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 \v 20 The young man said to Jesus, "I have always obeyed all those commandments. What else must I do in order to live with God forever?"
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 \v 21 Jesus said to him, "If you desire to be exactly how God wants you to be, go home, sell everything that you have, and give the money to poor people. The result will be that you will be wealthy in heaven. Then come, follow me, and be my disciple!"
-\v 22 When the young man heard those words, he went away feeling sad, because he was very rich and did not want to give away everything he owned.
+\v 22 When the young man heard those words, he went away feeling sad because he was very rich and did not want to give away everything he owned.
 
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 \v 3 At nine o'clock that same morning he went back to the marketplace. There he saw more men who did not have work.
-\v 4 He said to them, 'Go to my vineyard as other men have done, and work there. I will pay you whatever wage is right.' So they also went to his vineyard and began to work.
+\v 4 He said to them, 'Go to my vineyard, as other men have done, and work there. I will pay you whatever wage is right.' So they also went to his vineyard and began to work.
 
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 \v 5 At noon and at three o'clock he again went to the marketplace and found other laborers whom he promised to pay a fair wage.
 \v 6 At five o'clock he went to the marketplace once again and saw other men standing there who were not working. He said to them, 'Why are you standing here all day and not working?'
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 \v 7 They said to him, 'Because no one has hired us.' 
-\p He said to them, 'I will hire you. Go to my vineyard as other men have done, and work there.' So they went.
+\p He said to them, 'I will hire you. Go to my vineyard, as other men have done, and work there.' So they went.
 
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 \v 11 So they complained to the owner of the vineyard because they thought their payment was unfair.
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-\v 12 They said to him, 'You are not being fair! The men who started working after all of the rest of us worked for only one hour! You have paid them the same wage as you paid us! But we worked hard all day. We even worked through the hottest part!'
+\v 12 They said to him, 'You are not being fair! The men who started working after all of the rest of us worked for only one hour! You have paid them the same wage as you paid us! But we worked hard all day. We even worked through the hottest part of the day!'
 
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 \v 22 Jesus said to her and her sons, "You do not understand what you are asking for. Can you suffer like I am about to suffer?" 
 \p James and John answered him, "Yes, we are able to do that."
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-\v 23 Then Jesus said to them, "Yes, you will suffer as I will suffer. But I am not the one who chooses the ones who will sit next to me and rule with me. God, my Father, will give those places to the ones whom he appoints."
+\v 23 Then Jesus said to them, "Yes, you will suffer as I will suffer. But I am not the one who chooses the ones who will sit next to me and rule with me. God my Father will give those places to the ones whom he appoints."
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 \v 24 When the ten other disciples heard what James and John had requested, they became angry with them because they also wanted to rule with Jesus in the positions of most honor.
 
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 \v 29 As they were leaving the city of Jericho, a large crowd of people followed them.
-\v 30 As they walked along, they saw two blind men sitting alongside the road. When they heard that Jesus was passing by, they yelled to him, "Lord, descendant of King David! Take pity on us!"
-\v 31 People in the crowd scolded them and told them to be quiet. But the blind men yelled even louder, "Lord, descendant of King David! Take pity on us!"
+\v 30 As they walked along, they saw two blind men sitting alongside the road. When they heard that Jesus was passing by, they yelled to him, "Lord, descendant of King David, take pity on us!"
+\v 31 People in the crowd scolded them and told them to be quiet. But the blind men yelled even louder, "Lord, descendant of King David, take pity on us!"
 
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 \v 6 So the two disciples went and did what Jesus told them to do.
-\v 7 They brought the donkey and its colt to Jesus. They placed their cloaks on them to make something for him to sit on. Then Jesus mounted
-and sat on the cloaks.
+\v 7 They brought the donkey and its colt to Jesus. They placed their cloaks on them to make something for him to sit on. Then Jesus mounted and sat on the cloaks.
 \v 8 Then a large crowd spread some of their outer clothing on the road, and other people cut off branches from palm trees and spread them on the road.
 
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 \v 16 They asked him, "How can you tolerate this? Do you hear what these people are shouting?" 
 \p Then Jesus said to them, "Yes, I hear them, but if you remembered what you have read in the scriptures about children praising me, you would know that God is pleased with them. The psalmist wrote, saying to God, 'You have taught infants and other children to praise you perfectly.'"
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-\v 17 Then Jesus left the city. The disciples went with him to the village of Bethany, and they stayed there that night.
+\v 17 Then Jesus left the city. The disciples went with him to the village of Bethany and they stayed there that night.
 
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 \p They answered, "The older son." 
 \p Then Jesus said to them, "So think about this: God will be kind to the tax collectors and prostitutes by agreeing to rule over them much sooner than he will agree to rule over you. 
 \p This is true, even though you condemn those people because they ignore the law of Moses.
-\v 32 I say this to you because, even though John the Baptizer explained to you how to live in the right way, you did not believe his message. But tax collectors and prostitutes believed his message, and they turned away from their sinful behavior. In contrast, even though you saw that they changed, you refused to stop sinning, and you did not believe John's message."
+\v 32 I say this to you because, even though John the Baptizer explained to you how to live in the right way, you did not believe his message. But tax collectors and prostitutes believed his message and they turned away from their sinful behavior. In contrast, even though you saw that they changed, you refused to stop sinning and you did not believe John's message."
 
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 \v 34 When it was time to harvest the grapes, the landowner sent some of his servants to the men who were caring for the vineyard to get his share of the grapes that the vineyard had produced.
 
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-\v 35 But the renters seized the servants. They beat one of them, they killed another one, and killed a third one of them by throwing stones at him.
+\v 35 But the renters seized the servants. They beat one of them, killed another one, and killed a third one by throwing stones at him.
 \v 36 So the landowner sent more servants than he had sent the first time. The renters treated those servants the same way that they had treated the other servants.
 \v 37 After he heard about this, the landowner sent his own son to the renters to get his share of the grapes. When he sent him, he said to himself, 'They will certainly respect my son and give him my share of the grapes.'
 
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-\v 1 Then Jesus told the Jewish leaders other parables. This is one of those parables.
+\v 1 Then Jesus told the Jewish leaders other parables. This is one of those parables:
 \v 2 "God ruling from heaven is like a king who told his servants that they should make a wedding feast for his son.
 \v 3 When the feast was ready, the king sent his servants to tell the people whom he had invited that it was time for them to come to the wedding feast. The servants went out and told the people. But the people who had been invited did not want to come.