cleaned.md

Mark 11-12

The Triumphal Entry

^11:1 Now when they drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples ² and said to them, "Go into the village in front of you, and immediately as you enter it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it. ³ If anyone says to you, 'Why are you doing this?' say, 'The Lord has need of it and will send it back here immediately.'" ⁴ And they went away and found a colt tied at a door outside in the street, and they untied it. ⁵ And some of those standing there said to them, "What are you doing, untying the colt?" ⁶ And they told them what Jesus had said, and they let them go. ⁷ And they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks on it, and he sat on it. ⁸ And many spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut from the fields. ⁹ And those who went before and those who followed were shouting, "Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! ¹⁰ Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! Hosanna in the highest!" ¹¹ And he entered Jerusalem and went into the temple. And when he had looked around at everything, as it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.

Jesus Curses the Fig Tree

¹² On the following day, when they came from Bethany, he was hungry. ¹³ And seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. ¹⁴ And he said to it, "May no one ever eat fruit from you again." And his disciples heard it.

Jesus Cleanses the Temple

¹⁵ And they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. ¹⁶ And he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the temple. ¹⁷ And he was teaching them and saying to them, "Is it not written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations'? But you have made it a den of robbers." ¹⁸ And the chief priests and the scribes heard it and were seeking a way to destroy him, for they feared him, because all the crowd was astonished at his teaching. ¹⁹ And when evening came they went out of the city.

The Lesson from the Withered Fig Tree

²⁰ As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away to its roots. ²¹ And Peter remembered and said to him, "Rabbi, look! The fig tree that you cursed has withered." ²² And Jesus answered them, "Have faith in God. ²³ Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be taken up and thrown into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him. ²⁴ Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. ²⁵ And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses."

The Authority of Jesus Challenged

²⁷ And they came again to Jerusalem. And as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders came to him, ²⁸ and they said to him, "By what authority are you doing these things, or who gave you this authority to do them?" ²⁹ Jesus said to them, "I will ask you one question; answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things. ³⁰ Was the baptism of John from heaven or from man? Answer me." ³¹ And they discussed it with one another, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will say, 'Why then did you not believe him?' ³² But shall we say, 'From man'?"--they were afraid of the people, for they all held that John really was a prophet. ³³ So they answered Jesus, "We do not know." And Jesus said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things."

The Parable of the Tenants

^12:1 And he began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and leased it to tenants and went into another country. ² When the season came, he sent a servant to the tenants to get from them some of the fruit of the vineyard. ³ And they took him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed. ⁴ Again he sent to them another servant, and they struck him on the head and treated him shamefully. ⁵ And he sent another, and him they killed. And so with many others: some they beat, and some they killed. ⁶ He had still one other, a beloved son. Finally he sent him to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.' ⁷ But those tenants said to one another, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.' ⁸ And they took him and killed him and threw him out of the vineyard. ⁹ What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenants and give the vineyard to others. ¹⁰ Have you not read this Scripture: "'The stone that the builders rejected> has become the cornerstone; ¹¹ this was the Lord's doing,> and it is marvelous in our eyes'?" ¹² And they were seeking to arrest him but feared the people, for they perceived that he had told the parable against them. So they left him and went away.

Paying Taxes to Caesar

¹³ And they sent to him some of the Pharisees and some of the Herodians, to trap him in his talk. ¹⁴ And they came and said to him, "Teacher, we know that you are true and do not care about anyone's opinion. For you are not swayed by appearances, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not? Should we pay them, or should we not?" ¹⁵ But, knowing their hypocrisy, he said to them, "Why put me to the test? Bring me a denarius and let me look at it." ¹⁶ And they brought one. And he said to them, "Whose likeness and inscription is this?" They said to him, "Caesar's." ¹⁷ Jesus said to them, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." And they marveled at him.

The Sadducees Ask About the Resurrection

¹⁸ And Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection. And they asked him a question, saying, ¹⁹ "Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife, but leaves no child, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. ²⁰ There were seven brothers; the first took a wife, and when he died left no offspring. ²¹ And the second took her, and died, leaving no offspring. And the third likewise. ²² And the seven left no offspring. Last of all the woman also died. ²³ In the resurrection, when they rise again, whose wife will she be? For the seven had her as wife." ²⁴ Jesus said to them, "Is this not the reason you are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God? ²⁵ For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. ²⁶ And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, 'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? ²⁷ He is not God of the dead, but of the living. You are quite wrong."

