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 \v 23 Then Jesus got into the boat and his disciples followed him.
-\v 24 Suddenly, strong winds blew on the water and very high waves were splashing into the boat and filling it. But Jesus was sleeping.
+\v 24 Suddenly, strong winds blew on the water, and very high waves were splashing into the boat and filling it. But Jesus was sleeping.
 \v 25 They went and woke him up and said to him, "Lord, rescue us! We are about to drown!"
 
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 \v 14 Then the disciples of John the Baptizer came to Jesus and asked him, "We and the Pharisees often abstain from food because we want to please God, but your disciples do not do that. Why do they not?"
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-\v 15 Jesus answered, "When the bridegroom is with his friends when he gets married, those people do not mourn, do they? No, because they are not sad at that time. But when the bridegroom has to leave them, they will abstain from food because they will be sad.
+\v 15 Jesus answered, "When the bridegroom is with his friends when he gets married, those people do not mourn, do they? No, because they are not sad at that time. But when the bridegroom has to leave them, they will abstain from food, because they will be sad.
 
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 \v 38 Then some of the Pharisees and teachers of the Jewish laws responded to Jesus, "Teacher, we want to see you perform a miracle that will convince us that God sent you."
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-\v 39 Then Jesus said to them, "You people have already seen me perform miracles, but you are evil and you do not faithfully worship God! You want me to prove that God sent me, but God will show you only one miracle. It will be like what happened to Jonah the prophet.
+\v 39 Then Jesus said to them, "You people have already seen me perform miracles, but you are evil, and you do not faithfully worship God! You want me to prove that God sent me, but God will show you only one miracle. It will be like what happened to Jonah the prophet.
 \v 40 Jonah was in the stomach of a huge fish for three days and nights before God caused him to come out. Similarly, for three days and nights I, the Son of Man, will be deep in the earth, and then God will cause me to live again.
 
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 \v 3 He taught them using many parables. He said, "Listen! A man went out to his field to sow seeds.
 \v 4 As he was scattering the seeds over the soil, some of the seeds fell on the path. But some birds came and ate those seeds.
 \v 5 Other seeds fell on ground where there was not much soil on top of the rock. Those seeds sprouted very soon, because the sun quickly warmed the shallow soil.
-\v 6 But when the young plants came up, they became too hot in the sunlight and they dried up because they did not have deep roots.
+\v 6 But when the young plants came up, they became too hot in the sunlight, and they dried up, because they did not have deep roots.
 
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-\v 7 Other seeds fell on ground that had thorny weeds. The thorny weeds grew together with the young plants and they crowded out the young plants.
+\v 7 Other seeds fell on ground that had thorny weeds. The thorny weeds grew together with the young plants, and they crowded out the young plants.
 \v 8 But other seeds fell on good soil, and the plants grew and produced much grain. Some plants produced one hundred times as many seeds as were planted. Some plants produced sixty times as much. Some plants produced thirty times as much.
 \v 9 If you are able to understand this, you should consider carefully what I have just said."
 
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 \v 29 He said to them, 'No, do not do that, because you might pull up some of the wheat at the same time.
-\v 30 Let the wheat and the weeds grow together until harvest time. At that time I will say to those who will reap, "First gather the weeds and tie them into bundles to be burned. Then gather the wheat and put it into my barns."'"
+\v 30 Let the wheat and the weeds grow together until harvest time. At that time I will say to those who will reap, "First gather the weeds, and tie them into bundles to be burned. Then gather the wheat, and put it into my barns."'"
 
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 \v 54 Then they went to the town of Nazareth, the hometown of Jesus. On the Sabbath he began to teach the people in the synagogue. The result was that the people there were astonished. But some said, "This man is just an ordinary person like us! So how is it that he knows so much and understands so much? And how is it that he is able to do such miracles?
-\v 55 He is just the son of the carpenter, is he not? His mother is Mary and his younger brothers are James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas!
+\v 55 He is just the son of the carpenter, is he not? His mother is Mary, and his younger brothers are James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas!
 \v 56 And his sisters also live here in our town. So how is he able to teach and do all these things?"
 
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 \v 3-4 This is what happened to make Herod think this. Herod had married Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, while Philip was still living. So John kept saying to him, "What you have done is against God's law!" Then, to please Herodias, Herod told his soldiers to arrest John. They bound him with chains and put him in prison.
-\v 5 Herod wanted to order his men to execute John, but he was afraid of the general public because they believed that John was a prophet speaking for God.
+\v 5 Herod wanted to order his men to execute John, but he was afraid of the general public, because they believed that John was a prophet speaking for God.
 
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 \v 13 When Jesus and his disciples entered into the region near the city of Caesarea Philippi, he asked them, "Who do people say that I, the Son of Man, really am?"
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-\v 14 They answered, "Some people say that you are John the Baptizer who has come back to life again. Others say that you are the prophet Elijah who has returned from heaven as God promised. Still others say that you are the prophet Jeremiah, or one of the other prophets who lived long ago, who has come back to life again."
+\v 14 They answered, "Some people say that you are John the Baptizer who has come back to life again. Others say that you are the prophet Elijah who has returned from heaven as God promised. Still others say that you are the prophet Jeremiah, or one of the other prophets who lived long ago who has come back to life again."
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 \v 15 Jesus said to them, "What about you? Who do you say that I am?"
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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 13-14 "You teachers of the law and you Pharisees, you are hypocrites! How terribly God will punish you because you refuse to come under the rule of heaven and you also keep others out. You yourselves do not want to go in and you also keep others from entering.
+\v 13-14 "You teachers of the law and you Pharisees, you are hypocrites! How terribly God will punish you, because you refuse to come under the rule of heaven and you also keep others out. You yourselves do not want to go in and you also keep others from entering.
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 \v 15 "You teachers of the law and you Pharisees, you are hypocrites! How terribly God will punish you! You work hard to get even one person to believe what you teach. You even travel across seas and lands to distant places in order to do that. And as a result, when one person believes what you teach, you make that person deserve to go to hell much more than you yourselves do.
 
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 \v 16 "You Jewish leaders, how terribly God will punish you! You are like blind people who try to lead others. You say, 'If someone asks the temple to confirm that he will do something as if the temple were a person, then if he does not do what he promised, it means nothing. But if he asks the gold in the temple to confirm that he will do something, then he must do it.'
-\v 17 You are fools, and you are like people who are blind! The gold that is in the temple is important but the temple is even more important, because it is the temple that makes the gold to be only for God.
+\v 17 You are fools, and you are like people who are blind! The gold that is in the temple is important, but the temple is even more important, because it is the temple that makes the gold to be only for God.
 
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 \v 18 Also you say, 'If someone asks the altar to confirm that he will do something as if the altar were a person, then if he does not do what he promised, it means nothing. But if he asks the gift that he has placed on the altar to confirm that he will do something, then he must do it.'
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 \v 1 "God's rule from heaven will be like what happened to ten unmarried girls who got ready to go to a wedding feast. They were to take their lamps and go wait for the bridegroom to come.
-\v 2 Now five of these girls were foolish and five were wise.
+\v 2 Now five of these girls were foolish, and five were wise.
 \v 3 The foolish girls took their lamps, but they did not take any extra olive oil for them.
 \v 4 But the wise girls took oil in their flasks as well as in their lamps.