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During {this time} [when] a crowd of many thousands had gathered together, so that they were trampling one another, he began to say to his disciples first, "Beware for yourselves of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Verse ConceptsCrowdsAn Innumerable Numberevil, warnings againstPharisees, Attitudes To Jesus ChristPopularityPretenceWarningPopularity Of ChristDealing With Many PeopleTrampling PeopleLeavenedBeginning To TeachDisadvantages Of CrowdsCharacteristics Of PhariseesChrist Speaking To DisciplesShowing HypocrisyHypocrisy

But nothing is concealed that will not be revealed, and secret that will not be made known.

Verse ConceptsVeilsExposure Of SinAcquiring KnowledgeHidden ThingsDisclosuresphotography

Therefore everything that you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what {you have whispered} in the inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.

Verse ConceptsRooftopClosetsDisclosuresHousetopsFaintnessFrom Darkness To LightBeware Of Your SpeechUnder One's BreathPrivate Rooms

For all the nations of the world seek after these [things], and your Father knows that you need these [things].

Verse ConceptsGod's CareCarePagansSeeking For Concrete ThingsWhat Foreigners Are LikeWorrying

And you, [be] like people who are waiting for their master when he returns from the wedding feast, so that [when he] comes back and knocks, they can open [the door] for him immediately.

Verse ConceptsKnockingBanquets, Events CelebratedLordship, Human And DivineWaitingImitating Good PeopleThe Act Of OpeningOpening To OthersChrist Coming AgainWaiting For The Second ComingAttitudes While Waiting For Second ComingWaiting Till Marriage

Blessed [are] those slaves whom the master will find on the alert [when he] returns! Truly I say to you that he will dress himself for service and have them recline at the table and will come by [and] serve them.

Verse ConceptsTablesCharacter Of SaintsClothing OneselfReclining To EatChrist Telling The TruthWaiting Till Marriageluck

But understand this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief was coming, he would not have left his house to be broken into.

Verse ConceptsWhen?The Lord As A Thiefthieves

You also must be ready, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not think [he will come]."

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to the worldeagernessLast ThingsImminenceLack Of ExpectationThe Time Unknown

Blessed [is] that slave whom his master will find so doing [when he] comes back.

Verse ConceptsWorks Of Faith

Truly I say to you that he will put him in charge of all his possessions.

Verse ConceptsEntrustingChrist Telling The Truthpossessions

But if that slave should say {to himself}, 'My master is taking a long time to return,' and he begins to beat the male slaves and the female slaves and to eat and drink and get drunk,

Verse ConceptsGluttonydrinking, abstention fromSoliloquyEating And Drinkingdrunkards

the master of that slave will come on a day that he does not expect and at an hour that he does not know, and will cut him in two and assign his place with the unbelievers.

Verse ConceptsUnbelieversUnbelief, Nature And Effects OfPeople Cut In PiecesNot Believing The GospelLack Of ExpectationThe Time Unknown

And that slave who knew the will of his master and did not prepare or do according to his will {will be given a severe beating}.

Verse ConceptsAccording To His WillSin, Nature OfSins Of OmissionKnowing God's WillKnowing FactsStrictnessDoing The Right ThingservanthoodNot Serving God

"I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish that it had been kindled already!

Verse ConceptsInward FireThe Universe DestroyedFire Of Christdivision

Do you think that I have come to grant peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division!

Verse ConceptsPublic OpinionSchismsDivisions Of OpinionThinking ArightNo PeaceFamily UnityFamily Conflictdivision

For as you are going with your accuser before the magistrate, make an effort to come to a settlement with him on the way, so that he will not drag you to the judge, and the judge will hand you over to the bailiff, and the bailiff will throw you into prison.

Verse ConceptsdisagreementsImprisonmentsJudgesOfficersReconciliation, Between BelieversLitigationHanding Over PeopleStress And Hard TimesReconciliationPurgatoryeffortjail

And he answered [and] said to them, "Do you think that these Galileans were sinners worse than all the Galileans, because they suffered these [things]?

Verse ConceptsThinking Aright

Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them--do you think that they were sinners worse than all the people who live in Jerusalem?

Verse ConceptsAccidentsSuffering, Causes OfTowersEighteenDeath Of Other GroupsThings FallingTragedybridges

And this woman, who is a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan bound {eighteen} long years--is it not necessary that she be released from this bond on the day of the Sabbath?"

