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 \v 18 Some people are like the soil that has thorny weeds in it. Those people hear God's message,
-\v 19 but they desire to be rich and they want to own many other things. So they only worry about what they have and they forget God's message and they do not do the things that God wants them to do.
+\v 19 but they desire to be rich and they want to own many other things. So they only worry about what they have, they forget God's message, and they do not do the things that God wants them to do.
-\v 20 But some people are like the good soil. They hear God's message and they accept it and they believe it, and they do the things that God wants them to do. They are like the good plants that produced thirty, sixty, or one hundred grains."
+\v 20 But some people are like the good soil. They hear God's message, they accept it and believe it, and they do the things that God wants them to do. They are like the good plants that produced thirty, sixty, or one hundred grains."
 
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 \v 21 He told them another parable: "People certainly do not light an oil lamp and then bring it in the house in order to put something over it to cover its light. Instead, they put it on a lampstand so that the light will shine.
-\v 22 Similarly, things that were hidden, one day everyone will know them, and the things that have happened in secret, one day everyone will see them in full light.
+\v 22 Similarly, things that were hidden—one day everyone will know them, and the things that have happened in secret—one day everyone will see them in full light.
 \v 23 If you want to understand this, you should consider carefully what you have just heard.
 
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 \v 24 "Consider carefully what you hear me say to you. For whatever size container you use, it will be filled for you. 
-\v 25 For if person has some understanding, he will receive even more. But if a person does not have understanding, even what little he has, he will lose."
+\v 25 For if a person has some understanding, he will receive even more. But if a person does not have understanding, even what little he has, he will lose."
 
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 \v 26 Jesus also said, "When God begins to show himself as king, it is like a man who has scattered seed on the ground.
 \v 27 Afterwards he slept each night and rose up each day without worrying about the seeds. During that time the seeds sprouted and grew in a way that he did not understand.
 \v 28 The ground produced the crop on its own. First the stalks appeared. Then the heads appeared. Then the full kernels in the heads appeared.
-\v 29 As soon as the grain was ripe he sent people to harvest it because it was time to harvest the grain."
+\v 29 As soon as the grain was ripe, he sent people to harvest it because it was time to harvest the grain."
 
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 \v 14 The men who were tending the pigs ran and reported in the town and the countryside what had happened. Many people went to see for themselves what had happened.
-\v 15 They came to the place where Jesus was. Then they saw the man whom evil spirits had previously controlled. He was sitting there with clothes on, and he was mentally sound. They were afraid when they saw all this.
+\v 15 They came to the place where Jesus was. Then they saw the man whom evil spirits had previously controlled. He was sitting there with clothes on and he was mentally sound. They were afraid when they saw all this.
 
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 \v 16 The people who had seen the events told those who had come from the town and from the countryside about what had happened to the man whom the evil spirits previously controlled. They also described what had happened to the pigs.
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 \v 21 Once more Jesus crossed over to the other side of the Sea of Galilee in a boat. When he arrived, a large crowd gathered around Jesus while he was standing on the shore.
-\v 22 One of the men, who presided over a synagogue, and whose name was Jairus, came there. When he saw Jesus, he knelt at his feet.
+\v 22 One of the men, who presided over a synagogue and whose name was Jairus, came there. When he saw Jesus, he knelt at his feet.
 \v 23 Then he pleaded with Jesus earnestly, "My daughter is sick and nearly dead! Please come to my house and place your hands on her. Heal her and make her live!"
 \v 24 So Jesus and the disciples went with him. A large crowd followed and many pushed in close to Jesus.
 
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 \v 25 There was a woman in the crowd who had a bleeding disorder. She had been bleeding every day for twelve years.
-\v 26 She had suffered much over the years while doctors treated her. She had spent all her money to pay the doctors and after all they did to her, she got worse instead of better.
+\v 26 She had suffered much over the years while doctors treated her. She had spent all her money to pay the doctors, and after all they did to her, she got worse instead of better.
 \v 27 When she heard that Jesus healed people, she came to where he was and pushed in the crowd close behind Jesus.
 
