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King Herod heard of Him, for His name was now on everybody's lips, and people were saying that John the Baptist had risen from the dead, and that this was why such mighty powers were working in Him.

Verse ConceptsPower, God's SavingSuperstitionTetrarchWho He Might BeWhy It Happened

For this very Herod had sent and seized John and bound him and put him in prison, just to please Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, because Herod had married her.

Verse ConceptsPrisonersRopesBad Wives ExamplesDispleasureTransferring Wives

The apostles returned and met Jesus and reported to Him everything, how many things they had done and taught.

Verse ConceptsSolitudeTelling What People DidThe Apostles In Action

And He said to them, "Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and rest a little while." For there was an endless stream of people coming and going, and they had no time even to eat.

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of TimeHow Disciples LearnRest, PhysicalRecreationRetirementSolitudeDealing With Many PeopleComing To RestPeople EatingDisadvantages Of CrowdsGod Giving RestRest

Now when evening had come, the boat was in the middle of the sea, while He was alone on land.

Verse ConceptsSecret PrayerIsolated PersonsBoatsEvenings For Jesus And His DisciplesIn The Heart Of The Sealakes

The Pharisees met about Him, and also some scribes who had come from Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsCrowds Around JesusPharisees Concerned About Christ

They had noticed that some of His disciples were in the habit of eating their meals without first giving their hands a ceremonial washing to make them clean.

Verse ConceptsDefilement, Objects OfBathing, For CleansingPurity, Nature OfThe Disciples ActionsPeople UnwashedHow People EatLack Of Holiness

Now when He had left the crowd and gone home, His disciples were asking Him the meaning of this story.

Verse ConceptsTeachablenessEntering HousesQuestioning ChristThe Disciples Words

On the contrary, a woman, whose little daughter had a foul spirit, at once heard about Him and came and flung herself at His feet.

Verse ConceptsFeetSpiritsBowing Before MessiahThose Demonised

She was a heathen who spoke Greek and had been born in Syro-Phenicia. And she kept begging Him to drive the demon out of her daughter.

Verse Conceptsdemons, Kinds ofBeggarsGreeksLove, And The WorldJesus Casting Out Demons

In those days when a great crowd again had gathered and they had nothing to eat, He called His disciples to Him, and said,

Verse ConceptsNo FoodChrist SummoningChrist With His Disciples

And they had a few small fish, and He blessed them and told them to pass these, too, to the people,

Verse ConceptsSmall CreaturesFew ThingsThanking God For FoodFish

And they ate and had plenty. And they took up the pieces left over, which made seven hamper-basketfuls.

Verse ConceptsBaskets, Uses OfSeven ThingsPeople EatingPlenty Through ChristRemaining Food

Now they had forgotten to bring any bread; that is, they had only one loaf with them in the boat.

Verse ConceptsDisorganizationForgetting ThingsNo FoodOne Material ThingMissing The Mark

So they were discussing with one another the fact that they had no bread.

Verse ConceptsDiscussions

And while they were going down the mountain, He cautioned them not to tell anyone what they had seen, until the Son of Man should rise from the dead.

Verse ConceptsMan Going DownChrist Concealing ThingsChrist Would RiseChrist's OrdersJesus Foretelling His Resurrection

But they had nothing to say, for they had discussed with one another which of them was to be the greatest.

Verse ConceptsDiscussionsIndividuals Being SilentGreatness Of Disciples

Then He took a little child and had him stand in the midst of them; then He took him in His arms, and said to them,

Verse ConceptsDealing With Young People

Then Peter started to say to Him, "We have left everything we had and followed you."

Verse ConceptsSurrenderingPeter, The DiscipleForsaking All OthersRenunciationSelf Denial

And they answered as Jesus had directed them, and so they let them bring it.

And so He went into Jerusalem and into the temple. After He had looked everything over, as it was already late, He went out with the Twelve to Bethany.

Verse ConceptsJerusalem, Significance OfVisitingEntering The TempleLatenessTwelve DisciplesChrist In The TempleLooking And Seeing

He had one more to send, his dearly loved son; at last he sent him to them, for he said to himself, 'They will surely respect my son.'