Verse ConceptsdaughtersCripplesevil, origins ofPainRescueSatan, Defeat OfSatan, Kingdom OfBindingSatan, Work Of15 To 20 YearsChildren Of AbrahamOn The SabbathJesus Healing On Sabbath

And [when] he said these [things], all those who opposed him were humiliated, and the whole crowd was rejoicing at all the splendid things that were being done by him.

Verse ConceptsCrowds AmazedRejoicing In God's Works

It is like a mustard seed that a man took [and] sowed in his own garden, and it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the sky nested in its branches."

Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalHorticultureParables Of ChristSmall ThingsPlants Growing Up

It is like yeast that a woman took [and] hid in three measures of wheat flour until the whole [batch] was leavened."

Verse ConceptsFoodWeights And Measures, DryLeavenedHidden ThingsThree Other Things

In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but yourselves thrown outside!

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

At [that] same hour some Pharisees came up [and] said to him, "Go out and depart from here, because Herod wants to kill you!"

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

And he said to them, "Go [and] tell that fox, 'Behold, I am expelling demons and performing healings today and tomorrow, and on the third [day] I will complete [my work].'

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

And it happened that when he came to the house of a certain one of the leaders of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat {a meal}, they were watching him closely.

Verse ConceptsBanquets, Examples OfGuestsHomeHospitality, Examples OfPharisees, Attitudes To Jesus ChristHospitality Towards ChristWatching To EntrapOn The SabbathReceiving Jesus As A Guest

But when you are invited, go [and] recline at the table in the last place, so that when the one who invited you comes, he will say to you, 'Friend, move up higher.' Then it will be an honor to you in the presence of all those who are reclining at the table with you.

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

And the master said to the slave, 'Go out into the highways and hedges and press [them] to come in, so that my house will be filled!

Verse ConceptsFullness Of The KingdomUsing RoadsOutward CompulsionAmbassadors For ChristHighways

For I say to you that none of those persons who were invited will taste my banquet!'"

Verse ConceptsGuestsTasteReprobates

"What man of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the grassland and go after the one that was lost until he finds it?

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

And [when he] returns to [his] home, he calls together [his] friends and neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost!'

Verse ConceptsThe Soul Winners JoyFinding ThingsGathering FriendsLosing A FriendLosing FriendsBeing Lost

And [when she] has found [it], she calls together [her] friends and neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me, because I have found the drachma that I had lost!'

Verse ConceptsFinding ThingsGathering FriendsRejoicing In SuccessLosing A FriendLosing Friends

And the younger of them said to [his] father, 'Father, give me the share of the property that is coming to [me].' So he divided [his] assets between them.

Verse ConceptsPropertyDadsdivision

And [after] he had spent everything, there was a severe famine throughout that country, and he began to be in need.

Verse ConceptsNeedPoverty, Causes OfSpiritual DestitutionMoral BankruptcyBeing UnsatisfiedShortagesBecoming PoorA Fool And His Money Shall Part

And he went [and] hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to tend pigs.

Verse ConceptsSwineFeeding AnimalsPigs

And he was longing to fill his stomach with the carob pods that the pigs were eating, and no one was giving [anything] to him.

Verse ConceptsFriendlessnessStomachsBeansNothingRepulsive FoodNoting What Animals Eat

But he answered [and] said to his father, 'Behold, so many years I have served you, and have never disobeyed your command! And you never gave me a young goat so that I could celebrate with my friends!

Verse ConceptsGoatsAction For A Long TimeEating Drinking And RejoicingObeying People

And he also said to the disciples, "A certain man was rich, who had a manager. And charges were brought to him that this person was squandering his possessions.

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

I know what I should do, so that when I am removed from the management they will welcome me into their homes!'

Verse ConceptsWelcoming Other PeopleDeposingLosing A FriendLosing FriendsMoney Managementwelcome

And he called out [and] said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus so that he could dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am suffering pain in this flame!'

Verse ConceptsLimitednessTongueDrinking WaterFire Of HellFingers Of PeoplePeople Showing Mercylazarus

But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that you received your good [things] during your life, and Lazarus likewise bad [things]. But now he is comforted here, but you are suffering pain.

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

And in [addition to] all these [things], a great chasm has been established between us and you, so that those who want to cross over from here to you are not able [to do so], nor can they cross over from there to us.'

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

So he said, 'Then I ask you, father, that you send him to my father's house,

Verse ConceptsBeggarslazarus

for I have five brothers, so that he could warn them, in order that they also should not come to this place of torment!'

Verse ConceptsFive PeopleWarning IndividualsDeath Of A Family MemberSiblingsGodly ManFamily Deathtestifyinglazarus

Will he not rather say to him, 'Prepare something that I may eat, and dress yourself to serve me while I eat and drink, and after these [things] you will eat and drink.'

