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Now [after] they had gone away, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph, saying, "Get up, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you. For Herod is about to seek the child to destroy him."

Verse ConceptsFutureFugitivesAngel of the LordCommunicationSafetySpeech, DivineSuffering, Of Jesus ChristViolenceHeaven And AngelsVisions And Dreams In ScriptureProvincesStaying PutAttempts To Kill ChristGod AppearingTaking ChristImmigrantsreuniting

saying, "Get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the life of the child are dead."

Verse ConceptsAttempts To Kill ChristDeath Of Office HoldersTaking ChristDeath Of A ChildDeath Of A Mother

This is he who was mentioned by the prophet Isaiah, when he said: "Here is a voice of one who shouts in the desert, 'Get the road ready for the Lord; Make the paths straight for him.'"

Verse ConceptsDesertsJohn The BaptistWildernessMessiahStraight PathsIndividuals ShoutingMaking RoadsIn Order Of RankScriptures FulfilledNamed Prophets Of The LordPaths

Then Jesus came on the scene from Galilee, to get baptized by John at the Jordan.

Verse ConceptsChrist's BaptismIn The JordanBaptismTrinity

John tried to prevent him; "I need to get baptized by you," he said, "and you come to me!"

Verse ConceptsNeedHumility, Examples OfBaptised Into ChristChrist's BaptismMan's NeedsBaptism

"You people are [like] salt on the earth. But if salt loses its flavoring ability, how will it ever get it back again? From then on it would be good for nothing except to be thrown out onto the roadway and walked on by people. [Note: This was mined salt which, when losing its "saltiness" due to exposure to the sun or rain, was simply disposed of by being dumped onto the roadway where people walked].

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

I solemnly say to you, you will never get out at all until you have paid the last penny.

Verse ConceptsGoing OutsideEvil And FreedomSettling Accounts

"When you fast, do not put on a gloomy look, like the hypocrites, for they neglect their personal appearance to let people see that they are fasting. I tell you, that is all the reward they will get.

Verse ConceptsAbstinence as a disciplineAtonementFacesFasting, Of HypocritesNeglecting DutiesDisplayingBeing Seen By ManClean FacesPeople UnwashedWhen?How To FastNo RewardSettling AccountsAppearances ofHypocritesFastingHypocrisyFasting And PrayerSmilingmakeup

For these are the things that the [unconverted] Gentiles keep trying to get. But your heavenly Father [already] knows you need these things.

Verse ConceptsGod's CareCareGuardiansPagansSeeking For Concrete ThingsWhat Foreigners Are LikeMan's NeedsWorryingTrusting God And Not WorryingWorrying About The Futureworries

How can you say to your brother, 'Let me get that tiny speck out of your eye,' while all the time there is a girder in your own?

Verse ConceptsUncharitablenessPlucking OutEyes Cared ForA Little Bit

Because to everyone who makes a request, it will be given; and he who is searching will get his desire, and to him who gives the sign, the door will be open.

Verse ConceptsThe Act Of OpeningKnockingFinding ThingsGod Answers PrayerAccess

By their fruits you will get knowledge of them. Do men get grapes from thorns or figs from thistles?

Verse ConceptsBearing Bad FruitThornsFigsThistlesDistinguishingpersonality

So by their fruits you will get knowledge of them.

Verse ConceptsDistinguishing

But in order that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins," then he said to the paralytic, "Get up, pick up your stretcher and go to your home."

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

Make prayer, then, to the Lord of the grain-fields, that he may send out workers to get in his grain.

Verse ConceptsReapersGod Sending ProphetsWorkers

or a traveling bag [for personal belongings], or a change of jackets or shoes, or [even] a walking stick [Note: By comparing this and the restriction in Matt. 10:10 with the permission given in Mark 6:8, the harmony seems to be "if you do not already have a walking stick, do not get one"]. For the worker deserves having his food provided.

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of PossessionsSandalsValuesEmployeesShoesInner GarmentsParticular JourneysTwo Other ThingsFood Is FittingInstruction About ClothesWalking With A StaffWorkersSelf WorthWorth

The person who welcomes a prophet because he is a prophet will receive the [same] reward the prophet gets. And the person who welcomes a good man because he is good will receive the [same] reward the good man gets.

Verse ConceptsWelcoming BelieversReward For WorksRewardChristmas Treefriendliness

And I solemnly say to you, no one who gives a cup of cold water to one of the least of my disciples, because he is a disciple, will ever fail to get his reward."

Verse ConceptsNeedWagesWaterBeverages, LiteralCold, Literal UseChrist's Knowledge Of BelieversMan Providing WaterReward For WorksGivingRewardLosing Someone

Now there was a man there with one hand withered. And, to get a charge against Him, they asked Him, "Is it right to cure people on the sabbath?"

