FD issues chapters 14-15

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 \v 15 One of those who were eating with him heard him say that. He said to Jesus, "God has truly blessed everyone who will eat the feast to celebrate that God has begun to rule everywhere!"
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 \v 16 Jesus replied to him, "One time a man decided to prepare a large feast. He invited many people to come.
 \v 17 When it was the day for the feast, he sent his servant to tell those who had been invited, 'Come now because everything is ready!'
 
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 \v 18 But when the servant did that, all of the people whom he had invited began to say why they could not come. The first man that the servant went to said, 'I have just bought a field, and I must go there and see it. Please ask your master to forgive me for not coming!'
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 \v 19 Another person said, 'I have just bought five pairs of oxen, and I must go to examine them. Please ask your master to forgive me for not coming!'
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 \v 20 Another person said, 'I have just been married, so I cannot come.'
 
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 \v 21 So the servant returned to his master and reported what everyone had said. The owner of the house was angry and said to his servant, 'Go out quickly to the streets and alleys of the city and find poor and crippled and blind and lame people, and bring them here into my house!'
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 \v 22 After the servant went out and did that, he came back and said, 'Sir, I have done what you told me to do, but there is still room for more people.'
 
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 \v 23 So his master said to him, 'Then go outside the city. Search for people along the highways. Search also along the narrow roads with hedges. Strongly urge the people in those places to come to my house. I want it to be full of people!
 \v 24 Moreover I tell you this, the ones who were invited first will not get to enjoy my feast because they refused to come.'"
 
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 \v 30 They would say, 'This man started to build a tower, but he was not able to finish it!'
 
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 \v 31 Or, if a king decided to send his army to war against another king, he would surely first sit down with those who advised him. They would determine whether his army, which had only ten thousand soldiers, could defeat the other king's army, which had twenty thousand soldiers.
 \v 32 If he decided his army could not defeat the other army, he would send a messenger to the other king while the other army was still far away. He would tell the messenger to say to that king, 'What things must I do to have peace with you?'
 \v 33 So, similarly, if any one of you does not first decide that you are willing to give up all that you have, you cannot be my disciple."
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-\v 1 Now, many tax collectors and other people who were considered to be habitual sinners kept coming to Jesus to listen to him teach.
+\v 1 Now many tax collectors and other people who were considered to be habitual sinners kept coming to Jesus to listen to him teach.
 \v 2 When the Pharisees and teachers of the Jewish laws saw this, they began to grumble, saying, "This man welcomes sinners and even eats with them." They thought Jesus was defiling himself by doing this.
 
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 \v 3 So Jesus told them this parable:
 \v 4 "Suppose that one of you has a hundred sheep and you lose one of them. Certainly you will leave the ninety-nine other sheep in the wilderness and go search for the lost sheep until you have found it.
 \v 5 When you find it, you will joyfully put it on your shoulders to carry it home.
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-\v 8 Or, suppose that a woman has ten very valuable silver coins and then she loses one of them. Certainly she will light a lamp and sweep the floor and search carefully until she finds it.
+\v 8 "Or, suppose that a woman has ten very valuable silver coins and then she loses one of them. Certainly she will light a lamp and sweep the floor and search carefully until she finds it.
 \v 9 When she finds it, she will call together her friends and neighbors and say to them, "Be very happy with me, because I have found the coin that I lost!'
-\v 10 I tell you that, in a similar way, there is much joy among the angels of God because of one sinner who repents from his sins."
+\v 10 I tell you that in a similar way there is much joy among the angels of God because of one sinner who repents from his sins."
 
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 \v 21 His son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against God and against you. So I am no longer worthy to be called your son.'
 
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 \v 22 But his father said to his servants; 'Go quickly and bring my best robe and put it on my son. Also put a ring on his finger and shoes on his feet!
 \v 23 And bring the calf that has been fattened for a special occasion and kill it, so that we can eat it and celebrate!
 \v 24 We need to celebrate because this son of mine was like a dead man, but he is now alive again! He was like a lost person, but he has now been found!' So they all began to celebrate.
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 \v 27 The servant said to him, 'Your brother has come home. Your father has told us to kill the fattened calf to celebrate because your brother has returned safe and healthy.'
 
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 \v 28 But the older brother was angry and did not want to go into the house. So his father came out and pleaded with him to come in.
 \v 29 But he replied to his father, 'Listen! For all these years I have worked for you as hard as a slave. I always obeyed everything you told me to do. But you never gave me even a young goat to eat so that I could give a feast with my friends.
 \v 30 But now that this son of yours has come back home, after wasting all your money on prostitutes, you have told your servants to kill the fattened calf for a celebration!'
 
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 \v 31 But his father said to him, 'My son, you are always with me, and all that I own is yours.
 \v 32 But it is right for us to rejoice and celebrate, because it is as though your brother was dead and is alive again! It is as though he was lost and has now been found!'"