'House' in the Bible

He will rule over the house of Jacob forever, and his kingdom will never end."

He asked them, "Why were you looking for me? Didn't you know that I had to be in my Father's house?"

Then Jesus got up to leave the synagogue and went into Simon's house. Now Simon's mother-in-law was sick with a high fever, so they asked Jesus about her.

Some men were bringing a paralyzed man on a stretcher. They were trying to take him into the house and place him in front of Jesus.

How was it that he went into the house of God, took the Bread of the Presence and ate it, which was not lawful for anyone but the priests to eat, and then gave some of it to his companions?"

They are like a person building a house, who dug a deep hole to lay the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the floodwaters pushed against that house but couldn't shake it, because it had been founded on the rock.

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."

So Jesus went with them. He was not far from the house when the centurion sent friends to tell Jesus, "Sir, stop troubling yourself, because I'm not worthy to have you come under my roof.

Then the men who had been sent returned to the house and found the servant in perfect health.

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.

When Jesus stepped out on the shore, a man from the city met him. This man was controlled by demons and had not worn clothes for a long time. He did not live in a house but in the tombs.

When he arrived at the man's house, he allowed no one to go in with him except Peter, John, James, and the young girl's father and mother.

"Whatever house you go into, first say, "May there be peace in this house.'

Stay with the same family, eating and drinking whatever they provide, because the worker deserves his pay. Don't move from house to house.

But be sure of this: if the homeowner had known at what time the thief were coming, he would have watched and would not have let his house be broken into.

Look! Your house is left vacant to you. I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, "How blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!'"

One Sabbath, Jesus went to the house of a leader of the Pharisees to eat a meal. The guests were watching Jesus closely.

"So the servant went back and reported all this to his master. Then the master of the house became angry and told his servant, "Go quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring back the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.'

Then the master told the servant, "Go out into the streets and the lanes and make the people come in, so that my house may be full.

"Or suppose a woman has ten coins and loses one of them. She lights a lamp, sweeps the house, and searches carefully until she finds it, doesn't she?

"Now the father's older son was in the field. As he was coming back to the house, he heard music and dancing.

"Then the older son became angry and wouldn't go into the house. So his father came out and began to plead with him.

"The rich man said, "Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my father's house

"The person who is on the housetop that day must not come down to get his belongings out of his house. The person in the field, too, must not turn back to what's left behind.

When Jesus came to the tree, he looked up and said, "Zacchaeus, hurry and come down! I must stay at your house today."

He told them, "It is written, "My house is to be called a house of prayer,' but you have turned it into a hideout for bandits!"

He told them, "Just after you go into the city, a man carrying a jug of water will meet you. Follow him into the house he enters

and say to the owner of the house, "The Teacher asks you, "Where is the room where I can eat the Passover meal with my disciples?"'

Then they arrested him, led him away, and brought him to the high priest's house. But Peter was following at a distance.