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38 John said to  [ Jesus ] , "Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he was not following us."  39 But Jesus said, "Do not stop him; for no one who does a deed of power in my name will be able soon afterward to speak evil of me.  40 Whoever is not against us is for us.  41 For truly I tell you, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because yo...

27 Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way he asked his disciples, "Who do people say that I am?"  28 And they answered him, "John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets."  29 He asked them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered him, "You are the Messiah."  30 And he sternly ordered them not to tell anyone about...

24 [ Jesus ]  set out and went away to the region of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice, 25 but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him, and she came and bowed down at his feet.  26 Now the woman was a Gentile, of Syrophoenician origin. She begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter.  2...

1 Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around [Jesus],  2 they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them.  3 (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they thoroughly wash their hands, thus observing the tradition of the elders;  4 and they do not eat anything from the market unless...

[ Jesus said, ]   56 "Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them.  57 Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father , so whoever eats me will live because of me.  58 This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like that which your ancestors ate, and they died. But the one who eats this bread will live forever."  59 He said these things while he...

1 Kings 19:4-8 4 [ Elijah ]  went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die: "It is enough; now, O  Lord , take away my life, for I am no better than my ancestors." 5 Then he lay down under the broom tree and fell asleep. Suddenly an angel touched him and said to him, "Get up and eat."  6 He looked, and there at his head was...

John 6: 24-35   24 When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were  [ beside the sea, ]  they themselves got into the boats and went to Capernaum looking for Jesus.     25 When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, "Rabbi, when did you come here?"  26 Jesus answered them, "Very truly, I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw signs, but because y...

1   Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, also called the Sea of Tiberias.   2   A large crowd kept following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing for the sick.   3   Jesus went up the mountain and sat down there with his disciples.   4   Now the Passover, the festival of the Jews, was near .   5   When he looked up and saw a large crowd coming toward him, Jesus said to...

30   The apostles gathered around Jesus, and told him all that they had done and taught.   31   He said to them, " Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while. " For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat.   32   And they went away in the boat to a deserted place by themselves.   33   Now many saw them going and recognized them, and they hurried there...

Romans 12: 1-8 NIV   Therefore, I urge you,  brothers and sisters, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.  2  Do not conform  to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing  and perfect will . 3 ...

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13   Now on that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles [ a ]   from Jerusalem,   14   and talking with each other about all these things that had happened.   15   While they were talking and discussing, Jesus himself came near and went with them,   16   but their eyes were kept from recognizing him.   17   And he said to them, "What are you discussing with e...

GOSPEL : Luke 24: 13-35   13  Now on that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles [ a ]  from Jerusalem,  14  and talking with each other about all these things that had happened.   15  While they were talking and discussing, Jesus himself came near and went with them,  16  but their eyes were kept from recognizing him.  17  And he said to them, "What are you...

Luke 24: 13-35 13   Now on that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles [ a ]   from Jerusalem,   14   and talking with each other about all these things that had happened.   15   While they were talking and discussing, Jesus himself came near and went with them,   16   but their eyes were kept from recognizing him.   17   And he said to them, "What are you di...

1 Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews.  2 He came to Jesus by night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God; for no one can do these signs that you do apart from the presence of God."  3 Jesus answered him, "Very truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above."  4 Nicodemus said to him, "How can an...

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 1 If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.  2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.   3 If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but...

1 Corinthians 1:10-18 10 Now I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you be in agreement and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same purpose.  11 For it has been reported to me by Chloe's people that there are quarrels among you, my brothers and sisters.  12 What I mean is that each of you says, "I...

1 Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy,   To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:   Grace to you and peace.   2 We always give thanks to God for all of you and mention you in our prayers, constantly  3 remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.  4 For we know, brothers and sisters bel...

1 One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, at three o'clock in the afternoon.  2 And a man lame from birth was being carried in. People would lay him daily at the gate of the temple called the Beautiful Gate so that he could ask for alms from those entering the temple.  3 When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked them for alms.  4 Peter looke...

In the first book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and teach  2  until the day when he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.  3  After his suffering [ a ]  he presented himself alive to them by many convincing proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God.  4  While stay...

Mark 16:1-8 1When the sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint [Jesus' body]. 2And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. 3They had been saying to one another, "Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?" 4When they looked up, they saw that the...

 Mark 11: 1-11 When they were approaching Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples 2 and said to them, "Go into the village ahead of you, and immediately as you enter it you will find tied there a colt that has never been ridden; untie it and bring it. 3 If anyone says to you, 'Why are you doing this?' just say this: 'The Lord needs it and will se...

Mark 13:1-8, 24-37            1 As [Jesus] came out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, "Look, Teacher, what large stones and what large buildings!"  2 Then Jesus asked him, "Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone will be left here upon another; all will be thrown down."             3 When he was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John, and Andr...

Mark 12: 28 - 44 28One of the scribes came near and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, he asked him, "Which commandment is the first of all?" 29Jesus answered, "The first is, 'Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one; 30you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength...