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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT5_2","070_5_2","MAT","5","2","2","and he began to teach them, saying: ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT5_3","070_5_3","MAT","5","3","3","“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT5_4","070_5_4","MAT","5","4","4","Blessed are the mourners, for they will be comforted. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT5_5","070_5_5","MAT","5","5","5","Blessed are the gentle, for they will inherit the earth. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT5_6","070_5_6","MAT","5","6","6","Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT5_7","070_5_7","MAT","5","7","7","Blessed are the merciful, for they will find mercy. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT5_8","070_5_8","MAT","5","8","8","Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT5_9","070_5_9","MAT","5","9","9","Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT5_10","070_5_10","MAT","5","10","10","Blessed are those who have been persecuted in the cause of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT5_11","070_5_11","MAT","5","11","11","“Blessed are you when people insult you, and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil lies about you because of me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT5_12","070_5_12","MAT","5","12","12","Be glad and rejoice, because your reward in heaven will be great; this is the way they persecuted the prophets who lived before you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT5_13","070_5_13","MAT","5","13","13","“You are salt for the world. But if salt becomes tasteless, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, but is thrown away, and trampled underfoot. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT5_14","070_5_14","MAT","5","14","14","It is you who are the light of the world. A town that stands on a hill cannot be hidden. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT5_15","070_5_15","MAT","5","15","15","People do not light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lamp-stand, where it gives light to everyone in the house. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT5_16","070_5_16","MAT","5","16","16","Let your light so shine before the eyes of others so that, seeing your good actions, they will praise your Father who is in heaven. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT5_17","070_5_17","MAT","5","17","17","“Do not think that I have come to do away with the Law or the prophets; I have not come to do away with them, but to complete them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT5_18","070_5_18","MAT","5","18","18","For I tell you, until the heavens and the earth disappear, not even the smallest letter, nor one stroke of a letter, will disappear from the Law until all is done. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT5_19","070_5_19","MAT","5","19","19","Whoever, therefore, breaks one of these commandments, even the least of them, and teaches others to do so, will be the least esteemed in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever keeps them, and teaches others to do so, will be esteemed great in the kingdom of heaven. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT5_20","070_5_20","MAT","5","20","20","Indeed I tell you that, unless you obey God’s commands better than of the teachers of the Law, and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT5_21","070_5_21","MAT","5","21","21","“You have heard that to our ancestors it was said – ‘You must not commit murder,’ and ‘Whoever commits murder will be brought to trial.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT5_22","070_5_22","MAT","5","22","22","But I say to you that anyone who is angry at their brother or sister will be brought to trial; and whoever insults their brother or sister will be brought before the High Council, while whoever calls them a fool will be in danger of the fires of Gehenna. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT5_24","070_5_24","MAT","5","24","24","leave your gift there, before the altar, go and be reconciled to them, first, then come and present your gift. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT5_25","070_5_25","MAT","5","25","25","Be ready to make friends with your opponent, even when you meet them on your way to the court; otherwise they might hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the judicial officer, and you will be thrown into prison. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT5_26","070_5_26","MAT","5","26","26","I tell you, you will not come out until you have paid the last cent. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT5_27","070_5_27","MAT","5","27","27","“You have heard that it was said – ‘You must not commit adultery.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT5_28","070_5_28","MAT","5","28","28","But I say to you that anyone who looks at a woman and desires her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT5_29","070_5_29","MAT","5","29","29","If your right eye causes you to sin, take it out and throw it away. It would be best for you to lose one part of your body, and not to have the whole of it thrown into Gehenna. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT5_30","070_5_30","MAT","5","30","30","And, if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It would be best for you to lose one part of your body, and not to have the whole of it go down to Gehenna. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT5_31","070_5_31","MAT","5","31","31","“It was also said – ‘Let anyone who divorces his wife serve her with a notice of separation.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT5_32","070_5_32","MAT","5","32","32","But I say to you that anyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of some serious sexual sin, leads to her committing adultery; while anyone who marries her after her divorce is guilty of adultery. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT5_33","070_5_33","MAT","5","33","33","Again, you have heard that our ancestors were told – ‘Do not break your oaths, keep your vows to the Lord.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT5_34","070_5_34","MAT","5","34","34","But I say to you that you must not swear at all, either by heaven, since that is God’s throne, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT5_35","070_5_35","MAT","5","35","35","or by the earth, since that is his footstool, or by Jerusalem, since that is the city of the Great King. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT5_36","070_5_36","MAT","5","36","36","Nor should you swear by your head, since you cannot make a single hair either white or black. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT5_37","070_5_37","MAT","5","37","37","Let your words be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything beyond this comes from what is evil. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT5_38","070_5_38","MAT","5","38","38","“You have heard that it was said – ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT5_39","070_5_39","MAT","5","39","39","But I say to you that you must not resist those who wrong you; but, if anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other to them also. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT5_40","070_5_40","MAT","5","40","40","If someone sues you for your shirt, let them have your cloak as well. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT5_41","070_5_41","MAT","5","41","41","If you are forced to carry a soldier’s pack for one mile, carry it two. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT5_42","070_5_42","MAT","5","42","42","Give to anyone who asks and, if someone wants to borrow from you, do not turn them away. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT5_43","070_5_43","MAT","5","43","43","You have heard that it was said – ‘You must love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT5_44","070_5_44","MAT","5","44","44","But what I tell you is this: love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT5_45","070_5_45","MAT","5","45","45","so that you may become children of your Father who is in heaven; for he causes his sun to rise on bad and good alike, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT5_46","070_5_46","MAT","5","46","46","For, if you love only those who love you, what reward will you have? Even the tax collectors do this! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT5_47","070_5_47","MAT","5","47","47","And, if you only welcome your brothers and sisters, what are you doing more than others? Even the Gentiles do this! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT5_48","070_5_48","MAT","5","48","48","You, then, must become perfect – as your heavenly Father is perfect. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT6_1","070_6_1","MAT","6","1","1","“Take care not to perform your religious duties in public in order to be seen by others; if you do, your Father who is in heaven has no reward for you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT6_2","070_6_2","MAT","6","2","2","Therefore, when you do acts of charity, do not have a trumpet blown in front of you, as hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets so that people will praise them. There, I tell you, is their reward! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT6_3","070_6_3","MAT","6","3","3","But, when you do acts of charity, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT6_4","070_6_4","MAT","6","4","4","so that your charity may be secret; and your Father, who sees what is in secret, will reward you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT6_5","070_6_5","MAT","6","5","5","“And, when you pray, you are not to behave as hypocrites do. They like to pray standing in the synagogues and at the corners of the streets, so that people will see them. There, I tell you, is their reward! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT6_6","070_6_6","MAT","6","6","6","But, when one of you prays, they should go into their own room, shut the door, and pray to their Father who dwells in secret; and their Father, who sees what is secret, will reward them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT6_7","070_6_7","MAT","6","7","7","When praying, do not repeat the same words over and over again, as is done by the Gentiles, who think that by using many words they will obtain a hearing. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT6_8","070_6_8","MAT","6","8","8","Do not imitate them; for God, your Father, knows what you need before you ask him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT6_9","070_6_9","MAT","6","9","9","You, therefore, should pray like this – ‘Our Father, who is in heaven, may your name be held holy, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT6_10","070_6_10","MAT","6","10","10","your kingdom come, your will be done – on earth, as in heaven. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT6_11","070_6_11","MAT","6","11","11","Give us today the bread that we will need; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT6_12","070_6_12","MAT","6","12","12","and forgive us our wrongdoings, as we have forgiven those who have wronged us; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT6_13","070_6_13","MAT","6","13","13","and take us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT6_14","070_6_14","MAT","6","14","14","For, if you forgive others their offenses, your heavenly Father will forgive you also; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT6_15","070_6_15","MAT","6","15","15","but, if you do not forgive others their offenses, not even your Father will forgive your offenses. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT6_16","070_6_16","MAT","6","16","16","“And, when you fast, do not put on gloomy looks, as hypocrites do who disfigure their faces so that they may be seen by people to be fasting. That, I tell you, is their reward! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT6_17","070_6_17","MAT","6","17","17","But, when one of you fasts, they should anoint their head and wash their face, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT6_18","070_6_18","MAT","6","18","18","so that they may not be seen by people to be fasting, but by their Father who dwells in secret; and their Father, who sees what is secret, will reward them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT6_19","070_6_19","MAT","6","19","19","“Do not store up treasures for yourselves on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT6_20","070_6_20","MAT","6","20","20","But store up treasures for yourselves in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT6_21","070_6_21","MAT","6","21","21","For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT6_22","070_6_22","MAT","6","22","22","The lamp of the body is the eye. If your eye is unclouded, your whole body will be lit up; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT6_23","070_6_23","MAT","6","23","23","but, if your eye is diseased, your whole body will be darkened. And, if the inner light is darkness, how intense must that darkness be! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT6_24","070_6_24","MAT","6","24","24","No one can serve two masters, for either they will hate one and love the other, or else they will attach themselves to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT6_25","070_6_25","MAT","6","25","25","“This is why I say to you, Do not be anxious about your life – what you can get to eat or drink, or about your body – what you can get to wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT6_26","070_6_26","MAT","6","26","26","Look at the wild birds – they neither sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns; and yet your heavenly Father feeds them! Aren’t you more precious than they? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT6_27","070_6_27","MAT","6","27","27","But which of you, by being anxious, can prolong their life a single moment? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT6_28","070_6_28","MAT","6","28","28","And why be anxious about clothing? Study the wild lilies, and how they grow. They neither toil nor spin; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT6_29","070_6_29","MAT","6","29","29","yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his splendor was not robed like one of these. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT6_30","070_6_30","MAT","6","30","30","If God so clothes even the grass of the field, which is living today and tomorrow will be thrown into the oven, won’t he much more clothe you, you of little faith? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT6_31","070_6_31","MAT","6","31","31","Do not then ask anxiously ‘What can we get to eat?’ or ‘What can we get to drink?’ or ‘What can we get to wear?’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT6_32","070_6_32","MAT","6","32","32","All these are the things for which the nations are seeking, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT6_33","070_6_33","MAT","6","33","33","But first seek his kingdom and the righteousness that he requires, and then all these things will be added for you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT6_34","070_6_34","MAT","6","34","34","Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own anxieties. Every day has trouble enough of its own. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT7_1","070_7_1","MAT","7","1","1","“Do not judge and you will not be judged. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT7_2","070_7_2","MAT","7","2","2","For, just as you judge others, you will yourselves be judged, and the standard that you use will be used for you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT7_3","070_7_3","MAT","7","3","3","Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your friend’s eye, while you pay no attention at all to the plank of wood in yours? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT7_4","070_7_4","MAT","7","4","4","How will you say to your friend ‘Let me take out the speck from your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT7_5","070_7_5","MAT","7","5","5","Hypocrite! Take out the plank from your own eye first, and then you will see clearly how to take out the speck from your friend’s. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT7_6","070_7_6","MAT","7","6","6","“Do not give what is sacred to dogs; they will turn and maul you. Do not throw your pearls before pigs; they will trample them underfoot. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT7_7","070_7_7","MAT","7","7","7","Ask, and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT7_8","070_7_8","MAT","7","8","8","For the person who asks receives, the person who searches finds, and to the door will be opened to the person who knocks. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT7_9","070_7_9","MAT","7","9","9","Who among you, when their child asks them for bread, will give them a stone, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT7_10","070_7_10","MAT","7","10","10","or when they ask for a fish, will give them a snake? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT7_11","070_7_11","MAT","7","11","11","If you, then, wicked though you are, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask him! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT7_12","070_7_12","MAT","7","12","12","“Do to others whatever you would wish them to do to you; for that is the teaching of both the Law and the prophets. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT7_13","070_7_13","MAT","7","13","13","Go in by the small gate. The road that leads to destruction is broad and spacious, and many go in by it. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT7_15","070_7_15","MAT","7","15","15","“Beware of false teachers – people who come to you in the guise of sheep, but at heart they are ravenous wolves. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT7_16","070_7_16","MAT","7","16","16","By the fruit of their lives you will know them. Do people pick grapes from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT7_17","070_7_17","MAT","7","17","17","So, too, every sound tree bears good fruit, while a worthless tree bears bad fruit. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT7_18","070_7_18","MAT","7","18","18","A sound tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a worthless tree bear good fruit. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT7_19","070_7_19","MAT","7","19","19","Every tree that fails to bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT7_20","070_7_20","MAT","7","20","20","So it is by the fruit of their lives that you will know such people. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT7_21","070_7_21","MAT","7","21","21","Not everyone who says to me ‘Master! Master!’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT7_22","070_7_22","MAT","7","22","22","On that day many will say to me ‘Master, Master, was not it in your name that we taught, and in your name that we drove out demons, and in your name that we did many miracles?’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT7_23","070_7_23","MAT","7","23","23","And then I will say to them plainly ‘I never knew you. Go from my presence, you who live in sin.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT7_24","070_7_24","MAT","7","24","24","“Everyone, therefore, who listens to this teaching of mine and acts on it may be compared to a prudent person, who built their house on the rock. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT7_25","070_7_25","MAT","7","25","25","The rain poured down, the rivers rose, the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, for its foundations were on the rock. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT7_26","070_7_26","MAT","7","26","26","Everyone who listens to this teaching of mine and does not act on it may be compared to a foolish person, who built their house on the sand. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT7_27","070_7_27","MAT","7","27","27","The rain poured down, the rivers rose, the winds blew and struck against that house, and it fell with a great crash.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT7_28","070_7_28","MAT","7","28","28","By the time that Jesus had finished speaking, the crowd was filled with amazement at his teaching. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT7_29","070_7_29","MAT","7","29","29","For he taught them like one who had authority, and not like their teachers of the Law. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT8_1","070_8_1","MAT","8","1","1","When Jesus had come down from the hill, great crowds followed him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT8_2","070_8_2","MAT","8","2","2","He saw a leper who came up, and bowed to the ground before him, and said, “Master, if only you are willing, you are able to make me clean.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT8_3","070_8_3","MAT","8","3","3","Stretching out his hand, Jesus touched him, saying as he did so, “I am willing; become clean.” Instantly he was made clean from his leprosy; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT8_4","070_8_4","MAT","8","4","4","and then Jesus said to him, “Be careful not to say a word to anyone, but go and show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift directed by Moses, as evidence of your cure.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT8_5","070_8_5","MAT","8","5","5","After Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion in the Roman army came up to him, entreating his help. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT8_6","070_8_6","MAT","8","6","6","“Sir,” he said, “my manservant is lying ill at my house with a stroke of paralysis, and is suffering terribly.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT8_7","070_8_7","MAT","8","7","7","“I will come and cure him,” answered Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT8_8","070_8_8","MAT","8","8","8","“Sir,” the centurion went on, “I am unworthy to receive you under my roof; but only speak, and my manservant will be cured. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT8_9","070_8_9","MAT","8","9","9","For I myself am a man under the orders of others, with soldiers under me; and, if I say to one of them ‘Go,’ he goes, and to another ‘Come,’ he comes, and to my slave ‘Do this,’ he does it.” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT8_12","070_8_12","MAT","8","12","12","while the heirs to the kingdom will be banished into the darkness outside; there, there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT8_17","070_8_17","MAT","8","17","17","in fulfillment of these words in the prophet Isaiah – ‘He took our infirmities on himself, and bore the burden of our diseases.’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT8_25","070_8_25","MAT","8","25","25","and the disciples came and roused him. “Master,” they cried, “save us; we are lost!” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT8_30","070_8_30","MAT","8","30","30","A long way off, there was a herd of many pigs, feeding; ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT9_1","070_9_1","MAT","9","1","1","Afterward Jesus got into a boat, and, crossing over, came to his own city. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT9_3","070_9_3","MAT","9","3","3","Then some of the teachers of the Law said to themselves, “This man is blaspheming!” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT9_4","070_9_4","MAT","9","4","4","Knowing their thoughts, Jesus exclaimed, “Why do your cherish such wicked thoughts? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT9_5","070_9_5","MAT","9","5","5","Which, I ask, is the easier? – to say ‘Your sins are forgiven’? Or to say ‘Get up, and walk’? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT9_6","070_9_6","MAT","9","6","6","But to show you that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins” – then he said to the paralyzed man – “Get up, take up your bed, and return to your home.” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT9_9","070_9_9","MAT","9","9","9","As Jesus went along, he saw a man, called Matthew, sitting in the tax office, and said to him, “Follow me.” Matthew got up and followed him. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT9_13","070_9_13","MAT","9","13","13","Go and learn what this means – ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice’; for I did not come to call the religious, but the outcast.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT9_14","070_9_14","MAT","9","14","14","Then John’s disciples came to Jesus, and asked, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast while your disciples do not?” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT9_16","070_9_16","MAT","9","16","16","Nobody ever puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for such a patch tears away from the garment, and a worse tear is made. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT9_17","070_9_17","MAT","9","17","17","Nor do people put new wine into old wine-skins; for, if they do, the skins burst, and the wine runs out, and the skins are lost; but they put new wine into fresh skins, and so both are preserved.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT9_18","070_9_18","MAT","9","18","18","While Jesus was saying this, a synagogue leader came up and bowed to the ground before him. “My daughter,” he said, “has just died; but come and place your hand on her, and she will be restored to life.” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT9_24","070_9_24","MAT","9","24","24","he said, “Go away, the little girl is not dead; she is asleep.” They began to laugh at him; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT9_25","070_9_25","MAT","9","25","25","but, when the people had been sent out, Jesus went in, and took the little girl’s hand, and she rose. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT9_26","070_9_26","MAT","9","26","26","The report of this spread through all that part of the country. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT9_28","070_9_28","MAT","9","28","28","When he had gone indoors, the blind men came up to him; and Jesus asked them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” “Yes, Master!” they answered. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT9_33","070_9_33","MAT","9","33","33","and, as soon as the demon had been driven out, the dumb man spoke. The people were astonished at this, and exclaimed, “Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel!” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT9_37","070_9_37","MAT","9","37","37","and he said to his disciples, “The harvest is abundant, but the laborers are few. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT10_1","070_10_1","MAT","10","1","1","Calling his twelve Disciples to him, Jesus gave them authority over foul spirits, so that they could drive them out, as well as the power of curing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT10_2","070_10_2","MAT","10","2","2","The names of the twelve apostles are these, First Simon, also known as Peter, and his brother Andrew; James the son of Zebedee, and his brother John; ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT10_5","070_10_5","MAT","10","5","5","These twelve Jesus sent out as his messengers, after giving them these instructions – “Do not go to the Gentiles, nor enter any Samaritan town, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT10_6","070_10_6","MAT","10","6","6","but make your way rather to the lost sheep of Israel. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT10_7","070_10_7","MAT","10","7","7","On your way proclaim that the kingdom of heaven is at hand. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT10_8","070_10_8","MAT","10","8","8","Cure the sick, raise the dead, make the lepers clean, drive out demons. You have received free of cost, give free of cost. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT10_11","070_10_11","MAT","10","11","11","Whatever town or village you visit, find out who is worthy in that place, and remain there until you leave. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT10_13","070_10_13","MAT","10","13","13","Then, if the house is worthy, let your blessing rest on it, but, if it is unworthy, let your blessing return on yourselves. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT10_15","070_10_15","MAT","10","15","15","I tell you, the doom of the land of Sodom and Gomorrah will be more bearable in the day of judgment than the doom of that town. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT10_17","070_10_17","MAT","10","17","17","Be on your guard against others, for they will betray you to courts of law, and scourge you in their synagogues; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT10_18","070_10_18","MAT","10","18","18","and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake so that you may witness for me before them and the nations. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT10_19","070_10_19","MAT","10","19","19","Whenever they betray you, do not be anxious as to how you will speak or what you will say, for what you will say will be given you at the moment; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT10_20","070_10_20","MAT","10","20","20","for it will not be you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father that speaks within you. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT10_22","070_10_22","MAT","10","22","22","and you will be hated by everyone because of me. Yet the person who endures to the end will be saved. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT10_24","070_10_24","MAT","10","24","24","A student is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT10_25","070_10_25","MAT","10","25","25","It is enough for a student to be treated like his teacher, and a servant like his master. If the head of the house has been called Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT10_26","070_10_26","MAT","10","26","26","Do not, therefore, be afraid of them. There is nothing concealed which will not be revealed, nor anything hidden which will not become known. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT10_27","070_10_27","MAT","10","27","27","What I tell you in the dark, say again in the light; and what is whispered in your ear, proclaim on the housetops. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT10_28","070_10_28","MAT","10","28","28","Do not be afraid of those who kill the body, but are unable to kill the soul; rather be afraid of him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT10_29","070_10_29","MAT","10","29","29","Are not two sparrows sold for a one copper coin? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father’s knowledge. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT10_30","070_10_30","MAT","10","30","30","While as for you, even the hairs of your head are numbered. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT10_35","070_10_35","MAT","10","35","35","For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT10_36","070_10_36","MAT","10","36","36","A person’s enemies will be the members of their own household. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT10_37","070_10_37","MAT","10","37","37","Anyone who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and anyone who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT10_38","070_10_38","MAT","10","38","38","Anyone who does not take their cross and follow in my steps is not worthy of me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT10_39","070_10_39","MAT","10","39","39","The person who has found their life will lose it, while the person who, for my sake, has lost their life will find it. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT10_41","070_10_41","MAT","10","41","41","The person who welcomes a prophet, because they are a prophet, will receive a prophet’s reward; and anyone who welcomes a good person, because they are a good person, will receive a good person’s reward. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT10_42","070_10_42","MAT","10","42","42","And, if anyone gives but a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because they are a disciple, I tell you that they will assuredly not lose their reward.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT11_1","070_11_1","MAT","11","1","1","After Jesus had finished giving directions to his twelve Disciples, he left that place in order to teach and preach in their towns. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT11_3","070_11_3","MAT","11","3","3","and asked – “Are you ‘the coming one,’ or are we to look for someone else?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT11_4","070_11_4","MAT","11","4","4","The answer of Jesus to the question was – “Go and report to John what you hear and see – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT11_5","070_11_5","MAT","11","5","5","the blind recover their sight and the lame walk, the lepers are made clean and the deaf hear, the dead, too, are raised to life, and the good news is told to the poor. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT11_6","070_11_6","MAT","11","6","6","Blessed is the person who finds no hindrance in me.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT11_7","070_11_7","MAT","11","7","7","While John’s disciples were going back, Jesus began to say to the crowds with reference to John, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT11_8","070_11_8","MAT","11","8","8","“What did you go out into the wilderness to look at? A reed waving in the wind? If not, what did you go out to see? A man richly dressed? Why, those who wear rich things are to be found in the courts of kings! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT11_9","070_11_9","MAT","11","9","9","What, then, did you go for? To see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and far more than a prophet. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT11_10","070_11_10","MAT","11","10","10","This is the man of whom scripture says – ‘I am sending my messenger ahead of you, and he will prepare your way before you.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT11_11","070_11_11","MAT","11","11","11","I tell you, no one born of a woman has yet appeared who is greater than John the Baptist; and yet the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT11_12","070_11_12","MAT","11","12","12","From the time of John the Baptist to this very hour, the kingdom of heaven has been taken by force, and people using force have been seizing it. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT11_14","070_11_14","MAT","11","14","14","and – if you are ready to accept it – John is himself the Elijah who was destined to come. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT11_15","070_11_15","MAT","11","15","15","If you have ears, listen. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT11_16","070_11_16","MAT","11","16","16","But to what will I compare the present generation? It is like little children sitting in the market-places and calling out to their playmates – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT11_17","070_11_17","MAT","11","17","17","We have played the flute for you, but you have not danced; We have wailed, but you have not mourned. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT11_18","070_11_18","MAT","11","18","18","For, when John came, neither eating nor drinking, people said ‘He has a demon in him’; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT11_19","070_11_19","MAT","11","19","19","and now that the Son of Man has come, eating and drinking, they are saying ‘Here is a glutton and a wine-drinker, a friend of tax collectors and outcasts!’ And yet wisdom is vindicated by her actions.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT11_20","070_11_20","MAT","11","20","20","Then Jesus began to reproach the towns in which most of his miracles had been done, because they had not repented, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT11_21","070_11_21","MAT","11","21","21","“Alas for you, Chorazin! Alas for you, Bethsaida! For, if the miracles which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT11_22","070_11_22","MAT","11","22","22","Yet, I tell you, the doom of Tyre and Sidon will be more bearable in the day of judgment than yours. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT11_23","070_11_23","MAT","11","23","23","And you, Capernaum! Will you exalt yourself to heaven? You will be flung down to Hades! For, if the miracles which have been done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have been standing to this day. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT11_24","070_11_24","MAT","11","24","24","Yet, I tell you, the doom of Sodom will be more bearable in the day of judgment than yours.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT11_25","070_11_25","MAT","11","25","25","At that same time Jesus uttered the words, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that, though you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, you have revealed them to the childlike! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT11_26","070_11_26","MAT","11","26","26","Yes, Father, I thank you that this has seemed good to you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT11_27","070_11_27","MAT","11","27","27","Everything has been committed to me by my Father; nor does anyone fully know the Son, except the Father, or fully know the Father, except the Son and those to whom the Son may choose to reveal him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT11_28","070_11_28","MAT","11","28","28","Come to me, all you who toil and are burdened, and I will give you rest! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT11_29","070_11_29","MAT","11","29","29","Take my yoke on you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble, and you will find rest for your souls; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT11_30","070_11_30","MAT","11","30","30","for my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_1","070_12_1","MAT","12","1","1","About the same time Jesus walked through the cornfields one Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and began to pick some ears of wheat and eat them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_2","070_12_2","MAT","12","2","2","But, when the Pharisees saw this, they said, “Look! Your disciples are doing what it is not allowable to do on a Sabbath!” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_3","070_12_3","MAT","12","3","3","“Haven’t you read,” replied Jesus, “what David did, when he and his companions were hungry – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_4","070_12_4","MAT","12","4","4","how he went into the house of God, and how they ate the consecrated bread, through it was not allowable for him or his companions to eat it, but only for the priests? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_5","070_12_5","MAT","12","5","5","And haven’t you read in the law that, on the Sabbath, the priest in the Temple break the Sabbath and yet are not guilty? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_6","070_12_6","MAT","12","6","6","Here, however, I tell you, there is something greater than the Temple! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_7","070_12_7","MAT","12","7","7","Had you learned the meaning of the words – ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned those who are not guilty. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_8","070_12_8","MAT","12","8","8","For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_9","070_12_9","MAT","12","9","9","Passing on, Jesus went into their synagogue, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_10","070_12_10","MAT","12","10","10","and there he saw a man with a withered hand. Some people asked Jesus whether it was allowable to work a cure on the Sabbath – so that they might have a charge to bring against him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_11","070_12_11","MAT","12","11","11","But Jesus said to them, “Which of you, if he had only one sheep, and that sheep fell into a pit on the Sabbath, would not lay hold of it and pull it out? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_12","070_12_12","MAT","12","12","12","How much more precious a person is than a sheep! Therefore it is allowable to do good on the Sabbath.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_13","070_12_13","MAT","12","13","13","Then he said to the man. “Stretch out your hand.” The man stretched it out; and it had become as sound as the other. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_14","070_12_14","MAT","12","14","14","On coming out, the Pharisees plotted against Jesus, to put him to death. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_15","070_12_15","MAT","12","15","15","Jesus, however, became aware of it, and went away from that place. A number of people followed him, and he cured them all; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_16","070_12_16","MAT","12","16","16","but he warned them not to make him known, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_17","070_12_17","MAT","12","17","17","in fulfillment of these words in the prophet Isaiah – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_18","070_12_18","MAT","12","18","18","‘Here is my chosen servant, who I love and who pleases me! I will breathe my spirit on him, and he will announce a time of judgment to the Gentiles. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_19","070_12_19","MAT","12","19","19","He will not contend, nor cry aloud, Neither will anyone hear his voice in the streets; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_20","070_12_20","MAT","12","20","20","a bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not quench, until he has brought the judgment to a victorious issue, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_21","070_12_21","MAT","12","21","21","and on his name will the Gentiles rest their hopes.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_22","070_12_22","MAT","12","22","22","Then some people brought to Jesus a possessed man, who was blind and dumb; and he cured him, so that the man who had been dumb both talked and saw. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_23","070_12_23","MAT","12","23","23","At this all the people were astounded. “Is it possible that this is the son of David?” they exclaimed. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_24","070_12_24","MAT","12","24","24","But the Pharisees heard of it and said, “He drives out demons only by the help of Beelzebul the chief of the demons.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_25","070_12_25","MAT","12","25","25","Jesus, however, was aware of what was passing in their minds, and said to them, “Any kingdom divided against itself becomes a desolation, and any town or household divided against itself will not last. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_26","070_12_26","MAT","12","26","26","So, if Satan drives Satan out, he must be divided against himself; and how, then, can his kingdom last? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_27","070_12_27","MAT","12","27","27","And, if it is by Beelzebul’s help that I drive out demons, by whose help is it that your own sons drive them out? Therefore they will themselves be your judges. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_28","070_12_28","MAT","12","28","28","But, if it is by the help of the Spirit of God that I drive out demons, then the kingdom of God must already be upon you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_29","070_12_29","MAT","12","29","29","How, again, can anyone get into a strong man’s house and carry off his goods, without first securing him? Not until then will he plunder his house. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_30","070_12_30","MAT","12","30","30","Anyone who is not with me is against me, and the person who does not help me to gather is scattering. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_31","070_12_31","MAT","12","31","31","Therefore, I tell you, people will be forgiven every sin and slander; but slander against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_32","070_12_32","MAT","12","32","32","Whoever speaks against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in the present age, or in the age to come. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_33","070_12_33","MAT","12","33","33","“You must assume either that both tree and fruit are good, or that both tree and fruit are worthless; since it is by its fruits that a tree is known. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_34","070_12_34","MAT","12","34","34","You children of snakes! How can you, evil as you are, say anything good? For what fills the heart will rise to the lips. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_35","070_12_35","MAT","12","35","35","A good person, from his good stores, produces good things; while an evil person, from his evil stores, produces evil things. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_36","070_12_36","MAT","12","36","36","I tell you that for every careless thing that people say, they must answer on the ‘day of judgment.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_37","070_12_37","MAT","12","37","37","For it is by your words that you will be acquitted, and by your words that you will be condemned.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_38","070_12_38","MAT","12","38","38","At this point, some teachers of the Law and Pharisees spoke up. “Teacher,” they said, “we want to see some sign from you.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_39","070_12_39","MAT","12","39","39","“It is a wicked and unfaithful generation,” answered Jesus, “that is asking for a sign, and no sign will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_40","070_12_40","MAT","12","40","40","For, just as Jonah was inside the sea-monster three days and three nights, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_41","070_12_41","MAT","12","41","41","At the judgment, the people of Nineveh will stand up with this generation, and will condemn it, because they repented at Jonah’s proclamation; and here is more than a Jonah! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_42","070_12_42","MAT","12","42","42","At the judgment the Queen of the South will rise up with the present generation, and will condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon; and here is more than a Solomon! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_43","070_12_43","MAT","12","43","43","No sooner does a foul spirit leave a person, than it passes through places where there is no water, in search of rest, and does not find it. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_44","070_12_44","MAT","12","44","44","Then it says ‘I will go back to the home which I left’; but, on coming there, it finds it unoccupied, and swept, and put in order. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_45","070_12_45","MAT","12","45","45","Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in, and make their home there; and the last state of that man proves to be worse than the first. So, too, will it be with this wicked generation.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_46","070_12_46","MAT","12","46","46","While he was still speaking to the crowds, his mother and brothers were standing outside, asking to speak to him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_47","070_12_47","MAT","12","47","47","Someone told him this, and Jesus replied, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_48","070_12_48","MAT","12","48","48","“Who is my mother? And who are my brothers?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_49","070_12_49","MAT","12","49","49","Then, stretching out his hands towards his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT12_50","070_12_50","MAT","12","50","50","For anyone who does the will of my Father who is in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_1","070_13_1","MAT","13","1","1","That same day, when Jesus had left the house and was sitting by the sea, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_2","070_13_2","MAT","13","2","2","such great crowds gathered around him, that he got into a boat, and sat in it, while all the people stood on the beach. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_3","070_13_3","MAT","13","3","3","Then he told them many truths in parables. “The sower,” he began, “went out to sow; and, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_4","070_13_4","MAT","13","4","4","as they were sowing, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_5","070_13_5","MAT","13","5","5","Some fell on rocky places, where it had not much soil, and, because the soil wasn’t deep, sprang up at once. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_6","070_13_6","MAT","13","6","6","As soon as the sun had risen, it was scorched, and, because their roots were not deep enough, withered away. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_7","070_13_7","MAT","13","7","7","Some, again, fell into the brambles; but the brambles shot up and choked it. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_8","070_13_8","MAT","13","8","8","Some, however, fell on good soil, and yielded a return, sometimes one hundred, sometimes sixty, sometimes thirty fold. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_9","070_13_9","MAT","13","9","9","Let those who have ears hear.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_10","070_13_10","MAT","13","10","10","Afterward his disciples came to him, and said, “Why do you speak to them in parables?