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The Proclamation of John the Baptist
The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
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As it is written in the prophet Isaiah, ‘See, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way;
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He proclaimed, ‘The one who is more powerful than I is coming after me; I am not worthy to stoop down and untie the thong of his sandals.
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I have baptized you with water; but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.’
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And just as he was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens torn apart and the Spirit descending like a dove on him.
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The Temptation of Jesus
And the Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness.
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The Beginning of the Galilean Ministry
Now after John was arrested, Jesus came to Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God,
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and saying, ‘The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe in the good news.’
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The Man with an Unclean Spirit
They went to Capernaum; and when the sabbath came, he entered the synagogue and taught.
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Just then there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit,
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and he cried out, ‘What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, the Holy One of God.’
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And the unclean spirit, throwing him into convulsions and crying with a loud voice, came out of him.
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They were all amazed, and they kept on asking one another, ‘What is this? A new teaching—with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him.’
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When they found him, they said to him, ‘Everyone is searching for you.’
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He answered, ‘Let us go on to the neighbouring towns, so that I may proclaim the message there also; for that is what I came out to do.’
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‘Why does this fellow speak in this way? It is blasphemy! Who can forgive sins but God alone?’
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At once Jesus perceived in his spirit that they were discussing these questions among themselves; and he said to them, ‘Why do you raise such questions in your hearts?
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Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, “Your sins are forgiven”, or to say, “Stand up and take your mat and walk”?
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And he stood up, and immediately took the mat and went out before all of them; so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, ‘We have never seen anything like this!’
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Jesus said to them, ‘The wedding-guests cannot fast while the bridegroom is with them, can they? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.
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The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast on that day.
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‘No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old cloak; otherwise, the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made.
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And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost, and so are the skins; but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins.’
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The Pharisees said to him, ‘Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the sabbath?’
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He entered the house of God, when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and he gave some to his companions.’
