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   <div class="book bkMAT">
      <div class="chapter ch11" data-usfm="MAT.11">
         <div class="label">11</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus and John the Baptist</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MAT.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples, he went on from there to teach and preach in the towns of Galilee.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:1 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="fqa">in their towns</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MAT.11.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When John, who was in prison, heard about the deeds of the Messiah, he sent his disciples </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">to ask him, &#8220;Are you the one who is to come, or should we expect someone else?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.11.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAT.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Go back and report to John what you hear and see:</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAT.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:5 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word traditionally translated </span><span class="fq">leprosy </span><span class="ft">was used for various diseases affecting the skin.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is proclaimed to the poor.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Blessed is anyone who does not stumble on account of me.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.11.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAT.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">As John&#8217;s disciples were leaving, Jesus began to speak to the crowd about John: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed swayed by the wind?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAT.11.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If not, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? No, those who wear fine clothes are in kings&#8217; palaces.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.11.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Then what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.11.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">This is the one about whom it is written:</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.11.10"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;I will send my messenger ahead of you,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.11.10"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">who will prepare your way before you.&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">11:10 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">  
          Mal. 3:1
          </span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.11.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MAT.11.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Truly I tell you, among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist; yet whoever is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.11.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been subjected to violence,</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:12 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">been forcefully advancing</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and violent people have been raiding it.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.11.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.11.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And if you are willing to accept it, he is the Elijah who was to come.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.11.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Whoever has ears, let them hear.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.11.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.11.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to others:</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.11.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.11.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;We played the pipe for you,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.11.17"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and you did not dance;</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.11.17"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">we sang a dirge,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.11.17"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and you did not mourn.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.11.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAT.11.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, &#8216;He has a demon.&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MAT.11.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, &#8216;Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.&#8217; But wisdom is proved right by her deeds.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Woe on Unrepentant Towns</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MAT.11.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MAT.11.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Then Jesus began to denounce the towns in which most of his miracles had been performed, because they did not repent. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.11.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MAT.11.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MAT.11.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted to the heavens? No, you will go down to Hades.</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:23 </span><span class="ft">That is, the realm of the dead</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MAT.11.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But I tell you that it will be more bearable for Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Father Revealed in the Son</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MAT.11.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.11.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">At that time Jesus said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MAT.11.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Yes, Father, for this is what you were pleased to do.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MAT.11.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.11.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.11.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MAT.11.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MAT.11.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MAT.11.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkJOB">
      <div class="chapter ch3" data-usfm="JOB.3">
         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Job Speaks</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He said:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.3.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;May the day of my birth perish,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.3.3"><span class="content">and the night that said, &#8216;A boy is conceived!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.3.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">That day&#8212;may it turn to darkness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.3.4"><span class="content">may God above not care about it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.3.4"><span class="content">may no light shine on it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.3.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">May gloom and utter darkness claim it once more;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.3.5"><span class="content">may a cloud settle over it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.3.5"><span class="content">may blackness overwhelm it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.3.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">That night&#8212;may thick darkness seize it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.3.6"><span class="content">may it not be included among the days of the year</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.3.6"><span class="content">nor be entered in any of the months.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">May that night be barren;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.3.7"><span class="content">may no shout of joy be heard in it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.3.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">May those who curse days</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">curse the sea</span></span></span><span class="content"> curse that day,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.3.8"><span class="content">those who are ready to rouse Leviathan.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.3.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">May its morning stars become dark;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.3.9"><span class="content">may it wait for daylight in vain</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.3.9"><span class="content">and not see the first rays of dawn,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.3.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">for it did not shut the doors of the womb on me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.3.10"><span class="content">to hide trouble from my eyes.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Why did I not perish at birth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.3.11"><span class="content">and die as I came from the womb?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.3.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Why were there knees to receive me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.3.12"><span class="content">and breasts that I might be nursed?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.3.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">For now I would be lying down in peace;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.3.13"><span class="content">I would be asleep and at rest</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.3.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">with kings and rulers of the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.3.14"><span class="content">who built for themselves places now lying in ruins,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.3.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">with princes who had gold,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.3.15"><span class="content">who filled their houses with silver.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.3.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Or why was I not hidden away in the ground like a stillborn child,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.3.16"><span class="content">like an infant who never saw the light of day?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.3.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">There the wicked cease from turmoil,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.3.17"><span class="content">and there the weary are at rest.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.3.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Captives also enjoy their ease;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.3.18"><span class="content">they no longer hear the slave driver&#8217;s shout.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.3.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The small and the great are there,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.3.19"><span class="content">and the slaves are freed from their owners.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.3.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;Why is light given to those in misery,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.3.20"><span class="content">and life to the bitter of soul,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.3.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">to those who long for death that does not come,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.3.21"><span class="content">who search for it more than for hidden treasure,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.3.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.3.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">who are filled with gladness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.3.22"><span class="content">and rejoice when they reach the grave?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.3.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.3.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Why is life given to a man</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.3.23"><span class="content">whose way is hidden,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.3.23"><span class="content">whom God has hedged in?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.3.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.3.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">For sighing has become my daily food;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.3.24"><span class="content">my groans pour out like water.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.3.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.3.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">What I feared has come upon me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.3.25"><span class="content">what I dreaded has happened to me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.3.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.3.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">I have no peace, no quietness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.3.26"><span class="content">I have no rest, but only turmoil.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch4" data-usfm="PRO.4.23">
         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.4.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Above all else, guard your heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.4.23"><span class="content">for everything you do flows from it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.4.23"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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