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    "title": "Matthew 1 — Genealogy of Jesus + the virgin-birth narrative",
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Surface 'book of the genealogy' is standard ASV/RSV-baseline."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-1:2","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Routine narrative/transitional verse; Greek source verified; surface English at standard ASV/RSV-baseline; no philological divergence requiring scholarly citation."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-1:3","status":"approve","citations":["Davies-Allison ICC 1.170-172","Brown 1993 73-74","Luz Hermeneia 1.85"],"reasoning":"Four-women genealogy reading preserved without surface-adjudication; the four interpretive options (sinners/foreigners/irregular-unions/divine-providence) accurately reflect modern scholarly inventory. Tamar (Thamar) rendering follows standard Greek-cognate transliteration."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-1:4","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Routine narrative/transitional verse; Greek source verified; surface English at standard ASV/RSV-baseline; no philological divergence requiring scholarly citation."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-1:5","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Routine narrative/transitional verse; Greek source verified; surface English at standard ASV/RSV-baseline; no philological divergence requiring scholarly citation."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-1:6","status":"approve","citations":["Davies-Allison ICC 1.174","Brown 1993 75-76"],"reasoning":"Preservation of periphrastic 'wife of Uriah' (tēs tou Ouriou) over direct naming as Bathsheba is philologically faithful to Matthean rhetorical strategy."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-1:7","status":"approve","citations":["Metzger Textual Commentary 1994 ad loc.","Davies-Allison ICC 1.176"],"reasoning":"Critical-text Asaph reading (B+א+SBLGNT/THGNT) properly preserved over Byzantine harmonization to Asa; Metzger ad loc. confirms critical-text choice."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-1:8","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Routine narrative/transitional verse; Greek source verified; surface English at standard ASV/RSV-baseline; no philological divergence requiring scholarly citation."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-1:9","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Routine narrative/transitional verse; Greek source verified; surface English at standard ASV/RSV-baseline; no philological divergence requiring scholarly citation."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-1:10","status":"approve","citations":["Metzger Textual Commentary 1994 ad loc.","Davies-Allison ICC 1.177-178"],"reasoning":"Critical-text Amos reading properly preserved over Byzantine harmonization to Amon; parallels v.7 Asaph variant. Critical-text discipline correct."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-1:11","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Routine narrative/transitional verse; Greek source verified; surface English at standard ASV/RSV-baseline; no philological divergence requiring scholarly citation."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-1:12","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Routine narrative/transitional verse; Greek source verified; surface English at standard ASV/RSV-baseline; no philological divergence requiring scholarly citation."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-1:13","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Routine narrative/transitional verse; Greek source verified; surface English at standard ASV/RSV-baseline; no philological divergence requiring scholarly citation."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-1:14","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Routine narrative/transitional verse; Greek source verified; surface English at standard ASV/RSV-baseline; no philological divergence requiring scholarly citation."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-1:15","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Routine narrative/transitional verse; Greek source verified; surface English at standard ASV/RSV-baseline; no philological divergence requiring scholarly citation."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-1:16","status":"approve","citations":["Davies-Allison ICC 1.183-184","Brown 1993 138-139"],"reasoning":"Feminine relative hēs and passive egennēthē correctly identified as signaling virgin-conception; minority adoptionist witnesses (Sinaitic Syriac) properly noted as harmonizing. Surface 'of whom was born' is defensible RSV-baseline."