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Reports of this soon reached the king, and greatly agitated not only him but all the people of Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsPersecution, Forms OfHearing About ChristThose Frightened Of God

His winnowing shovel [Note: This was a process whereby grain was tossed into the air so that the wind could blow the husks away, leaving only good grain on the ground] is in His hand and He will completely clear off His threshing floor [by removing all of the husks]. And He will gather His wheat into the barn, but will burn up the husks with a fire that will never go out."

Verse ConceptsHell, Description OfNames For HeavenHell, As An ExperienceForksSin, God's Judgment OnThreshing FloorToolsWinnowingWicked Described AsEternal JudgmentLight As ChaffReapingBurning PlantsGod's StorehousesWeed

You are the salt of the earth. But if salt becomes insipid, what can make it salt again? After that it is fit for nothing, fit only to be thrown outside and trodden by the feet of men.

Verse ConceptsBeing A Lightdisciples, characteristics ofDecayResponsibility, For God's WorldSaltSanctification, Means And ResultsTastePersonal ContactSending Things AwayTastelessnessRestoring ThingsTastelessSournessMoral Decay

Whoever requires you to go one mile, [be willing to] go with him two miles. [Note: The Romans were permitted by law to require a Jew to carry their burden for one mile only].

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, LinearGoing TogetherOutward CompulsionPeople Willing

so that people will not see that you are fasting, but [only] your Father who is in secret [will know about it]. For, [since] He sees [what is done] in secret, He will repay you.

Verse Conceptsethics, incentives towardsBeing Seen By ManGod Seeing The RighteousHow To FastSeeing PeopleRewardFastingFasting And Prayer

And a leper came up to him and fell on his knees before him, saying, "If you only choose, sir, you can cure me!"

Verse ConceptsBowingKneelingCleansing The BodyChrist WillingHealing Cancercancer

only it was fit you should know that the son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins: arise, then, said he, to the paralytic, take up thy bed, and march home.

Verse ConceptsSon Of ManPower Of Christ, ShownJesus As Son Of ManChrist's Authority Over SinBedsGet Up!Forgiveness

When Jesus heard this, He said, "People who are healthy do not need a doctor; but [only] sick people do.

Verse ConceptsdoctorsHealingSin, Deliverance From GodPhysicianGod As DoctorHealth AchievedMan's NeedsIllnessHelping Those In Need

if the family be worthy, your benediction shall have its effect; but if it be not worthy, it shall only redound to your own advantage.

Verse ConceptsReversion Of ThingsWorthy PeopleNo PeacePeace To YouRestSelf WorthChristmas TreeGiving Backwelcome

Do not think that I came to bring [only] peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace [only] but [also] a sword [of division. See Luke 12:51].

Verse ConceptsSwordsTeachersProphecies Said By JesusThinking ArightPeace Made Through ChristNo PeacePeaceConflictFamily ConflictTaking Care Of The Earthdivision

Only I tell you that it will be more endurable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of Judgement than for you.

Verse ConceptsPunishment, By GodEternal JudgmentThe Day Of JudgementUnbearable ThingsGod TroublingJudgement Day

Only I tell you all, that it will be more endurable for the land of Sodom on the day of Judgement than for thee."

Verse ConceptsThe Day Of JudgementUnbearable ThingsGod TroublingJudgement DayJudgement

how he entered into the house of God and ate the bread of the presentation, which it was not permitted for him or for those with him to eat, but only for the priests?

Verse ConceptsPriests, Function In Ot TimesShowbreadEntering The Tabernacle

If you only knew what that saying means, 'It is mercy and not sacrifice that I want,' you would not have condemned men who are not guilty.

Verse ConceptsdesiresBurnt offeringNominal ReligionValuing KnowledgeCondemning The InnocentGod's DesiresRight SacrificesThe Need For Mercy

But He said to them, "What man is there among you, if he has only one sheep and it falls into a ditch on the sabbath, will not lay hold on it and lift it out?

Verse ConceptsPitsAnimals FallingOne Material ThingThe Sabbath And ChristHoles In The GroundJesus Healing On Sabbathhelping

Or, how can someone enter a strong man's house and steal his belongings unless he first ties up the strong man? Only then will he be able to steal [his belongings] from his house.

Verse ConceptsExorcismsHousesSpiritual Warfare, Causes OfVictory, Over Spiritual ForcesLimitations Of StrengthTying Uppossessions

You brood of snakes! how can you, bad as you are, utter anything good? For the mouth says only what the heart is full of.

Verse ConceptsBad PeopleSnakesParents SinThings Like SnakesNothing GoodBeware Of Your Speechmath

But He answered, "Only a wicked and treacherous age is hankering for a spectacular sign, and no sign will be given it but the sign of the prophet Jonah.

Verse ConceptsEvil GenerationsSeeking A SignNo SignsNamed Prophets Of The Lord

And stretching out His hand toward His disciples [and all His other followers], He said, “Here are My mother and My brothers!

Verse ConceptsStretching OutChrist Speaking To DisciplesChrist's True Family

He answered them, “Because the secrets of the kingdom of heaven have been given for you to know, but it has not been given to them.

Verse ConceptsAbundance, SpiritualConcealment, Of GodMysteryUnderstandingGod Revealing MysteriesThose To Whom God Givessecrets

The farmer's hired hands came and asked him, 'Did you not plant [only] good seed in your field? Where did the weeds come from [then]?'

