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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.21.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> did for Sarah what he had promised. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.21.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.21.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Abraham gave the name Isaac</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:3 </span><span class="fq">Isaac </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">he laughs.</span></span></span><span class="content"> to the son Sarah bore him. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.21.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God commanded him. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.21.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.21.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.21.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Sarah said, &#8220;God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.21.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">And she added, &#8220;Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.21.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">At that time Abimelek and Phicol the commander of his forces said to Abraham, &#8220;God is with you in everything you do. </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.8.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;No one lights a lamp and hides it in a clay jar or puts it under a bed. Instead, they put it on a stand, so that those who come in can see the light.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.8.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.8.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Therefore consider carefully how you listen. Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what they think they have will be taken from them.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus&#8217; Mother and Brothers</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.8.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.8.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Now Jesus&#8217; mother and brothers came to see him, but they were not able to get near him because of the crowd. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LUK.8.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Someone told him, &#8220;Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to see you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LUK.8.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.8.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">He replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;My mother and brothers are those who hear God&#8217;s word and put it into practice.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Calms the Storm</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.8.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LUK.8.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">One day Jesus said to his disciples, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Let us go over to the other side of the lake.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> So they got into a boat and set out. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LUK.8.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">As they sailed, he fell asleep. A squall came down on the lake, so that the boat was being swamped, and they were in great danger.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LUK.8.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LUK.8.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">The disciples went and woke him, saying, &#8220;Master, Master, we&#8217;re going to drown!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LUK.8.24"><span class="content">He got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waters; the storm subsided, and all was calm. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.8.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Where is your faith?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he asked his disciples.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.8.25"><span class="content">In fear and amazement they asked one another, &#8220;Who is this? He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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