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-\v 24 Some time after this his wife Elizabeth became pregnant, but she did not go out in public for five months.
+\v 24 Some time after this, his wife Elizabeth became pregnant, but she did not go out in public for five months.
 \v 25 She said to herself, "The Lord has enabled me to become pregnant. In this way, he had compassion on me and has taken away the reason that people looked down on me!"
 
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-\v 1 Around that time Caesar Augustus sent out an official order that every person living under Roman rule must be registered in a public record.
+\v 1 Around that time, Caesar Augustus sent out an official order that every person living under Roman rule must be registered in a public record.
 \v 2 This first happened during the time that Quirinius was governing the province of Syria.
 \v 3 So everyone had to go to his family's hometown to be registered.
 
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 \v 4-5 Joseph also traveled to his family's hometown, along with Mary, who was engaged to him and was pregnant. Because Joseph was a descendant of King David, they left the town of Nazareth in the region of Galilee and traveled to the region of Judea, to the town of Bethlehem, which is also known as the city of David. Joseph and Mary went there to be registered in the public record.
 
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-\v 6-7 When they arrived in Bethlehem, there was no place for them to stay in a place where visitors usually stayed. So they had to stay in a place where animals slept overnight. While they were there the time came for Mary to give birth and she gave birth to her first child, a son. She wrapped him in wide strips of cloth and laid him down where the food was kept for the animals inside the barn.
+\v 6-7 When they arrived in Bethlehem, there was no place for them to stay in a place where visitors usually stayed. So they had to stay in a place where animals slept overnight. While they were there, the time came for Mary to give birth and she gave birth to her first child, a son. She wrapped him in wide strips of cloth and laid him down where the food was kept for the animals inside the barn.
 
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 \v 17 After seeing him, they told everyone what had been told to them about this child.
 \v 18 All the people who heard what the shepherds said to them were amazed.
 \v 19 But Mary kept thinking about all the things she had heard and carefully remembered them.
-\v 20 The shepherds returned to the fields where their sheep were. They kept talking about how great God is and praising him for all the things that they had heard and seen because everything happened exactly like the angels had told them.
+\v 20 The shepherds returned to the fields where their sheep were. They kept talking about how great God is and praising him for all the things that they had heard and seen, because everything happened exactly as the angels had told them.
 
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 \v 45 When they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem to search for him.
-\v 46 After three days they found him in the temple courtyard, sitting in the midst of the Jewish religious teachers. He was listening to them teach, and he was asking them questions.
+\v 46 After three days they found him in the temple courtyard, sitting in the midst of the Jewish religious teachers. He was listening to them teach and he was asking them questions.
 \v 47 All the people who heard what he said were amazed at how much he understood and how well he answered the questions that the teachers asked.
 
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 \v 4 The prophet Isaiah wrote these words on a scroll long ago:
 \q1 "In the wilderness, someone will be calling out:
-\q1 'Prepare the way of the Lord,
-\q1 Make straight paths for him.
+\q1 'Prepare the way of the Lord;
+\q1 make straight paths for him.
 
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 \q1 \v 5 Every valley will be filled,
-\q1 And every mountain and hill will be made level;
-\q1 The crooked roads will become straight,
-\q1 And the rough ways will be made smooth.
+\q1 and every mountain and hill will be made level;
+\q1 the crooked roads will become straight,
+\q1 and the rough ways will be made smooth.
 \q1 \v 6 Then everyone will see God's way of saving people.'"
 
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 \v 7 John said to the crowds of people who were coming to be baptized by him, "You people are evil like poisonous snakes! No one warned you that one day God will punish everyone who sins, did they? Do not think that you can escape from him!
 
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-\v 8 Do the things that show that you have truly turned away from your sinful behavior! And do not start saying to yourselves, 'We are descendants of Abraham!' Because I tell you that God could make even these stones become descendants of Abraham!
+\v 8 Do the things that show that you have truly turned away from your sinful behavior! And do not start saying to yourselves, 'We are descendants of Abraham!' because I tell you that God could make even these stones become descendants of Abraham!
 
