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 \v 7 "Keep asking God for what you need, and keep expecting him to give it to you.
 \v 8 For everyone who asks God for something, and who expects God to give it to him, will receive it.
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-\v 9 If your son asks you for bread, no one among you would give him a stone, would he?
+\v 9 "If your son asks you for bread, no one among you would give him a stone, would he?
 \v 10 If your son asks you for a fish, no one among you would give him a snake, would he?
 
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 \v 11 You know how to give good things to your children even though you are evil. So God, your Father who is in heaven, will even more certainly give good things to those who ask him.
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-\v 12 So in whatever way you want others to act toward you, that is the way you should act toward them, because that is the meaning of God's law and of everything that the prophets wrote long ago.
+\v 12 "So in whatever way you want others to act toward you, that is the way you should act toward them, because that is the meaning of God's law and of everything that the prophets wrote long ago.
 
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-\v 16 People do not sew a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment to mend a hole. If they did that, when they washed the garment, the patch would shrink and tear the garment and the hole would become bigger.
+\v 16 "People do not sew a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment to mend a hole. If they did that, when they washed the garment, the patch would shrink and tear the garment and the hole would become bigger.
 
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 \v 17 Neither does anyone pour fresh grape juice into old skin bags to store it. If anyone did that, those skin bags would tear when the juice became wine. The bags would be ruined and the wine would be spilled on the ground. Instead, people put new wine into new skin bags, and the bags will stretch when the wine ferments. In this way, both the wine and the bags will be safe."
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 \v 24 "A disciple should not expect to be greater than his teacher, and servants are not superior to their master.
-\v 25 You do not expect that people will treat a student better than they treat his teacher, or that they will treat a servant better than they treat his master. Similarly, because I am your teacher and master, you can expect that people will mistreat you, because they have mistreated me. I am like the ruler of a household, whom they call Satan. If they act that badly toward me, how do you think they will act toward you?"
+\v 25 You do not expect that people will treat a student better than they treat his teacher, or that they will treat a servant better than they treat his master. Similarly, because I am your teacher and master, you can expect that people will mistreat you, because they have mistreated me. I am like the ruler of a household, whom they call Satan. If they act that badly toward me, how do you think they will act toward you?
 
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 \v 32 If people are willing to tell others that they belong to me, I will also acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven that they belong to me.
-\v 33 But if they are afraid to say in front of others that they belong to me, I will tell my Father who is in heaven that they are not mine."
+\v 33 But if they are afraid to say in front of others that they belong to me, I will tell my Father who is in heaven that they are not mine.
 
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 \v 27 So the servants of the landowner came and said to him, 'Sir, you gave us good seeds and those are the ones we sowed in your field. So where did the weeds come from?'
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-\v 28 The landowner said to them, 'My enemy did this.' 
+\v 28 "The landowner said to them, 'My enemy did this.' 
 \p His servants said to him, 'Do you want us to pull up the weeds?'
 
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-\v 29 He said to them, 'No, do not do that, because you might pull up some of the wheat at the same time.
+\v 29 "He said to them, 'No, do not do that, because you might pull up some of the wheat at the same time.
 \v 30 Let the wheat and the weeds grow together until harvest time. At that time I will say to those who will reap, "First gather the weeds, and tie them into bundles to be burned. Then gather the wheat, and put it into my barns."'"
 
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 \v 4 God gave these two commands: 'Honor your father and your mother,' and 'People who speak evil about their father or mother must be executed.'
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-\v 5 But you tell the people, 'You can say to your father or mother, "What I was going to give to you to help provide for you, I have now promised to give to God."'
+\v 5 "But you tell the people, 'You can say to your father or mother, "What I was going to give to you to help provide for you, I have now promised to give to God."'
 \v 6 When you do that, you think that you do not need to give anything to your parents. In that way you ignore what God commanded, just so that you can follow what your ancestors taught you!
 
