickly, they asked. Jesus replied, truly,
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 1: I tell you, if you have faith and do not doubt,
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  Speaker 1: not only can you do what was done to the
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 1: fig tree, but also you can say to this mountain,
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  Speaker 1: go throw yourself into the sea, and it will be done.
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  Speaker 1: If you believe, you'll receive whatever you ask for In prayer,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus entered the temple courts, and while he was teaching,
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: the chief priests and the elders of the people came
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  Speaker 1: to him. By what authority are you doing these things?
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 1: They asked, And who gave you this authority? Jesus replied,
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  Speaker 1: I will also ask you one question. If you answer me,
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  Speaker 1: I will tell you by what authority I am doing
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 1: these things. John's baptism, where did it come from? Was
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 1: it from heaven or of human origin? They discussed it
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  Speaker 1: among themselves and said, if we say from heaven, he
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  Speaker 1: will ask, then why didn't you believe him? But if
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 1: we say of human origin, we arefate of the people,
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  Speaker 1: for they all hold that John was a prophet. So
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  Speaker 1: they answered Jesus, we don't know. Then he said, neither
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  Speaker 1: will I tell you by what authority I am doing
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  Speaker 1: these things? What do you think There was a man
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  Speaker 1: who had two sons. He went to the first and said, son,
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  Speaker 1: go and work today in the vineyard. I will not,
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  Speaker 1: he answered, But later he changed his mind and went.
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 1: Then the father went to the other son and said
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  Speaker 1: the same thing. He answered, I will, sir, But he
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  Speaker 1: did not go. Which of the two did what his
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  Speaker 1: father wanted the first? They answered? Jesus said to them, truly,
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  Speaker 1: I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 1: entering the Kingdom of God ahead of you. For John
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 1: came to you to show you the way of righteousness,
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  Speaker 1: and you did not believe him. But the tax collectors
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 1: and the prostitutes did. And even after you saw this,
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  Speaker 1: you did not repent and believe him. Listen to another parable.
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  Speaker 1: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put
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  Speaker 1: a wall around it, dug a wine press in it,
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  Speaker 1: and built a watch tower. Then he rented the vineyard
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  Speaker 1: to some farmers and moved to another place. When the
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  Speaker 1: harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 1: to collect his fruit. The tenants seized his servants. They
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  Speaker 1: beat one, killed another, and stoned a third. Then he
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  Speaker 1: sent other servants to them. More than the first time,
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  Speaker 1: and the tenants treated them the same way. Last of all,
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  Speaker 1: he sent his son to them. They will respect my son,
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  Speaker 1: he said. But when the tenants saw the sun, they
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 1: said to each other, this is the heir. Come, Let's
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  Speaker 1: kill him and take his inheritance. So they took him
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 1: and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. Therefore,
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 1: when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 1: do to those tenants. He will bring those wretched to
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 1: a wretched end, they replied, And he will rent the
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  Speaker 1: vineyard to other tenants, who will give him his share
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 1: of the crop. At harvest time, Jesus said to them,
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 1: have you never read in the scriptures? The stone the
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  Speaker 1: builders rejected has become the cornerstone. The Lord has done this,
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  Speaker 1: and it is marvelous in our eyes. Therefore I tell
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  Speaker 1: you that the Kingdom of God will be taken away
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 1: from you and given to a people who will produce
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  Speaker 1: its fruit. Anyone who falls on this stone will be
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  Speaker 1: broken to pieces. Anyone on whom it falls will be crushed.
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 1: When the chief priests and the pharisees heard jesus parables,
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 1: they knew he was talking about them. They looked for
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 1: a way to arrest him, But they were afraid of
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 1: the crowd because the people held that he was a prophet.
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 1: Matthew chapter twenty two. Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying,
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 1: the Kingdom of Heaven is like a king who prepared
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 1: a wedding banquet for his son. He sent his servants
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 1: to those who had been invited to the banquet to
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 1: tell them to come, but they refused to come. Then
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 1: he sent some more servants and said, tell those who
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  Speaker 1: have been invited that I have prepared my dinner, my
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 1: oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready.
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  Speaker 1: Come to the wedding banquet. But they paid no attention
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  Speaker 1: and went off, one to his field, another to his business.
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 1: The rest seized his servants, mistreated them, and killed them.
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed
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  Speaker 1: those murderers and burned their city. Then he said to
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  Speaker 1: his servants, the wedding banquet is ready, but those I
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 1: invited did not deserve to come. So go to the
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  Speaker 1: street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 1: So the servants went out into the streets and gathered
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 1: all the people. They could find the bad as well
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  Speaker 1: as the good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.
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  Speaker 1: But when the king came in to see the guests,
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  Speaker 1: he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes.
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  Speaker 1: He asked, how did you get in here without wedding clothes? Friend?
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  Speaker 1: The man was speechless. Then the king told the attendants
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  Speaker 1: tie him hand and foot and throw him outside into
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  Speaker 1: the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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  Speaker 1: For many are invited, but few are chosen. Then the
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  Speaker 1: Pharisees went out and laid plans to trap him in
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  Speaker 1: his words. They sent their disciples to him, along with
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  Speaker 1: the Herodians teacher. They said, we know that you are
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  Speaker 1: a man of integrity and that you teach the way
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  Speaker 1: of God in accordance with the truth. You aren't swayed
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  Speaker 1: by others because you pay no attention to who they are.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us, then, what is your opinion? Is it right
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  Speaker 1: to pay the imperial tax to Caesar or not? But Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: knowing their evil intent, said you hypocrites, why are you
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  Speaker 1: trying to trap me? Show me the coin used for
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  Speaker 1: paying the tax. They brought him a denarius, and he
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  Speaker 1: asked them, whose image is this and whose inscription Caesar's?
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  Speaker 1: They replied. Then he said to them, so give back
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  Speaker 1: to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's.
