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But when the sun came up, they were scorched. Since they did not have any roots, they dried up.

Verse ConceptsThe SunInstabilityPeople WitheredScorchingRoses

but since he doesn't have any root in himself, he lasts for only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes along because of the word, he immediately falls away.

Verse ConceptsFleeting ImpressionsNot Whole HeartedPersecution, Nature OfPersecution, OriginSuddenlyPeople StumblingChrist's Disciples Will SufferEnduringWhy It HappenedPersecution

When his disciples reached the other side, they had forgotten to take any bread along.

Verse ConceptsForgetting ThingsThe Disciples ActionsNo FoodMisunderstandings

As they began to discuss this among themselves, they kept saying, "We didn't bring along any bread."

Verse ConceptsConversationNo Food

Knowing this, Jesus asked them, "You who have little faith, why are you discussing among yourselves the fact that you don't have any bread?

Verse ConceptsFaith, Growth InWorryDoubt RebukedNot Believing In JesusChrist Knowing About PeopleConversation

They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians. They said, "Teacher, we know that you are sincere and that you teach the way of God truthfully. You don't favor any individual, because you pay no attention to external appearance.

Verse ConceptsFlatteryKnowing God's WaysHonestyWay, TheJewish SectsChrist Telling The TruthChrist TeachingTeaching The Way Of GodGod's Word Is True

because when the foolish ones took their lamps, they didn't take any oil with them.

Verse ConceptsOlive OilOil For LampsFoolish PeopleNot Equippedboyfriends

"Then the one who had received one talent came forward and said, "Master, I knew that you were a hard man, harvesting where you haven't planted and gathering where you haven't scattered any seed.

Verse ConceptsNot SowingNot Reaping What You SowOne Material ThingLarge DenominationsStrictnessKnowing God's CharacterReaping What You SowTalents

"His master answered him, "You evil and lazy servant! So you knew that I harvested where I haven't planted and gathered where I haven't scattered any seed?

Verse ConceptsTalentsSlothfulnessNot SowingNot Reaping What You SowKnowing God's Character

But they couldn't find any, even though many false witnesses had come forward. At last two men came forward

Verse ConceptsTwo WitnessesNot FindingTwo WitnessesMany Deceivers And Deceived

At this, the high priest stood up and asked Jesus, "Don't you have any answer to what these men are testifying against you?"

Verse ConceptsOthers Not AnsweringPeople Getting UpRivers

At every festival the governor had a custom of releasing to the crowd any prisoner whom they wanted.

Verse ConceptsCrowds SeekingOnly One PersonPeople Releasing Others

But when the sun came up, they were scorched. Since they didn't have any roots, they dried up.

Verse ConceptsThe SunPeople WitheredScorching

Then he told them, "You don't understand this parable, so how can you understand any of the parables?

Verse ConceptsCommunicationDo You Understand?Jesus Using Parables

but since they don't have any roots, they last for only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes along because of the word, they immediately fall away.

Verse ConceptsAfflictions, In Christian LivingShallownessFor The Sake Of ThingsPersecutionpressure

So they left the crowd and took him away in a boat without making any special preparations. Other boats were with him.

Verse ConceptsCrowdsCrowds AvoidedBoats

He lived among the tombs, and no one could restrain him any longer, not even with a chain.

Verse ConceptsIron ChainsBreaking Chains

If any place will not welcome you and the people refuse to listen to you, when you leave, shake its dust off your feet as a testimony against them."

Verse ConceptsGesturesFeetHospitality, A Duty Of God's PeopleOpportunities, And SalvationWiping DustPeople Abandoning Peoplefatedustwelcome

They ran all over the countryside and began carrying the sick on their mats to any place where they heard he was.

Verse ConceptsBedsGroups RunningPeople Carrying Live People

Now the disciples had forgotten to take any bread along, but they had one loaf with them in the boat.

Verse ConceptsDisorganizationForgetting ThingsNo FoodOne Material ThingMissing The Mark

So they were discussing with one another the fact that they didn't have any bread.

Verse ConceptsDiscussions

Knowing this, Jesus asked them, "Why are you discussing the fact that you don't have any bread? Don't you understand or perceive yet? Are your hearts hardened?

Verse ConceptsFools, In Teaching Of Jesus ChristEyes, Figurative UseHardness Of HeartUnderstandingStiffnecked PeopleChrist Knowing About PeopleBeing Without UnderstandingObstinate IndividualsWhy Do Others Do This?

