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
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would have none of it!
Jeremiah 8:8
How can you say, "We are wise! We have the law of the Lord"? The truth is, those who teach it have used their writings to make it say what it does not really mean.
Romans 10:21
But about Israel he says, "All day long I held out my hands to this disobedient and stubborn 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 set aside God's grace, because if righteousness could come through the law, then Christ died for nothing!
The counsel
Acts 20:27
For I did not hold back from announcing to you the whole purpose of God.
Ephesians 1:11
In Christ we too have been claimed as God's own possession, since we were predestined according to the one purpose of him who accomplishes 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
But the Pharisees and their experts in the law complained to his disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?"