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  Speaker 1: When they heard this, they were amazed, so they left
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  Speaker 1: him and went away. The same day, the Sadowsees, who
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  Speaker 1: say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question. Teacher,
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  Speaker 1: They said, Moses told us that if a man dies
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  Speaker 1: without having children, his brother must marry the widow and
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  Speaker 1: raise up offspring for him. Now there were seven brothers
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  Speaker 1: among us. The first one married and died, and since
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  Speaker 1: he had no children, he left his wife to his brother.
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  Speaker 1: The same thing happened to the second and third brother,
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  Speaker 1: right on down to the seventh. Finally the woman died. Now,
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  Speaker 1: then at the resurrection, whose wife will she be of
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  Speaker 1: the seven, since all of them were married to her.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus replied, you are in error because you do not
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  Speaker 1: know the scriptures or the power of God. At the resurrection,
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  Speaker 1: people will neither marry nor be given in marriage. They
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  Speaker 1: will be like angels in heaven. But about the resurrection
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  Speaker 1: of the dead, you have not read what God said
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  Speaker 1: to you. I am the God of Abraham, the god
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  Speaker 1: of Isaac and the god of Jacob. He is not
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  Speaker 1: the god of the dead, but of the living. When
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  Speaker 1: the crowds heard this, they were astonished at his teaching.
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  Speaker 1: Hearing that Jesus had silenced the sadow Sees, the Pharisees
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 1: got together. One of them, an expert in the law,
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  Speaker 1: tested him with this question, Teacher, which is the greatest
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  Speaker 1: commandment in the law? Jesus replied, 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 mind. This is the first and greatest commandment.
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  Speaker 1: And the second is like it, Love your neighbor as yourself.
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  Speaker 1: All the law and the prophets hang on these two commandments.
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  Speaker 1: While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, what
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  Speaker 1: do you think about the Messiah? Whose son is he?
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  Speaker 1: The son of David? They replied. He said to them,
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  Speaker 1: how is it then that David, speaking by the spirit,
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  Speaker 1: calls him Lord? For he says, the Lord said to
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  Speaker 1: my Lord, sit at my right hand until I put
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  Speaker 1: your enemies under your feet. If then David calls him Lord,
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  Speaker 1: how can he be his son? No one could say
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  Speaker 1: a word in reply, And from that day on, no
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  Speaker 1: one dared to ask him any more questions. Matthew chapter
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  Speaker 1: twenty three. Then Jesus said to the crowds and to
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  Speaker 1: his disciples, the teachers of the law and the pharise
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  Speaker 1: sit in Moses seat. So you must be careful to
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  Speaker 1: do everything they tell you. But do not do what
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  Speaker 1: they do, for they do not practice what they preach.
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  Speaker 1: They tie up heavy, cumbersome loads and put them on
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  Speaker 1: other people's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to
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  Speaker 1: lift a finger to move them. Everything they do is
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  Speaker 1: done for people to see. They make their philacteries wide,
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  Speaker 1: and the tassels on their garments lawn. They love the
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  Speaker 1: place of honor at banquets and the most important seats
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  Speaker 1: in the synagogues. They love to be greeted with respect
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  Speaker 1: in the marketplaces, and to be called rabbi by others.
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  Speaker 1: But you are not to be called rabbi, for you
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  Speaker 1: have one teacher, and you are all brothers. And do
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  Speaker 1: not call anyone on earth, father, for you have one father,
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  Speaker 1: and he is in heaven. Nor are you to be
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  Speaker 1: called instructors, for you have one instructor, the Messiah. The
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  Speaker 1: greatest among you, will be your serf. For those who
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  Speaker 1: exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves
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  Speaker 1: will be exalted. Woe to you, teachers of the Law
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  Speaker 1: and pharisees, you hypocrites. You shut the door of the
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  Speaker 1: Kingdom of Heaven in people's faces. You yourselves do not enter,
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  Speaker 1: nor will you let those enter who are trying to.
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  Speaker 1: Woe to you, teachers of the Law and pharisees, you hypocrites.
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  Speaker 1: You travel over land and sea to win a single convert,
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 1: and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as
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  Speaker 1: much a child of Hell as you are. Woe to you,
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 1: blind guides. You say, if anyone swears by the temple,
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  Speaker 1: it means nothing, But anyone who swears by the gold
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  Speaker 1: of the temple is bound by that oath, you blind fools.
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  Speaker 1: Which is greater the gold or the temple that makes
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  Speaker 1: the gold sacred? You also say, if anyone swears by
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  Speaker 1: the altar, it means nothing, And anyone who swears by
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 1: the gift of the altar is bound by that oath,
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  Speaker 1: you blind men, which is greater the gift or the
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  Speaker 1: altar than makes the gift sacred? Therefore, anyone who swears
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  Speaker 1: by the altars swears by it and by everything on it.
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  Speaker 1: And anyone who swears by the temple swears by it
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  Speaker 1: and by the one who dwells in it, and anyone
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  Speaker 1: who swears by Heaven swears by God's throne, and by
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 1: the one who sits on it. Woe to you, teachers
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  Speaker 1: of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You give a
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 1: tenth of your spices, mint, dill, and cuman, but you
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  Speaker 1: have neglected the more important matters of the law, justice, mercy,
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  Speaker 1: and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter without neglecting
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 1: the former, You blind guides. You strain out a gnat,
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 1: but swallow a camel. Woe to you, teachers of the
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  Speaker 1: law and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You clean the outside of
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  Speaker 1: the cup and dish, but inside they are full of
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  Speaker 1: greed and self indulgence. Blind Pharisee, first clean the inside
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  Speaker 1: of the cup and dish, and then the outside will
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  Speaker 1: also be clean. Woe to you, teachers of the law
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 1: and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You are like whitewashed tombs, which
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 1: look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are
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  Speaker 1: full of the bones of the dead, and everything unclean.
