USE sofia;
CREATE TABLE FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl (
    canon_order VARCHAR(16) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
    book VARCHAR(4) NOT NULL,
    chapter VARCHAR(4) NOT NULL,
    verseID VARCHAR(12) NOT NULL,
    verseContents TEXT CHARACTER SET UTF8 NOT NULL) ENGINE=MyISAM;
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.001.001","MAT","1","MT1_1","</div><div class='c'>1</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT1_1' data-id='MT1_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>This book is the record of Jesus the Messiah<span class='note' id='footnote-0'><a href='#note-0' class='key'>*</a></span>, the son of David, the son of Abraham, beginning with the family line: </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.001.002","MAT","1","MT1_2","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT1_2' data-id='MT1_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>Abraham was the father<span class='note' id='footnote-1'><a href='#note-1' class='key'>†</a></span> of Isaac; and Isaac the father of Jacob; and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers; </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.001.003","MAT","1","MT1_3","<span class='v MT1_3' data-id='MT1_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah (their mother was Tamar); and Perez the father of Hezron; and Hezron the father of Ram; </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.001.004","MAT","1","MT1_4","<span class='v MT1_4' data-id='MT1_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>and Ram the father of Amminadab; and Amminadab the father of Nahshon; and Nahshon the father of Salmon; </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.001.005","MAT","1","MT1_5","<span class='v MT1_5' data-id='MT1_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>and Salmon the father of Boaz (his mother was Rahab); and Boaz the father of Obed (his mother was Ruth); and Obed the father of Jesse; </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.001.006","MAT","1","MT1_6","<span class='v MT1_6' data-id='MT1_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>and Jesse the father of King David. David was the father of Solomon (his mother had been Uriah’s wife); </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.001.007","MAT","1","MT1_7","<span class='v MT1_7' data-id='MT1_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>and Solomon the father of Rehoboam; and Rehoboam the father of Abijah; and Abijah the father of Asa; </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.001.008","MAT","1","MT1_8","<span class='v MT1_8' data-id='MT1_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>and Asa the father of Jehoshaphat; and Jehoshaphat the father of Jehoram; and Jehoram the father of Uzziah; </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.001.009","MAT","1","MT1_9","<span class='v MT1_9' data-id='MT1_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>and Uzziah the father of Jotham; and Jotham the father of Ahaz; and Ahaz the father of Hezekiah; </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.001.010","MAT","1","MT1_10","<span class='v MT1_10' data-id='MT1_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>and Hezekiah the father of Manasseh; and Manasseh the father of Amon; and Amon the father of Josiah; </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.001.011","MAT","1","MT1_11","<span class='v MT1_11' data-id='MT1_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>and Josiah the father of Jehoiachin and his brothers, at the time of the exile to Babylon. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.001.012","MAT","1","MT1_12","<span class='v MT1_12' data-id='MT1_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>After the exile to Babylon, Jehoiachin was the father of Shealtiel; and Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel; </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.001.013","MAT","1","MT1_13","<span class='v MT1_13' data-id='MT1_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>and Zerubbabel the father of Abiud; and Abiud the father of Eliakim; and Eliakim the father of Azor; </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.001.014","MAT","1","MT1_14","<span class='v MT1_14' data-id='MT1_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>and Azor the father of Zadok; and Zadok the father of Akim; and Akim the father of Eliud; </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.001.015","MAT","1","MT1_15","<span class='v MT1_15' data-id='MT1_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>and Eliud the father of Eleazar; and Eleazar the father of Matthan; and Matthan the father of Jacob; </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.001.016","MAT","1","MT1_16","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT1_16' data-id='MT1_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>and Jacob was the father of Joseph, who was the husband of Mary, to whom Jesus was born, the one who is called the Messiah. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.001.017","MAT","1","MT1_17","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT1_17' data-id='MT1_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>So all the generations from Abraham to David add up to fourteen; from David to the Babylonian exile, fourteen; and from the Babylonian exile to the Messiah, fourteen. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.001.018","MAT","1","MT1_18","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT1_18' data-id='MT1_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah happened. His mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, but before they slept together she became pregnant by the Holy Spirit. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.001.019","MAT","1","MT1_19","<span class='v MT1_19' data-id='MT1_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>Joseph, her fiancé, was a good man and didn’t want to shame her publicly, so he decided to break the engagement discreetly. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.001.020","MAT","1","MT1_20","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT1_20' data-id='MT1_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>While he was thinking about all of this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and told him, “Joseph, son of David, don’t be afraid to marry Mary because she is pregnant by the Holy Spirit. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.001.021","MAT","1","MT1_21","<span class='v MT1_21' data-id='MT1_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>She will give birth to a son and you shall call him Jesus, for he will save people from their sins.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.001.022","MAT","1","MT1_22","<span class='v MT1_22' data-id='MT1_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>Now this all happened to fulfill what the Lord said through the prophet: </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.001.023","MAT","1","MT1_23","<span class='v MT1_23' data-id='MT1_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>‘A virgin will become pregnant, and will give birth to a son. They will call him Immanuel,’ which means ‘God with us.’ ”<span class='note' id='footnote-2'><a href='#note-2' class='key'>‡</a></span> </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.001.024","MAT","1","MT1_24","<span class='v MT1_24' data-id='MT1_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>Joseph woke up and did what the angel of the Lord told him to do. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.001.025","MAT","1","MT1_25","<span class='v MT1_25' data-id='MT1_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>Joseph married Mary, but did not sleep with her until after she had given birth to a son, whom he named Jesus. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.002.001","MAT","2","MT2_1","<div class='c'>2</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT2_1' data-id='MT2_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea during the reign of King Herod, wise men<span class='note' id='footnote-3'><a href='#note-3' class='key'>*</a></span> came from the east to Jerusalem. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.002.002","MAT","2","MT2_2","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT2_2' data-id='MT2_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>“Where is the King of the Jews who has been born?” they asked. “We saw his star in the east and we’ve come to worship him.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.002.003","MAT","2","MT2_3","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT2_3' data-id='MT2_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>When King Herod heard about it, he was very disturbed, and the whole of Jerusalem with him. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.002.004","MAT","2","MT2_4","<span class='v MT2_4' data-id='MT2_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>Herod summoned all the chief priests and religious teachers of the people, and asked them where the Messiah was supposed to be born. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.002.005","MAT","2","MT2_5","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT2_5' data-id='MT2_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>“Bethlehem in Judea,” they told him, “for that’s what the prophet wrote: </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.002.006","MAT","2","MT2_6","<span class='v MT2_6' data-id='MT2_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>‘Bethlehem in the land of Judea, you are certainly not the least important of Judah’s leading cities<span class='note' id='footnote-4'><a href='#note-4' class='key'>†</a></span>, for a leader will come from you who will be the shepherd for my people Israel<span class='note' id='footnote-5'><a href='#note-5' class='key'>‡</a></span>.’ ” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.002.007","MAT","2","MT2_7","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT2_7' data-id='MT2_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>Then Herod called the wise men and met with them in private and found out from them exactly when the star appeared. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.002.008","MAT","2","MT2_8","<span class='v MT2_8' data-id='MT2_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>He sent them to Bethlehem, telling them, “When you get there, search for the child. Once you find him let me know so that I can come and worship him too.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.002.009","MAT","2","MT2_9","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT2_9' data-id='MT2_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>After they had heard what the king had to say they went on their way, and the star which they had seen in the east led them until it stopped right above the place where the child was. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.002.010","MAT","2","MT2_10","<span class='v MT2_10' data-id='MT2_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>When they saw the star<span class='note' id='footnote-6'><a href='#note-6' class='key'>§</a></span> they couldn’t contain their happiness! </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.002.011","MAT","2","MT2_11","<span class='v MT2_11' data-id='MT2_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>They went into the house and saw the child with Mary his mother. They bowed and worshiped him. Then they opened their bags of treasure and presented him with gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.002.012","MAT","2","MT2_12","<span class='v MT2_12' data-id='MT2_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>Warned by a dream not to return to Herod, they left for their own country by a different route. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.002.013","MAT","2","MT2_13","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT2_13' data-id='MT2_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>After they’d left, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, and told him, “Get up, and take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt. Remain there until I tell you, because Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.002.014","MAT","2","MT2_14","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT2_14' data-id='MT2_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>So Joseph got up and took the boy and his mother, and left during the night for Egypt. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.002.015","MAT","2","MT2_15","<span class='v MT2_15' data-id='MT2_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>They stayed there until Herod’s death. This fulfilled what the Lord said through the prophet, “I called my son out of Egypt.”<span class='note' id='footnote-7'><a href='#note-7' class='key'>*</a></span> </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.002.016","MAT","2","MT2_16","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT2_16' data-id='MT2_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>When Herod realized he’d been fooled by the wise men, he got very angry. He sent men to kill all the young boys in Bethlehem and the regions nearby who were two years old and under. This was based on the time frame he’d discovered from the wise men<span class='note' id='footnote-8'><a href='#note-8' class='key'>†</a></span>. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.002.017","MAT","2","MT2_17","<span class='v MT2_17' data-id='MT2_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>In this way Jeremiah’s prophecy was fulfilled: </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.002.018","MAT","2","MT2_18","<span class='v MT2_18' data-id='MT2_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>“The sound of terrible weeping and mourning was heard in Rama, Rachel crying for her children. They are dead, and she can’t be comforted.”<span class='note' id='footnote-9'><a href='#note-9' class='key'>‡</a></span> </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.002.019","MAT","2","MT2_19","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT2_19' data-id='MT2_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>After Herod died the angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, and told him, </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.002.020","MAT","2","MT2_20","<span class='v MT2_20' data-id='MT2_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>“Get up! Take the child and his mother, and return to the land of Israel, because those who were trying to kill the child are dead.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.002.021","MAT","2","MT2_21","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT2_21' data-id='MT2_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>So Joseph got up and took the boy and his mother, and returned to the land of Israel. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.002.022","MAT","2","MT2_22","<span class='v MT2_22' data-id='MT2_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>But Joseph was afraid to go there after he learned that Archelaus had succeeded his father Herod as king of Judea. Warned in a dream, Joseph went to the Galilee area, </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.002.023","MAT","2","MT2_23","<span class='v MT2_23' data-id='MT2_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>and settled down in Nazareth. This fulfilled what the prophets had said, “He will be called a Nazarene.”<span class='note' id='footnote-10'><a href='#note-10' class='key'>§</a></span> </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.003.001","MAT","3","MT3_1","<div class='c'>3</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT3_1' data-id='MT3_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>Some time later John the Baptist appeared on the scene, proclaiming in the Judean desert, </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.003.002","MAT","3","MT3_2","<span class='v MT3_2' data-id='MT3_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.003.003","MAT","3","MT3_3","<span class='v MT3_3' data-id='MT3_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>He was the one Isaiah spoke about when he said, “A voice is heard crying out in the desert, ‘Prepare the way of the Lord. Make the paths straight for him.’ ” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.003.004","MAT","3","MT3_4","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT3_4' data-id='MT3_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>John had clothes made of camel hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts<span class='note' id='footnote-11'><a href='#note-11' class='key'>*</a></span> and wild honey. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.003.005","MAT","3","MT3_5","<span class='v MT3_5' data-id='MT3_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>People came to him from Jerusalem, all of Judea, and the entire Jordan region, </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.003.006","MAT","3","MT3_6","<span class='v MT3_6' data-id='MT3_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>and were baptized in the Jordan River, publicly admitting their sins. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.003.007","MAT","3","MT3_7","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT3_7' data-id='MT3_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to be baptized, he said to them, “You vipers’ brood! Who warned you to run away from the coming judgment<span class='note' id='footnote-12'><a href='#note-12' class='key'>†</a></span>? </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.003.008","MAT","3","MT3_8","<span class='v MT3_8' data-id='MT3_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>Show by what you do that you have truly repented<span class='note' id='footnote-13'><a href='#note-13' class='key'>‡</a></span>, </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.003.009","MAT","3","MT3_9","<span class='v MT3_9' data-id='MT3_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>and don’t presume to say proudly to yourselves, ‘Abraham is our father.’ I tell you that God could make children of Abraham from these stones. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.003.010","MAT","3","MT3_10","<span class='v MT3_10' data-id='MT3_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>In fact the ax is ready to chop down the trees. Every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit will be chopped down and thrown into the fire. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.003.011","MAT","3","MT3_11","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT3_11' data-id='MT3_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>“Yes, I baptize you in water to show repentance, but after me is coming one who is greater than I am. I’m not worthy even to remove his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.003.012","MAT","3","MT3_12","<span class='v MT3_12' data-id='MT3_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>He has his winnowing tool<span class='note' id='footnote-14'><a href='#note-14' class='key'>§</a></span> ready in his hand. He will clean up the threshing floor and gather the wheat into the storehouse, but he will burn the chaff with fire that can’t be put out.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.003.013","MAT","3","MT3_13","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT3_13' data-id='MT3_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan River to be baptized by John. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.003.014","MAT","3","MT3_14","<span class='v MT3_14' data-id='MT3_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>But John tried to change his mind. He told Jesus, “I need to be baptized by you, and you come to me to baptize you?” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.003.015","MAT","3","MT3_15","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT3_15' data-id='MT3_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>“Please do so, because it’s good for us to do what God says is right,” Jesus told him. So John agreed to do it. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.003.016","MAT","3","MT3_16","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT3_16' data-id='MT3_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>Right after he was baptized, Jesus came out of the water. The heavens were opened, and he saw God’s Spirit like a dove descending, landing on him. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.003.017","MAT","3","MT3_17","<span class='v MT3_17' data-id='MT3_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>A voice from heaven said, “This is my son whom I love<span class='note' id='footnote-15'><a href='#note-15' class='key'>*</a></span>, who pleases me.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.004.001","MAT","4","MT4_1","<div class='c'>4</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT4_1' data-id='MT4_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.004.002","MAT","4","MT4_2","<span class='v MT4_2' data-id='MT4_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>After fasting forty days and nights, he was hungry. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.004.003","MAT","4","MT4_3","<span class='v MT4_3' data-id='MT4_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>The tempter came and said to him, “If you really are the Son of God, order these stones to turn into bread.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.004.004","MAT","4","MT4_4","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT4_4' data-id='MT4_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>Jesus answered, “As Scripture says, ‘Human beings do not live by only eating bread, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.004.005","MAT","4","MT4_5","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT4_5' data-id='MT4_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>Then the devil took him to the holy city<span class='note' id='footnote-16'><a href='#note-16' class='key'>*</a></span> and placed him on the top of the Temple. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.004.006","MAT","4","MT4_6","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT4_6' data-id='MT4_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>“If you really are the son of God, then throw yourself off,” he told Jesus. “As Scripture says, ‘He will order his angels to save you from harm. They will catch you so that you won’t fall by tripping over a stone.’ ” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.004.007","MAT","4","MT4_7","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT4_7' data-id='MT4_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>Jesus answered, “As Scripture also says, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’ ” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.004.008","MAT","4","MT4_8","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT4_8' data-id='MT4_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>Then the devil took Jesus to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in all their glory. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.004.009","MAT","4","MT4_9","<span class='v MT4_9' data-id='MT4_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>He said to Jesus, “I will give you all these if you fall down on your knees and worship me.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.004.010","MAT","4","MT4_10","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT4_10' data-id='MT4_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>“Go away, Satan!” said Jesus. “As Scripture says, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God and serve him, and him alone.’ ” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.004.011","MAT","4","MT4_11","<span class='v MT4_11' data-id='MT4_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>Then the devil left him, and angels came to look after him. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.004.012","MAT","4","MT4_12","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT4_12' data-id='MT4_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>When Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he returned to Galilee. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.004.013","MAT","4","MT4_13","<span class='v MT4_13' data-id='MT4_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>Leaving Nazareth, he came to stay in Capernaum, on the shores of the sea in the regions of Zebulun and Naphthali. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.004.014","MAT","4","MT4_14","<span class='v MT4_14' data-id='MT4_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>This fulfilled what Isaiah the prophet said, </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.004.015","MAT","4","MT4_15","<span class='v MT4_15' data-id='MT4_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>“In the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphthali, on the road to the sea, across the Jordan River, in Galilee where the foreigners live: </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.004.016","MAT","4","MT4_16","<span class='v MT4_16' data-id='MT4_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>The people living in darkness saw a great light; the light of dawn has shined on those living in the land of the shadow of death.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.004.017","MAT","4","MT4_17","<span class='v MT4_17' data-id='MT4_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>From that time on Jesus began declaring his message, saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.004.018","MAT","4","MT4_18","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT4_18' data-id='MT4_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>As he was walking by the sea of Galilee Jesus saw two brothers. Simon, also called Peter, and his brother Andrew, were casting a net in the sea. They made their living by catching fish. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.004.019","MAT","4","MT4_19","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT4_19' data-id='MT4_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>“Come and follow me, and I will teach you how to catch people,” he told them. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.004.020","MAT","4","MT4_20","<span class='v MT4_20' data-id='MT4_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>They left their nets immediately and followed him. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.004.021","MAT","4","MT4_21","<span class='v MT4_21' data-id='MT4_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>Continuing on he saw two other brothers, James and John. They were in a boat with their father Zebedee, mending their nets. He called them to follow him<span class='note' id='footnote-17'><a href='#note-17' class='key'>†</a></span>. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.004.022","MAT","4","MT4_22","<span class='v MT4_22' data-id='MT4_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>They left the boat and their father immediately, and followed him. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.004.023","MAT","4","MT4_23","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT4_23' data-id='MT4_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>Jesus traveled throughout Galilee, teaching in the synagogues, telling the good news of the kingdom, and healing all the diseases and illnesses the people had. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.004.024","MAT","4","MT4_24","<span class='v MT4_24' data-id='MT4_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>News about him spread throughout the province of Syria<span class='note' id='footnote-18'><a href='#note-18' class='key'>‡</a></span>. They brought everyone who was sick to him: people troubled by seizures, the demon-possessed, those who were mentally ill, people who were paralyzed, and he healed all of them. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.004.025","MAT","4","MT4_25","<span class='v MT4_25' data-id='MT4_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>Large crowds followed him from Galilee, Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and the region beyond Jordan. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.001","MAT","5","MT5_1","<div class='c'>5</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT5_1' data-id='MT5_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>When Jesus saw the crowds following him he went up a mountain. There he sat down together with his disciples. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.002","MAT","5","MT5_2","<span class='v MT5_2' data-id='MT5_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>He began teaching them, saying: </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.003","MAT","5","MT5_3","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT5_3' data-id='MT5_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>“Blessed are those who recognize they are spiritually poor, for the kingdom of heaven is theirs. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.004","MAT","5","MT5_4","<span class='v MT5_4' data-id='MT5_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.005","MAT","5","MT5_5","<span class='v MT5_5' data-id='MT5_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>Blessed are those who are kind<span class='note' id='footnote-19'><a href='#note-19' class='key'>*</a></span>, for they will own the whole world. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.006","MAT","5","MT5_6","<span class='v MT5_6' data-id='MT5_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>Blessed are those whose greatest desire<span class='note' id='footnote-20'><a href='#note-20' class='key'>†</a></span> is to do what is right, for they will be satisfied. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.007","MAT","5","MT5_7","<span class='v MT5_7' data-id='MT5_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>Blessed are those who are merciful, for they will be shown mercy. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.008","MAT","5","MT5_8","<span class='v MT5_8' data-id='MT5_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>Blessed are those who have pure hearts, for they will see God. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.009","MAT","5","MT5_9","<span class='v MT5_9' data-id='MT5_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>Blessed are those who work to bring peace, for they will be called children of God. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.010","MAT","5","MT5_10","<span class='v MT5_10' data-id='MT5_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>Blessed are those persecuted for what is right, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to them. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.011","MAT","5","MT5_11","<span class='v MT5_11' data-id='MT5_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and accuse you of all kinds of evil things because of me. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.012","MAT","5","MT5_12","<span class='v MT5_12' data-id='MT5_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>Be glad, be really glad, for you will receive a great reward in heaven—for they persecuted the prophets who came before you in just the same way. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.013","MAT","5","MT5_13","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT5_13' data-id='MT5_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>“You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt becomes tasteless<span class='note' id='footnote-21'><a href='#note-21' class='key'>‡</a></span>, how can you make it salty again? It’s good for nothing, so it’s thrown out and trodden down. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.014","MAT","5","MT5_14","<span class='v MT5_14' data-id='MT5_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill can’t be hidden. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.015","MAT","5","MT5_15","<span class='v MT5_15' data-id='MT5_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>No one lights a lamp and then puts it under a bucket. No, it’s placed on a lamp-stand and it provides light to everyone in the house. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.016","MAT","5","MT5_16","<span class='v MT5_16' data-id='MT5_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>In the same way you should let your light shine before everyone so they can see the good things you do and praise your heavenly Father. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.017","MAT","5","MT5_17","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT5_17' data-id='MT5_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>“Don’t think I came to abolish the law or the writings of the prophets. I didn’t come to abolish them, but to fulfill them. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.018","MAT","5","MT5_18","<span class='v MT5_18' data-id='MT5_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>I assure you, until heaven and earth come to an end, not a single letter, not a single dot of the law will come to an end before everything is fulfilled. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.019","MAT","5","MT5_19","<span class='v MT5_19' data-id='MT5_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>So whoever disregards<span class='note' id='footnote-22'><a href='#note-22' class='key'>§</a></span> the least important commandment, and teaches people to do so, will be called the least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever practices and teaches the commandments will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.020","MAT","5","MT5_20","<span class='v MT5_20' data-id='MT5_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>I tell you, unless your righteousness is more than that of the religious teachers and the Pharisees, you can never enter the kingdom of heaven. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.021","MAT","5","MT5_21","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT5_21' data-id='MT5_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>“You’ve heard that the law said<span class='note' id='footnote-23'><a href='#note-23' class='key'>*</a></span> to the people of long ago: ‘You shall not murder, and anyone who commits murder will be condemned as guilty<span class='note' id='footnote-24'><a href='#note-24' class='key'>†</a></span>.’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.022","MAT","5","MT5_22","<span class='v MT5_22' data-id='MT5_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>But I tell you, anyone who is angry with his brother will be condemned as </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v MT5_22' data-id='MT5_22'>guilty. Whoever calls his brother an idiot has to answer to the council<span class='note' id='footnote-25'><a href='#note-25' class='key'>‡</a></span>, but whoever insults people is liable to the fire of judgment<span class='note' id='footnote-26'><a href='#note-26' class='key'>§</a></span>.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.023","MAT","5","MT5_23","<span class='v MT5_23' data-id='MT5_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>“If you’re at the altar making an offering, and remember that your brother has something against you, </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.024","MAT","5","MT5_24","<span class='v MT5_24' data-id='MT5_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>leave your offering on the altar and go and make peace with him first, and afterwards come back and make your offering. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.025","MAT","5","MT5_25","<span class='v MT5_25' data-id='MT5_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>While you’re on the way to court with your opponent, make sure you settle things quickly. Otherwise your opponent might hand you over to the judge, and the judge will hand you over to the court official, and you will be thrown into jail. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.026","MAT","5","MT5_26","<span class='v MT5_26' data-id='MT5_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>I tell you the truth: you won’t get out of there until you’ve paid every last penny. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.027","MAT","5","MT5_27","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT5_27' data-id='MT5_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>“You’ve heard that the law said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.028","MAT","5","MT5_28","<span class='v MT5_28' data-id='MT5_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>But I tell you that everyone who looks lustfully at a woman has already committed adultery with her in his heart. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.029","MAT","5","MT5_29","<span class='v MT5_29' data-id='MT5_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>If your right eye leads you to sin, then tear it out and throw it away, because it’s better to lose one part of your body than to have your whole body thrown into the fire of judgment. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.030","MAT","5","MT5_30","<span class='v MT5_30' data-id='MT5_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>If your right hand leads you to sin, then cut it off and throw it away, for it’s better for you to lose one of your limbs than for your whole body to go into the fire of judgment. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.031","MAT","5","MT5_31","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT5_31' data-id='MT5_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>“The law also said, ‘If a man divorces his wife, he should give her a certificate of divorce.’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.032","MAT","5","MT5_32","<span class='v MT5_32' data-id='MT5_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>But I tell you that any man who divorces his wife except for sexual immorality causes her to commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.033","MAT","5","MT5_33","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT5_33' data-id='MT5_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>“And again, you’ve heard that the law said to the people of long ago, ‘You shall not perjure yourself. Instead make sure you keep the oaths you swear to the Lord.’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.034","MAT","5","MT5_34","<span class='v MT5_34' data-id='MT5_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>But I tell you, don’t swear at all. Don’t swear by heaven, because it’s the throne of God. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.035","MAT","5","MT5_35","<span class='v MT5_35' data-id='MT5_35'><span class='v-num v-35'>35&#160;</span>Don’t swear by the earth, because it’s God’s footstool. Don’t swear by Jerusalem, because it’s the city of the great King. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.036","MAT","5","MT5_36","<span class='v MT5_36' data-id='MT5_36'><span class='v-num v-36'>36&#160;</span>Don’t even swear by your head, because you’re not able to make a single hair white or black. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.037","MAT","5","MT5_37","<span class='v MT5_37' data-id='MT5_37'><span class='v-num v-37'>37&#160;</span>Simply say yes or no—more than this comes from the Evil One. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.038","MAT","5","MT5_38","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT5_38' data-id='MT5_38'><span class='v-num v-38'>38&#160;</span>“You’ve heard that the law said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.039","MAT","5","MT5_39","<span class='v MT5_39' data-id='MT5_39'><span class='v-num v-39'>39&#160;</span>But I tell you, don’t resist someone who is evil. If someone slaps you on the right cheek, turn the other cheek to them as well. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.040","MAT","5","MT5_40","<span class='v MT5_40' data-id='MT5_40'><span class='v-num v-40'>40&#160;</span>If someone wants to sue you in court and takes your shirt, give them your coat too<span class='note' id='footnote-27'><a href='#note-27' class='key'>*</a></span>. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.041","MAT","5","MT5_41","<span class='v MT5_41' data-id='MT5_41'><span class='v-num v-41'>41&#160;</span>If someone demands that you go one mile, go with them two<span class='note' id='footnote-28'><a href='#note-28' class='key'>†</a></span>. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.042","MAT","5","MT5_42","<span class='v MT5_42' data-id='MT5_42'><span class='v-num v-42'>42&#160;</span>Give to those who ask you, and don’t turn away those who want to borrow from you. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.043","MAT","5","MT5_43","<span class='v MT5_43' data-id='MT5_43'><span class='v-num v-43'>43&#160;</span>“You’ve heard that the law said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.044","MAT","5","MT5_44","<span class='v MT5_44' data-id='MT5_44'><span class='v-num v-44'>44&#160;</span>But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.045","MAT","5","MT5_45","<span class='v MT5_45' data-id='MT5_45'><span class='v-num v-45'>45&#160;</span>so you may become children of your heavenly Father. For his sun shines on both the good and the bad; and he makes the rain fall on both those who do right and those who do wrong. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.046","MAT","5","MT5_46","<span class='v MT5_46' data-id='MT5_46'><span class='v-num v-46'>46&#160;</span>For if you only love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don’t even the tax-collectors do that? </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.047","MAT","5","MT5_47","<span class='v MT5_47' data-id='MT5_47'><span class='v-num v-47'>47&#160;</span>If you only speak kindly to your family, what more are you doing than anyone else? Even the heathen<span class='note' id='footnote-29'><a href='#note-29' class='key'>‡</a></span> do that! </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.005.048","MAT","5","MT5_48","<span class='v MT5_48' data-id='MT5_48'><span class='v-num v-48'>48&#160;</span>Grow up and become completely trustworthy<span class='note' id='footnote-30'><a href='#note-30' class='key'>§</a></span>, just as your heavenly Father is trustworthy. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.006.001","MAT","6","MT6_1","<div class='c'>6</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT6_1' data-id='MT6_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>“Make sure not to do your good deeds in front of people, just so they can be seen. Otherwise you won’t have any reward from your Father in heaven. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.006.002","MAT","6","MT6_2","<span class='v MT6_2' data-id='MT6_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>When you give to the poor, don’t be like the hypocrites<span class='note' id='footnote-31'><a href='#note-31' class='key'>*</a></span> who blow their own trumpets to announce what they’re doing in the synagogues and in the streets so that people will praise them. I tell you the truth: they already have their reward. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.006.003","MAT","6","MT6_3","<span class='v MT6_3' data-id='MT6_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>When you give to the poor, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand’s doing. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.006.004","MAT","6","MT6_4","<span class='v MT6_4' data-id='MT6_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>That way what you give will be in secret, and your Father who sees what happens in secret will reward you. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.006.005","MAT","6","MT6_5","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT6_5' data-id='MT6_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>“When you pray, don’t be like the hypocrites, for they love to stand up and pray in the synagogues and on the street corners so that people can see them. I promise you, they already have their reward. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.006.006","MAT","6","MT6_6","<span class='v MT6_6' data-id='MT6_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>But you, when you pray, go indoors and close the door, and pray to your Father in private, and your Father who sees what happens in private will reward you. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.006.007","MAT","6","MT6_7","<span class='v MT6_7' data-id='MT6_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>When you pray, don’t babble on meaninglessly like the foreigners do, who think they will be heard because of all the words they repeat. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.006.008","MAT","6","MT6_8","<span class='v MT6_8' data-id='MT6_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>Don’t be like them, for your Father knows what you need even before you ask him. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.006.009","MAT","6","MT6_9","<span class='v MT6_9' data-id='MT6_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>So pray like this: </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.006.010","MAT","6","MT6_10","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT6_10' data-id='MT6_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>“Our heavenly Father, may your name be honored. May your kingdom come! May your will be carried out in earth as it is in heaven. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.006.011","MAT","6","MT6_11","<span class='v MT6_11' data-id='MT6_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>Please give to us today the food we need. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.006.012","MAT","6","MT6_12","<span class='v MT6_12' data-id='MT6_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>Forgive our sins, just as we have forgiven those who have sinned against us. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.006.013","MAT","6","MT6_13","<span class='v MT6_13' data-id='MT6_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>Don’t let us be tempted to do wrong<span class='note' id='footnote-32'><a href='#note-32' class='key'>†</a></span>, and save us from the Evil One. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.006.014","MAT","6","MT6_14","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT6_14' data-id='MT6_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>“For if you forgive those who sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.006.015","MAT","6","MT6_15","<span class='v MT6_15' data-id='MT6_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>But if you don’t forgive those who sin against you, then your heavenly Father won’t forgive your sins. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.006.016","MAT","6","MT6_16","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT6_16' data-id='MT6_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>“When you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites who put on sad faces and make themselves look terrible so that everyone can see they’re fasting. I tell you the truth, they already have their reward. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.006.017","MAT","6","MT6_17","<span class='v MT6_17' data-id='MT6_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>Instead, when you fast, wash your face and look smart, </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.006.018","MAT","6","MT6_18","<span class='v MT6_18' data-id='MT6_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>so that people won’t see you’re fasting, and your unseen Father who sees what happens in private will reward you. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.006.019","MAT","6","MT6_19","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT6_19' data-id='MT6_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>“Don’t pile up wealth here on earth where moths and rust ruin it, and where thieves break in and steal it. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.006.020","MAT","6","MT6_20","<span class='v MT6_20' data-id='MT6_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>Instead, you should pile up your wealth in heaven, where moths and rust don’t ruin it, and where thieves don’t break in and steal it. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.006.021","MAT","6","MT6_21","<span class='v MT6_21' data-id='MT6_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>For wherever you pile up your wealth, that’s where your heart will be too. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.006.022","MAT","6","MT6_22","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT6_22' data-id='MT6_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>“The eye is like a lamp that lights the body. So if your eye is healthy<span class='note' id='footnote-33'><a href='#note-33' class='key'>‡</a></span>, then your whole body will have light. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.006.023","MAT","6","MT6_23","<span class='v MT6_23' data-id='MT6_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>But if your eye is evil, then your whole body will be in the dark. If the light in you is darkness, how dark is that! </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.006.024","MAT","6","MT6_24","<span class='v MT6_24' data-id='MT6_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>No one can serve two masters. Either you’ll hate one and love the other, or you’ll be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Money<span class='note' id='footnote-34'><a href='#note-34' class='key'>§</a></span>. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.006.025","MAT","6","MT6_25","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT6_25' data-id='MT6_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>“That’s why I’m telling you not to worry about your life. Don’t worry about what to eat, or what to drink, or what clothes to put on. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothes? </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.006.026","MAT","6","MT6_26","<span class='v MT6_26' data-id='MT6_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>Look at the birds<span class='note' id='footnote-35'><a href='#note-35' class='key'>*</a></span>—they don’t sow or reap or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you worth more than they are? </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.006.027","MAT","6","MT6_27","<span class='v MT6_27' data-id='MT6_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>Who of you by worrying can add a minute to your life? </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.006.028","MAT","6","MT6_28","<span class='v MT6_28' data-id='MT6_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>And why are you worried about clothes? Look at the beautiful flowers in the field. See how they grow: they don’t work hard, they don’t spin thread. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.006.029","MAT","6","MT6_29","<span class='v MT6_29' data-id='MT6_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>But I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory was dressed like one of these flowers. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.006.030","MAT","6","MT6_30","<span class='v MT6_30' data-id='MT6_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>So if God decorates the fields like this, grass which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, won’t he do much more for you, you people who trust so little? </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.006.031","MAT","6","MT6_31","<span class='v MT6_31' data-id='MT6_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>So don’t worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.006.032","MAT","6","MT6_32","<span class='v MT6_32' data-id='MT6_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>These are all the things that the heathen chase after, but your heavenly Father knows everything you need. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.006.033","MAT","6","MT6_33","<span class='v MT6_33' data-id='MT6_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>Seek his kingdom first, and his way of doing right, and everything will be given to you. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.006.034","MAT","6","MT6_34","<span class='v MT6_34' data-id='MT6_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>So don’t worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow can worry about itself. There’s already enough evil in every day. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.007.001","MAT","7","MT7_1","<div class='c'>7</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT7_1' data-id='MT7_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>“Don’t judge others, so that you won’t be judged. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.007.002","MAT","7","MT7_2","<span class='v MT7_2' data-id='MT7_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>For whatever standard you use to judge others will be used to judge you, and whatever measurement you use to measure others will be used to measure you. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.007.003","MAT","7","MT7_3","<span class='v MT7_3' data-id='MT7_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>Why do you see the speck that’s in your brother’s eye? Don’t you notice the plank that’s in your own eye? </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.007.004","MAT","7","MT7_4","<span class='v MT7_4' data-id='MT7_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take out that speck from your eye’ when you have a plank in your own eye? </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.007.005","MAT","7","MT7_5","<span class='v MT7_5' data-id='MT7_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>You’re being hypocritical! First get rid of the plank that’s in your own eye. Then you’ll be able to see clearly to take out the speck from your brother’s eye. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.007.006","MAT","7","MT7_6","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT7_6' data-id='MT7_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>“Don’t give dogs what’s holy. Don’t throw your pearls to pigs. That way the pigs won’t trample them underfoot, and the dogs won’t turn and attack you. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.007.007","MAT","7","MT7_7","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT7_7' data-id='MT7_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you<span class='note' id='footnote-36'><a href='#note-36' class='key'>*</a></span>. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.007.008","MAT","7","MT7_8","<span class='v MT7_8' data-id='MT7_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>Everyone who asks, receives; everyone who seeks, finds; and everyone who knocks has the door opened for them. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.007.009","MAT","7","MT7_9","<span class='v MT7_9' data-id='MT7_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>Would any of you give your son a stone if he asked for bread? </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.007.010","MAT","7","MT7_10","<span class='v MT7_10' data-id='MT7_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>Or if he asked for fish, would you give him a snake? </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.007.011","MAT","7","MT7_11","<span class='v MT7_11' data-id='MT7_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>So if even you who are evil know to give good things to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good things to those who ask him. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.007.012","MAT","7","MT7_12","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT7_12' data-id='MT7_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>“Treat others the way you want them to treat you. This sums up the law and the prophets. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.007.013","MAT","7","MT7_13","<span class='v MT7_13' data-id='MT7_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>Enter by the narrow entrance. For the entrance is wide, and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and many travel that way. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.007.014","MAT","7","MT7_14","<span class='v MT7_14' data-id='MT7_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>But the entrance is narrow, and the way is difficult that leads to life, and only a few find it. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.007.015","MAT","7","MT7_15","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT7_15' data-id='MT7_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>“Watch out for false prophets who come wearing sheep’s clothing, but who on the inside are vicious wolves. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.007.016","MAT","7","MT7_16","<span class='v MT7_16' data-id='MT7_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>You can recognize them by their fruits<span class='note' id='footnote-37'><a href='#note-37' class='key'>†</a></span>. Do people harvest grapes from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles? </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.007.017","MAT","7","MT7_17","<span class='v MT7_17' data-id='MT7_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>So every good tree produces good fruit, while a bad tree produces bad fruit. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.007.018","MAT","7","MT7_18","<span class='v MT7_18' data-id='MT7_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>A good tree can’t produce bad fruit, and a bad tree can’t produce good fruit. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.007.019","MAT","7","MT7_19","<span class='v MT7_19' data-id='MT7_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>Every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is chopped down and thrown into the fire. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.007.020","MAT","7","MT7_20","<span class='v MT7_20' data-id='MT7_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>So you’ll recognize them by their fruits. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.007.021","MAT","7","MT7_21","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT7_21' data-id='MT7_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>“Not everyone who calls me ‘Lord, Lord’ will enter the kingdom of heaven—only those who do the will of my Father in heaven. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.007.022","MAT","7","MT7_22","<span class='v MT7_22' data-id='MT7_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>Many will say to me at the Day of Judgment, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name and drive out demons in your name, and perform many miracles in your name?’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.007.023","MAT","7","MT7_23","<span class='v MT7_23' data-id='MT7_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Leave me, you people who practice wickedness!’<span class='note' id='footnote-38'><a href='#note-38' class='key'>‡</a></span> </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.007.024","MAT","7","MT7_24","<span class='v MT7_24' data-id='MT7_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>Everyone that hears the words I say, and follows them, is like a wise man who built his house on solid rock. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.007.025","MAT","7","MT7_25","<span class='v MT7_25' data-id='MT7_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>The rain poured down, and the floods rose, and the winds blew hard against the house, but it didn’t fall down, because its foundations were on solid rock. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.007.026","MAT","7","MT7_26","<span class='v MT7_26' data-id='MT7_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>Everyone that hears the words I say, and doesn’t follow them, is like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.007.027","MAT","7","MT7_27","<span class='v MT7_27' data-id='MT7_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>The rain poured down, and the floods rose, and the winds blew hard against the house, and it fell down—it totally collapsed.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.007.028","MAT","7","MT7_28","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT7_28' data-id='MT7_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>When Jesus finished explaining these things, the crowds were amazed at his teaching, </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.007.029","MAT","7","MT7_29","<span class='v MT7_29' data-id='MT7_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>for he taught like someone with authority, and not like their religious teachers. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.008.001","MAT","8","MT8_1","<div class='c'>8</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT8_1' data-id='MT8_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>Large crowds followed Jesus once he’d come down from the mountain. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.008.002","MAT","8","MT8_2","<span class='v MT8_2' data-id='MT8_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>A leper approached him and bowed down, worshiping him, and said, “Lord, if you’re willing, please heal me.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.008.003","MAT","8","MT8_3","<span class='v MT8_3' data-id='MT8_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>Jesus reached out and touched him with his hand. “I am willing,” he said. “Be healed!” Immediately he was healed from his leprosy. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.008.004","MAT","8","MT8_4","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT8_4' data-id='MT8_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>“Make sure you don’t tell anyone,” Jesus told him. “Go and show yourself to the priest and give the offering which Moses required as public proof<span class='note' id='footnote-39'><a href='#note-39' class='key'>*</a></span>.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.008.005","MAT","8","MT8_5","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT8_5' data-id='MT8_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>When Jesus entered Capernaum, a centurion came up to him, begging for help, </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.008.006","MAT","8","MT8_6","<span class='v MT8_6' data-id='MT8_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>“Lord, my servant is at home, lying down, unable to move. He’s in terrible agony.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.008.007","MAT","8","MT8_7","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT8_7' data-id='MT8_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>“I will come and heal him,” Jesus replied. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.008.008","MAT","8","MT8_8","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT8_8' data-id='MT8_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>The centurion answered, “Lord, I don’t merit a visit to my home. Just say the word, and my servant will be healed. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.008.009","MAT","8","MT8_9","<span class='v MT8_9' data-id='MT8_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>For I am myself under the authority of superiors, while I also have soldiers under my command. I command one, ‘Go!’ and he goes. I command another, ‘Come!’ and he comes. I tell my servant, ‘Do this!’ and he does it.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.008.010","MAT","8","MT8_10","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT8_10' data-id='MT8_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>When Jesus heard what he said, he was astonished. He told those who were following him, “I tell you the truth, I haven’t found this kind of trust anywhere in Israel. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.008.011","MAT","8","MT8_11","<span class='v MT8_11' data-id='MT8_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and sit down with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.008.012","MAT","8","MT8_12","<span class='v MT8_12' data-id='MT8_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>But the heirs of the kingdom will be thrown out into utter darkness where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.008.013","MAT","8","MT8_13","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT8_13' data-id='MT8_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>Then Jesus told the centurion, “Go home. Because you trusted that it would happen, what you asked for has been done.” The servant was healed right away. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.008.016","MAT","8","MT8_16","<span class='v MT8_16' data-id='MT8_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>When evening came they brought many who were demon-possessed to Jesus. He made the spirits leave at his command, and he healed all those who were sick. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.008.017","MAT","8","MT8_17","<span class='v MT8_17' data-id='MT8_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>This fulfilled what the prophet Isaiah said: “He healed our diseases, and freed us from our illnesses.” </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.008.020","MAT","8","MT8_20","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT8_20' data-id='MT8_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>“Foxes have their dens, and wild birds have their nests, but the Son of man has nowhere he can lay down and rest<span class='note' id='footnote-41'><a href='#note-41' class='key'>‡</a></span>,” Jesus told him. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.008.025","MAT","8","MT8_25","<span class='v MT8_25' data-id='MT8_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>The disciples went over to him and woke him up. “Save us, Lord! We’re going to drown!” they shouted. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.008.026","MAT","8","MT8_26","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT8_26' data-id='MT8_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>“Why are you so afraid? Why do you trust so little?” he asked them. Then he got up, and commanded the winds and the waves to stop. Everything was absolutely calm. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.008.027","MAT","8","MT8_27","<span class='v MT8_27' data-id='MT8_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>The disciples were astonished, and said, “Who is this? Even the winds and the waves obey him!” </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.008.029","MAT","8","MT8_29","<span class='v MT8_29' data-id='MT8_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>They shouted out, “What have you got to do with us, you Son of God? Have you come to torture us before our time?” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.008.030","MAT","8","MT8_30","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT8_30' data-id='MT8_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>In the distance a large herd of pigs was feeding. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.008.031","MAT","8","MT8_31","<span class='v MT8_31' data-id='MT8_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>The demons pleaded with him, “If you’re going to drive us out, send us into the herd of pigs.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.008.032","MAT","8","MT8_32","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT8_32' data-id='MT8_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>“Go!” said Jesus. The demons left the men and went into the pigs. The whole herd ran down the steep hillside into the sea and drowned. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.008.034","MAT","8","MT8_34","<span class='v MT8_34' data-id='MT8_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>The whole town came out to meet Jesus. When they found him, they begged him to leave their district. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.009.001","MAT","9","MT9_1","<div class='c'>9</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT9_1' data-id='MT9_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>So Jesus took a boat back across the lake to the town where he lived. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.009.002","MAT","9","MT9_2","<span class='v MT9_2' data-id='MT9_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>There they brought to him a paralyzed man lying on a mat. When Jesus saw how they trusted him, he told the paralyzed man, “My friend<span class='note' id='footnote-42'><a href='#note-42' class='key'>*</a></span>, cheer up! Your sins are forgiven.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.009.003","MAT","9","MT9_3","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT9_3' data-id='MT9_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>In response some of the religious teachers said to themselves, “He’s speaking blasphemy!” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.009.004","MAT","9","MT9_4","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT9_4' data-id='MT9_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>But Jesus knew what they were thinking. He asked them, “Why are you thinking evil thoughts in your hearts? </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.009.006","MAT","9","MT9_6","<span class='v MT9_6' data-id='MT9_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>But to convince you that the Son of man does have the authority to forgive sins…” he said to the paralyzed man, “Get up, pick up your mat, and go home!” </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.009.008","MAT","9","MT9_8","<span class='v MT9_8' data-id='MT9_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>When the crowds saw what had happened, they were scared. Then they praised God that he had given human beings such power. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.009.009","MAT","9","MT9_9","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT9_9' data-id='MT9_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>As Jesus moved on from there he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth. Jesus called to him, “Follow me!” He got up, and followed Jesus. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.009.010","MAT","9","MT9_10","<span class='v MT9_10' data-id='MT9_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>While Jesus was eating at Matthew’s home, many tax-collectors and sinners came and sat down at the table with Jesus and his disciples. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.009.011","MAT","9","MT9_11","<span class='v MT9_11' data-id='MT9_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>When the Pharisees saw this they asked Jesus’ disciples, “Why does your Teacher eat with tax-collectors and sinners?” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.009.012","MAT","9","MT9_12","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT9_12' data-id='MT9_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>When Jesus heard the question, he replied, “Those who are well don’t need a doctor, but sick people do. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.009.013","MAT","9","MT9_13","<span class='v MT9_13' data-id='MT9_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>Go and discover what this means: ‘I want mercy, not sacrifice. For I didn’t come to call those who do right—I came to call sinners.’ ”<span class='note' id='footnote-43'><a href='#note-43' class='key'>†</a></span> </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.009.018","MAT","9","MT9_18","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT9_18' data-id='MT9_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>While he was telling them this, one of the leading officials came and bowed before him. “My daughter has just died,” the man told Jesus. “But if you come and place your hand on her, I know she will come back to life.” </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.009.020","MAT","9","MT9_20","<span class='v MT9_20' data-id='MT9_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>At that moment a woman who had been sick with bleeding for twelve years came up behind him and touched the hem of his cloak. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.009.021","MAT","9","MT9_21","<span class='v MT9_21' data-id='MT9_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>She had told herself, “If I can just touch his cloak, I’ll be healed.” </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.009.023","MAT","9","MT9_23","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT9_23' data-id='MT9_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>Jesus arrived at the official’s house. He saw the flute-players and the crowd that was weeping loudly. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.009.024","MAT","9","MT9_24","<span class='v MT9_24' data-id='MT9_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>“Please leave,” he told them, “For the girl isn’t dead, she’s just asleep.” But they laughed and made fun of him. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.009.026","MAT","9","MT9_26","<span class='v MT9_26' data-id='MT9_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>News of what happened spread throughout that region. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.009.030","MAT","9","MT9_30","<span class='v MT9_30' data-id='MT9_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>And they could see. Then Jesus warned them, “Make sure nobody knows about this.” </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.009.033","MAT","9","MT9_33","<span class='v MT9_33' data-id='MT9_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>Once the demon had been thrown out of him, the dumb man spoke, and the crowds were amazed. “Nothing ever happened like this before in Israel,” they said. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.010.009","MAT","10","MT10_9","<span class='v MT10_9' data-id='MT10_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>Don’t carry any gold, silver, or copper coins in your pockets, </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.010.010","MAT","10","MT10_10","<span class='v MT10_10' data-id='MT10_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>or a bag for your journey, or two cloaks, or sandals, or a walking stick, for a worker deserves to be supported<span class='note' id='footnote-45'><a href='#note-45' class='key'>*</a></span>. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.010.011","MAT","10","MT10_11","<span class='v MT10_11' data-id='MT10_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>Wherever you go, whatever town or village, ask for someone who lives according to good principles, and remain there until you leave. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.010.012","MAT","10","MT10_12","<span class='v MT10_12' data-id='MT10_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>When you enter the house, give it your blessing. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.010.013","MAT","10","MT10_13","<span class='v MT10_13' data-id='MT10_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>If the home deserves it, let your peace<span class='note' id='footnote-46'><a href='#note-46' class='key'>†</a></span> rest on it, but if it doesn’t deserve it, let your peace return to you. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.010.014","MAT","10","MT10_14","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT10_14' data-id='MT10_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>“If someone doesn’t welcome you, and refuses to listen to what you have to say, then leave that house or that town, shaking its dust off your feet as you go. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.010.015","MAT","10","MT10_15","<span class='v MT10_15' data-id='MT10_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>I tell you the truth, it will be better for Sodom and Gomorrah at the Day of Judgment than for that town! </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.010.016","MAT","10","MT10_16","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT10_16' data-id='MT10_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>“Look, I’m sending you out like sheep among wolves. So be as wise as serpents and harmless as doves. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.010.017","MAT","10","MT10_17","<span class='v MT10_17' data-id='MT10_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>Watch out for those who will hand you over to be tried by town councils<span class='note' id='footnote-47'><a href='#note-47' class='key'>‡</a></span> and will whip you in their synagogues. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.010.018","MAT","10","MT10_18","<span class='v MT10_18' data-id='MT10_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>You will be dragged before governors and kings because of me, to witness to them and to the foreigners. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.010.019","MAT","10","MT10_19","<span class='v MT10_19' data-id='MT10_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>But when they put you on trial, don’t worry about how you should speak or what you should say, because you’ll be told what to say at the right time. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.010.020","MAT","10","MT10_20","<span class='v MT10_20' data-id='MT10_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>For it isn’t you who will speak but the spirit of the Father will speak through you. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.010.021","MAT","10","MT10_21","<span class='v MT10_21' data-id='MT10_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>Brother will betray brother and have him killed, and a father will do the same to his child. Children will rebel against their parents, and have them put to death. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.010.022","MAT","10","MT10_22","<span class='v MT10_22' data-id='MT10_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>Everyone will hate you because you follow me, but those who endure until the end will be saved. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.010.023","MAT","10","MT10_23","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT10_23' data-id='MT10_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>“When you’re persecuted in one town, run away to the next. I’m telling the truth: you won’t finish going to the towns of Israel before the Son of man comes. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.010.024","MAT","10","MT10_24","<span class='v MT10_24' data-id='MT10_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>Disciples are not more important than their teacher; servants are not more important than their master. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.010.025","MAT","10","MT10_25","<span class='v MT10_25' data-id='MT10_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>Disciples should be satisfied to become like their teacher, and servants like their master. If the head of the house has been called the head demon Beelzebub<span class='note' id='footnote-48'><a href='#note-48' class='key'>§</a></span>, then the members of his household will be demonized even more! </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.010.026","MAT","10","MT10_26","<span class='v MT10_26' data-id='MT10_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>So don’t be frightened of them, for there’s nothing covered that won’t be exposed, and nothing hidden that won’t be made known. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.010.027","MAT","10","MT10_27","<span class='v MT10_27' data-id='MT10_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>What I tell you here in the dark, declare when it’s light, and what you hear whispered in your ear, shout from the rooftops. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.010.028","MAT","10","MT10_28","<span class='v MT10_28' data-id='MT10_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>Don’t be afraid of those who can kill you physically, but can’t kill you spiritually. Instead, be afraid of the One who can destroy you physically and spiritually in the fires of destruction<span class='note' id='footnote-49'><a href='#note-49' class='key'>*</a></span>. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.010.029","MAT","10","MT10_29","<span class='v MT10_29' data-id='MT10_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>Aren’t two sparrows sold for just one penny? But not a single one of them falls to the ground without your Father knowing about it. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.010.030","MAT","10","MT10_30","<span class='v MT10_30' data-id='MT10_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>Even the hairs on your head have all been counted. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.010.031","MAT","10","MT10_31","<span class='v MT10_31' data-id='MT10_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>So don’t worry—you’re worth more than many sparrows! </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.010.032","MAT","10","MT10_32","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT10_32' data-id='MT10_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>“Anyone who publicly declares their commitment<span class='note' id='footnote-50'><a href='#note-50' class='key'>†</a></span> to me, I will also declare my commitment to them before my Father in heaven. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.010.033","MAT","10","MT10_33","<span class='v MT10_33' data-id='MT10_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>But anyone who publicly denies me, I will also deny before my Father in heaven. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.010.034","MAT","10","MT10_34","<span class='v MT10_34' data-id='MT10_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>Don’t think I’ve come to bring peace on earth. I haven’t come to bring peace, but a sword. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.010.035","MAT","10","MT10_35","<span class='v MT10_35' data-id='MT10_35'><span class='v-num v-35'>35&#160;</span>I’ve come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.010.036","MAT","10","MT10_36","<span class='v MT10_36' data-id='MT10_36'><span class='v-num v-36'>36&#160;</span>Your enemies will be those of your own family! </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.010.037","MAT","10","MT10_37","<span class='v MT10_37' data-id='MT10_37'><span class='v-num v-37'>37&#160;</span>If you love your father or mother more than me you don’t deserve to be mine, and if you love your son or daughter more than me you don’t deserve to be mine. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.010.038","MAT","10","MT10_38","<span class='v MT10_38' data-id='MT10_38'><span class='v-num v-38'>38&#160;</span>If you don’t pick up your cross and follow me you don’t deserve to be mine. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.010.039","MAT","10","MT10_39","<span class='v MT10_39' data-id='MT10_39'><span class='v-num v-39'>39&#160;</span>If you try to save your life, you will lose it<span class='note' id='footnote-51'><a href='#note-51' class='key'>‡</a></span>, but if you lose your life because of me you will save it. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.010.040","MAT","10","MT10_40","<span class='v MT10_40' data-id='MT10_40'><span class='v-num v-40'>40&#160;</span>Those who welcome you welcome me, and those who welcome me welcome the one that sent me. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.010.041","MAT","10","MT10_41","<span class='v MT10_41' data-id='MT10_41'><span class='v-num v-41'>41&#160;</span>Those who welcome a prophet because that’s what they are will receive the same reward as a prophet. Those who welcome someone who does right will receive the same reward as someone who does right. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.010.042","MAT","10","MT10_42","<span class='v MT10_42' data-id='MT10_42'><span class='v-num v-42'>42&#160;</span>I tell you the truth, those who give a drink of cool water to the least important of my disciples will definitely not miss out on their reward.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.011.001","MAT","11","MT11_1","<div class='c'>11</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT11_1' data-id='MT11_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>When Jesus had finished giving instructions to his twelve disciples, he left to go and teach and speak publicly in the nearby towns. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.011.002","MAT","11","MT11_2","<span class='v MT11_2' data-id='MT11_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>While John was in prison he heard what the Messiah was doing, so he sent his disciples </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.011.003","MAT","11","MT11_3","<span class='v MT11_3' data-id='MT11_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>to ask on his behalf, “Are you the one we were expecting to come, or should we continue to look for someone else?” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.011.004","MAT","11","MT11_4","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT11_4' data-id='MT11_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>Jesus answered them, “Go back and tell John what you hear and what you see. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.011.005","MAT","11","MT11_5","<span class='v MT11_5' data-id='MT11_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>The blind can see, the crippled can walk, the lepers are healed, the deaf can hear, the dead are resurrected, and the poor hear the good news. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.011.006","MAT","11","MT11_6","<span class='v MT11_6' data-id='MT11_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>Blessed are those who don’t reject me!” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.011.007","MAT","11","MT11_7","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT11_7' data-id='MT11_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>As they left, Jesus began to talk to the crowds about John. “What were you expecting to see when you went out into the desert? A reed tossed about by the wind? </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.011.008","MAT","11","MT11_8","<span class='v MT11_8' data-id='MT11_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>So what did you go to see? A man dressed in fancy clothes? People dressed like that live in kings’ palaces. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.011.009","MAT","11","MT11_9","<span class='v MT11_9' data-id='MT11_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>So what did you go to see then? A prophet? Yes, and I tell you he is much more than a prophet! </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.011.010","MAT","11","MT11_10","<span class='v MT11_10' data-id='MT11_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>He’s the one this Scripture was written about: ‘I’m sending my messenger on ahead of you. He will prepare your way for you.’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.011.011","MAT","11","MT11_11","<span class='v MT11_11' data-id='MT11_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>I tell you the truth, that among humanity<span class='note' id='footnote-52'><a href='#note-52' class='key'>*</a></span> there’s no one greater than John the Baptist, but even the least important in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he is. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.011.012","MAT","11","MT11_12","<span class='v MT11_12' data-id='MT11_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>From the time of John the Baptist up till now the kingdom of heaven continues to be under attack and violent people are trying to seize it by force. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.011.013","MAT","11","MT11_13","<span class='v MT11_13' data-id='MT11_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>For all the prophets and the law<span class='note' id='footnote-53'><a href='#note-53' class='key'>†</a></span> spoke for God until John came. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.011.014","MAT","11","MT11_14","<span class='v MT11_14' data-id='MT11_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>If you’re prepared to believe it, he is Elijah, the one who was expected to come. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.011.015","MAT","11","MT11_15","<span class='v MT11_15' data-id='MT11_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>Anybody with ears should be listening! </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.011.016","MAT","11","MT11_16","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT11_16' data-id='MT11_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>“What shall I compare this generation to? It’s like children sitting in the market places shouting to each other, </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.011.017","MAT","11","MT11_17","<span class='v MT11_17' data-id='MT11_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>‘We played the flute for you and you didn’t dance; we sang sad songs and you didn’t cry.’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.011.018","MAT","11","MT11_18","<span class='v MT11_18' data-id='MT11_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>John didn’t come feasting and drinking, so people say, ‘He’s devil-possessed!’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.011.019","MAT","11","MT11_19","<span class='v MT11_19' data-id='MT11_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>On the other hand the Son of man came and did feast and drink, and people say, ‘Look, he’s greedy and drinks too much; he’s a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is shown to be right by what it does…” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.011.020","MAT","11","MT11_20","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT11_20' data-id='MT11_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>Then he began to reprimand the towns where he’d done most of his miracles because they had not repented. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.011.021","MAT","11","MT11_21","<span class='v MT11_21' data-id='MT11_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>“Shame on you, Korazin! Shame on you, Bethsaida! If the miracles had been performed in Tyre and Sidon which happened among you, they would have repented in sackcloth and ashes long ago. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.011.022","MAT","11","MT11_22","<span class='v MT11_22' data-id='MT11_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>But I tell you that on the Day of Judgment it will be better for Tyre and Sidon than it will for you! </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.011.023","MAT","11","MT11_23","<span class='v MT11_23' data-id='MT11_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>And what about you, Capernaum? Will you be exalted to heaven? No, you’ll go down to Hades! If the miracles had been performed in Sodom which happened among you, Sodom would still be here today. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.011.024","MAT","11","MT11_24","<span class='v MT11_24' data-id='MT11_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>But I tell you that on the Day of Judgment it will be better for Sodom than it will for you!” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.011.025","MAT","11","MT11_25","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT11_25' data-id='MT11_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>Then Jesus prayed, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for you’ve hidden these things from the clever and sophisticated. Instead you’ve revealed them to ordinary people<span class='note' id='footnote-54'><a href='#note-54' class='key'>‡</a></span>. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.011.026","MAT","11","MT11_26","<span class='v MT11_26' data-id='MT11_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>Yes, Father, you were pleased to do this! </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.011.027","MAT","11","MT11_27","<span class='v MT11_27' data-id='MT11_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>Everything has been entrusted to me by my Father, and no one really understands the Son, except the Father, and no one really understands the Father, except the Son, and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.011.028","MAT","11","MT11_28","<span class='v MT11_28' data-id='MT11_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>Come to me, all of you who struggle and who are burdened down. I will give you rest. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.011.029","MAT","11","MT11_29","<span class='v MT11_29' data-id='MT11_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>Accept my yoke, and learn from me. For I am kind and I have a humble heart, and in me you will find the rest you need. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.011.030","MAT","11","MT11_30","<span class='v MT11_30' data-id='MT11_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>For my yoke is gentle, and my burden is light.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.001","MAT","12","MT12_1","<div class='c'>12</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT12_1' data-id='MT12_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>Around that time Jesus was walking through fields of grain on the Sabbath day. His disciples were hungry so they started to pick ears of grain and eat them. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.002","MAT","12","MT12_2","<span class='v MT12_2' data-id='MT12_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>When the Pharisees saw this they said to Jesus, “Look at your disciples—they’re doing what isn’t allowed on the Sabbath!” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.003","MAT","12","MT12_3","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT12_3' data-id='MT12_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>But Jesus told them, “Haven’t you read what David did when he and his men were hungry? </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.004","MAT","12","MT12_4","<span class='v MT12_4' data-id='MT12_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>He went into the house of God, and he and his men ate the sacred bread that they weren’t allowed to eat since it’s only for the priests. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.005","MAT","12","MT12_5","<span class='v MT12_5' data-id='MT12_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>Haven’t you read in the law that on the Sabbath day the priests in the Temple break the Sabbath but are not considered guilty? </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.006","MAT","12","MT12_6","<span class='v MT12_6' data-id='MT12_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>However I tell you that someone is here who is greater than the Temple! </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.007","MAT","12","MT12_7","<span class='v MT12_7' data-id='MT12_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>If you’d known the meaning of this Scripture, ‘I want mercy, and not sacrifice,’<span class='note' id='footnote-55'><a href='#note-55' class='key'>*</a></span> you wouldn’t have condemned an innocent man. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.008","MAT","12","MT12_8","<span class='v MT12_8' data-id='MT12_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>For the Son of man is Lord of the Sabbath.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.009","MAT","12","MT12_9","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT12_9' data-id='MT12_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>Then Jesus left and went into their synagogue. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.010","MAT","12","MT12_10","<span class='v MT12_10' data-id='MT12_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>A man was there with a crippled hand. “Does the law allow healing on the Sabbath?” they asked him, looking for a reason to accuse him. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.011","MAT","12","MT12_11","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT12_11' data-id='MT12_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>“Suppose you have a sheep and it falls into a hole in the ground on the Sabbath. Don’t you grab hold of it and pull it out?” Jesus asked them. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.012","MAT","12","MT12_12","<span class='v MT12_12' data-id='MT12_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>“Don’t you think a human being is worth much more than a sheep? So yes, you are allowed to do good on the Sabbath.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.013","MAT","12","MT12_13","<span class='v MT12_13' data-id='MT12_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>Then he said to the man, “Hold out your hand.” The man held out his hand, and it was healed, just as healthy as the other hand. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.014","MAT","12","MT12_14","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT12_14' data-id='MT12_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>But the Pharisees went out and plotted how to kill Jesus. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.015","MAT","12","MT12_15","<span class='v MT12_15' data-id='MT12_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>Knowing this, Jesus left, with large crowds following him. He healed all of them, </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.016","MAT","12","MT12_16","<span class='v MT12_16' data-id='MT12_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>but instructed them not to tell people who he was. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.017","MAT","12","MT12_17","<span class='v MT12_17' data-id='MT12_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>This fulfilled what Isaiah the prophet said: </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.018","MAT","12","MT12_18","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT12_18' data-id='MT12_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>“This is my servant whom I’ve chosen, </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v MT12_18' data-id='MT12_18'>The one I love, who pleases me. </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v MT12_18' data-id='MT12_18'>I will put my Spirit on him, </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v MT12_18' data-id='MT12_18'>And he will tell the foreigners what’s right. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.019","MAT","12","MT12_19","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT12_19' data-id='MT12_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>He won’t argue, he won’t shout out, </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v MT12_19' data-id='MT12_19'>And nobody will hear his voice in the streets. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.020","MAT","12","MT12_20","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT12_20' data-id='MT12_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>He won’t break a damaged reed, </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v MT12_20' data-id='MT12_20'>And he won’t extinguish a smoking wick, </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v MT12_20' data-id='MT12_20'>Until he has proved that his judgment is right<span class='note' id='footnote-56'><a href='#note-56' class='key'>†</a></span>, </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.021","MAT","12","MT12_21","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT12_21' data-id='MT12_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>And foreigners will put their hope in him.<span class='note' id='footnote-57'><a href='#note-57' class='key'>‡</a></span>” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.022","MAT","12","MT12_22","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT12_22' data-id='MT12_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>Then a man was brought to Jesus who was demon-possessed and blind and dumb. Jesus healed him, so that the dumb man could speak and see. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.023","MAT","12","MT12_23","<span class='v MT12_23' data-id='MT12_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>All the crowds were amazed, and asked, “Could this really be the son of David?”<span class='note' id='footnote-58'><a href='#note-58' class='key'>§</a></span> </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.024","MAT","12","MT12_24","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT12_24' data-id='MT12_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>But when the Pharisees heard this, they replied, “This man can only throw out demons through the power of Beelzebub, the chief of demons!” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.025","MAT","12","MT12_25","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT12_25' data-id='MT12_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>Knowing what they were thinking, Jesus told them, “Any kingdom that is divided against itself will be destroyed. No town or household that is divided against itself can stand. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.026","MAT","12","MT12_26","<span class='v MT12_26' data-id='MT12_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>If Satan drives out Satan, then he’s divided against himself—so how could his kingdom stand? </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.027","MAT","12","MT12_27","<span class='v MT12_27' data-id='MT12_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>If I’m throwing out demons in the name of Beelzebub, in whose name are your people throwing out demons? Your own people prove you’re wrong! </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.028","MAT","12","MT12_28","<span class='v MT12_28' data-id='MT12_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>But if I’m throwing out demons through the power of the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come to you! </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.029","MAT","12","MT12_29","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT12_29' data-id='MT12_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>“Can you enter a strong man’s house and take his belongings unless you tie him up first? If you do that then you can take everything in his house. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.030","MAT","12","MT12_30","<span class='v MT12_30' data-id='MT12_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>Those who are not with me are against me, and those who do not gather together with me do the opposite: they are scattering. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.031","MAT","12","MT12_31","<span class='v MT12_31' data-id='MT12_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>That’s why I’m telling you that every sin and blasphemy you commit will be forgiven, except blasphemy against the Spirit which won’t be forgiven. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.032","MAT","12","MT12_32","<span class='v MT12_32' data-id='MT12_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>Those who say something against the Son of man will be forgiven, but those who say something against the Holy Spirit won’t be forgiven, neither in this life nor the next. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.033","MAT","12","MT12_33","<span class='v MT12_33' data-id='MT12_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>Either decide that the tree is good, and its fruit is good, or decide that the tree is bad and its fruit is bad—for the tree is known by its fruit. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.034","MAT","12","MT12_34","<span class='v MT12_34' data-id='MT12_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>You viper’s brood, how can you who are evil say anything good? For your mouth simply says what your mind is busy thinking about. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.035","MAT","12","MT12_35","<span class='v MT12_35' data-id='MT12_35'><span class='v-num v-35'>35&#160;</span>A good person brings out good from their store of good things, and an evil person brings out evil from their store of evil things. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.036","MAT","12","MT12_36","<span class='v MT12_36' data-id='MT12_36'><span class='v-num v-36'>36&#160;</span>I tell you, people will have to account for every careless thing they say on the Day of Judgment. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.037","MAT","12","MT12_37","<span class='v MT12_37' data-id='MT12_37'><span class='v-num v-37'>37&#160;</span>For what you say will either vindicate you or condemn you.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.038","MAT","12","MT12_38","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT12_38' data-id='MT12_38'><span class='v-num v-38'>38&#160;</span>Then some of the religious teachers and Pharisees came to him and said, “Teacher, we want you to show us a miraculous sign.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.039","MAT","12","MT12_39","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT12_39' data-id='MT12_39'><span class='v-num v-39'>39&#160;</span>“Evil people who don’t trust in God are the ones who look for a miraculous sign. The only sign they will be given is the sign of the prophet Jonah,” Jesus told them. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.040","MAT","12","MT12_40","<span class='v MT12_40' data-id='MT12_40'><span class='v-num v-40'>40&#160;</span>“In the same way Jonah was in the belly of a huge fish for three days and three nights, the Son of man will be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.041","MAT","12","MT12_41","<span class='v MT12_41' data-id='MT12_41'><span class='v-num v-41'>41&#160;</span>The people of Nineveh will rise in the judgment together with this generation and they will condemn it because they repented in response to Jonah’s message—and as you see, there’s someone greater than Jonah here! </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.042","MAT","12","MT12_42","<span class='v MT12_42' data-id='MT12_42'><span class='v-num v-42'>42&#160;</span>The Queen of the South will be raised in the judgment together with this generation and will condemn it because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon—and as you see, there’s someone greater than Solomon here! </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.043","MAT","12","MT12_43","<span class='v MT12_43' data-id='MT12_43'><span class='v-num v-43'>43&#160;</span>When an evil spirit leaves someone, it wanders through deserted places looking for rest, and finds nowhere to stay. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.044","MAT","12","MT12_44","<span class='v MT12_44' data-id='MT12_44'><span class='v-num v-44'>44&#160;</span>So it says, ‘I’ll go back to the place I left,’ and when it returns it finds the place empty, all clean and tidy. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.045","MAT","12","MT12_45","<span class='v MT12_45' data-id='MT12_45'><span class='v-num v-45'>45&#160;</span>Then it goes and brings back seven other spirits even more evil than it is, and it enters and lives there. So the person ends up worse than they were at the beginning. That’s the way it will be with this evil generation.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.046","MAT","12","MT12_46","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT12_46' data-id='MT12_46'><span class='v-num v-46'>46&#160;</span>While he was speaking to the crowds, his mother and his brothers arrived and stood outside, wanting to talk to him. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.047","MAT","12","MT12_47","<span class='v MT12_47' data-id='MT12_47'><span class='v-num v-47'>47&#160;</span>Someone came and told him, “Look, your mother and brothers are outside, wanting to talk to you.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.048","MAT","12","MT12_48","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT12_48' data-id='MT12_48'><span class='v-num v-48'>48&#160;</span>“Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?” Jesus asked. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.049","MAT","12","MT12_49","<span class='v MT12_49' data-id='MT12_49'><span class='v-num v-49'>49&#160;</span>He pointed at his disciples, and said, “Look, they are my mother and my brothers! </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.012.050","MAT","12","MT12_50","<span class='v MT12_50' data-id='MT12_50'><span class='v-num v-50'>50&#160;</span>For those who do the will of my heavenly Father, they are my brother, sister, and mother!” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.013.001","MAT","13","MT13_1","<div class='c'>13</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT13_1' data-id='MT13_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>Later that day Jesus left the house, and sat down to teach<span class='note' id='footnote-59'><a href='#note-59' class='key'>*</a></span> beside the lake. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.013.002","MAT","13","MT13_2","<span class='v MT13_2' data-id='MT13_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>So many people gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat down there to teach, while all the crowds stood on the beach. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.013.003","MAT","13","MT13_3","<span class='v MT13_3' data-id='MT13_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>He explained many things to them, using stories as illustrations<span class='note' id='footnote-60'><a href='#note-60' class='key'>†</a></span>. </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v MT13_3' data-id='MT13_3'>“The sower went out to sow,” he began. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.013.004","MAT","13","MT13_4","<span class='v MT13_4' data-id='MT13_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>“As he was sowing, some of the seeds fell on the path. The birds came and ate them up. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.013.005","MAT","13","MT13_5","<span class='v MT13_5' data-id='MT13_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>Other seeds fell on stony ground where there wasn’t much earth where they sprouted quickly. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.013.006","MAT","13","MT13_6","<span class='v MT13_6' data-id='MT13_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>The sun rose and scorched them and they withered because they had no roots. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.013.007","MAT","13","MT13_7","<span class='v MT13_7' data-id='MT13_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>Other seeds fell among thorns that grew up and choked them. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.013.008","MAT","13","MT13_8","<span class='v MT13_8' data-id='MT13_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>Still other seeds fell on good soil. They produced a harvest—some one hundred, some sixty, and some thirty times what had been planted. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.013.009","MAT","13","MT13_9","<span class='v MT13_9' data-id='MT13_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>Anybody who has ears should be listening! </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.013.010","MAT","13","MT13_10","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT13_10' data-id='MT13_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>The disciples came to Jesus and asked him, “Why do you use illustrations when you speak to the people?” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.013.011","MAT","13","MT13_11","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT13_11' data-id='MT13_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>“You’re privileged to have revealed to you the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but they’re not given such insights,” Jesus replied. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.013.012","MAT","13","MT13_12","<span class='v MT13_12' data-id='MT13_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>“Those who already have<span class='note' id='footnote-61'><a href='#note-61' class='key'>‡</a></span> will have more given to them, more than enough. But those who don’t have, whatever they have will be taken away from them. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.013.013","MAT","13","MT13_13","<span class='v MT13_13' data-id='MT13_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>That’s why I speak to them in illustrations. For even though they see, they do not see; and even though they hear, they do not hear; nor do they understand. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.013.014","MAT","13","MT13_14","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT13_14' data-id='MT13_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>“The prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled in them: ‘Even though you hear, you won’t understand, and even though you see, you won’t perceive. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.013.015","MAT","13","MT13_15","<span class='v MT13_15' data-id='MT13_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>They have a hard-hearted attitude, they don’t want to listen, and they’ve closed their eyes. If they didn’t they might be able to see with their eyes, hear with their ears, and understand in their minds. Then they could return to me and I would heal them.’<span class='note' id='footnote-62'><a href='#note-62' class='key'>§</a></span> </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.013.016","MAT","13","MT13_16","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT13_16' data-id='MT13_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>“Your eyes are blessed, for they see. Your ears are blessed too, for they hear. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.013.017","MAT","13","MT13_17","<span class='v MT13_17' data-id='MT13_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>I’m telling you, many prophets and good people longed to see what you’re seeing, but didn’t see it. They longed to hear what you’re hearing, but didn’t hear it. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.013.018","MAT","13","MT13_18","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT13_18' data-id='MT13_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>“So listen to the story of the sower. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.013.019","MAT","13","MT13_19","<span class='v MT13_19' data-id='MT13_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>When people hear the message about the kingdom, and don’t understand it, the Evil One comes along and rips out what was sown in their heart. This is what happens to the seeds sown on the path. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.013.020","MAT","13","MT13_20","<span class='v MT13_20' data-id='MT13_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>The seeds sown on stony ground are people who hear the message and happily accept it straight away. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.013.021","MAT","13","MT13_21","<span class='v MT13_21' data-id='MT13_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>They last for a while, but because they don’t have roots, when problems and troubles come, they quickly fall away. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.013.022","MAT","13","MT13_22","<span class='v MT13_22' data-id='MT13_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>The seeds sown among thorns are people who hear the message, but then life’s worries and the temptation of money choke the message so that they become fruitless. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.013.023","MAT","13","MT13_23","<span class='v MT13_23' data-id='MT13_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>The seeds sown on good soil are people who hear the message, and understand it, and who produce a good harvest—some one hundred, some sixty, and some thirty times what was sown.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.013.024","MAT","13","MT13_24","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT13_24' data-id='MT13_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>Then he told them another illustrated story: “The kingdom of heaven is like a farmer who sowed good seeds in his field. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.013.025","MAT","13","MT13_25","<span class='v MT13_25' data-id='MT13_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>But while his workers were sleeping, an enemy came and sowed weed seeds<span class='note' id='footnote-63'><a href='#note-63' class='key'>*</a></span> on top of the wheat. Then they left. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.013.026","MAT","13","MT13_26","<span class='v MT13_26' data-id='MT13_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>So when the wheat grew and produced ears of grain, the weeds also grew up. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.013.027","MAT","13","MT13_27","<span class='v MT13_27' data-id='MT13_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>The farmer’s workers came and asked him, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seeds in your field? Where did the weeds come from?’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.013.028","MAT","13","MT13_28","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT13_28' data-id='MT13_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>“ ‘Some enemy has done this,’ he replied. ‘Do you want us to go and pull up the weeds?’ they asked him. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.013.029","MAT","13","MT13_29","<span class='v MT13_29' data-id='MT13_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>‘No,’ he answered, ‘as you pull up the weeds, you may uproot the wheat too. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.013.030","MAT","13","MT13_30","<span class='v MT13_30' data-id='MT13_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>Let them both grow until harvest, and then at harvest-time I’ll tell the reapers, “First gather the weeds, tie them up into bundles and burn them. Then gather the wheat and store it in my barn.” ’ ” </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.013.034","MAT","13","MT13_34","<span class='v MT13_34' data-id='MT13_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>Jesus explained all these things to the crowds using illustrated stories—in fact he didn’t speak to them without using stories. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.013.048","MAT","13","MT13_48","<span class='v MT13_48' data-id='MT13_48'><span class='v-num v-48'>48&#160;</span>When it was full it was dragged ashore. The good fish were put into baskets while the bad ones were thrown away. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.013.051","MAT","13","MT13_51","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT13_51' data-id='MT13_51'><span class='v-num v-51'>51&#160;</span>“Now do you understood everything?” </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v MT13_51' data-id='MT13_51'>“Yes,” they replied. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.013.054","MAT","13","MT13_54","<span class='v MT13_54' data-id='MT13_54'><span class='v-num v-54'>54&#160;</span>He went back to his home town<span class='note' id='footnote-65'><a href='#note-65' class='key'>‡</a></span> and taught in the synagogue there. People were amazed, and asked, “Where does he get his wisdom and miracles from? </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.013.057","MAT","13","MT13_57","<span class='v MT13_57' data-id='MT13_57'><span class='v-num v-57'>57&#160;</span>And so they refused to believe in him. </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v MT13_57' data-id='MT13_57'>“A prophet is honored everywhere except in his homeland and in his family,” Jesus told them. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.013.058","MAT","13","MT13_58","<span class='v MT13_58' data-id='MT13_58'><span class='v-num v-58'>58&#160;</span>Since they failed to trust in him, he did not do many miracles there. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.014.001","MAT","14","MT14_1","<div class='c'>14</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT14_1' data-id='MT14_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>At that time Herod the tetrarch<span class='note' id='footnote-66'><a href='#note-66' class='key'>*</a></span> heard what Jesus was doing </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.014.002","MAT","14","MT14_2","<span class='v MT14_2' data-id='MT14_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>and he told his servants, “He must be John the Baptist resurrected from the dead, and that’s why he has such powers!” </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.015.011","MAT","15","MT15_11","<span class='v MT15_11' data-id='MT15_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>it’s not what goes into you through your mouth that defiles you. It’s what comes out of your mouth that defiles you.