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Herod flew into a rage when he learned that he had been tricked by the wise men, so he ordered the execution of all the male children in Bethlehem and all its neighboring regions, who were two years old and younger, according to the time that he had determined from the wise men.

Verse ConceptsCriminalsCrimesFaithlessness, As DisobedienceBoysBitterness, Examples OfInnocence, Examples OfShrewdnessSuffering, Nature OfBethlehemInfanticideDeath Of All MalesBeing Found OutWhen?Named Gentile RulersThose Who DeceivedAngry PeopleKilling IsraelitesMassacresThe Death Of BabiesExamples Of Ungodly MenJesus BirthDeath Of A Child

So Joseph got up, took the child and his mother, and went into the land of Israel.

Verse ConceptsTaking Christ

The ax already lies against the roots of the trees. So every tree that isn't producing good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

Verse ConceptsBearing Bad FruitFruitAxesRootsSin, God's Judgment OnToolsFelling TreesBurning PlantsBad Items

While Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers Simon (also called Peter) and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the sea, because they were fishermen.

Verse ConceptsFishesNetsFishermenWalkingTwo DisciplesChrist SeeingFishingLearning From JesusFishBuilding Relationshipslakes

And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away from you. It is better for you to lose one of your body parts than to have your whole body go into hell."

Verse ConceptsBodily LimbsSending Things AwayCausing Others To StumbleCutting Off Hands And FeetEvil For The Right HandThe Entrance Of SinUseful ThingsWorry And StressInfidelityLosing Someonecutting

But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. Therefore, if the light within you has turned into darkness, how great is that darkness!"

Verse ConceptsDarkness, As A Symbol Of SinBlindness, SymbolicSpiritual Blindness, Consequences OfTemptation, Sources OfWorldly WisdomDamage To The BodyDarkness Of EvilEvil EyesDarknessEyesSpiritual Darkness

"Therefore, everyone who listens to these messages of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on a rock.

Verse ConceptsWisdom, Source Of HumanSpiritual FoundationsStones For ProtectionHearing ChristDoing God's WorksThe Work Of The Wise

"Everyone who keeps on hearing these messages of mine and never puts them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.

Verse ConceptsFolly, Examples OfFailureComplacencyWicked Described AsThe Insecurity Of The WickedHearing ChristThe Work Of FoolsDoing God's WorksSand And Gravel

When Jesus got into the boat, his disciples went with him.

Verse ConceptsFollowing Jesus ChristBoats

So the demons began to plead with Jesus, saying, "If you drive us out, send us into that herd of pigs."

Verse ConceptsBeggarsDemons, Punishment OfJesus Casting Out DemonsPigsDemonsThe DevilCasting Out Demonsporkjumping

He told them, "Go," and they came out and went into the pigs. Suddenly, the whole herd rushed down a steep slope into the sea and drowned in the water.

Verse ConceptsExorcismsDemons EnteringJesus Casting Out DemonsDeath Of CreaturesPigsOthers Going Downporklakes

Now when those who had been taking care of the pigs ran away, they came into the city and reported everything, especially what had happened to the demon-possessed men.

Verse ConceptsTelling Of JesusStock Keeping

After getting into a boat, Jesus crossed to the other side and came to his own city.

Verse ConceptsSeafaringBoatsCrossing To The Other Side

Nor do people pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will spill out, and the skins will be ruined. Instead, they pour new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved."

Verse ConceptsAlcoholBottles, Figurative UseNewnessWineParables Of ChristAlcohol ConsumptionPutting Off The Old ManBreaking ContainersOld ThingsUnusedFreshPeople KeepingWineskins And Vatstoughness

When he had gone into the house, the blind men came to him. Jesus asked them, "Do you believe I can do this?" They told him, "Yes, Lord!"

Verse ConceptsAbility, Of ChristDrawing Near To ChristEntering HousesAssentingBlindness

So ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest."

