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Anyone wanting to memorize the gospel of Mark can use these 4-part verse sets, and can have it memorized in less than a year if they learn 2 verses a day. This is Part 3
Mark
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And he said to them, "I tell you the truth, there are some standing here who will not experience death before they see the kingdom of God come with power."
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Six days later Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John and led them alone up a high mountain privately. And he was transfigured before them,
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and his clothes became radiantly white, more so than any launderer in the world could bleach them.
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Then Elijah appeared before them along with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus.
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So Peter said to Jesus, "Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let us make three shelters - one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."
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(For they were afraid, and he did not know what to say.)
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Then a cloud overshadowed them, and a voice came from the cloud, "This is my one dear Son. Listen to him!"
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Suddenly when they looked around, they saw no one with them any more except Jesus.
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As they were coming down from the mountain, he gave them orders not to tell anyone what they had seen until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead.
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They kept this statement to themselves, discussing what this rising from the dead meant.
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Then they asked him, "Why do the experts in the law say that Elijah must come first?"
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He said to them, "Elijah does indeed come first, and restores all things. And why is it written that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be despised?
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But I tell you that Elijah has certainly come, and they did to him whatever they wanted, just as it is written about him."
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When they came to the disciples, they saw a large crowd around them and experts in the law arguing with them.
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When the whole crowd saw him, they were amazed and ran at once and greeted him.
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He asked them, "What are you arguing about with them?"
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A member of the crowd said to him, "Teacher, I brought you my son, who is possessed by a spirit that makes him mute.
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Whenever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and becomes rigid. I asked your disciples to cast it out, but they were not able to do so."
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He answered them, "You unbelieving generation! How much longer must I be with you? How much longer must I endure you? Bring him to me."
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So they brought the boy to him. When the spirit saw him, it immediately threw the boy into a convulsion. He fell on the ground and rolled around, foaming at the mouth.
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Jesus asked his father, "How long has this been happening to him?" And he said, "From childhood.
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It has often thrown him into fire or water to destroy him. But if you are able to do anything, have compassion on us and help us."
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Then Jesus said to him, "'If you are able?' All things are possible for the one who believes."
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Immediately the father of the boy cried out and said, "I believe; help my unbelief!"
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Now when Jesus saw that a crowd was quickly gathering, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, "Mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again."
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It shrieked, threw him into terrible convulsions, and came out. The boy looked so much like a corpse that many said, "He is dead!"
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But Jesus gently took his hand and raised him to his feet, and he stood up.
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Then, after he went into the house, his disciples asked him privately, "Why couldn't we cast it out?"
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He told them, "This kind can come out only by prayer."
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They went out from there and passed through Galilee. But Jesus did not want anyone to know,
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for he was teaching his disciples and telling them, "The Son of Man will be betrayed into the hands of men. They will kill him, and after three days he will rise."
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But they did not understand this statement and were afraid to ask him.
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Then they came to Capernaum. After Jesus was inside the house he asked them, "What were you discussing on the way?"
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But they were silent, for on the way they had argued with one another about who was the greatest.
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After he sat down, he called the twelve and said to them, "If anyone wants to be first, he must be last of all and servant of all."
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He took a little child and had him stand among them. Taking him in his arms, he said to them,
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"Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me."
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John said to him, "Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him because he was not following us."
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But Jesus said, "Do not stop him, because no one who does a miracle in my name will be able soon afterward to say anything bad about me.
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For whoever is not against us is for us.
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For I tell you the truth, whoever gives you a cup of water because you bear Christ's name will never lose his reward.
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"If anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a huge millstone tied around his neck and to be thrown into the sea.
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If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off! It is better for you to enter into life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, to the unquenchable fire.
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If your foot causes you to sin, cut it off! It is better to enter life lame than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.
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If your eye causes you to sin, tear it out! It is better to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell,
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where their worm never dies and the fire is never quenched.
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Everyone will be salted with fire.
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Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with each other."
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Then Jesus left that place and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan River. Again crowds gathered to him, and again, as was his custom, he taught them.
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Then some Pharisees came, and to test him they asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"
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He answered them, "What did Moses command you?"
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They said, "Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her."
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But Jesus said to them, "He wrote this commandment for you because of your hard hearts.
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But from the beginning of creation he made them male and female.
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For this reason a man will leave his father and mother,
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and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh.
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Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate."
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In the house once again, the disciples asked him about this.
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So he told them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her.
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And if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery."
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Now people were bringing little children to him for him to touch, but the disciples scolded those who brought them.
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But when Jesus saw this, he was indignant and said to them, "Let the little children come to me and do not try to stop them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.
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I tell you the truth, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will never enter it."
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After he took the children in his arms, he placed his hands on them and blessed them.
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Now as Jesus was starting out on his way, someone ran up to him, fell on his knees, and said, "Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?"
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Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.
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You know the commandments: 'Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, do not defraud, honor your father and mother.'"
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The man said to him, "Teacher, I have wholeheartedly obeyed all these laws since my youth."
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As Jesus looked at him, he felt love for him and said, "You lack one thing. Go, sell whatever you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."
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But at this statement, the man looked sad and went away sorrowful, for he was very rich.
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Then Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, "How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!"
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The disciples were astonished at these words. But again Jesus said to them, "Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!
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It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God."
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They were even more astonished and said to one another, "Then who can be saved?"
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Jesus looked at them and replied, "This is impossible for mere humans, but not for God; all things are possible for God."
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Peter began to speak to him, "Look, we have left everything to follow you!"
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Jesus said, "I tell you the truth, there is no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for my sake and for the sake of the gospel
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who will not receive in this age a hundred times as much - homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, fields, all with persecutions - and in the age to come, eternal life.
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But many who are first will be last, and the last first."
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They were on the way, going up to Jerusalem. Jesus was going ahead of them, and they were amazed, but those who followed were afraid. He took the twelve aside again and began to tell them what was going to happen to him.
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"Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and experts in the law. They will condemn him to death and will turn him over to the Gentiles.
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They will mock him, spit on him, flog him severely, and kill him. Yet after three days, he will rise again."
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Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him and said, "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask."
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He said to them, "What do you want me to do for you?"
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They said to him, "Permit one of us to sit at your right hand and the other at your left in your glory."
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But Jesus said to them, "You don't know what you are asking! Are you able to drink the cup I drink or be baptized with the baptism I experience?"
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They said to him, "We are able." Then Jesus said to them, "You will drink the cup I drink, and you will be baptized with the baptism I experience,
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but to sit at my right or at my left is not mine to give. It is for those for whom it has been prepared."
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Now when the other ten heard this, they became angry with James and John.
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Jesus called them and said to them, "You know that those who are recognized as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those in high positions use their authority over them.
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But it is not this way among you. Instead whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant,
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and whoever wants to be first among you must be the slave of all.
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For even the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."
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They came to Jericho. As Jesus and his disciples and a large crowd were leaving Jericho, Bartimaeus the son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road.
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When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to shout, "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!"
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Many scolded him to get him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more, "Son of David, have mercy on me!"
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Jesus stopped and said, "Call him." So they called the blind man and said to him, "Have courage! Get up! He is calling you."
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He threw off his cloak, jumped up, and came to Jesus.
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Then Jesus said to him, "What do you want me to do for you?" The blind man replied, "Rabbi, let me see again."
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Jesus said to him, "Go, your faith has healed you." Immediately he regained his sight and followed him on the road.
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Now as they approached Jerusalem, near Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples
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and said to them, "Go to the village ahead of you. As soon as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there that has never been ridden. Untie it and bring it here.
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If anyone says to you, 'Why are you doing this?' say, 'The Lord needs it and will send it back here soon.'"
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So they went and found a colt tied at a door, outside in the street, and untied it.
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Some people standing there said to them, "What are you doing, untying that colt?"
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They replied as Jesus had told them, and the bystanders let them go.
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Then they brought the colt to Jesus, threw their cloaks on it, and he sat on it.
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Many spread their cloaks on the road and others spread branches they had cut in the fields.
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Both those who went ahead and those who followed kept shouting, "Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!
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Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! Hosanna in the highest!"
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Then Jesus entered Jerusalem and went to the temple. And after looking around at everything, he went out to Bethany with the twelve since it was already late.
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Now the next day, as they went out from Bethany, he was hungry.
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After noticing in the distance a fig tree with leaves, he went to see if he could find any fruit on it. When he came to it he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.
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He said to it, "May no one ever eat fruit from you again." And his disciples heard it.
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Then they came to Jerusalem. Jesus entered the temple area and began to drive out those who were selling and buying in the temple courts. He turned over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves,
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and he would not permit anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts.
