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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Mark 9
Brit Hadashah 48 verses
- 1 He went on to say, “In solemn I tell you that some of those who are standing here will certainly not taste death till they have seen the Kingdom of already come in power.”
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Six days later, took with Him , , and , and brought them alone, apart from the rest, up a high mountain; and in their presence His appearance underwent a change.
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Luke 9:28-36 Mark 5:37 Matthew 17:1-8 Exodus 24:13 Exodus 34:29-35 Isaiah 33:17 Mark 14:33 2 Corinthians 3:7-10 John 1:14 Revelation 20:11 Revelation 1:13-17 Philippians 3:21 Isaiah 53:2 Matthew 17:11-13 Matthew 14:13 1 Kings 18:42 Romans 12:2 Mark 16:12 2 Corinthians 13:1 2 Peter 1:16-18 Luke 6:12 1 Kings 18:33 Philippians 2:6-8 - 3 His garments also became dazzling with brilliant whiteness—such whiteness as no bleaching on earth could give.
- 4 Moreover there appeared to them accompanied by ; and the two were conversing with ,
- 5 when said to , “Rabbi, we are thankful to you that we are here. Let us put up three tents—one for you, one for , and one for .”
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For he knew not what to say: they were filled with such awe.
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Then there came a cloud spreading over them, and a voice issued from the cloud, “This is my Son, dearly loved: listen to Him.”
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Matthew 3:17 2 Peter 1:17 Mark 1:11 Daniel 7:13 John 5:22-25 Acts 1:9 John 1:49 Psalm 2:7 1 John 5:20 John 1:34 John 20:31 Acts 3:22-23 1 John 5:11-12 Revelation 1:7 Matthew 17:5-7 Matthew 27:54 John 6:69 Romans 1:4 Exodus 23:21-22 Exodus 40:34 Acts 7:37 1 John 4:9-10 Matthew 26:63-64 Acts 8:36 Exodus 24:16 Hebrews 2:1 John 5:37 John 19:7 Psalm 97:2 Deuteronomy 18:15-19 John 3:16-18 John 5:18 1 Kings 8:10-12 John 9:35 Matthew 27:43 Hebrews 12:25-26 Luke 9:34-36 -
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Instantly they looked round, and now they could no longer see any one, but themselves and .
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- 9 As they were coming down from the mountain, He very strictly forbad them to tell any one what they had seen “until after the Son of Man has risen from among the dead.”
- 10 So they kept the matter to themselves, although frequently asking one another what was meant by the rising from the dead.
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They also asked Him, “How is it that the Scribes say that must first come?”
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“,” He replied, “does indeed come first and reforms everything; but how is it that it is written of the Son of Man that He will endure much suffering and be held in contempt?
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Luke 23:11 Isaiah 53:1-12 Psalm 69:1-36 Isaiah 52:14 Psalm 22:1-31 Isaiah 49:7 Zechariah 13:7 Matthew 3:1-12 Luke 1:16-17 Isaiah 50:6 Isaiah 40:3-5 Malachi 4:6 John 1:6-36 Matthew 26:24 Matthew 11:2-18 Luke 3:2-6 Zechariah 11:13 Daniel 9:24-26 John 3:27-30 Luke 1:76 Mark 1:2-8 Matthew 16:21 Luke 23:39 Psalm 74:22 Philippians 2:7-8 -
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Yet I tell you that not only has come, but they have also done to him whatever they chose, as the Scriptures say about him.”
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As they came to rejoin the disciples, they saw an immense crowd surrounding them and a party of Scribes disputing with them.
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Immediately the whole multitude on beholding Him were astonished and awe-struck, and yet they ran forward and greeted Him.
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“What is the subject you are discussing?” He asked them.
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“Rabbi,” answered one of the crowd, “I have brought you my son. He has a dumb in him;
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- 18 and wherever it comes upon him, it dashes him to the ground, and he foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth, and he is pining away. I begged your disciples to expel it, but they had not the power.”
- 19 “O unbelieving generation!” replied ; “how long must I be with you? how long must I have patience with you? Bring the boy to me.”
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So they brought him to . And the , when he saw , immediately threw the youth into convulsions, so that he fell on the ground and rolled about, foaming at the mouth.
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Then asked the father, “How long has he been like this?” “From early childhood,” he said;
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“and often it has thrown him into the fire or into pools of water to destroy him. But, if you possibly can, have pity on us and help us.”
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“’If I possibly can!’” replied ; “why, everything is possible to him who believes.”
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- 24 Immediately the father cried out, “I do believe: strengthen my weak .”
- 25 Then , seeing that an increasing crowd was running towards Him, rebuked the foul , and said to it, “Dumb and deaf , *I* command you, come out of him and never enter into him again.”
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So with a loud cry he threw the boy into fit after fit, and came out. The boy looked as if he were dead, so that most of them said he was dead;
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- 27 but took his hand and raised him up, and he stood on his feet.
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After the return of to the house His disciples asked Him privately, “How is it that we could not expel the ?”
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- 29 “An evil of this kind,” He answered, “can only be driven out by prayer.”
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Departing thence they passed through , and He was unwilling that any one should it;
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- 31 for He was teaching His disciples, and telling them, “The Son of Man is to be betrayed into the hands of men, and they will put Him to death; and after being put to death, in three days He will rise to life again.”
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They, however, did not understand what He meant, and were afraid to question Him.
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So they came to ; and when in the house He asked them, “What were you arguing about on the way?”
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But they remained silent; for on the way they had debated with one another who was the chief of them.
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Then sitting down He called the Twelve, and said to them, “If any one wishes to be first, he must be last of all and of all.”
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And taking a young child He made him stand in their midst, then threw His arms round him and said,
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- 37 “Whoever for my sake receives one such young child as this, receives me; and whoever receives me, receives not so much me as Him who sent me.”
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“Rabbi,” said to Him, “we saw a man making use of your to expel demons, and we tried to hinder him, on the ground that he did not follow us.”
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- 39 “You should not have tried to hinder him,” replied , “for there is no one who will use my to perform a miracle and be able the next minute to speak evil of me.
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He who is not against us is for us;
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- 41 and whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to , I solemnly tell you that he will certainly not lose his reward.
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“And whoever shall occasion the fall of one of these little ones who believe, he would be better off if, with a millstone round his neck, he were lying at the bottom of the sea.
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- 43 If your hand should cause you to sin, cut it off: it would be better for you to enter into Life maimed, than remain in possession of both your hands and go away into , into the fire which cannot be put out.
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Or if your foot should cause you to sin, cut it off: it would be better for you to enter into Life crippled, than remain in possession of both your feet and be thrown into .
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- 47 Or if your eye should cause you to sin, tear it out. It would be better for you to enter into the Kingdom of half-blind than remain in possession of two eyes and be thrown into ,
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where their worm does not die and the fire does not go out.
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Every one, however, will be salted with fire.
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Salt is a good thing, but if the salt should become tasteless, what will you use to give it saltness? Have salt within you and live at with one another.”
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Colossians 4:6 Romans 12:18 2 Corinthians 13:11 Matthew 5:13 Hebrews 12:14 Ephesians 4:29 Job 6:6 Luke 14:34-35 1 Thessalonians 5:13 Philippians 2:1-3 Psalm 133:1 Psalm 34:14 Galatians 5:14-15 Galatians 5:22 John 13:34-35 Ephesians 4:31-32 Romans 14:17-19 Ephesians 4:2-6 Colossians 3:12 James 3:14-18 Mark 9:34 James 1:20 2 Timothy 2:22 John 15:17-18 1 Peter 3:8 Philippians 1:27