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  Speaker 1: In the same way. On the outside you appear to
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  Speaker 1: people as righteous, but on the inside you are full
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 1: of hypocrisy and wickedness. Woe to you, teachers of the
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 1: law and pharisees, you hypocrites. You build tombs for the
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 1: prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous. And you say,
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 1: if we had lived in the days of our ancestors,
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  Speaker 1: we would not have taken part with them in shedding
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 1: the blood of the prophets. So you testify against yourselves
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  Speaker 1: that you are the descendants of those who murder the prophets.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead, then, and compleat what your ancestors started. You snakes,
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  Speaker 1: you brood of vipers. How will you escape being condemned
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  Speaker 1: to hell? Therefore I am sending you prophets and sages
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  Speaker 1: and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify.
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  Speaker 1: Others you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 1: town to town. And so upon you will come all
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 1: the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 1: the blood of righteous able to the blood of Zachariah,
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 1: son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and
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  Speaker 1: the altar. Truly, I tell you all this will come
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  Speaker 1: on this generation, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets
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  Speaker 1: and stone those sent to you. How often have I
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  Speaker 1: longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers
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  Speaker 1: her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing. Look,
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  Speaker 1: your house is left to you, desolate, For I tell
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  Speaker 1: you you will not see me again until you say,
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 1: Blessed is he who comes in the name of the
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 1: Lord Matthew Chapter twenty four. Jesus left the temple and
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  Speaker 1: was walking away when his disciples came up to him
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  Speaker 1: to call his attention to its buildings. Do you see
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 1: all these things? He asked, Truly, I tell you, not
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  Speaker 1: one stone here will be left on another. Every one
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  Speaker 1: will be thrown down. As Jesus was sitting on the
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 1: Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. Tell us,
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  Speaker 1: They said, when will this happen? And what will be
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 1: the sign of your coming and of the end of
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 1: the age. Jesus answered, watch out that no one deceives you,
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  Speaker 1: for many will come in my name claiming I am
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  Speaker 1: the Messiah and will deceive many. You will hear of
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 1: wars and rumors of wars, But see to it that
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  Speaker 1: you are not alarmed such things must happen, but the
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 1: end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation,
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 1: and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 1: in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains.
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  Speaker 1: Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and
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  Speaker 1: put to death, and you will be hated by all
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  Speaker 1: nations because of me. At that time, many will turn
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  Speaker 1: away from the faith and will betray and hate each other,
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  Speaker 1: and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people.
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 1: Because of the increase in wickedness, the love of most
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 1: will grow cold. But the one who stands firm to
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  Speaker 1: the end will be saved. And this gospel of the
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 1: Kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 1: testimony to all nations. And then the end will come.
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  Speaker 1: So when you see standing in the Holy Place the
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  Speaker 1: abomination that causes desolation spoken of through the prophet Daniel,
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 1: let the reader understand. Then, Let those who are in
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 1: Judea flee to the mountains. Let no one on the
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 1: housetop go down to take anything out of the house.
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  Speaker 1: Let no one in the field go back to get
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  Speaker 1: their cloak. How dreadful it will be in those days
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  Speaker 1: for pregnant women and nursing mothers. Pray that your flight
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 1: will not take place in winter or on the sabbath,
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 1: for then there will be great distress, unequaled from the
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 1: beginning of the world until now, and never to be
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 1: equalled again. If those days had not been cut short,
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 1: no one would survive. But for the sake of the
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 1: elect those days will be shortened at that time. If
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 1: anyone says to you, look, here is the Messiah, or
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 1: there he is, do not believe it, for false messiahs
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 1: and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 1: wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect see. I
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 1: have told you ahead of time. So if anyone tells
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  Speaker 1: you there he is out in the wilderness, do not
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 1: go out. Or here he is in the inner rooms,
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 1: do not believe it. For its lightning that comes from
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 1: the yeast is visible even in the west. So will
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  Speaker 1: be the coming of the Sun of Man. Wherever there
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 1: is a carcass there the vultures will gather. Immediately after
• 1:53:20
  Speaker 1: the distress of those days, the sun will be darkened
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  Speaker 1: and the moon will not give its light. The stars
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 1: will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 1: be shaken. Then will appear the sign of the Sun
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  Speaker 1: of Man in heaven. And then all the peoples of
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 1: the earth will mourn when they see the Sun of
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 1: Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 1: great glory. And he will send his angels with a
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 1: loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from
• 1:53:48
  Speaker 1: the four winds, from one end of the heavens to
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 1: the other. Now, learn this lesson from the fig tree.
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 1: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 1: come out, you know that summer is near. Even so,
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 1: when you see all these things, you know that it
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 1: is near right at the door. Truly, I tell you,
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 1: this generation will certainly not pass away until all these
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 1: things have happened. Heaven and earth will pass away, but
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 1: my words will never pass away. But about that day
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 1: or hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven,
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 1: nor the Son, but only the Father. As it was
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 1: in the days of Noah, so it will be at
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 1: the coming of the Son of Man. For in the
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 1: days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 1: and giving in marriage. Up to the day Noah entered
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 1: the Ark and they knew nothing about what would happen
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 1: until the flood came and took them all away. That
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  Speaker 1: is how it will be at the coming of the
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 1: Son of Man. Two men will be in the field.
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  Speaker 1: One will be taken and the other left. Two women
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 1: will be grinding with the handmill will be taken and
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 1: the other left. Therefore, keep watch, because you do not
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 1: know on what day your lord will come. But understand this.
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 1: If the owner of the house had known at what
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  Speaker 1: time of night the thief was coming, he would have
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 1: kept watch and would not have let his house be
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 1: broken into. So you also must be ready, because the
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 1: Son of Man will come at an hour when you
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 1: do not expect him. Who then is the faithful and
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 1: wise servant whom the master has put in charge of
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 1: the servants in his household, to give them their food
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  Speaker 1: at the proper time. It will be good for that
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 1: servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns, Truly,
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  Speaker 1: I tell you, he will put him in charge of
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  Speaker 1: all his possessions. But suppose that servant is wicked and
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  Speaker 1: says to himself, my master is staying away a long time,
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  Speaker 1: and he then begins to beat his fellow servants and
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  Speaker 1: to eat and drink with drunkards. 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 in an hour he is not aware of,
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  Speaker 1: he will cut him to pieces and assign him a
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 1: place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 1: gnashing of teeth Matthew, chapter twenty five. At that time,
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  Speaker 1: the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who
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  Speaker 1: took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
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  Speaker 1: Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. The
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 1: foolish ones took their lamps but did not take any
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 1: oil with them. The wise ones, however, took oil and
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  Speaker 1: jars along with their lamps. The bridegroom was a long
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  Speaker 1: time in coming, and they all became drowsy and fell asleep.