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Then he began to teach them and said, "Is it not written: 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations'? But you have turned it into a den of robbers!"
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The chief priests and the experts in the law heard it and they considered how they could assassinate him, for they feared him, because the whole crowd was amazed by his teaching.
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When evening came, Jesus and his disciples went out of the city.
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In the morning as they passed by, they saw the fig tree withered from the roots.
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Peter remembered and said to him, "Rabbi, look! The fig tree you cursed has withered."
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Jesus said to them, "Have faith in God.
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I tell you the truth, if someone says to this mountain, 'Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him.
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For this reason I tell you, whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
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Whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven will also forgive you your sins."
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They came again to Jerusalem. While Jesus was walking in the temple courts, the chief priests, the experts in the law, and the elders came up to him
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and said, "By what authority are you doing these things? Or who gave you this authority to do these things?"
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Jesus said to them, "I will ask you one question. Answer me and I will tell you by what authority I do these things:
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John's baptism - was it from heaven or from people? Answer me."
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They discussed with one another, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will say, 'Then why did you not believe him?'
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But if we say, 'From people - '" (they feared the crowd, for they all considered John to be truly a prophet).
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So they answered Jesus, "We don't know." Then Jesus said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things."
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Then he began to speak to them in parables: "A man planted a vineyard. He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went on a journey.
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At harvest time he sent a slave to the tenants to collect from them his portion of the crop.
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But those tenants seized his slave, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.
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So he sent another slave to them again. This one they struck on the head and treated outrageously.
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He sent another, and that one they killed. This happened to many others, some of whom were beaten, others killed.
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He had one left, his one dear son. Finally he sent him to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.'
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But those tenants said to one another, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him and the inheritance will be ours!'
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So they seized him, killed him, and threw his body out of the vineyard.
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What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others.
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Have you not read this scripture: 'The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
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This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes'?"
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Now they wanted to arrest him (but they feared the crowd), because they realized that he told this parable against them. So they left him and went away.
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Then they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to trap him with his own words.
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When they came they said to him, "Teacher, we know that you are truthful and do not court anyone's favor, because you show no partiality but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not? Should we pay or shouldn't we?"
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But he saw through their hypocrisy and said to them, "Why are you testing me? Bring me a denarius and let me look at it."
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So they brought one, and he said to them, "Whose image is this, and whose inscription?" They replied, "Caesar's."
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Then Jesus said to them, "Give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." And they were utterly amazed at him.
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Sadducees (who say there is no resurrection) also came to him and asked him,
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"Teacher, Moses wrote for us: 'If a man's brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, that man must marry the widow and father children for his brother.'
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There were seven brothers. The first one married, and when he died he had no children.
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The second married her and died without any children, and likewise the third.
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None of the seven had children. Finally, the woman died too.
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In the resurrection, when they rise again, whose wife will she be? For all seven had married her."
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Jesus said to them, "Aren't you deceived for this reason, because you don't know the scriptures or the power of God?
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For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
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Now as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?
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He is not the God of the dead but of the living. You are badly mistaken!"
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Now one of the experts in the law came and heard them debating. When he saw that Jesus answered them well, he asked him, "Which commandment is the most important of all?"
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Jesus answered, "The most important is: 'Listen, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.
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Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.'
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The second is: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."
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The expert in the law said to him, "That is true, Teacher; you are right to say that he is one, and there is no one else besides him.
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And to love him with all your heart, with all your mind, and with all your strength and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices."
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When Jesus saw that he had answered thoughtfully, he said to him, "You are not far from the kingdom of God." Then no one dared any longer to question him.
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While Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, he said, "How is it that the experts in the law say that the Christ is David's son?
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David himself, by the Holy Spirit, said, 'The Lord said to my lord, "Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet."'
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If David himself calls him 'Lord,' how can he be his son?" And the large crowd was listening to him with delight.
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In his teaching Jesus also said, "Watch out for the experts in the law. They like walking around in long robes and elaborate greetings in the marketplaces,
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and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets.
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They devour widows' property, and as a show make long prayers. These men will receive a more severe punishment."
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Then he sat down opposite the offering box, and watched the crowd putting coins into it. Many rich people were throwing in large amounts.
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And a poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, worth less than a penny.
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He called his disciples and said to them, "I tell you the truth, this poor widow has put more into the offering box than all the others.
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For they all gave out of their wealth. But she, out of her poverty, put in what she had to live on, everything she had."
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