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 \v 9 The ax is already placed at the root of the trees, so that every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire."
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 \v 1 Then Jesus, filled with the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan River, and the Holy Spirit led him into the wilderness.
-\v 2 The Holy Spirit led him around in the wilderness for forty days. While he was there, the devil kept tempting him. During the entire time Jesus was in the wilderness he did not eat anything, so when the forty days were over, he was very hungry.
+\v 2 The Holy Spirit led him around in the wilderness for forty days. While he was there, the devil kept tempting him. During the entire time Jesus was in the wilderness he did not eat anything, so when the forty days were over he was very hungry.
 
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 \v 3 Then the devil said to Jesus, "If you really are the Son of God, command these stones to become bread for you to eat!"
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 \q1 \v 18 "The Spirit of the Lord is in me.
 \q1 He has appointed me to declare God's good news to people who are poor.
 \q1 He has sent me here to proclaim that the captives will go free,
-\q1 And will tell those who are blind that they will see again.
+\q1 and will tell those who are blind that they will see again.
 \q1 I will free people who have been oppressed.
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 \v 19 He sent me here to declare that now is the time when the Lord will act favorably toward people."
 
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-\v 20 Then he rolled up the scroll and gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. Everyone in the synagogue was looking intently at him.
+\v 20 Then he rolled up the scroll and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. Everyone in the synagogue was looking intently at him.
 \v 21 He said to them, "Today this scripture passage was fulfilled as you heard it."
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 \v 22 Everyone there heard what he said and marveled at him, and they were amazed at how well he spoke. But some of them said, "This man is only Joseph's son, right?"
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 \v 25 But think about this: There were many widows in Israel during the time when the prophet Elijah lived, when there was a great famine throughout the country because there had been no rain for three and half years.
-\v 26 But God did not send Elijah to help any of the widows in Israel. God sent him to woman who was a widow who lived in the town of Zarephath, near the city Sidon.
+\v 26 But God did not send Elijah to help any of the widows in Israel. God sent him to a woman who was a widow who lived in the town of Zarephath, near the city Sidon.
 \v 27 There were also many lepers in Israel during the time when the prophet Elisha lived. But Elisha did not heal any of them. He healed only Naaman, a man from Syria."
 
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 \v 13 Then Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. He said, "I am willing to heal you, and I heal you now!" Immediately the man was healed. He no longer had leprosy!
 
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-\v 14 Then Jesus told him, "Make sure that you do not tell people about your healing immediately. First, go to a priest in Jerusalem and show yourself to him so that he can examine you and see that you no longer have leprosy. Also take to the priest the offering that Moses commanded that people who have been healed from leprosy should offer."
+\v 14 Then Jesus told him, "Make sure that you do not tell people about your healing immediately. First, go to a priest in Jerusalem and show yourself to him so that he can examine you and see that you no longer have leprosy. Also take to the priest the offering that Moses commanded that people should offer who have been healed from leprosy."
 