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 1: At midnight, the cry rang out, here's the bridegroom come
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 1: out to meet him. Then all the virgins woke up
• 1:56:49
  Speaker 1: and trimmed their lamps. The foolish ones said to the wise,
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  Speaker 1: give us some of your oil. Our lamps are going out. No,
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  Speaker 1: they replied, there may not be enough both us and you. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 1: But while they were on their way to buy the oil,
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 1: the bridegroom arrived. The virgins, who were ready, went in
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  Speaker 1: with him to the wedding banquet, and the door was shut.
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 1: Later the others also came. Lord Lord, They said, opened
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  Speaker 1: the door for us. But he replied, truly, I tell you,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know you. Therefore, keep watch, because you do
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 1: not know the day or the hour. Again, it will
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  Speaker 1: be like a man going on a journey who called
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  Speaker 1: his servants and entrusted his wealth to them. To one
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 1: he gave five bags of gold, to another two bags,
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  Speaker 1: and to another one bag each according to his ability.
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  Speaker 1: Then he went on his journey. The man who had
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 1: received five bags of gold went at once and put
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 1: his money to work, and gained five bags more. So
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  Speaker 1: also the one with two bags of gold gained two more.
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 1: But the man who had received one bag went off,
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 1: dug a hole in the ground and hid his master's money.
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 1: After a long time, the master of those servants returned
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  Speaker 1: and settled accounts with them. The man who had received
• 1:58:17
  Speaker 1: five bags of gold brought the other five. Master. He said,
• 1:58:21
  Speaker 1: you entrusted me with five bags of gold. See I
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 1: have gained five more. His master replied, well done, good
• 1:58:29
  Speaker 1: and faithful servant. You have been faithful with a few things.
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  Speaker 1: I will put you in charge of many things. Come
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  Speaker 1: and share your master's happiness. The man with two bags
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  Speaker 1: of gold also came master. He said, you entrusted me
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  Speaker 1: with two bags of gold. See I have gained two more.
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  Speaker 1: His master replied, well done, good and faithful servant, you
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  Speaker 1: have been faithful with a few things. I will put
• 1:58:55
  Speaker 1: you in charge of many things. Come and share your
• 1:58:59
  Speaker 1: master's happiness. Then the man who had received one bag
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 1: of gold came master. He said, I knew that you
• 1:59:07
  Speaker 1: are a hard man, harvesting where you have not sown,
• 1:59:11
  Speaker 1: and gathering where you have not scattered seed. So I
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 1: was afraid and went out and hid your gold in
• 1:59:16
  Speaker 1: the ground. See here is what belongs to you. His
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  Speaker 1: master replied, you wicked, lazy servant. So you knew that
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 1: I harvest where I have not sown, and gather where
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 1: I have not scattered seed. Well, then you should have
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 1: put my money on deposit with the bankers, so that
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  Speaker 1: when I return I would have received it back with interest.
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  Speaker 1: So take the back of gold from him and give
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  Speaker 1: it to the one who has ten bags. For whoever
• 1:59:44
  Speaker 1: has will be given more, and they will have an abundance.
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  Speaker 1: Whoever does not have even what they have, will be
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  Speaker 1: taken from them, and throw that worthless servant outside into
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 1: the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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  Speaker 1: When the Son of Man comes in his glory and
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 1: all the angels with him, he will sit on his
• 2:00:05
  Speaker 1: glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before him,
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  Speaker 1: and he will separate the people one from another, as
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  Speaker 1: a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will
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  Speaker 1: put the sheep on his right and the goats on
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  Speaker 1: his left. Then the king will say to those on
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  Speaker 1: his right, Come you, who are blessed by my father.
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 1: Take your inheritance the kingdom prepared for you since the
• 2:00:30
  Speaker 1: creation of the world. For I was hungry, and you
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 1: gave me something to eat. I was thirsty, and you
• 2:00:37
  Speaker 1: gave me something to drink. I was a stranger and
• 2:00:40
  Speaker 1: you invited me in. I needed clothes and you clothed me.
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  Speaker 1: I was sick and you looked after me. I was
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  Speaker 1: in prison and you came to visit me. Then the
• 2:00:51
  Speaker 1: righteous will answer him, Lord, when did we see you
• 2:00:55
  Speaker 1: hungry and feed you? We're thirsty and give you something
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  Speaker 1: to drink. When did we see you a stranger and
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  Speaker 1: invite you in, or kneeding clothes and clothe you. When
• 2:01:06
  Speaker 1: did we see you sick or in prison and go
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 1: to visit you? The King will reply, truly, I tell you,
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 1: whatever you did for one of the least of these
• 2:01:16
  Speaker 1: brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me. Then
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 1: he will say to those on his left, depart from me,
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 1: you who are cursed into the eternal fire prepared for
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 1: the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and
• 2:01:32
  Speaker 1: you gave me nothing to eat. I was thirsty and
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 1: you gave me nothing to drink. I was a stranger
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 1: and you did not invite me in. I needed clothes
• 2:01:42
  Speaker 1: and you did not clothe me. I was sick and
• 2:01:45
  Speaker 1: in prison, and you did not look after me. They
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  Speaker 1: also will answer, Lord, when did we see you hungry
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 1: or thirsty, or a stranger, or kneeding clothes, or sick
• 2:01:56
  Speaker 1: or in prison and did not help you? He will reply, truly,
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 1: I tell you, whatever you did not do from one
• 2:02:04
  Speaker 1: of the least of these, you did not do for me.
