\v 27 All the people were amazed, so they asked each other, "What is this? A new teaching with authority! He even commands the unclean spirits and they obey him!"
\v 43 Jesus strictly warned him and sent him away.
\v 44 He said to him, "Be sure to say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, as a testimony to them."
\v 45 But he went out and began to spread the news widely, so much that Jesus could no longer enter a town openly but he stayed out in remote places. Yet people were still coming to him from everywhere.
\v 4 When they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof that was above Jesus, and after they made an opening, they lowered the mat the paralyzed man was lying on.
\v 12 He got up and immediately took up the mat, and went out of the house in front of everyone, so that they were all amazed and they gave glory to God, and they said, "We never saw anything like this."
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\v 13 He went out again by the lake, and all the crowd came to him, and he taught them.
\v 14 As he passed by, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax collector's tent and he said to him, "Follow me." He got up and followed him.
\v 15 Jesus was having a meal in Levi's house and many tax collectors and sinners were dining with him and his disciples, for there were many and they followed him.
\v 16 When the scribes, who were Pharisees, saw that Jesus was eating with sinners and tax collectors, they said to his disciples, "Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?"
\v 17 When Jesus heard this he said to them, "People who are strong in body do not need a physician; only people who are sick need one. I did not come to call righteous people, but sinners."
\v 18 Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. Some people came and said to him, "Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?"
\v 19 Jesus said to them, "Can the wedding attendants fast while the bridegroom is still with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.
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\v 20 But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and in those days, they will fast.
\v 22 No one puts new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise the wine will burst the skins and both the wine and the wineskins are lost. Instead, new wine is put into fresh wineskins."
\v 26 how he went into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the bread of the presence, which is unlawful for anyone to eat except the priests, and he even gave some to those who were with him?"
\v 5 He looked around at them with anger, and he was grieved by their hardness of heart, and he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.
\v 6 The Pharisees went out and immediately began to plot with the Herodians as to how they might put him to death.
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\v 7 Then Jesus, with his disciples, went to the sea, and a great crowd of people followed from Galilee and from Judea
\v 8 and from Jerusalem and from Idumea and beyond the Jordan and around Tyre and Sidon. When they heard about the things he was doing, a great crowd came to him.
\v 23 Jesus called them to him and said to them in parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan?
\v 24 If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
\v 25 If a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.
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\v 26 If Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he is not able to stand, but has come to an end.
\v 27 But no one can enter into the house of a strong man and steal his belongings without tying up the strong man first, and then he will plunder his house.
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\v 28 Truly I say to you, all sins of the sons of men will be forgiven, even all the blasphemies which they utter,
\v 29 but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never have forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin."
\v 1 Again he began to teach beside the sea, and a large crowd gathered around him. He stepped into a boat that was on the sea, and he sat down in it. The whole crowd was on the shore beside the sea.
\v 2 He taught them many things in parables, and in his teaching, this is what he said to them.
\v 12 so that when they look, yes they look, but do not see, and so that when they hear, yes they hear, but do not understand, or else they would turn and God would forgive them."
\v 17 But they do not have root in themselves, but they endure for a while. Afterward when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, they immediately fall away.
\v 21 Jesus said to them, "Do you bring a lamp inside the house to put it under a basket or under the bed? You bring it in and you put it on a lampstand.
\v 32 Yet, when it is sown, it grows and becomes greater than all the garden plants, and it forms large branches, so that the birds of heaven can make their nests in its shade."
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\v 33 With many parables like this he spoke the word to them, as much as they were able to understand,
\v 34 and he did not speak to them without a parable. But when he was alone, he explained everything to his own disciples.
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\v 35 On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, "Let us go over to the other side."
\v 36 So they left the crowd, taking Jesus with them, just as he was, in the boat. There were other boats going along with him.
\v 41 They were filled with great fear and said to one another, "Who then is this, because even the wind and the sea obey him?"
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\v 1 They came to the other side of the sea, to the region of the Gerasenes.
\v 2 When Jesus was getting out of the boat, immediately there came up to him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit.
