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Mark 11
²⁴ Therefore I say to you, all things for which you pray and ask, believe that you have received them, and they will be granted you.
²⁵ Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father who is in heaven will also forgive you your transgressions.
²⁶ [But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father who is in heaven forgive your transgressions."]
²⁷ They *came again to Jerusalem. And as He was walking in the temple, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders *came to Him,
²⁸ and began saying to Him, "By what authority are You doing these things, or who gave You this authority to do these things?"
²⁹ And Jesus said to them, "I will ask you one question, and you answer Me, and then I will tell you by what authority I do these things.
³⁰ Was the baptism of John from heaven, or from men? Answer Me."
³¹ They began reasoning among themselves, saying, "If we say, ’From heaven,’ He will say, ’Then why did you not believe him?’
³² But shall we say, ’From men’?"-they were afraid of the people, for everyone considered John to have been a real prophet.
³³ Answering Jesus, they *said, "We do not know." And Jesus *said to them, "Nor will I tell you by what authority I do these things."
Mark 12
¹ And He began to speak to them in parables: "A man PLANTED A VINEYARD AND PUT A WALL AROUND IT, AND DUG A VAT UNDER THE WINE PRESS AND BUILT A TOWER, and rented it out to vine-growers and went on a journey.