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 \v 36 But when Jesus heard what these men said, he said to Jairus, "Do not think that the situation is hopeless! Just keep believing that she will live!"
-\v 37-38 Then he allowed only his three closest disciples, Peter, James, and John, to go with him to Jairus' house. He did not allow any other people to go with him. After they arrived near the house, Jesus saw that the people there were grieving. Some were weeping and others were wailing.
+\v 37-38 Then he allowed only his three closest disciples—Peter, James, and John—to go with him to Jairus' house. He did not allow any other people to go with him. After they arrived near the house, Jesus saw that the people there were grieving. Some were weeping and others were wailing.
 
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-\v 39 He entered the house and then he said to them, "Why are you so upset and crying? The child is not dead, but only sleeping."
+\v 39 He entered the house and then he said to them, "Why are you so upset and crying? The child is not dead but only sleeping."
 \v 40 The people laughed at him, because they knew that she was dead. He sent all the other people outside the house. Then he took the child's father and mother and the three disciples who were with him. He went into the room where the child was lying.
 
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 \v 1 Jesus left Capernaum and went to his hometown, Nazareth. His disciples went with him.
 \v 2 On the Sabbath, he entered the synagogue and taught the people. Many who were listening to him were amazed. They wondered where he gained all his wisdom and the power to perform miracles.
-\v 3 They said, "He is just an ordinary carpenter! We know him and his family! We know Mary his mother! We know his younger brothers James, Joses, Judas and Simon! And his younger sisters also live here with us!" So they resented him.
+\v 3 They said, "He is just an ordinary carpenter! We know him and his family! We know Mary his mother! We know his younger brothers James, Joses, Judas, and Simon! And his younger sisters also live here with us!" So they resented him.
 
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 \v 11 Wherever the people do not welcome you and wherever the people do not listen to you, shake off the dust from your feet as you leave that place. By doing that, you will be testifying that they did not welcome you."
 
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-\v 12 So after the disciples went out to various towns, they were preaching that people should be sorry that they have sinned and decide to stop sinning so that God may forgive them.
+\v 12 So after the disciples went out to various towns, they were preaching that people should turn away from their sinful behavior.
 \v 13 They were also forcing many evil spirits out from people, and they were anointing many sick people with olive oil and healing them.
 
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 \v 14 Now King Herod Antipas heard about what Jesus was doing, because many people were talking about it. Some people were saying about Jesus, "He must be John the Baptizer! He has risen from the dead! That is why he has God's power to perform these miracles!"
-\v 15 Others were saying about Jesus, "He is the ancient prophet Elijah, whom God promised to send back again." Others were saying about Jesus, "No, he is a different prophet, like one of the other prophets who lived long ago."
+\v 15 Others were saying about Jesus, "He is the ancient prophet Elijah whom God promised to send back again." Others were saying about Jesus, "No, he is a different prophet, like one of the other prophets who lived long ago."
 
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 \v 16 Having heard what the people were saying, King Herod Antipas himself said, "The man performing those miracles must be John! I commanded my soldiers to cut off his head, but he has become alive again!"
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-\v 17 What had happened was this—some time before, Herod had taken and married Herodias, although she was the wife of his brother, Philip.
+\v 17 What had happened was this—some time before, Herod had taken and married Herodias, although she was the wife of his brother Philip.
 
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 \v 18 After that, John kept telling Herod, "God's law does not permit you to marry the wife of your brother while he is still alive." Then, because Herodias urged him to put John in prison, Herod himself sent soldiers to John. They arrested John and put him in prison.
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 \v 23 He also said to her, "Whatever you ask, I will give it to you! I will give you up to half of what I own and rule, if you ask for it."
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-\v 24 The girl left the room and went to her mother. She told her what the king had said, and asked her, "What should I ask for?" 
+\v 24 The girl left the room and went to her mother. She told her what the king had said and asked her, "What should I ask for?" 
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 Her mother replied, "Ask the king to give you the head of John the Baptizer!"
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 \v 25 The girl quickly entered the room again. She went to the king and she said, "I want you to command someone to cut off the head of John the Baptizer and bring it to me at once on a platter!"
 