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\v 3 The man lived in the tombs. No one could restrain him anymore, not even with a chain.
\v 4 He had been bound many times with shackles and with chains. He tore the chains apart and his shackles were shattered. No one had the strength to subdue him.
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\v 5 Every night and day in the tombs and in the mountains, he cried out and cut himself with sharp stones.
\v 6 When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran to him and bowed down before him.
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\v 7 He cried out with a loud voice, "What do I have to do with you, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you by God himself, do not torment me."
\v 8 For he had been saying to him, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit."
\v 10 He begged him again and again not to send them out of the region.
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\v 11 Now a great herd of pigs was there feeding on the hill,
\v 12 and they begged him, saying, "Send us into the pigs; let us enter into them."
\v 13 So he allowed them; the unclean spirits came out and entered into the pigs, and they rushed down the steep hill into the sea, and about two thousand pigs drowned in the sea.
\v 14 Then those who were feeding the pigs ran away and reported what had happened in the city and in the countryside, and so people went out to see what had happened.
\v 15 Then they came to Jesus and they saw the demon-possessed man, the one who had been possessed by Legion, sitting there, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.
\v 19 But Jesus did not permit him, but said to him, "Go to your house and to your people and tell them what the Lord has done for you, and how he has shown you mercy."
\v 23 He begged again and again, saying, "My little daughter is near death. I beg you, come and lay your hands on her that she may be made well and live."
\v 24 So he went with him, and a great crowd followed him and pressed close around him.
\v 38 They came to the house of the leader of the synagogue and he saw there people making a lot of noise; they were weeping and wailing loudly.
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\v 39 When he entered the house, he said to them, "Why are you upset and why do you weep? The child is not dead but sleeps."
\v 40 They laughed at him. But he put them all outside and took the father of the child and the mother and those who were with him, and he went in where the child was.
\v 1 He went out from there and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him.
\v 2 When the Sabbath came, he taught in the synagogue. Many people heard him and they were amazed. They said, "Where did he get these teachings?" "What is this wisdom that has been given to him?" "What are these miracles that he does with his hands?"
\v 3 "Is this not the carpenter, the son of Mary and the brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? Are his sisters not here with us?" They were offended by Jesus. \f + \ft The man called Joses here is called \fqa Joseph \fqa* in Matthew 27:56. The name \fqa Joseph \fqa* represents how the name was spelled in Hebrew, and the name \fqa Joses \fqa* represents how his name was spelled in Greek. \f*
\v 14 King Herod heard this, for Jesus' name had become well known. Some were saying, "John the Baptist has been raised from the dead, and that is why these miraculous powers are at work in him."
\v 17 For Herod sent to have John arrested and he had him bound in prison on account of Herodias (his brother Philip's wife), because he had married her.
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\v 18 For John told Herod, "It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife."
\v 19 But Herodias held on to anger against him and wanted to kill him, but she could not,
\v 20 for Herod feared John; he knew that he was a righteous and holy man, and he kept him safe. Listening to him made him greatly upset, yet he heard him gladly.
\v 22 The daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced for them, and she pleased Herod and his dinner guests. The king said to the girl, "Ask me for anything you want and I will give it to you."
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\v 23 He swore to her saying, "Whatever you ask of me, I will give you, up to half of my kingdom."
\v 25 She immediately hurried back to the king, and she asked, saying, "I want you to give me, right now, the head of John the Baptist on a wooden platter."
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\v 26 Though this deeply grieved the king, he could not refuse her request because of the oath he had made and because of his dinner guests.
\v 27 So the king sent a soldier from his guard and commanded him to bring him John's head. The guard went and beheaded him in the prison.
\v 28 He brought his head on a platter and gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother.
\v 29 When his disciples heard of this, they came and took his body and placed it in a tomb.
\v 31 Then he said to them, "Come away by yourselves into a deserted place and rest a while." For many were coming and going, and they did not even have time to eat.
\v 32 So they went away in the boat to a deserted place by themselves.
