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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1When Jesus had finished saying all this to the people, he returned to Capernaum. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2At that time the highly valued slave of a Roman officer was sick and near death. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3When the officer heard about Jesus, he sent some respected Jewish elders to ask him to come and heal his slave. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4So they earnestly begged Jesus to help the man. “If anyone deserves your help, he does,” they said, |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5“for he loves the Jewish people and even built a synagogue for us.” |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6So Jesus went with them. But just before they arrived at the house, the officer sent some friends to say, “Lord, don’t trouble yourself by coming to my home, for I am not worthy of such an honor. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7I am not even worthy to come and meet you. Just say the word from where you are, and my servant will be healed. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8I know this because I am under the authority of my superior officers, and I have authority over my soldiers. I only need to say, ‘Go,’ and they go, or ‘Come,’ and they come. And if I say to my slaves, ‘Do this,’ they do it.” |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9When Jesus heard this, he was amazed. Turning to the crowd that was following him, he said, “I tell you, I haven’t seen faith like this in all Israel!” |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10And when the officer’s friends returned to his house, they found the slave completely healed. Jesus Raises a Widow’s Son |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Soon afterward Jesus went with his disciples to the village of Nain, and a large crowd followed him. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12A funeral procession was coming out as he approached the village gate. The young man who had died was a widow’s only son, and a large crowd from the village was with her. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13When the Lord saw her, his heart overflowed with compassion. “Don’t cry!” he said. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Then he walked over to the coffin and touched it, and the bearers stopped. “Young man,” he said, “I tell you, get up.” |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Then the dead boy sat up and began to talk! And Jesus gave him back to his mother. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Great fear swept the crowd, and they praised God, saying, “A mighty prophet has risen among us,” and “God has visited his people today.” |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17And the news about Jesus spread throughout Judea and the surrounding countryside. Jesus and John the Baptist |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18The disciples of John the Baptist told John about everything Jesus was doing. So John called for two of his disciples, |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19and he sent them to the Lord to ask him, “Are you the Messiah we’ve been expecting, or should we keep looking for someone else?” |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20John’s two disciples found Jesus and said to him, “John the Baptist sent us to ask, ‘Are you the Messiah we’ve been expecting, or should we keep looking for someone else?’” |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21At that very time, Jesus cured many people of their diseases, illnesses, and evil spirits, and he restored sight to many who were blind. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Then he told John’s disciples, “Go back to John and tell him what you have seen and heard—the blind see, the lame walk, those with leprosy are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised to life, and the Good News is being preached to the poor.” |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23 And he added, “God blesses those who do not fall away because of me. ” |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24After John’s disciples left, Jesus began talking about him to the crowds. “What kind of man did you go into the wilderness to see? Was he a weak reed, swayed by every breath of wind? |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25 Or were you expecting to see a man dressed in expensive clothes? No, people who wear beautiful clothes and live in luxury are found in palaces. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26 Were you looking for a prophet? Yes, and he is more than a prophet. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27 John is the man to whom the Scriptures refer when they say, ‘Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, and he will prepare your way before you.’ |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28 I tell you, of all who have ever lived, none is greater than John. Yet even the least person in the Kingdom of God is greater than he is!” |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29When they heard this, all the people—even the tax collectors—agreed that God’s way was right, for they had been baptized by John. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30But the Pharisees and experts in religious law rejected God’s plan for them, for they had refused John’s baptism. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31 “To what can I compare the people of this generation?” Jesus asked. “How can I describe them? |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32 They are like children playing a game in the public square. They complain to their friends, ‘We played wedding songs, and you didn’t dance, so we played funeral songs, and you didn’t weep.’ |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33 For John the Baptist didn’t spend his time eating bread or drinking wine, and you say, ‘He’s possessed by a demon.’ |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34 The Son of Man, on the other hand, feasts and drinks, and you say, ‘He’s a glutton and a drunkard, and a friend of tax collectors and other sinners!’ |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35 But wisdom is shown to be right by the lives of those who follow it. ” Jesus Anointed by a Sinful Woman |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to have dinner with him, so Jesus went to his home and sat down to eat. |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37When a certain immoral woman from that city heard he was eating there, she brought a beautiful alabaster jar filled with expensive perfume. |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38Then she knelt behind him at his feet, weeping. Her tears fell on his feet, and she wiped them off with her hair. Then she kept kissing his feet and putting perfume on them. |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know what kind of woman is touching him. She’s a sinner!” |
| 40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40Then Jesus answered his thoughts. “Simon,” he said to the Pharisee, “I have something to say to you.” “Go ahead, Teacher,” Simon replied. |
| 41[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 41Then Jesus told him this story: “A man loaned money to two people—500 pieces of silver to one and 50 pieces to the other. |
| 42[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 42 But neither of them could repay him, so he kindly forgave them both, canceling their debts. Who do you suppose loved him more after that?” |
| 43[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 43Simon answered, “I suppose the one for whom he canceled the larger debt.” “That’s right,” Jesus said. |
| 44[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 44Then he turned to the woman and said to Simon, “Look at this woman kneeling here. When I entered your home, you didn’t offer me water to wash the dust from my feet, but she has washed them with her tears and wiped them with her hair. |
| 45[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 45 You didn’t greet me with a kiss, but from the time I first came in, she has not stopped kissing my feet. |
| 46[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 46 You neglected the courtesy of olive oil to anoint my head, but she has anointed my feet with rare perfume. |
| 47[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 47 “I tell you, her sins—and they are many—have been forgiven, so she has shown me much love. But a person who is forgiven little shows only little love.” |
| 48[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 48Then Jesus said to the woman, “Your sins are forgiven.” |
| 49[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 49The men at the table said among themselves, “Who is this man, that he goes around forgiving sins?” |
| 50[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 50And Jesus said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.” |
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