Luke 9:41

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Summary

And Jesus answering said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you, and suffer you? Bring thy son hither.

Perverse

Acts 2:40

How

And suffer

Acts 13:18

Romans 2:4

Hebrews 3:9

Bring

Bible References

Perverse

They have become false, they are not his children, the mark of sin is on them; they are an evil and hard-hearted generation.

And not be like their fathers, a stiff-necked and uncontrolled generation; a generation whose heart was hard, whose spirit was not true to God.

But when he saw a number of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the wrath to come?

But he, answering, said to them, An evil and false generation is looking for a sign; and no sign will be given to it but the sign of the prophet Jonah:

An evil and false generation is searching after a sign; and no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah. And he went away from them.

Truly I say to you, All these things will come on this generation

And with more such words he gave his witness, offering them salvation and saying, Come out from this evil generation.

How

Then Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: How long will you be lifted up in your pride before me? let my people go so that they may give me worship.

And the Lord said to Moses, How long will you go against my orders and my laws?

And the Lord said to Moses, How long will this people have no respect for me? how long will they be without faith, in the face of all the signs I have done among them?

O Jerusalem, make your heart clean from evil, so that you may have salvation. How long are evil purposes to have a resting-place in you?

And Jesus, answering, said, O false and foolish generation, how long will I be with you? how long will I put up with you? let him come here to me.

Jesus said to him, Philip, have I been with you all this time, and still you have no knowledge of me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. Why do you say, Let us see the Father?

And suffer

And for about forty years he put up with their ways in the waste land.

Or is it nothing to you that God had pity on you, waiting and putting up with you for so long, not seeing that in his pity God's desire is to give you a change of heart?

When your fathers put me to the test, and saw my works for forty years.

Bring

Now Elisha, the man of God, hearing that the king of Israel had done this, sent to the king, saying, Why are you troubled? send the man to me, so that he may see that there is a prophet in Israel.

Come to me, all you who are troubled and weighted down with care, and I will give you rest.

And when Jesus saw it, he was angry, and said to them, Let the little children come to me, and do not keep them away; for of such is the kingdom of God.

So that he is fully able to be the saviour of all who come to God through him, because he is ever living to make prayer to God for them.