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\v 33 But they saw them leaving and many recognized them, and they ran there together on foot from all the towns, and they arrived there before them.
\v 34 When they came ashore, he saw a great crowd and he had compassion on them because they were like sheep without a shepherd. So he began to teach them many things.
\v 41 He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven he blessed and broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples to set before the people. He also divided the two fish among them all.
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\v 42 They all ate until they were satisfied.
\v 43 They took up broken pieces of bread, twelve baskets full, and also pieces of the fish.
\v 44 There were five thousand men who ate the loaves.
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\v 45 Immediately he made his disciples get into the boat and go ahead of him to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he sent the crowd away.
\v 46 When they were gone, he went up the mountain to pray.
\v 47 Evening came, and the boat was now in the middle of the sea, and he was alone on land.
\v 48 He saw that they were straining against the oars, for the wind was against them. About the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea, and he wanted to pass by them.
\v 51 He got into the boat with them, and the wind ceased blowing. They were completely amazed.
\v 52 For they had not understood what the loaves meant. Instead, their hearts were hardened.
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\v 53 When they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret and anchored the boat.
\v 54 When they came out of the boat, the people recognized him immediately,
\v 55 and they ran throughout the whole region and began to bring the sick on their mats to wherever they heard he was.
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\v 56 Wherever he entered into villages, or cities, or into the country, they would put the sick in the marketplaces. They begged him to let them touch the edge of his garment, and as many as touched him were healed.
\v 4 When the Pharisees come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they bathe themselves, and they hold to many other things they have received, such as the washing of cups, pots, copper vessels, and the couches upon which they eat.)
\v 5 The Pharisees and the scribes asked Jesus, "Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?"
\v 11 But you say, 'If a man says to his father or mother, "Whatever help you would have received from me is Corban"' (that is to say, 'Given to God'),
\v 19 because it cannot go into his heart, but it goes into his stomach and then passes out into the latrine?" With this statement Jesus declared all foods clean.
\v 24 He got up from there and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon. There he went into a house, and he wanted no one to know where he was, but he could not be hidden.
\v 25 In fact \f + \ft Some ancient copies have the word, \fqa But \fqa* as an alternative reading. \f* , as soon a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard about him, she came and fell down at his feet.
\v 6 He commanded the crowd to sit down on the ground. He took the seven loaves, gave thanks, and broke them. He gave them to his disciples to set before them, and they set them before the crowd.
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\v 7 They also had a few small fish, and after he gave thanks for them, he commanded the disciples to serve these as well.
\v 8 They ate and were satisfied, and they picked up the remaining broken pieces, seven large baskets.
\v 9 There were about four thousand people. Then he sent them away.
\v 10 Immediately he got into the boat with his disciples, and they went into the region of Dalmanutha.
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\v 11 Then the Pharisees came out and began to argue with him. They sought from him a sign from heaven, to test him.
\v 12 He sighed deeply in his spirit and said, "Why does this generation seek for a sign? Truly I say to you, no sign will be given to this generation."
\v 13 Then he left them, got into a boat again, and went away to the other side.
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\v 14 Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread with them. They had no more than one loaf of bread in the boat.
\v 17 Jesus was aware of this, and he said to them, "Why are you reasoning about not having bread? Do you not yet perceive? Do you not understand? Have your hearts become so dull?
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\v 18 You have eyes, do you not see? You have ears, do you not hear? Do you not remember?
\v 22 They came to Bethsaida. The people there brought to him a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him.
\v 23 Jesus took hold of the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the village. When he had spit on his eyes and laid his hands on him, he asked him, "Do you see anything?"
\v 30 Jesus warned them not to tell anyone about him.
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\v 31 He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and would be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes, and would be killed, and after three days rise up.
\v 33 But Jesus turned and looked at his disciples and then he rebuked Peter and said, "Get behind me, Satan! You are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of people."
\v 34 Then he called the crowd and his disciples together, and he said to them, "If anyone wants to follow me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.
\v 37 What can a person give in exchange for his life?
