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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MRK.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Now John&#8217;s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. Some people came and asked Jesus, &#8220;How is it that John&#8217;s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees are fasting, but yours are not?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MRK.2.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MRK.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Jesus answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;How can the guests of the bridegroom fast while he is with them? They cannot, so long as they have him with them.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MRK.2.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and on that day they will fast.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MRK.2.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MRK.2.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. Otherwise, the new piece will pull away from the old, making the tear worse.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MRK.2.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MRK.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">He said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Do you bring in a lamp to put it under a bowl or a bed? Instead, don&#8217;t you put it on its stand?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MRK.4.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For whatever is hidden is meant to be disclosed, and whatever is concealed is meant to be brought out into the open.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="LUK.6.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">As for everyone who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice, I will show you what they are like.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="LUK.6.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">They are like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the torrent struck that house but could not shake it, because it was well built.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="LUK.6.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But the one who hears my words and does not put them into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. The moment the torrent struck that house, it collapsed and its destruction was complete.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="LUK.7.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Two people owed money to a certain moneylender. One owed him five hundred denarii,</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">7:41 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">A denarius was the usual daily wage of a day laborer (see Matt. 20:2).</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and the other fifty.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="LUK.7.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Neither of them had the money to pay him back, so he forgave the debts of both. Now which of them will love him more?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="LUK.7.42"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="LUK.7.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">Simon replied, &#8220;I suppose the one who had the bigger debt forgiven.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="LUK.7.43"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You have judged correctly,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="LUK.7.43"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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