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-1:17","status":"approve","citations":["Davies-Allison ICC 1.161-165","Brown 1993 74-84"],"reasoning":"14×3 structural pattern + DWD gematria correctly identified; the 14+14+13 arithmetic-tension properly noted as interpretive-intent over strict counting."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-1:18","status":"approve","citations":["Brown 1993 124-125","Davies-Allison ICC 1.200-203"],"reasoning":"ek pneumatos hagiou correctly identified as anarthrous Greek; Brown 1993 caution against retrojecting Nicene Trinitarian theology onto 1st-c. usage is sound. Lens-risk site appropriately flagged in commentary without surface-pre-resolution toward either Trinitarian or extraterrestrial readings."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-1:19","status":"approve","citations":["Davies-Allison ICC 1.202-204","Brown 1993 125-128"],"reasoning":"dikaios ambiguity (law-observant-but-compassionate vs righteous-as-merciful) properly preserved without adjudication. Both readings have ancient and modern defenders."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-1:20","status":"approve","citations":["Davies-Allison ICC 1.204-207"],"reasoning":"angelos kyriou correctly calqued from LXX malʾakh YHWH; Joseph-typological pattern (Gen 37+40-41) is a standard Matthean redactional observation."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-1:21","status":"approve","citations":["Davies-Allison ICC 1.209","Brown 1993 130-131"],"reasoning":"Iēsous/Yēšûaʿ/yšʿ folk-etymology correctly identified; Sir 46:1 Joshua-typology parallel is well-grounded. Surface 'will save his people from their sins' is standard."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-1:22","status":"approve","citations":["Davies-Allison ICC 1.209-213"],"reasoning":"hina plērōthē fulfillment-formula correctly identified as Matthean signature (12x); cross-reference to Mt 5:17 plēroō semantic-breadth is appropriate."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-1:23","status":"approve","citations":["Justin Martyr Dialogue with Trypho 71-77","Childs 2001 Isaiah commentary","Brown 1993 143-153","Davies-Allison ICC 1.213-217","Kupp 1996 Matthew's Emmanuel SNTSMS 90"],"reasoning":"Major lens-risk site handled correctly. LXX parthenos preserved as Matthew cites it (not back-translated to Hebrew ʿalmâ); philological dispute documented in central glossary entry; Justin Trypho 71-77 historical-locus correctly identified. Kupp 1996 inclusio-frame to Mt 28:20 properly cross-referenced. No Mariological pre-resolution; no supersessionist 'Jews mistranslated' framing."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-1:24","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Routine narrative/transitional verse; Greek source verified; surface English at standard ASV/RSV-baseline; no philological divergence requiring scholarly citation."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-1:25","status":"approve","citations":["Davies-Allison ICC 1.218-219","Brown 1993 132-134"],"reasoning":"heōs ambiguity (perpetual-virginity vs Protestant-tradition) properly preserved; the Mt 28:20 heōs counter-parallel correctly noted. Byzantine 'firstborn' addition correctly omitted per critical text."}],"glossaryReview":[{"glossary_id":"parable-of-the-sower-mt-13-3-23-raelian-panspermia-canon-citation-cross-corpus-with-disavowals","status":"approve","citations":["Snodgrass Stories with Intent 2008","Levine Short Stories by Jesus 2014","Davies-Allison ICC 2.371-407","Luz Hermeneia 2.232-256","France NICNT 497-516"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: the entry is philological dispute-documentation + acknowledgment-without-endorsement framework, not interpretive synthesis. Surface English at ASV/RSV-baseline. Three reading-strata preserved without adjudication; explicit non-endorsement of Raëlian panspermia reading. All cited scholars correctly characterized."},{"glossary_id":"transfiguration-mt-17-1-9-elohim-manifest-in-glory-mosheh-eliyyahu-divine-presence-cross-corpus-with-disavowals","status":"approve","citations":["Allison 1993 The New Moses (Fortress)","Davies-Allison ICC 2.685-708","Luz Hermeneia 2.392-409","France NICNT 642-661","Hagner WBC 2.490-503"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: dispute-documentation, four-layered-allusion philological treatment, acknowledgment-without-endorsement. Allison 1993 Moses-typology citation accurate. Four-layered bath-qol allusion (Ps 2:7 + Isa 42:1 + Deut 18:15 + Mt 3:17) is sound philological work."