Mark 9:38-40 (NRSV)
John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone
casting out demons in your name,
and we tried to stop him,
because he was not following us.”
But Jesus said, “Do not stop him;
for no one who does a deed of power in my name
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Mark 12:29-31 (NRSV)
Jesus answered, “The first is
‘Hear, O Israel: the Lord your God, the Lord is one;
you shall love the Lord your God
with all your heart, and with all your soul,
and with all your mind and with all your strength.’
The second is this,
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Mark 8:31-32
Then he began to teach them
that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering,
and be rejected by the elders,
the chief priests, and the scribes,
and be killed and after three days rise again.
He said all this quite openly.
And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.
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