Verse ConceptsLove Between Father And SonRespect For People

Then one of the scribes, on hearing them arguing, came up, and since he saw that Jesus had answered them properly, he asked Him, "What sort of command is the first of all commands?"

Verse ConceptsBeing FirstQuestioning ChristAnsweringFulfilling The LawGreat ThingsMoralityimportance

So Jesus said to him, as He saw that he had answered thoughtfully, "You are not far from the kingdom of God." And no one ventured to ask Him any more questions.

Verse ConceptsNot Asking OthersAnsweringGod's Blessings Are NearLosing CourageQuestioning GodSchoolanswers

For all of them put in out of their surplus, but she in her want put in all she had, yes, all she had to live on."

Verse ConceptsPoverty, Causes OfSurplusBlessings Of The PoorGiving Money To The ChurchThe poorGiving

If the Lord had not cut those days short, nobody would have escaped, but for the sake of the people chosen as His own He has cut them short.

Verse ConceptsRestraintA Short TimeShort Time Till The EndThose Not SavedFor The Sake Of God's PeopleGod's Intervention

So off the disciples went; they reached the city, found everything just as He had told them, and they got the Passover supper ready.

Verse ConceptsFinding ThingsThe Disciples Reactions

For the Son of Man is going away, as the Scriptures say of Him, but a curse will be on that man by whom He is betrayed. It would have been better for that man, if he had never been born."

Verse ConceptsFate Of IndividualsBetrayalNecessityWoeNever Being BornJudas Betraying ChristPersonal GoodWoe To The Wicked

Now His betrayer had given them a signal, saying, "The one I kiss is He; seize Him and lead Him safely away."

Verse ConceptsKissing ChristJudas Betraying ChristArresting ChristSigns Attending Christ

At that moment for the second time a Cock crowed. Then Peter remembered how Jesus had said to him, "Before the cock crows twice, you will disown me three times!" And when he remembered that, he burst into tears.

Verse ConceptsContemplationPeter, The DiscipleRegretRememberingRepentance, Examples OfWeepingApostasy, RestoredCrowsConviction Of SinPainful MemoriesCommunicating Three TimesBird SoundsMourning In Regretdenial

There was in prison a man named Barabbas, among some revolutionaries who in their uprising had committed murder,

Verse ConceptsCriminalsImprisonmentsRebellion, Against Human AuthorityBarabbasJudged As Murderers

When they had finished making sport of Him, they took off the purple robe and put His own clothes on Him. Then they led Him out of the city to crucify Him.

Verse ConceptsPredestination, Spiritual EventsClothing OthersPeople Stripping PeoplePurple ClothesMocking ChristFun

who used to accompany Him when He was in Galilee, besides several other women who had come up to Jerusalem with Him.

Verse ConceptsFollowing Jesus Christministering

So he bought a linen sheet, then took Him down from the cross, wrapped Him in the linen sheet, and laid Him in a tomb that had been hewn out of the rock, and rolled a boulder up to the doorway of the tomb.

Verse ConceptsThe DeadFuneralsClothembalmingLinenTombsExcavationLowering PeopleRollingJesus Tomb

When the Sabbath had ended, Mary of Magdala, Mary, James's mother, and Salome bought spices to go and anoint Him.

Verse ConceptsAnointing, Social CustomembalmingHerbs And SpicesOintmentPerfumeSabbath, In NtThe First Day Of The WeekSabbath Observed

It was very early, just after the sun had risen, on the first day of the week, when they went to the tomb.

Verse ConceptsDawnSundayRising EarlyThe First Day Of The WeekDaybreakJesus TombAt DaybreakEarly Rising

Then they looked up and saw that the boulder had already been rolled to one side, for it was a very large one.

Verse ConceptsBarriersBig ThingsRolling

But although they had heard that He was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it.

Verse ConceptsSeeing The Risen ChristDoubting The ResurrectionChrist's Life

Later on He appeared to the Eleven themselves while they were at table, and reproved them for their lack of faith and their stubbornness, because they had not believed those who had seen Him after He had been raised from the dead.