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.015.012","MAT","15","MT15_12","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT15_12' data-id='MT15_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>Then Jesus’ disciples came to him and said, “You do realize that the Pharisees were offended by what you said.” </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.015.014","MAT","15","MT15_14","<span class='v MT15_14' data-id='MT15_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>“Forget about them—they are blind guides<span class='note' id='footnote-70'><a href='#note-70' class='key'>†</a></span>. If a blind man leads another blind man, then they’ll both fall into a ditch.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.015.015","MAT","15","MT15_15","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT15_15' data-id='MT15_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>Then Peter asked, “Please tell us what you mean by this illustration.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.015.016","MAT","15","MT15_16","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT15_16' data-id='MT15_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>“Haven’t you understood this yet?” replied Jesus. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.015.021","MAT","15","MT15_21","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT15_21' data-id='MT15_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>Jesus left and went to the region of Tyre and Sidon. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.015.023","MAT","15","MT15_23","<span class='v MT15_23' data-id='MT15_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>But Jesus didn’t reply at all. His disciples came to him and told him, “Tell her to stop following us. All her shouting is really annoying!” </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.015.026","MAT","15","MT15_26","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT15_26' data-id='MT15_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>“It’s not right to take the children’s food and throw it to the dogs<span class='note' id='footnote-72'><a href='#note-72' class='key'>§</a></span>,” Jesus told her. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.015.029","MAT","15","MT15_29","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT15_29' data-id='MT15_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>Jesus returned, passing by the Sea of Galilee. He went into the mountains nearby where he sat down. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.015.032","MAT","15","MT15_32","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT15_32' data-id='MT15_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>Jesus called his disciples over and told them, “I feel really sorry for all these people, because they’ve been with me now for three days, and they have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away hungry, in case they faint on their way home.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.015.033","MAT","15","MT15_33","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT15_33' data-id='MT15_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>“Where could we find enough bread here in this desert to feed such a huge crowd?” the disciples responded. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.015.038","MAT","15","MT15_38","<span class='v MT15_38' data-id='MT15_38'><span class='v-num v-38'>38&#160;</span>Four thousand men ate the food, not counting women and children. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.016.001","MAT","16","MT16_1","<div class='c'>16</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT16_1' data-id='MT16_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>The Pharisees and Sadducees came to test<span class='note' id='footnote-73'><a href='#note-73' class='key'>*</a></span> Jesus, demanding that he show them a sign from heaven. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.016.002","MAT","16","MT16_2","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT16_2' data-id='MT16_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>Jesus replied, “In the evening you say, ‘It’ll be a fine day tomorrow, because the sky is red,’ </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.016.005","MAT","16","MT16_5","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT16_5' data-id='MT16_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>Going to the other side of the lake, the disciples forgot to bring bread with them. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.016.013","MAT","16","MT16_13","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT16_13' data-id='MT16_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>When Jesus arrived in the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of man is?” </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.016.017","MAT","16","MT16_17","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT16_17' data-id='MT16_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>“You are truly blessed, Simon son of John,” Jesus told him. “For this wasn’t revealed to you by human flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.016.022","MAT","16","MT16_22","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT16_22' data-id='MT16_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>Peter took Jesus aside and started to tell him he shouldn’t talk like that. “God forbid, Lord, that this would ever happen to you!” he said. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.017.015","MAT","17","MT17_15","<span class='v MT17_15' data-id='MT17_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>“Lord, please have mercy on my son,” he said. “He loses his mind<span class='note' id='footnote-79'><a href='#note-79' class='key'>*</a></span> and suffers such terrible fits that he often falls in the fire or into water. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.017.016","MAT","17","MT17_16","<span class='v MT17_16' data-id='MT17_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>I brought him to your disciples but they couldn’t heal him.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.017.017","MAT","17","MT17_17","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT17_17' data-id='MT17_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>“You people<span class='note' id='footnote-80'><a href='#note-80' class='key'>†</a></span> refuse to trust me, and are so corrupt!” Jesus responded. “How long do I have to remain here with you? How long do I have to put up with you? Bring him here to me!” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.017.018","MAT","17","MT17_18","<span class='v MT17_18' data-id='MT17_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>Jesus confronted the demon and it left the boy, and he was healed straight away. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.017.019","MAT","17","MT17_19","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT17_19' data-id='MT17_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>Later the disciples came to Jesus in private and asked him, “Why couldn’t we drive it out?” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.017.020","MAT","17","MT17_20","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT17_20' data-id='MT17_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>“Because you don’t trust enough,” Jesus told them. “I tell you, even if your trust was as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it would move. Nothing would be impossible for you.”<span class='note' id='footnote-81'><a href='#note-81' class='key'>‡</a></span> </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.017.022","MAT","17","MT17_22","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT17_22' data-id='MT17_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>As they were walking together through Galilee, Jesus told them, “The Son of man is going to be betrayed and people will have power<span class='note' id='footnote-82'><a href='#note-82' class='key'>§</a></span> over him. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.017.023","MAT","17","MT17_23","<span class='v MT17_23' data-id='MT17_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>They will kill him, but on the third day he will rise again.” The disciples were filled with sadness. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.017.024","MAT","17","MT17_24","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT17_24' data-id='MT17_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>When they arrived at Capernaum, those who were in charge of collecting the half-shekel Temple tax came to Peter and asked him, “Your teacher does pay the half-shekel tax, doesn’t he?” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.017.025","MAT","17","MT17_25","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT17_25' data-id='MT17_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>“Yes, of course,” Peter replied. </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v MT17_25' data-id='MT17_25'>When he returned to where they were staying, Jesus anticipated the issue. “What do you think, Simon?” Jesus asked him. “Do the kings of this world collect their taxes and duties from their own sons or from others?” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.017.026","MAT","17","MT17_26","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT17_26' data-id='MT17_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>“From others,” Peter replied. So Jesus told him, “In that case the sons are exempt. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.017.027","MAT","17","MT17_27","<span class='v MT17_27' data-id='MT17_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>But to avoid giving offense to anyone, go to the lake, and throw out a fishing line with a hook. Pull in the first fish you catch, and when you open its mouth there you’ll find a ‘stater’ coin<span class='note' id='footnote-83'><a href='#note-83' class='key'>*</a></span>. Take the coin and give it to them for both me and you.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.018.001","MAT","18","MT18_1","<div class='c'>18</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT18_1' data-id='MT18_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>Around that time the disciples came to Jesus, and asked, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.018.002","MAT","18","MT18_2","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT18_2' data-id='MT18_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>Jesus called over a small child. He had the child stand in front of them. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.018.003","MAT","18","MT18_3","<span class='v MT18_3' data-id='MT18_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>“I tell you the truth, unless you change the way you think and become like little children, you won’t ever enter the kingdom of heaven,” he told them. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.018.004","MAT","18","MT18_4","<span class='v MT18_4' data-id='MT18_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>“But whoever humbles themselves and becomes like this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.018.005","MAT","18","MT18_5","<span class='v MT18_5' data-id='MT18_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>Whoever accepts a little child like this in my name accepts me. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.018.006","MAT","18","MT18_6","<span class='v MT18_6' data-id='MT18_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>But anyone who makes one of these little ones who trust in me sin, it would be better for them to have a large millstone<span class='note' id='footnote-84'><a href='#note-84' class='key'>*</a></span> tied around their neck and be drowned in the depths of the sea. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.018.007","MAT","18","MT18_7","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT18_7' data-id='MT18_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>“What a disaster is coming on the world for all its temptations to sin! Temptations will surely come, but it will be a disaster for the person through whom the temptation comes! </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.018.008","MAT","18","MT18_8","<span class='v MT18_8' data-id='MT18_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It’s better for you to enter eternal life crippled or lame rather than to have two hands or two feet and to be thrown into eternal fire. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.018.009","MAT","18","MT18_9","<span class='v MT18_9' data-id='MT18_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>If your eye causes you to sin, pull it out and throw it away. It’s better for you to enter eternal life with one eye than to have two eyes and to be thrown into the fire of judgment. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.018.010","MAT","18","MT18_10","<span class='v MT18_10' data-id='MT18_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>Make sure you don’t look down on these little ones. I tell you that in heaven their angels are always with<span class='note' id='footnote-85'><a href='#note-85' class='key'>†</a></span> my heavenly Father<span class='note' id='footnote-86'><a href='#note-86' class='key'>‡</a></span>. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.018.012","MAT","18","MT18_12","<span class='v MT18_12' data-id='MT18_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>What do you think about this? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them gets lost, won’t he leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go in search of the one that’s lost? </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.018.013","MAT","18","MT18_13","<span class='v MT18_13' data-id='MT18_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>And if he finds it, I tell you he really rejoices over that sheep more than the ninety-nine that didn’t get lost. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.018.014","MAT","18","MT18_14","<span class='v MT18_14' data-id='MT18_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>In the same way my heavenly Father does not want any of these little ones to be lost. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.018.015","MAT","18","MT18_15","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT18_15' data-id='MT18_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>“If a brother<span class='note' id='footnote-87'><a href='#note-87' class='key'>§</a></span> sins against you, go and point out the wrong to him, just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you’ve won your brother over. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.018.016","MAT","18","MT18_16","<span class='v MT18_16' data-id='MT18_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>But if he doesn’t listen, then take one or two more people with you, so that by two or three witnesses the truth can be confirmed. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.018.017","MAT","18","MT18_17","<span class='v MT18_17' data-id='MT18_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>If however he refuses to listen to them, then tell the church. If he refuses to listen to the church as well, then treat him as a foreigner<span class='note' id='footnote-88'><a href='#note-88' class='key'>*</a></span> and a tax-collector. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.018.018","MAT","18","MT18_18","<span class='v MT18_18' data-id='MT18_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>I tell you the truth, whatever you ban on earth will be banned in heaven, and whatever you allow on earth will be allowed in heaven. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.018.019","MAT","18","MT18_19","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT18_19' data-id='MT18_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>“I also tell you that if two of you agree here on earth about something you’re praying for, then my heavenly Father will do it for you. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.018.020","MAT","18","MT18_20","<span class='v MT18_20' data-id='MT18_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>For where two or three gather together in my name, I’m there with them.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.018.021","MAT","18","MT18_21","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT18_21' data-id='MT18_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>Peter came to Jesus and asked him, “How many times should I forgive my brother for sinning against me? Seven times?” </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.018.023","MAT","18","MT18_23","<span class='v MT18_23' data-id='MT18_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>“This is why the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with those servants who owed him money. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.018.025","MAT","18","MT18_25","<span class='v MT18_25' data-id='MT18_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>Since he didn’t have the money to pay, his master ordered him to be sold, along with his wife and children and all his possessions, so that the debt could be paid back. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.018.027","MAT","18","MT18_27","<span class='v MT18_27' data-id='MT18_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>The master took pity on the servant, released him, and canceled the debt. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.018.028","MAT","18","MT18_28","<span class='v MT18_28' data-id='MT18_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>But when that same servant went out he found one of his fellow-servants who owed him just a hundred denarii<span class='note' id='footnote-90'><a href='#note-90' class='key'>‡</a></span>. He grabbed him by the neck and choked him, saying, ‘Pay me back what you owe me!’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.018.029","MAT","18","MT18_29","<span class='v MT18_29' data-id='MT18_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>His fellow-servant threw himself down at the man’s feet and begged him, ‘Please be patient with me! I will pay you back!’ </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.018.032","MAT","18","MT18_32","<span class='v MT18_32' data-id='MT18_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>Then the master called the man back in and told him, ‘You evil servant! I forgave you all your debt because you begged me to. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.018.033","MAT","18","MT18_33","<span class='v MT18_33' data-id='MT18_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>Shouldn’t you have been merciful to your fellow-servant as well, just as I was merciful to you?’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.018.034","MAT","18","MT18_34","<span class='v MT18_34' data-id='MT18_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>His master became angry and handed him over to the jailors until he had repaid all the debt. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.018.035","MAT","18","MT18_35","<span class='v MT18_35' data-id='MT18_35'><span class='v-num v-35'>35&#160;</span>This is what my heavenly Father will do to every one of you unless you sincerely<span class='note' id='footnote-91'><a href='#note-91' class='key'>§</a></span> forgive your brothers.” </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.019.003","MAT","19","MT19_3","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT19_3' data-id='MT19_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>Some Pharisees came to test him. “Is a man allowed to divorce his wife for any reason?” they asked. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.019.004","MAT","19","MT19_4","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT19_4' data-id='MT19_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>Jesus replied, “Haven’t you read that God who created people in the beginning made them male and female? </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.019.005","MAT","19","MT19_5","<span class='v MT19_5' data-id='MT19_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>He said, ‘This is the reason a man will leave his father and mother, and join with his wife, and the two shall become one<span class='note' id='footnote-92'><a href='#note-92' class='key'>*</a></span>. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.019.006","MAT","19","MT19_6","<span class='v MT19_6' data-id='MT19_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>Now they’re no longer two, but one. What God has joined together no one should separate.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.019.007","MAT","19","MT19_7","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT19_7' data-id='MT19_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>“Then why did Moses give a law that a man could divorce his wife by giving her a written certificate of divorce, and sending her away?” they asked. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.019.010","MAT","19","MT19_10","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT19_10' data-id='MT19_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>“If that’s the situation between husband and wife, it’s better not to marry!” his disciples told him. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.019.011","MAT","19","MT19_11","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT19_11' data-id='MT19_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>“Not everyone can accept this instruction<span class='note' id='footnote-93'><a href='#note-93' class='key'>†</a></span>, only those it’s given to,” Jesus told them. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.019.012","MAT","19","MT19_12","<span class='v MT19_12' data-id='MT19_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>“Some are born as eunuchs, some are made eunuchs by men, and some choose to be eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Those who can accept this should accept it.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.019.013","MAT","19","MT19_13","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT19_13' data-id='MT19_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>The people brought little children to him so he could bless them and pray for them. But the disciples told them not to. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.019.016","MAT","19","MT19_16","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT19_16' data-id='MT19_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>A man came to Jesus and asked him, “Teacher, what good things must I do to gain eternal life?” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.019.017","MAT","19","MT19_17","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT19_17' data-id='MT19_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>“Why do you ask me what is good?” Jesus replied. “There’s only one who is good. But if you want to have eternal life<span class='note' id='footnote-94'><a href='#note-94' class='key'>‡</a></span>, then keep the commandments.” </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.019.019","MAT","19","MT19_19","<span class='v MT19_19' data-id='MT19_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself,” replied Jesus. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.019.020","MAT","19","MT19_20","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT19_20' data-id='MT19_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>“I’ve kept all these commandments,” the young man said. “What else do I need to do?” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.019.021","MAT","19","MT19_21","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT19_21' data-id='MT19_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>Jesus told him, “If you want to be perfect<span class='note' id='footnote-95'><a href='#note-95' class='key'>§</a></span>, then go and sell your possessions, give the money to the poor, and you’ll have treasure in heaven. Then come and follow me.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.019.022","MAT","19","MT19_22","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT19_22' data-id='MT19_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>When the young man heard Jesus’ answer he went away very sad, because he had many possessions. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.019.023","MAT","19","MT19_23","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT19_23' data-id='MT19_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>“I tell you the truth,” Jesus said to his disciples, “rich people find it hard to enter the kingdom of heaven. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.019.024","MAT","19","MT19_24","<span class='v MT19_24' data-id='MT19_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>I also tell you this: It’s easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.019.025","MAT","19","MT19_25","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT19_25' data-id='MT19_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>When the disciples heard this, they were very surprised, and asked, “So who can be saved?” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.019.026","MAT","19","MT19_26","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT19_26' data-id='MT19_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>Jesus looked at them and said, “From a human point of view it’s impossible, but all things are possible with God.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.019.027","MAT","19","MT19_27","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT19_27' data-id='MT19_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>Peter answered him, “Look, we’ve left everything and followed you. What reward will we have?” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.019.028","MAT","19","MT19_28","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT19_28' data-id='MT19_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth: when everything is remade and the Son of man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.019.029","MAT","19","MT19_29","<span class='v MT19_29' data-id='MT19_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>All those who because of me have left their homes, brothers, sisters, father, mother, children, and fields, will receive back a hundred times more, and will receive eternal life. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.019.030","MAT","19","MT19_30","<span class='v MT19_30' data-id='MT19_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>For many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.020.001","MAT","20","MT20_1","<div class='c'>20</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT20_1' data-id='MT20_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.020.002","MAT","20","MT20_2","<span class='v MT20_2' data-id='MT20_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>He agreed to pay the workers one denarius for the day, and sent them to work in his vineyard. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.020.003","MAT","20","MT20_3","<span class='v MT20_3' data-id='MT20_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>Around 9 a.m. he went out and saw others without work standing in the marketplace. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.020.004","MAT","20","MT20_4","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT20_4' data-id='MT20_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>“ ‘Go and work in the vineyard too, and I’ll pay you what’s right,’ he told them. So they went to work. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.020.005","MAT","20","MT20_5","<span class='v MT20_5' data-id='MT20_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>Around noon and 3 p.m. he went out and did the same thing. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.020.006","MAT","20","MT20_6","<span class='v MT20_6' data-id='MT20_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>At 5 p.m. he went out and found others standing there. ‘Why are you standing around all day doing nothing?’ he asked them. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.020.007","MAT","20","MT20_7","<span class='v MT20_7' data-id='MT20_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>‘Because nobody has hired us,’ they replied. ‘Go and work in the vineyard too,’ he told them. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.020.008","MAT","20","MT20_8","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT20_8' data-id='MT20_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>“When evening came, the owner of the vineyard told his manager, ‘Call the workers in, and pay them their wages. Begin with the workers hired last and then move on to those hired first.’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.020.009","MAT","20","MT20_9","<span class='v MT20_9' data-id='MT20_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>When those who were hired at 5 p.m. came in, they each received one denarius. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.020.010","MAT","20","MT20_10","<span class='v MT20_10' data-id='MT20_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>So when those who were hired first came in, they thought they would get more, but they also received one denarius. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.020.011","MAT","20","MT20_11","<span class='v MT20_11' data-id='MT20_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>When they received their pay, they complained to the owner. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.020.012","MAT","20","MT20_12","<span class='v MT20_12' data-id='MT20_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>‘Those who were hired last only worked for an hour, and you’ve paid them the same as us who worked the whole day in the burning heat,’ they grumbled. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.020.013","MAT","20","MT20_13","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT20_13' data-id='MT20_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>“The owner answered one of them, ‘My friend, I haven’t treated you unfairly. Didn’t you agree with me to work for one denarius? </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.020.014","MAT","20","MT20_14","<span class='v MT20_14' data-id='MT20_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>Take your pay and go. I want to pay those who were hired last the same as I paid you. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.020.015","MAT","20","MT20_15","<span class='v MT20_15' data-id='MT20_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>Can’t I choose to do what I want with my own money? Why should you give me evil looks because I want to do good?’