• 2:02:08
  Speaker 1: Then they will go away to eternal punishment. But the
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  Speaker 1: righteous to Eternal Life Matthew, chapter twenty six. When Jesus
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 1: had finished saying all these things, he said to his disciples,
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 1: as you know, the passover is two days away, and
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 1: the son of Man will be handed over to be crucified.
• 2:02:33
  Speaker 1: Then the chief priests and the elders of the people
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 1: assembled in the palace of the high priest, whose name
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 1: was Chiaphus, and they schemed to arrest Jesus secretly and
• 2:02:44
  Speaker 1: kill him. But not during the festival, they said, or
• 2:02:48
  Speaker 1: there may be a riot among the people. While Jesus
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 1: was in Bethany, in the home of Simon the Leper,
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 1: a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 1: very expensive perfume, which she poured on his head as
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 1: he was reclining at the table. When the disciples saw this,
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 1: they were indignant. Why this waste, they asked. This perfume
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 1: could have been sold at a high price in the
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 1: money given to the poor. Aware of this, Jesus said
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  Speaker 1: to them, why are you bothering this woman. She has
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 1: done a beautiful thing to me. The poor you will
• 2:03:22
  Speaker 1: always have with you, but you will not always have me.
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 1: When she poured this perfume on my body, she did
• 2:03:29
  Speaker 1: it to prepare me for burial. Truly, I tell you,
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 1: wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 1: has done will also be told in memory of her.
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  Speaker 1: Then one of the twelve, the one called Judases Carriat,
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  Speaker 1: went to the chief priests and asked, what are you
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  Speaker 1: willing to give me if I deliver him over to you.
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  Speaker 1: So they counted out for him thirty pieces of silver.
• 2:03:54
  Speaker 1: From then on, Judas watched for an opportunity to hand
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  Speaker 1: him over. On the first day of the festival of
• 2:04:01
  Speaker 1: unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus and asked, where
• 2:04:06
  Speaker 1: do you want us to make preparations for you to
• 2:04:08
  Speaker 1: eat the Passover. He replied, go into the city to
• 2:04:12
  Speaker 1: a certain man and tell him. The teacher says, my
• 2:04:16
  Speaker 1: appointed time is near. I am going to celebrate the
• 2:04:19
  Speaker 1: Passover with my disciples at your house. So the disciples
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  Speaker 1: did as Jesus had directed them and prepared the passover.
• 2:04:28
  Speaker 1: When evening came, Jesus was reclining at the table with
• 2:04:31
  Speaker 1: the twelve, and while they were eating, he said, truly,
• 2:04:35
  Speaker 1: I tell you, one of you will betray me. They
• 2:04:38
  Speaker 1: were very sad and began to say to him one
• 2:04:41
  Speaker 1: after the other. Surely you don't mean me, Lord Jesus replied,
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 1: the one who has dipped his hand into the bowl
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 1: with me will betray me. The son of Man will
• 2:04:53
  Speaker 1: go just as it is written about him. But woe
• 2:04:57
  Speaker 1: to the man who betrays the son of Man would
• 2:05:00
  Speaker 1: be better for him if he had not been born.
• 2:05:03
  Speaker 1: Then Judas, the one who would betray him, said, surely
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 1: you don't mean me. Rabbi Jesus answered, you have said so.
• 2:05:13
  Speaker 1: While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 1: had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 1: his disciples, saying, take and eat. This is my body.
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 1: Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks,
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 1: he gave it to them, sang, drink from it, all
• 2:05:31
  Speaker 1: of you. This is my blood of the Covenant, which
• 2:05:34
  Speaker 1: is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
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  Speaker 1: I tell you I will not drink from this fruit
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 1: of the vine from now on until that day when
• 2:05:43
  Speaker 1: I drink it new with you in my father's kingdom.
• 2:05:47
  Speaker 1: When they had sung a hymn, they went out to
• 2:05:49
  Speaker 1: the Mount of Olives. Then Jesus told them, this very night,
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 1: you will all fall away on account of me, For
• 2:05:58
  Speaker 1: it is written strike the shepherd, and the sheep of
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 1: the flock will be scattered. But after I have risen,
• 2:06:05
  Speaker 1: I will go ahead of you into Galilee. Peter replied,
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 1: even if all fall away on account of you, I
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 1: never will, truly, I tell you. Jesus answered, this very night,
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  Speaker 1: before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times.
• 2:06:22
  Speaker 1: But Peter declared, even if I have to die with you,
• 2:06:26
  Speaker 1: I will never disown you, and all the other disciples
• 2:06:29
  Speaker 1: said the same. Then Jesus went with his disciples to
• 2:06:34
  Speaker 1: a place called Yethsimone, and he said to them, sit
• 2:06:37
  Speaker 1: here while I go over there and pray. He took
• 2:06:40
  Speaker 1: Peter and the two sons of Zebedee along with him,
• 2:06:44
  Speaker 1: and he began to be sorrowful and troubled. Then he
• 2:06:47
  Speaker 1: said to them, my soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to
• 2:06:51
  Speaker 1: the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.
• 2:06:55
  Speaker 1: Going a little farther, he fell with his face to
• 2:06:58
  Speaker 1: the ground and prayed, my father, if it is possible,
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 1: may this cup be taken from me? Yet not as
• 2:07:05
  Speaker 1: I will, but as you will. Then he returned to
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 1: his disciples and found them sleeping. Couldn't you men, keep
• 2:07:13
  Speaker 1: watch with me for one hour. He asked, Peter, watch
• 2:07:17
  Speaker 1: and pray, so that you will not fall into temptation.
• 2:07:20
  Speaker 1: The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. He
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 1: went away a second time and prayed, my Father, if
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 1: it is not possible for this cup to be taken
• 2:07:30
  Speaker 1: away unless I drink it, may your will be done.
