FD issues chapters 5-6

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 \v 1 Jesus and his disciples arrived on the other side of the Sea of Galilee. People called the Gerasenes lived near the place where they landed.
-\v 2 When Jesus stepped out of the boat, a man came out from the tombs in a cemetery. Evil spirits controlled the man.
+\v 2 When Jesus stepped out of the boat, a man came out from the tombs of a cemetery. Evil spirits controlled the man.
 
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 \v 3 The man was coming out of the cemetery because he lived in tombs. The people knew him and at times they tried to restrain him. They could not restrain him, not even with chains.
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 \v 6 When he saw Jesus in the distance getting out of the boat, he ran over to him and knelt before him.
 
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-\v 7-8 Jesus had been saying to the evil spirit, "You evil spirit, come out of this man!" But the demon did not leave quickly. It shouted very loudly, "Jesus, I know that you are the Son of God, so we have nothing in common. Leave me alone! In God's name, I beg you. Do not torture me!"
+\v 7-8 Jesus had been saying to the evil spirit, "You evil spirit, come out of this man!" 
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+But the demon did not leave quickly. It shouted very loudly, "Jesus, I know that you are the Son of God, so we have nothing in common. Leave me alone! In God's name, I beg you. Do not torture me!"
 
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-\v 9 Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" He replied, "My name is Legion because there are many of us evil spirits in this man."
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+\v 9 Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" 
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+He replied, "My name is Legion because there are many of us evil spirits in this man."
 \v 10 Then the evil spirits kept asking Jesus fervently that he not send them out of the region.
 
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 \v 14 The men who were tending the pigs ran and reported in the town and the countryside what had happened. Many people went to see for themselves what had happened.
-\v 15 They came to the place where Jesus was. Then they saw the man whom evil spirits had previously controlled. He was sitting there with clothes on and mentally sound. They were afraid when they saw all this.
+\v 15 They came to the place where Jesus was. Then they saw the man whom evil spirits had previously controlled. He was sitting there with clothes on, and he was mentally sound. They were afraid when they saw all this.
 
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 \v 16 The people who had seen the events told those who had come from the town and from the countryside about what had happened to the man whom the evil spirits previously controlled. They also described what had happened to the pigs.
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 \v 18 As Jesus got in the boat to leave, the man whom the evil spirits previously controlled begged Jesus, "Please let me go with you!"
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 \v 19 But Jesus did not let him go with him. Instead, he said to him, "Go home to your family and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and tell them how he has been so kind to you."
 \v 20 So the man went and traveled around the Ten Towns in that district. He told people how much Jesus had done for him. All the people who heard what the man said were amazed.
 
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 \v 21 Once more Jesus crossed over to the other side of the Sea of Galilee in a boat. When he arrived, a large crowd gathered around Jesus while he was standing on the shore.
-\v 22 One of the men who presided over a synagogue, whose name was Jairus, came there. When he saw Jesus, he knelt at his feet.
+\v 22 One of the men, who presided over a synagogue, and whose name was Jairus, came there. When he saw Jesus, he knelt at his feet.
 \v 23 Then he pleaded with Jesus earnestly, "My daughter is sick and nearly dead! Please come to my house and place your hands on her. Heal her and make her live!"
 \v 24 So Jesus and the disciples went with him. A large crowd followed and many pushed in close to Jesus.
 
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 \v 25 There was a woman in the crowd who had a bleeding disorder. She had been bleeding every day for twelve years.
 \v 26 She had suffered much over the years while doctors treated her. She had spent all her money to pay the doctors and after all they did to her, she got worse instead of better.
 \v 27 When she heard that Jesus healed people, she came to where he was and pushed in the crowd close behind Jesus.
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 \v 29 At once her bleeding stopped. At the same time, she sensed within herself that she had been cured of her illness.
 
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 \v 30 Jesus also immediately sensed within himself that his power had healed someone. So he turned around in the crowd and then he asked, "Who touched my clothes?"
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 \v 31 His disciples replied, "You can see that many people are crowding close to you! Probably many people touched you! So why do you ask, 'Who touched me?'"
 \v 32 But Jesus kept looking around in order to see the one who had done it.
 
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 \v 33 The woman was very afraid and trembling. She knelt before him and told him what she had done.
 \v 34 He said to her, "Daughter, because you have believed that I could heal you, I have now healed you. You may go home with peace in your heart, because I promise that you will not be sick with this disease anymore."
 
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 \v 35 While Jesus was still speaking to that woman, some people arrived who had come from Jairus' house. They said to Jairus, "Your daughter has now died. So there is no need to bother the teacher any longer, to bring him to your house!"
 
