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"Would it were already kindled! But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened till it is accomplished!

Verse ConceptsForeknowledgeBaptism, significance ofMission, Of Jesus ChristForeknowledge Of ChristAccomplishingChrist's BaptismBaptism

For from this time, if there are five people in a house, they will be divided, three against two, and two against three.

Verse ConceptsFive PeoplePeople OpposedTwo Or ThreeFamiliesFamily LoveFamily Firstdivision

And he went on to say, even unto the multitudes, - Whensoever ye see a cloud springing up from the west, straightway, ye are saying - A thunderstorm is coming! and it happeneth thus.

Verse ConceptsClouds, Natural UseRainWestShowersWeather ForecastsOut Of The WestWeather In The Last Dayscloudsweather

O false ones! the face of the earth and the heaven is clear to you; how is it that the signs of these times are not as clear to you?

Verse ConceptsDullnessThe Present AgeAppearances ofHypocritesHypocrisyDiscernmentSigns Of The End TimesEnd TimesWeather In The Last DaysSeasons Changingweather

For while you are going with your opponent [at law] to appear before a magistrate, on the way make an effort to settle, so that he does not drag you before the judge, and the judge does not [rule against you and] turn you over to the officer, and the officer does not throw you into prison.

Verse ConceptsdisagreementsImprisonmentsJudgesOfficersReconciliation, Between BelieversLitigationHanding Over PeopleStress And Hard TimesReconciliationPurgatoryeffortjail

I tell you, you will not be released from there until you have paid the last coin [Note: This coin amounted to about five minutes of a farm laborer's pay, or about fifty cents in 1994]."

Verse ConceptsSettling Accounts

And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things?

Verse ConceptsThinking Aright

I tell you, no; but unless you repent [change your old way of thinking, turn from your sinful ways and live changed lives], you will all likewise perish.

Verse ConceptsUrgencyRepentanceRepent Lest You Die

I tell you, no; but unless you repent [change your old way of thinking, turn from your sinful ways and live changed lives], you will all likewise perish.”

Verse ConceptsRepent Lest You Die

So he said to the gardener, "'See, this is the third year I have come to look for fruit on this fig-tree and cannot find any. Cut it down. Why should so much ground be actually wasted?'

Verse ConceptsDivine DelaysFelling TreesThree YearsSeeking For Concrete ThingsNo Roomspacecutting

And if indeed it produces fruit in the coming [year], [so much the better], but if not, you can cut it down.'"

Verse ConceptsDivine DelaysFelling TreesBearing FruitOlive Treescutting

When Jesus saw her, He called her over and said to her, “Woman, you are released from your illness.”

Verse ConceptsSicknessrelaxing

And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.

Verse ConceptsDays, Natural UsePharisees, Beliefs OfLegalismSix DaysAngry With ChristDoing One's WorkJesus HealingThe Sabbath And ChristJesus Healing On Sabbath

And when he had said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.

Verse ConceptsCrowds AmazedRejoicing In God's Works

Then said he, "What is the kingdom of God like? Or whereto shall I compare it?

Verse ConceptsLikening ThingsParables Of The Kingdom

It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it.

Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalHorticultureParables Of ChristSmall ThingsPlants Growing Up

It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three peck measures of flour until it was all leavened.”

Verse ConceptsFoodWeights And Measures, DryLeavenedHidden ThingsThree Other Things

Afterwards he pass'd thro' several citys and villages, where he taught the people, on his journey to Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsChrist Teaching

When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of TimeDelay, Examples OfThe Act Of OpeningOpening To OthersShutting DoorsKnockingNot Knowing PeopleWhere From?Relationships With Boyfriend

There will be weeping and cries of sorrow when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves are shut outside.

Verse ConceptsBitingPainSuffering, Emotional Aspects OfTeethGnashing Of TeethExclusionChrist Driving Out PeopleMourning Due To CatastropheMourning In Regretnagging

Just at that time there came some Pharisees who warned Him, saying, "Leave this place and continue your journey; Herod means to kill you."

Verse ConceptsPharisees, Attitudes To Jesus ChristAmbivalenceChrist Would Be KilledPharisees Concerned About Christpharisees

And He said to them, "Going your way, tell this fox, 'Behold, I cast out demons, and perfect cures, to-day and to-morrow; and on the third day I am made perfect.

Verse ConceptsGoalsFigures Of Speechdriving outFoxesDemons, Exorcism OfLeaders, PoliticalThe Third Day Of The WeekJesus Casting Out DemonsTodayJesus HealingCasting Out Demonstomorrow

Nevertheless, I must walk today and tomorrow, and the day following: For it cannot be, that a prophet perish any other where, save at Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsProphets KilledTodayhumortomorrow

Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsThe Fact Of His ComingIn God's Name

And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them,

Verse ConceptsLove, Abuse OfTablesGuest Roomsmarketing

“When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not sit down [to eat] at the place of honor, since a more distinguished person than you may have been invited by the host,

Verse ConceptsCelebritiesSocial FellowshipSeatsDo Not Be ProudGuest RoomsWaiting Till Marriageimportance

The one who invited both of you may come and say to you, ‘Give your place to this man,’ and then in humiliation, you will proceed to take the lowest place.

Verse ConceptsMan Going DownShame Will ComeEthics

But when thou hast been invited, go and put thyself down in the last place, that when he who has invited thee comes, he may say to thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have honour before all that are lying at table with thee;

Verse ConceptsPresumptionSeatsMoving UpwardsReclining To EatBe Humble!Guest RoomsBeing HumbleMoving OnMoving To A New PlaceWaiting Till Marriageovereating

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled [before others], and he who habitually humbles himself (keeps a realistic self-view) will be exalted.”

