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These are what make you unclean. Eating without washing your hands will not make you unfit to worship God.

Everyone was amazed at what they saw and heard. People who had never spoken could now speak. The lame were healed, the crippled could walk, and the blind were able to see. Everyone was praising the God of Israel.

Simon Peter spoke up, "You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God."

I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven, and God in heaven will allow whatever you allow on earth. But he will not allow anything that you don't allow.

Peter took Jesus aside and told him to stop talking like that. He said, "God would never let this happen to you, Lord!"

Jesus turned to Peter and said, "Satan, get away from me! You're in my way because you think like everyone else and not like God."

I promise you that God in heaven will allow whatever you allow on earth, but he will not allow anything you don't allow.

Then they are no longer two people, but one. And no one should separate a couple that God has joined together."

Jesus replied, "You are so heartless! That's why Moses allowed you to divorce your wife. But from the beginning God did not intend it to be that way.

Jesus said to him, "Why do you ask me about what is good? Only God is good. If you want to have eternal life, you must obey his commandments."

Jesus looked straight at them and said, "There are some things that people cannot do, but God can do anything."

Some people walked ahead of Jesus and others followed behind. They were all shouting, "Hooray for the Son of David! God bless the one who comes in the name of the Lord. Hooray for God in heaven above!"

Who gave John the right to baptize? Was it God in heaven or merely some human being?" They thought it over and said to each other, "We can't say that God gave John this right. Jesus will ask us why we didn't believe John.

Which one of the sons obeyed his father? "The older one," the chief priests and leaders answered. Then Jesus told them: You can be sure that tax collectors and prostitutes will get into the kingdom of God before you ever will!

They sent some of their followers and some of Herod's followers to say to him, "Teacher, we know that you are honest. You teach the truth about what God wants people to do. And you treat everyone with the same respect, no matter who they are.

"The Emperor's," they answered. Then Jesus told them, "Give the Emperor what belongs to him and give God what belongs to God."

When God raises people from death, whose wife will this woman be? She had been married to all seven brothers.

Jesus answered: You are completely wrong! You don't know what the Scriptures teach. And you don't know anything about the power of God.

When God raises people to life, they won't marry. They will be like the angels in heaven.

And as for people being raised to life, God was speaking to you when he said,