April 10 – The Right Path Matters

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Welcome to Bible Chat, where we
have devotional conversations

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rooted in Scripture and relevant
for today, April 10th.

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The right path matters.
A wrong turn can happen so

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easily.
Sometimes in travel, sometimes

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in relationships, sometimes in
the hidden direction of your

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heart.
You think you are fine, and then

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suddenly you realize you are
farther from where you were

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meant to be than you expected.
Proverbs chapter 14 verse 8 says

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the wisdom of the prudent is to
discern his way.

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Psalm chapter 41 verse 4 says, O
Lord, be gracious to me, heal

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me, for I have sinned against
you.

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And in Mark chapter 10 verse 52,
Jesus tells the blind man, go

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your way.
Your faith has made you well.

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And immediately the man receives
sight and follows him on the

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way.
That is such a powerful picture.

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He was not only healed, he was
redirected.

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His eyes were opened, and he
began to follow Jesus.

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That is what God’s wisdom does.
It does not just help you avoid

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disaster.
It opens your eyes so you can

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walk in the right direction.
There are times when we need

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clarity because we truly do not
know what to do.

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But there are also times when we
need honesty because deep down

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we already know we have been
ignoring God’s direction.

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David’s prayer in Psalm chapter
41 is so important because he

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does not pretend.
He admits his need for mercy and

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healing.
And that is often where

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discernment begins, with honesty
before God.

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The right path matters because
direction shapes destination.

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Small choices matter.
Quiet compromises matter.

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Repeated habits matter.
But so does faith.

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The blind man trusted Jesus
before he could see, and then

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his sight led him into a new way
of living.

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Today, ask God not just to bless
your path, but to reveal it.

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Ask Him to show you where you
are drifting, where you need

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healing, and where you need
courage to obey.

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He does not only want to rescue
you when you are lost, He wants

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to teach you how to walk closely
with Him.

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Let’s pray.
Heavenly Father, thank You that

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you see the whole path even when
I cannot give me wisdom to

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discern what is right, humility
to admit where I need healing,

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and faith to follow You with
confidence.

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Open my eyes to anything that is
leading me away from You and

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guide my steps into truth,
peace, and purpose.

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Help me stay close to You and
walk the way You desire for me

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in Jesus name, Amen.
What if you could rise up and

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declare with full spiritual
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Now I invite you to spend time
with God in today’s three-year

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Bible reading plan.
Proverbs chapter 14 verses 8 to

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9 World English Bible The wisdom
of the prudent is to think about

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his way.
But the folly of fools is

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deceit.
Fools mock at making atonement

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for sins, but among the upright
there is goodwill.

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Psalm chapter 41 World English
Bible for the chief musician A

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Psalm by David.
Blessed is he who considers the

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poor.
Yahweh will deliver him in the

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day of evil.
Yahweh will preserve him and

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keep him alive.
He shall be blessed on the earth

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and He will not surrender him to
the will of His enemies.

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Yahweh will sustain him on His
sick bed and restore him from

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His bed of illness.
I said Yahweh, have mercy on me,

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heal me, for I have sinned
against you.

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My enemies speak evil against
me.

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When will He die and His name
perish?

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If He comes to see me?
He speaks falsehood.

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His heart gathers iniquity to
itself.

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When He goes abroad, He tells it
All who hate me whisper together

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against me.
They imagine the worst for me.

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An evil disease they say, has
afflicted him.

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Now that he lies, he shall rise
up no more.

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Yes, my own familiar friend in
whom I trusted, who ate bread

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with me, has lifted up his heel
against me.

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But you, Yahweh, have mercy on
me and raise me up that I may

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repay them.
By this.

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I know that you delighted me
because my enemy doesn’t triumph

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over me.
As for me, you uphold me in my

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integrity and set me in your
presence forever.

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Blessed be Yahweh, the God of
Israel, from everlasting and to

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everlasting, Amen and Amen.
Mark chapter 10 World English

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Bible.
He arose from there and came

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into the borders of Judea and
beyond the Jordan.

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Multitudes came together to him
again, as he usually did.

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He was again teaching them.
Pharisees came to him, testing

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him, and asked him, Is it lawful
for a man to divorce his wife?

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He answered, What did Moses
command you?

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They said Moses allowed a
certificate of divorce to be

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written and to divorce her.
But Jesus said to them, For your

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hardness of heart, he wrote you
this commandment.

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But from the beginning of the
creation God made them male and

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female.
For this cause a man will leave

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his father and mother and will
join to his wife, and the two

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will become one flesh, so that
they are no longer 2, but one

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flesh.
What therefore God has joined

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together?
Let no man separate in the

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house.
His disciples asked Him again

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about the same matter.
He said to them, Whoever

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divorces his wife and marries
another commits adultery against

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her.
If a woman herself divorces her

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husband and marries another, she
commits adultery.