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_11","070_13_11","MAT","13","11","11","“To you,” answered Jesus, “the knowledge of the hidden truths of the kingdom of heaven has been imparted, but not to those. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_12","070_13_12","MAT","13","12","12","For, to all who have, more will be given, and they will have abundance; but, from all who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_13","070_13_13","MAT","13","13","13","That is why I speak to them in parables, because, though they have eyes, they do not see, and though they have ears, they do not hear or understand. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_14","070_13_14","MAT","13","14","14","In them is being fulfilled that prophecy of Isaiah which says – ‘You will hear with your ears without ever understanding, and, though you have eyes, you will see without ever perceiving, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_15","070_13_15","MAT","13","15","15","for the mind of this nation has grown dense, and their ears are dull of hearing, their eyes also have they closed; otherwise some day they might perceive with their eyes, and with their ears they might hear, and in their mind they might understand, and might turn – and I might heal them.’ p ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_16","070_13_16","MAT","13","16","16","“But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_17","070_13_17","MAT","13","17","17","for I tell you that many prophets and good people have longed for the sight of the things which you are seeing, yet never saw them, and to hear the things which you are hearing, yet never heard them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_18","070_13_18","MAT","13","18","18","“Listen, then, yourselves to the parable of the sower. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_19","070_13_19","MAT","13","19","19","When anyone hears the message of the kingdom without understanding it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in their mind. This is the person meant by the seed which was sown along the path. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_20","070_13_20","MAT","13","20","20","By the seed which was sown on rocky places is meant the person who hears the message, and at once accepts it joyfully; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_21","070_13_21","MAT","13","21","21","but, as they have no root, they stand for only a short time; and, when trouble or persecution arises because of the message, they fall away at once. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_22","070_13_22","MAT","13","22","22","By the seed which was sown among the brambles is meant the person who hears the message, but the cares of life and the glamour of wealth completely choke the message, so that it gives no return. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_23","070_13_23","MAT","13","23","23","But by the seed which was sown on the good ground is meant the person who hears the message and understands it, and really yields a return, sometimes one hundred, sometimes sixty, sometimes thirty fold.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_24","070_13_24","MAT","13","24","24","Another parable which Jesus told them was this – “The kingdom of heaven is compared to a person who sowed good seed in their field. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_25","070_13_25","MAT","13","25","25","But, while everyone was asleep, their enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and then went away. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_27","070_13_27","MAT","13","27","27","The owner’s servants came to them, and said ‘Was not it good seed that you sowed in your field? Where, then, do the weeds in it come from?’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_28","070_13_28","MAT","13","28","28","‘An enemy has done this,’ was the owner’s answer. ‘Do you wish us, then,’ they asked, ‘to go and gather them together?’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_29","070_13_29","MAT","13","29","29","‘No,’ said he, ‘because while you are pulling up the weeds you might uproot the wheat with them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_30","070_13_30","MAT","13","30","30","Let both grow side by side until harvest; and then I will say to the reapers, Gather the weeds together first, and tie them in bundles for burning; but bring all the wheat into my barn.’” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_31","070_13_31","MAT","13","31","31","Another parable which he told them was this – “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a person took and sowed in his field. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_32","070_13_32","MAT","13","32","32","This seed is smaller than all other seeds, but, when it has grown up, it is larger than the herbs and becomes a tree, so that ‘the wild birds come and roost in its branches.’” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_33","070_13_33","MAT","13","33","33","This was another parable which Jesus related – “The kingdom of heaven is like some yeast which a woman took and covered up in three pecks of flour, until the whole had risen.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_34","070_13_34","MAT","13","34","34","Of all this Jesus spoke to the crowd in parables; indeed to them he used never to speak at all except in parables, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_35","070_13_35","MAT","13","35","35","in fulfillment of these words in the prophet – ‘I will speak to them in parables; I will utter things kept secret since the foundation of the world.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_36","070_13_36","MAT","13","36","36","Then Jesus left the crowd, and went into the house. Presently his disciples came to him, and said, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_37","070_13_37","MAT","13","37","37","He answered, “The sower of the good seed is the Son of Man. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_38","070_13_38","MAT","13","38","38","The field is the world. By the good seed is meant the people of the kingdom. The weeds are the wicked, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_39","070_13_39","MAT","13","39","39","and the enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest time is the close of the age, and the reapers are angels. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_41","070_13_41","MAT","13","41","41","The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather from his kingdom all that hinders and those who live in sin, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_42","070_13_42","MAT","13","42","42","and will throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_43","070_13_43","MAT","13","43","43","Then will the righteous shine, like the sun, in the kingdom of their Father. If you have ears, listen. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_45","070_13_45","MAT","13","45","45","“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of choice pearls. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_48","070_13_48","MAT","13","48","48","When it was full, they hauled it up on the beach, and sat down and sorted the good fish into baskets, but threw the worthless ones away. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_51","070_13_51","MAT","13","51","51","“Have you understood all this?” Jesus asked. “Yes,” they answered. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_52","070_13_52","MAT","13","52","52","Then he added, “So every teacher of the Law, who has received instruction about the kingdom of heaven, is like a householder who produces from his stores things both new and old.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_53","070_13_53","MAT","13","53","53","When Jesus had finished these parables, he withdrew from that place. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_54","070_13_54","MAT","13","54","54","Going to his own part of the country, he taught the people in their synagogue in such a manner that they were deeply impressed. “Where did he get this wisdom?” they said, “and the miracles? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_55","070_13_55","MAT","13","55","55","Isn’t he the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother called Mary, and his brothers James, and Joseph, and Simon, and Judas? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_56","070_13_56","MAT","13","56","56","And his sisters, too – are not they all living among us? Where, then did he get all this?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT13_57","070_13_57","MAT","13","57","57","These things proved a hindrance to their believing in him. But Jesus said, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country and in his own house.” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT14_2","070_14_2","MAT","14","2","2","and said to his attendants, “This must be John the Baptist; he must be risen from the dead, and that is why these miraculous powers are active in him.” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT14_7","070_14_7","MAT","14","7","7","that he promised with an oath to give her whatever she asked. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT14_10","070_14_10","MAT","14","10","10","He had John beheaded in the prison ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT14_11","070_14_11","MAT","14","11","11","and his head was brought on a dish and given to the girl, and she took it to her mother. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT14_13","070_14_13","MAT","14","13","13","When Jesus heard of it, he left privately in a boat to a lonely spot. The people, however, heard of his going, and followed him in crowds from the towns on foot. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT14_19","070_14_19","MAT","14","19","19","Jesus ordered the people to take their seats on the grass; and, taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven, and said the blessing, and, after he had broken the loaves, gave them to his disciples; and they gave them to the crowds. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT14_26","070_14_26","MAT","14","26","26","But, when they saw him walking on the water, they were terrified. “It is a ghost,” they exclaimed, and cried out in fear. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT14_31","070_14_31","MAT","14","31","31","Instantly Jesus stretched out his hand, and caught hold of him. “You of little faith!” he said, “Why did you falter?” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT14_36","070_14_36","MAT","14","36","36","begging him merely to let them touch the tassel of his cloak; and all who touched were made perfectly well. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT15_4","070_15_4","MAT","15","4","4","For God said – ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and ‘Anyone who abuses his father or mother shall suffer death,’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT15_5","070_15_5","MAT","15","5","5","but you say ‘Whenever anyone says to his father or mother “Whatever of mine might have been of service to you is set apart for God,” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT15_6","070_15_6","MAT","15","6","6","he is in no way bound to honor his father.’ In this way you have nullified the words of God for the sake of your traditions. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT15_7","070_15_7","MAT","15","7","7","Hypocrites! It was well said by Isaiah when he prophesied about you – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT15_8","070_15_8","MAT","15","8","8","‘This is a people that honor me with their lips, While their hearts are far removed from me; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT15_9","070_15_9","MAT","15","9","9","but vainly do they worship me, For they teach but human precepts.’” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT15_10","070_15_10","MAT","15","10","10","Then Jesus called the people to him, and said, “Listen, and mark my words. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT15_11","070_15_11","MAT","15","11","11","It is not what enters a person’s mouth that defiles them, but what comes out from their mouth – that does defile them!” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT15_14","070_15_14","MAT","15","14","14","Leave them be; they are but blind guides; and, if one blind person guides another, both of them will fall into a ditch.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT15_15","070_15_15","MAT","15","15","15","Peter spoke up, “Explain this saying to us.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT15_16","070_15_16","MAT","15","16","16","“What, do even you understand nothing yet?” Jesus exclaimed. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT15_19","070_15_19","MAT","15","19","19","for out of the heart proceed evil thoughts – murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, perjury, slander. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT15_21","070_15_21","MAT","15","21","21","On going away from that place, Jesus went to the country around Tyre and Sidon. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT15_24","070_15_24","MAT","15","24","24","“I was not sent,” replied Jesus, “to anyone except the lost sheep of Israel.” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT15_31","070_15_31","MAT","15","31","31","and the crowds were astonished, when they saw the dumb talking, the cripples made sound, the lame walking about, and the blind with their sight restored; and they praised the God of Israel. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT15_38","070_15_38","MAT","15","38","38","The men who ate were four thousand in number without counting women and children. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT16_1","070_16_1","MAT","16","1","1","Here the Pharisees and Sadducees came up, and, to test Jesus, requested him to show them some sign from the heavens. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT16_3","070_16_3","MAT","16","3","3","But in the morning you say ‘Today it will be stormy, for the sky is as red as fire and threatening.’ You learn to read the sky; yet you are unable to read the signs of the times! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT16_4","070_16_4","MAT","16","4","4","A wicked and unfaithful generation is asking for a sign, but no sign will be given it except the sign of Jonah.” So he left them and went away. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT16_5","070_16_5","MAT","16","5","5","Now the disciples had crossed to the opposite shore, and had forgotten to take any bread. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT16_9","070_16_9","MAT","16","9","9","Don’t you yet see, nor remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took away? ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT16_11","070_16_11","MAT","16","11","11","How is it that you do not see that I was not speaking about bread? Be on your guard against the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT16_13","070_16_13","MAT","16","13","13","On coming into the region of Caesarea Philippi, Jesus asked his disciples this question – “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT16_19","070_16_19","MAT","16","19","19","I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you forbid on earth will be held in heaven to be forbidden, and whatever you allow on earth will be held in heaven to be allowed.” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT16_25","070_16_25","MAT","16","25","25","For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, and whoever, for my sake, loses his life will find it. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT16_27","070_16_27","MAT","16","27","27","For the Son of Man is to come in his Father’s glory, with his angels, and then he will give to everyone what his actions deserve. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT16_28","070_16_28","MAT","16","28","28","I tell you, some of those who are standing here will not know death until they have seen the Son of Man coming into his kingdom.” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT17_3","070_17_3","MAT","17","3","3","All at once Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT17_4","070_17_4","MAT","17","4","4","“Master,” exclaimed Peter, interposing, “it is good to be here; if you wish, I will make three tents here, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT17_10","070_17_10","MAT","17","10","10","“How is it,” his disciples asked, “that our teachers of the Law say that Elijah has to come first?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT17_11","070_17_11","MAT","17","11","11","“Elijah indeed does come,” Jesus replied, “and will restore everything; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT17_12","070_17_12","MAT","17","12","12","and I tell you that Elijah has already come, and people have not recognized him, but have treated him just as they pleased. In the same way, too, the Son of Man is destined to undergo suffering at people’s hands.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT17_13","070_17_13","MAT","17","13","13","Then the disciples understood that he had spoken to them about John the Baptist. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT17_14","070_17_14","MAT","17","14","14","When they came to the crowd, a man came up to Jesus, and, kneeling down before him, said, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT17_15","070_17_15","MAT","17","15","15","“Master, take pity on my son, for he is epileptic and suffers terribly; indeed, he often falls into the fire and into the water; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT17_16","070_17_16","MAT","17","16","16","I brought him to your disciples, but they could not cure him.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT17_17","070_17_17","MAT","17","17","17","“Faithless and perverse generation!” Jesus exclaimed, “how long must I be among you? How long must I have patience with you? Bring the boy here to me.” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT17_19","070_17_19","MAT","17","19","19","Afterward the disciples came up to Jesus, and asked him privately, “Why was it that we could not drive it out?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT17_20","070_17_20","MAT","17","20","20","“Because you have so little faith!” he answered, “For, I tell you, if your faith were only like a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain ‘Move from this place to that!’ and it would be moved; and nothing would be impossible to you.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT17_22","070_17_22","MAT","17","22","22"," While Jesus and his disciples were together in Galilee, he said to them, “The Son of Man is destined to be betrayed into human hands, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT17_23","070_17_23","MAT","17","23","23","and they will put him to death, but on the third day he will rise.” The disciples were greatly distressed. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT17_24","070_17_24","MAT","17","24","24","After they had reached Capernaum, the collectors of the Temple taz came up to Peter, and said, “Does not your Master pay the Temple tax?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT17_25","070_17_25","MAT","17","25","25","“Yes,” answered Peter. But, on going into the house, before he could speak, Jesus said, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do earthly kings take taxes or tribute? From their sons, or from others?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT17_26","070_17_26","MAT","17","26","26","“From others,” answered Peter. “Well then,” continued Jesus, “their sons go free. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT17_27","070_17_27","MAT","17","27","27","Still, so we don’t offend them, go and throw a line into the sea; take the first fish that rises, open its mouth, and you will find in it a piece of money. Take that, and give it to the collectors for both of us.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT18_1","070_18_1","MAT","18","1","1","On the same occasion the disciples came to Jesus, and asked him, “Who is really the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT18_2","070_18_2","MAT","18","2","2","Jesus called a little child to him, and placed it in the middle of them, and then said, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT18_3","070_18_3","MAT","18","3","3","“I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven at all. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT18_5","070_18_5","MAT","18","5","5","And anyone who, for the sake of my name, welcomes even one little child like this, is welcoming me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT18_6","070_18_6","MAT","18","6","6","But, if anyone puts temptation in the way of one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be best for them to be sunk in the depths of the sea with a great millstone hung around their neck. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT18_7","070_18_7","MAT","18","7","7","Alas for the world because of such temptations! There cannot but be temptations but sorrow awaits the person who does the tempting! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT18_8","070_18_8","MAT","18","8","8","“If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off, and throw it away. It would be better for you to enter life maimed or lame, than to have both hands, or both feet, and be thrown into the fire that never goes out. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT18_9","070_18_9","MAT","18","9","9","If your eye causes you to sin, take it out, and throw it away. It would be better for you to enter the life with only one eye, than to have both eyes and be thrown into the fires of Gehenna. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT18_10","070_18_10","MAT","18","10","10","Beware of despising one of these little ones, for in heaven, I tell you, their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT18_12","070_18_12","MAT","18","12","12"," “What think you? If a person owns a hundred sheep, and one of them strays, will the person not leave the ninety-nine on the hills, and go and search for the one that is straying? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT18_13","070_18_13","MAT","18","13","13","And, if they succeed in finding it, I tell you that they rejoice more over that one sheep than over the ninety-nine which did not stray. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT18_14","070_18_14","MAT","18","14","14","So, too, it is the will of my Father who is in heaven that not one of these little ones should be lost. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT18_15","070_18_15","MAT","18","15","15","“If your brother or sister does wrong, go to them and convince them of their fault when you are both alone. If they listen to you, you have won them over. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT18_17","070_18_17","MAT","18","17","17","If they refuse to listen to them, speak to the church; and, if they also refuse to listen to the church, treat him as you would a Gentile or a tax-gatherer. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT18_18","070_18_18","MAT","18","18","18","“I tell you, all that you forbid on earth will be held in heaven to be forbidden, and all that you allow on earth will be held in heaven to be allowed. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT18_19","070_18_19","MAT","18","19","19","Again, I tell you that, if but two of you on earth agree as to what they will pray for, whatever it be, it will be granted them by my Father who is in heaven. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT18_20","070_18_20","MAT","18","20","20","For where two or three have come together in my name, I am present with them.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT18_21","070_18_21","MAT","18","21","21","Then Peter came up, and said to Jesus, “Master, how often am I to forgive someone who wrongs me? As many as seven times?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT18_22","070_18_22","MAT","18","22","22","But Jesus answered, “Not seven times, but seventy times seven. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT18_23","070_18_23","MAT","18","23","23","Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his servants. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT18_25","070_18_25","MAT","18","25","25","and, as he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold towards the payment of the debt, together with his wife, and his children, and everything that he had. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT18_26","070_18_26","MAT","18","26","26","The servant threw himself down on the ground before him and said ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you all.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT18_27","070_18_27","MAT","18","27","27","The master was moved with compassion; and he let him go, and forgave him the debt. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT18_29","070_18_29","MAT","18","29","29","His fellow servant threw himself on the ground and begged for mercy. ‘Have patience with me,’ he said, ‘and I will pay you.’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT18_31","070_18_31","MAT","18","31","31","When his fellow servants saw what had happened, they were greatly distressed, and went to their master and laid the whole matter before him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT18_32","070_18_32","MAT","18","32","32","So the master sent for the servant, and said to him ‘You wicked servant! When you begged me for mercy, I forgave you the whole of that debt. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT18_33","070_18_33","MAT","18","33","33","Shouldn’t you, also, to have shown mercy to your fellow servant, just as I showed mercy to you?’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT18_34","070_18_34","MAT","18","34","34","Then his master, in anger, handed him over to the jailers, until he should pay the whole of his debt. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT18_35","070_18_35","MAT","18","35","35","So, also, will my heavenly Father do to you, unless each one of you forgives his brother or sister from your heart.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT19_1","070_19_1","MAT","19","1","1","At the conclusion of this teaching, Jesus withdrew from Galilee, and went into that district of Judea which is on the other side of the Jordan. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT19_2","070_19_2","MAT","19","2","2","Great crowds followed him, and he cured them there. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT19_3","070_19_3","MAT","19","3","3","Presently some Pharisees came up to him, and, to test him, said, “Has a man the right to divorce his wife for every cause?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT19_4","070_19_4","MAT","19","4","4","“Haven’t you read,” replied Jesus, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT19_5","070_19_5","MAT","19","5","5","and said – ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother, and be united to his wife, and the man and his wife will become one’? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT19_6","070_19_6","MAT","19","6","6","So that they are no longer two, but one. What God himself, then, has yoked together people must not separate.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT19_7","070_19_7","MAT","19","7","7","“Why, then,” they said, “did Moses direct that a man should serve his wife with a notice of separation and divorce her?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT19_8","070_19_8","MAT","19","8","8","“Moses, owing to the hardness of your hearts,” answered Jesus, “permitted you to divorce your wives, but that was not so at the beginning. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT19_9","070_19_9","MAT","19","9","9","But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of some serious sexual sin, and marries another woman, is guilty of adultery.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT19_10","070_19_10","MAT","19","10","10","“If that,” said the disciples, “is the position of a man with regard to his wife, it is better not to marry.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT19_11","070_19_11","MAT","19","11","11","“It is not everyone,” replied Jesus, “who can accept this teaching, but only those who have been enabled to do so. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT19_12","070_19_12","MAT","19","12","12","Some men are incapable of marriage because they were born that way, or have been made so by other people, while there are others who stay single for the sake of the kingdom of Heaven. Accept this if you can.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT19_13","070_19_13","MAT","19","13","13","Then some little children were brought to Jesus, for him to place his hands on them, and pray; but the disciples found fault with those who had brought them. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT19_15","070_19_15","MAT","19","15","15","So he placed his hands on them, and then went on his way. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT19_16","070_19_16","MAT","19","16","16","A man came up to Jesus, and said, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to obtain eternal life?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT19_17","070_19_17","MAT","19","17","17","“Why ask me about goodness?” answered Jesus. “There is but One who is good. If you want to enter the life, keep the commandments.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT19_18","070_19_18","MAT","19","18","18","“What commandments?” asked the man. “These,” answered Jesus, – “‘You must not kill. You must not commit adultery. You must not steal. You must not say what is false about others. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT19_19","070_19_19","MAT","19","19","19","Honor your father and your mother.’ And ‘You must love your neighbor as you love yourself.’” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT19_20","070_19_20","MAT","19","20","20","“I have observed all these,” said the young man. “What is still wanting in me?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT19_21","070_19_21","MAT","19","21","21","“If you wish to be perfect,” answered Jesus, “go and sell your property, and give to the poor, and you will have wealth in heaven; then come and follow me.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT19_22","070_19_22","MAT","19","22","22","On hearing these words, the young man went away distressed, for he had great possessions. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT19_23","070_19_23","MAT","19","23","23","At this, Jesus said to his disciples, “I tell you that a rich person will find it hard to enter the kingdom of heaven! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT19_24","070_19_24","MAT","19","24","24","I say again, it is easier for a camel to get through a needle’s eye than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of heaven!” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT19_25","070_19_25","MAT","19","25","25","On hearing this, the disciples exclaimed in great astonishment, “Who then can possibly be saved?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT19_26","070_19_26","MAT","19","26","26","But Jesus looked at them, and said, “With people this is impossible, but with God everything is possible.” Then Peter turned and said to Jesus, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT19_27","070_19_27","MAT","19","27","27","“But we – we left everything, and followed you; what, then, will we have?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT19_28","070_19_28","MAT","19","28","28","“I tell you,” answered Jesus, “that at the new creation, when the Son of Man takes his seat on his throne of glory, you who followed me will be seated on twelve thrones, as judges of the twelve tribes of Israel. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT19_29","070_19_29","MAT","19","29","29","Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or children, or land, for my sake, will receive many times as much, and will gain eternal life. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT19_30","070_19_30","MAT","19","30","30","But many who are first now will then be last, and those who are last will be first. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT20_1","070_20_1","MAT","20","1","1","For the kingdom of heaven is like an employer who went out in the early morning to hire laborers for his vineyards. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT20_2","070_20_2","MAT","20","2","2","He agreed with the laborers to pay them the standard daily rate of two silver coins, and sent them into his vineyard. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT20_4","070_20_4","MAT","20","4","4","‘You also may go into my vineyard,’ he said, ‘and I will pay you what is fair.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT20_5","070_20_5","MAT","20","5","5","So they went. Going out again about midday and about three o’clock, he did as before. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT20_6","070_20_6","MAT","20","6","6","When he went out about five, he found some others standing there, and said to them ‘Why have you been standing here all day long, doing nothing?’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT20_7","070_20_7","MAT","20","7","7","‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered. ‘You also may go into my vineyard,’ he said. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT20_8","070_20_8","MAT","20","8","8","In the evening the owner of the vineyard said to his steward ‘Call the laborers, and pay them their wages, beginning with the last, and ending with the first.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT20_9","070_20_9","MAT","20","9","9","Now when those who had been hired about five o’clock went up, they received two silver coins each. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT20_10","070_20_10","MAT","20","10","10","So, when the first went up, they thought that they would receive more, but they also received two silver coins each; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT20_11","070_20_11","MAT","20","11","11","at which they began to grumble at their employer. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT20_12","070_20_12","MAT","20","12","12","‘These last,’ they said, ‘have done only one hour’s work, and yet you have put them on the same footing with us, who have borne the brunt of the day’s work, and the heat.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT20_13","070_20_13","MAT","20","13","13","‘My friend,’ was his reply to one of them, ‘I am not treating you unfairly. Didn’t you agree with me for two silver coins? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT20_14","070_20_14","MAT","20","14","14","Take what belongs to you, and go. I choose to give to this last man the same as to you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT20_15","070_20_15","MAT","20","15","15","Don’t I have the right to do as I choose with what is mine? Are you envious because I am generous?’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT20_16","070_20_16","MAT","20","16","16","So those who are last will be first, and the first last.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT20_17","070_20_17","MAT","20","17","17","When Jesus was on the point of going up to Jerusalem, he gathered the twelve disciples around him by themselves, and said to them as they were on their way, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT20_18","070_20_18","MAT","20","18","18","“Listen! We are going up to Jerusalem; and there the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and teachers of the Law, and they will condemn him to death, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT20_19","070_20_19","MAT","20","19","19","and give him up to the Gentiles for them to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify; and on the third day he will rise.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT20_20","070_20_20","MAT","20","20","20","Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons came to him with her sons, bowing to the ground, and begging a favor. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT20_21","070_20_21","MAT","20","21","21","“What is it that you want?” he asked. “I want you to say,” she replied, “that in your kingdom these two sons of mine may sit, one on your right, and the other on your left.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT20_22","070_20_22","MAT","20","22","22","“You do not know what you are asking,” was Jesus’ answer. “Can you drink the cup that I am to drink?” “Yes,” they exclaimed, “we can.” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT20_24","070_20_24","MAT","20","24","24","On hearing of this, the ten others were very indignant about the two brothers. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT20_25","070_20_25","MAT","20","25","25","Jesus, however, called the ten to him, and said, “The rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them as you know, and their high officials oppress them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT20_26","070_20_26","MAT","20","26","26","Among you it is not so. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT20_27","070_20_27","MAT","20","27","27","No, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to take the first place among you, must be your slave; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT20_28","070_20_28","MAT","20","28","28","just as the Son of Man came, not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT20_29","070_20_29","MAT","20","29","29","As they were going out of Jericho, a great crowd followed him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT20_30","070_20_30","MAT","20","30","30","Two blind men who were sitting by the roadside, hearing that Jesus was passing, called out, “Take pity on us, Master, Son of David!” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT20_31","070_20_31","MAT","20","31","31","The crowd told them to be quiet; but the men only called out the louder, “Take pity on us, Master, Son of David!” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT20_32","070_20_32","MAT","20","32","32","Then Jesus stopped and called them. “What do you want me to do for you?” he said. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT20_33","070_20_33","MAT","20","33","33","“Master,” they replied, “we want our eyes to be opened.” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT21_1","070_21_1","MAT","21","1","1","When they had almost reached Jerusalem, having come as far as Bethphage, on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent on two disciples. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT21_2","070_21_2","MAT","21","2","2","“Go to the village facing you,” he said, “and you will immediately find a donkey tethered, with a foal by her side; untie her, and lead her here for me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT21_3","070_21_3","MAT","21","3","3","And, if anyone says anything to you, you are to say this – ‘The Master wants them’; and he will send them at once.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT21_4","070_21_4","MAT","21","4","4","This happened in fulfillment of these words in the prophet – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT21_5","070_21_5","MAT","21","5","5","‘Say to the people of Zion – “Your King is coming to you, gentle, and riding on a donkey, and on the foal of a beast of burden.”’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT21_6","070_21_6","MAT","21","6","6","So the disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT21_7","070_21_7","MAT","21","7","7","They led the donkey and the foal back, and, when they had put their cloaks on them, he seated himself on them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT21_8","070_21_8","MAT","21","8","8","The immense crowd of people spread their cloaks in the road, while some cut branches off the trees, and spread them on the road. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT21_9","070_21_9","MAT","21","9","9","The crowds that led the way, as well as those that followed behind, kept shouting, “God save the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! God save him from on high!” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT21_10","070_21_10","MAT","21","10","10","When he had entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred, and asked – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT21_11","070_21_11","MAT","21","11","11","“Who is this?”, to which the crowd replied – “This is the prophet Jesus from Nazareth in Galilee.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT21_12","070_21_12","MAT","21","12","12","Jesus went into the Temple Courts, and drove out all those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers, and the seats of the pigeon-dealers, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT21_13","070_21_13","MAT","21","13","13","and said to them, “Scripture says ‘My house will be called a house of prayer’; but you are making it a den of robbers.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT21_14","070_21_14","MAT","21","14","14","While he was still in the Temple Courts, some blind and some lame people came up to him, and he cured them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT21_15","070_21_15","MAT","21","15","15","But, when the chief priests and the teachers of the Law saw the wonderful things that Jesus did, and the boys who were calling out in the Temple Courts “God save the Son of David!”, they were indignant, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT21_16","070_21_16","MAT","21","16","16","and said to him, “Do you hear what these boys are saying?” “Yes,” answered Jesus, “but did you never read the words – ‘Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings you have called forth perfect praise’?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT21_17","070_21_17","MAT","21","17","17","Then he left them, and went out of the city to Bethany, and spent the night there. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT21_18","070_21_18","MAT","21","18","18","The next morning, in returning to the city, Jesus became hungry; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT21_19","070_21_19","MAT","21","19","19","and, noticing a solitary fig tree by the roadside, he went up to it, but found nothing on it but leaves. So he said to it, “Never again will fruit be gathered off you.” And suddenly the fruit tree withered up. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT21_20","070_21_20","MAT","21","20","20","When the disciples saw this, they exclaimed in astonishment, “How suddenly the fig tree withered up!” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT21_21","070_21_21","MAT","21","21","21","“I tell you,” replied Jesus, “if you have faith, without ever a doubt, you will do what not only what has been done to the fig tree, but, even if you should say to this hill ‘Be lifted up and hurled into the sea!’ it would be done. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT21_22","070_21_22","MAT","21","22","22","And whatever you ask for in your prayers will, if you have faith, be granted you.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT21_23","070_21_23","MAT","21","23","23","After Jesus had come into the Temple Courts, the chief priests and the elders of the people came up to him as he was teaching, and said, “What authority have you to do these things? Who gave you this authority?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT21_24","070_21_24","MAT","21","24","24","“I, too,” said Jesus in reply, “will ask you one question; if you will give me an answer to it, then I, also, will tell you what authority I have to act as I do. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT21_25","070_21_25","MAT","21","25","25","It is about John’s baptism. What was its origin? Divine or human?” But they began arguing among themselves, “If we say ‘divine,’ he will say to us ‘Why then didn’t you believe him?’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT21_26","070_21_26","MAT","21","26","26","But if we say ‘human,’ we are afraid of the people, for everyone regards John as a prophet.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT21_27","070_21_27","MAT","21","27","27","So the answer they gave Jesus was – “We do not know.” “Then I,” he said, “refuse to tell you what authority I have to do these things. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT21_28","070_21_28","MAT","21","28","28","What do you think of this? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the elder and said ‘Go and work in the vineyard today my son.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT21_29","070_21_29","MAT","21","29","29","‘Yes, sir,’ he answered; but he did not go. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT21_30","070_21_30","MAT","21","30","30","Then the father went to the second son, and said the same. ‘I will not,’ he answered; but afterward he was sorry and went. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT21_31","070_21_31","MAT","21","31","31","Which of the two sons did as his father wished?” “The second,” they said. “I tell you,” added Jesus, “that tax collectors and prostitutes are going into the kingdom of God before you. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT21_32","070_21_32","MAT","21","32","32","For when John came to you, walking in the path of righteousness, you did not believe him, but tax collectors and prostitutes did; and yet you, though you saw this, even then were not sorry, nor did you believe him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT21_33","070_21_33","MAT","21","33","33","“Listen to another parable. A man, who was an employer, once planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a winepress in it, built a tower, and then let it out to tenants and went abroad. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT21_34","070_21_34","MAT","21","34","34","When the time for the grape harvest drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants, to receive his share of the produce. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT21_35","070_21_35","MAT","21","35","35","But the tenants seized his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned a third. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT21_36","070_21_36","MAT","21","36","36","A second time the owner sent some servants, a larger number than before, and the tenants treated them in the same way. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT21_37","070_21_37","MAT","21","37","37","As a last resource he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT21_38","070_21_38","MAT","21","38","38","But the tenants, on seeing his son, said to each other ‘Here is the heir! Come, let us kill him, and get his inheritance.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT21_39","070_21_39","MAT","21","39","39","So they seized him, and threw him outside the vineyard, and killed him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT21_40","070_21_40","MAT","21","40","40","Now, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT21_41","070_21_41","MAT","21","41","41","“Miserable wretches!” they exclaimed, “he will put them to a miserable death, and he will let out the vineyard to other tenants, who will pay him his share of the produce at the proper times.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT21_42","070_21_42","MAT","21","42","42","Then Jesus added, “Have you never read in the scriptures? – ‘The stone which the builders despised – has now itself become the cornerstone. This cornerstone has come from the Lord, and is marvelous in our eyes.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT21_43","070_21_43","MAT","21","43","43","That, I tell you, is why the kingdom of God will be taken from you, and given to a nation that does produce the fruit of the kingdom. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT21_44","070_21_44","MAT","21","44","44","Yes, and he who falls on this stone will be dashed to pieces, while anyone on whom it falls – it will scatter him as dust.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT21_45","070_21_45","MAT","21","45","45","After listening to these parables, the chief priests and the Pharisees saw that it was about them that he was speaking; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT21_46","070_21_46","MAT","21","46","46","yet, although eager to arrest him, they were afraid of the crowds, who regarded him as a prophet. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT22_1","070_22_1","MAT","22","1","1","Once more Jesus spoke to them in parables. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT22_2","070_22_2","MAT","22","2","2","“The kingdom of heaven,” he said, “may be compared to a king who gave a banquet in honor of his son’s wedding. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT22_3","070_22_3","MAT","22","3","3","He sent his servants to call those who had been invited to the banquet, but they were unwilling to come. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT22_4","070_22_4","MAT","22","4","4","A second time he sent some servants, with orders to say to those who had been invited ‘I have prepared my meal, my cattle and fat beasts are killed and everything is ready; come to the banquet.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT22_5","070_22_5","MAT","22","5","5","They, however, took no notice, but went off, one to their farm, another to their business; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT22_6","070_22_6","MAT","22","6","6","while the rest, seizing his servants, ill-treated them and killed them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT22_7","070_22_7","MAT","22","7","7","The king, in anger, sent his troops, put those murderers to death, and set their city on fire. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT22_8","070_22_8","MAT","22","8","8","Then he said to his servants ‘The banquet is prepared, but those who were invited were not worthy. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT22_9","070_22_9","MAT","22","9","9","So go to the cross-roads, and invite everyone you find to the banquet.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT22_10","070_22_10","MAT","22","10","10","The servants went out into the roads and collected all the people whom they found, whether bad or good; and the bridal-hall was filled with guests. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT22_12","070_22_12","MAT","22","12","12","So he said to him ‘My friend, how is it that you came in here without a wedding-robe?’ The man was speechless. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT22_13","070_22_13","MAT","22","13","13","Then the king said to the attendants ‘Tie him hand and foot, and put him out into the darkness outside, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT22_14","070_22_14","MAT","22","14","14","For many are called, but few chosen.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT22_15","070_22_15","MAT","22","15","15","Then the Pharisees went away and conferred together as to how they might lay a trap for Jesus in the course of conversation. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT22_16","070_22_16","MAT","22","16","16","They sent their disciples, with the Herodians, to say to him, “Teacher, we know that you are an honest person, and that you teach the way of God honestly, and are not afraid of anyone; for you pay no regard to a person’s position. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT22_17","070_22_17","MAT","22","17","17","Tell us, then, what you think. Are we right in paying taxes to the Emperor, or not?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT22_18","070_22_18","MAT","22","18","18","Perceiving their malice, Jesus answered, “Why are you testing me, you hypocrites? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT22_19","070_22_19","MAT","22","19","19","Show me the coin with which the tax is paid.” And, when they had brought him a coin, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT22_20","070_22_20","MAT","22","20","20","he asked, “Whose head and title are these?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT22_21","070_22_21","MAT","22","21","21","“The Emperor’s,” they answered, at which he said to them, “Then pay to the Emperor what belongs to the Emperor, and to God what belongs to God.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT22_22","070_22_22","MAT","22","22","22","They wondered at his answer, and left him alone and went away. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT22_23","070_22_23","MAT","22","23","23","That same day some Sadducees came up to Jesus, maintaining that there is no resurrection. Their question was this, – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT22_24","070_22_24","MAT","22","24","24","“Teacher, Moses said – ‘should a man die without children, the man’s brother will become the husband of the widow, and raise a family for his brother.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT22_25","070_22_25","MAT","22","25","25","Now we had living among us seven brothers; of whom the eldest married and died, and, as he had no family, left his wife for his brother. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT22_26","070_22_26","MAT","22","26","26","The same thing happened to the second and the third brothers, and indeed to all the seven. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT22_27","070_22_27","MAT","22","27","27","The woman herself died last of all. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT22_28","070_22_28","MAT","22","28","28","At the resurrection, then, whose wife will she be out of the seven, all of them having been married to her?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT22_29","070_22_29","MAT","22","29","29","“Your mistake,” replied Jesus, “is due to your ignorance of the scriptures, and of the power of God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT22_30","070_22_30","MAT","22","30","30","For at the resurrection there is no marrying or being married, but all who rise are as angels in heaven. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT22_31","070_22_31","MAT","22","31","31","As to the resurrection of the dead, have you not read these words of God – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT22_32","070_22_32","MAT","22","32","32","‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of dead people, but of living.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT22_33","070_22_33","MAT","22","33","33","The crowds, who had been listening to him, were greatly struck with his teaching. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT22_34","070_22_34","MAT","22","34","34","When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they collected together. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT22_35","070_22_35","MAT","22","35","35","Then one of them, a Student of the Law, to test him, asked this question – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT22_36","070_22_36","MAT","22","36","36","“Teacher, what is the greatest commandment in the Law?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT22_37","070_22_37","MAT","22","37","37","His answer was, “You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT22_38","070_22_38","MAT","22","38","38","This is the great first commandment. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT22_39","070_22_39","MAT","22","39","39","The second, which is like it, is this – You must love your neighbor as you love yourself. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT22_40","070_22_40","MAT","22","40","40","On these two commandments hang all the Law and the prophets.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT22_41","070_22_41","MAT","22","41","41","Before the Pharisees separated, Jesus put this question to them – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT22_42","070_22_42","MAT","22","42","42","“What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?” “David’s,” they said. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT22_43","070_22_43","MAT","22","43","43","“How is it, then,” Jesus replied, “that David, speaking under inspiration, calls him ‘lord,’ in the passage – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT22_44","070_22_44","MAT","22","44","44","‘The Lord said to my Lord: Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies beneath your feet’? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT22_45","070_22_45","MAT","22","45","45","Since, then, David calls him ‘lord,’ how is he David’s son?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT22_46","070_22_46","MAT","22","46","46","No one could say a word in answer; nor did anyone after that day venture to question him further. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT23_1","070_23_1","MAT","23","1","1","Then Jesus, speaking to the crowds and to his disciples, said, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT23_2","070_23_2","MAT","23","2","2","“The teachers of the Law and the Pharisees now occupy the chair of Moses. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT23_3","070_23_3","MAT","23","3","3","Therefore practice and lay to heart everything that they preach but do not practice. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT23_4","070_23_4","MAT","23","4","4","While they make up heavy loads and pile them on other people’s shoulder’s they decline, themselves, to lift a finger to move them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT23_5","070_23_5","MAT","23","5","5","All their actions are done to attract attention. They widen their phylacteries, and increase the size of their tassels, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT23_6","070_23_6","MAT","23","6","6","and like to have the place of honor at dinner, and the best seats in the synagogues, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT23_7","070_23_7","MAT","23","7","7","and to be greeted in the markets with respect, and to be called ‘Rabbi’ by everybody. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT23_8","070_23_8","MAT","23","8","8","But do not allow yourselves to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have only one teacher, and you yourselves are all brothers and sisters. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT23_9","070_23_9","MAT","23","9","9","And do not call anyone on the earth your ‘Father,’ for your have only one Father, the heavenly Father. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT23_10","070_23_10","MAT","23","10","10","Nor must you allow yourselves to be called ‘leaders,’ for you have only one leader, the Christ. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT23_11","070_23_11","MAT","23","11","11","The person who wants to be the greatest among you must be your servant. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT23_12","070_23_12","MAT","23","12","12","Whoever exalts themselves will be humbled, and whoever humbles themselves will be exalted. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT23_13","070_23_13","MAT","23","13","13","But alas for you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You turn the key of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you do not go in yourselves, and do not allow those who try to go in to do so. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT23_15","070_23_15","MAT","23","15","15"," Alas for you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You scour land and sea to make a single convert, and, when they are gained, you make them twice as deserving of Gehenna as you are yourselves. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT23_16","070_23_16","MAT","23","16","16","Alas for you, you blind guides! You say ‘if any swear by the Temple, their oath counts for nothing; but, if anyone swears by the gold of the Temple, their oath is binding them’! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT23_17","070_23_17","MAT","23","17","17","Fools that you are and blind! Which is the more important? The gold? Or the Temple which has given sacredness to the gold? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT23_18","070_23_18","MAT","23","18","18","You say, too, ‘If anyone swears by the altar, their oath counts for nothing, but, if anyone swears by the offering placed on it, their oath is binding on them’! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT23_19","070_23_19","MAT","23","19","19","Blind indeed! Which is the more important? The offering? Or the altar which gives sacredness to the offering? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT23_20","070_23_20","MAT","23","20","20","Therefore a person, swearing by the altar, swears by it and by all that is on it, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT23_21","070_23_21","MAT","23","21","21","and a person, swearing by the Temple, swears by it and by him who dwells in it, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT23_22","070_23_22","MAT","23","22","22","while a person, swearing by heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by him who sits on it. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT23_23","070_23_23","MAT","23","23","23","Alas for you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You pay tithes on mint, fennel, and caraway seed, and have neglected the weightier matters of the Law – justice, mercy, and good faith. These last you ought to have put into practice, without neglecting the first. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT23_24","070_23_24","MAT","23","24","24","You blind guides, to strain out a gnat and to swallow a camel! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT23_25","070_23_25","MAT","23","25","25","Alas for you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are filled with the results of greed and self-indulgence. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT23_26","070_23_26","MAT","23","26","26","You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the dish, so that the outside may become clean as well. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT23_27","070_23_27","MAT","23","27","27","Alas for you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You are like whitewashed tombs, which indeed look fair outside, while inside they are filled with dead people’s bones and all kinds of filth. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT23_28","070_23_28","MAT","23","28","28","It is the same with you. Outwardly, and to others, you have the look of religious people, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and sin. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT23_29","070_23_29","MAT","23","29","29","Alas for you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the monuments of religious people, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT23_30","070_23_30","MAT","23","30","30","and say ‘Had we been living in the days of our ancestors, we should have taken no part in their murder of the prophets!’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT23_31","070_23_31","MAT","23","31","31","By doing this you are furnishing evidence against yourselves that you are true children of the people who murdered the prophets. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT23_32","070_23_32","MAT","23","32","32","Go on then, finish what your ancestors began! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT23_33","070_23_33","MAT","23","33","33","You snakes and children of snakes! How can you escape being sentenced to Gehenna? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT23_34","070_23_34","MAT","23","34","34","That is why I send you prophets, wise people, and teachers of the Law, some of whom you will crucify and kill, and some of whom you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from town to town; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT23_35","070_23_35","MAT","23","35","35","so that on your heads may fall every drop of innocent blood split on earth, from the blood of innocent Abel down to that of Zechariah, Barachiah’s son, whom you murdered between the Temple and the altar. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT23_36","070_23_36","MAT","23","36","36","All this, I tell you, will come home to the present generation. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT23_37","070_23_37","MAT","23","37","37","Jerusalem! Jerusalem! She who slays the prophets and stones the messengers sent to her – Oh, how often have I wished to gather your children around me, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not come! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT23_38","070_23_38","MAT","23","38","38","Verily, your house is left to you desolate! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT23_39","070_23_39","MAT","23","39","39","For nevermore, I tell you, will you see me, until you say – ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_1","070_24_1","MAT","24","1","1","Leaving the Temple Courts, Jesus was walking away, when his disciples came up to draw his attention to the Temple buildings. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_2","070_24_2","MAT","24","2","2","“Do you see all these things?” was his answer. “I tell you, not a single stone will be left here on another, which will not be thrown down,” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_3","070_24_3","MAT","24","3","3","so, while Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, his disciples came up to him privately and said, “Tell us when this will be, and what will be the sign of your coming, and of the close of the age.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_4","070_24_4","MAT","24","4","4","Jesus replied to them, “See that no one leads you astray; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_5","070_24_5","MAT","24","5","5","for, many will take my name, and come saying ‘I am the Christ,’ and will lead many astray. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_6","070_24_6","MAT","24","6","6","You will hear of wars and rumors of wars; take care not to be alarmed, for such things must occur; but the end is not yet here. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_7","070_24_7","MAT","24","7","7","For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_8","070_24_8","MAT","24","8","8","All this, however, will be but the beginning of the birth pangs! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_9","070_24_9","MAT","24","9","9","When that time comes, they will give you up to persecution, and will put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_10","070_24_10","MAT","24","10","10","And then many will fall away, and will betray one another, and hate one another. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_11","070_24_11","MAT","24","11","11","Many false prophets, also, will appear and lead many astray; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_12","070_24_12","MAT","24","12","12","and, owing to the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_13","070_24_13","MAT","24","13","13","Yet the person who endures to the end will be saved. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_14","070_24_14","MAT","24","14","14","This good news of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the world as a witness to all nations; and then will come the end. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_15","070_24_15","MAT","24","15","15","As soon, then, as you see ‘the Foul Desecration,’ mentioned by the prophet Daniel, standing in the Holy place,” (the reader must consider what this means) ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_16","070_24_16","MAT","24","16","16","“then those of you who are in Judea must take refuge in the mountains; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_17","070_24_17","MAT","24","17","17","and a man on the housetop must not go down to get the things that are in his house; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_18","070_24_18","MAT","24","18","18","nor must one who is on their farm turn back to get his cloak. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_19","070_24_19","MAT","24","19","19","Alas for pregnant women, and for those who are nursing infants in those days! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_20","070_24_20","MAT","24","20","20","Pray, too, that your flight may not take place in winter, nor on a Sabbath; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_21","070_24_21","MAT","24","21","21","for that will be a time of great distress, the like of which has not occurred from the beginning of the world down to the present time – no, nor ever will again. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_22","070_24_22","MAT","24","22","22","Had not those days been limited, not a single soul would escape; but for the sake of God’s people a limit will be put to them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_23","070_24_23","MAT","24","23","23","At that time, if anyone should say to you ‘Look! Here is the Christ!’ or ‘Here he is!’, do not believe it; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_24","070_24_24","MAT","24","24","24","for false Christs and false prophets will arise, and will display great signs and marvels, so that, were it possible, even God’s people would be led astray. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_25","070_24_25","MAT","24","25","25","Remember, I have told you beforehand. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_26","070_24_26","MAT","24","26","26","Therefore, if people say to you ‘He is in the wilderness!’, do not go out there; or ‘He is in an inner room!’, do not believe it; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_27","070_24_27","MAT","24","27","27","for, just as lightning will start from the east and flash across to the west, so will it be with the coming of the Son of Man. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_28","070_24_28","MAT","24","28","28","Wherever a dead body lies, there will the vultures flock. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_29","070_24_29","MAT","24","29","29","Immediately after the distress of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give her light, the stars will fall from the heavens, and the forces of the heavens will be convulsed. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_30","070_24_30","MAT","24","30","30","Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in the heavens; and all the peoples of the earth will mourn, when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the heavens, with power and great glory; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_31","070_24_31","MAT","24","31","31","and he will send his angels, with a great trumpet, and they will gather his people around him from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_32","070_24_32","MAT","24","32","32","“Learn the lesson taught by the fig tree. As soon as its branches are full of sap, and it is bursting into leaf, you know that summer is near. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_33","070_24_33","MAT","24","33","33","And so may you, as soon as you see all these things, know that he is at your doors. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_34","070_24_34","MAT","24","34","34","I tell you, even the present generation will not pass away, until all these things have taken place. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_35","070_24_35","MAT","24","35","35","The heavens and the earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_36","070_24_36","MAT","24","36","36","But about that day and hour, no one knows – not even the angels of heaven, not even the Son – but only the Father himself. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_37","070_24_37","MAT","24","37","37","For, just as in the days of Noah, so will it be at the coming of the Son of Man. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_38","070_24_38","MAT","24","38","38","In those days before the flood they went on eating and drinking, marrying and being married, up to the very day on which Noah entered the ark, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_39","070_24_39","MAT","24","39","39","taking not notice until the flood came and swept them one and all away; and so will it be at the coming of the Son of Man. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_40","070_24_40","MAT","24","40","40","At that time, of two men on a farm one will be taken and one left; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_41","070_24_41","MAT","24","41","41","of two women grinding with a hand-mill one will be taken and one left. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_42","070_24_42","MAT","24","42","42","Therefore watch; for you cannot be sure on what day your Master is coming. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_43","070_24_43","MAT","24","43","43","But this you do know, that, had the owner of the house known at what time of night the thief was coming, they would have been on the watch, and would not have allowed their house to be broken into. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_44","070_24_44","MAT","24","44","44","Therefore, you must also prepare, since it is just when you are least expecting him that the Son of Man will come. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_45","070_24_45","MAT","24","45","45","Who, then is that trustworthy, careful servant, who has been placed by their master over his household, to give them their food at the proper time? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_46","070_24_46","MAT","24","46","46","Happy will that servant be whom their master, when he comes home, will find doing this. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_47","070_24_47","MAT","24","47","47","I tell you that their master will put them in charge of the whole of his property. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_48","070_24_48","MAT","24","48","48","But, should the servant be a bad servant, and say to themselves ‘My master is a long time in coming,’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_49","070_24_49","MAT","24","49","49","and begin to beat their fellow servants, and eat and drink with drunkards, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_50","070_24_50","MAT","24","50","50","that servant’s master will come on a day when they do not expect him, and at an hour of which they are unaware, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT24_51","070_24_51","MAT","24","51","51","and will flog the servant severely, and assign them their place among the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT25_1","070_25_1","MAT","25","1","1","“Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten bridesmaids who took their lamps and went out to meet the groom. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT25_2","070_25_2","MAT","25","2","2","Five of them were foolish, and five were prudent. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT25_3","070_25_3","MAT","25","3","3","The foolish ones took their lamps, but took no oil with them; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT25_4","070_25_4","MAT","25","4","4","while the prudent ones, besides taking their lamps, took oil in their jars. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT25_5","070_25_5","MAT","25","5","5","As the groom was late in coming, they all became drowsy, and slept. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT25_6","070_25_6","MAT","25","6","6","But at midnight a shout was raised – ‘The groom is coming! Come out to meet him!’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT25_7","070_25_7","MAT","25","7","7","Then all the bridesmaids woke up and trimmed their lamps, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT25_8","070_25_8","MAT","25","8","8","and the foolish said to the prudent ‘Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT25_11","070_25_11","MAT","25","11","11","Afterward the other bridesmaids came. ‘Sir, Sir,’ they said, ‘open the door to us!’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT25_12","070_25_12","MAT","25","12","12","But the groom answered ‘I tell you, I do not know you.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT25_13","070_25_13","MAT","25","13","13","Therefore watch, since you know neither the day nor the hour. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT25_14","070_25_14","MAT","25","14","14","“For it is as though a man, going on his travels, called his servants, and gave his property into their charge. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT25_15","070_25_15","MAT","25","15","15","He gave five bags of gold to one, two to another, and one bag to a third, in proportion to the ability of each. Then he set out on his travels. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT25_16","070_25_16","MAT","25","16","16","The servant who had received the five bags of gold went at once and traded with it, and made another five bags. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT25_17","070_25_17","MAT","25","17","17","So, too, the servant who had received the two bags of gold made another two bags. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT25_19","070_25_19","MAT","25","19","19","After a long time the master of those servants returned, and settled accounts with them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT25_20","070_25_20","MAT","25","20","20","The servant who had received the five bags of gold came up and brought five bags more. ‘Sir,’ he said, ‘you entrusted me with five bags of gold; look, I have made another five bags!’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT25_21","070_25_21","MAT","25","21","21","‘Well done, good, trustworthy servant!’ said his master. ‘You have been trustworthy with a small sum; now I will place a large one in your hands; come and share your master’s joy!’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT25_22","070_25_22","MAT","25","22","22","Then the one who had received the two bags of gold came up and said ‘Sir, you entrusted me with two bags pounds; look, I have made another two!’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT25_24","070_25_24","MAT","25","24","24","The man who had received the single bag of gold came up, too, and said ‘Sir, I knew that you were a hard man; you reap where you have not sown, and gather up where you have not winnowed; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT25_25","070_25_25","MAT","25","25","25","and, in my fear, I went and hid your money in the ground; look, here is what belongs to you!’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT25_26","070_25_26","MAT","25","26","26","‘You lazy, worthless servant!’ was his master’s reply. ‘You knew that I reap where I have not sown, and gather up where I have not winnowed? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT25_27","070_25_27","MAT","25","27","27","Then you ought to have placed my money in the hands of bankers, and I, on my return, should have received my money, with interest. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT25_28","070_25_28","MAT","25","28","28","Therefore,’ he continued, ‘take away from him the one bag of gold, and give it to the one who has the ten bags. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT25_29","070_25_29","MAT","25","29","29","For, to him who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but, as for him who has nothing, even what he has will be taken away from him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT25_30","070_25_30","MAT","25","30","30","As for the useless servant, put him out into the darkness outside, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT25_32","070_25_32","MAT","25","32","32","and all the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people – just as a shepherd separates sheep from goats – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT25_33","070_25_33","MAT","25","33","33","placing the sheep on his right hand, and the goats on his left. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT25_34","070_25_34","MAT","25","34","34","Then the king will say to those on his right ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, enter into possession of the kingdom prepared for you ever since the beginning of the world. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT25_35","070_25_35","MAT","25","35","35","For, when I was hungry, you gave me food; when I was thirsty, you gave me drink; when I was a stranger, you took me to your homes; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT25_36","070_25_36","MAT","25","36","36","when I was naked, you clothed me; when I fell ill, you visited me; and when I was in prison, you came to me.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT25_37","070_25_37","MAT","25","37","37","Then the righteous will answer ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, and feed you? Or thirsty, and give you a drink? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT25_38","070_25_38","MAT","25","38","38","When did we see you a stranger, and take you to our homes? Or naked, and clothe you? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT25_39","070_25_39","MAT","25","39","39","When did we see you ill, or in prison, and come to you?’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT25_43","070_25_43","MAT","25","43","43","when I was a stranger, you did not take me to your homes; when I was naked, you did not clothe me; and, when I was ill and in prison, you did not visit me.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT25_44","070_25_44","MAT","25","44","44","Then they, in their turn, will answer ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or ill, or in prison, and did not supply your wants?’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT25_45","070_25_45","MAT","25","45","45","And then he will reply ‘I tell you, as often as you failed to do it to one of these, however unimportant, you failed to do it to me.’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT26_4","070_26_4","MAT","26","4","4","and plotted together to arrest Jesus by stealth and put him to death; ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT26_7","070_26_7","MAT","26","7","7","a woman came up to him with an alabaster jar of very costly perfume, and poured the perfume on his head as he sat at the table. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT26_8","070_26_8","MAT","26","8","8","The disciples were indignant at seeing this. “What is this waste for?” they exclaimed. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT26_10","070_26_10","MAT","26","10","10","“Why are you troubling the woman?” Jesus said, when he noticed it. “For this is a beautiful deed that she has done to me. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT26_29","070_26_29","MAT","26","29","29","I tell you that I will never, after this, drink of this juice of the grape, until that day when I will drink it new with you in the kingdom of my Father.” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT26_50","070_26_50","MAT","26","50","50","at which Jesus said to him, “Friend, do what you have come for.” The men went up, seized Jesus, and arrested him. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT27_64","070_27_64","MAT","27","64","64","So order the tomb to be made secure until the third day. Otherwise his disciples may come and steal him, and then say to the people ‘He has risen from the dead,’ when the latest imposture will be worse than the first.” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MT28_2","070_28_2","MAT","28","2","2","when suddenly a great earthquake occurred. For an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled away the stone, and seated himself on it. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK3_22","071_3_22","MRK","3","22","22","The teachers of the Law, who had come down from Jerusalem, said, “He has Beelzebul in him! He drives the demons out by the help of their chief.” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK3_24","071_3_24","MRK","3","24","24","When a kingdom is divided against itself, it cannot last; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK3_25","071_3_25","MRK","3","25","25","and when a household is divided against itself, it will not be able to last. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK3_28","071_3_28","MRK","3","28","28","I tell you that people will be forgiven everything – their sins, and all the slanders that they utter; ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK3_30","071_3_30","MRK","3","30","30","This was said in reply to the charge that he had a foul spirit in him. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK6_3","071_6_3","MRK","6","3","3","Isn’t he the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James, and Joses, and Judas, and Simon? And aren’t his sisters, too, living here among us?” This proved a hindrance to their believing in him; ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK6_22","071_6_22","MRK","6","22","22","When his daughter – that is, the daughter of Herodias – came in and danced, she delighted Herod and those who were dining with him. “Ask me for whatever you like,” the king said to the girl, “and I will give it to you”; ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK6_30","071_6_30","MRK","6","30","30","When the apostles came back to Jesus, they told him all that they had done and all that they had taught. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK6_31","071_6_31","MRK","6","31","31","“Come by yourselves privately to some lonely spot,” he said, “and rest for a while” – for there were so many people coming and going that they had not time even to eat. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK6_37","071_6_37","MRK","6","37","37","But Jesus answered, “It is for you to give them something to eat.” “Are we to go and spend almost a year’s wages on bread,” they asked, “to give them to eat?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK6_38","071_6_38","MRK","6","38","38","“How many loaves have you?” he asked, “Go, and see.” When they had found out, they told him, “Five, and two fish.” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK6_40","071_6_40","MRK","6","40","40","and they sat down in groups – in hundreds, and in fifties. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK6_45","071_6_45","MRK","6","45","45","Immediately afterward Jesus made his disciples get into the boat, and cross over in advance, in the direction of Bethsaida, while he himself was dismissing the crowd. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK6_50","071_6_50","MRK","6","50","50","for all of them saw him, and were terrified. But Jesus at once spoke to them. “Courage!” he said, “it is I; do not be afraid!” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK6_52","071_6_52","MRK","6","52","52","for they had not understood about the loaves, their minds being slow to learn. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK6_53","071_6_53","MRK","6","53","53","When they had crossed over, they landed at Gennesaret, and moored the boat. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK6_54","071_6_54","MRK","6","54","54","But they had no sooner left her than the people, recognizing Jesus, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK6_55","071_6_55","MRK","6","55","55","hurried over the whole countryside, and began to carry about on mats those who were ill, wherever they heard he was. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK7_5","071_7_5","MRK","7","5","5","So the Pharisees and the teachers of the Law asked Jesus this question – “How is it that your disciples do not follow the traditions of our ancestors, but eat their food with defiled hands?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK7_6","071_7_6","MRK","7","6","6","His answer was, “It was well said by Isaiah when he prophesied about you hypocrites in the words – ‘This is a people who honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far removed from me; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK7_7","071_7_7","MRK","7","7","7","but vainly do they worship me, For they teach but human precepts.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK7_8","071_7_8","MRK","7","8","8","You neglect God’s commandments and hold to human traditions. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK7_9","071_7_9","MRK","7","9","9","Wisely do you set aside God’s commandments,” he exclaimed, “to keep your own traditions! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK7_10","071_7_10","MRK","7","10","10","For while Moses said ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and ‘Let anyone who abuses their father or mother suffer death,’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK7_11","071_7_11","MRK","7","11","11","you say ‘If a person says to their father or mother “Whatever of mine might have been of service to you is Corban”’ (which means ‘Set apart for God’) – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK7_12","071_7_12","MRK","7","12","12","why, then you do not allow them to do anything further for their father or mother! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK7_13","071_7_13","MRK","7","13","13","In this way you nullify the words of God by your traditions, which you hand down; and you do many similar things.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK7_14","071_7_14","MRK","7","14","14","Then Jesus called the people to him again, and said, “Listen to me, all of you, and mark my words. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK7_15","071_7_15","MRK","7","15","15","There is nothing external to a person, which by going into them can defile them; but the things that come out of a person are the things that defile them.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK7_17","071_7_17","MRK","7","17","17"," When Jesus went indoors, away from the crowd, his disciples began questioning him about this saying. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK7_18","071_7_18","MRK","7","18","18","“What, do even you understand so little?” exclaimed Jesus. “Don’t you see that there is nothing external to a person, which by going into a person, can defile them, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK7_19","071_7_19","MRK","7","19","19","because it does not pass into his heart, but into his stomach, and is afterward got rid of?” – in saying this Jesus pronounced all food clean. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK7_26","071_7_26","MRK","7","26","26","the woman was a foreigner, from Syrian Phoenicia – and she begged him to drive the demon out of her daughter. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK7_37","071_7_37","MRK","7","37","37","and a profound impression was made on the people. “He has done everything well!” they exclaimed. “He makes even the deaf hear and the dumb speak!” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK8_3","071_8_3","MRK","8","3","3","and if I send them away to their homes hungry, they will break down on the way; and some of them have come a long distance.” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK8_5","071_8_5","MRK","8","5","5","“How many loaves have you?” he asked. “Seven,” they answered. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK8_7","071_8_7","MRK","8","7","7","They had also a few small fish; and, after he had said the blessing, he told the disciples to serve out these as well. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK8_8","071_8_8","MRK","8","8","8","The people had sufficient to eat, and they picked up seven baskets full of the broken pieces that were left. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK8_9","071_8_9","MRK","8","9","9","There were about four thousand people. Then Jesus dismissed them. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK8_18","071_8_18","MRK","8","18","18","Though you have eyes, do you not see? And though you have ears, do you not hear? Don’t you remember, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK8_19","071_8_19","MRK","8","19","19","when I broke up the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets of broken pieces you picked up?” “Twelve,” they said. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK8_21","071_8_21","MRK","8","21","21","“Don’t you understand now?” he repeated. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK8_33","071_8_33","MRK","8","33","33","Jesus, however, turning around and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter. “Out of my sight, Satan!” he exclaimed. “For you look at things, not as God does, but as people do.” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK8_35","071_8_35","MRK","8","35","35","For whoever wishes to save their life will lose it, and whoever, for my sake and for the sake of the good news, will lose their life will save it. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK8_36","071_8_36","MRK","8","36","36","What good is it to a person to gain the whole world and forfeit their life? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK8_37","071_8_37","MRK","8","37","37","For what could a person give that is of equal value with their life? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK8_38","071_8_38","MRK","8","38","38","Whoever is ashamed of me and of my teaching, in this unfaithful and wicked generation, of them will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_1","071_9_1","MRK","9","1","1","“I tell you,” he added, “that some of those who are standing here will not know death until they have seen the kingdom of God come in power.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_2","071_9_2","MRK","9","2","2","Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John, and led them up a high mountain alone by themselves. There his appearance was transformed before their eyes, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_3","071_9_3","MRK","9","3","3","and his clothes became whiter than any launderer in the whole world could bleach them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_4","071_9_4","MRK","9","4","4","And Elijah appeared to them, in company with Moses; and they were talking with Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_5","071_9_5","MRK","9","5","5","“Rabbi,” said Peter, interposing, “it is good to be here; let us make three tents, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_6","071_9_6","MRK","9","6","6","For he did not know what to say, because they were much afraid. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_7","071_9_7","MRK","9","7","7","Then a cloud came down and enveloped them; and from the cloud there came a voice – “This is my dearly loved son; listen to him.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_8","071_9_8","MRK","9","8","8","And suddenly, on looking around, they saw that there was now no one with them but Jesus alone. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_9","071_9_9","MRK","9","9","9","As they were going down the mountainside, Jesus cautioned them not to relate what they had seen to anyone, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_10","071_9_10","MRK","9","10","10","They seized on these words and discussed with one another what this ‘rising from the dead’ meant. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_11","071_9_11","MRK","9","11","11","“How is it,” they asked Jesus, “that our teachers of the Law say that Elijah has to come first?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_12","071_9_12","MRK","9","12","12","“Elijah does indeed come first,” answered Jesus, “and re-establish everything; and does not scripture speak, with regard to the Son of Man, of his undergoing much suffering and being utterly despised? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_13","071_9_13","MRK","9","13","13","But I tell you that Elijah has come, and people have treated him just as they pleased, as scripture says of him.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_14","071_9_14","MRK","9","14","14","When they came to the other disciples, they saw a great crowd around them, and some teachers of the Law arguing with them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_15","071_9_15","MRK","9","15","15","But, as soon as they saw Jesus, all the people, in great astonishment, ran up and greeted him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_16","071_9_16","MRK","9","16","16","“What are you arguing about with them?” Jesus asked. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_17","071_9_17","MRK","9","17","17","“Teacher,” answered a man in the crowd, “I brought my son to see you, as he has a spirit in him that makes him mute; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_18","071_9_18","MRK","9","18","18","and, wherever it seizes him, it dashes him down; he foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth, and he is pining away. I asked your disciples to drive the spirit out, but they failed.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_19","071_9_19","MRK","9","19","19","“Faithless generation!” exclaimed Jesus. “How long must I be with you? How long must I have patience with you? Bring the boy to me.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_20","071_9_20","MRK","9","20","20","They brought him to Jesus; but no sooner did the boy see him than the spirit threw him into convulsions; and he fell on the ground, and rolled about, foaming at the mouth. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_21","071_9_21","MRK","9","21","21","“How long has he been like this?” Jesus asked the boy’s father. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_22","071_9_22","MRK","9","22","22","“From his childhood,” he answered. “It has often thrown him into fire and into water to put an end to his life; but, if you can possibly do anything, take pity on us, and help us!” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_23","071_9_23","MRK","9","23","23","“Why say ‘possibly’?” Jesus replied. “Everything is possible for one who has faith.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_24","071_9_24","MRK","9","24","24","The boy’s father immediately cried out, “I have faith; help my want of faith!” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_25","071_9_25","MRK","9","25","25","But, when Jesus saw that a crowd was quickly collecting, he rebuked the foul spirit, “Deaf and dumb spirit, it is I who command you. Come out from him and never enter him again.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_26","071_9_26","MRK","9","26","26","With a loud cry the spirit threw the boy into repeated convulsions, and then came out from him. The boy looked like a corpse, so that most of them said that he was dead. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_27","071_9_27","MRK","9","27","27","But Jesus took his hand, and lifted him; and he stood up. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_28","071_9_28","MRK","9","28","28","When Jesus had gone indoors, his disciples asked him privately, “Why couldn’t we drive it out?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_29","071_9_29","MRK","9","29","29","“A spirit of this kind,” he said, “can be driven out only by prayer.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_30","071_9_30","MRK","9","30","30","Leaving that place, Jesus and his disciples went on their way through Galilee; but he did not wish anyone to know it, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_31","071_9_31","MRK","9","31","31","for he was instructing his disciples, and telling them – “The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of his fellow men, and they will put him to death, but, when he has been put to death, he will rise again after three days.