These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Mark 10
Brit Hadashah 52 verses
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Soon on His feet once more, He enters the district of Judaea and crosses the : again the people flock to Him, and ere long, as was usual with Him, He was teaching them once more.
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Presently a party of Pharisees come to Him with the question—seeking to entrap Him, “May a man divorce his wife?”
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“What rule did lay down for you?” He answered.
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“,” they said, “permitted a man to draw up a written notice of divorce, and to send his wife away.”
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“It was in consideration of your stubborn hearts,” said , “that enacted this for you;
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but from the beginning of the creation the rule was, ‘Male and female did make them.
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For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cling to his wife,
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and the two shall be one’; so that they are two no longer, but ‘one.’
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What, therefore, has joined together let not man separate.”
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He replied, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman, commits adultery against the first wife;
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and if a woman puts away her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.”
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One day people were bringing young children to for Him to touch them, but the disciples interfered.
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, however, on seeing this, was moved to indignation, and said to them, “Let the little children come to me: do not hinder them; for to those who are childlike the Kingdom of belongs.
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Matthew 19:14 1 Peter 2:2 Matthew 18:4 Matthew 18:10 2 Timothy 1:5 2 Timothy 3:15 Luke 18:15-16 Ephesians 4:26 Mark 8:33 Deuteronomy 4:37 Acts 3:25 Luke 9:54-56 Acts 2:39 Psalm 131:1-2 Genesis 17:7 1 Corinthians 7:14 Revelation 14:5 Deuteronomy 29:11-12 Psalm 78:4 1 Corinthians 14:20 Romans 11:16 Psalm 115:14-15 Numbers 14:31 Jeremiah 32:39-40 Isaiah 65:23 Mark 3:5 Genesis 17:10-14 Romans 11:28 1 Samuel 1:27-28 1 Samuel 1:22 1 Samuel 1:11 -
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In solemn I tell you that no one who does not receive the Kingdom of like a little child will by any possibility enter it.”
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Then He took them in His arms and blessed them lovingly, one by one, laying His hands upon them.
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- 17 As He went out to resume His journey, there came a man running up to Him, who knelt at His feet and asked, “Good Rabbi, what am I to do in order to inherit the Life of the Ages?”
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“Why do you call me good?” asked in reply; “there is no one truly good except One—that is, .
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- 19 You the Commandments—’Do not murder;’ ‘Do not commit adultery;’ ‘Do not steal;’ ‘Do not lie in giving evidence;’ ‘Do not defraud;’ ‘Honour thy father and thy mother.’”
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“Rabbi,” he replied, “all these Commandments I have carefully obeyed from my youth.”
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Then looked at him and loved him, and said, “One thing is lacking in you: go, sell all you possess and give the proceeds to the poor, and you shall have riches in Heaven; and come and be a follower of mine.”
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Acts 2:45 Luke 12:33 1 Timothy 6:17-19 Luke 16:9 Matthew 6:19-21 Matthew 19:21 Mark 8:34 James 2:10 Matthew 13:44-46 Matthew 16:24 Revelation 2:14 2 Timothy 3:12 Acts 4:34-37 Romans 8:17-18 Luke 19:41 1 Peter 1:4-5 John 16:33 Luke 18:22 John 12:26 Revelation 2:4 Hebrews 10:34 Luke 10:42 2 Corinthians 12:15 Luke 9:23 Revelation 2:20 Isaiah 63:8-10 Genesis 34:19 Proverbs 23:23 - 22 At these words his brow darkened, and he went away sad; for he was possessed of great wealth.
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Then looking round on His disciples said, “With how hard a struggle will the possessors of riches enter the Kingdom of !”
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The disciples were amazed at His words. , however, said again, “Children, how hard a struggle is it for those who trust in riches to enter the Kingdom of !
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1 Timothy 6:17 John 21:5 Psalm 52:7 John 13:33 Proverbs 11:28 Luke 16:14 1 John 4:4 Proverbs 18:11 Psalm 17:14 John 6:60 Proverbs 23:5 James 5:1-3 Revelation 3:17 Jeremiah 9:23 Habakkuk 2:9 Galatians 4:19 Zephaniah 1:18 Ezekiel 28:4-5 Luke 18:26-27 Luke 12:16-21 Matthew 19:25 1 John 5:21 1 John 2:1 Psalm 62:10 Job 31:24-25 Psalm 49:6-7 -
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It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of .”