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\v 38 Whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels."
\v 1 He said to them, "Truly I say to you, there are some of you who are standing here who will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God come with power."
\v 2 Six days later, Jesus took Peter and James and John with him up a high mountain, alone by themselves. Then he was transfigured before them.
\v 3 His garments became radiantly brilliant, extremely white, whiter than any bleacher on earth could bleach them.
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\v 4 Then Elijah with Moses appeared to them, and they were talking with Jesus.
\v 5 Peter answered and said to Jesus, "Rabbi, it is good for us to be here, and so let us make three shelters, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."
\v 6 (For he did not know what to say, for they were terrified.)
\v 12 He said to them, "Elijah does come first to restore all things. Why then is it written that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be despised?
\v 18 It seizes him and it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and becomes rigid. I asked your disciples to drive it out of him, but they could not."
\v 19 He answered them, "Unbelieving generation, how long will I have to stay with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him to me."
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\v 20 They brought the boy to him. When the spirit saw Jesus, it immediately threw him into a convulsion. The boy fell on the ground and foamed at the mouth.
\v 25 When Jesus saw the crowd running to them, he rebuked the unclean spirit and said, "You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him, and never enter into him again."
\v 31 for he was teaching his disciples. He said to them, "The Son of Man will be given over into the hands of men, and they will put him to death. When he has been put to death, after three days he will rise again."
\v 42 Whoever causes one of these little ones who believes in me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a large millstone tied around his neck and be thrown into the sea.
\v 43 If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed than to have two hands and to go into hell, into the unquenchable fire.
\v 44 \f + \ft The best ancient copies do not have this phrase from verses 44 and 46, \fqa where their worm does not die, and the fire is not put out \fqa* . \f*
\v 46 \f + \ft The best ancient copies do not have this phrase from verses 44 and 46, \fqa where their worm does not die, and the fire is not put out \fqa* . \f*
\v 47 If your eye causes you to stumble, tear it out. It is better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and to be thrown into hell,
\v 48 where their worm does not die, and the fire is not put out.
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\v 49 For everyone will be salted with fire.
\v 50 Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, how can you make it salty again? Have salt among yourselves, and be at peace with one another."
\v 1 Jesus left that place and went to the region of Judea and to the area beyond the Jordan River, and the crowds came to him again. He was teaching them again, as he was accustomed to do.
\v 2 Then Pharisees came to him to test him and asked, "Is it lawful for a husband to divorce his wife?"
\v 9 Therefore what God has joined together, let no man tear apart."
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\v 10 When they were in the house, the disciples asked him again about this.
\v 11 He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her.
\v 12 If she divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery."
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\v 13 Then they brought their little children to him so that he might touch them, but the disciples rebuked them.
\v 14 But when Jesus noticed it, he was very displeased and said to them, "Permit the little children to come to me, and do not forbid them, for the kingdom of God belongs to those who are like them.
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\v 15 Truly I say to you, whoever will not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will definitely not enter it."
\v 16 Then he took the children into his arms and blessed them as he placed his hands on them.
\v 19 You know the commandments: 'Do not kill, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not testify falsely, do not defraud, honor your father and mother.'"
\v 21 Jesus looked at him and loved him. He said to him, "One thing you lack. You must sell all that you have and give it to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."
\v 22 But because of this statement he looked very sad and he went away distressed, because he had many possessions.
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\v 23 Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, "How difficult it is for those who are rich to enter the kingdom of God!"
\v 24 The disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus said to them again, "Children, how hard it is to enter into the kingdom of God!
\v 29 Jesus said, "Truly I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands for my sake and for the gospel
\v 30 who will not receive a hundred times as much now in this world: houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the world to come, eternal life.
\v 32 They were on the road going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was going ahead of them. The disciples were amazed, and those who were following behind were afraid. Then Jesus took the twelve aside again and began to tell them what would soon happen to him.
\v 33 "See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be given over to the chief priests and the scribes. They will condemn him to death and give him over to the Gentiles.
