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27"I say to you people that are listening to me, love your enemies. Do good to those people that hate you. 28Ask God to bless those people that say bad things to you. Pray for those people that are mean to you. 29If a person hits you on the side of your face, let him hit the other side too. If a person takes your coat, don't stop him from taking your shirt too. 30Give to every person that asks you. When a person takes something that is yours, don't ask for it back. 31Do for other people what you want them to do for you. 32If you love only those people that love you, should you get some special praise for doing that? No! Even sinners love the people that love them! 33If you do good only to those people that do good to you, should you get some special praise for doing that? No! Even sinners do that! 34If you loan things to people, always hoping to get something back, should you get some special praise for that? No! Even sinners lend to other sinners so that they can get back...

12It was now the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread.* This was a time when the Jews always sacrificed (killed) the Passover* lambs.* Jesus' followers came to him. They said, "We will go and prepare everything for you to eat the Passover meal. Where do you want us to have the meal?" 13Jesus sent two of his followers into the city. Jesus said to them, "Go into the city. You will see a man carrying a jar of water. The man will come to you. Follow that man. 14That man will walk into a house. Tell the person who owns the house, 'The Teacher asks that you show us the room where he and his followers can eat the Passover* meal.' 15The owner will show you a large room upstairs. This room is ready for you. Prepare the food for us there." 16So the followers left and went into the city. Everything happened the way Jesus said. So the followers prepared the Passover* meal. 17In the evening, Jesus went to that house with the twelve apostles.* 18While they we...

14Then Jesus, Peter, James, and John went to the other followers. They saw many people around them. The teachers of the law were arguing with the followers. 15When the people saw Jesus, they were very surprised. They ran to him to welcome him. 16Jesus asked, "What are you arguing with the teachers of the law about?" 17A man answered, "Teacher, I brought my son to you. My son has a spirit [from the devil] inside him. This spirit stops my son from talking. 18The spirit attacks my son and throws him on the ground. My son foams from his mouth, grinds his teeth, and becomes very stiff. I asked your followers to force the evil spirit out, but they could not." 19Jesus answered, "You people don't believe! How long must I stay with you? How long must I continue to be patient with you? Bring the boy to me!" 20So the followers brought the boy to Jesus. When the [evil] spirit saw Jesus, the spirit attacked the boy. The boy fell down and rolled on the ground. He wa...

27Jesus and his followers went to the towns in the area of Caesarea Philippi. While they were traveling, Jesus asked the followers, "Who do people say I am?" 28The followers answered, "Some people say you are John the Baptizer. Other people say you are Elijah.* And other people say that you are one of the prophets.* " 29Then Jesus asked, "Who do you say I am?" Peter answered, "You are the Christ.* " 30Jesus told the followers, "Don't tell any person who I am."

17Herod* himself had ordered his soldiers to arrest John. So John was put into prison. Herod did this to please his wife, Herodias. Herodias was the wife of Philip, Herod's brother. But then Herod married Herodias. 18John told Herod that it was not right for him to be married to his brother's wife. 19So Herodias hated John. She wanted to kill him. But Herodias was not able to persuade Herod to kill John. 20Herod was afraid to kill John. Herod knew that all the people thought John was a good and holy man. So Herod protected John. Herod enjoyed listening to John preach. But John's message always bothered Herod. 21Then the right time came for Herodias to cause John's death. It happened on Herod's* birthday. Herod gave a dinner party for the most important government leaders, the commanders of his army, and the most important people in Galilee. 22The daughter of Herodias came to the party and danced. When she danced, Herod and the people eating with him were very please...

21Jesus went in the boat back across to the other side of the lake. There, many people gathered around him by the lake. 22A leader of the synagogue* came to that place. His name was Jairus. Jairus saw Jesus and bowed down before him. 23Jairus begged and begged Jesus. He said, "My little daughter is dying. Please come and put your hands on her. Then she will be healed and will live." 24So Jesus went with Jairus. Many people followed Jesus. They were pushing very close around him. 25A woman was there among the people. This woman had been bleeding for the past twelve years. 26The woman suffered very much. Many doctors tried to help her. All the money she had was spent. But she was not improving. Her sickness was becoming worse. 27The woman heard about Jesus. So she followed Jesus with the people and touched his coat. 28The woman thought, "If I can touch his clothes, that will be enough to heal me." 29When the woman touched his coat, her bleeding stopped. The woman felt...

13Jesus went to the lake again. Many people followed him there. So Jesus taught them. 14Jesus was walking beside the lake, and he saw a tax collector* named Levi, son of Alphaeus. Levi was sitting in the tax office. Jesus said to him, "Follow me." Then Levi stood up and followed Jesus. 15Later that day, Jesus ate at Levi's house. There were many tax collectors* and other bad people eating there with Jesus and his followers. There were many of these people that followed Jesus. 16The teachers of the law (they were Pharisees* ) saw Jesus eating with these tax collectors and other bad people. They asked Jesus' followers, "Why does he (Jesus) eat with tax collectors and sinners?" 17Jesus heard this, and he said to them, "Healthy people don't need a doctor. It is the sick people that need a doctor. I did not come to invite good people. I came to invite sinners."

Jesus came back to Capernaum.* The news spread that Jesus was back home. 2. Many, many people gathered to hear Jesus speak. The house was full. There was no place to stand, not even outside the door. Jesus was teaching these people. 3 some people brought a paralyzed (crippled) man to Jesus. Four men were carrying the paralyzed man. But they could not bring the man to Jesus because the house was full of people. So the men went to the roof above Jesus and made a hole in the roof. Then they lowered the bed with the paralyzed man on it. 5Jesus saw that these men had much faith. So Jesus said to the paralyzed man, "Young man, your sins are forgiven." 6Some of the teachers of the law were sitting there. They saw what Jesus did, and they said to themselves, 7"Why does this man say things like that? He is saying things that are against God. Only God can forgive sins." 8Jesus knew that these teachers of the law were thinking those things about him. So Jesus said to them, ...

Matthew, Suffered martyrdom in Ethiopia, killed by a sword wound. Mark, Died in Alexandria , Egypt , after being dragged by horses through the streets until he was dead. Luke was hanged in Greece as a result of his tremendous preaching to the lost. John, Faced martyrdom when he was boiled in huge basin of boiling oil during a wave of persecution in Rome . However, he was miraculously delivered from death. John was then sentenced to the mines on the prison island of Patmos . He wrote his prophetic Book of Revelation on Patmos . The apostle John was later freed and returned to serve as Bishop of Edessa in modern Turkey . He died as an old man, the only apostle to die peacefully. Peter was crucified upside down on an x-shaped cross. According to church tradition it was because he told his tormentors that he felt unworthy to die in the same way that Jesus Christ had died. James, Just The leader of the church in Jerusalem , was thrown over a hundred feet down from the southeast pinnacle of...