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so that they may be always looking but never seeing; always listening but never understanding. Otherwise, they might turn and be forgiven!"

but they have no root in themselves. So they hold out for a while, but as soon as some trouble or persecution arises on account of the message, they immediately fall away.

but the worries of the world, the deceitful glamor of wealth and all the other kinds of desires push in and choke the message; so that it produces nothing.

But those sown on rich soil hear the message, accept it and bear fruit — thirty, sixty or a hundredfold."

For anyone who has something will be given more; but from anyone who has nothing, even what he does have will be taken away."

But as soon as the crop is ready, the man comes with his sickle, because it's harvest-time."

but after it has been planted, it grows and becomes the largest of all the plants, with such big branches that the birds flying about can build nests in its shade."

But he was in the stern on a cushion, asleep. They woke him and said to him, "Rabbi, doesn't it matter to you that we're about to be killed?"

But they were terrified and asked each other, "Who can this be, that even the wind and the waves obey him?"

He had often been chained hand and foot, but he would snap the chains and break the irons off his feet, and no one was strong enough to control him.

But Yeshua would not permit it. Instead, he said to him, "Go home to your people, and tell them how much Adonai in his mercy has done for you."

But he kept looking around to see who had done it.

And they jeered at him. But he put them all outside, took the child's father and mother and those with him, and went in where the child was.

But Yeshua said to them. "The only place people don't respect a prophet is in his home town, among his own relatives, and in his own house."

Wear shoes but not an extra shirt.

But when Herod heard about it, he said, "Yochanan, whom I had beheaded, has been raised."

but Yochanan had told him, "It violates the Torah for you to marry your brother's wife."

So Herodias had a grudge against him and wanted him put to death. But this she could not accomplish,

Herod was appalled; but out of regard for the oaths he had sworn before his dinner guests, he did not want to break his word to her.

but many people, seeing them leave and recognizing them, ran ahead on foot from all the towns and got there first.