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 \v 28 Then this same official went to another one of the king's officials who owed him less than a year's wages. He grabbed him by the throat, started choking him, and said to him, 'Pay back what you owe me!'
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-\v 29 That official fell on his knees and begged him saying, 'Be patient with me, and I will eventually pay you all of it.'
+\v 29 "That official fell on his knees and begged him saying, 'Be patient with me, and I will eventually pay you all of it.'
 
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 \v 30 But the first official kept refusing to cancel that small debt that the man owed him. Instead, he put that official into prison to stay there until he could pay back all the money that he owed him.
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 \v 29 God will reward those who, because they were my disciples, left behind a house or a plot of ground, their brothers, their sisters, their father, their mother, their children, or any other family members. God will give them a hundred times as many benefits as they have given up. And they will live with God forever.
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-\v 30 But many people who are important in this life now will be unimportant at that future time, and many people who are unimportant now will be important at that future time."
+\v 30 "But many people who are important in this life now will be unimportant at that future time, and many people who are unimportant now will be important at that future time.
 
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 \v 5 At noon and at three o'clock he again went to the marketplace and found other laborers whom he promised to pay a fair wage.
 \v 6 At five o'clock he went to the marketplace once again and saw other men standing there who were not working. He said to them, 'Why are you standing here all day and not working?'
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-\v 7 They said to him, 'Because no one has hired us.' 
-\p He said to them, 'I will hire you. Go to my vineyard, as other men have done, and work there.' So they went.
+\v 7 "They said to him, 'Because no one has hired us.' 
+\p "He said to them, 'I will hire you. Go to my vineyard, as other men have done, and work there.' So they went.
 
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-\v 8 When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, 'Tell the men to come so that you can give them their wages. First, pay the men who started working last, and pay the men last who started working first.'
+\v 8 "When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, 'Tell the men to come so that you can give them their wages. First, pay the men who started working last, and pay the men last who started working first.'
 \v 9 The manager paid a standard day's wage to each of the men who did not start working until five o'clock in the afternoon.
 \v 10 When the men who had begun working early in the morning went to get their wages, they thought that they would receive more than the standard wage. But they also received only the standard wage.
 
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 \v 11 So they complained to the owner of the vineyard because they thought their payment was unfair.
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-\v 12 They said to him, 'You are not being fair! The men who started working after all of the rest of us worked for only one hour! You have paid them the same wage as you paid us! But we worked hard all day. We even worked through the hottest part of the day!'
+\v 12 "They said to him, 'You are not being fair! The men who started working after all of the rest of us worked for only one hour! You have paid them the same wage as you paid us! But we worked hard all day. We even worked through the hottest part of the day!'
 
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-\v 13 The owner of the vineyard said to one of those who complained, 'Friend, I did not treat you unfairly. You agreed with me to work the whole day for a standard day's wage.
+\v 13 "The owner of the vineyard said to one of those who complained, 'Friend, I did not treat you unfairly. You agreed with me to work the whole day for a standard day's wage.
 \v 14 Stop complaining to me! Take your wages and go! I desire to give the same wage that I gave you to the men who began working after all of you had begun working.
 
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-\v 15 I certainly have a right to spend my money as I desire, do I not? You should not be envious about my being generous!'
+\v 15 "I certainly have a right to spend my money as I desire, do I not? You should not be envious about my being generous!'
 \v 16 Similarly, God will reward well some people who seem to be less important now, and he will not reward some people who seem to be more important now."
 
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 \p The chief priests and elders debated among themselves about what they should answer. They said to each other, "If we say, 'It was from God,' he will say to us, 'Then you should have believed his message!'
 \v 26 But if we say, 'It was from people,' the crowd might react violently against us, because all the people believe that John was a prophet whom God had sent."
 \v 27 So they answered Jesus, "We do not know where John got his authority from." 
-\p Then Jesus said to them, "Because you did not answer my question, I will not tell you who gave me the right to do the things I did here yesterday."
+\p Then Jesus said to them, "Because you did not answer my question, I will not tell you who gave me the right to do the things I did here yesterday.
 
