Yet even on this point their testimony did not agree.

So also you, when you see these things happening, know<n id="1" /> that he is near, right at the door.

&#8220;Why does this man speak this way? He is blaspheming!<n id="1" /> Who can forgive sins but God alone?&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">He also said, &#8220;The kingdom of God is like someone who spreads seed on the ground.

But it is not this way among you. Instead whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant,

Now<n id="1" /> immediately, when Jesus realized in his spirit that they were contemplating such thoughts,<n id="2" /> he said to them, &#8220;Why are you thinking such things in your hearts?<n id="3" />

And immediately the man<n id="1" /> stood up, took his stretcher, and went out in front of them all. They were all amazed and glorified God, saying, &#8220;We have never seen anything like this!&#8221;p>

He said to them, &#8220;Are you so foolish? Don&#8217;t you understand that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him?

and his clothes became radiantly white, more so than any launderer in the world could bleach them.

Now when the centurion,<n id="1" /> who stood in front of him, saw how he died,<n id="2" /> he said, &#8220;Truly this man was God&#8217;s Son!&#8221;