The Great Commandment

²⁸ And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, "Which commandment is the most important of all?" ²⁹ Jesus answered, "The most important is, 'Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. ³⁰ And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' ³¹ The second is this: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these." ³² And the scribe said to him, "You are right, Teacher. You have truly said that he is one, and there is no other besides him. ³³ And to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices." ³⁴ And when Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, "You are not far from the kingdom of God." And after that no one dared to ask him any more questions.

Whose Son Is the Christ?

³⁵ And as Jesus taught in the temple, he said, "How can the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David? ³⁶ David himself, in the Holy Spirit, declared, "'The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand,> until I put your enemies under your feet.'³⁷ David himself calls him Lord. So how is he his son?" And the great throng heard him gladly.

Beware of the Scribes

³⁸ And in his teaching he said, "Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes and like greetings in the marketplaces ³⁹ and have the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts, ⁴⁰ who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation."

The Widow's Offering

⁴¹ And he sat down opposite the treasury and watched the people putting money into the offering box. Many rich people put in large sums. ⁴² And a poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which make a penny. ⁴³ And he called his disciples to him and said to them, "Truly, I say to you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the offering box. ⁴⁴ For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on." (ESV)

esv.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'open-uri'
require 'uri'
require 'awesome_print'
require 'pry'

passage = ARGV.join(' ')
output = open("http://www.esvapi.org/v2/rest/passageQuery?key=IP&passage=#{URI.encode(passage)}&output-format=plain-text&include-footnotes=false").read

cleaned = output.gsub(/\[([\d:]+)\]/, '<sup>\\1</sup> ')
                .gsub(/=======================================================\n(.+)^/m, '> ## \1')
                .gsub(/_______________________________________________________\n([.^\n]*)^/m, '> ### \1')
                .gsub(/^   /, '> ')
                .gsub("\n", "")
                .gsub("> <", "\n> <")
                .gsub("> ###", "\n> ###")

puts cleaned

original

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Mark 11-12
_______________________________________________________
The Triumphal Entry

   [11:1]Now when they drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, 
at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples [2]and said to 
them, "Go into the village in front of you, and immediately as you enter 
it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and 
bring it. [3]If anyone says to you, 'Why are you doing this?' say, 'The 
Lord has need of it and will send it back here immediately.'" [4]And they 
went away and found a colt tied at a door outside in the street, and they 
untied it. [5]And some of those standing there said to them, "What are 
you doing, untying the colt?" [6]And they told them what Jesus had said, 
and they let them go. [7]And they brought the colt to Jesus and threw 
their cloaks on it, and he sat on it. [8]And many spread their cloaks on 
the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut from the 
fields. [9]And those who went before and those who followed were 
shouting, "Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! 
[10]Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! Hosanna in the 
highest!"
   [11]And he entered Jerusalem and went into the temple. And when he had 
looked around at everything, as it was already late, he went out to 
Bethany with the twelve.
_______________________________________________________
Jesus Curses the Fig Tree

   [12]On the following day, when they came from Bethany, he was hungry. 
[13]And seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he 
could find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but 
leaves, for it was not the season for figs. [14]And he said to it, "May 
no one ever eat fruit from you again." And his disciples heard it.
_______________________________________________________
Jesus Cleanses the Temple

   [15]And they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to 
drive out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and he 
overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who 
sold pigeons. [16]And he would not allow anyone to carry anything through 
the temple. [17]And he was teaching them and saying to them, "Is it not 
written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the 
nations'? But you have made it a den of robbers." [18]And the chief 
priests and the scribes heard it and were seeking a way to destroy him, 
for they feared him, because all the crowd was astonished at his 
teaching. [19]And when evening came they went out of the city.
_______________________________________________________
The Lesson from the Withered Fig Tree

   [20]As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered 
away to its roots. [21]And Peter remembered and said to him, "Rabbi, 
look! The fig tree that you cursed has withered." [22]And Jesus answered 
them, "Have faith in God. [23]Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this 
mountain, 'Be taken up and thrown into the sea,' and does not doubt in 
his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be 
done for him. [24]Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, 
believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. [25]And whenever 
you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that 
your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses."
_______________________________________________________
The Authority of Jesus Challenged

   [27]And they came again to Jerusalem. And as he was walking in the 
temple, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders came to him, 
[28]and they said to him, "By what authority are you doing these things, 
or who gave you this authority to do them?" [29]Jesus said to them, "I 
will ask you one question; answer me, and I will tell you by what 
authority I do these things. [30]Was the baptism of John from heaven or 
from man? Answer me." [31]And they discussed it with one another, saying, 
"If we say, 'From heaven,' he will say, 'Why then did you not believe 
him?' [32]But shall we say, 'From man'?"--they were afraid of the people, 
for they all held that John really was a prophet. [33]So they answered 
Jesus, "We do not know." And Jesus said to them, "Neither will I tell you 
by what authority I do these things."
_______________________________________________________
The Parable of the Tenants

