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 \v 22 Jesus said to his disciples, "There will be a time when you will want to see me, the Son of Man, ruling powerfully. But you will not see that.
-\v 23 People will say to you, 'Look, the Son of Man is over there!' or they will say, 'Look, the Son of Man is over there!' When they say that, do not follow them.
+\v 23 People will say to you, 'Look, the over there!' or they will say, 'Look, the Christ is here!' When they say that, do not follow them.
 \v 24 Because when the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, everyone can see it. Similarly when I, the Son of Man, come back again, everyone will see me.
 
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 \v 3 There was a widow in that city who kept coming to that judge, saying, 'Please get justice for me from the man who is opposing me in court.
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 \v 4 For a long time the judge refused to help her. But later, he said to himself, 'I do not revere God and I do not care about people,
 \v 5 but this widow keeps bothering me! So I will judge her case and make sure she is treated fairly, because if I do not do that, she will exhaust me by continually coming to me!'"
 
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 \v 12 I fast two days every week and I give to the temple ten percent of all that I earn!'
 
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 \v 13 But the tax collector stood far away from the other people in the temple courtyard. He would not even look up toward heaven. Instead, he beat on his chest and said, 'O God, please be merciful to me and forgive me, because I am a terrible sinner!'"
 \v 14 Then Jesus said, "I tell you that the tax collector was forgiven as they left to go home, but not the Pharisee. This is because everyone who exalts himself will be made humble, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted."
 
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 \v 18 Once a Jewish leader asked Jesus, "Good teacher, what must I do in order to have eternal life?"
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 \v 19 Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? God is the only one who is truly good!
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 \v 20 In answer to your question, certainly you know the commandments that God gave to Moses for us to obey: 'Do not commit adultery, do not murder anyone, do not steal, do not give a false report, honor your father and mother.'"
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 \v 21 The man said, "I have obeyed all those commandments ever since I was young."
 
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 \v 22 When Jesus heard him say that, he replied to him, "You still need to do one more thing. Sell all that you own. Then give the money to people who have very little to live on. The result will be that you will have spiritual riches in heaven. Then come and be my disciple!"
 \v 23 The man became very sad when he heard that, because he was extremely rich.
 
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 \v 25 In fact, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for rich people to let God rule their lives."
 
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 \v 26 Those who heard Jesus say that replied, "Then it seems that no one can be saved!"
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 \v 27 But Jesus said, "What is impossible for people is possible for God."
 
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 \v 28 Then Peter said, "Look, we have left everything we had in order to become your disciples.
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 \v 29 Jesus said to them, "Yes, and I also tell you that those who have left their homes, their wives, their brothers, their parents, or their children in order to submit to God's will for them
 \v 30 will receive in this life many times as much as they left behind, and in the coming age they will receive eternal life."
 
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 \v 35 As Jesus and his disciples came near to the city of Jericho, a blind man was sitting beside the road. He was begging for money.
 \v 36 When he heard the crowd of people passing by, he asked someone, "What is happening?"
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 \v 37 They told him, "Jesus, the man from the town of Nazareth, is passing by."
 
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 \v 38 He shouted, "Jesus, you who are descended from King David, have pity on me!"
 \v 39 Those who were walking at the front of the crowd scolded him and told him to be quiet. But he shouted even more loudly, "You who are descended from King David, have pity on me!"
 
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 \v 40 Jesus stopped walking and commanded the people to bring the man to him. When the blind man came near, Jesus asked him,
-\v 41 "What do you want me to do for you?" He replied, "Lord, I want you to enable me to see!"
+\v 41 "What do you want me to do for you?" 
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+He replied, "Lord, I want you to enable me to see!"
 
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 \v 42 Jesus said to him, "Then see! Because you have trusted in me, I have healed you!"
 \v 43 Immediately he was able to see. And he went with Jesus, praising God. And when all the people there saw this, they also praised God.
 
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 \v 7 But the people who saw Jesus go there grumbled, saying, "He has gone to be the guest of a real sinner!"
 
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 \v 8 Then Zacchaeus stood up while they were eating and said to Jesus, "Lord, I want you to know that I am going to give half of what I own to poor people. And as for the people whom I have cheated, I will pay them back four times the amount I have gotten from them."
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 \v 9 Jesus said to him, "Today God has saved this household, because this man has shown that he is a true descendant of Abraham.
 \v 10 Remember this: I, the Son of Man, came to find and save people like you who have gone astray from God."
 
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 \v 13 Before he left, he summoned ten of his servants. He gave each of them an equal amount of money. He said to them, 'Do business with this money until I return!' Then he left.
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 \v 14 But many people of his country hated him. So they sent some messengers to follow him and say to the higher king, 'We do not want this man to be our king!'
 \v 15 But he was made king anyway. Later he returned as the new king. Then he called in the servants to whom he had given the money. He wanted to know how much they had gained by doing business with the money he had given them.
 
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 \v 16 The first man came to him and said, 'Sir, with your money I have earned ten times as much!'
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 \v 17 He said to this man, 'You are a good servant! You have done very well! Because you have faithfully taken care of a small amount of money, I will give you ten cities to rule over.'
 
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 \v 18 Then the second servant came and said, 'Sir, the money you gave me is now worth five times as much!'
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 \v 19 He also said to that servant, 'Well done! I will put you over five cities.'
 
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 \v 20 Then another servant came. He said, 'Sir, here is your money. I wrapped it up in a cloth and hid it to keep it safe.
 \v 21 I was afraid of what you would do to me if the business failed. I know you are a hard man who takes from others that which does not really belong to you. You are like a farmer who harvests grain that another man planted.'
 
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 \v 22 He said to that servant, 'You wicked servant! I will condemn you by the words you just said. You knew I was a hard man, because I take what does not belong to me and harvest what I did not plant.
 \v 23 So you should at least have given my money to money lenders! Then when I returned I could have collected that amount plus the interest it would have earned!'
 
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 \v 24 Then the king said to those who were standing near, 'Take the money from him and give it to the servant who made ten times as much!'
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 \v 25 They protested, 'But sir, he already has a lot of money!'
 
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 \v 26 But the king said, 'I tell you this: To the people who use well what they have received, I will give even more. But from the people who do not use well what they have received, I will take away even what they already have.
 \v 27 Now, as for those enemies of mine who did not want me to rule over them, bring them here and execute them while I am watching!'"
 
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 \v 32 So the two disciples went to the village and found the donkey, just as Jesus had told them.
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 \v 33 As they were untying it, its owners said to them, "Why are you untying our donkey?"
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 \v 34 They replied, "The Lord needs it."
 \v 35 Then the disciples brought the donkey to Jesus. They threw their cloaks on the donkey's back for him to sit on and helped Jesus get on it.
 \v 36 Then as he rode along, others spread their cloaks on the road in front of him to honor him.
 
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 \v 37 As they came along the road that goes down from the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God loudly for all the great miracles that they had seen Jesus do.
 \v 38 They were saying things like, "May God bless our king who comes with God's authority! May there be peace between God in heaven and us his people, and may everyone praise God!"
 
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 \v 39 Some of the Pharisees who were in the crowd said to him, "Teacher, tell your disciples to stop saying those things!"
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 \v 40 He replied, "I tell you this: if these people were silent, the stones themselves would shout to praise me!"
 
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