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They were astonished beyond measure, and said to one another, “Who then *can* be saved?”
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- 27 looking on them said, “With men it is impossible, but not with ; for everything is possible with .”
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“Remember,” said to Him, “that we forsook everything and have become your followers.”
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- 29 “In solemn I tell you,” replied , “that there is no one who has forsaken house or brothers or sisters, or mother or father, or children or lands, for my sake and for the sake of the Good News,
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but will receive a hundred times as much now in this present life—houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, lands—and persecution with them—and in the coming age the Life of the Ages.
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Philippians 3:8 2 Corinthians 6:10 John 16:22-23 Luke 18:30 Malachi 3:10 Revelation 3:18 Romans 6:23 Psalm 84:11 Acts 16:25 1 Timothy 6:6 James 5:11 James 1:12 Matthew 6:33 2 Thessalonians 2:16 2 Corinthians 9:8-11 Romans 5:3 Revelation 2:9 Matthew 5:11-12 1 John 2:25 1 John 3:1 Matthew 12:32 Proverbs 3:9-10 Matthew 13:44-46 1 Peter 4:12-16 Proverbs 16:16 2 Chronicles 25:9 James 1:2-4 John 10:23 Acts 5:41 - 31 But many who are now first will be last, and the last, first.”
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They were still on the road going up to , and was walking ahead of them; they were full of wonder, and some, though they followed, did so with . Then, once more calling to Him the Twelve, He began to tell them what was about to happen to Him.
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- 33 “See,” He said, “we are going up to , where the Son of Man will be betrayed to the High Priests and the Scribes. They will condemn Him to death, and will hand Him over to the Gentiles;
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they will insult Him in cruel sport, spit on Him, scourge Him, and put Him to death; but on the third day He will rise to life again.”
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Then and , the sons of Zabdi, came up to Him and said, “Rabbi, we wish you would grant us whatever request we make of you.”
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“What would you have me do for you?” He asked.
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“Allow us,” they replied, “to sit one at your right hand and the other at your left hand, in your .”
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- 38 “You not,” said He, “what you are asking. Are you able to drink out of the cup from which I am to drink, or to be baptized with the with which I am to be baptized?”
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“We are able,” they replied. “Out of the cup,” said , “from which I am to drink you shall drink, and with the with which I am to be baptized you shall be baptized;
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but as to sitting at my right hand or at my left, that is not mine to give: it will be for those for whom it is reserved.”
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The other ten, hearing of it, were at first highly indignant with and .
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, however, called them to Him and said to them, “You are aware how those who are deemed rulers among the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men make them feel their authority;
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- 43 but it is not to be so among you. No, whoever desires to be great among you must be your ;
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- 45 For the Son of Man also did not come to be waited upon, but to wait on others, and to give His life as the redemption-price for a multitude of people.”
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They came to ; and as He was leaving that town—Himself and His disciples and a great crowd—Bartimaeus (the son of Timaeus)
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Hearing that it was the Nazarene, he began to cry out, “Son of , , have pity on me.”
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Matthew 9:27 Luke 18:36-37 Mark 1:24 Matthew 12:23 Matthew 1:1 Matthew 20:30 Jeremiah 23:5-6 Revelation 22:16 Matthew 21:9 Matthew 26:71 Luke 4:16 John 1:46 Romans 1:3-4 Matthew 15:22 Matthew 22:42-45 Isaiah 9:6-7 John 7:52 Acts 13:22-23 Isaiah 11:1 John 7:41 Matthew 2:23 Acts 6:14 John 19:19 Matthew 21:11 - 48 Many angrily told him to leave off shouting; but he only cried out all the louder, “Son of , have pity on me.”
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Then stood still. “Call him,” He said. So they called the blind man. “Cheer up,” they said; “rise, he is calling you.”
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The man flung away his outer garment, sprang to his feet, and came to .
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“What shall I do for you?” said . “Rabboni,” replied the blind man, “let me recover my sight.”
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- 52 “Go,” said , “your has cured you.” Instantly he regained his sight, and followed Him along the road.