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 \v 15 But many people heard about how Jesus had healed the man. The result was that large crowds came to Jesus to hear him teach and to have him heal them from their sicknesses.
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-\v 33 Those Jewish leaders said to Jesus, "The disciples of John the Baptizer often abstain from food and pray, and the disciples of the Pharisees do that, too. But your disciples keep on eating and drinking! Why do they not fast like the others?"
+\v 33 Those Jewish leaders said to Jesus, "The disciples of John the Baptizer often abstain from food and pray, and the disciples of the Pharisees do that also. But your disciples keep on eating and drinking! Why do they not fast like the others?"
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 \v 34 Jesus answered, You do not tell the friends of the bridegroom to fast while he is still with them, do you? No, no one would do that!
 \v 35 But days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from his friends. At that time they will not eat any food."
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 \v 3 Jesus replied to the Pharisees, "Certainly you have read what is written in the scriptures about what David did (before he was king), when he and the men with him were hungry!
-\v 4 As you know, David entered the tabernacle and asked for some food. The priest gave him the bread that had been on display before God. In one of Moses' laws God had said that only the priests were permitted to eat that bread. But even though David and his men were not priests, he ate some of the bread and also gave some to the men who were with him!"
+\v 4 As you know, David entered the tabernacle and asked for some food. The priest gave him the bread that had been on display before God. In one of Moses' laws, God had said that only the priests were permitted to eat that bread. But even though David and his men were not priests, he ate some of the bread and also gave some to the men who were with him!"
 \v 5 Jesus also said to them, "In the same way, the Son of Man has the authority to determine what is right for people to do on the Sabbath!"
 
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 \v 13 The next day he summoned all his disciples to come near him. From them he chose twelve men whom he also called apostles.
 
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-\v 14 These men were: Simon, to whom he gave the new name, Peter; Andrew, Peter's younger brother; James and his younger brother, John; Philip; Bartholomew;
-\v 15 Matthew, whose other name was Levi; Thomas; another James, the son of Alphaeus; Simon the Zealot,
+\v 14 These men were: Simon, to whom he gave the new name Peter; Andrew, Peter's younger brother; James and his younger brother John; Philip; Bartholomew;
+\v 15 Matthew, whose other name was Levi; Thomas; another James, the son of Alphaeus; Simon the Zealot;
 \v 16 Judas, the son of a different man named James; and Judas Iscariot, who later betrayed Jesus.
 
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-\v 22 It is very good when other people hate you, when they reject you, when they insult you and say that you are evil because you follow me, the Son of Man.
+\v 22 It is very good when other people hate you, when they reject you, and when they insult you and say that you are evil because you follow me, the Son of Man.
 \v 23 When that happens, rejoice! Jump up and down because you are so happy! God will give you a great reward in heaven! Do not forget that their ancestors did similar things to God's prophets long ago!
 
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-\v 21 At that same time Jesus was healing many people from sicknesses and serious diseases, and from evil spirits. He also healed many blind people so that they were able to see.
+\v 21 At that same time Jesus was healing many people from sicknesses and serious diseases and from evil spirits. He also healed many blind people so that they were able to see.
 \v 22 So he answered those two men, "Go back and report to John what you have seen and heard: People who were blind are now seeing. People who were lame are now walking. People who had skin diseases are being healed. People who were deaf can now hear. People who were dead are being made to live again, and good news is being proclaimed to the poor.
 \v 23 And also tell him that God will bless anyone who sees what I do and hears what I teach and does not turn away from me."
 
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 He replied, "Teacher, what is it?"
 
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-\v 41 Jesus told him this story: "Two people owed money to a man who had a business lending money to people. One of these people owed him five hundred silver coins, and the other one owed him fifty silver coins.
+\v 41 Jesus told him this story: "Two people owed money to a man who had a business lending money to people. One of these people owed him five hundred silver coins and the other one owed him fifty silver coins.
 \v 42 Neither of them was able to pay back what he owed, so the man very kindly said that they did not have to pay back anything. So, which of those two men will love that man more?"
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 \v 43 Simon replied, "I assume that the one who had owed him the most money will love him more." 
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-\v 4 One day a very large crowd was gathering because people were traveling to see Jesus from many different towns. Then he told them this story:
+\v 4 One day a very large crowd was gathering, because people were traveling to see Jesus from many different towns. Then he told them this story:
 \v 5 "A man went out to his field to plant some grain seeds. As he was scattering them over the soil, some of the seeds fell on the hard pathway. Then people walked on those seeds, and birds ate them.
-\v 6 Some of the seeds fell on rocky ground which had very little soil. Therefore, as soon as the seeds grew, the plants dried up because there was no moisture.
+\v 6 Some of the seeds fell on rocky ground that had very little soil. Therefore, as soon as the seeds grew, the plants dried up because there was no moisture.
 
