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This man is the vanguard of many outsiders who will soon be coming from all directions - streaming in from the east, pouring in from the west, sitting down at God's kingdom banquet alongside Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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Then those who grew up 'in the faith' but had no faith will find themselves out in the cold, outsiders to grace and wondering what happened."
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Then Jesus turned to the captain and said, "Go. What you believed could happen has happened." At that moment his servant became well.
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By this time they were in front of Peter's house. On entering, Jesus found Peter's mother-in-law sick in bed, burning up with fever.
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He touched her hand and the fever was gone. No sooner was she up on her feet than she was fixing dinner for him.
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That evening a lot of demon-afflicted people were brought to him. He relieved the inwardly tormented. He cured the bodily ill.
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He fulfilled Isaiah's well-known sermon: He took our illnesses, He carried our diseases.
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When Jesus saw that a curious crowd was growing by the minute, he told his disciples to get him out of there to the other side of the lake.
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As they left, a religion scholar asked if he could go along. "I'll go with you, wherever," he said.
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Jesus was curt: "Are you ready to rough it? We're not staying in the best inns, you know."
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Another follower said, "Master, excuse me for a couple of days, please. I have my father's funeral to take care of."