Verse ConceptsFigurative FieldsGood PeopleWhy Does This Happen?Sowing Seeds

But Jesus told them, "A prophet is without honor only in his hometown and in his own home." He did not perform many miracles there because of their unbelief.

Verse ConceptsFaithlessness, As DisobedienceLack Of FaithMiracles, Responses ToPoverty, SpiritualUnbelief, Nature And Effects OfSkepticismNot Believing In JesusFaith And Healing

On leaving that place, Jesus went to the shore of the Sea of Galilee; and then went up the hill, and sat down., you will do what not only what has been done to the fig tree, but, even if you should say to this hill 'Be lifted up and hurled into the sea!' it would be done.

Verse ConceptsRetirementSitting To TeachMoving Onlakes

And if your eye becomes the occasion for you falling away [from God], gouge it out and throw it away, for it would be better for you to enter [never ending] life with [only] one eye, rather than keeping both eyes and being thrown into a fiery hell [i.e., because one of them caused you to fall away from God].

Verse ConceptsBlindness, SymbolicPlucking OutCausing Others To StumbleEntering LifeFire Of HellEyes HarmedTwo Of Body PartsAvoid Being HinderedHellEyes

The servant therefore falling down, prostrated himself at his feet and entreated him. "'Only give me time,' he said, 'and I will pay you the whole.'

Verse ConceptsKneelingPatience, In Christian LivingBe Patient!Settling Accounts

"His fellow servant therefore fell at his feet and entreated him, "'Only give me time,' he said, 'and I will pay you.'

Verse ConceptsPitilessnessBe Patient!Settling AccountsBeing Patientpatient

Jesus said to them, "Moses permitted you to divorce your wives [only] because of the rebellious spirits you [Jews] had. But this was not how it was [intended to be] from the beginning [i.e., when God created one woman for one man].

Verse ConceptsAdulterersAdultery and Divorcedivorce, amongst believersHardness Of HeartHardnessFrom The BeginningDifferent TeachingsDivorce PermittedWhy People Did Thingsthe Law of mosesInfidelitytoughness

last of all they came who were hired first, expecting to have received more, but they had only a penny a man,

Verse ConceptsGrowth In WealthThinking ArightFirst Ones

The crowd told them to be quiet; but the men only called out the louder: "Take pity on us, Master, Son of David!"

Verse ConceptsGrowth In ProclamationIndividuals ShoutingDisadvantages Of Crowdsrebuking

And seeing a single fig tree by the road, he went to it and found nothing on it except leaves only. And he said to it, "May there be no more fruit from you {forever}, and the fig tree withered at once.

Verse ConceptsBearing Bad FruitGod, Power OfUnfruitfulnessMiracles Of ChristFigsDivine Power Over NatureFoliage

And Jesus answered [and] said to them, "Truly I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will do not only [what was done to] the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, 'Be lifted up and thrown into the sea," it will happen!

Verse ConceptsAffirmationsdoubt, results ofIndecisionMountains RemovedPlucking OutChrist Telling The TruthIn The Heart Of The SeaOther MiraclesFaith Moving MountainsMoving On

But you should not assume the title 'Rabbi,' for [only] one is your teacher [i.e., Jesus Himself] and all of you are [simply] brothers.

Verse ConceptsTeachersNames And Titles For The ChristianBrotherhood

wo unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, who shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye not only refuse to go in your selves, but hinder those that would.

Verse ConceptsLegalismHypocrites, Description OfProfessingAge DiscriminationNot Helping WidowsToo Many WordsHypocritesHypocrisy

whoever swears by the altar, swears not only by the altar, but by every thing upon it.

Verse ConceptsSwearing BySwearing

And the person who takes an oath 'by the Temple,' [not only] swears by it, but [also] by Him [i.e., God] who lives there.

Verse ConceptsStatus Of The TempleSwearing BySwearing

And you say, 'If [only] we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we [certainly] would not have participated with them in [shedding] the blood of the prophets.'

Verse ConceptsSheddingAncestorsKilling ProphetsProphets KilledTimes Of People

And pray that it will not be in the winter or on a Sabbath day when you will have to flee [from the city]. [Note: Jewish Sabbath day restrictions on travel (only three-fifths of a mile) and city gate closures would make leaving the city nearly impossible].

Verse ConceptsSabbath, In NtWinterSabbath ObservedPrayer During Hard TimesEnd TimesWeather In The Last Daysflying

But the thoughtful ones not only took their lamps but also extra oil in their oil cans.

Verse ConceptsOil For LampsPreparing For Action

Then the one who was given [only] one talent came and reported, 'Master, I knew you were a difficult man who reaped where you had not sown, and gathered a harvest where you had not scattered seed,

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

"Only," they said, "it must not be during the festival, in case of a riot among the people."

Verse ConceptsDisorder Among PeopleAt The Same Time

Only, how could the scriptures be fulfilled then ??the scriptures that say this must be so?"

Verse ConceptsChrist And The ScripturesScriptures FulfilledScripturefulfillment

As they were leaving [i.e., probably the city of Jerusalem], they met a man from Cyrene [Note: This was a city in the northern African country of Libya]. His name was Simon and they forced him to go with them so he could carry Jesus' cross [i.e., probably only the cross-beam portion].

Verse ConceptsBackWeakness, PhysicalCarrying The CrossOutward CompulsionThe Cross