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“And when He was alone, those around Him with the twelve asked Him about the parables. And He said to them, ‘To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables, so that “they may indeed see but not perceive, »

Jesus asked, “Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise, take up your bed, and walk’? -Mark 2:9 In this life, some people are the prisoners of physical maladies such as blindness, deafness, crippled limbs, incapacitating mental syndromes, debilitating, even lethal cancers, »

“The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place…Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is »

“And truly, I say to you, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told in memory of her.” -Jesus in Mark 14:9 Mary, sister of Martha and Lazarus, really is known throughout the whole world today wherever the gospel has been preached, »

“…knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own evil desires. They will say, ‘Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.’…But these »

“Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, and you perish in the way…” -Psalm 2:12 “Judas, would you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?” -Luke 22:48 No two kisses could be so different! One reflects so much good, life-saving, and genuine delight of the heart, while the other »

“He had no form or majesty that we should look at Him, and no beauty that we should desire Him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces He was despised, and we esteemed »

“For not from the east or from the west and not from the wilderness comes lifting up, but it is God who executes judgment, putting down one and lifting up another.” -Psalm 75:6-7 It was 1955. The setting was famous Gorky Park. The park sits on the shores of the »

“And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. You know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.” -John »

“Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of Him. Even so. Amen.” -Revelation 1:7 Bad habits often linger. I have a terrible habit of sometimes spontaneously letting out a »

“Then the demons came out of the man and entered the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and drowned.” -Luke 8:33 This is a strange story to say the least. A quite deranged man met Jesus directly as He got out of a boat »

“Then one said to Him, ‘Lord, are there few who are saved?’…” -Luke 13:23 “After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, »