• 2:07:34
  Speaker 1: When he came back, he again found them sleeping because
• 2:07:38
  Speaker 1: their eyes were heavy. So he left them and went
• 2:07:41
  Speaker 1: away once more and prayed the third time, saying the
• 2:07:44
  Speaker 1: same thing. Then he returned to the disciples and said
• 2:07:48
  Speaker 1: to them, are you still sleeping and resting? Look the
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 1: hour has come and the son of Man is delivered
• 2:07:55
  Speaker 1: into the hands of sinners. Rise, let us go. Here
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 1: comes my trayer. While he was still speaking, Judas, one
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 1: of the twelve arrived. With him was a large crowd
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 1: armed with swords and clubs, sent from the chief priests
• 2:08:12
  Speaker 1: and the elders of the people. Now the betrayer had
• 2:08:15
  Speaker 1: arranged a signal with them, the one I kisses the
• 2:08:18
  Speaker 1: man arrest him. Going at once to Jesus, Judas said,
• 2:08:22
  Speaker 1: greeting's rabbi and kissed him. Jesus replied, do what you
• 2:08:28
  Speaker 1: came for. A friend. Then the men stepped forward, seized
• 2:08:32
  Speaker 1: Jesus and arrested him. With that one of the jesus
• 2:08:36
  Speaker 1: companions reached for his sword, drew it out and struck
• 2:08:40
  Speaker 1: the servant of the High Priest, cutting off his ear.
• 2:08:44
  Speaker 1: Put your sword back in its place, Jesus said to him,
• 2:08:47
  Speaker 1: For all who draw the sword will die by the sword.
• 2:08:51
  Speaker 1: Do you think I cannot call on my father and
• 2:08:53
  Speaker 1: he will at once put at my disposal more than
• 2:08:56
  Speaker 1: twelve legions of angels? But how then the scriptures be
• 2:09:00
  Speaker 1: fulfilled that say it must happen in this way? In
• 2:09:05
  Speaker 1: that hour, Jesus said to the crowd, am I leading
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 1: a rebellion? That you have come out with swords and
• 2:09:10
  Speaker 1: clubs to capture me. Every day I sat in the
• 2:09:13
  Speaker 1: temple court's teaching, and you did not arrest me. But
• 2:09:17
  Speaker 1: this has all taken place that the writings of the
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 1: prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples deserted him
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 1: and fled those who had arrested. Jesus took him to Caiaphas,
• 2:09:29
  Speaker 1: the High Priest, where the teachers of the law and
• 2:09:32
  Speaker 1: the elders had assembled, but Peter followed him at a
• 2:09:35
  Speaker 1: distance right up to the courtyard of the High Priest.
• 2:09:39
  Speaker 1: He entered and sat down with the guards to see
• 2:09:41
  Speaker 1: the outcome. The chief priests and the holes and Hedron
• 2:09:46
  Speaker 1: were looking for false evidence against Jesus so that they
• 2:09:49
  Speaker 1: could put him to death, but they did not find any.
• 2:09:52
  Speaker 1: Though many false witnesses came forward. Finally two came forward
• 2:09:57
  Speaker 1: and declared this fellow said, I am able to destroy
• 2:10:01
  Speaker 1: the Temple of God and rebuild it in three days.
• 2:10:05
  Speaker 1: Then the High Priest stood up and said to Jesus,
• 2:10:09
  Speaker 1: are you not going to answer? What is this testimony
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 1: that these men are bringing against you? But Jesus remained silent.
• 2:10:17
  Speaker 1: The High Priest said to him, I charge you under
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 1: oath by the Living God. Tell us if you are
• 2:10:23
  Speaker 1: the Messiah, the Son of God. You have said so,
• 2:10:27
  Speaker 1: Jesus replied, But I say to all of you, from
• 2:10:31
  Speaker 1: now on you will see the son of Man sitting
• 2:10:33
  Speaker 1: at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming
• 2:10:36
  Speaker 1: on the clouds of heaven. Then the High Priest tore
• 2:10:39
  Speaker 1: his clothes and said, he has spoken blasphemy. Why do
• 2:10:44
  Speaker 1: we need any more witnesses. Look, now you have heard
• 2:10:47
  Speaker 1: the blasphemy. What do you think he is worthy of death?
• 2:10:51
  Speaker 1: They answered. Then they spit in his face and struck
• 2:10:55
  Speaker 1: him with their fists. Others slapped him and said, prophesied
• 2:10:59
  Speaker 1: to us, Messiah, who hit you now. Peter was sitting
• 2:11:04
  Speaker 1: out in the courtyard, and a servant girl came to him.
• 2:11:07
  Speaker 1: You were with Jesus of Galilee, she said, But he
• 2:11:11
  Speaker 1: denied it before them all. I don't know what you're
• 2:11:13
  Speaker 1: talking about, he said. Then he went out to the gateway,
• 2:11:17
  Speaker 1: where another servant girl saw him and said to the
• 2:11:19
  Speaker 1: people there, this fellow was with Jesus of Nazareth. He
• 2:11:23
  Speaker 1: denied it again, with an oath, I don't know the man.
• 2:11:27
  Speaker 1: After a little while, those standing there went up to
• 2:11:30
  Speaker 1: Peter and said, surely you are one of them. Your
• 2:11:33
  Speaker 1: accent gives you away. Then he began to call down curses,
• 2:11:37
  Speaker 1: and he swore to them, I don't know the man.
• 2:11:41
  Speaker 1: Immediately a rooster crowed. Then Peter remembered the word Jesus
• 2:11:45
  Speaker 1: had spoken. Before the rooster crows, you will disown me
• 2:11:49
  Speaker 1: three times, and he went outside and wept bitterly. Matthew
• 2:11:57
  Speaker 1: chapter twenty seven. Early in the morning, all the chief
• 2:12:02
  Speaker 1: priests and the elders of the people made their plans
• 2:12:06
  Speaker 1: how to have Jesus executed. So they bound him, led
• 2:12:10
  Speaker 1: him away, and handed him over to Pilot the governor.
• 2:12:15
  Speaker 1: When Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus was condemned,
• 2:12:20
  Speaker 1: he was seized with remorse and returned the thirty pieces
• 2:12:24
  Speaker 1: of silver to the chief priests and the elders. I
• 2:12:28
  Speaker 1: have sinned, he said, for I have betrayed innocent blood.
