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But the others said, "Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to save him."

But the angel said to the women, "Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified.

And when they saw him they worshiped him, but some doubted.

I have baptized you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit."

But Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be silent, and come out of him!"

and said to him, "See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, for a proof to them."

But he went out and began to talk freely about it, and to spread the news, so that Jesus could no longer openly enter a town, but was out in desolate places, and people were coming to him from every quarter.

"Why does this man speak like that? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins" —he said to the paralytic—

And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners."

Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. And people came and said to him, "Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?"

And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins—and the wine is destroyed, and so are the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins."

how he entered the house of God, in the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those who were with him?"

And he said to them, "Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to kill?" But they were silent.

And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but is coming to an end.

But no one can enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man. Then indeed he may plunder his house.

but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin" —

And he said to them, "To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables,

so that "‘they may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand, lest they should turn and be forgiven.'"

And they have no root in themselves, but endure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately they fall away.