},{"glossary_id":"great-commission-mt-28-19-20-trinitarian-baptismal-formula-conybeare-hypothesis-cross-corpus-with-disavowals","status":"approve","citations":["Conybeare ZNW 2 (1901) 275-288","Metzger Textual Commentary 1994 ad loc.","Davies-Allison ICC 3.682-686","France NICNT 1115-1118","Didache 7","Justin 1 Apology 61"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: preserves canonical text (preserved in ALL Greek manuscripts) + documents Conybeare 1901 hypothesis as one scholarly position WITHOUT adjudication. Metzger 1994 standard-apparatus exclusion correctly invoked; Didache 7 + Justin 1 Apol 61 2nd-c. attestation evidence accurate. Even-handed presentation."},{"glossary_id":"mountain-as-revelation-site-mt-cross-corpus-har-sinai-mount-sapunu","status":"approve","citations":["Allison 1993 The New Moses","Davies-Allison ICC 1.422-427"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: Matthean structural-theological pattern (Mt 5:1 + 5:14 + 17:1 + 17:9 + 17:20 + 28:16) is a standard scholarly observation. Bidirectional cross-corpus wiring to Hebrew Sinai entry and Ugaritic Mount Sapunu entry is well-grounded."},{"glossary_id":"kingdom-of-heaven-basileia-tōn-ouranōn-mt-distinctive-cross-corpus-hebrew-malkhut-shamayim","status":"approve","citations":["Davies-Allison ICC 1.389-392","Luz Hermeneia 1.215-219","rabbinic malkhut shamayim tradition"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: Matthean-distinctive systematic-redactional-substitution of basileia tōn ouranōn for basileia tou theou is well-attested; rabbinic malkhut shamayim cross-corpus parallel is standard scholarship."},{"glossary_id":"abolish-or-fulfill-mt-5-17-katalysai-vs-plērōsai-christian-supersessionism-disavowal-cross-corpus","status":"approve","citations":["BDAG 827-829 s.v. plēroō","Davies-Allison ICC 1.481-487","Luz Hermeneia 1.260-268","France NICNT 180-189","Hagner WBC 1.105-108","Nolland NIGTC 217-222","Levine-Brettler JANT 2017 ad loc."],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: BDAG plēroō 5-sense semantic-range is accurate; supersessionist-disavowal apparatus is well-grounded; Levine-Brettler 2017 Jewish-Christian dialogue framing correctly invoked. Comprehensive philological treatment."},{"glossary_id":"sheep-and-goats-mt-25-31-46-adelphōn-mou-tōn-elachistōn-three-readings-gray-cross-corpus","status":"approve","citations":["Gray 1989 The Least of My Brothers SBLDS 114","Donahue TS 47 (1986) 3-31","Davies-Allison ICC 3.418-433","Luz Hermeneia 3.279-282","Hagner WBC 2.744-746"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: Gray 1989 SBLDS 114 three-reading-strata adjudication is comprehensive scholarly inventory, not project-specific synthesis. Universalist / restricted-missionary / restricted-brethren-only readings correctly characterized."},{"glossary_id":"isa-7-14-virgin-birth-mt-1-22-23-parthenos-vs-almah-philological-dispute-cross-corpus","status":"approve","citations":["Justin Martyr Dialogue with Trypho 71-77","Childs 2001 Isaiah commentary","Brown 1993 143-153","Davies-Allison ICC 1.213-217","LXX vs MT philological dispute"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: locus classicus of Jewish-Christian philological polemic with documentary chain from Justin 71-77 onward. Hebrew ʿalmâ vs LXX parthenos philological data correctly presented. Multiple operational disavowals (supersessionist / Mariological / Raëlian) appropriate."},{"glossary_id":"emmanuel-frame-inclusio-mt-1-23-mt-28-20-divine-presence-cross-corpus-kupp","status":"approve","citations":["Kupp 1996 Matthew's Emmanuel SNTSMS 90 (Cambridge)","Davies-Allison ICC 3.687-689"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: Kupp 1996 SNTSMS 90 monograph is THE comprehensive treatment of the Matthean Emmanuel-inclusio. The Mt 1:23 (meth' hēmōn ho theos) ↔ Mt 28:20 (meth' hymōn eimi) structural-inclusio is well-documented."},{"glossary_id":"beatitudes-mt-5-3-12-makarios-formula-ethical-teaching-cross-corpus","status":"approve","citations":["Davies-Allison ICC 1.429-466","Luz Hermeneia 1.190-217","Betz 1995 Sermon on the Mount Hermeneia","1QM 11:9 Qumran ʿnwy rwḥ"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: makarios/ʾašrê LXX-rendering pattern + Hebrew-wisdom beatitude tradition + Qumran ʿnwy rwḥ parallel + Isa 61 cross-corpus all standard scholarship."},{"glossary_id":"lords-prayer-mt-6-9-13-pater-hēmōn-byzantine-doxology-textual-variant-cross-corpus","status":"approve","citations":["Metzger Textual Commentary 1994 ad loc.","Davies-Allison ICC 1.593-616","Luz Hermeneia 1.310-330","France NICNT 240-253","Didache 8:2","BDAG 376-377 s.v. epiousios"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: critical-text consensus for doxology omission (B+א+critical text); Didache 8:2 shorter-form evidence for liturgical-development; epiousios hapax three-rendering treatment all sound philological work."