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-\v 37 As they came along the road that goes down from the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God loudly for all the great miracles that they had seen Jesus do.
+\v 37 As they came along the road that goes down from the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God loudly for all the great miracles they had seen Jesus do.
 \v 38 They were saying things like, "May God bless our king who comes with God's authority! May there be peace between God in heaven and us his people, and may everyone praise God!"
 
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 \v 39 Some of the Pharisees who were in the crowd said to him, "Teacher, tell your disciples to stop saying those things!"
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-\v 40 He replied, "I tell you this: if these people were silent, the stones themselves would shout to praise me!"
+\v 40 He replied, "I tell you this: If these people were silent, the stones themselves would shout to praise me!"
 
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-\v 47 Each day during that week Jesus was teaching people in the temple courtyard. The chief priests, the teachers of religious laws, and other Jewish leaders were trying to find a way to kill him.
-\v 48 But they did not find any way to do it, because all the people were eager to hear him.
+\v 47 Each day during that week, Jesus was teaching people in the temple courtyard. The chief priests, the teachers of religious laws, and other Jewish leaders were trying to find a way to kill him.
+\v 48 But they did not find any way to do it because all the people were eager to hear him.
 
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-\v 1 One day during that week Jesus was teaching the people in the temple courtyard and telling them God's good message. As he was doing that, the chief priests, the teachers of the Jewish laws, and other elders came to him.
+\v 1 One day during that week, Jesus was teaching the people in the temple courtyard and telling them God's good message. As he was doing that, the chief priests, the teachers of the Jewish laws, and other elders came to him.
 \v 2 They said to him, "Tell us, what right do you have to do these things? And who gave you this right?"
 
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 \v 14 So he sent his son, but when the men who were caring for the vineyard saw him coming, they said to each other, 'Here comes the man who will inherit the vineyard! Let us kill him so that this vineyard might become ours!'
 
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-\v 15 So they dragged him outside the vineyard and they killed him. So I will tell you what the owner of the vineyard will do to them!
+\v 15 So they dragged him outside the vineyard and killed him. So I will tell you what the owner of the vineyard will do to them!
 \v 16 He will come and kill those men who were taking care of the vineyard. Then he will arrange for other people to take care of it." 
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 When the people listening to Jesus heard this, they said, "May a situation like this never happen!"
 
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-\v 17 But Jesus looked directly at them and said, "You can say that, but think about the meaning of these words that are written in the scriptures,
-\q1 'The stone which the builders rejected has become the most important stone in the building.
+\v 17 But Jesus looked directly at them and said, "You can say that, but think about the meaning of these words that are written in the scriptures:
+\q1 'The stone that the builders rejected has become the most important stone in the building.
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 \v 18 Everyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, and it will crush anyone on whom it falls."
 
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-\v 19 The chief priests and the teachers of the Jewish laws realized that he was accusing them when he told the story about those wicked men. So they immediately tried to find a way to arrest him, but they did not arrest him, because they were afraid of what the people would do if they did so.
+\v 19 The chief priests and the teachers of the Jewish laws realized that he was accusing them when he told the story about those wicked men. So they immediately tried to find a way to arrest him, but they did not arrest him because they were afraid of what the people would do if they did so.
 \v 20 So they watched him carefully. They also sent spies who pretended to be sincere. But they really wanted to get Jesus to say something wrong for which they could accuse him. They wanted to be able to turn him over to the governor of the province.
 
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 \v 28 They also wanted to ask Jesus a question. One of them said to him, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us Jews that if a man who has a wife but no children dies, his brother should marry the widow so that she can have a child by him. In this way, people will consider that the child is the descendant of the man who died.
 
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-\v 29 Well, there were seven brothers in one family. The oldest one married a woman but she did not having any children. Later he died, leaving her to be a widow.
+\v 29 Well, there were seven brothers in one family. The oldest one married a woman but she did not have any children. Later he died, leaving her to be a widow.
 \v 30 The second brother followed this law and married the widow, but the same thing happened to him.
 \v 31 Then the third brother married her, but the same thing happened again. All seven brothers, one by one, married that woman, but they had no children, and one by one they died.
-\v 32 Afterwards, the woman died, too.
+\v 32 Afterwards, the woman also died.
 \v 33 Therefore, if it is true that there will be a time when people who have died will become alive again, whose wife do you think that woman will be then? Keep in mind that she was married to all seven brothers!"
 
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-\v 34 Jesus replied to them, "In this world, men take wives, and people give their daughters in marriage to men.
+\v 34 Jesus replied to them, "In this world men take wives and people give their daughters in marriage to men.
 \v 35 But the people whom God considers worthy of being in heaven after they rise from the dead will not marry.
 \v 36 Also, they cannot die anymore, because they are like the angels of God who live forever. They are God's children, since they are children whom God raised to new life.
 
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-\v 37 But Moses wrote about how God raises the dead to life in the Old Testament. We see this in the passage about the burning bush. In that scripture he calls the Lord, 'the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' Moses showed us that the leaders of God's people, although they had died, they still worship and honor God.
+\v 37 But Moses wrote about how God raises the dead to life in the Old Testament. We see this in the passage about the burning bush. In that scripture he calls the Lord, 'the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' Moses showed us that although the leaders of God's people had died, they still worship and honor God.
 \v 38 Now he is the God of those who are alive. He is not the God of people who are dead! But all of us are given life so we can be with God, and when we are with him, we can honor him!"
 
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 \v 41 Later Jesus said to them, "How can it be said that the Christ is King David's son? How is that possible?
-\v 42 David himself wrote in the Book of Psalms about the Christ,
+\v 42 David himself wrote in the Book of Psalms about the Christ:
 \q 'The Lord said to my Lord,
 \q "Sit here beside me and I will give you the honor you deserve.
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 \v 43 Sit here while I completely defeat your enemies and put them all under your control."'
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-\v 44 When King David calls the Christ 'my Lord', then how can the Christ be his descendant? But the Christ comes through the family of King David, and so he is much more than a descendant!"
+\v 44 If King David calls the Christ 'my Lord,' then how can the Christ be his descendant? But the Christ comes through the family of King David, and so he is much more than a descendant!"
 
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 \v 45 While all the other people were listening, Jesus said to his disciples,
-\v 46 "Beware that you do not act like the men who teach our Jewish laws. They like to put on long robes and walk around to make people think that they are very important. They also like people to greet them respectfully in the marketplaces. They like to sit in the most important places in the synagogues. At dinner parties they like to sit in the seats where the most honored people sit.
+\v 46 "Beware that you do not act like the men who teach our Jewish laws. They like to put on long robes and walk around to make people think they are very important. They also like people to greet them respectfully in the marketplaces. They like to sit in the most important places in the synagogues. At dinner parties they like to sit in the seats where the most honored people sit.
 \v 47 They also steal all the property of widows. Then they pray for a long time in public. God will certainly punish them very severely."
 
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-\v 10 "Nations will attack other nations, and many kings will fight against each other.
+\v 10 "Nations will attack other nations and many kings will fight against each other.
 \v 11 And in many places there will be great earthquakes, famines, and terrible diseases. Many things will happen that will cause people to be very afraid, and people will see strange things in the sky that will show that something very important is going to happen.
 
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 \v 35 Indeed, I will return without warning, and that day will come when you are not ready to see me.
 
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-\v 36 So you must be always ready for my coming. And always pray that you may be able to go through all these hard things in safety, and that I, the Son of Man, declare you innocent when I come to judge the world."
+\v 36 So you must be always ready for my coming. And always pray that you may be able to go through all these hard things safely, and that I, the Son of Man, declare you innocent when I come to judge the world."
 
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