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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, “Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3the voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight,’” |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Now John was clothed with camel’s hair and wore a leather belt around his waist and ate locusts and wild honey. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7And he preached, saying, “After me comes he who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8I have baptized you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.” |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11And a voice came from heaven, “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.” |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12The Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13And he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan. And he was with the wild animals, and the angels were ministering to him. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Now after John was arrested, Jesus came into Galilee, proclaiming the gospel of God, |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.” |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Passing alongside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17And Jesus said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you become fishers of men.” |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18And immediately they left their nets and followed him. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19And going on a little farther, he saw James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, who were in their boat mending the nets. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20And immediately he called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants and followed him. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21And they went into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath he entered the synagogue and was teaching. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22And they were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one who had authority, and not as the scribes. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23And immediately there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit. And he cried out, |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24“What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God.” |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25But Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent, and come out of him!” |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26And the unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying out with a loud voice, came out of him. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27And they were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, “What is this? A new teaching with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him.” |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28And at once his fame spread everywhere throughout all the surrounding region of Galilee. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29And immediately he left the synagogue and entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Now Simon’s mother-in-law lay ill with a fever, and immediately they told him about her. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31And he came and took her by the hand and lifted her up, and the fever left her, and she began to serve them. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32That evening at sundown they brought to him all who were sick or oppressed by demons. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33And the whole city was gathered together at the door. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34And he healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons. And he would not permit the demons to speak, because they knew him. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed. |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36And Simon and those who were with him searched for him, |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37and they found him and said to him, “Everyone is looking for you.” |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38And he said to them, “Let us go on to the next towns, that I may preach there also, for that is why I came out.” |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39And he went throughout all Galilee, preaching in their synagogues and casting out demons. |
| 40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40And a leper came to him, imploring him, and kneeling said to him, “If you will, you can make me clean.” |
| 41[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 41Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him and said to him, “I will; be clean.” |
| 42[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 42And immediately the leprosy left him, and he was made clean. |
| 43[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 43And Jesus sternly charged him and sent him away at once, |
| 44[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 44and said to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, for a proof to them.” |
| 45[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 45But he went out and began to talk freely about it, and to spread the news, so that Jesus could no longer openly enter a town, but was out in desolate places, and people were coming to him from every quarter. |
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