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_32","071_9_32","MRK","9","32","32","But the disciples did not understand his meaning and were afraid to question him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_33","071_9_33","MRK","9","33","33","They came to Capernaum. When Jesus had gone into the house, he asked them, “What were you discussing on the way?” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_35","071_9_35","MRK","9","35","35","Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, “If anyone wishes to be first, he must be last of all, and servant of all.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_36","071_9_36","MRK","9","36","36","Then Jesus took a little child, and placed it in the middle of them. Taking it in his arms, he said to them, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_37","071_9_37","MRK","9","37","37","“Anyone who, for the sake of my name, welcomes even a little child like this is welcoming me, and anyone who welcomes me is welcoming not me, but him who sent me as his messenger.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_38","071_9_38","MRK","9","38","38","“Teacher,” said John, “we saw a man driving out demons by using your name, and we tried to prevent him, because he did not follow us.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_39","071_9_39","MRK","9","39","39","“None of you must prevent the man,” answered Jesus, “for no one will use my name in working a miracle, and yet find it easy to speak evil of me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_40","071_9_40","MRK","9","40","40","He who is not against us is for us. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_41","071_9_41","MRK","9","41","41","If anyone gives you a cup of water because you belong to Christ, I tell you, he will assuredly not lose his reward. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_42","071_9_42","MRK","9","42","42","“And, if anyone puts temptation in the way of one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be far better for him if he had been thrown into the sea with a great millstone around his neck. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_43","071_9_43","MRK","9","43","43","If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It would be better for you to enter the life maimed, than to have both your hands and go into Gehenna, into the fire that cannot be put out. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_45","071_9_45","MRK","9","45","45"," If your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It would be better for you to enter the life lame, than to have both your feet and be thrown into Gehenna. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_47","071_9_47","MRK","9","47","47"," If your eye causes you to sin, tear it out. It would be better for you to enter the kingdom of God with only one eye, than to have both eyes and be thrown into Gehenna, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_48","071_9_48","MRK","9","48","48","where their worm does not die, and the fire is not put out. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_49","071_9_49","MRK","9","49","49","For it is by fire that everyone will be salted. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK9_50","071_9_50","MRK","9","50","50","Salt is good, but, if the salt should lose its saltiness, what will you use to season it? You must have salt in yourselves, and live at peace with one another.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_1","071_10_1","MRK","10","1","1","On leaving that place, Jesus went into the district of Judea on the other side of the Jordan. Crowds gathered about him again; and again, as usual, he began teaching them. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_3","071_10_3","MRK","10","3","3","“What direction did Moses give you?” replied Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_4","071_10_4","MRK","10","4","4","“Moses,” they said, “permitted a man to draw up in writing a notice of separation and divorce his wife.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_5","071_10_5","MRK","10","5","5","“It was owing to the hardness of your hearts,” said Jesus, “that Moses gave you this direction; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_6","071_10_6","MRK","10","6","6","but, at the beginning of the Creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_7","071_10_7","MRK","10","7","7","‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_8","071_10_8","MRK","10","8","8","and the man and his wife will become one;’ so that they are no longer two, but one. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_9","071_10_9","MRK","10","9","9","What God himself, then, has yoked together no one must separate.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_10","071_10_10","MRK","10","10","10","When they were indoors, the disciples asked him again about this, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_11","071_10_11","MRK","10","11","11","and he said, “Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman is guilty of adultery against his wife; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_12","071_10_12","MRK","10","12","12","and, if the woman divorces her husband and marries another man, she is guilty of adultery.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_13","071_10_13","MRK","10","13","13","Some of the people were bringing little children to Jesus, for him to touch them; but the disciples rebuked those who had brought them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_14","071_10_14","MRK","10","14","14","When, however, Jesus saw this, he was indignant. “Let the little children come to me,” he said, “do not hinder them; for it is to the childlike that the kingdom of God belongs. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_15","071_10_15","MRK","10","15","15","I tell you, unless a person receives the kingdom of God like a child, they will not enter it at all.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_16","071_10_16","MRK","10","16","16","Then he embraced the children, and, placing his hands on them, gave them his blessing. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_17","071_10_17","MRK","10","17","17","As Jesus was resuming his journey, a man came running up to him, and threw himself on his knees before him. “Good teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to gain eternal life?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_18","071_10_18","MRK","10","18","18","“Why do you call me good?” answered Jesus. “No one is good but God. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_19","071_10_19","MRK","10","19","19","You know the commandments – ‘Do not kill. Do not commit adultery. Do not steal. Do not say what is false about others. Do not cheat. Honor your father and your mother.’” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_20","071_10_20","MRK","10","20","20","“Teacher,” he replied, “I have observed all these from my childhood.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_21","071_10_21","MRK","10","21","21","Jesus looked at the man, and his heart went out to him, and he said, “There is still one thing wanting in you; go and sell all that you have, and give to the poor, and you will have wealth in heaven; then come and follow me.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_22","071_10_22","MRK","10","22","22","But the man’s face clouded at these words, and he went away distressed, for he had great possessions. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_23","071_10_23","MRK","10","23","23","Then Jesus looked around, and said to his disciples, “How hard it will be for people of wealth to enter the kingdom of God!” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_24","071_10_24","MRK","10","24","24","The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said again, “My children, how hard a thing it is to enter the kingdom of God! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_25","071_10_25","MRK","10","25","25","It is easier for a camel to get through a needle’s eye, than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_26","071_10_26","MRK","10","26","26","“Then who can be saved?” they exclaimed in the greatest astonishment. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_27","071_10_27","MRK","10","27","27","Jesus looked at them, and answered, “With people it is impossible, but not with God; for everything is possible with God.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_28","071_10_28","MRK","10","28","28","“But we,” began Peter, “we left everything and have followed you.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_29","071_10_29","MRK","10","29","29","“I tell you,” said Jesus, “there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or mother, or father, or children, or land, for my sake and for the good news, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_30","071_10_30","MRK","10","30","30","who will not receive a hundred times as much, even now in the present – houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and land, though not without persecutions – and in the age that is coming, eternal life. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_31","071_10_31","MRK","10","31","31","But many who are first now will then be last, and the last will be first.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_32","071_10_32","MRK","10","32","32","They were on the road going up to Jerusalem, with Jesus walking in front of them. The disciples were filled with awe, while those who were following behind were overwhelmed with fear. Gathering the Twelve around him once more, Jesus began to tell them what was about to happen to him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_33","071_10_33","MRK","10","33","33","“Listen!” he said. “We are going up to Jerusalem; and there the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and the teachers of the Law, and they will condemn him to death, and they will give him up to the Gentiles, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_34","071_10_34","MRK","10","34","34","who will mock him, spit on him, and scourge him, and put him to death; and after three days he will rise again.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_35","071_10_35","MRK","10","35","35","James and John, the two sons of Zebedee, went to Jesus, and said, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_36","071_10_36","MRK","10","36","36","“What do you want me to do for you?” he asked. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_37","071_10_37","MRK","10","37","37","“Grant us this,” they answered, “to sit, one on your right, and the other on your left, when you come in glory.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_38","071_10_38","MRK","10","38","38","“You do not know what you are asking,” Jesus said to them. “Can you drink the cup that I am to drink? Or receive the baptism that I am to receive?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_39","071_10_39","MRK","10","39","39","“Yes,” they answered, “we can.” “You will indeed drink the cup that I am to drink,” Jesus said, “and receive the baptism that I am to receive, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_40","071_10_40","MRK","10","40","40","but as to a seat at my right or at my left – that is not mine to give, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_41","071_10_41","MRK","10","41","41","On hearing of this, the ten others were at first very indignant about James and John. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_42","071_10_42","MRK","10","42","42","But Jesus called the ten to him, and said, “Those who are regarded as ruling among the Gentiles lord it over them, as you know, and their great men oppress them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_43","071_10_43","MRK","10","43","43","But among you it is not so. No, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_44","071_10_44","MRK","10","44","44","and whoever wants to take the first place among you must be the servant of all; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_45","071_10_45","MRK","10","45","45","for even the Son of Man came, not be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_46","071_10_46","MRK","10","46","46","They came to Jericho. When Jesus was going out of the town with his disciples and a large crowd, Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the roadside. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_47","071_10_47","MRK","10","47","47","Hearing that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to call out, “Jesus, Son of David, take pity on me.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_48","071_10_48","MRK","10","48","48","Many of the people kept telling him to be quiet; but the man continued to call out all the louder, “Son of David, take pity on me.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_49","071_10_49","MRK","10","49","49","Then Jesus stopped. “Call him,” he said. So they called the blind man. “Have courage!” they exclaimed. “Get up; he is calling you.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_50","071_10_50","MRK","10","50","50","The man threw off his cloak, sprang up, and came to Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK10_51","071_10_51","MRK","10","51","51","“What do you want me to do for you?” said Jesus, addressing him. “Rabboni,” the blind man answered, “I want to recover my sight.” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK11_1","071_11_1","MRK","11","1","1","When they had almost reached Jerusalem, as far as Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent on two of his disciples. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK11_2","071_11_2","MRK","11","2","2","“Go to the village facing you,” he said, “and, as soon as you get there, you will find a foal tethered, which no one has ever ridden; untie it, and bring it. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK11_3","071_11_3","MRK","11","3","3","And, if anyone says to you ‘Why are you doing that?’, say ‘The Master wants it, and will be sure to send it back here at once.’” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK11_4","071_11_4","MRK","11","4","4","The two disciples went, and, finding a foal tethered outside a door in the street, they untied it. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK11_5","071_11_5","MRK","11","5","5","Some of the bystanders said to them, “What are you doing, untying the foal?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK11_6","071_11_6","MRK","11","6","6","And the two disciples answered as Jesus had told them; and they allowed them to go. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK11_7","071_11_7","MRK","11","7","7","Then they brought the foal to Jesus, and, when they had laid their cloaks on it, he seated himself on it. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK11_8","071_11_8","MRK","11","8","8","Many of the people spread their cloaks on the road, while some strewed boughs which they had cut from the fields; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK11_9","071_11_9","MRK","11","9","9","and those who led the way, as well as those who followed, kept shouting, “God save him! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK11_10","071_11_10","MRK","11","10","10","Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! God save him from on high!” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK11_11","071_11_11","MRK","11","11","11","Jesus entered Jerusalem, and went into the Temple Courts; and, after looking around at everything, as it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the Twelve. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK11_14","071_11_14","MRK","11","14","14","So, addressing the tree, he exclaimed, “May no one ever again eat of your fruit!” And his disciples heard what he said. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK11_15","071_11_15","MRK","11","15","15","They came to Jerusalem. Jesus went into the Temple Courts, and began to drive out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers, and the seats of the pigeon-dealers, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK11_16","071_11_16","MRK","11","16","16","and would not allow anyone to carry anything across the Temple Courts. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK11_17","071_11_17","MRK","11","17","17","Then he began to teach. “Does not scripture say,” he asked, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK11_18","071_11_18","MRK","11","18","18","Now the chief priests and the teachers of the Law heard this and began to look for some way of putting Jesus to death; for they were afraid of him, since all the people were greatly impressed by his teaching. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK11_19","071_11_19","MRK","11","19","19","As soon as evening fell, Jesus and his disciples went out of the city. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK11_20","071_11_20","MRK","11","20","20","As they passed by early in the morning, they noticed that the fig tree was withered up from the roots. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK11_21","071_11_21","MRK","11","21","21","Then Peter recalled what had occurred. “Look, Rabbi,” he exclaimed, “the fig tree which you doomed is withered up!” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK11_22","071_11_22","MRK","11","22","22","“Have faith in God!” replied Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK11_23","071_11_23","MRK","11","23","23","“I tell you that if anyone should say to this hill ‘Be lifted up and hurled into the sea!’, without ever a doubt in his mind, but in the faith that what he says will be done, he would find that it would be. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK11_24","071_11_24","MRK","11","24","24","And therefore I say to you ‘Have faith that whatever you ask for in prayer is already granted you, and you will find that it will be.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK11_25","071_11_25","MRK","11","25","25","“And, whenever you stand up to pray, forgive any grievance that you have against anyone, so that your Father who is in heaven also may forgive you your offenses.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK11_27","071_11_27","MRK","11","27","27"," They came to Jerusalem again. While Jesus was walking about in the Temple Courts, the chief priests, the teachers of the Law, and the elders came up to him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK11_28","071_11_28","MRK","11","28","28","“What authority have you to do these things?” they said. “Who gave you the authority to do them?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK11_29","071_11_29","MRK","11","29","29","“I will put one question to you,” said Jesus. “Answer me that, and then I will tell you what authority I have to act as I do. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK11_30","071_11_30","MRK","11","30","30","It is about John’s baptism. Was it of divine or human origin? Answer me that.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK11_31","071_11_31","MRK","11","31","31","They began arguing together. “If we say ‘divine,’ he will say ‘Why then didn’t you believe him?’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK11_32","071_11_32","MRK","11","32","32","Yet can we say ‘human’?” They were afraid of the people, for everyone regarded John as undoubtedly a prophet. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK11_33","071_11_33","MRK","11","33","33","So their answer to Jesus was – “We do not know.” “Then I,” replied Jesus, “refuse to tell you what authority I have to do these things.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK12_1","071_12_1","MRK","12","1","1","Jesus began to speak to them in parables, “A man once planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a wine-press, built a tower, and then let it out to tenants and went abroad. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK12_2","071_12_2","MRK","12","2","2","At the proper time he sent a servant to the tenants, to receive from them a share of the produce of the grape harvest; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK12_3","071_12_3","MRK","12","3","3","but they seized him, and beat him, and sent him away empty-handed. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK12_4","071_12_4","MRK","12","4","4","A second time the owner sent a servant to them; this man, too, the tenants struck on the head, and insulted. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK12_5","071_12_5","MRK","12","5","5","He sent another, but him they killed; and so with many others – some they beat and some they killed. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK12_6","071_12_6","MRK","12","6","6","He had still one son, who was very dear to him; and him he sent to them last of all. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK12_7","071_12_7","MRK","12","7","7","But those tenants said to one another ‘Here is the heir! Come, let us kill him, and his inheritance will be ours.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK12_8","071_12_8","MRK","12","8","8","So they seized him, and killed him, and threw his body outside the vineyard. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK12_9","071_12_9","MRK","12","9","9","What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and put the tenants to death, and he will let the vineyard to others. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK12_10","071_12_10","MRK","12","10","10","“Have you never read this passage of scripture? – ‘The stone which the builders despised has now itself become the cornerstone; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK12_11","071_12_11","MRK","12","11","11","this cornerstone has come from the Lord, and is marvelous in our eyes.’” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK12_12","071_12_12","MRK","12","12","12","After this his enemies were eager to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowd; for they saw that it was at them that he had aimed the parable. So they left him alone, and went away. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK12_13","071_12_13","MRK","12","13","13","Afterward they sent to Jesus some of the Pharisees and Herodians, to set a trap for him in the course of conversation. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK12_14","071_12_14","MRK","12","14","14","These men came to him and said, “Teacher, we know that you are an honest man, and are not afraid of anyone, for you pay no regard to a person’s position, but teach the way of God honestly; are we right in paying taxes to the Emperor, or not? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK12_15","071_12_15","MRK","12","15","15","Should we pay, or should we not pay?” Knowing their hypocrisy, Jesus said to them, “Why are you testing me? Bring me a coin to look at.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK12_16","071_12_16","MRK","12","16","16","And, when they had brought it, he asked, “Whose head and title are these?” “The Emperor’s,” they said; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK12_17","071_12_17","MRK","12","17","17","and Jesus replied, “Pay to the Emperor what belongs to the Emperor, and to God what belongs to God.” And they were amazed at him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK12_18","071_12_18","MRK","12","18","18","Next came some Sadducees – the men who maintain that there is no resurrection. Their question was this – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK12_19","071_12_19","MRK","12","19","19","“Teacher, in our scriptures Moses decreed that, should a man’s brother die, leaving a widow but no child, the man should take the widow as his wife, and raise up a family for his brother. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK12_20","071_12_20","MRK","12","20","20","There were once seven brothers. The eldest married, but died and left no family; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK12_21","071_12_21","MRK","12","21","21","and the second married his widow, and died without family; and so did the third. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK12_22","071_12_22","MRK","12","22","22","All the seven died and left no family. The woman herself died last of all. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK12_23","071_12_23","MRK","12","23","23","At the resurrection whose wife will she be, all seven brothers having had her as their wife?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK12_24","071_12_24","MRK","12","24","24","“Is not the reason of your mistake,” answered Jesus, “your ignorance of the scriptures and of the power of God? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK12_25","071_12_25","MRK","12","25","25","When people rise from the dead, there is no marrying or being married; but they are as angels in heaven. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK12_26","071_12_26","MRK","12","26","26","“As to the dead, and the fact that they rise, have you never read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the Bush, how God spoke to him saying – ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK12_27","071_12_27","MRK","12","27","27","He is not God of dead people, but of living. You are greatly mistaken.