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 \v 1 One day some Pharisees and some men who teach the Jewish laws who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus.
 
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-\v 2 The Pharisees saw that the disciples often ate without washing their hands first.
+\v 2 The Pharisees saw that the disciples often ate without first washing their hands.
 \v 3-4 They and all of the other Jews strictly observe their traditions that their ancestors taught. Specifically, they wash in a special way their cups, pots, kettles, containers, and beds in order that using these things will not make God reject them.
 For example, they refuse to eat until they first wash their hands with a special ritual, especially after they return from buying things in the marketplace. There are many other such traditions that they accept and try to obey.
 
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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!"
+\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 8 You, like your ancestors, refuse to do what God has commanded. Instead, you follow only the traditions that others have taught."
 \v 9 Jesus also said to them, "You think that you are clever in refusing to do what God commanded just so that you can obey your own traditions!
-\v 10 For example, our ancestor Moses wrote God's command, 'Honor your fathers and your mothers'. He also wrote, 'The authorities must execute a person who speaks evil about his father or mother.'
+\v 10 For example, our ancestor Moses wrote God's command, 'Honor your fathers and your mothers.' He also wrote, 'The authorities must execute a person who speaks evil about his father or mother.'
 
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-\v 11-12 But you teach people that it is all right if people no longer help their parents. You teach people that it is all right if they say they will give what they own to God instead of to their parents. You allow them to say to their parents, 'What I was going to give to you to provide for you, I have now promised to give to God. So I cannot any longer help you!' As a result, you are actually telling people that they no longer have to help their parents!
+\v 11-12 But you teach people that it is all right if people no longer help their parents. You teach people that it is all right if they say they will give what they own to God instead of to their parents. You allow them to say to their parents, 'What I was going to give to you to provide for you, I have now promised to give to God. So I cannot help you any longer!' As a result, you are actually telling people that they no longer have to help their parents!
 \v 13 In this way you disregard what God commanded! You teach your own things to others and tell them that they should obey them! And you do many other things like that."
 
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-\v 14 Then Jesus again called the crowd to come closer. Then he said to them, "All of you people listen to me! Try to understand what I am about to tell you.
+\v 14 Then Jesus again called the crowd to come closer. Then he said to them, "All of you people, listen to me! Try to understand what I am about to tell you.
 \v 15 Nothing that people eat causes God to consider them to be defiled. On the contrary, it is that which comes from people's inner beings that causes God to consider them to be defiled."
 \v 16 \f + \ft The best ancient copies do not have the phrase that appears as v. 16. \fqa Every one of you should think carefully about what you heard me say \fqa* . \f*
 
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 \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.
-\v 34 Then he looked up toward heaven, he sighed and then in his own language he said to the man's ears, "Ephphatha," which means, "Be opened!"
+\v 33 So Jesus took him away from the crowd so 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.
+\v 34 Then he looked up toward heaven, he sighed, and then in his own language he said to the man's ears, "Ephphatha," which means, "Be opened!"
 \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 22 They arrived in the boat at Bethsaida. People brought to Jesus a blind man and begged him touch the man in order to heal him.
-\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?"
+\v 22 They arrived in the boat at Bethsaida. People brought to Jesus a blind man and begged Jesus to touch the man in order to heal him.
+\v 23 Jesus took the hand of the blind man and led him outside the town. Then he spat into the man's eyes, put his hands on the man, and then asked him, "Do you see anything?"
 
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-\v 27 Jesus and the disciples left Bethsaida and went to the villages near Caesarea Philippi. On the way he questioned them, "Who do people say that I am?"
+\v 27 Jesus and the disciples left Bethsaida and went to the villages near Caesarea Philippi. On the way he questioned them: "Who do people say that I am?"
 \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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 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."
+\v 30 Then Jesus strongly warned them, "Do not tell anyone about me."
 
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 \v 1 He also said to his disciples, "Listen carefully! Some of you who are here now will see God show himself with great power as king. You will see him do this before you die!"
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-\v 2 Six days later Jesus took Peter, James and James' brother John and led them up a high mountain. While they were alone up there, he appeared very different to them.
+\v 2 Six days later Jesus took Peter, James, and James' brother John and led them up a high mountain. While they were alone up there, he appeared very different to them.
 \v 3 His clothes became dazzling white. They were whiter than anyone on earth could make them by bleaching them.
 
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 \v 4 Two prophets who had lived long ago, Moses and Elijah, appeared to them. Then the two of them began talking with Jesus.
 \v 5 After a short time, Peter said, "Teacher, it is wonderful to be here! So allow us to make three shelters. One will be for you, one will be for Moses, and one will be for Elijah!"
-\v 6 He said this because he wanted to say something, but he did not know what to say. He and the other two disciples were terrified.
+\v 6 He said this because he wanted to say something but he did not know what to say. He and the other two disciples were terrified.
 
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-\v 7 Then a shining cloud appeared that covered them. God spoke to them from the cloud saying, "This is my Son. He is the one whom I love. Therefore, listen to him!"
+\v 7 Then a shining cloud appeared that covered them. God spoke to them from the cloud, saying, "This is my Son. He is the one whom I love. Therefore, listen to him!"
 \v 8 When the three disciples looked around, they saw that suddenly Jesus was alone with them, and that there was no longer anyone else there.
 
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-\v 17 A man in the crowd answered him, "Teacher, I brought my son here in order that you would heal him. There is an evil spirit in him that makes him unable to talk.
+\v 17 A man in the crowd answered him, "Teacher, I brought my son here so that you would heal him. There is an evil spirit in him that makes him unable to talk.
 \v 18 Whenever the spirit begins to control him, it throws him down. He foams at the mouth, he grinds his teeth together, and he becomes stiff. I asked your disciples to expel the spirit, but they were not able to do it."
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 \v 19 Jesus replied by saying to those people, "You faithless people! You test my patience! Bring the boy to me."
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-\v 42 Jesus also said, "But if you cause someone who believes in me to sin, God will severely punish you, even if that person is socially unimportant like this little child. If someone tied a heavy stone around your neck and threw you into the sea, it would be better for you than if God punished you for causing a person who believes in me to sin.
-\v 43 So if you are wanting to use one of your hands to sin, do not use it! Even if you have to cut your hand off and throw it away to avoid sinning, do it! It is good if you live eternally even though you lack one of your hands while you are here on earth. But it is not good if you sin and as a result God throws your whole body into hell.
+\v 42 Jesus also said, "But if you cause someone who believes in me to sin, God will severely punish you, even if that person is socially unimportant like this little child. If someone tied a heavy stone around your neck and threw you into the sea, that would be better for you than if God punished you for causing a person who believes in me to sin.
+\v 43 So if you are wanting to use one of your hands to sin, do not use it! Even if you have to cut off your hand and throw it away to avoid sinning, do it! It is good if you live eternally even though you lack one of your hands while you are here on earth. But it is not good if you sin and as a result God throws your whole body into hell.
 \v 44 \f + \ft The best ancient copies do not have this phrase from verses 44 and 46, \fqa where worms never stop feeding on them, and the fire that burns them never goes out \f*
 
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