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Beginner's Online Bible Study: Matthew 10:16-25 As Harmless As Doves

Thomas Less, 02/22/2011

¹⁶“Look, I am sending you out as sheep among wolves. So be as shrewd as snakes and harmless as doves.¹⁷But beware! For you will be handed over to the courts and will be flogged with whips in the synagogues.¹⁸You will stand trial before governors and kings because you are my followers. But this will be your opportunity to tell the rulers and other unbelievers about

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Beginner's Online Bible Study: Matthew 10:9-15 Depend on God

Thomas Less, 02/21/2011

⁹“Don’t take any money in your money belts—no gold, silver, or even copper coins.¹⁰Don’t carry a traveler’s bag with a change of clothes and sandals or even a walking stick. Don’t hesitate to accept hospitality, because those who work deserve to be fed.

¹¹“Whenever you enter a city or village, search for a worthy person and stay in his home until you leave town.¹²When

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Beginner's Online Bible Study: Matthew 10:5-8 Give Freely As You Have Received

Thomas Less, 02/19/2011

⁵Jesus sent out the twelve apostles with these instructions: “Don’t go to the Gentiles or the Samaritans,⁶but only to the people of Israel—God’s lost sheep.⁷Go and announce to them that the Kingdom of Heaven is near.⁸Heal the sick, raise the dead, cure those with leprosy, and cast out ^fdemons. Give as freely as you have received!

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Beginner's Online Bible Study: Mattew 9:35 – 10-4 Jesus chooses the 12 apostles

Thomas Less, 02/18/2011

³⁵Jesus traveled through all the towns and villages of that area, teaching in the synagogues and announcing the Good News about the Kingdom. And he healed every kind of disease and illness.³⁶When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them because they were confused and helpless, like sheep without a ^dshepherd.³⁷He said to his disciples, “The harvest is great, but the workers

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Beginner's Online Bible Study: Matthew 9: 18-34 It's a Miracle!

Thomas Less, 02/17/2011

¹⁸As Jesus was saying this, the leader of a synagogue came and knelt before him. “My daughter has just died,” he said, “but you can bring her back to life again if you just come and lay your hand on her.”

¹⁹So Jesus and his disciples got up and went with him.²⁰Just then a woman who had suffered for twelve years with constant bleeding came up

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Beginner's Online Bible Study: Matthew 9: 14-17 New wine in new wineskins

Thomas Less, 02/16/2011

¹⁴One day the disciples of John the Baptist came to Jesus and asked him, “Why don’t your disciples fast like we do and the Pharisees do?”

¹⁵Jesus replied, “Do wedding guests mourn while celebrating with the groom? Of course not. But someday the groom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

¹⁶“Besides, who would patch old clothing with new cloth? For the new

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Beginner's Online Bible Study: Matthew 9: 9-13 Jesus calls notorious sinners

Thomas Less, 02/15/2011

⁹As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at his tax collector’s booth. “Follow me and be my disciple,” Jesus said to him. So Matthew got up and followed him.

¹⁰Later, Matthew invited Jesus and his disciples to his home as dinner guests, along with many tax collectors and other disreputable sinners.¹¹But when the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why

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Beginner's Online Bible Study: Mattew 9: 1-8 Jesus has authority to forgive sins

Thomas Less, 02/14/2011

¹Jesus climbed into a boat and went back across the lake to his own town.²Some people brought to him a paralyzed man on a mat. Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralyzed man, “Be encouraged, my child! Your sins are forgiven.”

³But some of the teachers of religious law said to themselves, “That’s blasphemy! Does he think he’s God?”

⁴Jesus knew what they were

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Beginner's Online Bible Study: Matthew 8: 28-33 Casting out demons

Thomas Less, 02/13/2011

²⁸When Jesus arrived on the other side of the lake, in the region of the Gadarenes, two men who were possessed by demons met him. They lived in a cemetery and were so violent that no one could go through that area.

²⁹They began screaming at him, “Why are you interfering with us, Son of God? Have you come here to torture us before God’s appointed time?”

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Beginner's Online Bible Study: Matthew 8: 23-27 Jesus calms the storm

Thomas Less, 02/12/2011

²³Then Jesus got into the boat and started across the lake with his disciples.²⁴Suddenly, a fierce storm struck the lake, with waves breaking into the boat. But Jesus was sleeping.²⁵The disciples went and woke him up, shouting, “Lord, save us! We’re going to drown!”

²⁶Jesus responded, “Why are you afraid? You have so little faith!” Then he got up and rebuked the wind

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