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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
   <div class="book bkISA">
      <div class="chapter ch6" data-usfm="ISA.6">
         <div class="label">6</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Isaiah&#8217;s Commission</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And they were calling to one another:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.6.3"><span class="content">&#8220;Holy, holy, holy is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.6.3"><span class="content">the whole earth is full of his glory.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.6.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.6.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Woe to me!&#8221; I cried. &#8220;I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.6.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">With it he touched my mouth and said, &#8220;See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.6.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, &#8220;Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.6.8"><span class="content">And I said, &#8220;Here am I. Send me!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.6.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He said, &#8220;Go and tell this people:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.6.9"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Be ever hearing, but never understanding;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.6.9"><span class="content">be ever seeing, but never perceiving.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.6.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Make the heart of this people calloused;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.6.10"><span class="content">make their ears dull</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.6.10"><span class="content">and close their eyes.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:9,10 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">&#8216;You will be ever hearing, but never understanding; / you will be ever seeing, but never perceiving.&#8217; / </span><span class="fv">10 </span><span class="fqa">This people&#8217;s heart has become calloused; / they hardly hear with their ears, / and they have closed their eyes</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.6.10"><span class="content">Otherwise they might see with their eyes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.6.10"><span class="content">hear with their ears,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.6.10"><span class="content">understand with their hearts,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.6.10"><span class="content">and turn and be healed.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.6.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then I said, &#8220;For how long, Lord?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.6.11"><span class="content">And he answered:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.6.11"><span class="content">&#8220;Until the cities lie ruined</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.6.11"><span class="content">and without inhabitant,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.6.11"><span class="content">until the houses are left deserted</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.6.11"><span class="content">and the fields ruined and ravaged,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.6.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">until the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has sent everyone far away</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.6.12"><span class="content">and the land is utterly forsaken.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.6.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And though a tenth remains in the land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.6.13"><span class="content">it will again be laid waste.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.6.13"><span class="content">But as the terebinth and oak</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.6.13"><span class="content">leave stumps when they are cut down,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.6.13"><span class="content">so the holy seed will be the stump in the land.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">2</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Forgives and Heals a Paralyzed Man</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MRK.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">A few days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people heard that he had come home. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MRK.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">They gathered in such large numbers that there was no room left, not even outside the door, and he preached the word to them. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MRK.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Some men came, bringing to him a paralyzed man, carried by four of them. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MRK.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus by digging through it and then lowered the mat the man was lying on. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MRK.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed man, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Son, your sins are forgiven.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MRK.2.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MRK.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Now some teachers of the law were sitting there, thinking to themselves, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MRK.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Why does this fellow talk like that? He&#8217;s blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MRK.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MRK.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Immediately Jesus knew in his spirit that this was what they were thinking in their hearts, and he said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Why are you thinking these things?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MRK.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Which is easier: to say to this paralyzed man, &#8216;Your sins are forgiven,&#8217; or to say, &#8216;Get up, take your mat and walk&#8217;?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MRK.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> So he said to the man, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MRK.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MRK.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He got up, took his mat and walked out in full view of them all. This amazed everyone and they praised God, saying, &#8220;We have never seen anything like this!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Calls Levi and Eats With Sinners</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MRK.2.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MRK.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Once again Jesus went out beside the lake. A large crowd came to him, and he began to teach them. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MRK.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">As he walked along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax collector&#8217;s booth. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Follow me,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus told him, and Levi got up and followed him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MRK.2.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MRK.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">While Jesus was having dinner at Levi&#8217;s house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with him and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MRK.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: &#8220;Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MRK.2.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MRK.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">On hearing this, Jesus said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Questioned About Fasting</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MRK.2.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><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><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Is Lord of the Sabbath</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MRK.2.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MRK.2.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MRK.2.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">The Pharisees said to him, &#8220;Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MRK.2.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MRK.2.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">He answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MRK.2.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">In the days of Abiathar the high priest, he entered the house of God and ate the consecrated bread, which is lawful only for priests to eat. And he also gave some to his companions.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MRK.2.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MRK.2.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Then he said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MRK.2.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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