Verse ConceptsFaultsLimbs WitheredQuestioning ChristDiseased HandsJesus HealingThe Sabbath And ChristFinding Fault With JesusJesus Healing On Sabbath

And he said to them, Which of you, having a sheep, if it gets into a hole on the Sabbath day, will not put out a helping hand and get it back?

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

Or, how can anyone get into a giant's house and carry off his goods, unless he first binds the giant? After that he can make a clean sweep of his house.

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

"You generation of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. "When the time of fruit drew near, he sent his slaves to the vine-dressers seized to get his fruit.

Verse ConceptsBad PeopleSnakesParents SinThings Like SnakesNothing GoodBeware Of Your Speechmath

"Then it goes and gets seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and make their home there, and so the end of that man is worse than the beginning. This is the way it will be with the wicked leaders of this age."

Verse Conceptsevil, origins ofSevenEvil GenerationsSeven SpiritsDemons EnteringMore ThanWorseBackslidersDemonsCasting Out Demonshomecoming

While He was still speaking to the crowds, His mother and His brothers had taken their stand outside, trying hard to get to speak to Him.

Verse ConceptsChrist's Earthly FamilyCrowds SeekingConversationWhile Still SpeakingOutside The HouseSiblingsSibling Love

And, he, answering, said, Because, unto you, hath it been given, to get to know the sacred secrets of the kingdom of the heavens, - whereas, unto them, hath it not been given.

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

Therefore, I am speaking to them with parables because [although] they can see, they [really] do not perceive, and [although] they can hear, they [really] do not comprehend, and so they [utterly] fail to understand [what I am trying to get across].

Verse ConceptsSpiritual Blindness, In UnbelieversDullnessNot Seeing Spiritual ThingsBeing Without UnderstandingJesus Using ParablesWhy God Did ThingsListening To God

And for them the words of Isaiah have come true, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you:

Verse ConceptsReprobatesBeing Without UnderstandingScriptures FulfilledThe Faculty Of SightNamed Prophets Of The Lordfulfillment

For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people have desired to see the things you are seeing, but did not get to. They desired to hear the things you are hearing, but did not get to.

Verse ConceptsMany Seeking SalvationNot Seeing Spiritual ThingsNot Knowing About ChristChrist Telling The TruthUnhearingLooking At God's Works

And the seed which was put in good earth, this is he who gives ear to the word, and gets the sense of it; who gives fruit, some a hundred, some sixty, some thirty times as much.

Verse ConceptsFruitfulness, SpiritualFruit, SpiritualFaith, Nature OfAcceptance, Of The GospelThirtySixtiesOne HundredThe Source Of FruitFertile LandLand ProducingHearing God's WordHundredfold Return

"The slaves of the owner went to him and said: "'Was it not good seed, sir, that you sowed in your field? From whence then, do you get tares?'

Verse ConceptsFigurative FieldsGood PeopleWhy Does This Happen?Sowing Seeds

Let them both grow together until harvest time, and at the harvest time I will order the reapers, "Gather first the wild wheat plants and tie them into bundles to be burned up, but get the wheat into my barn."'"

Verse ConceptsBinding cornHarvestSicklesBindingEternal JudgmentMixed MultitudeJoining ThingsGathering FoodBurning PlantsGod's StorehousesPlants Growing UpGrowing

And he came to his hometown [and] began to teach them in their synagogue, so that they were amazed and said, "From where did this man [get] this wisdom and these miracles?

Verse ConceptsPower, God's SavingSabbath, In NtTownAmazement, Of Jesus ChristTeaching WisdomChrist's WisdomChrist TeachingWhere From?

And are not all his sisters with us? From where then did this man [get] all these [things]?"

Verse ConceptsChrist's Earthly FamilyWhere From?

And when evening had come, the disciples came to him, saying, This place is waste land, and the time is now past; send the people away so that they may go into the towns and get themselves food.

Verse ConceptsEveningVillagesCrowds AvoidedIsolated PersonsChrist Driving Out PeopleBuying FoodThe Disciples ReactionsEvenings For Jesus And His Disciples

And when the disciples came to the other side they had not taken thought to get bread.

Verse ConceptsForgetting ThingsThe Disciples ActionsNo FoodMisunderstandings

And Jesus came and touched them [and] said, "Get up and do not be afraid."

Verse ConceptsPersonal ContactGet Up!

He answered, "Elijah does come and will get everything ready.

Verse ConceptsRestoring Things

He says, Yes. And when he came into the house, Jesus said to him, What is your opinion, Simon? from whom do the kings of the earth get payment or tax? from their sons or from other people?

