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John the Baptist Prepares the Way
The beginning of the good news about Jesus the Messiah, the Son of God,
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Jesus Announces the Good News
After John was put in prison, Jesus went into Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God.
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“The time has come,” he said. “The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news!”
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The people were all so amazed that they asked each other, “What is this? A new teaching—and with authority! He even gives orders to impure spirits and they obey him.”
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News about him spread quickly over the whole region of Galilee.
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Instead he went out and began to talk freely, spreading the news. As a result, Jesus could no longer enter a town openly but stayed outside in lonely places. Yet the people still came to him from everywhere.
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But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.” So he said to the man,
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“No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. Otherwise, the new piece will pull away from the old, making the tear worse.
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And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins.”
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It is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest of all seeds on earth.
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Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, and famines. These are the beginning of birth pains.
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And he will send his angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the heavens.
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Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
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“Truly I tell you, I will not drink again from the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.”
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And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