They came and told him, "Teacher, we know that you are sincere. You don't favor any individual, because you pay no attention to external appearance. Rather, you teach the way of God truthfully. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not? Should we pay them or shouldn't we?"

Verse ConceptsFlatteryKnowing God's WaysHonestyTributesWay, TheCaesarPerforming The TruthChrist TeachingTeaching The Way Of GodGod's Word Is TrueTelling The Truthattentiontaxes

None of the seven left any children. Last of all, the woman died, too.

Verse ConceptsSeven ChildrenDeath Of Unnamed IndividualsDeath Of A Child

Meanwhile, the high priests and the whole Council were looking for some testimony against Jesus in order to have him put to death, but they couldn't find any.

Verse ConceptsChief priestsAttempts To Kill ChristNot FindingThe Chief Priests Condemning Christ

Then the high priest stood up before them and asked Jesus, "Don't you have any answer to what these men are testifying against you?"

Verse ConceptsOthers Not AnsweringPeople Getting UpRiverstestifying

So Pilate asked him again, "Don't you have any answer? Look how many accusations they're bringing against you!"

Verse ConceptsOthers Not Answering

At every festival, Pilate would release any one prisoner whom the people requested.

Verse ConceptsCustomPeople Releasing Others

and they'll pick up snakes with their hands.Even if they drink any deadly poison, it won't hurt them, and they'll place their hands on the sick, and they'll recover."

Verse ConceptsBitingSerpentsSnakesCharismatic IssuesLaying On Of HandsPower Over SnakesLaying On Hands To HealHealing Through DisciplesHurthurting

When the sun was setting, everyone who had any friends suffering from various diseases brought them to him. He placed his hands on each of them and began healing them.

Verse ConceptsdoctorsHandsHealingSpiritsLaying On Of HandsLaying On Hands To HealEvenings For Jesus And His DisciplesJesus HealingSicknessHealing Sickness

But the person who hears what I say but doesn't act on it is like someone who built a house on the ground without any foundation. When the floodwaters pushed against it, that house quickly collapsed, and the resulting destruction of that house was extensive."

Verse ConceptsFools, In Teaching Of Jesus ChristCarelessnessLossShallownessHearing ChristThings Falling

Then, turning to the woman, he told Simon, "Do you see this woman? I came into your house. You didn't give me any water for my feet, but this woman has washed my feet with her tears and dried them with her hair.

Verse ConceptsFoot washingFeetFeet WashingGuestsWaterMealsDiscourtesyMan Providing WaterMoist ThingsPeople Drying Things UpClean FeetCare Of FeetOther References To Hair

The ones on the stony ground are the people who joyfully welcome the word when they hear it. But since they don't have any roots, they believe for a while, but in a time of testing they fall away.

Verse ConceptsApostatesWarnings Against ApostasyHeart, Fallen And RedeemedTemptation, Universality OfEnticementHearing God's WordBeing TemptedBelief In GodRejoicing In God's Wordtrailsimpulsiveness

"Whenever an unclean spirit goes out of a person, it wanders through dry places looking for a place to rest but doesn't find any. So it says, "I will go back to my home that I left.'

Verse ConceptsEvil SpiritsRestlessnessDry PlacesComing Out Of PeopleRestCasting Out Demons

Then Jesus told them this parable: "A man had a fig tree that had been planted in his vineyard. He went to look for fruit on it but didn't find any.

Verse ConceptsMetaphorical VineyardsSeeking For Concrete Things

So he told the gardener, "Look here! For three years I've been coming to look for fruit on this tree but I haven't found any. Cut it down! Why should it waste the soil?'

Verse ConceptsDivine DelaysFelling TreesThree YearsSeeking For Concrete ThingsNo Roomspacecutting

So he called for him and asked him, "What's this I hear about you? You can't be my manager any longer. Now give me a report about your management!'

Verse ConceptsOthers SummoningPropertyaccounting

Any man who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and the man who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery."

Verse ConceptsAbandonmentAdulterersAdultery and Divorcedivorce, amongst believersLove, In RelationshipsMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningMonogamyAnnulmentDivorceadultry

Except for this foreigner, were any of them found to return and give praise to God?"

