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The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. He opened the book, and found the place where it was written,

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“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

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and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”

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He closed the book, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on him.

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He began to tell them, “Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”

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All testified about him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”

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He said to them, “Doubtless you will tell me this parable, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done at Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.’”

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He said, “Most certainly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.

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But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.

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Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.

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There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian.”

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They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these things.

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They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.

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But he, passing through the midst of them, went his way.

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He came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. He was teaching them on the Sabbath day,

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and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word was with authority.

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In the synagogue there was a man who had a spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice,

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saying, “Ah! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God!”

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Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent, and come out of him!” When the demon had thrown him down in their midst, he came out of him, having done him no harm.

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Amazement came on all, and they spoke together, one with another, saying, “What is this word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!”

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News about him went out into every place of the surrounding region.

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He rose up from the synagogue, and entered into Simon’s house. Simon’s mother-in-law was afflicted with a great fever, and they begged him for her.

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He stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her. Immediately she rose up and served them.

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When the sun was setting, all those who had any sick with various diseases brought them to him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.

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Demons also came out from many, crying out, and saying, “You are the Christ, the Son of God!” Rebuking them, he didn’t allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.

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When it was day, he departed and went into an uninhabited place, and the multitudes looked for him, and came to him, and held on to him, so that he wouldn’t go away from them.

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But he said to them, “I must preach the good news of the Kingdom of God to the other cities also. For this reason I have been sent.”

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He was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.

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Now it happened, while the multitude pressed on him and heard the word of God, that he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret.

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He saw two boats standing by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them, and were washing their nets.

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He entered into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little from the land. He sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat.

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When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep, and let down your nets for a catch.”

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Simon answered him, “Master, we worked all night, and took nothing; but at your word I will let down the net.”

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When they had done this, they caught a great multitude of fish, and their net was breaking.

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They beckoned to their partners in the other boat, that they should come and help them. They came, and filled both boats, so that they began to sink.

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But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord.”

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For he was amazed, and all who were with him, at the catch of fish which they had caught;

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and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. Jesus said to Simon, “Don’t be afraid. From now on you will be catching people alive.”

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When they had brought their boats to land, they left everything, and followed him.

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It happened, while he was in one of the cities, behold, there was a man full of leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he fell on his face, and begged him, saying, “Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean.”

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He stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying, “I want to. Be made clean.” Immediately the leprosy left him.

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He commanded him to tell no one, “But go your way, and show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing according to what Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.”

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But the report concerning him spread much more, and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities.

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But he withdrew himself into the desert, and prayed.

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It happened on one of those days, that he was teaching; and there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every village of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was with him to heal them.

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Behold, men brought a paralyzed man on a cot, and they sought to bring him in to lay before Jesus.

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Not finding a way to bring him in because of the multitude, they went up to the housetop, and let him down through the tiles with his cot into the midst before Jesus.

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Seeing their faith, he said to him, “Man, your sins are forgiven you.”

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The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, “Who is this that speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?”

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But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, “Why are you reasoning so in your hearts?

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Which is easier to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you;’ or to say, ‘Arise and walk?’

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But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins” (he said to the paralyzed man), “I tell you, arise, and take up your cot, and go to your house.”

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Immediately he rose up before them, and took up that which he was laying on, and departed to his house, glorifying God.

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Amazement took hold on all, and they glorified God. They were filled with fear, saying, “We have seen strange things today.”

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After these things he went out, and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and said to him, “Follow me!”

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He left everything, and rose up and followed him.

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Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.

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Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”

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Jesus answered them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.

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I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

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They said to him, “Why do John’s disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?”

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He said to them, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast, while the bridegroom is with them?

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But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast in those days.”

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He also told a parable to them. “No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old.

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No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.

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But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.

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No man having drunk old wine immediately desires new, for he says, ‘The old is better.’”

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Now it happened on the second Sabbath after the first, that he was going through the grain fields. His disciples plucked the heads of grain, and ate, rubbing them in their hands.

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But some of the Pharisees said to them, “Why do you do that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day?”

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Jesus, answering them, said, “Haven’t you read what David did when he was hungry, he, and those who were with him;

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how he entered into the house of God, and took and ate the show bread, and gave also to those who were with him, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests alone?”

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He said to them, “The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”

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It also happened on another Sabbath that he entered into the synagogue and taught. There was a man there, and his right hand was withered.

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The scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, that they might find an accusation against him.

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But he knew their thoughts; and he said to the man who had the withered hand, “Rise up, and stand in the middle.” He arose and stood.

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Then Jesus said to them, “I will ask you something: Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?”

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He looked around at them all, and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He did, and his hand was restored as sound as the other.

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But they were filled with rage, and talked with one another about what they might do to Jesus.

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It happened in these days, that he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.

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When it was day, he called his disciples, and from them he chose twelve, whom he also named apostles:

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Simon, whom he also named Peter; Andrew, his brother; James; John; Philip; Bartholomew;

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Matthew; Thomas; James, the son of Alphaeus; Simon, who was called the Zealot;

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Judas the son of James; and Judas Iscariot, who also became a traitor.

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He came down with them, and stood on a level place, with a crowd of his disciples, and a great number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases;

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as well as those who were troubled by unclean spirits, and they were being healed.

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All the multitude sought to touch him, for power came out from him and healed them all.

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He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the Kingdom of God.

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Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

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Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.

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Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets.

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“But woe to you who are rich! For you have received your consolation.

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Woe to you, you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.

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Woe, when men speak well of you, for their fathers did the same thing to the false prophets.

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“But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

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bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you.

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To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him who takes away your cloak, don’t withhold your coat also.

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Give to everyone who asks you, and don’t ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again.

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“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

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If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.

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If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.