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.020.016","MAT","20","MT20_16","<span class='v MT20_16' data-id='MT20_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>In this way the last shall be first and the first shall be last.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.020.017","MAT","20","MT20_17","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT20_17' data-id='MT20_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>On the way to Jerusalem, Jesus took the twelve disciples aside as they walked along and told them, </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.020.018","MAT","20","MT20_18","<span class='v MT20_18' data-id='MT20_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>“Look, we’re going to Jerusalem, and the Son of man will be betrayed to the chief priests and religious teachers. They will condemn him to death </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.020.019","MAT","20","MT20_19","<span class='v MT20_19' data-id='MT20_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>and hand him over to the foreigners<span class='note' id='footnote-96'><a href='#note-96' class='key'>*</a></span> to mock him, whip him, and crucify him. But on the third day he will be raised from the dead.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.020.020","MAT","20","MT20_20","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT20_20' data-id='MT20_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came with her two sons to Jesus. She kneeled down before him to make a request. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.020.021","MAT","20","MT20_21","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT20_21' data-id='MT20_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>“What is it you are asking me for?” Jesus said to her. </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v MT20_21' data-id='MT20_21'>“Please appoint my sons to sit beside you in your kingdom, one on your right and the other on your left,” she asked. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.020.022","MAT","20","MT20_22","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT20_22' data-id='MT20_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>“You don’t know what you’re asking,” Jesus told them. “Are you able to drink the cup<span class='note' id='footnote-97'><a href='#note-97' class='key'>†</a></span> I’m about to drink?” </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v MT20_22' data-id='MT20_22'>“Yes, we are able to do that,” they told him. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.020.023","MAT","20","MT20_23","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT20_23' data-id='MT20_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>“You will certainly drink from my cup,” he said to them, “but the privilege to sit on my right or on my left isn’t mine to give. My Father is the one who has decided who that will be<span class='note' id='footnote-98'><a href='#note-98' class='key'>‡</a></span>.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.020.024","MAT","20","MT20_24","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT20_24' data-id='MT20_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>When the other ten disciples heard what they had asked, they were annoyed with the two brothers. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.020.025","MAT","20","MT20_25","<span class='v MT20_25' data-id='MT20_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>Jesus called them together and told them, “You know that foreign rulers lord it over their subjects, and powerful leaders oppress them. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.020.026","MAT","20","MT20_26","<span class='v MT20_26' data-id='MT20_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>It shall not be like that for you. Whoever among you wants to be the most important will be your servant. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.020.028","MAT","20","MT20_28","<span class='v MT20_28' data-id='MT20_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>In the same way the Son of man didn’t come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.020.029","MAT","20","MT20_29","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT20_29' data-id='MT20_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>As they left Jericho, a huge crowd followed Jesus. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.020.030","MAT","20","MT20_30","<span class='v MT20_30' data-id='MT20_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>Two blind men were sitting at the side of the road. When they heard that Jesus was passing by, they called out, “Have mercy on us, Lord, son of David!” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.020.031","MAT","20","MT20_31","<span class='v MT20_31' data-id='MT20_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>The crowd told them to be quiet, but they shouted even louder, “Have mercy on us, Lord, son of David!” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.020.032","MAT","20","MT20_32","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT20_32' data-id='MT20_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>Jesus stopped. He called them over, asking, “What do you want me to do for you?” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.020.033","MAT","20","MT20_33","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT20_33' data-id='MT20_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>“Lord, please make us able to see,” they replied. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.020.034","MAT","20","MT20_34","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT20_34' data-id='MT20_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>Jesus had pity on them and touched their eyes. Immediately they could see, and they followed him. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.021.001","MAT","21","MT21_1","<div class='c'>21</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT21_1' data-id='MT21_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>Jesus and his disciples went to Jerusalem. As they were getting close, they came to the village of Bethphage on the Mount of Olives. Jesus sent two disciples on ahead, </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.021.004","MAT","21","MT21_4","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT21_4' data-id='MT21_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>This was to fulfill what the prophet said: </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.021.005","MAT","21","MT21_5","<span class='v MT21_5' data-id='MT21_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>“Tell the daughter of Zion, ‘Look, your King is coming to you. He is humble, and rides a donkey, and a colt, the offspring of a donkey.”<span class='note' id='footnote-99'><a href='#note-99' class='key'>*</a></span> </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.021.006","MAT","21","MT21_6","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT21_6' data-id='MT21_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>The disciples went and did as Jesus had instructed. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.021.007","MAT","21","MT21_7","<span class='v MT21_7' data-id='MT21_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>They brought back the donkey and the colt. They placed their cloaks on them, and he sat on them. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.021.008","MAT","21","MT21_8","<span class='v MT21_8' data-id='MT21_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>Many people in the crowd spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut branches from the trees and laid them on the road. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.021.009","MAT","21","MT21_9","<span class='v MT21_9' data-id='MT21_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>The crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed were all shouting, “Hosanna<span class='note' id='footnote-100'><a href='#note-100' class='key'>†</a></span> to the son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.021.010","MAT","21","MT21_10","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT21_10' data-id='MT21_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>When Jesus arrived in Jerusalem, the whole city was in an uproar. “Who is this?” they were asking. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.021.011","MAT","21","MT21_11","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT21_11' data-id='MT21_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>“This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee,” the crowds replied. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.021.012","MAT","21","MT21_12","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT21_12' data-id='MT21_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>Jesus went into the Temple, and threw out all the people buying and selling. He overturned the tables of the money-changers and the chairs of the dove-sellers. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.021.013","MAT","21","MT21_13","<span class='v MT21_13' data-id='MT21_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>He told them, “Scripture says, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’<span class='note' id='footnote-101'><a href='#note-101' class='key'>‡</a></span> but you’ve turned it into a den of thieves.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.021.014","MAT","21","MT21_14","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT21_14' data-id='MT21_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>The blind and the lame came to Jesus in the Temple, and he healed them. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.021.015","MAT","21","MT21_15","<span class='v MT21_15' data-id='MT21_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>But when the chief priests and religious teachers saw the wonderful miracles he did, and the children shouting in the Temple, “Hosanna to the son of David,” they were offended. </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v MT21_15' data-id='MT21_15'>“Do you hear what these children are saying?” they asked him. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.021.016","MAT","21","MT21_16","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT21_16' data-id='MT21_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>“Yes,” Jesus replied. “Haven’t you ever read the Scripture that says, ‘You arranged for children and infants to give you perfect praise’?”<span class='note' id='footnote-102'><a href='#note-102' class='key'>§</a></span> </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.021.017","MAT","21","MT21_17","<span class='v MT21_17' data-id='MT21_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>Jesus left them and went out of the city to stay at Bethany. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.021.018","MAT","21","MT21_18","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT21_18' data-id='MT21_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>The next morning as he walked back into the city, he was hungry. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.021.019","MAT","21","MT21_19","<span class='v MT21_19' data-id='MT21_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>He saw a fig tree at the side of the road, so he went over to it but didn’t find any fruit, only leaves. </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v MT21_19' data-id='MT21_19'>He told the fig tree, “May you never ever produce fruit again!” Immediately the fig tree withered. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.021.020","MAT","21","MT21_20","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT21_20' data-id='MT21_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>The disciples were amazed to see this. “How did the fig tree wither so suddenly?” they asked. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.021.021","MAT","21","MT21_21","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT21_21' data-id='MT21_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>“I tell you the truth,” Jesus replied, “If you really trust in God, and don’t doubt him, you could not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even more. If you said to this mountain, ‘Get up and throw yourself into the sea,’ it would happen! </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.021.022","MAT","21","MT21_22","<span class='v MT21_22' data-id='MT21_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>You will receive everything you ask for in prayer, as long as you trust in God.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.021.023","MAT","21","MT21_23","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT21_23' data-id='MT21_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>Jesus went into the Temple. The chief priests and the ruling elders of the people came to him while he was teaching and asked, “By what authority are you doing these things? Who gave you this authority?” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.021.024","MAT","21","MT21_24","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT21_24' data-id='MT21_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>“I too will ask you a question,” Jesus replied. “If you give me the answer, I will tell you by what authority I do these things. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.021.025","MAT","21","MT21_25","<span class='v MT21_25' data-id='MT21_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>Where did the baptism of John come from? Was it from heaven, or was it from human beings? </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v MT21_25' data-id='MT21_25'>They argued with each other. “If we say ‘it was from heaven,’ then he’ll ask us why we didn’t believe him. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.021.026","MAT","21","MT21_26","<span class='v MT21_26' data-id='MT21_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>But if we say, ‘it was from human beings,’ then the crowd will turn against us<span class='note' id='footnote-103'><a href='#note-103' class='key'>*</a></span>, because they all consider John to be a prophet.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.021.027","MAT","21","MT21_27","<span class='v MT21_27' data-id='MT21_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>So they answered Jesus, “We don’t know.” </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v MT21_27' data-id='MT21_27'>“Then I won’t tell you by what authority I’m doing these things,” Jesus replied. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.021.028","MAT","21","MT21_28","<span class='v MT21_28' data-id='MT21_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>“But what do you think about this illustration? Once there was a man who had two sons. He went to the first son, and said, ‘Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.021.029","MAT","21","MT21_29","<span class='v MT21_29' data-id='MT21_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>The son answered, ‘I won’t,’ but afterwards he was sorry for what he said and he did go. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.021.030","MAT","21","MT21_30","<span class='v MT21_30' data-id='MT21_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>The man went to the second son, and told him the same thing. He replied, ‘I’ll go,’ but he didn’t. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.021.031","MAT","21","MT21_31","<span class='v MT21_31' data-id='MT21_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>Which of the two sons did what his father wanted?” </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v MT21_31' data-id='MT21_31'>“The first,” they answered. </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v MT21_31' data-id='MT21_31'>“I tell you the truth: tax-collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you,” Jesus told them. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.021.032","MAT","21","MT21_32","<span class='v MT21_32' data-id='MT21_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>“John came to show you the way to live right with God, and you didn’t believe him, but the tax-collectors and prostitutes did believe him. Later, when you saw what happened, you still didn’t repent and believe him. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.021.033","MAT","21","MT21_33","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT21_33' data-id='MT21_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>“Here’s another illustration. There once was a man, a landowner, who planted a vineyard. He put a fence around it, made a winepress, and built a watchtower. He rented it to some tenant farmers, and then left to go to a different country. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.021.034","MAT","21","MT21_34","<span class='v MT21_34' data-id='MT21_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>At harvest time, he sent his servants to the farmers to collect the fruit that belonged to him. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.021.035","MAT","21","MT21_35","<span class='v MT21_35' data-id='MT21_35'><span class='v-num v-35'>35&#160;</span>But the farmers attacked his servants. They beat one, killed another, and stoned another. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.021.036","MAT","21","MT21_36","<span class='v MT21_36' data-id='MT21_36'><span class='v-num v-36'>36&#160;</span>So he sent more servants, but the farmers did the same things to them. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.021.037","MAT","21","MT21_37","<span class='v MT21_37' data-id='MT21_37'><span class='v-num v-37'>37&#160;</span>So then he sent his son. ‘They will respect my son,’ he told himself. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.021.038","MAT","21","MT21_38","<span class='v MT21_38' data-id='MT21_38'><span class='v-num v-38'>38&#160;</span>But the farmers, when they saw the son, said to each other, ‘Here’s the heir! Come on! Let’s kill him so we can take his inheritance!’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.021.039","MAT","21","MT21_39","<span class='v MT21_39' data-id='MT21_39'><span class='v-num v-39'>39&#160;</span>They grabbed him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.021.040","MAT","21","MT21_40","<span class='v MT21_40' data-id='MT21_40'><span class='v-num v-40'>40&#160;</span>When the vineyard owner returns, what will he do to those farmers?” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.021.041","MAT","21","MT21_41","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT21_41' data-id='MT21_41'><span class='v-num v-41'>41&#160;</span>The chief priests and elders said to Jesus, “He will put to death those wicked men in the most awful way, and rent out the vineyard to other farmers who will be sure to give him his fruit at harvest time.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.021.042","MAT","21","MT21_42","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT21_42' data-id='MT21_42'><span class='v-num v-42'>42&#160;</span>“So haven’t you read the Scriptures?” Jesus asked them. “ ‘The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. The Lord has done this, and it is wonderful in our eyes.’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.021.043","MAT","21","MT21_43","<span class='v MT21_43' data-id='MT21_43'><span class='v-num v-43'>43&#160;</span>That’s why I’m telling you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you. It will be given to a people who produce the right kind of fruit. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.021.044","MAT","21","MT21_44","<span class='v MT21_44' data-id='MT21_44'><span class='v-num v-44'>44&#160;</span>Anyone who falls on this stone will be broken, but it will completely crush anyone it falls upon.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.021.045","MAT","21","MT21_45","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT21_45' data-id='MT21_45'><span class='v-num v-45'>45&#160;</span>When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his illustrations, they realized he was speaking about them. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.021.046","MAT","21","MT21_46","<span class='v MT21_46' data-id='MT21_46'><span class='v-num v-46'>46&#160;</span>They wanted him arrested, but they were afraid of what the people would do because the people believed he was a prophet. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.022.001","MAT","22","MT22_1","<div class='c'>22</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT22_1' data-id='MT22_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>Jesus spoke to them using more illustrated stories. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.022.002","MAT","22","MT22_2","<span class='v MT22_2' data-id='MT22_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>“The kingdom of heaven is like a king who organized a wedding celebration for his son,” Jesus explained. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.022.003","MAT","22","MT22_3","<span class='v MT22_3' data-id='MT22_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>“He sent out his servants to everyone who was invited to the wedding to tell them to come, but they refused. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.022.004","MAT","22","MT22_4","<span class='v MT22_4' data-id='MT22_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>So he sent out more servants, with the instructions, ‘Tell those who are invited, “I’ve prepared the wedding banquet. The bulls and fattened calves have been killed—everything’s ready. So come to the wedding!” ’ ” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.022.005","MAT","22","MT22_5","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT22_5' data-id='MT22_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>“But they ignored the invitation and left. One went to his fields; another to take care of his business. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.022.006","MAT","22","MT22_6","<span class='v MT22_6' data-id='MT22_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>The rest grabbed the king’s servants, mistreated them, and killed them. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.022.007","MAT","22","MT22_7","<span class='v MT22_7' data-id='MT22_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>The king became furious. He sent his soldiers to destroy those murderers and burn down their town. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.022.008","MAT","22","MT22_8","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT22_8' data-id='MT22_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>“Then the king said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those who were invited didn’t deserve to attend. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.022.010","MAT","22","MT22_10","<span class='v MT22_10' data-id='MT22_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>So the servants went out into the streets and brought back everyone they could find, both the good and the bad. The wedding hall was full. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.022.011","MAT","22","MT22_11","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT22_11' data-id='MT22_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>“But when the king came in to meet the guests, he noticed a man who didn’t have a wedding robe on. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.022.013","MAT","22","MT22_13","<span class='v MT22_13' data-id='MT22_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>Then the king told his servants, ‘Bind his hands and feet, and throw him out into the dark, where there’ll be crying and grinding of teeth.’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.022.014","MAT","22","MT22_14","<span class='v MT22_14' data-id='MT22_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>“For many are invited, but few are chosen.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.022.015","MAT","22","MT22_15","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT22_15' data-id='MT22_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>Then the Pharisees left and met together to plot how they could trap him by what he said. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.022.016","MAT","22","MT22_16","<span class='v MT22_16' data-id='MT22_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>They sent their disciples to him, together with some of Herod’s supporters. </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v MT22_16' data-id='MT22_16'>“Teacher, we know you are a honest man, and that you teach God’s way is the truth,” they began. “You don’t allow yourself to be influenced by anyone, and you don’t care about rank or status. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.022.017","MAT","22","MT22_17","<span class='v MT22_17' data-id='MT22_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>So let us know your opinion. Is it right to pay Caesar’s taxes, or not?” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.022.018","MAT","22","MT22_18","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT22_18' data-id='MT22_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>Jesus knew their motives were evil. He asked them, “Why are you trying to trap me, you hypocrites? </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.022.019","MAT","22","MT22_19","<span class='v MT22_19' data-id='MT22_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>Show me the coin that is used to pay the tax.” They brought a denarius coin<span class='note' id='footnote-104'><a href='#note-104' class='key'>*</a></span> to him. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.022.020","MAT","22","MT22_20","<span class='v MT22_20' data-id='MT22_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>“Whose image and whose title is inscribed here?” he asked them. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.022.021","MAT","22","MT22_21","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT22_21' data-id='MT22_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>“Caesar’s,” they replied. </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v MT22_21' data-id='MT22_21'>“You should give back to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and to God what belongs to God,” he told them. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.022.022","MAT","22","MT22_22","<span class='v MT22_22' data-id='MT22_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>When they heard Jesus’ answer they were stunned. They went away and left him. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.022.023","MAT","22","MT22_23","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT22_23' data-id='MT22_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>Later the same day some Sadducees came to see him. (They are the ones who say there’s no resurrection.) </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.022.024","MAT","22","MT22_24","<span class='v MT22_24' data-id='MT22_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>They asked him, “Teacher, Moses said that if a married<span class='note' id='footnote-105'><a href='#note-105' class='key'>†</a></span> man dies without having children, his brother should marry his widow and have children on behalf of his brother<span class='note' id='footnote-106'><a href='#note-106' class='key'>‡</a></span>. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.022.025","MAT","22","MT22_25","<span class='v MT22_25' data-id='MT22_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>Well, once there were seven brothers here with us. The first married, and died, and since he had no children he left his widow to his brother. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.022.026","MAT","22","MT22_26","<span class='v MT22_26' data-id='MT22_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>The same thing happened to the second and third husband, right up to the seventh. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.022.027","MAT","22","MT22_27","<span class='v MT22_27' data-id='MT22_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>In the end the woman died too. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.022.028","MAT","22","MT22_28","<span class='v MT22_28' data-id='MT22_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>So when the resurrection takes place, whose wife of the seven brothers will she be, for she married all of them?” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.022.029","MAT","22","MT22_29","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT22_29' data-id='MT22_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>Jesus replied, “Your mistake is you don’t know Scripture or what God can do. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.022.030","MAT","22","MT22_30","<span class='v MT22_30' data-id='MT22_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>For in the resurrection people don’t marry, and they aren’t given in marriage either—they’re like the angels in heaven. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.022.031","MAT","22","MT22_31","<span class='v MT22_31' data-id='MT22_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>As for the resurrection of the dead—haven’t you read what God said to you, </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.022.032","MAT","22","MT22_32","<span class='v MT22_32' data-id='MT22_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He’s not the God of the dead, but of the living.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.022.033","MAT","22","MT22_33","<span class='v MT22_33' data-id='MT22_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>When the crowds heard what he said, they were amazed at his teaching. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.022.034","MAT","22","MT22_34","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT22_34' data-id='MT22_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>When the Pharisees heard that he’d left the Sadducees speechless, they got together and went to ask some more questions. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.022.035","MAT","22","MT22_35","<span class='v MT22_35' data-id='MT22_35'><span class='v-num v-35'>35&#160;</span>One of them, who was a legal expert, asked him a question to try to trap him: </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.022.036","MAT","22","MT22_36","<span class='v MT22_36' data-id='MT22_36'><span class='v-num v-36'>36&#160;</span>“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.022.037","MAT","22","MT22_37","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT22_37' data-id='MT22_37'><span class='v-num v-37'>37&#160;</span>Jesus told them, “ ‘Love the Lord your God in all you think, in all you feel, and in all you do.’