},{"glossary_id":"aiōnios-mt-25-41-46-eternal-vs-age-pertaining-cross-corpus","status":"approve","citations":["Sasse TDNT 1 (1964) 197-209","Hart 2017 The New Testament (Yale)","Hart 2019 That All Shall Be Saved (Yale)","Fudge 2011 The Fire That Consumes","Davies-Allison ICC 3.433-435"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: philological-breadth treatment with both eternalist and conditionalist positions accurately presented. Sasse TDNT + Hart + Fudge citations correctly characterized. No surface pre-resolution of hell-doctrine debate."},{"glossary_id":"iēsous-yehoshua-yhwh-saves-folk-etymology-cross-corpus","status":"approve","citations":["Davies-Allison ICC 1.209","Brown 1993 130-131","Sir 46:1 (Joshua-son-of-Nun)"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: Greek/Hebrew/Aramaic name-cognate trio (Iēsous/Yĕhôšuaʿ/Yēšûaʿ) + yšʿ-root folk-etymology + Mt 1:21 angel-rationale + Sir 46:1 typological parallel all standard scholarship."},{"glossary_id":"christos-māšîaḥ-anointed-one-cross-corpus-greek-hebrew-aramaic","status":"approve","citations":["Davies-Allison ICC 1.149-160","Hebrew Bible anointing tradition","Dan 9:25-26","Qumran messianic expectation"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: Greek/Hebrew/Aramaic cognate trio + Hebrew Bible anointing-of-king-priest-prophet tradition + Dan 9:25-26 māšîaḥ + Quranic al-masīḥ cross-corpus all standard."},{"glossary_id":"son-of-man-bar-enash-dan-7-13-mt-cross-corpus","status":"approve","citations":["Dan 7:13-14 LXX","Vermes 1973 Jesus the Jew (bar nasha idiomatic-self-reference)","Collins 1995 The Scepter and the Star (apocalyptic-titular)","Davies-Allison ICC 2.43-53"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: Dan 7:13-14 source-text + Vermes 1973 bar nasha idiom-hypothesis + Collins 1995 apocalyptic-titular position presented as competing scholarly traditions, not adjudicated. Sound philology."},{"glossary_id":"golden-rule-mt-7-12-hillel-cross-corpus","status":"approve","citations":["b.Shabbat 31a (Hillel)","Tobit 4:15","Confucius Analects 15.23","Letter of Aristeas 207","Sir 31:15","Davies-Allison ICC 1.685-690"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: comprehensive cross-corpus golden-rule parallels (Hillel; Tobit; Confucius; Aristeas; Sirach) + Matthean positive vs Hillel negative formulation difference correctly characterized."},{"glossary_id":"sbl-polytonic-greek-transliteration-convention","status":"approve","citations":["SBL Handbook of Style 2nd ed. (SBL 2014)","NA28 / UBS5 polytonic conventions"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: project-standard transliteration convention is appropriately tagged as direct. Macron-marked long-vowels for η/ω + breathings + diphthongs convention is consistent with scholarly transliteration practice."},{"glossary_id":"lords-prayer-doxology-textual-variant-convention","status":"approve","citations":["Metzger Textual Commentary 1994 ad loc.","Davies-Allison ICC 1.615-616","Didache 8:2"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: critical-text consensus is direct documentary fact. Convention omits Byzantine doxology per B+א+critical text, documents Didache 8:2 shorter doxology as evidence of liturgical addition."},{"glossary_id":"epiousios-hapax-translation-convention","status":"approve","citations":["Davies-Allison ICC 1.607-610","Jeremias Prayers of Jesus 1967","BDAG 376-377 s.v. epiousios"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: convention preserves all three classical etymologies (daily/for-tomorrow/supersubstantial) and adopts dominant English-tradition rendering without adjudicating dispute. Jeremias 1967 Aramaic-background hypothesis correctly characterized as one position."},{"glossary_id":"aionios-eternal-vs-age-pertaining-translation-convention","status":"approve","citations":["Sasse TDNT 1.197-209","Hart 2017","Fudge 2011"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: convention preserves dominant English-tradition rendering and documents philological breadth without pre-resolving eternalist-vs-conditionalist-vs-universalist hell-doctrine debate. Modern philological consensus correctly characterized."},{"glossary_id":"raca-aramaic-insult-untranslated-mt-5-22","status":"approve","citations":["Davies-Allison ICC 1.511-515","Luz Hermeneia 1.285-289","France NICNT 200-201","BDAG 902 s.v. rhaka"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: Matthean preservation of Aramaic-loan untranslated is direct textual fact; three-fold judgment escalation (anger/rhaka/mōre) is standard Matthean rhetorical-intensification reading."},{"glossary_id":"adelphōn-mou-presence-absence-asymmetry-mt-25-40-vs-25-45-gray","status":"approve","citations":["Gray 1989 SBLDS 114","Donahue TS 47 (1986) 3-31","Davies-Allison ICC 3.418-433"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: textual-asymmetry (v.40 has adelphōn mou; v.45 lacks it) is direct textual fact reported by Gray 1989. Convention to preserve asymmetry on surface is faithful to source."}],"lens-leakage-flags":[]}},
