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He rolled up the scroll, handed it back to the attendant, and sat down. All eyes in the synagogue looked at him intently. Then he began to speak to them. “The Scripture you’ve just heard has been fulfilled this very day!”

God understands her way;
he knows her place;
for he looks to the ends of the earth
and surveys everything beneath the heavens.
In order to weigh the wind,
to prepare a measure for waters,
when he made a decree for the rain,
a path for thunderbolts,
then he observed it, spoke of it,
established it, searched it out,
and said to humankind: “Look,
the fear of the Lord is wisdom;
turning from evil is understanding.

“Listen carefully: Unless a grain of wheat is buried in the ground, dead to the world, it is never any more than a grain of wheat. But if it is buried, it sprouts and reproduces itself many times over. In the same way, anyone who holds on to life just as it is destroys that life. But if you let it go, reckless in your love, you’ll have it forever, real and eternal.”

“You don’t have to wait for the End. I am, right now, Resurrection and Life. The one who believes in me, even though he or she dies, will live. And everyone who lives believing in me does not ultimately die at all. Do you believe this?”