Verse ConceptsClothing OneselfEating And DrinkingPreparing Food

And it happened that while traveling toward Jerusalem, he was passing through {the region between} Samaria and Galilee.

And [when he] saw [them] he said to them, "Go [and] show yourselves to the priests." And it happened that as they were going, they were cleansed.

Verse ConceptsLeprosyPriests, Tasks In Nt TimesMiracles Of ChristHealing LepersPeople Made Known

But one of them, [when he] saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice.

Verse ConceptsPraying LoudlyShoutingVoicesSpecific Praising Of GodHealing SicknessThank YouGiving ThanksThanksluck

Now [when he] was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, he answered them and said, "The kingdom of God does not come with {things that can be observed},

Verse ConceptsQuestioning ChristNo SignsWhen?Pharisees Concerned About Christboyfriends

But on the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulphur from heaven and destroyed [them] all.

Verse ConceptsMineralsSodom And GomorrahBrimstoneBurning CitiesSulphur

It will be {just the same} on the day that the Son of Man is revealed.

Verse ConceptsMaking Christ KnownTimes Of The Christ

On that day, whoever is on the housetop and his goods [are] in the house must not come down to take them away. And likewise the one who [is] in the field must not turn back

Verse ConceptsRoofRooftopMan Going DownPeople not returning

I tell you that in that night there will be two in one bed; one will be taken and the other will be left.

Verse ConceptsSleep, PhysicalBedsDuring One NightTwo PeopleTaking Other PeopleThe Rapturecouples

And there was a widow in that town, and she kept coming to him, saying, 'Grant me justice against my adversary!'

Verse ConceptsWidowsSaying RepeatedlyRevengeProtection From Enemiesvindication

yet because this widow is causing trouble for me, I will grant her justice, so that she does not wear me down in the end [by her] coming back!'"

Verse ConceptsHeartlessnessTroubling IndividualsPersistenceperserverancehelptirednaggingvindicationharassment

And will not God surely {see to it that justice is done} to his chosen ones who cry out to him day and night, and will he delay toward them?

Verse ConceptsChosen OnesJustification, Necessity OfNightGod Is JustJusticeGod Not DelayingGod Does Right For PeopleGod VindicatesRevengeExercisePersistencevindication

I tell you that {he will see to it that justice is done} for them soon! Nevertheless, [when] the Son of Man comes, then will he find faith on earth?"

Verse ConceptsEnd Of The WorldJesus As Son Of ManAbounding, In The Last DaysNot Believing In JesusGod Not Delayingfaith in hard timesPersistenceThe Second Comingvindication

The Pharisee stood [and] prayed these [things] with reference to himself: 'God, I give thanks to you that I am not like other people--swindlers, unrighteous [people], adulterers, or even like this tax collector!

Verse ConceptsExtortion, Examples OfAttitudes, in prayerHypocrisy, Description OfPrejudiceStandingStatusTax CollectorsHypocrites, Description OfSelf DelusionEvildoersNot Like PeopleAvoid AdulteryWe Thank GodConfession of sin

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than that one! For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted."

Verse ConceptsHumilityPromotionIndividuals going homeHumbling Oneself

Now they were bringing even [their] babies to him so that he could touch them. But [when] the disciples saw [it], they rebuked them.

Verse ConceptsRebukeSensitivityTouchTouching For HealingThe Disciples ReactionsChildren And The Kingdom

And Peter said, "Behold, we have left {all that is ours} [and] followed you."

Verse ConceptsPeter, The DiscipleSelf DenialNever Giving Upfollowingimpossible

And taking aside the twelve, he said to them, "Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written by the prophets with reference to the Son of Man will be accomplished.

Verse ConceptsProphecy, Fulfilment Of OtTwelve DisciplesMinistry Of The Son Of ManScriptures Fulfilled

And they understood none of these [things], and this saying was concealed from them, and they did not comprehend the things that were said.

Verse ConceptsDullnessNot Understanding SayingsGod's Things Concealed

Now it happened that as he drew near to Jericho, a certain blind man was sitting on the side of the road begging.

Verse ConceptsBeggingBeggarsRoadsUsing RoadsBlindness

And those who were in front rebuked him, that he should be silent, but he cried out {even more loudly}, "Son of David, have mercy on me!"

Verse ConceptsHeartlessnessBe Merciful!rebukingoverworking

"What do you want me to do for you?" And he said, "Lord, that I may regain [my] sight.