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK12_28","071_12_28","MRK","12","28","28","Then came up one of the teachers of the Law who had heard their discussions. Knowing that Jesus had answered them wisely, he asked him this question, “Which commandment is the most important of all?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK12_29","071_12_29","MRK","12","29","29","“The most important,” answered Jesus, “is – ‘Hear, Israel; the Lord our God is the one Lord; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK12_30","071_12_30","MRK","12","30","30","and you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK12_31","071_12_31","MRK","12","31","31","The second is this – ‘You must love your neighbor as you love yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK12_32","071_12_32","MRK","12","32","32","“Wisely answered, teacher!” exclaimed the teacher of the Law. “It is true, as you say, that there is one God, and that there is no other besides him; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK12_33","071_12_33","MRK","12","33","33","and to love him with all one’s heart, and with all one’s understanding, and with all one’s strength, and to love one’s neighbor as one loves oneself is far beyond all burnt offerings and sacrifices.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK12_34","071_12_34","MRK","12","34","34","Seeing that he had answered with discernment, Jesus said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” After that no one ventured to question him further. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK12_35","071_12_35","MRK","12","35","35","While Jesus was teaching in the Temple Courts, he asked, “How is it that the teachers of the Law say that the Christ is to be David’s son? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK12_36","071_12_36","MRK","12","36","36","David said himself, speaking under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit – ‘The Lord said to my lord: Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies beneath your feet.’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK12_37","071_12_37","MRK","12","37","37","David himself calls him ‘lord,’ how comes it, then, that he is to be his son?” The mass of the people listened to Jesus with delight. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK12_38","071_12_38","MRK","12","38","38","In the course of his teaching, Jesus said, “See that you are on your guard against the teachers of the Law, who delight to walk about in long robes, and to be greeted in the streets with respect, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK12_39","071_12_39","MRK","12","39","39","and to have the best seats in the synagogues, and places of honor at dinner. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK12_40","071_12_40","MRK","12","40","40","They are the men who rob widows of their homes, and make a pretense of saying long prayers. Their sentence will be all the heavier.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK12_41","071_12_41","MRK","12","41","41","Then Jesus sat down opposite the chests for the Temple offerings, and watched how the people put money into them. Many rich people were putting in large sums; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK12_42","071_12_42","MRK","12","42","42","but one poor widow came and put in two small coins, worth very little. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK12_43","071_12_43","MRK","12","43","43","Then, calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, “I tell you that this poor widow has put in more than all the others who were putting money into the chests; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK12_44","071_12_44","MRK","12","44","44","for everyone else put in something from what he had to spare, while she, in her need, put in all she had – everything that she had to live on.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK13_1","071_13_1","MRK","13","1","1","As Jesus was walking out of the Temple Courts, one of his disciples said to him, “Teacher, look what fine stones and buildings these are!” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK13_2","071_13_2","MRK","13","2","2","“Do you see these great buildings?” asked Jesus. “Not a single stone will be left here on another, which will not be thrown down.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK13_3","071_13_3","MRK","13","3","3","When Jesus had sat down on the Mount of Olives, facing the Temple, Peter, James, John and Andrew questioned him privately, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK13_4","071_13_4","MRK","13","4","4","“Tell us when this will be, and what will be the sign when all this is drawing to its close.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK13_5","071_13_5","MRK","13","5","5","Then Jesus began, “See that no one leads you astray. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK13_6","071_13_6","MRK","13","6","6","Many will take my name, and come saying ‘I am He’, and will lead many astray. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK13_7","071_13_7","MRK","13","7","7","“And, when you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed; such things must occur; but the end is not yet. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK13_8","071_13_8","MRK","13","8","8","For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines. This will be but the beginning of the birth-pangs. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK13_9","071_13_9","MRK","13","9","9","“See to yourselves! They will betray you to courts of law; and you will be taken to synagogues and beaten; and you will be brought up before governors and kings for my sake, so that you can bear witness before them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK13_10","071_13_10","MRK","13","10","10","But the good news must first be proclaimed to every nation. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK13_11","071_13_11","MRK","13","11","11","Whenever they betray you and hand you over for trial, do not be anxious beforehand as to what you will say, but say whatever is given you at the moment; for it will not be you who speak, but the Holy Spirit. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK13_12","071_13_12","MRK","13","12","12","Brother will betray brother to death, and the father his child; and children will turn against their parents, and cause them to be put to death; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK13_13","071_13_13","MRK","13","13","13","and you will be hated by everyone because of me. Yet the person who endures to the end will be saved. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK13_14","071_13_14","MRK","13","14","14","“As soon, however, as you see ‘the Foul Desecration’ standing where it ought not” (the reader must consider what this means) “then those of you who are in Judea must take refuge in the mountains; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK13_15","071_13_15","MRK","13","15","15","and a person on the house-top must not go down, or go in to get anything out of their house: ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK13_16","071_13_16","MRK","13","16","16","nor must one who is on their farm turn back to get their cloak. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK13_17","071_13_17","MRK","13","17","17","And alas for pregnant women, and for those who are nursing infants in those days! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK13_18","071_13_18","MRK","13","18","18","Pray, too, that this may not occur in winter. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK13_19","071_13_19","MRK","13","19","19","For those days will be a time of distress, the like of which has not occurred from the beginning of God’s creation until now – and never will again. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK13_20","071_13_20","MRK","13","20","20","And, had not the Lord put a limit to those days, not a single soul would escape; but, for the sake of God’s own chosen people, he did limit them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK13_21","071_13_21","MRK","13","21","21","“And at that time if anyone should say to you ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ ‘Look, there he is!’, do not believe it; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK13_22","071_13_22","MRK","13","22","22","for false Christs and false prophets will arise, and display signs and marvels, to lead astray, were it possible, even God’s people. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK13_23","071_13_23","MRK","13","23","23","But see that you are on your guard! I have told you all this beforehand. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK13_25","071_13_25","MRK","13","25","25","the stars will be falling from the heavens, and the forces that are in the heavens will be convulsed. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK13_26","071_13_26","MRK","13","26","26","Then will be seen the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK13_27","071_13_27","MRK","13","27","27","and then he will send the angels, and gather his people from the four winds, from one end of the world to the other. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK13_28","071_13_28","MRK","13","28","28","“Learn the lesson taught by the fig tree. As soon as its branches are full of sap, and it is bursting into leaf, you know that summer is near. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK13_29","071_13_29","MRK","13","29","29","And so may you, as soon as you see these things happening, know that he is at your doors. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK13_30","071_13_30","MRK","13","30","30","I tell you that even the present generation will not pass away, until all these things have taken place. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK13_31","071_13_31","MRK","13","31","31","The heavens and the earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK13_32","071_13_32","MRK","13","32","32","“But about that day, or the hour, no one knows – not even the angels in heaven, not even the Son – but only the Father. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK13_33","071_13_33","MRK","13","33","33","“See that you are on the watch; for you do not know when the time will be. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK13_34","071_13_34","MRK","13","34","34","It is like a man going on a journey, who leaves his home, puts his servants in charge – each having their special duty – and orders the porter to watch. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK13_35","071_13_35","MRK","13","35","35","Therefore watch, for you cannot be sure when the Master of the house is coming – whether in the evening, at midnight, at daybreak, or in the morning – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK13_36","071_13_36","MRK","13","36","36","otherwise he might come suddenly and find you asleep. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK13_37","071_13_37","MRK","13","37","37","And what I say to you I say to all – Watch!” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK14_1","071_14_1","MRK","14","1","1","It was now two days before the Festival of the Passover and the unleavened bread. The chief priests and the teachers of the Law were looking for an opportunity to arrest Jesus by stealth, and to put him to death; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK14_2","071_14_2","MRK","14","2","2","for they said, “Not during the Festival, or the people may riot.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK14_3","071_14_3","MRK","14","3","3","When Jesus was still at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, while he was sitting at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of choice spikenard perfume of great value. She broke the jar, and poured the perfume on his head. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK14_4","071_14_4","MRK","14","4","4","Some of those who were present said to one another indignantly, “Why has the perfume been wasted like this? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK14_5","071_14_5","MRK","14","5","5","This perfume could have been sold for more than a year’s wages, and the money given to the poor.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK14_6","071_14_6","MRK","14","6","6","“Leave her alone,” said Jesus, as they began to find fault with her, “why are you troubling her? This is a beautiful deed that she has done for me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK14_7","071_14_7","MRK","14","7","7","You always have the poor with you, and whenever you wish you can do good to them; but you will not always have me. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK14_8","071_14_8","MRK","14","8","8","She has done what she could; she has perfumed my body beforehand for my burial. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK14_9","071_14_9","MRK","14","9","9","And I tell you, wherever, in the whole world, the good news is proclaimed, what this woman has done will be told in memory of her.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK14_10","071_14_10","MRK","14","10","10","After this, Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went to the chief priests, to betray Jesus to them. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK14_11","071_14_11","MRK","14","11","11","They were glad to hear what he said, and promised to pay him. So he began looking for a good opportunity to betray Jesus. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK14_12","071_14_12","MRK","14","12","12","On the first day of the Festival of the unleavened bread, when it was customary to kill the Passover lambs, his disciples said to Jesus, “Where do you wish us to go and make preparations for your eating the Passover?” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK14_18","071_14_18","MRK","14","18","18","and when they had taken their places and were eating, Jesus said, “I tell you that one of you is going to betray me – one who is eating with me.” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK14_20","071_14_20","MRK","14","20","20","“It is one of you Twelve,” said Jesus, “the one who is dipping his bread beside me into the dish. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK14_21","071_14_21","MRK","14","21","21","True, the Son of Man must go, as scripture says of him, yet alas for that man by whom the Son of Man is being betrayed! For that man it would be better never to have been born!” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK14_27","071_14_27","MRK","14","27","27","presently Jesus said to them, “All of you will fall away; for scripture says – ‘I will strike down the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’ ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK14_38","071_14_38","MRK","14","38","38","Watch and pray,” he said to them all, “so that you may not fall into temptation. True, the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK14_40","071_14_40","MRK","14","40","40","and coming back again he found them asleep, for their eyes were heavy; and they did not know what to say to him. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK14_49","071_14_49","MRK","14","49","49","I have been among you day after day in the Temple Courts teaching, and yet you did not arrest me; but this is in fulfillment of the scriptures.” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("MK15_9","071_15_9","MRK","15","9","9","he answered, “Do you want me to release the ‘king of the Jews’ for you?” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("LK1_16","072_1_16","LUK","1","16","16","and will reconcile many of the Israelites to the Lord their God. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("LK1_40","072_1_40","LUK","1","40","40","and there she went into Zechariah’s house and greeted Elizabeth. ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("LK2_34","072_2_34","LUK","2","34","34","Simeon gave them his blessing, and said to Mary, the child’s mother, “This child is appointed to be the cause of the fall and rise of many in Israel, and to be a sign much spoken against – ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("LK2_35","072_2_35","LUK","2","35","35","Yes, the sword will pierce your own heart – and so the thoughts in many minds will be disclosed.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("LK2_36","072_2_36","LUK","2","36","36","There was also a prophet named Hannah, a daughter of Phanuel and of the tribe of Asher. She was far advanced in years, having lived with her husband for seven years after marriage, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("LK2_37","072_2_37","LUK","2","37","37","and then a widow, until she had reached the age of eighty-four. She never left the Temple Courts, but, fasting and praying, worshiped God night and day. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("LK2_38","072_2_38","LUK","2","38","38","At that moment she came up, and began publicly to thank God and to speak about the child to all who were looking for the deliverance of Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("LK2_39","072_2_39","LUK","2","39","39","When the child’s parents had done everything required by the Law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee to their own town of Nazareth. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("LK2_40","072_2_40","LUK","2","40","40","The child grew and became strong and wise, and the blessing of God was on him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("LK2_41","072_2_41","LUK","2","41","41","Every year the child’s parents used to go to Jerusalem at the Passover Festival. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("LK2_42","072_2_42","LUK","2","42","42","When Jesus was twelve years old, they went according to custom to Jerusalem, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("LK2_43","072_2_43","LUK","2","43","43","and had finished their visit; but, when they started to return, the boy Jesus remained behind in Jerusalem, without their knowing it. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("LK2_44","072_2_44","LUK","2","44","44","Thinking that he was with their fellow travelers, they went one day’s journey before searching for him among their relatives and acquaintances; ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("LK2_45","072_2_45","LUK","2","45","45","and then, as they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem, searching everywhere for him. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("LK2_46","072_2_46","LUK","2","46","46","It was not until the third day that they found him in the Temple Courts, sitting among the teachers, now listening to them, now asking them questions. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("LK2_47","072_2_47","LUK","2","47","47","All who listened to him marveled at his intelligence and his answers. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("LK2_48","072_2_48","LUK","2","48","48","His parents were amazed when they saw him, and his mother said to him, “My child, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been searching for you in great distress.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("LK2_49","072_2_49","LUK","2","49","49","“What made you search for me?” he answered. “Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("LK2_50","072_2_50","LUK","2","50","50","His parents did not understand what he meant. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("LK2_51","072_2_51","LUK","2","51","51","However he went down with them to Nazareth, and submitted himself to their control; and his mother treasured all that was said in her heart. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("LK2_52","072_2_52","LUK","2","52","52","And Jesus grew in wisdom as he grew in years, and gained the blessing of God and people. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("LK3_1","072_3_1","LUK","3","1","1","In the fifteenth year of the reign of the Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod ruler of Galilee, his brother Philip ruler of the territory comprising Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ruler of Abilene, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("LK3_2","072_3_2","LUK","3","2","2","and when Annas and Caiaphas were high priests, a command from God came to John, the son of Zechariah, while he was in the wilderness. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("LK3_3","072_3_3","LUK","3","3","3","And John went through the whole district of the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance, for the forgiveness of sins. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("LK3_4","072_3_4","LUK","3","4","4","This was in fulfillment of what is said in the writings of the prophet Isaiah – ‘The voice of one crying aloud in the wilderness: “Make ready the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("LK3_5","072_3_5","LUK","3","5","5","Every chasm will be filled, every mountain and hill will be leveled. The winding ways will be straightened, the rough roads made smooth, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("LK3_6","072_3_6","LUK","3","6","6","and everyone will see the salvation of God.”’ ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("LK3_7","072_3_7","LUK","3","7","7","And John said to the crowds that went to be baptized by him, “You children of snakes! Who has prompted you to seek refuge from the coming judgment? ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("LK3_8","072_3_8","LUK","3","8","8","Let your lives, then, prove your repentance; and do not begin to say among yourselves ‘Abraham is our ancestor,’ for I tell you that out of these stones God is able to raise descendants for Abraham! ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("LK3_9","072_3_9","LUK","3","9","9","Already, indeed, the axe is lying at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that fails to bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("LK3_10","072_3_10","LUK","3","10","10","“What are we to do then?” the people asked. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("LK3_11","072_3_11","LUK","3","11","11","“Let anyone who has two coats,” answered John, “share with the person who has none; and anyone who has food do the same.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("LK3_12","072_3_12","LUK","3","12","12","Even tax collectors came to be baptized, and said to John, “Teacher, what are we to do?” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("LK3_13","072_3_13","LUK","3","13","13","“Do not collect more than you have authority to demand,” John answered. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("LK3_14","072_3_14","LUK","3","14","14","And when some soldiers on active service asked “And we – what are we to do?” he said, “Never use violence, or exact anything by false accusation; and be content with your pay.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("LK3_15","072_3_15","LUK","3","15","15","Then, while the people were in suspense, and were all debating with themselves whether John could be the Christ, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("LK3_16","072_3_16","LUK","3","16","16","John, addressing them all, said, “I, indeed, baptize you with water; but there is coming one more powerful than I, and I am not fit even to unfasten his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("LK3_17","072_3_17","LUK","3","17","17","His winnowing-fan is in his hand so that he may clear his threshing-floor, and store the grain in his barn, but the chaff he will burn with a fire that cannot be put out.” ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("LK3_18","072_3_18","LUK","3","18","18","And so with many different appeals John told his good news to the people. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("LK3_19","072_3_19","LUK","3","19","19","But when John rebuked Herod the ruler, for Herodia his brother’s wife, and for all the evil things that he had done, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("LK3_20","072_3_20","LUK","3","20","20","Herod crowned them all by shutting John up in prison. ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("LK3_21","072_3_21","LUK","3","21","21","Now after the baptism of all the people, and when Jesus had been baptized and was still praying, the heavens opened, ");
INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("LK3_22","072_3_22","LUK","3","22","22","and the Holy Spirit came down on him in the form of a dove, and from the heavens came a voice – “You are my dearly loved son; you bring me great joy.” ");
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INSERT INTO OpenEnglishBible_U.S.spelling__vpl VALUES ("LK3_27","072_3_27","LUK","3","27","27","Johanan, Rhesa, Zerubbabel, Salathiel, Neriah, ");
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