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Mark 3

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Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there who had a withered hand.

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And they watched him, to see whether he would heal him on the sabbath, so that they might accuse him.

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And he said to the man who had the withered hand, "Come here."

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And he said to them, "Is it lawful on the sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to kill?" But they were silent.

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And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, and said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

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The Pharisees went out, and immediately held counsel with the Hero'di-ans against him, how to destroy him.

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Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great multitude from Galilee followed; also from Judea

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and Jerusalem and Idume'a and from beyond the Jordan and from about Tyre and Sidon a great multitude, hearing all that he did, came to him.

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And he told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, lest they should crush him;

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for he had healed many, so that all who had diseases pressed upon him to touch him.

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And whenever the unclean spirits beheld him, they fell down before him and cried out, "You are the Son of God."

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And he strictly ordered them not to make him known.

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And he went up on the mountain, and called to him those whom he desired; and they came to him.

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And he appointed twelve, to be with him, and to be sent out to preach

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and have authority to cast out demons:

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Simon whom he surnamed Peter;

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James the son of Zeb'edee and John the brother of James, whom he surnamed Bo-aner'ges, that is, sons of thunder;

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Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Cananaean,

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and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him. Then he went home;

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and the crowd came together again, so that they could not even eat.

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And when his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for people were saying, "He is beside himself."

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And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, "He is possessed by Be-el'zebul, and by the prince of demons he casts out the demons."

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And he called them to him, and said to them in parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan?

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If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

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And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.

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And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but is coming to an end.

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But no one can enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man; then indeed he may plunder his house.

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"Truly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they utter;

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but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin" --

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for they had said, "He has an unclean spirit."

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And his mother and his brothers came; and standing outside they sent to him and called him.

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And a crowd was sitting about him; and they said to him, "Your mother and your brothers are outside, asking for you."

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And he replied, "Who are my mother and my brothers?"

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And looking around on those who sat about him, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers!

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Whoever does the will of God is my brother, and sister, and mother."

Mark 4

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Again he began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea; and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land.

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And he taught them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them:

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"Listen! A sower went out to sow.

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And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.

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Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it had not much soil, and immediately it sprang up, since it had no depth of soil;

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and when the sun rose it was scorched, and since it had no root it withered away.

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Other seed fell among thorns and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain.

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And other seeds fell into good soil and brought forth grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold."

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And he said, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."

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And when he was alone, those who were about him with the twelve asked him concerning the parables.

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And he said to them, "To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables;

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so that they may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand; lest they should turn again, and be forgiven."

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And he said to them, "Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables?

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The sower sows the word.

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And these are the ones along the path, where the word is sown; when they hear, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word which is sown in them.

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And these in like manner are the ones sown upon rocky ground, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy;

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and they have no root in themselves, but endure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately they fall away.

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And others are the ones sown among thorns; they are those who hear the word,

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but the cares of the world, and the delight in riches, and the desire for other things, enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.

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But those that were sown upon the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold."

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And he said to them, "Is a lamp brought in to be put under a bushel, or under a bed, and not on a stand?

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For there is nothing hid, except to be made manifest; nor is anything secret, except to come to light.

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If any man has ears to hear, let him hear."

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And he said to them, "Take heed what you hear; the measure you give will be the measure you get, and still more will be given you.

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For to him who has will more be given; and from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away."

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And he said, "The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed upon the ground,

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and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he knows not how.

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The earth produces of itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.

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But when the grain is ripe, at once he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come."

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And he said, "With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable shall we use for it?

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It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth;

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yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade."

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With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it;

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he did not speak to them without a parable, but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.

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On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, "Let us go across to the other side."

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And leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. And other boats were with him.

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And a great storm of wind arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that the boat was already filling.

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But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they woke him and said to him, "Teacher, do you not care if we perish?"

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And he awoke and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace! Be still!" And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

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He said to them, "Why are you afraid? Have you no faith?"

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And they were filled with awe, and said to one another, "Who then is this, that even wind and sea obey him?"

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