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They were bringing to him little
children, that he should touch

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them, But the disciples rebuked
those who are bringing them.

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But when Jesus saw it, he was
moved with indignation and said

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to them, Allow the little
children to come to me, don’t

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forbid them, for God’s Kingdom
belongs to such as these.

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Most certainly I tell you,
whoever will not receive God’s

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Kingdom like a little child, he
will in no way enter into it.

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He took them in his arms and
blessed them, laying his hands

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on them.
As he was going out into the

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way, one ran to him, knelt
before him, and asked him, Good

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teacher, what shall I do that I
may inherit eternal life?

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Jesus said to him, Why do you
call me good?

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No one is good except one God.
You know the commandments, do

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not murder, do not commit
adultery, do not steal, do not

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give false testimony, do not
defraud, honor your father and

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mother.
He said to him, Teacher, I have

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observed all these things from
my youth.

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Jesus looking at him, loved him
and said to him, One thing you

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lack, Go sell whatever you have,
and give to the poor, and you

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will have treasure in heaven,
and come follow me taking up the

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cross.
But his face fell at that

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saying, and he went away
sorrowful, for he was one who

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had great possessions.
Jesus looked around and said to

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his disciples, How difficult it
is for those who have riches to

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enter into God’s Kingdom.
The disciples were amazed at his

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words, but Jesus answered again,
Children, how hard it is for

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those who trust in riches to
enter into God’s Kingdom.

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It is easier for a camel to go
through a needle’s eye than for

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a rich man to enter into God’s
Kingdom.

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They were exceedingly
astonished, saying to him, Then

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Who can be saved?
Jesus, looking at them, said,

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With men it is impossible, but
not with God, for all things are

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possible with God.
Peter began to tell him, Behold,

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we have left all and have
followed you.

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Jesus said, most certainly.
I tell you there is no one who

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has left house or brothers or
sisters or father or mother or

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wife or children or land, for my
sake and for the sake of the

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good news.
But he will receive 100 times

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more.
Now in this time houses,

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brothers, sisters, mothers,
children and land with

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persecutions and in the age to
come eternal life.

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But many who are first will be
last, and the last first.

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They were on the way, going up
to Jerusalem, and Jesus was

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going in front of them, and they
were amazed.

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And those who followed were
afraid.

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He again took the 12 and began
to tell them the things that

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were going to happen to him.
Behold, we are going up to

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Jerusalem.
The Son of Man will be delivered

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to the chief priests and the
scribes.

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They will condemn him to death
and will deliver him to the

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Gentiles.
They will mock him, spit on him,

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scourge him, and kill him.
On the third day he will rise

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again.
James and John, the sons of

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Zebedee, came near to him
saying, Teacher, we want you to

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do for us whatever we will ask.
He said to them, What do you

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want me to do for you?
They said to him, Grant to us

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that we may sit one at your
right hand and one at your left

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hand in your glory.
But Jesus said to them, You

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don’t know what you are asking.
Are you able to drink the cup

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that I drink, and to be baptized
with the baptism that I am

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baptized with?
They said to him, We are able.

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Jesus said to them, You shall
indeed drink the cup that I

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drink, and you shall be baptized
with the baptism that I am

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baptized with.
But to sit at my right hand and

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at my left hand is not mine to
give, but for whom it has been

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prepared.
When the 10 heard it, they began

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to be indignant toward James and
John.

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Jesus summoned them and said to
them, You know that they who are

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recognized as rulers over the
nation’s, lorded over them, and

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they’re great ones, exercise
authority over them.

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But it shall not be so among
you.

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But whoever wants to become
great among you shall be your

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servant.
Whoever of you wants to become

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first among you shall be bond
servant of all.

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For the Son of Man also came not
to be served, but to serve and

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to give his life as a ransom for
many.

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They came to Jericho.
As he went out from Jericho with

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his disciples and a great
multitude, the son of Timius

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Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was
sitting by the road.

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When he heard that it was Jesus
the Nazarene.

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He began to cry out and say,
Jesus, you son of David, have

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mercy on me.
Many rebuked him that he should

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be quiet, but he cried out much
more.

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You son of David, have mercy on
me.

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Jesus stood still and said, Call
him.

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They called the blind man saying
to him, Cheer up, get up, he is

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calling you.
He casting away his cloak,

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sprang up and came to Jesus.
Jesus asked him, what do you

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want me to do for you?
The blind man said to him,

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Rabboni, that I may see again.
Jesus said to him, go your way,

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your faith has made you well.
Immediately he received his

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sight and followed Jesus on the
way.

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