   [12:1]And he began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a 
vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and 
built a tower, and leased it to tenants and went into another country. 
[2]When the season came, he sent a servant to the tenants to get from 
them some of the fruit of the vineyard. [3]And they took him and beat him 
and sent him away empty-handed. [4]Again he sent to them another servant, 
and they struck him on the head and treated him shamefully. [5]And he 
sent another, and him they killed. And so with many others: some they 
beat, and some they killed. [6]He had still one other, a beloved son. 
Finally he sent him to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.' [7]But 
those tenants said to one another, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill 
him, and the inheritance will be ours.' [8]And they took him and killed 
him and threw him out of the vineyard. [9]What will the owner of the 
vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenants and give the vineyard 
to others. [10]Have you not read this Scripture:

  "'The stone that the builders rejected
    has become the cornerstone;
  [11]this was the Lord's doing,
    and it is marvelous in our eyes'?"
   [12]And they were seeking to arrest him but feared the people, for 
they perceived that he had told the parable against them. So they left 
him and went away.
_______________________________________________________
Paying Taxes to Caesar

   [13]And they sent to him some of the Pharisees and some of the 
Herodians, to trap him in his talk. [14]And they came and said to him, 
"Teacher, we know that you are true and do not care about anyone's 
opinion. For you are not swayed by appearances, but truly teach the way 
of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not? Should we pay them, 
or should we not?" [15]But, knowing their hypocrisy, he said to them, 
"Why put me to the test? Bring me a denarius and let me look at it." 
[16]And they brought one. And he said to them, "Whose likeness and 
inscription is this?" They said to him, "Caesar's." [17]Jesus said to 
them, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the 
things that are God's." And they marveled at him.
_______________________________________________________
The Sadducees Ask About the Resurrection

   [18]And Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection. 
And they asked him a question, saying, [19]"Teacher, Moses wrote for us 
that if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife, but leaves no child, the 
man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. [20]There 
were seven brothers; the first took a wife, and when he died left no 
offspring. [21]And the second took her, and died, leaving no offspring. 
And the third likewise. [22]And the seven left no offspring. Last of all 
the woman also died. [23]In the resurrection, when they rise again, whose 
wife will she be? For the seven had her as wife."
   [24]Jesus said to them, "Is this not the reason you are wrong, because 
you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God? [25]For when they 
rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are 
like angels in heaven. [26]And as for the dead being raised, have you not 
read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God spoke 
to him, saying, 'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the 
God of Jacob'? [27]He is not God of the dead, but of the living. You are 
quite wrong."
_______________________________________________________
The Great Commandment

   [28]And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one 
another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, "Which 
commandment is the most important of all?" [29]Jesus answered, "The most 
important is, 'Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. [30]And 
you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your 
soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' [31]The second 
is this: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other 
commandment greater than these." [32]And the scribe said to him, "You are 
right, Teacher. You have truly said that he is one, and there is no other 
besides him. [33]And to love him with all the heart and with all the 
understanding and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as 
oneself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices." 
[34]And when Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, "You are 
not far from the kingdom of God." And after that no one dared to ask him 
any more questions.
_______________________________________________________
Whose Son Is the Christ?

   [35]And as Jesus taught in the temple, he said, "How can the scribes 
say that the Christ is the son of David? [36]David himself, in the Holy 
Spirit, declared,

  "'The Lord said to my Lord,
  Sit at my right hand,
    until I put your enemies under your feet.'
[37]David himself calls him Lord. So how is he his son?" And the great 
throng heard him gladly.
_______________________________________________________
Beware of the Scribes

   [38]And in his teaching he said, "Beware of the scribes, who like to 
walk around in long robes and like greetings in the marketplaces [39]and 
have the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts, 
[40]who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They 
will receive the greater condemnation."
_______________________________________________________
The Widow's Offering

   [41]And he sat down opposite the treasury and watched the people 
putting money into the offering box. Many rich people put in large sums. 
[42]And a poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which make a 
penny. [43]And he called his disciples to him and said to them, "Truly, I 
say to you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are 
contributing to the offering box. [44]For they all contributed out of 
their abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in everything she 
had, all she had to live on." (ESV)