• 2:12:34
  Speaker 1: What is that to us? They replied, that's your responsibility.
• 2:12:39
  Speaker 1: So Judas threw the money into the temple and left.
• 2:12:43
  Speaker 1: Then he went away and hanged himself. The chief priest
• 2:12:48
  Speaker 1: picked up the coins and said, it is against the
• 2:12:51
  Speaker 1: law to put this into the treasury, since it is
• 2:12:54
  Speaker 1: blood money. So they decided to use the money to
• 2:12:57
  Speaker 1: buy the Potter's Field as a burial place for foreigners.
• 2:13:01
  Speaker 1: That is why it has been called the field of
• 2:13:03
  Speaker 1: Blood to this day. Then what was spoken by Jeremiah
• 2:13:07
  Speaker 1: the prophet was fulfilled. They took the thirty pieces of
• 2:13:11
  Speaker 1: silver the price set on him by the people of Israel,
• 2:13:15
  Speaker 1: and they used them to buy the Potter's field, as
• 2:13:18
  Speaker 1: the lord commanded me. Meanwhile, Jesus stood before the governor,
• 2:13:24
  Speaker 1: and the governor asked him, are you the king of
• 2:13:27
  Speaker 1: the Jews. You have said, so, Jesus replied. When he
• 2:13:33
  Speaker 1: was accused by the chief priests and the elders, he
• 2:13:36
  Speaker 1: gave no answer. Then Pilot asked him, don't you hear
• 2:13:41
  Speaker 1: the testimony they are bringing against you? But Jesus made
• 2:13:45
  Speaker 1: no reply, not even to a single charge, to the
• 2:13:49
  Speaker 1: great amazement of the governor. Now, it was the governor's
• 2:13:53
  Speaker 1: custom at the festival to release a prisoner chosen by
• 2:13:57
  Speaker 1: the crowd. At that time they had a well known
• 2:14:00
  Speaker 1: prisoner whose name was Jesus Barabas. So when the crowd
• 2:14:04
  Speaker 1: had gathered, Pilot asked him which one do you want
• 2:14:07
  Speaker 1: me to release to you, Jesus Barabas or Jesus who
• 2:14:12
  Speaker 1: was called the Messiah, For he knew it was out
• 2:14:15
  Speaker 1: of self interest that they had handed Jesus over to him.
• 2:14:20
  Speaker 1: While Pilot was sitting on the judge's seat, his wife
• 2:14:23
  Speaker 1: sent him the message, don't have anything to do with
• 2:14:27
  Speaker 1: that innocent man, for I have suffered a great deal
• 2:14:30
  Speaker 1: today in a dream because of him. But the chief
• 2:14:34
  Speaker 1: priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for
• 2:14:37
  Speaker 1: Barabas and to have Jesus executed. Which of the two
• 2:14:42
  Speaker 1: do you want me to release to you, asked the
• 2:14:44
  Speaker 1: governor Barabas. They answered, what shall I do? Then? With Jesus,
• 2:14:50
  Speaker 1: who was called the messiah, Pilot asked. They all answered,
• 2:14:55
  Speaker 1: crucify him. Why what crime has he committed? Asked Pilot,
• 2:15:02
  Speaker 1: But they shouted all the louder, crucify him. When Pilots
• 2:15:07
  Speaker 1: saw that he was getting nowhere, but that instead an
• 2:15:10
  Speaker 1: uproar was starting, he took water and washed his hands
• 2:15:13
  Speaker 1: in front of the crowd. I am innocent of this
• 2:15:16
  Speaker 1: man's blood, he said, It is your responsibility. All the
• 2:15:21
  Speaker 1: people answered, his blood is on us and on our children.
• 2:15:26
  Speaker 1: Then he released Barabas to them, But he had Jesus
• 2:15:30
  Speaker 1: flogged and handed him over to be crucified. Then the
• 2:15:34
  Speaker 1: governor's soldiers took Jesus into the praetorium and gathered the
• 2:15:38
  Speaker 1: whole company of soldiers around him. They stripped him and
• 2:15:43
  Speaker 1: put a scarlet robe on him, and then twisted together
• 2:15:46
  Speaker 1: a crown of thorns and set it on his head.
• 2:15:49
  Speaker 1: They put a staff in his right hand. Then they
• 2:15:52
  Speaker 1: knelt in front of him and mocked him. Hail King
• 2:15:56
  Speaker 1: of the Jews, they said. They spit on him and
• 2:16:00
  Speaker 1: took the staff and struck him on the head again
• 2:16:02
  Speaker 1: and again. After they had mocked him, they took off
• 2:16:07
  Speaker 1: the robe and put his own clothes on him. Then
• 2:16:10
  Speaker 1: they led him away to crucify him. As they were
• 2:16:14
  Speaker 1: going out, they met a man from Syene named Simon,
• 2:16:19
  Speaker 1: and they forced him to carry the cross. They came
• 2:16:22
  Speaker 1: to a place called Golgatha, which means the place of
• 2:16:26
  Speaker 1: the skull. There they offered Jesus wine to drink mixed
• 2:16:30
  Speaker 1: with gall but after tasting it, he refused to drink it.
• 2:16:35
  Speaker 1: When they had crucified him, they divided up his clothes
• 2:16:38
  Speaker 1: by casting lots, and sitting down, they kept watch over him.
• 2:16:43
  Speaker 1: There above his head they placed the written charge against him.
• 2:16:48
  Speaker 1: This is Jesus, the King of the Jews. Two rebels
• 2:16:53
  Speaker 1: were crucified with him, one on his right and one
• 2:16:56
  Speaker 1: on his left. Those who passed by hurled insults at him,
• 2:17:01
  Speaker 1: shaking their heads and saying, you, who are going to
• 2:17:05
  Speaker 1: destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself.