Verse ConceptsNot Praising GodAliensGiving ThanksGiving Back

But they didn't understand any of this. What he said was hidden from them, and they didn't know what he meant.

Verse ConceptsDullnessNot Understanding SayingsGod's Things Concealed

so they asked him, "Teacher, we know that you're right in what you say and teach, and that you don't favor any individual, but teach the way of God truthfully.

Verse ConceptsFlatteryKnowing God's WaysPharisees, Attitudes To Jesus ChristWay, TheMinisters, Way They Should TeachKnowingChrist TeachingTeaching The Way Of GodGod's Word Is True

"Why do we need any more testimony?" they asked. "We have heard it ourselves from his own mouth!"

Verse ConceptsLipsWitness To The Gospeltestimony

When the wine ran out, Jesus' mother told him, "They don't have any more wine."

Verse ConceptsShortage Of WineNo FoodFake Friends

Jesus told them, "If you were blind, you would not have any sin. But now that you insist, "We see,' your sin still exists."

Verse ConceptsExcusesAge Of AccountabilityBlindnessGuilt

"If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have any sin. But now they have no excuse for their sin.

Verse ConceptsExcusesethics, basis ofResponsibility, To GodMisused PrivilegesThe Fact Of His Coming

If I hadn't done among them the actions that no one else did, they wouldn't have any sin. But now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.

Verse ConceptsMiracles, Responses ToEquality With GodWitnesses, To Jesus ChristThose Who Saw GodUnique ChristDoing God's WorksFather And Son AlikeHating GodRelationship Of Father And Son

Now we know that you know everything and don't need to have anyone ask you any questions. Because of this, we believe that you have come from God."

Verse ConceptsKnowing God, Nature OfJesus Christ, Omniscience OfNot Asking OthersChrist Knowing All ThingsChrist's OriginThose Who Believed In Christ

When he said this, one of the officers standing nearby slapped Jesus on the face and demanded, "Is that any way to answer the high priest?"

Verse ConceptsIndignities Suffered By ChristSmitingSmiting Of The RighteousAnswering People

Jesus asked them, "Children, you don't have any fish, do you?" They answered him, "No."

"The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to everything he tells you. Any person who will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.'

Verse ConceptsGod Is ImmanentGod Will Kill His People

But to keep it from spreading any further among the people, let us warn them never again to speak to anyone in this name."

Verse ConceptsSpreadingPersecution, Forms OfWitnessing, And Holy SpiritSpeaking In Christ's NameSpreading The Gospel

So they threatened Peter and John even more and then let them go. They couldn't find any way to punish them, because all the people were praising God for what had happened,

Verse ConceptsPeople Set Free By PeopleSpecific Praising Of God

"But a famine spread throughout Egypt and Canaan, and with it great suffering, and our ancestors couldn't find any food.

Verse ConceptsFamine, Examples OfNo Food

Before this, he had not come on any of them. They had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

Verse ConceptsBaptism, practice ofBaptised In Christ's NameChristian BaptismBaptism

He asked him for letters to take with him to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any men or women belonging to the Way, he might bring them in chains to Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsArrestingequipping, physicalWay, TheTying Updamascus

Indeed, whoever fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him in any nation.

Verse ConceptsReverence, And BlessingWelcoming Other PeopleThe Nations Before GodAcceptanceRacewelcome

After the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the synagogue leaders asked them, "Brothers, if you have any message of encouragement for the people, you may speak."

Verse ConceptsReadingLiteracySynagogueReading The ScripturesExhort OthersStudying The LawUse Of The ScripturesWritten In The ProphetsEncouragementMotivationReading The Bibleencouraginguplifting

so that they might look for God, somehow reach for him, and find him. Of course, he is never far from any one of us.

Verse ConceptsSeeking GodGod Is ImmanentGod's OmnipresenceNearness To GodFinding Godseeking

Then all of them took Sosthenes, the synagogue leader, and began beating him in front of the judge's seat. But Gallio paid no attention to any of this.

Verse ConceptsFloggingBeating Believers

I therefore declare to you today that I'm not responsible for the blood of any of you,

Verse ConceptsResponsibility For Blood ShedPlea Of Innocencetestifying

They went to the high priests and elders and said, "We have taken a solemn oath not to taste any food before we have killed Paul.