\v 38 But Jesus replied to them, "You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup which I will drink or endure the baptism with which I will be baptized?"
\v 40 But who is to sit at my right hand or at my left hand is not mine to give, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared."
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\v 41 When the other ten disciples heard about this, they began to be very angry with James and John.
\v 42 Jesus called them to himself and said, "You know those who are considered rulers of the Gentiles dominate them, and their high officials exercise authority over them.
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\v 43 But it shall not be this way among you. Whoever wishes to become great among you must be your servant,
\v 44 and whoever wishes to be first among you must be the slave of all.
\v 45 For the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."
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\v 46 They came to Jericho. As he left Jericho with his disciples and a great crowd, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, sat by the road.
\v 47 When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to shout and to say, "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!"
\v 2 and said to them, "Go into the village opposite us. As soon as you enter it, you will find a colt that has never been ridden. Untie it and bring it to me.
\v 3 If anyone says to you, 'Why are you doing this?' you should say, 'The Lord has need of it and will immediately send it back here.'"
\v 11 Then Jesus entered into Jerusalem and went into the temple and looked around at everything. Now the time being late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.
\v 12 The next day while they were going out from Bethany, he was hungry.
\v 13 Seeing from far away a fig tree that had leaves, he went to see if he could find any fruit on it, and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.
\v 14 He spoke to it, "No one will ever eat fruit from you again." And his disciples heard it.
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\v 15 They came to Jerusalem, and he entered the temple and began to cast out the sellers and the buyers in the temple. He turned over the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons.
\v 16 He did not allow anyone to carry anything through the temple that could be sold.
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\v 17 He taught them and said, "Is it not written,
\q 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations'?
\v 18 The chief priests and the scribes heard what he had said, and they looked for a way to kill him. For they feared him because the entire crowd was amazed at his teaching.
\v 23 Truly I say to you that if anyone says to this mountain, 'Get up and cast yourself into the sea,' and if he does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he said will happen, that is what God will do.
\v 24 Therefore I say to you: Everything you pray and ask for, believe that you received it, and it will be yours.
\v 25 When you stand and pray, you must forgive whatever you have against anyone, so that your Father who is in heaven will also forgive you your trespasses."
\v 26 \f + \ft The best ancient copies of Mark do not have this sentence: \fqa But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father who is in heaven forgive your trespasses \fqa* . \f*
\v 1 Then Jesus began to teach them in parables. He said, "A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, and dug a pit for a winepress. He built a watchtower and then leased the vineyard to vine growers. Then he went away on a journey.
\v 2 At the right time, he sent a servant to the vine growers to receive from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.
\v 3 But they took him, beat him, and sent him away with nothing.
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\v 4 Again he sent to them another servant, and they wounded him in the head and treated him shamefully.
\v 5 He sent yet another, and this one they killed. They treated many others in the same way, beating some and killing others.
\v 12 After this the Jewish leaders sought a way to arrest Jesus because they understood that he spoke the parable against them. But they were afraid of the crowd. So they left him and went away.
\v 13 Then they sent some of the Pharisees and the Herodians to him to trap him with words.
\v 14 When they came, they said to him, "Teacher, we know that you care for no one's opinion, and you do not show partiality between people. You truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not? Should we pay or not?"
\v 19 "Teacher, Moses wrote for us, 'If a man's brother dies and leaves a wife behind him, but no child, the man should take the brother's wife, and raise up a descendant for his brother.'
\v 26 But concerning the dead that are raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the account about the bush, how God spoke to him and said, 'I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob'?
\v 27 He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are quite mistaken."
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\v 28 One of the scribes came and heard their discussion; he saw that Jesus answered them well. He asked him, "What commandment is the most important of all?"
\v 33 To love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as oneself is even more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices."
\v 34 When Jesus saw that he had given a wise answer, he said to him, "You are not far from the kingdom of God." After that, no one dared to ask Jesus any more questions.
\v 40 They also devour widows' houses, and they pray long prayers for people to see. These men will receive greater condemnation."
