Thematic Bible: Challenged


Thematic Bible



Therefore sought they the more to kill him, because he had not only broken the sabbath, but called God his own Father, setting himself on an equality with God.

Art thou greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself?

The Jews answered him, For a good work we do not stone thee; but for blasphemy; and that thou, being merely a man, makest thyself God.



and saith to him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, "that he shall give his angels a charge concerning thee: and in their hands shall they hold thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone."


And they who were passing by reviled him, shaking their heads, and saying, Thou that canst pull down the temple, and build it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, descend from the cross.


And the soldiers also insulted him, coming and offering him vinegar, and saying, if thou art the King of the Jews, save thyself.


And in the same manner also, the chief priests mocking him, among each other, with the scribes, said, He saved others, himself he cannot save. Thou Messiah, King of Israel, come now down from the cross, that we may see, and believe. Even those who were crucified with him railed on him.


AND it came to pass, on one of those days, as he was teaching the people in the temple, and preaching the gospel, the chief priests and scribes with the elders came upon him, and spake to him, saying, Tell us by what authority thou doest these things or who is he that giveth thee this authority?


Then one of the suspended malefactors blasphemed him, saying, If thou art the Messiah, save thyself and us.


And the people stood looking on. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if this fellow is the Messiah, the elect of God.


And the scribes and Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this that speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?