Verse Conceptselders, as community leadersChief priestsTasteAttempting To Kill Specific PeopleVowing To FastPeople Bound By Oaths

But so as not to detain you any further, I beg you to hear us briefly with your customary graciousness.

Verse ConceptsPay Attention To People!graciousness

He ordered the centurion to guard Paul but to let him have some freedom and not to keep any of his friends from caring for his needs.

Verse ConceptsCenturionGuardsPeople Set Free By Peoplerelaxation

So they came here with me, and the next day without any delay I sat down in the judge's seat and ordered the man to be brought in.

Verse ConceptsJudgement Seat

When his accusers stood up, they didn't accuse him of any of the crimes I was expecting.

Verse ConceptsPeople Accusing People

Then Festus said, "King Agrippa and all you men who are present with us! You see this man about whom the whole Jewish nation petitioned me, both in Jerusalem and here, shouting that he ought not to live any longer.

Verse ConceptsDeath As PunishmentIsrael Hardened

The next day, we arrived at Sidon, and Julius treated Paul kindly allowing him to visit his friends there and to receive any care he needed.

Verse ConceptsKindnessCourtesyShipsThe Next DayChristians Are Called Friends

The Jewish leaders told him, "We haven't received any letters from Judea about you, and none of the brothers coming here has reported or mentioned anything bad about you.

Verse ConceptsTelling Of People's Situations

What, then, does this mean? Are we Jews any better off? Not at all! For we have already accused everyone, both Jews and Greeks, of being under the power of sin.

Verse ConceptsForgiveness, DivineAdvantagesFar Be It!The Gospel To Jew And GentileAll Have Sinned

for the Law produces wrath. Now where there is no Law, neither can there be any violation of it.

Verse ConceptsSin, Nature OfEffect Of The LawGod Has AngerNo SinWithout The LawLegaldisobediencelawwrath

At one time I was alive without any connection to the Law. But when the rule was revealed, sin sprang to life,

Verse ConceptsConviction, Leading To RepentanceSin, Effects OfSpiritually DeadEffect Of The LawLife And DeathWithout The LawWhilst Aliverevival

The person who eats any kind of food must not ridicule the person who does not eat them, and the person who does not eat certain foods must not criticize the person who eats them, for God has accepted him.

Verse ConceptsAcceptance, divineAcceptance, From GodAssurance, nature ofSuperiorityWelcomed By GodNot JudgingDespising PeopleDo Not DespiseAcceptanceTreating OthersFunEating MeatJudging Others Actionscondemnationporkcriticismveganism

I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius,

Verse ConceptsBaptism, practice ofChristian BaptismWe Thank GodBaptism

Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in the ways of this world, he must become a fool to become really wise.

Verse ConceptsAcademicsPride, Examples OfThoughtWisdom, Source Of HumanFalse WisdomFoolish PeopleDeceiving OneselfBe Wise!FoolsDeceptionwise

It is a very small thing to me that I should be examined by you or by any human court. In fact, I don't even evaluate myself.

Verse ConceptsNot JudgingUnimportant ThingsJudgmentsJudgingSelf WorthSelf EsteemBeing YourselfJudgementJudging Others Actionsmyself

Now concerning virgins, although I do not have any command from the Lord, I will give you my opinion as one who by the Lord's mercy is trustworthy.

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, Examples OfOpinionsReceiving God's MercyGod's OrdersBeing Singlevirginity

Who ever goes to war at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat any of its grapes? Or who takes care of a flock and does not drink any of its milk?

Verse Conceptsethics, basis ofGrapesMilkSoldiersVineyardPlanting VineyardsPerspective

But I have not used any of these rights, and I'm not writing this so that they may be applied in my case. I would rather die than let anyone deprive me of my reason for boasting.

Verse ConceptsHope, Nature OfWagesPaul's BoastingBoasting

Eat anything that is sold in the meat market without raising any question about it on the grounds of conscience,

Verse ConceptsMarketsNot Asking OthersFood PermittedEating Meatconsciencesales

But if anyone wants to argue about this, we do not have any custom like this, nor do any of God's churches.

Verse ConceptsDivisions, Contrary ToChurch Of GodWomen's Rolespractice

If the foot says, "Since I'm not a hand, I'm not part of the body," that does not make it any less a part of the body, does it?

Verse ConceptsWorking TogetherGoing To ChurchScriptureThe BodyServing The ChurchBeing Uniqueconnectionbelongingimportance