Verse ConceptsFaith, Necessity OfAttitudes Of StubbornnessRebukeUnbelief, And Life Of FaithUnbelief, Sourced InReclining To EatSeeing The Risen ChristChrist AppearingDoubting The ResurrectionNot Believing PeopleConsequences Of ObstinacyElevenChrist Is Risen

So the Lord Jesus, after He had spoken to them, was caught up into heaven and took His seat at God's right hand.

Verse ConceptsGospel, Historical Foundation OfJesus Christ, Ascension OfExaltation Of ChristRight SidesGoing To Heaven

And they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and both of them were far advanced in years.

Verse ConceptsBarrenness, Examples OfChildren, responsibilities to parentsChildlessnessInfertilityHaving A Babyluck

But when he came out, he could not speak to them, and so they knew that he had seen a vision in the sanctuary. Meanwhile he kept on making signs to them, and remained dumb.

Verse ConceptsecstasyDumbnessThose Who Saw Visions

And her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown her great mercy, and so they were rejoicing with her.

Verse ConceptsJoy, And Human ExperienceGod Showed MercyRejoicing In God's WorksSharing

When they saw this, they informed them of the story that had been told about this child.

Verse ConceptsTelling What People SaidSpreading The Gospel

Then the shepherds went back continuing to give glory and praise to God for all that they had heard and seen, just as it had been told them.

Verse ConceptsGlorifying GodPraise, Examples OfGroups going homeSpecific Praising Of GodStock Keeping

When He was eight days old and it was time to circumcise Him, He was named Jesus, the name given by the angel before Mary had conceived Him.

Verse ConceptsInfantsBoysCircumcision, physicalEight DaysFrom The WombLess Than A Year OldDedicationDevout mothersNativity of Jesus ChristJesus Birth

She was very old; from girlhood she had lived seven years with a husband, and now had been a widow eighty years. She never left the temple, but continued to worship all day and all night with fastings and prayers.

Verse ConceptsWorship Day And NightFasting, Practice OfFasting, Nature OfFasting, Examples OfAsceticism, TypesNightPrayerfulnessPrayer, Practicalities OfReligionSleeplessnessWidowsActual WidowsFasting RegularlyFastingFasting And PrayerServing The ChurchWaiting Till Marriage

Now when they had completed everything that was in accordance with the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth.

Verse ConceptsAccording To ThingsFulfilling The Law

But Herod the governor, because he was repeatedly reproved by him for Herodias his brother's wife, and for all the wicked deeds that Herod had done,

Verse ConceptsRebukeWivesRulers Of A FourthNamed Gentile Rulers

Now when all the people had been baptized, and when Jesus had been baptized and was still praying, heaven opened

Verse ConceptsJohn The BaptistThe Act Of OpeningOpening HeavenBaptised By JohnChrist's BaptismJesus PrayingBaptismTrinity

Then he took Him to Jerusalem, and had Him stand on the tip-top turret of the temple, and said to Him, "If you are God's Son, throw yourself down from here,

Verse ConceptsJerusalem, Significance OfSuffering, Of Jesus ChristWho Is Jesus?Status Of The TempleTop Of ThingsThe DevilResisting TemptationConfidence And Self Esteemjumping

So He came to Nazareth where He had been brought up, and as His habit was on the Sabbath, He went to the synagogue and stood up to read.

Verse ConceptsCustomReadingHabitsLiteracySabbath, In NtSynagogueWorship, Times ForReading The ScripturesOn The SabbathGoing To Churchculture

As the sun was setting, all who had friends sick with various diseases brought them to Him. Then He continued to lay His hands upon them one by one and cured them.

Verse ConceptsdoctorsHandsHealingSpiritsLaying On Of HandsLaying On Hands To HealEvenings For Jesus And His DisciplesJesus HealingSicknessHealing Sickness

Then He saw two boats lying up on the shore of the lake, but the fishermen had left them and were washing their nets.