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\v 41 Then Jesus sat down across from an offering box in the temple area; he was watching people as they dropped their money into the box. Many rich people put in large amounts of money.
\v 42 Then a poor widow came and put in two mites, worth about a penny.
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\v 43 He called his disciples and said to them, "Truly I say to you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them who contributed to the offering box.
\v 5 Jesus began to say to them, "Be careful that no one leads you astray.
\v 6 Many will come in my name and say, 'I am he,' and they will lead many astray.
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\v 7 When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not worry; these things must happen, but the end is not yet.
\v 8 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in many places, and famines. These are the beginnings of birth pains.
\v 9 "Be on your guard. They will deliver you up to councils, and you will be beaten in synagogues. You will stand before both governors and kings for my sake, as a testimony to them.
\v 10 But the gospel must first be proclaimed to all the nations.
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\v 11 When they arrest you and hand you over, do not worry about what you should say. For in that hour, what you should say will be given to you; it will not be you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.
\v 12 Brother will deliver up brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise up against their parents and cause them to be put to death.
\v 13 You will be hated by everyone because of my name. But whoever endures to the end, that person will be saved.
\v 14 "When you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be standing," (let the reader understand) "let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains,
\v 33 "Be alert! Watch, because you do not know what time it is. \f + \ft Some ancient copies of the Greek text read: \fqa Be alert! Watch and pray \fqa* . \f*
\v 34 It is like a man who goes on a journey—he leaves his house and puts his servants in charge of the house, each one with his work, and he commands the watchman to stay awake.
\v 35 Therefore stay alert because you do not know when the master of the house will come home; it could be in the evening, at midnight, when the rooster crows, or in the morning.
\v 36 If he comes suddenly, do not let him find you sleeping.
\v 37 What I say to you I say to everyone: Watch!"
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\v 1 It was now two days before the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread. The chief priests and the scribes were considering how they might stealthily arrest Jesus and then kill him.
\v 2 For they were saying, "Not during the feast, so that a riot does not arise among the people."
\v 3 While Jesus was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he was reclining at the table, a woman came to him having an alabaster jar of very costly liquid, which was pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the nard on his head.
\v 6 But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why are you troubling her? She has done a beautiful thing for me.
\v 7 You always have the poor with you, and whenever you desire you can do good to them, but you will not always have me.
\v 8 She has done what she could. She has anointed my body for burial.
\v 9 Truly I say to you, wherever the gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will be spoken of, in memory of her."
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\v 10 Then Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests so that he might deliver him over to them.
\v 11 When the chief priests heard it, they were glad and promised to give him money. He began looking for an opportunity to deliver him to them.
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\v 12 On the first day of unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the Passover lamb, his disciples said to him, "Where do you want us to go to prepare, so you may eat the Passover meal?"
\v 13 He sent two of his disciples and said to them, "Go into the city, and a man bearing a pitcher of water will meet you. Follow him.
\v 14 Where he enters a house, follow him in and say to the owner of that house, 'The Teacher says, "Where is my guest room where I will eat the Passover with my disciples?"'
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\v 15 He will show you a large furnished upper room that is ready. Make the preparations for us there."
\v 16 The disciples left and went to the city. They found everything as he had said to them, and they prepared the Passover meal.
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\v 17 When it was evening, he came with the twelve.
\v 18 As they were lying down at the table and eating, Jesus said, "Truly I say to you, one of you eating with me will betray me."
\v 20 Jesus answered and said to them, "It is one of the twelve, the one now dipping bread with me in the bowl.
\v 21 For the Son of Man will go the way that the scripture says about him. But woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for him if he had not been born."
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\v 22 As they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed it, and broke it. He gave it to them and said, "Take this. This is my body."
\v 23 He took a cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, and they all drank from it.
\v 24 He said to them, "This is my blood of the covenant, the blood that is poured out for many.
\v 25 Truly I say to you, I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God."