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 \v 28 "Tell me what you think about what I am about to tell you. There was a man who had two sons. He went to his older son and said, 'My son, go and work in my vineyard today!'
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-\v 29 But the son said to his father, 'I will not go!' But later he changed his mind, and he went to the vineyard and worked.
+\v 29 "But the son said to his father, 'I will not go!' But later he changed his mind, and he went to the vineyard and worked.
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-\v 30 Then the father approached his younger son and said what he had said to his older son. That son said, 'Sir, I will go and work in the vineyard today.' But he did not go there.
+\v 30 "Then the father approached his younger son and said what he had said to his older son. That son said, 'Sir, I will go and work in the vineyard today.' But he did not go there.
 
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 \v 31 So which of the man's two sons did what their father desired?" 
 \p They answered, "The older son." 
 \p Then Jesus said to them, "So think about this: God will be kind to the tax collectors and prostitutes by agreeing to rule over them much sooner than he will agree to rule over you. 
-\p This is true, even though you condemn those people because they ignore the law of Moses.
-\v 32 I say this to you because, even though John the Baptizer explained to you how to live in the right way, you did not believe his message. But tax collectors and prostitutes believed his message, and they turned away from their sinful behavior. In contrast, even though you saw that they changed, you refused to stop sinning, and you did not believe John's message."
+\p "This is true, even though you condemn those people because they ignore the law of Moses.
+\v 32 "I say this to you because, even though John the Baptizer explained to you how to live in the right way, you did not believe his message. But tax collectors and prostitutes believed his message, and they turned away from their sinful behavior. In contrast, even though you saw that they changed, you refused to stop sinning, and you did not believe John's message.
 
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-\v 38 But when the renters saw his son arriving, they said to each other, 'This is the man who will inherit this vineyard! Let us join together and kill him and divide the property among ourselves.'
+\v 38 "But when the renters saw his son arriving, they said to each other, 'This is the man who will inherit this vineyard! Let us join together and kill him and divide the property among ourselves.'
 \v 39 So they grabbed him, dragged him outside the vineyard, and killed him.
 
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 \v 5 The bridegroom was taking a long time to come, and it became late at night. So all the girls became sleepy and fell asleep.
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-\v 6 In the middle of the night someone woke them up by shouting, 'Here he is! The bridegroom is arriving! Go outside and meet him!'
+\v 6 "In the middle of the night someone woke them up by shouting, 'Here he is! The bridegroom is arriving! Go outside and meet him!'
 
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 \v 7 So all the girls got up and adjusted their lamps for burning.
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-\v 8 The foolish girls said to the wise ones, 'Give us some of your oil, because our lamps are about to go out!'
+\v 8 "The foolish girls said to the wise ones, 'Give us some of your oil, because our lamps are about to go out!'
 \v 9 The wise girls replied, 'No, because there might not be enough oil for our lamps and yours. Go to the sellers and buy some for yourselves!'
 
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 \v 10 But while the foolish girls were on their way to buy oil, the bridegroom arrived. Then the wise girls, who were ready, went with him into the wedding hall where the bride was waiting. Then the door was closed.
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-\v 11 Later, the rest of the girls came to the wedding hall, and they called to the bridegroom, 'Sir, open the door for us!'
+\v 11 "Later, the rest of the girls came to the wedding hall, and they called to the bridegroom, 'Sir, open the door for us!'
 \v 12 But he said to them, 'The truth is that I do not know you, so I will not open the door for you!'"
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 \v 13 Then Jesus continued by saying, "So, in order that this does not happen to you, stay prepared because you do not know when it will be.
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 \v 5 The angel said to the two women, "You should not be afraid! I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was nailed to a cross.
 \v 6 He is not here! God has made him alive again, just as Jesus told you he would! Come and see the place where his body lay!
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-\v 7 Then go quickly and tell his disciples, 'He has risen from the dead! He will go ahead of you to the district of Galilee. You will see him there.' Pay attention to what I have told you!"
+\v 7 "Then go quickly and tell his disciples, 'He has risen from the dead! He will go ahead of you to the district of Galilee. You will see him there.' Pay attention to what I have told you!"
 
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