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* This is the beginning of the good news about Jesus Christ , Gods Son . * The men of God , called prophets , long ago wrote about it this way : God said , See , I send my man ahead of you to tell about you . He will make the way ready for you . * A man is calling out in the desert , "Make the way ready for the Lord . Make the road straight for him ." * John baptised people in the desert . He told them to stop doing wrong things and be baptised , and God would forgive them for the wrong things they did . * People from all the land of Judea and all the city of Jerusalem went out to John . He baptised them in the Jordan River when they told about the wrong things they did . * John wore clothes made of camels hair and a leather belt . He ate locusts and wild honey . * He told the people , Another person is coming . He is greater than I am . I am not good enough to bend down and untie his shoe strings . * I have baptised you with water , but he will baptise you with the Holy Spirit . * At that time Jesus came from the town of Nazareth in the country of Galilee . John baptised him in the Jordan River . * As soon as he came up out of the water , Jesus saw the sky open . He saw Gods Holy Spirit come down on him like a bird called a dove . * A voice from the sky said , You are my dear Son . I am very pleased with you . * Right away , the Spirit made Jesus go into the desert . * Jesus was in the desert for forty days . All that time Satan tried to make Jesus do wrong . Jesus was with wild animals . Angels came and took care of him . * John was put in prison . Then Jesus went to Galilee . He told people the good news of Gods kingdom . * The time has come , he said . The kingdom of God is here . Stop your wrong ways , turn back to God and believe the good news . * Jesus was walking by the Sea of Galilee . There he saw Simon and his brother Andrew . They were throwing a fishing net into the water . Their work was to catch fish . * Jesus said to them , Come with me . The work I give you will be to catch people . * Right away they left their nets and went with him . * Jesus went on from there and saw James and his brother John . Their fathers name was Zebedee . They were in a boat mending their nets . * Jesus called them . Right away they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the workmen and went with Jesus . * They went to the town of Capernaum . As soon as it was the Sabbath day , Jesus went into their meeting house and taught the people . * They were very much surprised at his teaching because he taught them as if he had the right to teach them . He did not teach them like their teachers called scribes . * A man who had a bad spirit in him was in the meeting house at that time . * He called out , Jesus of Nazareth , what do you want to do to us ? Have you come to kill us ? I know who you are . You are the Holy One of God . * Jesus said to the spirit , Be quiet ! Come out of him ! * The bad spirit threw the man around . It called out loud and then it came out of the man . * The people were all surprised . They said one to another , What is this ? Is not this a new teaching ? He tells the bad spirits what to do and even they obey him * The people all around Galilee heard right away about Jesus . * As soon as they came out of the meeting house , they went to the home of Simon and Andrew . James and John went also . * Simons wifes mother was sick and was lying down . She had a fever . Right away they told Jesus about her . * Jesus went to her . He took her hand and helped her up . The fever left her right away , and she began to do things to help them . * That evening when the sun went down , people brought to Jesus all the sick people and those who had bad spirits . * All the people in the city crowded around the door . * He healed many sick people . He drove the bad spirits out of people . And he did not let them speak because they knew who he was . * The next morning Jesus got up long before daylight . He went out to a place by himself . There he talked with God . * Simon and his friends went out after Jesus . * When they found him they said , Everyone is looking for you . * Jesus said , We must go to the next towns . I must tell the good news to the people there too . That is why I came here . * Then Jesus talked to the people in all the meeting houses in all the country of Galilee . He also made the bad spirits come out of people . * A man who was sick with leprosy &lt ;FI &gt ;a bad skin disease &lt ;Fi &gt ; came to him . He kneeled down and begged Jesus saying , I know you can heal me if you want to . * Jesus was very sorry for him . He put out his hand and touched him . He said , I want to . Be healed . * As soon as he said this , the disease left the man and he was healed . * Jesus talked strongly to him and sent him away . * He said , Do not tell anyone about this . But go and let the priest look at you . Moses gave a law about the gift you must give to God when you are healed . Give it to prove to people that you are healed . * But the man went out and told everyone everywhere what had happened to him . Because he did this , Jesus could not go into any large town freely . He stayed in places where only a few people were . There people came to him from everywhere .

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