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\v 26 When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
\v 27 Jesus said to them, "All of you will fall away, for it is written,
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\v 28 But after I am raised up, I will go ahead of you into Galilee."
\v 41 He came the third time and said to them, "Are you still sleeping and taking your rest? Enough! The hour has come. Look! The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners.
\v 42 Get up; let us go. Look, the one who is betraying me is near."
\v 43 While he was still speaking, Judas, one of the twelve, arrived, and a large crowd was with him with swords and clubs, from the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders.
\v 48 Jesus said to them, "Do you come out, as against a robber, with swords and clubs to capture me?
\v 49 When I was daily with you and I was teaching in the temple, you did not arrest me. But this was done that the scriptures might be fulfilled."
\v 50 All those with Jesus left him and ran away.
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\v 51 A young man, wearing only a linen garment that was wrapped around him, was following Jesus. When the men seized him
\v 52 he left the linen garment and ran away naked.
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\v 53 They led Jesus to the high priest. There were gathered with him all the chief priests, the elders, and the scribes.
\v 54 Now Peter followed him from a distance, as far as the courtyard of the high priest. He sat among the guards, who were near a fire to keep warm.
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\v 55 Now the chief priests and the entire Jewish council were seeking testimony against Jesus so they might put him to death. But they did not find any.
\v 56 For many brought false testimony against him, but even their testimony did not agree.
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\v 57 Some stood up and brought false testimony against him; they said,
\v 58 "We heard him say, 'I will destroy this temple made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.'"
\v 70 But he denied it again. After a little while those who stood there were saying to Peter, "Surely you are one of them, for you also are a Galilean."
\v 72 The rooster immediately crowed a second time. Then Peter remembered the words that Jesus had said to him: "Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times," and he broke down and wept.
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\v 1 Early in the morning, the chief priests met together with the elders and scribes and the entire Jewish council. Then they bound Jesus and led him away. They handed him over to Pilate.
\v 21 A certain man, Simon of Cyrene, was coming in from the country (he was the father of Alexander and Rufus), and they forced him to carry his cross.
\v 31 In the same way the chief priests were mocking him with each other, along with the scribes, and said, "He saved others, but he cannot save himself.
\v 32 Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe." Those who were crucified with him also taunted him.
\v 33 At the sixth hour, darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.
\v 34 At the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" which is interpreted, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
\v 35 Some of those standing by heard his words and said, "Look, he is calling for Elijah."
\v 36 Someone ran, put sour wine on a sponge, put it on a reed staff, and gave it to him to drink. The man said, "Let us see if Elijah comes to take him down."
\v 37 Then Jesus cried out with a loud voice and died.
\v 40 There were also women who looked on from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary (the mother of James the younger and of Joses) \f + \ft The man called \fqa Joses \fqa* here is called \fqa Joseph \fqa* in Mark 6:3. The name \fqa Joseph \fqa* represents how the name was spelled in Hebrew, and the name \fqa Joses \fqa* represents how his name was spelled in Greek. \f* , and Salome.
\v 43 Joseph of Arimathea came there. He was a respected member of the council who was waiting for the kingdom of God. He boldly went in to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.
\v 44 Pilate was amazed that Jesus was already dead; he called the centurion and asked him if Jesus was dead.
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\v 45 When Pilate learned from the centurion that Jesus was dead, he gave the body to Joseph.
\v 46 Joseph had bought a linen cloth. He took him down from the cross, wrapped him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb that had been cut out of a rock. Then he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb.
\v 47 Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw the place where Jesus was buried.
\v 6 He said to them, "Do not be alarmed. You seek Jesus, the Nazarene, who was crucified. He is risen! He is not here. Look at the place where they had laid him.
\v 9 \f + \ft The best ancient copies do not have Mark 16:9-20. \f* [Early on the first day of the week, after he arose, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.
\v 14 Jesus later appeared to the eleven as they were reclining at the table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who saw him after he rose from the dead.
\v 18 They will pick up snakes with their hands, and if they drink anything deadly, it will not hurt them. They will lay hands on the sick, and they will get well."
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