Verse ConceptsAffirmative ActionEntering HousesThinking ArightAssentingWhat Foreigners DoTax To Be Paidtaxes

"And if your own hand or your own foot makes you do wrong, cut it off and put it out of your way. It is better for you to get into life maimed or crippled than to have both hands or both feet to be thrown into everlasting torture.

Verse ConceptsCripplesEternal DeathFeetInjury To FeetEternal JudgementThrowing PeopleCausing Others To StumbleEntering LifeFire Of HellCutting Off Hands And FeetTwo Of Body PartsAvoid Being HinderedHellLake Of Fire

If your eye is a hindrance to you, tear it out and throw it away; better get into Life with one eye than keep your two eyes and be thrown into the fire of Gehenna.

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

"What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them gets lost, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hillsides, and go and search for the one that is lost?

Verse ConceptsHillsSheepShepherds, As OccupationsWatchfulness, DivineLost SheepThe Number NinetyOne HundredThinking ArightGod Searching For PeopleAbandoning ThingsNinetiesMissing SomeoneBeing LostLosing Someone

And if he finds it, I solemnly say to you, he rejoices over it more than he does over the ninety-nine that did not get lost.

Verse ConceptsThe Number NinetyAnimals Going AstrayFinding ThingsChrist Telling The TruthNinetiesMissing Someone

For the kingdom of heaven is like the master of a house, who went out early in the morning to get workers into his vine-garden.

Verse ConceptsMorningMetaphorical VineyardsLikeningIn The MorningLikening ThingsParables Of The KingdomWorkers

They answered him, ‘Because no one hired us.’ He told them, ‘You go into the vineyard also.’

Verse ConceptsMetaphorical VineyardsWhy It Happened

So when the first ones came, they assumed they would get more, but they also received a denarius each.

Verse ConceptsGrowth In WealthThinking ArightFirst Ones

The crowd scolded them to get them to be quiet. But they shouted even more loudly, "Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!"

Verse ConceptsGrowth In ProclamationIndividuals ShoutingDisadvantages Of Crowdsrebuking

And Jesus answered them, "I solemnly say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt at all, you will not only do the sort of wonder done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, 'Get up and throw yourself into the sea,' it will be done.

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

Which of the two did what his father wanted?" They answered, "The second one." Jesus said to them, "I solemnly say to you, the tax-collectors and prostitutes will get into the kingdom of heaven ahead of you.

Verse ConceptsKingdom Of God, Entry IntoReceived OutcastsPeople Going BeforeEntering The KingdomTwo SonsObeying PeopleThe Will Of MenGoing To Heavenwhorestaxessurprises

Jesus told them, "I tell all of you with certainty, tax collectors and prostitutes will get into God's kingdom ahead of you! John came to you living a righteous life, and you didn't believe him, but the tax collectors and prostitutes did. But even when you saw that, you didn't change your minds at last and believe him."

Verse ConceptsPrejudiceRepentance, Importance OfUnbelief, As Response To GodWay, TheSkepticismBelieving ProphetsNot Believing PeoplePeople Changing Their MindsRepentancePeople Who Did RightRewards Of Ritual

And when the time for the fruit came near, he sent his servants to the workmen, to get the fruit.

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of TalentsServants Of PeopleGod Sends Prophets

But when the tenants saw the son, they said among themselves, 'This is his heir, come on, let us kill him, and get all that is coming to him!'

Verse ConceptsInheritance, MaterialAttempts To Kill Christ

they tried to get hold of him, but they were afraid of the crowds, as the crowds held him to be a prophet.

Verse ConceptsMultitudesCrowdsHatredArresting ChristFearing Other PeopleJesus The Prophet

And sent out his servants to get in the guests to the feast: and they would not come.

Verse ConceptsMealsGod Sends ProphetsPeople UnwillingWedding GuestsCelebration

So he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ The man was speechless.

Verse ConceptsMan's WaysNaked In ShameDistinctive ClothingGarments

"But it is too bad for you hypocritical experts in the law of Moses and [you] Pharisees! [It is] because you withhold the kingdom of heaven from people, for you do not enter it yourselves, nor [do you] allow those who are trying to enter it to get in. {[{[Verse

Verse ConceptsFalse ReligionGuidance, Need For God'sKingdom Of God, Entry IntoLegalismStumbling BlocksShutting The KingdomEntering The KingdomHypocritesHypocrisyGoing To Heavenpietypharisees

A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you go about land and sea to get one disciple and, having him, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.

Verse ConceptsExploitationsJudaismMission, Of IsraelPharisees, Beliefs OfPassing OverSonsTravelHypocrites, Description OfGehennaProselytesSea TravelOnly One PersonDouble PenaltyCrossing To The Other SideHypocrisy