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So when the crowd came together, Pilate asked them, "Which prisoner do you want me to set free? Do you want Jesus Barabbas or Jesus who is called the Messiah?"

Pilate saw that there was nothing he could do and that the people were starting to riot. So he took some water and washed his hands in front of them and said, "I won't have anything to do with killing this man. You are the ones doing it!"

shouted, "So you're the one who claimed you could tear down the temple and build it again in three days! If you are God's Son, save yourself and come down from the cross!"

He trusted God, so let God save him, if he wants to. He even said he was God's Son."

So please order the tomb to be carefully guarded for three days. If you don't, his disciples may come and steal his body. They will tell the people that he has been raised to life, and this last lie will be worse than the first one."

So they sealed it tight and placed soldiers there to guard it.

So the chief priests met with the leaders and decided to bribe the soldiers with a lot of money.

So John the Baptist showed up in the desert and told everyone, "Turn back to God and be baptized! Then your sins will be forgiven."

Jesus replied, "We must go to the nearby towns, so that I can tell the good news to those people. This is why I have come."

Jesus felt sorry for the man. So he put his hand on him and said, "I want to! Now you are well."

The man talked about it so much and told so many people, that Jesus could no longer go openly into a town. He had to stay away from the towns, but people still came to him from everywhere.

Then so many of them came to the house that there wasn't even standing room left in front of the door. Jesus was still teaching

But because of the crowd, they could not get him to Jesus. So they made a hole in the roof above him and let the man down in front of everyone.

I will show you that the Son of Man has the right to forgive sins here on earth." So Jesus said to the man,

As he walked along, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus. Levi was sitting at the place for paying taxes, and Jesus said to him, "Come with me!" So he got up and went with Jesus.

Some of the teachers of the Law of Moses were Pharisees, and they saw that Jesus was eating with sinners and tax collectors. So they asked his disciples, "Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?"

So the Son of Man is Lord over the Sabbath."

Jesus was angry as he looked around at the people. Yet he felt sorry for them because they were so stubborn. Then he told the man, "Stretch out your hand." He did, and his bad hand was healed.

Then he chose twelve of them to be his apostles, so that they could be with him. He also wanted to send them out to preach

So if Satan fights against himself, that will be the end of him.