<span class='note' id='footnote-107'><a href='#note-107' class='key'>§</a></span> </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.022.038","MAT","22","MT22_38","<span class='v MT22_38' data-id='MT22_38'><span class='v-num v-38'>38&#160;</span>This is the greatest commandment, the first commandment. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.022.039","MAT","22","MT22_39","<span class='v MT22_39' data-id='MT22_39'><span class='v-num v-39'>39&#160;</span>The second is just like it, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.022.040","MAT","22","MT22_40","<span class='v MT22_40' data-id='MT22_40'><span class='v-num v-40'>40&#160;</span>All biblical law and the writings of the prophets depend on these two commandments.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.022.041","MAT","22","MT22_41","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT22_41' data-id='MT22_41'><span class='v-num v-41'>41&#160;</span>While the Pharisees were gathered there, Jesus asked them a question. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.022.042","MAT","22","MT22_42","<span class='v MT22_42' data-id='MT22_42'><span class='v-num v-42'>42&#160;</span>“What do you think about the Messiah?” he asked. “Whose son is he?” </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v MT22_42' data-id='MT22_42'>“The son of David,” they replied. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.022.043","MAT","22","MT22_43","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT22_43' data-id='MT22_43'><span class='v-num v-43'>43&#160;</span>“But how can David under inspiration call him ‘Lord’?” Jesus asked them. “He says, </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.022.044","MAT","22","MT22_44","<span class='v MT22_44' data-id='MT22_44'><span class='v-num v-44'>44&#160;</span>‘The Lord said to my Lord, sit down at my right hand until I defeat all your enemies<span class='note' id='footnote-108'><a href='#note-108' class='key'>*</a></span>.’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.022.045","MAT","22","MT22_45","<span class='v MT22_45' data-id='MT22_45'><span class='v-num v-45'>45&#160;</span>If David called him Lord, how can he be his son?” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.022.046","MAT","22","MT22_46","<span class='v MT22_46' data-id='MT22_46'><span class='v-num v-46'>46&#160;</span>Nobody could answer him, and from then on nobody dared to ask him any more questions. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.023.001","MAT","23","MT23_1","<div class='c'>23</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT23_1' data-id='MT23_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and his disciples: </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.023.003","MAT","23","MT23_3","<span class='v MT23_3' data-id='MT23_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>so obey them and do everything they tell you. But don’t follow what they do, because they don’t practice what they preach. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.023.004","MAT","23","MT23_4","<span class='v MT23_4' data-id='MT23_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>They tie up heavy burdens, and place them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves don’t lift a finger to help them. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.023.005","MAT","23","MT23_5","<span class='v MT23_5' data-id='MT23_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>Everything they do is to make sure they get noticed. They make themselves large prayer boxes<span class='note' id='footnote-110'><a href='#note-110' class='key'>†</a></span> to wear and long tassels on their clothes<span class='note' id='footnote-111'><a href='#note-111' class='key'>‡</a></span>. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.023.006","MAT","23","MT23_6","<span class='v MT23_6' data-id='MT23_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>They love to have the places of honor at banquets and the best seats in the synagogues. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.023.007","MAT","23","MT23_7","<span class='v MT23_7' data-id='MT23_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>They love to be greeted with respect in the market places, and for people to call them, ‘Rabbi.’<span class='note' id='footnote-112'><a href='#note-112' class='key'>§</a></span> </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.023.008","MAT","23","MT23_8","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT23_8' data-id='MT23_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>“Don’t let people call you ‘Rabbi.’ Only one is your Master Teacher, and you are all brothers. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.023.009","MAT","23","MT23_9","<span class='v MT23_9' data-id='MT23_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>Don’t call anyone by the title ‘Father’ here on earth. Only one is your Father, who is in heaven. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.023.010","MAT","23","MT23_10","<span class='v MT23_10' data-id='MT23_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>Don’t let people call you ‘Teacher.’ Only one is your Teacher, the Messiah. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.023.011","MAT","23","MT23_11","<span class='v MT23_11' data-id='MT23_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>The greatest among you will be your servant. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.023.012","MAT","23","MT23_12","<span class='v MT23_12' data-id='MT23_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>Those who make themselves great will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be made great. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.023.013","MAT","23","MT23_13","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT23_13' data-id='MT23_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>“But what a disaster is coming on you, religious teachers and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You slam shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves don’t go in, yet you don’t let anyone in who is trying to enter<span class='note' id='footnote-113'><a href='#note-113' class='key'>*</a></span>. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.023.015","MAT","23","MT23_15","<span class='v MT23_15' data-id='MT23_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>What a disaster is coming on you, religious teachers and Pharisees, you hypocrites! For you travel over land and sea to make a single convert, and when you do, you make him twice a son of darkness<span class='note' id='footnote-114'><a href='#note-114' class='key'>†</a></span> as you are yourselves. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.023.016","MAT","23","MT23_16","<span class='v MT23_16' data-id='MT23_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>What a disaster is coming on those of you who say, ‘If you swear by the Temple that doesn’t count, but if you swear by the gold of the Temple, then you have to keep your oath.’ How foolish and blind you are! </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.023.017","MAT","23","MT23_17","<span class='v MT23_17' data-id='MT23_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>What is greater—the gold, or the Temple that makes the gold holy? </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.023.018","MAT","23","MT23_18","<span class='v MT23_18' data-id='MT23_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>You say, ‘If you swear on the altar that doesn’t count, but if you swear on the sacrifice that’s on the altar, then you have to keep your oath.’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.023.019","MAT","23","MT23_19","<span class='v MT23_19' data-id='MT23_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>How blind you are! What is greater—the sacrifice, or the altar that makes the sacrifice holy? </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.023.020","MAT","23","MT23_20","<span class='v MT23_20' data-id='MT23_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>If you swear by the altar, you swear by it and by everything that’s on it. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.023.021","MAT","23","MT23_21","<span class='v MT23_21' data-id='MT23_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>If you swear by the Temple you swear by it and by the One who lives there. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.023.022","MAT","23","MT23_22","<span class='v MT23_22' data-id='MT23_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>If you swear by heaven you swear by the throne of God and the One who sits there. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.023.023","MAT","23","MT23_23","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT23_23' data-id='MT23_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>“What a disaster is coming on you, religious teachers and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay a tithe of mint, aniseed, and cumin, but you neglect the vital aspects of the law—doing right, showing mercy, exercising trust. Yes, you should pay your tithe, but don’t forget these other things. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.023.024","MAT","23","MT23_24","<span class='v MT23_24' data-id='MT23_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>You blind guides—you strain what you drink to keep out a fly but then you swallow a camel! </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.023.025","MAT","23","MT23_25","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT23_25' data-id='MT23_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>“What a disaster is coming on you, religious teachers and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside you’re full of greed and self-indulgence. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.023.026","MAT","23","MT23_26","<span class='v MT23_26' data-id='MT23_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>You blind Pharisees! First clean the inside of the cup and the plate, so that the outside will also be clean. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.023.027","MAT","23","MT23_27","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT23_27' data-id='MT23_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>“What a disaster is coming on you, religious teachers and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like white-washed tombs, looking good on the outside, but on the inside full of skeletons and all kinds of rottenness<span class='note' id='footnote-115'><a href='#note-115' class='key'>‡</a></span>. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.023.028","MAT","23","MT23_28","<span class='v MT23_28' data-id='MT23_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>You’re just the same. On the outside you look like good people to others, but on the inside you’re full of hypocrisy and wickedness. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.023.029","MAT","23","MT23_29","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT23_29' data-id='MT23_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>“What a disaster is coming on you, religious teachers and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs as memorials to the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the good, </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.023.030","MAT","23","MT23_30","<span class='v MT23_30' data-id='MT23_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>and you say, ‘If we had lived in the times of our ancestors we would not have joined them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.023.031","MAT","23","MT23_31","<span class='v MT23_31' data-id='MT23_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>But by saying this you testify against yourselves, proving that you belong to those who murdered the prophets! </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.023.032","MAT","23","MT23_32","<span class='v MT23_32' data-id='MT23_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>So get on with it—finish it all off using your forefathers’ methods! </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.023.033","MAT","23","MT23_33","<span class='v MT23_33' data-id='MT23_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>You snakes, you brood of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of condemnation?<span class='note' id='footnote-116'><a href='#note-116' class='key'>§</a></span> </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.023.034","MAT","23","MT23_34","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT23_34' data-id='MT23_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>“That’s why I’m sending you prophets, wise men, and teachers. Some of them you will kill, some of them you will crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues, hunting them from town to town. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.023.035","MAT","23","MT23_35","<span class='v MT23_35' data-id='MT23_35'><span class='v-num v-35'>35&#160;</span>As a result, you will be held accountable for the blood of all the good people that has been poured out on the land—from the blood of Abel, who did what was right, to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the Temple and the altar. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.023.036","MAT","23","MT23_36","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT23_36' data-id='MT23_36'><span class='v-num v-36'>36&#160;</span>“I’m telling you, the consequences of all this will fall on this generation. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.023.037","MAT","23","MT23_37","<span class='v MT23_37' data-id='MT23_37'><span class='v-num v-37'>37&#160;</span>O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! So often I wanted to gather your children as a mother hen gathers her chicks under her wings—but you wouldn’t let me. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.023.038","MAT","23","MT23_38","<span class='v MT23_38' data-id='MT23_38'><span class='v-num v-38'>38&#160;</span>Now look—your house<span class='note' id='footnote-117'><a href='#note-117' class='key'>*</a></span> is left abandoned, totally empty. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.023.039","MAT","23","MT23_39","<span class='v MT23_39' data-id='MT23_39'><span class='v-num v-39'>39&#160;</span>I tell you this: you won’t see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord.’ ” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.001","MAT","24","MT24_1","<div class='c'>24</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT24_1' data-id='MT24_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>As Jesus was leaving the Temple his disciples came to him, pointing proudly to the Temple buildings. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.002","MAT","24","MT24_2","<span class='v MT24_2' data-id='MT24_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>But Jesus replied, “You see all these buildings? I tell you the truth: there won’t be one stone left upon another. Every last one will come crashing down!” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.003","MAT","24","MT24_3","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT24_3' data-id='MT24_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>As Jesus sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him in private, and asked, “Please tell us when this will happen. What will be the sign of your coming and the end of the world?” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.004","MAT","24","MT24_4","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT24_4' data-id='MT24_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>“Make sure no one misleads you,” Jesus replied. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.005","MAT","24","MT24_5","<span class='v MT24_5' data-id='MT24_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>“Many will come claiming to be me, saying, ‘I’m the Messiah,’ and they will deceive many people. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.006","MAT","24","MT24_6","<span class='v MT24_6' data-id='MT24_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>You’ll hear about wars, and rumors about wars, but don’t be anxious. These things have to happen, but this isn’t the end. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.007","MAT","24","MT24_7","<span class='v MT24_7' data-id='MT24_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>Nations will attack other nations, and kingdoms will fight against other kingdoms. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places, </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.008","MAT","24","MT24_8","<span class='v MT24_8' data-id='MT24_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>but all these things are just the beginnings of birth pains. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.009","MAT","24","MT24_9","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT24_9' data-id='MT24_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>“Then they will arrest you, they will persecute you, and they will kill you. All people will hate you because of me. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.010","MAT","24","MT24_10","<span class='v MT24_10' data-id='MT24_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>At that time many believers will give up believing. They will betray one another and hate one another. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.011","MAT","24","MT24_11","<span class='v MT24_11' data-id='MT24_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>Many false prophets will come and deceive many people. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.012","MAT","24","MT24_12","<span class='v MT24_12' data-id='MT24_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>The increasing evil will lead the love of many to grow cold, </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.013","MAT","24","MT24_13","<span class='v MT24_13' data-id='MT24_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>but those who hold out to the end will be saved. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.014","MAT","24","MT24_14","<span class='v MT24_14' data-id='MT24_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>The good news of the kingdom will be proclaimed around the whole world so everyone will be able to hear it, and then the end will come. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.015","MAT","24","MT24_15","<span class='v MT24_15' data-id='MT24_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>So when you see the ‘evil that defiles’<span class='note' id='footnote-118'><a href='#note-118' class='key'>*</a></span> standing in the holy place that the prophet Daniel spoke about (those who read this please consider carefully), </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.016","MAT","24","MT24_16","<span class='v MT24_16' data-id='MT24_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>then the people living in Judea should run away to the mountains. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.017","MAT","24","MT24_17","<span class='v MT24_17' data-id='MT24_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>Anyone who is on the housetop must not go down and fetch what’s in the house. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.018","MAT","24","MT24_18","<span class='v MT24_18' data-id='MT24_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>Anyone who is out in the fields must not go back to get a coat. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.019","MAT","24","MT24_19","<span class='v MT24_19' data-id='MT24_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>How awful it will be for those who are pregnant, and those who are nursing babies at that time! </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.020","MAT","24","MT24_20","<span class='v MT24_20' data-id='MT24_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>Pray that you don’t have to run away in winter, or on the Sabbath day. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.021","MAT","24","MT24_21","<span class='v MT24_21' data-id='MT24_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>For at that time there will be terrible persecution—more terrible than anything that has happened from the beginning of the world up till now, and won’t ever happen again. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.022","MAT","24","MT24_22","<span class='v MT24_22' data-id='MT24_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>Unless those days are cut short, nobody will be saved, but for the sake of the chosen those days will be cut short. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.023","MAT","24","MT24_23","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT24_23' data-id='MT24_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>“So if anyone tells you, ‘Look, here’s the Messiah,’ or, ‘There he is,’ don’t believe it. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.024","MAT","24","MT24_24","<span class='v MT24_24' data-id='MT24_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>For false messiahs will appear, and false prophets too, and they will perform incredible signs and miracles in order to deceive the chosen, if that were possible. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.025","MAT","24","MT24_25","<span class='v MT24_25' data-id='MT24_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>Notice that I’ve told you this before it even happens. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.026","MAT","24","MT24_26","<span class='v MT24_26' data-id='MT24_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>So if they tell you, ‘Look, he’s out in the desert,’ don’t go looking there; or if they say, ‘Look, he’s secretly here,’ don’t believe it. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.027","MAT","24","MT24_27","<span class='v MT24_27' data-id='MT24_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>For the coming of the Son of man will be like the lightning that flashes brightly from east to west. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.028","MAT","24","MT24_28","<span class='v MT24_28' data-id='MT24_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>‘Vultures gather where the carcass is.’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.029","MAT","24","MT24_29","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT24_29' data-id='MT24_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>“But right after those days of persecution the sun will be darkened, the moon will not shine, the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven will be shaken. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.030","MAT","24","MT24_30","<span class='v MT24_30' data-id='MT24_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>Then the sign of the Son of man will appear in heaven, and all the peoples of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and in brilliant glory. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.031","MAT","24","MT24_31","<span class='v MT24_31' data-id='MT24_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>With a blast from a trumpet he will send his angels to gather his chosen ones from every place, from one end of heaven and earth to the other<span class='note' id='footnote-119'><a href='#note-119' class='key'>†</a></span>. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.032","MAT","24","MT24_32","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT24_32' data-id='MT24_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>“Learn an illustration from the fig tree. When its shoots become tender and leaves begin to sprout, you know that summer is coming. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.033","MAT","24","MT24_33","<span class='v MT24_33' data-id='MT24_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>In the same way when you see all these things happening, you know that his coming is near, in fact it’s right at the door! </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.034","MAT","24","MT24_34","<span class='v MT24_34' data-id='MT24_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>I tell you the truth: this generation won’t pass away until all these things have happened. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.035","MAT","24","MT24_35","<span class='v MT24_35' data-id='MT24_35'><span class='v-num v-35'>35&#160;</span>Heaven and earth may pass away, but my words won’t pass away. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.036","MAT","24","MT24_36","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT24_36' data-id='MT24_36'><span class='v-num v-36'>36&#160;</span>“But no one knows the day or hour when this will take place, not the angels in heaven, nor the Son. Only the Father knows. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.037","MAT","24","MT24_37","<span class='v MT24_37' data-id='MT24_37'><span class='v-num v-37'>37&#160;</span>When the Son of man comes it will be like it was during the time of Noah. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.038","MAT","24","MT24_38","<span class='v MT24_38' data-id='MT24_38'><span class='v-num v-38'>38&#160;</span>It will be as in the days before the flood, when they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, right up until the day that Noah went into the Ark. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.039","MAT","24","MT24_39","<span class='v MT24_39' data-id='MT24_39'><span class='v-num v-39'>39&#160;</span>They didn’t realize what was going to happen until the flood came and swept them all away. That’s how the coming of the Son of man will be. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.040","MAT","24","MT24_40","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT24_40' data-id='MT24_40'><span class='v-num v-40'>40&#160;</span>“Two men will be working in the fields. One will be taken, the other left. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.041","MAT","24","MT24_41","<span class='v MT24_41' data-id='MT24_41'><span class='v-num v-41'>41&#160;</span>Two women will be grinding grain with a mill. One will be taken, the other left. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.042","MAT","24","MT24_42","<span class='v MT24_42' data-id='MT24_42'><span class='v-num v-42'>42&#160;</span>So stay alert, because you don’t know what day your Lord is coming. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.043","MAT","24","MT24_43","<span class='v MT24_43' data-id='MT24_43'><span class='v-num v-43'>43&#160;</span>But consider this: if the house-owner knew what time a thief was coming, he would keep watch. He would not allow his house to be broken into and robbed. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.044","MAT","24","MT24_44","<span class='v MT24_44' data-id='MT24_44'><span class='v-num v-44'>44&#160;</span>You also need to be ready, because the Son of man is coming at a time when you’re not expecting him. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.045","MAT","24","MT24_45","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT24_45' data-id='MT24_45'><span class='v-num v-45'>45&#160;</span>“For who is the trustworthy and thoughtful servant? It’s the one his master puts in charge of his household to provide them with food at the proper time. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.046","MAT","24","MT24_46","<span class='v MT24_46' data-id='MT24_46'><span class='v-num v-46'>46&#160;</span>How good it will be for that servant to be found doing that when his master returns! </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.047","MAT","24","MT24_47","<span class='v MT24_47' data-id='MT24_47'><span class='v-num v-47'>47&#160;</span>I tell you the truth: the master will put that servant in charge over everything he has. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.048","MAT","24","MT24_48","<span class='v MT24_48' data-id='MT24_48'><span class='v-num v-48'>48&#160;</span>But if he was evil, the servant would say to himself, ‘My master is taking a long time,’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.049","MAT","24","MT24_49","<span class='v MT24_49' data-id='MT24_49'><span class='v-num v-49'>49&#160;</span>and would start beating the other servants, feasting and drinking with the drunks. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.050","MAT","24","MT24_50","<span class='v MT24_50' data-id='MT24_50'><span class='v-num v-50'>50&#160;</span>Then that servant’s master will return when the man doesn’t expect him, at a time he doesn’t know. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.024.051","MAT","24","MT24_51","<span class='v MT24_51' data-id='MT24_51'><span class='v-num v-51'>51&#160;</span>He’ll cut him to pieces, and treat him in the same way as the hypocrites<span class='note' id='footnote-120'><a href='#note-120' class='key'>‡</a></span>, sending him to a place where there’s crying and gnashing of teeth. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.025.002","MAT","25","MT25_2","<span class='v MT25_2' data-id='MT25_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>Five were foolish, and five were wise. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.025.003","MAT","25","MT25_3","<span class='v MT25_3' data-id='MT25_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>The foolish girls took their lamps but didn’t take any oil with them, </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.025.004","MAT","25","MT25_4","<span class='v MT25_4' data-id='MT25_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>while the wise took jars of oil with them as well as their lamps. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.025.005","MAT","25","MT25_5","<span class='v MT25_5' data-id='MT25_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>The bridegroom took a long time and all the girls became drowsy and fell asleep. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.025.006","MAT","25","MT25_6","<span class='v MT25_6' data-id='MT25_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>At midnight the shout came, ‘Look, the bridegroom’s here! Come out and meet him!’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.025.007","MAT","25","MT25_7","<span class='v MT25_7' data-id='MT25_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>All the girls got up and trimmed the wicks of their lamps. The foolish girls said to the wise ones, </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.025.008","MAT","25","MT25_8","<span class='v MT25_8' data-id='MT25_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>‘Give us some of your oil, because our lamps are going out.’ But the wise girls replied, </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.025.009","MAT","25","MT25_9","<span class='v MT25_9' data-id='MT25_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>‘No, because otherwise there won’t be enough for both you and for us. Go to the shopkeepers and buy some oil for yourselves.’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.025.010","MAT","25","MT25_10","<span class='v MT25_10' data-id='MT25_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>While they went to buy oil, the bridegroom arrived, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding, and the door was locked shut. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.025.011","MAT","25","MT25_11","<span class='v MT25_11' data-id='MT25_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>The other girls came later. ‘Lord, Lord,’ they called, ‘Open the door for us!’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.025.012","MAT","25","MT25_12","<span class='v MT25_12' data-id='MT25_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>But he answered, ‘I tell you the truth: I don’t know you.’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.025.013","MAT","25","MT25_13","<span class='v MT25_13' data-id='MT25_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>So stay alert, for you don’t know the day, or the hour. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.025.014","MAT","25","MT25_14","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT25_14' data-id='MT25_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>“It’s like a man who went away on a trip. He called in his servants and entrusted them with what he owned. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.025.015","MAT","25","MT25_15","<span class='v MT25_15' data-id='MT25_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>To one of them he gave five talents<span class='note' id='footnote-121'><a href='#note-121' class='key'>*</a></span>, to another he gave two, and to another one, according to their different abilities. Then he left. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.025.016","MAT","25","MT25_16","<span class='v MT25_16' data-id='MT25_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>Immediately the one with five talents went and invested them in a business, and made another five talents. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.025.017","MAT","25","MT25_17","<span class='v MT25_17' data-id='MT25_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>In the same way the one with two talents made another two. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.025.018","MAT","25","MT25_18","<span class='v MT25_18' data-id='MT25_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>But the man who’d received the one talent went off and dug a hole and hid his master’s money. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.025.019","MAT","25","MT25_19","<span class='v MT25_19' data-id='MT25_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>A long time later the master of those servants returned, and settled accounts with them. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.025.020","MAT","25","MT25_20","<span class='v MT25_20' data-id='MT25_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>The one with five talents came and presented the other five talents. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘You gave me five talents. Look, I’ve made a profit of five talents.’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.025.021","MAT","25","MT25_21","<span class='v MT25_21' data-id='MT25_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>His master said to him, ‘You’ve done well—you are a good, faithful servant. You have proved yourself trustworthy over small things, so now I’m placing you in charge over many things. Be happy because I’m really pleased with you!’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.025.022","MAT","25","MT25_22","<span class='v MT25_22' data-id='MT25_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>The one with two talents also came. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘You gave me two talents. Look, I’ve made a profit of two talents.’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.025.023","MAT","25","MT25_23","<span class='v MT25_23' data-id='MT25_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>His master said to him, ‘You’ve done well—you are a good, faithful servant. You have proved trustworthy over small things, so now I’m placing you in charge over many things. Be happy because I’m really pleased with you!’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.025.024","MAT","25","MT25_24","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT25_24' data-id='MT25_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>“Then the man with one talent came. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘I know that you’re a hard man. You reap where you didn’t sow, and you harvest crops that you didn’t plant. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.025.025","MAT","25","MT25_25","<span class='v MT25_25' data-id='MT25_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>So since I was afraid of you I went and buried your talent in the ground. Look, you can have back what belongs to you.’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.025.026","MAT","25","MT25_26","<span class='v MT25_26' data-id='MT25_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and lazy servant! If you think I reap where I don’t sow, and harvest crops I didn’t plant, </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.025.027","MAT","25","MT25_27","<span class='v MT25_27' data-id='MT25_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>then you should have deposited my silver in the bank so that when I returned I could have had my money with interest. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.025.028","MAT","25","MT25_28","<span class='v MT25_28' data-id='MT25_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>Take the talent away from him, and give it to the one with ten talents. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.025.029","MAT","25","MT25_29","<span class='v MT25_29' data-id='MT25_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>For everyone who has will be given even more; and everyone who doesn’t have anything, even what they have will be taken away from them. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.025.030","MAT","25","MT25_30","<span class='v MT25_30' data-id='MT25_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>Now throw this useless servant out into the darkness where there’ll be crying and gnashing of teeth.’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.025.031","MAT","25","MT25_31","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT25_31' data-id='MT25_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>“But when the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his majestic throne. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.025.032","MAT","25","MT25_32","<span class='v MT25_32' data-id='MT25_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>Everyone will be brought before him. He will separate them from one another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.025.033","MAT","25","MT25_33","<span class='v MT25_33' data-id='MT25_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>He’ll place the sheep on his right hand, and the goats on his left. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.025.034","MAT","25","MT25_34","<span class='v MT25_34' data-id='MT25_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>Then the king will say to the ones on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, and inherit the kingdom that’s been prepared for you from the beginning of the world. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.025.035","MAT","25","MT25_35","<span class='v MT25_35' data-id='MT25_35'><span class='v-num v-35'>35&#160;</span>For I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me a drink. I was a stranger and you invited me in. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.025.036","MAT","25","MT25_36","<span class='v MT25_36' data-id='MT25_36'><span class='v-num v-36'>36&#160;</span>I was naked and you clothed me. I was sick and you looked after me. I was in prison and you visited me.’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.025.037","MAT","25","MT25_37","<span class='v MT25_37' data-id='MT25_37'><span class='v-num v-37'>37&#160;</span>Then those who are right will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and fed you, or thirsty and gave you a drink? </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.025.038","MAT","25","MT25_38","<span class='v MT25_38' data-id='MT25_38'><span class='v-num v-38'>38&#160;</span>When did we see you as a stranger and invite you in, or naked and clothe you? </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.025.039","MAT","25","MT25_39","<span class='v MT25_39' data-id='MT25_39'><span class='v-num v-39'>39&#160;</span>When did we see you sick, or in prison, and visit you?’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.025.040","MAT","25","MT25_40","<span class='v MT25_40' data-id='MT25_40'><span class='v-num v-40'>40&#160;</span>The king will tell them, ‘I tell you the truth: whatever you did for one of these of least importance you did for me.’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.025.041","MAT","25","MT25_41","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT25_41' data-id='MT25_41'><span class='v-num v-41'>41&#160;</span>“He’ll also say to those on his left, ‘Go away from me, you who are doomed, into the eternal<span class='note' id='footnote-122'><a href='#note-122' class='key'>†</a></span> fire prepared for the devil and his angels! </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.025.042","MAT","25","MT25_42","<span class='v MT25_42' data-id='MT25_42'><span class='v-num v-42'>42&#160;</span>For I was hungry and you didn’t give me anything to eat. I was thirsty and you didn’t give me a drink. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.025.043","MAT","25","MT25_43","<span class='v MT25_43' data-id='MT25_43'><span class='v-num v-43'>43&#160;</span>I was a stranger and you didn’t invite me in. I was naked and you didn’t clothe me. I was sick and in prison and you didn’t visit me.’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.025.044","MAT","25","MT25_44","<span class='v MT25_44' data-id='MT25_44'><span class='v-num v-44'>44&#160;</span>Then they will also answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and didn’t look after you?’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.025.045","MAT","25","MT25_45","<span class='v MT25_45' data-id='MT25_45'><span class='v-num v-45'>45&#160;</span>Then he will tell them, ‘I tell you the truth: whatever you didn’t do for one of these of least importance you didn’t do for me.’ </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.025.046","MAT","25","MT25_46","<span class='v MT25_46' data-id='MT25_46'><span class='v-num v-46'>46&#160;</span>They will go away into eternal condemnation, but those who are right will enter eternal life.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.001","MAT","26","MT26_1","<div class='c'>26</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT26_1' data-id='MT26_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>After Jesus had said all this, he told his disciples, </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.002","MAT","26","MT26_2","<span class='v MT26_2' data-id='MT26_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>“You know that it’s Passover in two days time, and the Son of man will be handed over to be crucified.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.003","MAT","26","MT26_3","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT26_3' data-id='MT26_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the courtyard of Caiaphas, the high priest. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.004","MAT","26","MT26_4","<span class='v MT26_4' data-id='MT26_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>There they plotted to arrest Jesus on some deceitful pretext<span class='note' id='footnote-123'><a href='#note-123' class='key'>*</a></span> and kill him. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.005","MAT","26","MT26_5","<span class='v MT26_5' data-id='MT26_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>But they said, “Let’s not do this during the festival so that the people don’t riot.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.006","MAT","26","MT26_6","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT26_6' data-id='MT26_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>While Jesus was staying at Simon the leper’s house in Bethany, </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.007","MAT","26","MT26_7","<span class='v MT26_7' data-id='MT26_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>a woman came over to him carrying an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume. She poured it on Jesus’ head while he was sitting eating. But when the disciples saw what she did, they were upset. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.008","MAT","26","MT26_8","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT26_8' data-id='MT26_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>“What a terrible waste!” they objected. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.009","MAT","26","MT26_9","<span class='v MT26_9' data-id='MT26_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>“This perfume could’ve been sold for a lot of money and given to the poor!” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.010","MAT","26","MT26_10","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT26_10' data-id='MT26_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>Jesus was aware of what was going on and told them, “Why are you upset with this woman? She’s done something wonderful for me! </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.011","MAT","26","MT26_11","<span class='v MT26_11' data-id='MT26_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>You’ll always have the poor with you, but you won’t always have me. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.012","MAT","26","MT26_12","<span class='v MT26_12' data-id='MT26_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>By pouring this perfume on my body she’s prepared me for burial. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.013","MAT","26","MT26_13","<span class='v MT26_13' data-id='MT26_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>I tell you the truth: wherever in the world this good news is spread, the story of what this woman has done will also be told in memory of her.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.014","MAT","26","MT26_14","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT26_14' data-id='MT26_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>Then Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve disciples, went to the chief priests </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.015","MAT","26","MT26_15","<span class='v MT26_15' data-id='MT26_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>and asked them, “How much will you pay me for betraying Jesus to you?” They paid him thirty silver coins. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.016","MAT","26","MT26_16","<span class='v MT26_16' data-id='MT26_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>From then on he looked for an opportunity to betray Jesus. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.017","MAT","26","MT26_17","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT26_17' data-id='MT26_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>On the first day of the festival of unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus and asked him, “Where do you want us to prepare the Passover meal for you to eat?” </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.020","MAT","26","MT26_20","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT26_20' data-id='MT26_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>When evening came he sat down to eat with the Twelve. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.021","MAT","26","MT26_21","<span class='v MT26_21' data-id='MT26_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>While they were eating he told them, “I tell you the truth: one of you is going to betray me.” </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.023","MAT","26","MT26_23","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT26_23' data-id='MT26_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>“The one who’s dipped his hand into the dish with me will betray me,” Jesus replied. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.024","MAT","26","MT26_24","<span class='v MT26_24' data-id='MT26_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>“The Son of man will die just as it was prophesied about him, but what a disaster it will be for the man who betrays the Son of man! It would be better for that man if he’d never been born!” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.025","MAT","26","MT26_25","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT26_25' data-id='MT26_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>Judas, the one who would betray Jesus, asked “It’s not me, is it, Rabbi?” </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v MT26_25' data-id='MT26_25'>“You said it,” Jesus replied. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.026","MAT","26","MT26_26","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT26_26' data-id='MT26_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>While they were eating, Jesus took some bread and blessed it. Then he broke it and gave pieces to the disciples. “Take and eat this for it is my body,” said Jesus. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.027","MAT","26","MT26_27","<span class='v MT26_27' data-id='MT26_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>Then he picked up the cup, blessed it, and gave it to them. “Drink from it, all of you,” he told them. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.028","MAT","26","MT26_28","<span class='v MT26_28' data-id='MT26_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>“For this is my blood of the covenant, poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.029","MAT","26","MT26_29","<span class='v MT26_29' data-id='MT26_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>However, I tell you, I won’t drink this fruit of the vine until the day I drink it new with you in the kingdom of my Father.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.030","MAT","26","MT26_30","<span class='v MT26_30' data-id='MT26_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>After they’d sung a song, they left for the Mount of Olives. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.033","MAT","26","MT26_33","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT26_33' data-id='MT26_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>But Peter objected, “Even if everyone else abandons you, I’ll never abandon you.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.034","MAT","26","MT26_34","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT26_34' data-id='MT26_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>“I’m telling you the truth,” Jesus told him, “This very night, before the cock crows, you’ll deny me three times.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.035","MAT","26","MT26_35","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT26_35' data-id='MT26_35'><span class='v-num v-35'>35&#160;</span>“Even if I have to die with you, I’ll never deny you!” Peter insisted. And all the disciples said the same thing. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.036","MAT","26","MT26_36","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT26_36' data-id='MT26_36'><span class='v-num v-36'>36&#160;</span>Then Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane. He told them, “Sit down here while I go over there and pray.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.037","MAT","26","MT26_37","<span class='v MT26_37' data-id='MT26_37'><span class='v-num v-37'>37&#160;</span>He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee with him, and he began to suffer agonizing sorrow and distress. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.038","MAT","26","MT26_38","<span class='v MT26_38' data-id='MT26_38'><span class='v-num v-38'>38&#160;</span>Then he said to them, “I am so overwhelmed with sadness that it’s killing me. Wait here and keep watch with me.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.039","MAT","26","MT26_39","<span class='v MT26_39' data-id='MT26_39'><span class='v-num v-39'>39&#160;</span>He went a little farther forward, fell face down, and prayed. </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v MT26_39' data-id='MT26_39'>“My Father, please, if it’s possible, let this cup of suffering be taken from me,” Jesus asked. “Even so, may it not be what I want but what you want.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.040","MAT","26","MT26_40","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT26_40' data-id='MT26_40'><span class='v-num v-40'>40&#160;</span>He went back to the disciples and found them asleep. He said to Peter, “What, you couldn’t stay awake with me for just one hour? </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.042","MAT","26","MT26_42","<span class='v MT26_42' data-id='MT26_42'><span class='v-num v-42'>42&#160;</span>He went away a second time and prayed. </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v MT26_42' data-id='MT26_42'>“My Father, if this cup cannot be taken from me without me drinking from it, then your will be done,” he said. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.043","MAT","26","MT26_43","<span class='v MT26_43' data-id='MT26_43'><span class='v-num v-43'>43&#160;</span>He went back and found them sleeping, for they just couldn’t stay awake<span class='note' id='footnote-125'><a href='#note-125' class='key'>‡</a></span>. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.045","MAT","26","MT26_45","<span class='v MT26_45' data-id='MT26_45'><span class='v-num v-45'>45&#160;</span>Then he returned to the disciples, and told them, “How can you still be sleeping and resting? Look, the time has come. The Son of man is about to be betrayed into the hands of sinners! </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.046","MAT","26","MT26_46","<span class='v MT26_46' data-id='MT26_46'><span class='v-num v-46'>46&#160;</span>Get up, let’s go! See, the one who’s betraying me has arrived.” </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.048","MAT","26","MT26_48","<span class='v MT26_48' data-id='MT26_48'><span class='v-num v-48'>48&#160;</span>The betrayer had arranged to give them a signal: “The one that I kiss, that’s him—arrest him,” he’d told them. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.050","MAT","26","MT26_50","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT26_50' data-id='MT26_50'><span class='v-num v-50'>50&#160;</span>“My friend, do what you came to do,” Jesus said to Judas. So they came and grabbed hold of Jesus, and arrested him. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.052","MAT","26","MT26_52","<span class='v MT26_52' data-id='MT26_52'><span class='v-num v-52'>52&#160;</span>But Jesus told him, “Put your sword away. Everyone who fights with the sword will die by the sword. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.053","MAT","26","MT26_53","<span class='v MT26_53' data-id='MT26_53'><span class='v-num v-53'>53&#160;</span>Don’t you think I could ask my Father, and he’d immediately send more than twelve legions of angels? </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.054","MAT","26","MT26_54","<span class='v MT26_54' data-id='MT26_54'><span class='v-num v-54'>54&#160;</span>But then how could the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must be like this?” </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.056","MAT","26","MT26_56","<span class='v MT26_56' data-id='MT26_56'><span class='v-num v-56'>56&#160;</span>But all this is happening to fulfill what the prophets wrote.” Then all the disciples abandoned him and ran away. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.057","MAT","26","MT26_57","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT26_57' data-id='MT26_57'><span class='v-num v-57'>57&#160;</span>Those who’d arrested Jesus took him to the home of Caiaphas, the high priest, where the religious teachers and elders had gathered. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.062","MAT","26","MT26_62","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT26_62' data-id='MT26_62'><span class='v-num v-62'>62&#160;</span>The high priest stood up and asked Jesus, “Have you no answer? What do you have to say in your defense?” </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.064","MAT","26","MT26_64","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT26_64' data-id='MT26_64'><span class='v-num v-64'>64&#160;</span>“You said it,” Jesus replied. “And I also tell you that in the future you’ll see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of the Almighty, and coming on the clouds of heaven.” </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.068","MAT","26","MT26_68","<span class='v MT26_68' data-id='MT26_68'><span class='v-num v-68'>68&#160;</span>and said, “Prophesy to us, you ‘Messiah’! Who just hit you?” </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.026.073","MAT","26","MT26_73","<span class='v MT26_73' data-id='MT26_73'><span class='v-num v-73'>73&#160;</span>A little while later the people standing there came up to Peter and said, “You definitely are one of them. Your accent gives you away.” </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.027.025","MAT","27","MT27_25","<span class='v MT27_25' data-id='MT27_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>All the people answered, “May his blood be on us, and on our children!” </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.027.039","MAT","27","MT27_39","<span class='v MT27_39' data-id='MT27_39'><span class='v-num v-39'>39&#160;</span>Those who passed by shouted insults at him, shaking their heads, </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.027.040","MAT","27","MT27_40","<span class='v MT27_40' data-id='MT27_40'><span class='v-num v-40'>40&#160;</span>saying, “You who promised to destroy the Temple and rebuild it in three days, why don’t you save yourself! If you really are the Son of God, then come down from the cross.” </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.027.045","MAT","27","MT27_45","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT27_45' data-id='MT27_45'><span class='v-num v-45'>45&#160;</span>From noon until three o’clock darkness covered the whole country. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.027.046","MAT","27","MT27_46","<span class='v MT27_46' data-id='MT27_46'><span class='v-num v-46'>46&#160;</span>At about three o’clock Jesus shouted out loud, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.027.047","MAT","27","MT27_47","<span class='v MT27_47' data-id='MT27_47'><span class='v-num v-47'>47&#160;</span>When some of those standing there heard it, they said, “He’s calling for Elijah!” </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.027.049","MAT","27","MT27_49","<span class='v MT27_49' data-id='MT27_49'><span class='v-num v-49'>49&#160;</span>But the others said, “Leave him alone. Let’s see if Elijah will come and save him.” </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("070.027.050","MAT","27","MT27_50","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MT27_50' data-id='MT27_50'><span class='v-num v-50'>50&#160;</span>Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and breathed his last<span class='note' id='footnote-130'><a href='#note-130' class='key'>§</a></span>. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("071.005.005","MRK","5","MK5_5","<span class='v MK5_5' data-id='MK5_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>Day and night he was always shouting out among the tombs and in the hills nearby, cutting himself with sharp stones. </span>");
INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("071.005.006","MRK","5","MK5_6","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MK5_6' data-id='MK5_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>Seeing Jesus from a distance he ran and kneeled in front of him. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("071.005.030","MRK","5","MK5_30","<span class='v MK5_30' data-id='MK5_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>Jesus, sensing at once that power had gone out from him, turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my cloak?” </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("071.006.003","MRK","6","MK6_3","<span class='v MK6_3' data-id='MK6_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>Isn’t this the carpenter, Mary’s son—the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Don’t his sisters live here among us?” They were offended and rejected him<span class='note' id='footnote-151'><a href='#note-151' class='key'>*</a></span>. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("071.006.006","MRK","6","MK6_6","<span class='v MK6_6' data-id='MK6_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>He was amazed at their lack of trust. </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v MK6_6' data-id='MK6_6'>Jesus traveled around the villages, teaching as he went. </span>");
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INSERT INTO FreeBibleVersion_NT_2.1.1_isvl VALUES ("071.006.010","MRK","6","MK6_10","</div><div class='p'><span class='v MK6_10' data-id='MK6_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>“When you’re invited into a home, stay there until you leave,” he told them. </span>");
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