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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples." |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2He said to them, "When you pray, say: "'Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Give us each day our daily bread. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sins against us. And lead us not into temptation.'" |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Then Jesus said to them, "Suppose you have a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say, 'Friend, lend me three loaves of bread; |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6a friend of mine on a journey has come to me, and I have no food to offer him.' |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7And suppose the one inside answers, 'Don't bother me. The door is already locked, and my children and I are in bed. I can't get up and give you anything.' |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8I tell you, even though he will not get up and give you the bread because of friendship, yet because of your shameless audacity he will surely get up and give you as much as you need. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead? |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!" |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Jesus was driving out a demon that was mute. When the demon left, the man who had been mute spoke, and the crowd was amazed. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15But some of them said, "By Beelzebul, the prince of demons, he is driving out demons." |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Others tested him by asking for a sign from heaven. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them: "Any kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and a house divided against itself will fall. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18If Satan is divided against himself, how can his kingdom stand? I say this because you claim that I drive out demons by Beelzebul. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Now if I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your followers drive them out? So then, they will be your judges. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20But if I drive out demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21"When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are safe. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22But when someone stronger attacks and overpowers him, he takes away the armor in which the man trusted and divides up his plunder. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23"Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24"When an impure spirit comes out of a person, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, 'I will return to the house I left.' |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25When it arrives, it finds the house swept clean and put in order. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Then it goes and takes seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the final condition of that person is worse than the first." |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd called out, "Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you." |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28He replied, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it." |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29As the crowds increased, Jesus said, "This is a wicked generation. It asks for a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30For as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so also will the Son of Man be to this generation. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with the people of this generation and condemn them, for she came from the ends of the earth to listen to Solomon's wisdom; and now something greater than Solomon is here. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and now something greater than Jonah is here. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33"No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be hidden, or under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, so that those who come in may see the light. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are healthy, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are unhealthy, your body also is full of darkness. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35See to it, then, that the light within you is not darkness. |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36Therefore, if your whole body is full of light, and no part of it dark, it will be just as full of light as when a lamp shines its light on you." |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37When Jesus had finished speaking, a Pharisee invited him to eat with him; so he went in and reclined at the table. |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38But the Pharisee was surprised when he noticed that Jesus did not first wash before the meal. |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39Then the Lord said to him, "Now then, you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness. |
| 40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40You foolish people! Did not the one who made the outside make the inside also? |
| 41[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 41But now as for what is inside you--be generous to the poor, and everything will be clean for you. |
| 42[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 42"Woe to you Pharisees, because you give God a tenth of your mint, rue and all other kinds of garden herbs, but you neglect justice and the love of God. You should have practiced the latter without leaving the former undone. |
| 43[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 43"Woe to you Pharisees, because you love the most important seats in the synagogues and respectful greetings in the marketplaces. |
| 44[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 44"Woe to you, because you are like unmarked graves, which people walk over without knowing it." |
| 45[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 45One of the experts in the law answered him, "Teacher, when you say these things, you insult us also." |
| 46[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 46Jesus replied, "And you experts in the law, woe to you, because you load people down with burdens they can hardly carry, and you yourselves will not lift one finger to help them. |
| 47[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 47"Woe to you, because you build tombs for the prophets, and it was your ancestors who killed them. |
| 48[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 48So you testify that you approve of what your ancestors did; they killed the prophets, and you build their tombs. |
| 49[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 49Because of this, God in his wisdom said, 'I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and others they will persecute.' |
| 50[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 50Therefore this generation will be held responsible for the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the beginning of the world, |
| 51[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 51from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, this generation will be held responsible for it all. |
| 52[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 52"Woe to you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering." |
| 53[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 53When Jesus went outside, the Pharisees and the teachers of the law began to oppose him fiercely and to besiege him with questions, |
| 54[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 54waiting to catch him in something he might say. |
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