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38One day some teachers of religious law and Pharisees came to Jesus and said, “Teacher, we want you to show us a miraculous dsign to prove your authority.”
33“A tree is identified by its fruit. If a tree is good, its fruit will be good. If a tree is bad, its fruit will be bad.34You brood of snakes! How could evil men like you speak what is good and right? For whatever is in your heart determines what you say.35A good person produces good things from the treasury of a good heart, and 
31“So I tell you, every sin and blasphemy can be forgiven—except blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, which will never be forgiven.32Anyone who speaks against the Son of Man can be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven, either in this world or in the world to come.
30“Anyone who isn’t with me opposes me, and anyone who isn’t working with me is actually working against me. 
22Then a demon-possessed man, who was blind and couldn’t speak, was brought to Jesus. He healed the man so that he could both speak and see.23The crowd was amazed and asked, “Could it be that Jesus is the Son of David, the Messiah?”
15But Jesus knew what they were planning. So he left that area, and many people followed him. He healed all the sick among them,16but he warned them not to reveal who he was.17This fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah concerning him:
9Then Jesus went over to their synagogue,10where he noticed a man with a deformed hand. The Pharisees asked Jesus, “Does the law permit a person to work by healing on the Sabbath?” (They were hoping he would say yes, so they could bring charges against him.)
1At about that time Jesus was walking through some grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, so they began breaking off some heads of grain and eating them.2But some Pharisees saw them do it and protested, “Look, your disciples are breaking the law by harvesting grain on the Sabbath.”3Jesus said to them, “Haven’t you read in the Scriptures what David did when he and …
28Then Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.29Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle at heart, and you will find rest for your souls.30For my yoke is easy to bear, and the burden I give you is light.”
27“My Father has entrusted everything to me. No one truly knows the Son except the Father, and no one truly knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”
This is a hard verse to accept and understand. It also explains so much. Truly knowing someone is very rare. You may have hundreds of acquaintances. Of those, you may consider 50 of …