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 \v 36 But when Jesus heard what these men said, he said to Jairus, "Do not think that the situation is hopeless! Just keep believing that she will live!"
 \v 37-38 Then he allowed only his three closest disciples, Peter, James, and John, to go with him to Jairus' house. He did not allow any other people to go with him. After they arrived near the house, Jesus saw that the people there were grieving. Some were weeping and others were wailing.
 
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 \v 3 They said, "He is just an ordinary carpenter! We know him and his family! We know Mary his mother! We know his younger brothers James, Joses, Judas and Simon! And his younger sisters also live here with us!" So they resented him.
 
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 \v 4 Jesus said to them, "It is certainly true that people honor me and other prophets in other places, but not in our hometowns! Even our relatives and the people who live in our own houses do not honor us!"
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 \v 5 So, although he healed a few sick people there, he was not able to perform any other miracle.
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 \v 11 Wherever the people do not welcome you and wherever the people do not listen to you, shake off the dust from your feet as you leave that place. By doing that, you will be testifying that they did not welcome you."
 
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-\v 12 So after the disciples went out to various towns, they were preaching that people should be sorry that they have sinned, and decide to stop it, so that God may forgive them.
+\v 12 So after the disciples went out to various towns, they were preaching that people should be sorry that they have sinned and decide to stop sinning so that God may forgive them.
 \v 13 They were also forcing many evil spirits out from people, and they were anointing many sick people with olive oil and healing them.
 
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 \v 15 Others were saying about Jesus, "He is the ancient prophet Elijah, whom God promised to send back again." Others were saying about Jesus, "No, he is a different prophet, like one of the other prophets who lived long ago."
 
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 \v 16 Having heard what the people were saying, King Herod Antipas himself said, "The man performing those miracles must be John! I commanded my soldiers to cut off his head, but he has become alive again!"
-\v 17 What happened was this—some time before, Herod had taken and married Herodias, although she was the wife of his brother, Philip.
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+\v 17 What had happened was this—some time before, Herod had taken and married Herodias, although she was the wife of his brother, Philip.
 
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 \v 18 After that, John kept telling Herod, "God's law does not permit you to marry the wife of your brother while he is still alive." Then, because Herodias urged him to put John in prison, Herod himself sent soldiers to John. They arrested John and put him in prison.
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 \v 20 Herod did this because he respected John, because he knew that he was a righteous man who devoted himself to God. Whenever Herod listened to him, he became very disturbed and did not know what he should do with him, but he liked to listen to him.
 
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-\v 21 But Herodias was able to eventually have someone execute John. One day when they honored Herod on his birthday, he invited the most important government officials, the most important army leaders, and the most important men in the district of Galilee to eat and celebrate with him.
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+\v 21 But Herodias was eventually able to have someone execute John. One day when they honored Herod on his birthday, he invited the most important government officials, the most important army leaders, and the most important men in the district of Galilee to eat and celebrate with him.
 \v 22 While they were eating, Herodias' daughter came into the room and danced for the king and his guests. She pleased King Herod and his guests so much that he said to her, "Ask me for whatever you wish and I will give it to you!"
 
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 \v 23 He also said to her, "Whatever you ask, I will give it to you! I will give you up to half of what I own and rule, if you ask for it."
-\v 24 The girl left the room and went to her mother. She told her what the king had said, and asked her, "What should I ask for?" Her mother replied, "Ask the king to give you the head of John the Baptizer!"
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+\v 24 The girl left the room and went to her mother. She told her what the king had said, and asked her, "What should I ask for?" 
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+Her mother replied, "Ask the king to give you the head of John the Baptizer!"
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 \v 25 The girl quickly entered the room again. She went to the king and she said, "I want you to command someone to cut off the head of John the Baptizer and bring it to me at once on a platter!"
 
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 \v 36 So send the people away in order that they may go to the surrounding places where people live and to villages in order that they can buy for themselves something to eat!"
 
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-\v 37 But he replied to them, "No, you yourselves give them something to eat!" They replied to him, "We could not buy enough bread to feed this crowd, even if we had as much money as a man earns by working 200 days!
-\v 38 But he replied to them, "How many loaves of bread do you have? Go and find out!" They went and found out and then they told him, "We have only five flat loaves and two cooked fish!"
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+\v 37 But he replied to them, "No, you yourselves give them something to eat!" 
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+They replied to him, "We could not buy enough bread to feed this crowd, even if we had as much money as a man earns by working 200 days!
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+\v 38 But he replied to them, "How many loaves of bread do you have? Go and find out!" 
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+They went and found out and then they told him, "We have only five flat loaves and two cooked fish!"
 
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 \v 39 He instructed the disciples to tell all the people to sit down on the green grass.