FD issues chapter 7-8

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 \v 5 That day, those Pharisees and men who taught the Jewish laws saw that some of his disciples were eating food with hands that they had not washed using the special ritual. So they questioned Jesus and said, "Your disciples disobey the traditions of our elders! Why do they eat food if they have not washed their hands using our ritual!"
 
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 \v 6 Jesus said to them, "Isaiah rebuked your ancestors, and his words describe very well you people who only pretend to be good! He wrote these words that God said:
 \q 'These people speak as if they honor me,
 \q but they really do not think about honoring me at all.
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 \v 27 He said to the woman, "First let the children eat all they want, because it is not good for someone to take the food the mother has prepared for the children and then throw it to the little dogs."
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 \v 28 She replied to him, "Sir, what you say is correct, but even the house dogs, who lie under the table, eat the crumbs that the children drop."
 
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 \v 29 Jesus said to her, "Because of what you have said, go home. I have caused the evil spirit to leave your daughter."
 \v 30 The woman returned to her house and saw that her child was lying quietly on the bed and that the evil spirit had left.
 
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 \v 31 Jesus and his disciples left the region around Tyre and went north through Sidon, then toward the east through the area of the Ten Towns, and then south to the towns near the Sea of Galilee.
-\v 32 There, people brought to him a man who was deaf and could not talk. They begged Jesus to lay his hands on him in order to heal him.
+\v 32 There people brought to him a man who was deaf and could not talk. They begged Jesus to lay his hands on him in order to heal him.
 
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 \v 33 So Jesus took him away from the crowd in order that the two of them could be alone. Then he put one of his fingers into each of the man's ears. After he spat on his fingers, he touched the man's tongue with his fingers.
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 \v 35 At once the man could hear plainly. He also began to speak clearly because what was causing him to be unable to speak was healed.
 
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-\v 36 Jesus told the people not to tell anyone what he had done. But, although he ordered them and others repeatedly not to tell anyone about it, they kept talking about it all the more.
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+\v 36 Jesus told the people not to tell anyone what he had done. But although he ordered them and others repeatedly not to tell anyone about it, they kept talking about it all the more.
 \v 37 People who heard about it were utterly amazed and were saying, "Everything he has done is wonderful! Besides doing other amazing things, he enables deaf people to hear! And he enables those who cannot speak to speak!"
 
 
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 \v 1 During those days, a large crowd of people gathered again. After they had been there for two days, they had no food to eat. So Jesus called the disciples to come close to him, and then he said to them,
 \v 2 "This is the third day that these people have been with me, and they have nothing left to eat, so now I am very concerned for them.
 \v 3 If I send them home while they are still hungry, some of them will faint on the way home. Some of them have come from far away."
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 \v 4 The disciples knew that he was suggesting that they give the people something to eat, so one of them replied, "We cannot possibly find food to satisfy this crowd. No one lives in this place!
 
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-\v 5 Jesus asked them, "How many loaves of bread do you have?" They replied, "We have seven flat loaves."
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+\v 5 Jesus asked them, "How many loaves of bread do you have?" 
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+They replied, "We have seven flat loaves."
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 \v 6 Jesus commanded the crowd, "Sit down on the ground!" After they sat down, he took the seven loaves, thanked God for them, broke them into pieces, and gave them to his disciples to distribute to the people.
 
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 \v 15 As they were going, Jesus warned them and said, "Be careful! Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and of Herod!"
 
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 \v 16 The disciples misunderstood him. So they said to one another, "He must have said that because we have no bread."
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 \v 17 Jesus knew what they were discussing among themselves. So he said to them, "Why are you talking about not having enough bread? You should understand what I have said by now! You are not thinking!
 
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 \v 18 You have eyes, but you do not understand what you see! You have ears, but you do not understand what I say!" Then he asked, "Do you not remember what happened
-\v 19 when I broke only five loaves and fed the five thousand people? Not only was everyone satisfied, but there was food left over! How many baskets of pieces of bread that were left over did you collect?" They replied, "We collected twelve baskets full."
+\v 19 when I broke only five loaves and fed the five thousand people? Not only was everyone satisfied, but there was food left over! How many baskets of pieces of bread that were left over did you collect?" 
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+They replied, "We collected twelve baskets full."
 
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 \v 20 Then he asked, "When I broke the seven loaves in order to feed the four thousand people, again when everyone had plenty to eat, how many large baskets of pieces of bread that were left over did you collect?" They replied, "We collected seven large baskets full."
 \v 21 Then he said to them, "Do you not understand?"
 
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 \v 23 Jesus took the hand of the blind man and led him outside the town. Then he spat into the man's eyes, he put his hands on the man and then asked him, "Do you see anything?"
 
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 \v 24 The man looked up and then he said, "Yes, I see people! They are walking around, but I cannot see them clearly. They look like trees!"
 \v 25 Then Jesus again touched the eyes of the blind man. The man looked intently, and at that moment he was completely healed! He could see everything clearly.
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 \v 26 Jesus said to him, "Do not go into the town!" Then he sent the man to his home.
 
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 \v 28 They replied, "Some people say that you are John the Baptizer. Others say that you are the prophet Elijah. And others say that you are one of the other former prophets."
 
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-\v 29 He asked them, "What about you? Who do you say that I am?" Peter replied to him, "You are the Christ."
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+\v 29 He asked them, "What about you? Who do you say that I am?" 
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+Peter replied to him, "You are the Christ."
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 \v 30 Then Jesus warned them strongly, "Do not tell anyone about me."
 
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 \v 34 Then he called the crowd together along with his disciples so that they might listen to him. He told them, "If any one of you wants to be my disciple, you must not do only what makes you live easily. You must be willing to suffer pain like criminals who are forced to carry crosses to the places where they will be crucified. That is what anyone who wants to be my disciple must do.
 
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-\v 35 You must do that, because those who try to save their lives by denying that they belong to me will lose their lives. Those who are killed because they are my disciples and because they tell others the good news will live forever with me.
+\v 35 You must do that because those who try to save their lives by denying that they belong to me will lose their lives. Those who are killed because they are my disciples and because they tell others the good news will live forever with me.
 \v 36 People might get everything they want in this world, but they are really gaining nothing if they do not gain eternal life!
 \v 37 Think carefully about the fact that there is absolutely nothing that people can give to God that would enable them to gain eternal life!