Verse ConceptsFishermenFishingClean ObjectsTwo Other Things

For at the haul of fish that they had made, bewildering amazement had seized him and all his men,

Verse ConceptsAmazement, Of Christ's MiraclesAstonishmentCatch Of Fish

So after they had brought the boats to land, they left everything and followed Him.

Verse ConceptsFollowing Jesus Christdiscipleship, nature ofSelf DenialBoats

One day as He was teaching, there were some Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was with Him to cure people.

Verse ConceptsGod, Power OfPower, God's SavingVillagesPower Of Christ, ShownThe Power Of GodChrist TeachingJesus HealingPharisees Concerned About ChristAtmosphereThe power of Christ

Then at once he got up before them all, picked up the pallet on which he had been lying, and went off home, giving praise to God.

Verse ConceptsDeliverance, Response ToIndividuals going homePeople Getting UpSpecific Praising Of God

Then He came down with them and took His stand on a level place, where there was a great throng of His disciples and a vast crowd of people from all over Judea and from Jerusalem and the seacoast district of Tyre and Sidon, who had come to hear Him and to be cured of their diseases.

Verse ConceptsSermon On The MountCoastlandsChrist Going DownHearing ChristJesus HealingOther References To The Disciples

When He had finished all these sayings in the hearing of the people, He went into Capernaum.

Verse ConceptsLast Words

There was a Roman captain who had a slave that was very dear to him, and he was sick and at the point of death,

Verse ConceptsdiseasesMastersEmployers, Good ExamplesNearness Of DeathDeath Looms NearPrecious

But when John's messengers had gone, He began to speak to the crowds about John: "What did you go out into the desert to gaze at? A reed that is tossed to and fro by the wind?

Verse ConceptsCrowdsReedsFicklenessThings ShakingTemporary Stay In The Wilderness

and some women who had been cured of evil spirits and diseases: Mary, who was called Mary of Magdala, out of whom seven demons had gone,

Verse ConceptsSatanic InvasionSeven SpiritsThose Jesus HealedDemonsCasting Out Demons

Another portion of them fell upon the rock, and as soon as they sprang up, they withered, because they had no moisture.

Verse ConceptsHeart, Fallen And RedeemedMoist ThingsGrowingPlanting SeedsFarmingSeedsSowing Seedssowing

As soon as He stepped out upon the shore, there met Him a man from town, who was under the power of demons; and for a long time he had worn no clothes, and did not stay in a house but in tombs.

Verse ConceptsLonelinessSpiritsNaked In PovertyMeeting PeopleAction For A Long TimeThose DemonisedDemons

For He was commanding the foul spirit to get out of the man. For on many occasions it had seized him, and repeatedly he had been fastened with chains and fetters under constant guard, and yet he would snap his bonds, and the demon would drive him into desert places.

Verse ConceptsChainsDemons, Nature OfRestlessnessSatan, Character OfIron ChainsLiving In The WildernessJesus Casting Out DemonsBreaking Chains

So Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" And he answered, "Legion!" For many demons had gone into him.

Verse ConceptsEvil SpiritsLonelinessSatanic InvasionDemons EnteringMany Spiritual BeingsDemonsCasting Out Demons

When the men who fed them saw what had taken place, they fled and spread the news in the town and in the country around.

Verse ConceptsLooking And SeeingOthers Who FledTelling Of JesusStock Keeping

So the people went out to see what had taken place, and they went to Jesus and found the man out of whom the demons had gone sitting at the feet of Jesus, with his clothes on and in his right mind; and they were frightened.

Verse ConceptsFeetExorcismsevil, victory overDemons, Delivered FromClothing OneselfSitting At The FeetRegaining SanityFear Of ChristLooking And Seeing

Then they who had seen it told them how the man who had been under the power of demons was cured.

Verse ConceptsHow Healing CameTelling Of Jesus

The man out of whom the demons had gone begged Him to let him go with Him, but Jesus sent him away and said,

Verse ConceptsChrist With People On Earth

"Go back to your home, and continue to tell what great things God has done for you." But he went off and told all over the town what great things Jesus had done for him.