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 \v 7 Some of the seeds fell on ground that contained seeds of thorn plants. The thorn plants grew up together with the young grain plants and crowded them out so that they could not grow.
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 \v 13 The seeds that fell on the rocky ground show what happens when people hear God's word and receive it joyfully, but they do not have deep roots. As a result, they only believe for a short time. As soon as difficult things happen to them, they stop believing God's word.
 
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-\v 14 The seeds that fell among the thorny plants show what happens when people hear God's word, but then as they go on in life they allow such things as the worries, riches and pleasures of this life to crowd out God's word from their life. As a result, they do not become spiritually mature.
+\v 14 The seeds that fell among the thorny plants show what happens when people hear God's word, but then as they go on in life they allow such things as the worries, riches, and pleasures of this life to crowd out God's word from their life. As a result, they do not become spiritually mature.
 \v 15 But the seeds that fell on the fertile ground show what happens when people hear God's word and receive it with an honorable and upright heart. They persevere in believing and obeying the word, and so they produce good spiritual fruit.
 
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 \v 25 Then he said to them, "Why is your faith so weak?" 
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-The disciples were alarmed and amazed because of what had just happened. They kept saying to one another, "Who is this, that he is able to command even the winds and the water, and they obey him?"
+The disciples were alarmed and amazed because of what had just happened. They kept saying to one another, "Who is this, that he is able to command even the winds and the water and they obey him?"
 
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 \v 34 When the men who were taking care of the pigs saw what happened, they ran away! They reported what they had seen to people in the town and in the countryside.
-\v 35 Then the people went out to see what had happened. When they came to where Jesus was, they saw that the man from whom the demons had gone out was sitting at the feet of Jesus, listening to him. They saw that he had clothes on, and that his mind was normal again, and they became afraid.
+\v 35 Then the people went out to see what had happened. When they came to where Jesus was, they saw that the man from whom the demons had gone out was sitting at the feet of Jesus, listening to him. They saw that he had clothes on and that his mind was normal again, and they became afraid.
 
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 \v 36 The men who had seen what had happened told the people who had just arrived how Jesus had healed the man who had been controlled by demons.
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-\v 28 About eight days after Jesus said those words, he took with him Peter, John and James and went up onto a mountain to pray there.
+\v 28 About eight days after Jesus said those words, he took with him Peter, John, and James and went up onto a mountain to pray there.
 \v 29 While he was praying, the appearance of his face became very different and his clothes became dazzling white and began to shine brightly.
 
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 \v 41 In response, Jesus said, "Your generation does not believe and so your thinking is corrupt! How much longer must I be with you before you believe?" Then he said to the boy's father, "Bring your son here to me!"
-\v 42 While they were bringing the boy to him, the demon threw the boy down to the ground, and shook him severely. But Jesus rebuked the evil spirit and healed the boy. Then he returned him to his father.
+\v 42 While they were bringing the boy to him, the demon threw the boy down to the ground and shook him severely. But Jesus rebuked the evil spirit and healed the boy. Then he returned him to his father.
 
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 \v 43 Then all the people there were completely amazed at the great power of God.
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 \v 46 Some time later, the disciples began to argue among themselves about which one of them would be the most important.
 \v 47 But Jesus knew what they were thinking, so he brought a young child to stand beside him.
-\v 48 He said to them, "If someone welcomes a little child like this because of me, it is the same as welcoming me. And if someone welcomes me, it is the same as welcoming God, who sent me. Remember that those among you who seem to be the least important are the ones whom God considers to be most important."
+\v 48 He said to them, "If someone welcomes a little child like this because of me, it is the same as welcoming me. And if someone welcomes me, it is the same as welcoming God who sent me. Remember that those among you who seem to be the least important are the ones whom God considers to be most important."
 
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