Verse ConceptsReapersGod Sending ProphetsWorkers

As they were leaving, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John. "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

Verse ConceptsCrowdsReedsFicklenessThings ShakingLooking And SeeingTemporary Stay In The Wilderness

How is it that he went into the house of God and ate the Bread of the Presence, which was not lawful for him and his companions to eat but was reserved for the priests?

Verse ConceptsPriests, Function In Ot TimesShowbreadEntering The Tabernacle

Moving on from there, Jesus went into their synagogue.

But he asked them, "Is there a man among you who, if he had one sheep and it fell into a ditch on the Sabbath, wouldn't take hold of it and pull it out?

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

How can someone go into a strong man's house and carry off his possessions without first tying up the strong man? Then he can ransack his house.

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

Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat down, while the entire crowd stood on the shore.

Verse ConceptsMultitudesCrowdsBoatsPopularitySittingPopularity Of ChristBeachesSitting To Teachgathering

Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, "Gather the weeds first and tie them in bundles for burning, but bring the wheat into my barn."'"

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

Then Jesus left the crowds and went into the house. His disciples came to him and asked, "Explain to us the parable about the weeds in the field."

Verse ConceptsTeachablenessCrowds AvoidedFigurative FieldsEntering HousesChrist With His Disciples

"Again, the kingdom from heaven is like a large net thrown into the sea that gathered all kinds of fish.

Verse ConceptsNetsMixed MultitudeFishingParables Of The KingdomFishPatience In Relationshipsgatheringlakes

When it was full, the fishermen hauled it ashore. Then they sat down, sorted the good fish into containers, and threw the bad ones away.

Verse ConceptsBaskets, Uses OfOccupationsThrowing AwayWicked Described AsBeachesFullness Of The KingdomPulling ThingsPeople Sitting DownDistinguishingGood Or BadFish

and will throw them into a blazing furnace. In that place there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth."

Verse ConceptsFurnacesThrowing PeopleFire Of HellMourning Due To CatastropheMourning In Regret

When evening had come, the disciples went to him and said, "This is a deserted place, and it's already late. Send the crowds away so that they can go into the villages and buy food for themselves."

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

Jesus immediately had the disciples get into a boat and cross to the other side ahead of him, while he sent the crowds away.

Verse ConceptsCrowdsCrowds AvoidedBoatsPeople Going BeforeCrossing To The Other SideDisciples' Movementslakes

It is not what goes into the mouth that makes a person unclean. It is what comes out of the mouth that makes a person unclean."

Verse ConceptsPurity, Nature OfCursingEntering The MouthComing Out Of PeopleFood PermittedOther References To MouthsDefilementMarijuana

Don't you know that everything that goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and then is expelled as waste?

Verse ConceptsStomachsEntering The MouthDefecationOther References To MouthsSexual Purityorganizationprocess

After he sent the crowds away, he got into a boat and went to the region of Magadan.

Verse ConceptsSeafaringCrowds AvoidedBoatsChrist Driving Out People

and said, "Sir, have mercy on my son, because he is an epileptic and suffers terribly. Often he falls into fire and often into water.

Verse ConceptsdiseasesSuffering, Nature OfCrying To JesusPeople TumblingConvulsionsBurning PeopleBe Merciful!Demons Causing TormentwaterfallsDemonic Influence

While they were gathering together in Galilee, Jesus told them, "The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into human hands.

Verse ConceptsSonsHanding Over ChristGathering FriendsDanger From Men

"So if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life injured or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.

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

And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell fire.

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

Then Jesus told his disciples, "I tell all of you with certainty, it will be hard for a rich person to get into the kingdom from heaven.

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to the worldCovetousness, Nature ofKingdom Of HeavenEntering The KingdomDrawbacks To RichesHard To Be Saved

Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to squeeze through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to get into the kingdom of God."