Verse ConceptsExperience, of Godevangelists, identity ofTestify On God's BehalfFervourZealousness, Examples OfChrist's WorkTelling Of JesusFamily And FriendsGod Turning Bad Things Into Good

Just then a man named Jairus came up, who had long been leader of the synagogue. He fell down at Jesus' feet and persisted in begging Him to come to his house,

Verse ConceptsFeetBowing Before MessiahThose Jesus Healed

Then Jesus said, "Who was it that touched me?" But as all were denying that they had done so, Peter said, "Master, the crowds are jamming you and jostling you."

Verse ConceptsPopularity Of ChristCrowds Around JesusPressingTouching For HealingContradictingWho Is The Doer?

When the woman saw that she had not escaped His notice, she came forward trembling, and falling down before Him she told in the presence of all the people why she had touched Him and how she had been cured at once.

Verse ConceptsTremblingIndividuals TremblingTouching For HealingBowing Before MessiahHow Healing CamePeople Made KnownTelling What People DidWhy People Did Things

And her parents were astounded, but He ordered them not to tell anyone what had taken place.

Verse ConceptsCommands, in NTAmazement, Of Christ's MiraclesChrist Concealing Things

Now Herod the governor heard of all that was taking place, and he continued to be puzzled over the reports -- by some that John had risen from the dead,

Verse ConceptsTetrarchHearing About ChristPuzzlementRulers Of A Fourth

by others that Elijah had appeared, and by still others that one of the ancient prophets had come back to life.

Verse ConceptsJesus The Prophet

Now the apostles returned and told Jesus all that they had done. Then He took them and privately retired to a town called Bethsaida.

Verse ConceptsApostles, During Jesus Earthly MinistryRetirementTelling What People DidThe Apostles In Actionfeedback

And they all ate and had aplenty, and what they had left over was taken up, twelve baskets of broken pieces.

Verse ConceptsBaskets, Uses OfPeople EatingPlenty Through ChristRemaining FoodTwelve Things

Now Peter and his companions had been overcome by sleep, but all at once they became wide awake and saw His splendor and the two men who were standing with Him.

Verse ConceptsGlory, Revelation OfSleep, PhysicalGod's Glory In Jesus ChristChrist's Own GloryTwo Other Men

When the voice had ceased, Jesus was found to be alone. And they kept silence and told no one anything that they had seen at that time.

Verse ConceptsSilenceIsolated PersonsChrist Concealing Things

The next day, when they had come down from the mountain, a great crowd met Him.

Verse ConceptsThe Attractiveness Of ChristCrowds SeekingThe Next DayMan Going Down

But they remained ignorant of what this meant; indeed, it had been hidden from them, so that they did not grasp it, and they were afraid to ask Him about this statement.

Verse ConceptsDullnessNot Asking OthersFear Of ChristNot Understanding SayingsGod's Things Concealed

But Jesus, as He knew that the controversy was going on in their hearts, took a little child and had it stand by His side.

Verse ConceptsThoughtChrist Knowing About PeopleDealing With Young PeopleSide Of People

A curse on you, Chorazin! A curse on you, Bethsaida! For if the wonder-works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, long ago they would have repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

Verse ConceptsGesturesAshesSackcloth And AshesAshes Of HumiliationSigns Of RepentanceWoe To The Wicked

She had a sister named Mary who took her seat at the Lord's feet, and remained listening to His message.

Verse ConceptsFeetListeningSittingSitting At The FeetHearing ChristChrist TeachingIdentityIdentity In Christdistractions

When He had said this, a Pharisee asked Him to lunch at his house, and He went in and took His place at table.

Verse ConceptsInvitationsPharisees, Attitudes To Jesus ChristTablesReclining To EatWhile Still Speaking

But be sure of this, that if the master of the house had known what time the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.

Verse ConceptsWhen?The Lord As A Thiefthieves

Then He told them this story: "A man had a fig tree planted by his vineyard, and he kept going and looking for figs on it, but did not find any.

Verse ConceptsMetaphorical VineyardsSeeking For Concrete Things