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Magadan and some early manuscripts of Mark as Magdala, home of Mary Magdalene. There Jesus encounters the Pharisees, who ask him to perform a miracle for them. "He sighed deeply in his spirit" (verse 12, cf. Mark 2:8), words not included in Matthew's account. Nicoll picks up "a sense of irreconcilable enmity, invincible unbelief, and coming doom" in the phrase. Jesus then asks,

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