Verse ConceptsExaggerationsHumourNeedlesSharp ToolsEntering The KingdomEasy For PeopleOther OpeningsKingdom Of GodGoing To HeavenimpossibleThe Narrow Gate

After agreeing to pay the workers one denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

Verse ConceptsAgreeing For GoodMoney, Uses OfNegotiationCoinsAgreeingOnce A Day

He told them, "You go into the vineyard, too, and I will pay you whatever is right.'

Verse ConceptsServants, Working Conditions OfMetaphorical Vineyards

They told him, "Because no one has hired us.' He told them, "You go into the vineyard as well.'

Verse ConceptsMetaphorical VineyardsWhy It Happened

told them, "Go into the village ahead of you. At once you will find a donkey tied up and a colt with it. Untie them, and bring them to me.

Verse ConceptsDonkeysRopesAnimal OffspringOpposite SidesEntering CitiesFinding ThingsBinding As Animals

When he came into Jerusalem, the whole city was trembling with excitement. The people were asking, "Who is this?"

Verse ConceptsEntering CitiesWho Is Jesus?

He told them, "It is written, "My house is to be called a house of prayer,' but you are turning it into a hideout for bandits!"

Verse ConceptsSpiritual MalnutritionHouse Of GodSacrilegePeople In CavesStatus Of The Templethievesmarketing

Jesus answered them, "I tell all of you with certainty, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only will you be able to do what has been done to the fig tree, but you will also say to this mountain, "Be removed and thrown into the sea,' and it will happen.

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

Then Jesus went into the Temple. While he was teaching, the high priests and the elders of the people came to him and asked, "By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?"

Verse ConceptsChief priestsLeaders, SpiritualEntering The TempleChrist TeachingChrist In The TempleGod Appointing His SonResolving Conflict

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

Those servants went out into the streets and brought in everyone they found, evil and good alike, and the wedding hall was packed with guests.

Verse ConceptsFullness Of The KingdomMixed MultitudeUsing RoadsWedding GuestsHighways

In those days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage right up to the day when Noah went into the ark.

Verse ConceptsLove, Abuse OfThe DelugeBeforeEating And DrinkingEntering The ArkMarriage No MoreDaysMarriage KjvFloodsThe Raptureovereatingpoopmarraigematrimonyalcoholism

But be sure of this: if the owner of the house had known when during the night the thief would be coming, he would have stayed awake and not allowed his house to be broken into.

Verse ConceptsMan Keeping WatchParables Of ChristWithheld KnowledgeKnowingThe Time UnknownThe Lord As A Thiefthieves

"While they were away buying it, the groom arrived. Those who were ready went with him into the wedding banquet, and the door was closed.

Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfDoorsBanquets, Events CelebratedExclusionShutting SecurelyShutting The KingdomAttitudes While Waiting For Second Coming

He replied, "The man who has dipped his hand into the bowl with me will betray me.

Verse ConceptsJudas Betraying ChristDippingtraitors

Then he came back to the disciples and told them, "You might as well keep on sleeping and resting. Look! The time is near for the Son of Man to be betrayed into the hands of sinners.

Verse ConceptsFatigueHourHanding Over ChristChrist With His DisciplesNear The Time PersonallyTimes Of The ChristTo Be Given Into One's Hands

But they replied, "What do we care? Attend to that yourself." Then he flung the pieces of silver into the sanctuary, went outside, ran away, and hanged himself.

Verse ConceptsJudas IscariotHangingHope, Results Of Its AbsenceLength Of LifePunishment, Legal Aspects OfSuicideThe Misery Of GreedIndeterminate Sums Of MoneyPeople Hung To Death

The high priests picked up the pieces of silver and said, "It is not lawful to put this into the Temple treasury, because it is blood money."

Verse ConceptsCoinageMoney, Uses OfTreasuriesResponsibility For Blood ShedIndeterminate Sums Of MoneyThe Chief Priests Condemning ChristMoney's DeficienciesMoney Boxpriests

Then the governor's soldiers took Jesus into the imperial headquarters and gathered the whole company of soldiers around him.

