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      "v": 1,
      "text": "On one of those days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the Good News, the priests and scribes came to him with the elders."
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      "v": 4,
      "text": "the baptism of John, was it from heaven, or from men?”",
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      "text": "But and if we say, Of men; all the people will stone us: for they be persuaded that John was a prophet."
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