• 2:17:10
  Speaker 1: Come down from the cross if you are the son
• 2:17:12
  Speaker 1: of God. In the same way, the chief priests, the
• 2:17:16
  Speaker 1: teachers of the law, and the elders mocked him. He
• 2:17:20
  Speaker 1: saved others, they said, but he can't save himself. He's
• 2:17:24
  Speaker 1: the king of Israel. Let him come down now from
• 2:17:28
  Speaker 1: the cross, and we will believe in him. He trusts
• 2:17:32
  Speaker 1: in God. Let God rescue him now if he wants him,
• 2:17:36
  Speaker 1: For he said, I am the Son of God. In
• 2:17:40
  Speaker 1: the same way, the rebels who were crucified with him
• 2:17:43
  Speaker 1: also heaped insults on him. From noon until three in
• 2:17:47
  Speaker 1: the afternoon, darkness came over all the land. About three
• 2:17:52
  Speaker 1: in the afternoon, Jesus cried out in a loud voice,
• 2:17:57
  Speaker 1: Eli Eli le ma sabakhtada, which means, my God, my God,
• 2:18:03
  Speaker 1: why have you forsaken me. When some of those standing
• 2:18:07
  Speaker 1: there heard this, they said, he's calling Elijah. Immediately one
• 2:18:13
  Speaker 1: of them ran and got a sponge. He filled it
• 2:18:15
  Speaker 1: with wine vinegar, put it on a staff, and offered
• 2:18:19
  Speaker 1: it to Jesus to drink. The rest said, now leave
• 2:18:23
  Speaker 1: him alone, let's see if Elijah comes to save him.
• 2:18:27
  Speaker 1: And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice,
• 2:18:31
  Speaker 1: he gave up his spirit. At that moment, the curtain
• 2:18:36
  Speaker 1: of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.
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  Speaker 1: The earth shook, the rocks split, and the tombs broke open.
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  Speaker 1: The bodies of many holy people who had died were
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  Speaker 1: raised to life. They came out of the tombs after
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  Speaker 1: Jesus' resurrection and went into the Holy City and appeared
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  Speaker 1: to many people. When the centurion and those with him
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  Speaker 1: who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and all that
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  Speaker 1: had happened, they were terrified and exclaimed surely he was
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  Speaker 1: the son of God. Many women were there watching from
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  Speaker 1: a distance. They had followed Jesus from Galilee to care
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  Speaker 1: for his needs. Among them were Mary Magdalen, Mary the
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  Speaker 1: mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of Zebedee's sons.
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  Speaker 1: As evening approached, there came a rich man from Arimathea
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  Speaker 1: named Joseph, who had himself become a disciple of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Going to Pilot, he asked for Jesus's body, and Pilot
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  Speaker 1: ordered that it be given to him. Joseph took the body,
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  Speaker 1: wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and placed it
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  Speaker 1: in his own new tomb that he had cut out
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  Speaker 1: of the rock. He rolled a big stone in front
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  Speaker 1: of the entrance to the tomb and went away. Mary
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  Speaker 1: Magdalen and the other Mary were sitting there opposite the tomb.
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  Speaker 1: The next day, the one after preparation day, the chief
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  Speaker 1: priests and the pharisees went to Pilot. Sir. They said,
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  Speaker 1: we remember that while he was still alive, that deceiver said,
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  Speaker 1: after three days I will rise again. So give the
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  Speaker 1: order for the tomb to be made secure until the
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  Speaker 1: third day. Otherwise his disciples may come and steal the
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  Speaker 1: body and tell the people that he has been raised
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  Speaker 1: from the dead. The last deception will be worse than
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  Speaker 1: the first. Take a guard. Pilot answered, go make the
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  Speaker 1: tomb as secure as you know how. So they went
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  Speaker 1: and made the tomb secure by putting a seal on
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  Speaker 1: the stone and posting the guard. Matthew, chapter twenty eight.
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  Speaker 1: After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of
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  Speaker 1: the week, Mary Magdalen and the other Mary went to
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  Speaker 1: look at the tomb. There was a violent earth quake,
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  Speaker 1: for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven, and,
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  Speaker 1: going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat
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  Speaker 1: on it. His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes
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  Speaker 1: were white as snow. The guards were so afraid of
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  Speaker 1: him that they shook and became like dead men. The
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  Speaker 1: angel said to the women, do not be afraid, for
• 2:21:24
  Speaker 1: I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified.
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  Speaker 1: He is not here. He has risen, just as he said.
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  Speaker 1: Come and see the place where he lay. Then go
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  Speaker 1: quickly and tell his disciples. He has risen from the
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  Speaker 1: dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There
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  Speaker 1: you will see him. Now I have told you. So.
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  Speaker 1: The women hurried away from the tomb, afraid yet filled
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  Speaker 1: with joy, and ran to tell his disciples. Suddenly Jesus
• 2:22:00
  Speaker 1: met them. Greetings, he said. They came to him, clasped
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  Speaker 1: his feet, and worshiped him. Then Jesus said to them,
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  Speaker 1: do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to
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  Speaker 1: go to Galilee. There they will see me. While the
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  Speaker 1: women were on their way, some of the guards went
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  Speaker 1: into the city and reported to the chief priests everything
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  Speaker 1: that had happened. When the chief priests had met with
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  Speaker 1: the elders and devised a plan, they gave the soldiers
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  Speaker 1: a large sum of money, telling them, you are to
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  Speaker 1: say his disciples came during the night and stole him
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  Speaker 1: away while we were asleep. If this report gets to
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  Speaker 1: the governor, we will satisfy him and keep you out
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  Speaker 1: of trouble. So the soldiers took the money and did
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  Speaker 1: as they were instructed, And this story has been widely
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  Speaker 1: circulated among the Jews to this very day. Then the
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  Speaker 1: eleven Disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus
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  Speaker 1: had told them to go. When they saw him, they
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  Speaker 1: worshiped him, but some doubted. Then Jesus came to them
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  Speaker 1: and said, all authority in heaven and on earth has
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  Speaker 1: been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of
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  Speaker 1: all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father,
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  Speaker 1: and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and
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  Speaker 1: teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And
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  Speaker 1: surely I am with you always to the very end
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  Speaker 1: of the age.