Verse ConceptsAbasement Of The ProudLove, Abuse OfPride, Evil OfPromotionThe Proud Will Be AbasedHumbling OneselfAbasementBeing HumbleHumble Yourself

And one of those that were lying at table with them, hearing these things, said to him, Blessed is he who shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.

Verse ConceptsFeastingMessianic BanquetTablesReclining To EatBlessed Through GodBenefits Of Heaven

And they all gave reasons why they were not able to come. The first said to him, I have got a new field, and it is necessary for me to go and see it: I am full of regret that I am unable to come.

Verse ConceptsComplacencyBuying and sellingLove, Abuse OfReal EstateGuest Rooms

And the servant came back and gave his master an account of these things. Then the master of the house was angry and said to the servant, Go out quickly into the streets of the town and get the poor, the blind, and those who are broken in body.

Verse ConceptsAnger, HumanPoverty, Remedies ForStreetsHasteUsing RoadsTelling What People DidAngry People

And the servant said, Lord, your orders have been done, and still there is room.

Verse ConceptsSpacious Place

lest that he having laid a foundation, and not being able to finish, all who are beholding may begin to mock him,

Verse ConceptsFoundations Of BuildingsUnable To Do Other ThingsFunFinishing Strongconstructionfinishing

Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace.

Verse ConceptsenvoyFar From One

It isn’t fit for the soil or for the manure pile; they throw it out. Anyone who has ears to hear should listen!”

Verse Conceptsdung and manure

What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if one of them gets loose and goes away, will not let the ninety-nine be in the waste land by themselves, and go after the wandering one, till he sees where it is?

Verse ConceptsSheep, FigurativeShepherds, As OccupationsWatchfulness, DivineThe Number NinetyOne HundredSeeking For Concrete ThingsAbandoning ThingsNinetieslosing a loved oneMissing SomeoneBeing Lost

The younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me my share of your property.' He divided his livelihood between them.

Verse ConceptsPropertyDadsdivision

For this, my son, who was dead, is living again; he had gone away from me, and has come back. And they were full of joy.

Verse ConceptsSpiritually DeadFinding PeopleLost PeopleRejoicing In ReliefMissing SomeoneCelebrationBeing Lost

And he said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf because he has received him back safe and sound.’

Verse ConceptsFat AnimalsKilling Domesticated AnimalsEating Cattle

But he said to his father, ‘Look! These many years I have served you, and I have never neglected or disobeyed your command. Yet you have never given me [so much as] a young goat, so that I might celebrate with my friends;

Verse ConceptsGoatsAction For A Long TimeEating Drinking And RejoicingObeying People

But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.'"

Verse ConceptsAlive, Description OfBeing Dead In SinSpiritually DeadLost People

Now Jesus was also saying to the disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager [of his estate], and accusations [against this man] were brought to him, that this man was squandering his [master’s] possessions.

Verse ConceptsRich, TheThriftWasteChrist Speaking To DisciplesWealthy PeoplePropertyA Fool And His Money Shall PartMoney Managementpossessionsaccusationsaccounting

So he called him and said to him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management [of my affairs], for you can no longer be [my] manager.’

Verse ConceptsOthers SummoningPropertyaccounting

"So he called all his master's debtors, one by one, and asked the first, 'How much are you in debt to my master?'

Verse ConceptsDebtMoney Managementcheatersaccounting

Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A hundred measures of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, DryOther Volume MeasuresDebt

Therefore, I tell you, make friends for yourselves by using worldly wealth, so that when it fails [i.e., when you run out of money] they [i.e., the friends you made with its wise and benevolent use] may welcome you into the eternal [i.e., heavenly] dwelling places. [Note: The idea here seems to be that by your shrewd use of material possessions for the benefit of others, you are actually storing up treasures for yourself in heaven].

Verse ConceptsHomeMoney, Stewardship OfRiches, Nature OfEternal PossessionEternal WorldWelcoming BelieversRight Use Of WealthNetworkingRichesDishonestyFriendsBest FriendsFinancesLove And RelationshipsTrust In RelationshipsEthicsMoney ManagementTrue FriendsMoney BlessingsBuilding Relationshipsinvestingwelcome

and desiring to be filled from the crumbs that are falling from the table of the rich man; yea, also the dogs, coming, were licking his sores.

Verse ConceptsdogsTablesTongueCrumbsSeeking FoodRemaining FoodPetsAbscessFeeding The Poorlazarus

In the afterlife, where he was in constant torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away and Lazarus by his side.

Verse ConceptsAfterlifeHadesHell, Description OfTortureGod Far AwayGod Has ComfortedHellLake Of FirePurgatorydistancelazarus

But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things [all the comforts and delights], and Lazarus likewise bad things [all the discomforts and distresses]; but now he is comforted here [in paradise], while you are in severe agony.

Verse ConceptsLimitednessRiches, Ungodly Use OfDeath Of The Saints, Results InPainful MemoriesReversalsGiving Good ThingsBad SituationsGod Has ComfortedOvercoming Adversity

and besides all these things, between us and you a great chasm is fixed, so that they who are willing to go over from hence unto you are not able, nor do they from thence to us pass through.

Verse ConceptsHell, As An ExperienceGehennaProbation PeriodGapsUnable To Do Other ThingsOccupants Of HellPurgatorybridges

upon which he said, father, I beg it of you, that you would send him to my father's family, where I have five brothers,

Verse ConceptsBeggarslazarus

where I have five brothers. Then he could warn them so that they will not [have to] come to this [terrible] place of torment also.'

Verse ConceptsFive PeopleWarning IndividualsDeath Of A Family MemberSiblingsGodly ManFamily Deathtestifyinglazarus