Verse ConceptsSoldiersMustering TroopsRoyal HousesSoldiers Treatment Of Christ

Twisting some thorns into a victor's crown, they placed it on his head and put a stick in his right hand. They knelt down in front of him and began making fun of him, saying, "Long live the king of the Jews!"

Verse ConceptsIndignities Suffered By ChristCrown Of ThornsFigures Of SpeechBowingCrowns, Worn ByKneelingSceptreThornsPlaitingChrist's Right HandChrist Is King Of IsraelMocking ChristSpoken Greetings

Then go quickly and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead. He is going ahead of you into Galilee, and you will see him there. Remember, I have told you!"

Verse ConceptsHasteChrist Going BeforeSeeing The Risen ChristTelling Of Jesusreuniting

While the women were on their way, some of the guards went into the city and told the high priests everything that had happened.

Verse ConceptsEntering CitiesTelling Of HappeningsThe Chief Priests Condemning Christ

The eleven disciples went into Galilee to the hillside to which Jesus had directed them.

Verse ConceptsElevenDisciples' Movements

While Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew. They were throwing a net into the sea because they were fishermen.

Verse ConceptsFishermenCall To ServiceFishing

Then they went to Capernaum. As soon as it was the Sabbaths, Jesus went into the synagogue and began to teach.

Verse ConceptsSynagogueChrist TeachingOn The Sabbath

And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will make the skins burst, and both the wine and the skins will be ruined. Instead, new wine is poured into fresh wineskins."

Verse ConceptsBottle, UsesNewnessWineAlcohol ConsumptionBreaking ContainersOld ThingsUnusedFreshWineskins And Vatstoughness

How was it that he went into the House of God during the lifetime of Abiathar the high priest and ate the Bread of the Presence, which was not lawful for anyone but the priests to eat, and gave some of it to his companions?"

Verse ConceptsHigh Priest, In NtEntering The TabernaclePeople Providing FoodRoyal Priesthood

Jesus went into the synagogue again, and a man with a paralyzed hand was there.

Verse ConceptsLimbs WitheredDiseased Hands

No one can go into a strong man's house and carry off his possessions without first tying up the strong man. Then he can ransack his house.

Verse ConceptsFreedom, Through Jesus ChristExorcismsHousesSpiritual Warfare, Causes OfVictory, Over Spiritual ForcesParables Of ChristLimitations Of StrengthTying UpProperty

Then Jesus began to teach again beside the sea. Such a large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat in it, while the entire crowd remained beside the sea on the shore.

Verse ConceptsCrowdsLargenessBoatsSitting To TeachChrist Teachinglakes

A violent windstorm came up, and the waves began breaking into the boat, so that the boat was rapidly becoming swamped.

Verse ConceptsStormsBoatsSwamped

So the demons begged him, "Send us among the pigs, so that we can go into them!"

Verse ConceptsBeggarsPigsDemonsThe DevilCasting Out Demons

So he let them do this. The unclean spirits came out of the man and went into the pigs, and the herd of about 2,000 rushed down a steep slope into the sea and drowned there.

Verse ConceptsExorcismsTwo ThousandGroups RunningDemons EnteringComing Out Of PeopleDeath Of CreaturesOthers Going Down

As Jesus was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed kept begging him to let him go with him.

Verse ConceptsBoatsChrist With People On EarthThose DemonisedDemonic Influence

They laughed and laughed at him. But when he had driven all of them outside, he took the child's father and mother, along with the men who were with him, and went into the room where the child was.

Verse ConceptsLaughterEntering HousesChrist Driving Out PeopleChrist Going With PeopleMocking Christ

He told them repeatedly, "Whenever you go into a home, stay there until you leave that place.

Verse ConceptsGuestsHospitality, Examples OfProperty, HousesTownMotionlessnessStaying PutEntering Houses