Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.
The counsel
General references
Bible References
Rejected
Luke 13:34
"Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How many times I wanted to gather your children together {the way} a hen [gathers] her own brood under [her] wings, and you were not willing!
Jeremiah 8:8
How can you say, 'We [are] wise and the law of Yahweh [is] with us'? Look, surely {the lying stylus of the scribes} has made it a lie.
Romans 10:21
But about Israel he says, "The whole day [long] I held out my hands to a disobedient and resistant people."
2 Corinthians 6:1
Now [because we] are fellow workers, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain.
Galatians 2:21
I do not declare invalid the grace of God, for if righteousness [is] through the law, then Christ died to no purpose.
The counsel
Acts 20:27
for I did not shrink from proclaiming to you the whole purpose of God.
Ephesians 1:11
in whom also we were chosen, having been predestined according to the purpose of the One who works all [things] according to the counsel of his will,
General references
Matthew 19:30
But many [who are] first will be last, and the last first.
Mark 10:31
But many [who are] first will be last, and the last first."
Luke 5:30
And the Pharisees and their scribes began to complain to his disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?"