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for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He is never to take wine or other fermented drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even before he is born.
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And with many other words John exhorted the people and proclaimed the good news to them.
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But when John rebuked Herod the tetrarch because of his marriage to Herodias, his brother’s wife, and all the other evil things he had done,
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All the people were amazed and said to each other, “What words these are! With authority and power he gives orders to impure spirits and they come out!”
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But he said, “I must proclaim the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns also, because that is why I was sent.”
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So they signaled their partners in the other boat to come and help them, and they came and filled both boats so full that they began to sink.
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Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them.
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He told them this parable: “No one tears a piece out of a new garment to patch an old one. Otherwise, they will have torn the new garment, and the patch from the new will not match the old.
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And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined.
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If someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to them the other also. If someone takes your coat, do not withhold your shirt from them.
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Do to others as you would have them do to you.
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Judging Others
“Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.
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The Wise and Foolish Builders
“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say?
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They are like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the torrent struck that house but could not shake it, because it was well built.
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They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to each other: “‘We played the pipe for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not cry.’
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“Two people owed money to a certain moneylender. One owed him five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.
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The other guests began to say among themselves, “Who is this who even forgives sins?”
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Joanna the wife of Chuza, the manager of Herod’s household; Susanna; and many others. These women were helping to support them out of their own means.
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Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up with it and choked the plants.
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Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up and yielded a crop, a hundred times more than was sown.” When he said this, he called out, “Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.”
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He said, “The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to others I speak in parables, so that, “‘though seeing, they may not see; though hearing, they may not understand.’
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Jesus Calms the Storm
One day Jesus said to his disciples, “Let us go over to the other side of the lake.” So they got into a boat and set out.
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others that Elijah had appeared, and still others that one of the prophets of long ago had come back to life.
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They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, that one of the prophets of long ago has come back to life.”
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Jesus Sends Out the Seventy-Two
After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go.