Verse ConceptsReceiving SightWhat Does God Do?Faith And HealingRecovery

And he ran on ahead [and] climbed up into a sycamore tree so that he could see him, because he was going to go through [that way].

Verse ConceptsClimbingSycamoresIndividuals RunningOlive Trees

Now [while] they were listening to these [things], he went on [and] told a parable, because he was near Jerusalem and they thought that the kingdom of God was going to appear immediately.

Verse ConceptsSuddenly

And it happened that when he returned [after] receiving the kingdom, he ordered these slaves to whom he had given the money to be summoned to him, so that he could know what they had gained by trading.

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of TalentsOthers Summoninginvesting

He said to him, '{By your own words} I will judge you, wicked slave! You knew that I am a severe man, withdrawing what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow.

Verse ConceptsNot SowingNot Reaping What You SowCondemnation Of The WickedBeware Of Your SpeechStrictnessKnowing God's CharacterReaping What You Sow

'I tell you that to everyone who has, [more] will be given. But from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.

Verse ConceptsPossessingAdding BlessingThose To Whom God GivesTaking God's Things

And it happened that when he drew near to Bethphage and Bethany, to the hill called [the Mount] of Olives, he sent two of the disciples,

Verse ConceptsTwo DisciplesDisciples' Movements

Now [as] he was drawing near by this time to the descent from the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of the disciples began rejoicing to praise God with a loud voice for all the miracles that they had seen,

Verse ConceptsMiracles, Responses ToPraise, Examples OfThe Disciples ReactionsSpecific Praising Of God

And he answered [and] said, "I tell you that if these keep silent, the stones will cry out!"

Verse ConceptsArchaeologyGroups Shouting

saying, "If you had known on this day--even you--the things [that make] for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

Verse ConceptsMisused PrivilegesTodayGod's Things ConcealedNo Peace

And it happened that on one of the days [while] he was teaching the people in the temple [courts] and proclaiming the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes approached together with the elders

Verse ConceptsTeachingThe Gospel PreachedChrist TeachingOpposition To Christ From Scribesevangelizingevangelising

But if we say, 'From men,' all the people will stone us to death, because they are convinced [that] John was a prophet."

Verse ConceptsFear Of StoningIndividual ProphetsMan's Teaching

And they replied [that they] did not know where [it was] from.

Verse ConceptsNot Knowing Where

And at the proper time he sent a slave to the tenant farmers, so that they would give him [some] of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenant farmers sent him away empty-handed [after] beating [him].

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of TalentsEmpty Handed

And he proceeded to send another slave, but they beat and dishonored that one also, [and] sent [him] away empty-handed.

Verse ConceptsEmpty Handed

But [when] the tenant farmers saw him, they began to reason with one another, saying, 'This is the heir. Let us kill him so that the inheritance will become ours!'

Verse ConceptsInheritance, MaterialChrist Would Be Killed

But he looked intently at them [and] said, "What then is this that is written: 'The stone which the builders rejected, this has become {the cornerstone}.'

Verse ConceptsArchitectureGod, The RockReadingMasonsOccupationsSymbolsCapstoneChrist The RockRejection

Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, and [the one] on whom it falls--it will crush him!"

Verse ConceptsCrushingGod, The RockStumbling Over ChristGrinding PeopleBeing Killed By A Rockcrushes

And the scribes and the chief priests sought to lay [their] hands on him at [that] same hour, and they were afraid of the people, for they knew that he had told this parable with reference to them.

Verse ConceptsChief priestsCrowdsPharisees, Attitudes To Jesus ChristTeachers Of The LawProper UnderstandingPeople OpposedArresting ChristFearing Other PeopleJesus Using ParablesOpposition To Christ From ScribesThe Chief Priests Condemning Christ

And they watched [him] closely [and] sent spies who pretended they were upright, in order that they could catch him in a statement, so that they could hand him over to the authority and the jurisdiction of the governor.

Verse ConceptsGovernorsHope, Nature OfPharisees, Attitudes To Jesus ChristHuman Authority, Nature OfSnares Laid For ChristWatching To EntrapHanding Over ChristSpyingPretendingBeware Of Your Speech

And they asked him, saying, "Teacher, we know that you speak and teach rightly, and do not {show partiality}, but teach the way of God in truth.

Verse ConceptsFlatteryKnowing God's WaysPharisees, Attitudes To Jesus ChristWay, TheMinisters, Way They Should TeachKnowingChrist TeachingTeaching The Way Of GodGod's Word Is True

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