working through Bob Johnson on Mark

42-MRK/02.usfm

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 \v 5 Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralyzed man, "Son, your sins are forgiven."
-\v 6 But some of the scribes that were sitting there reasoned in their hearts,
+\v 6 Now some of the scribes were sitting there, and they reasoned in their hearts,
 \v 7 "How can this man speak this way? He blasphemes! Who can forgive sins but God alone?"
 
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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 Alpheus sitting at the tax collecting place and he said to him, "Follow me." He got up and followed him.
+\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.
 
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 \v 18 John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. And 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.
+\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.
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 \v 24 And the Pharisees said to him, "Look, why are they doing something that is not lawful on the Sabbath day?"
 
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-\v 25 He said to them, "Have you never read what David did when he was in need and hungry—he and the men who were with him?
-\v 26 How he went into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the bread of the presence—which it is unlawful for anyone to eat except the priests—and he even gave some to those who were with him?"
+\v 25 He said to them, "Have you never read what David did when he was in need and hungry—he and the men who were with him—
+\v 26 how he went into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the bread of the presence, which it is unlawful for anyone to eat except the priests, and he even gave some to those who were with him?"
 
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 \v 27 Jesus said, "The Sabbath was made for mankind, not mankind for the Sabbath.

42-MRK/03.usfm

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 \v 4 Then he said to the people, "Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath day or to do harm; to save a life, or to kill?" But they were silent.
 
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-\v 5 He looked around at them in anger, grieving because of the hardness of their hearts, and he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out and Jesus restored his hand.
-\v 6 The Pharisees went out and immediately formed a plot with the Herodians against him to put him to death.
+\v 5 He looked around at them with anger, and he was grieved by their hardness of hearts, 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 to put him to death.
 
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42-MRK/04.usfm

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 \v 3 "Listen, the farmer went out to sow his seed.
-\v 4 As he sowed, some seeds fell on the road, and the birds came and devoured them.
-\v 5 Other seeds fell on the rocky ground, where it did not have much soil. Immediately they sprang up, because they did not have deep soil.
+\v 4 As he sowed, some seed fell on the road, and the birds came and devoured them.
+\v 5 Other seed fell on the rocky ground, where it did not have much soil. Immediately they sprang up, because they did not have deep soil.
 
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 \v 6 But when the sun rose, they were scorched, and because they had no root, they dried up.
-\v 7 Other seeds fell among the thorn plants. The thorn plants grew up and choked them, and they did not produce any grain.
+\v 7 Other seed fell among the thorn plants. The thorn plants grew up and choked them, and they did not produce any grain.
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 \v 8 Other seed fell into good soil and it produced grain while growing up and increasing, and some brought forth thirty times as much, and some sixty, and some a hundred."
 \v 9 And he said, "Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear!"
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 \v 18 And others are the ones sown among the thorns. They hear the word,
-\v 19 but the cares of the world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires of other things, enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
+\v 19 but the cares of the world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires of other things enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
 \v 20 Then there are those who are the ones sown in the good soil. They hear the word and receive it and produce fruit: some thirty, and some sixty, and some a hundred."
 
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42-MRK/05.usfm

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 \v 2 And immediately when Jesus was getting out of the boat, a man with an unclean spirit came to him from the tombs.
 
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-\v 3 The man lived in the tombs. No one could restrain him any more, not even with a chain.
+\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 9 And he asked him, "What is your name?" And he answered him, "My name is Legion, for we are many."
-\v 10 He begged him over and over not to send them out of the region.
+\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,
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 \v 21 And when Jesus had crossed over again to the other side, in the boat, a great crowd gathered around him, as he was beside the sea.
 \v 22 And one of the leaders of the synagogue, named Jairus, came, and when he saw him, fell at his feet.
-\v 23 He begged over and over, 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 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.
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-\v 25 Now there was a woman who's blood had flowed for twelve years.
-\v 26 She had suffered a lot under many doctors and had spent everything that she had. Yet she was helped by nothing, but instead got worse.
+\v 25 Now there was a woman whose blood had flowed for twelve years.
+\v 26 She had suffered much under the care of many doctors and had spent everything that she had, but instead of getting better she grew worse.
 \v 27 She had heard reports about Jesus. So she came up behind him when he was walking in the crowd, and she touched his cloak.
 
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 \v 36 But when Jesus overheard what they said, he said to the leader of the synagogue, "Do not be afraid. Just believe."
 \v 37 He did not permit anyone to accompany him, except Peter, James, and John, the brother of James.
-\v 38 They came to the house of the leader of the synagogue and he saw a commotion, a lot of weeping and wailing.
+\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."