Matthew 22:4

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Matthew 22:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible

2 “The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son.

3 He sent his servants to call those he had invited to the banquet, but they refused to come.

4 Again, he sent other servants and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner. My oxen and fattened cattle have been killed, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’

5 But they paid no attention and went away, one to his field, another to his business.

6 The rest seized his servants, mistreated them, and killed them.

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After this, the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of Him to every town and place He was about to visit.

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Luke 10:3

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Luke 10:4

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Luke 10:5

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Luke 10:6

If a man of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; if not, it will return to you.

Luke 10:7

Stay at the same house, eating and drinking whatever you are offered. For the worker is worthy of his wages. Do not move around from house to house.

Luke 10:8

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Luke 10:9

Heal the sick who are there and tell them, ‘The kingdom of God is near you.’

Luke 10:10

But if you enter a town and they do not welcome you, go into the streets and declare,

Luke 10:11

‘Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet, we wipe off as a testimony against you. Yet be sure of this: The kingdom of God is near.’

Luke 10:12

I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town.

Luke 10:13

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, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

Luke 10:14

But it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you.

Luke 10:15

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Luke 24:46

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Luke 24:47

and in His name repentance and forgiveness of sins will be proclaimed to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.

Acts 1:8

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

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Meanwhile those scattered by the persecution that began with Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the message only to Jews.

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But some of them, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and began speaking to the Greeks as well, proclaiming the good news about the Lord Jesus.

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Acts 28:21

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Acts 28:23

So they set a day to meet with Paul, and many people came to the place he was staying. He expounded to them from morning to evening, testifying about the kingdom of God and persuading them about Jesus from the Law of Moses and the Prophets.

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For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.’

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Acts 28:30

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Acts 28:31

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Proverbs 9:1

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Proverbs 9:2

She has prepared her meat and mixed her wine; she has also set her table.

Song of Solomon 5:1

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John 6:50

This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that anyone may eat of it and not die.

John 6:51

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John 6:52

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John 6:55

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John 6:56

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He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?

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