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and the people all tried to touch him, because power was coming from him and healing them all.
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Blessed are you when people hate you, when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil, because of the Son of Man.
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Each tree is recognized by its own fruit. People do not pick figs from thornbushes, or grapes from briers.
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The Faith of the Centurion
When Jesus had finished saying all this to the people who were listening, he entered Capernaum.
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They were all filled with awe and praised God. “A great prophet has appeared among us,” they said. “God has come to help his people.”
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(All the people, even the tax collectors, when they heard Jesus’ words, acknowledged that God’s way was right, because they had been baptized by John.
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Jesus went on to say, “To what, then, can I compare the people of this generation? What are they like?
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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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While a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from town after town, he told this parable:
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and the people went out to see what had happened. When they came to Jesus, they found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus’ feet, dressed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.
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Those who had seen it told the people how the demon-possessed man had been cured.
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Then all the people of the region of the Gerasenes asked Jesus to leave them, because they were overcome with fear. So he got into the boat and left.
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“Who touched me?” Jesus asked. When they all denied it, Peter said, “Master, the people are crowding and pressing against you.”
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Then the woman, seeing that she could not go unnoticed, came trembling and fell at his feet. In the presence of all the people, she told why she had touched him and how she had been instantly healed.
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Meanwhile, all the people were wailing and mourning for her. “Stop wailing,” Jesus said. “She is not dead but asleep.”
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If people do not welcome you, leave their town and shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.”
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So they set out and went from village to village, proclaiming the good news and healing people everywhere.
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Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke them. Then he gave them to the disciples to distribute to the people.
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but the people there did not welcome him, because he was heading for Jerusalem.
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The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with the people of this generation and condemn them, for she came from the ends of the earth to listen to Solomon’s wisdom; and now something greater than Solomon is here.
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You foolish people! Did not the one who made the outside make the inside also?
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“Woe to you, because you are like unmarked graves, which people walk over without knowing it.”
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Jesus replied, “And you experts in the law, woe to you, because you load people down with burdens they can hardly carry, and you yourselves will not lift one finger to help them.
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Indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, the synagogue leader said to the people, “There are six days for work. So come and be healed on those days, not on the Sabbath.”
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When he said this, all his opponents were humiliated, but the people were delighted with all the wonderful things he was doing.