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-\v 26 The king became very distressed when he heard what she asked for because he knew John was a very righteous man. But he could not refuse what she requested because he had promised that he would give her anything she asked for, and his guests had heard him promise.
+\v 26 The king became very distressed when he heard what she asked for, because he knew John was a very righteous man. But he could not refuse what she requested, because he had promised that he would give her anything she asked for, and his guests had heard him promise.
 \v 27 So the king at once ordered someone to go and cut off John's head and bring it to the girl. That man went to the prison and cut off John's head.
 \v 28 He put it on a platter, brought it back, and gave it to the girl. The girl took it to her mother.
 \v 29 After John's disciples heard what happened, they went to the prison and took John's body; then they buried it.
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 \v 35 Late in the afternoon the disciples came to him and said, "This is a place where no one lives, and it is very late.
-\v 36 So send the people away in order that they may go to the surrounding places where people live and to villages in order that they can buy for themselves something to eat!"
+\v 36 So send the people away in order that they may go to the surrounding places where people live and to villages so they can buy for themselves something to eat!"
 
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 \v 39 He instructed the disciples to tell all the people to sit down on the green grass.
 \v 40 So the people sat in groups. There were fifty people in some groups and one hundred people in other groups.
-\v 41 Jesus took the five flat loaves and the two fish. He looked up toward heaven and thanked God for them. Then he broke the loaves and fish into pieces and kept giving them to the disciples in order that they would distribute them to the people.
+\v 41 Jesus took the five flat loaves and the two fish. He looked up toward heaven and thanked God for them. Then he broke the loaves and fish into pieces and kept giving them to the disciples so that they would distribute them to the people.
 
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 \v 42 Everyone ate this food until they all had enough to eat!
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 \v 45 Right away Jesus told his disciples to get into the boat and then go ahead of him to Bethsaida, which was further around the Sea of Galilee. He stayed and dismissed the many people who were there.
-\v 46 After he said goodbye to the people, he went up into the hills in order to pray.
+\v 46 After he said goodbye to the people, he went up into the hills to pray.
-\v 47 When it was evening, the disciples' boat was in the middle of the lake, and Jesus was by himself on the land.
+\v 47 When it was evening, the disciples' boat was in the middle of the lake and Jesus was by himself on the land.
 
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 \v 48 He saw that the wind was blowing against them as they rowed. As a result, they were having great difficulty. He approached them early in the morning, when it was still dark, by walking on the water. He intended to walk by them.
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 \v 53 After they went further around the Sea of Galilee in a boat, they came to shore at Gennesaret. Then they fastened the boat there.
 \v 54 As soon as they got out of the boat, the people there recognized Jesus.
-\v 55 So they ran throughout the whole district in order to tell others that Jesus was there. Then the people placed those who were sick on stretchers and carried them to any place where they heard people say that Jesus was.
+\v 55 So they ran throughout the whole district to tell others that Jesus was there. Then the people placed those who were sick on stretchers and carried them to any place where they heard people say that Jesus was.
 
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-\v 56 In whatever village, town or place in the countryside where he went, they would bring to the marketplaces those who were sick. Then the sick people would beg Jesus to let them touch him or even the edge of his clothes in order that Jesus might heal them. All those who touched him or his robe were healed.
+\v 56 In whatever village, town, or place in the countryside where he went, they would bring to the marketplaces those who were sick. Then the sick people would beg Jesus to let them touch him or even the edge of his clothes so that Jesus might heal them. All those who touched him or his robe were healed.
 
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