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "MAT-WOH-1:1",
        "text": "The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "MAT-WOH-1:2",
        "text": "Abraham begot Isaac, and Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob begot Judah and his brothers,"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "MAT-WOH-1:3",
        "text": "and Judah begot Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez begot Hezron, and Hezron begot Aram,"
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "MAT-WOH-1:4",
        "text": "and Aram begot Amminadab, and Amminadab begot Nahshon, and Nahshon begot Salmon,"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "MAT-WOH-1:5",
        "text": "and Salmon begot Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz begot Obed by Ruth, and Obed begot Jesse,"
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "MAT-WOH-1:6",
        "text": "and Jesse begot David the king. And David begot Solomon by the wife of Uriah,"
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "MAT-WOH-1:7",
        "text": "and Solomon begot Rehoboam, and Rehoboam begot Abijah, and Abijah begot Asaph,"
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "MAT-WOH-1:8",
        "text": "and Asaph begot Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat begot Joram, and Joram begot Uzziah,"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "MAT-WOH-1:9",
        "text": "and Uzziah begot Jotham, and Jotham begot Ahaz, and Ahaz begot Hezekiah,"
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "MAT-WOH-1:10",
        "text": "and Hezekiah begot Manasseh, and Manasseh begot Amos, and Amos begot Josiah,"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "MAT-WOH-1:11",
        "text": "and Josiah begot Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "MAT-WOH-1:12",
        "text": "And after the deportation to Babylon, Jechoniah begot Salathiel, and Salathiel begot Zerubbabel,"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "MAT-WOH-1:13",
        "text": "and Zerubbabel begot Abiud, and Abiud begot Eliakim, and Eliakim begot Azor,"
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "MAT-WOH-1:14",
        "text": "and Azor begot Zadok, and Zadok begot Achim, and Achim begot Eliud,"
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "MAT-WOH-1:15",
        "text": "and Eliud begot Eleazar, and Eleazar begot Matthan, and Matthan begot Jacob,"
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "MAT-WOH-1:16",
        "text": "and Jacob begot Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "MAT-WOH-1:17",
        "text": "So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ fourteen generations."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "MAT-WOH-1:18",
        "text": "Now the birth of Jesus Christ was in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child of the Holy Spirit."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "MAT-WOH-1:19",
        "text": "And Joseph her husband, being a righteous man and not wishing to expose her to disgrace, resolved to divorce her quietly."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "MAT-WOH-1:20",
        "text": "But while he was considering these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying: \"Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife, for that which has been conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "MAT-WOH-1:21",
        "text": "She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.\""
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "MAT-WOH-1:22",
        "text": "Now all this took place so that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet might be fulfilled, saying:"
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "MAT-WOH-1:23",
        "text": "\"Behold, the virgin shall be with child and shall bear a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel\" — which is translated, \"God with us.\""
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "MAT-WOH-1:24",
        "text": "And Joseph, rising from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him, and took his wife,"
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "MAT-WOH-1:25",
        "text": "and did not know her until she had borne a son; and he called his name Jesus."
      }
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