Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible














You blind men! Which is greater, the offering, or the altar that makes the offering sacred? Verse ConceptsGreat ThingsOffering SacrificesHolier Than ThouSanctificationimportance




For whoever lacks these qualities is blind or near-sighted, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his former sins. Verse ConceptsBacksliding, CausesLackPast, TheDefective VisionForgetting ThingsBeing Cleansed From SinThe Pastcleansingpastpeter

But whoever hates his brother is in darkness, and is living in darkness, and he does not know where he is going, for the darkness has blinded his eyes. Verse ConceptsDarkness, As A Symbol Of SinBigotryRacismDarkness Of EvilNot Knowing WhereBlindingOther BlindingSibling Love


For if we choose to go on sinning after we have so fully learned the truth, there is no sacrifice left to be offered for our sins, but only the dreadful prospect of judgment and that blazing indignation which is to devour God's enemies.

King Herod heard of him, for his name was now well known, and people were saying that John the baptizer had risen from the dead, and that that was why he was endowed with these extraordinary powers. Verse ConceptsPower, God's SavingSuperstitionTetrarchWho He Might BeWhy It Happened

Then Judas who had betrayed him, when he saw that he had been condemned, in his remorse brought back the thirty silver pieces to the high priests and elders, and said, "I did wrong when I handed an innocent man over to death!" They said, "What is that to us? You see to it yourself." And he threw down the silver and left the Temple and went off and hung himself.







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At that time, Herod the governor heard the reports about Jesus, and he said to his attendants, "This man must be John the Baptist. He has risen from the dead, and that is why wonderful powers are working through him."

But when Herod heard of him he said, "John, whom I beheaded, has risen from the dead." Verse ConceptsPunishment, Legal Aspects OfMartyrdom, Methods OfBeheading












You blind men! Which is greater, the offering, or the altar that makes the offering sacred? Verse ConceptsGreat ThingsOffering SacrificesHolier Than ThouSanctificationimportance




For whoever lacks these qualities is blind or near-sighted, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his former sins. Verse ConceptsBacksliding, CausesLackPast, TheDefective VisionForgetting ThingsBeing Cleansed From SinThe Pastcleansingpastpeter

But whoever hates his brother is in darkness, and is living in darkness, and he does not know where he is going, for the darkness has blinded his eyes. Verse ConceptsDarkness, As A Symbol Of SinBigotryRacismDarkness Of EvilNot Knowing WhereBlindingOther BlindingSibling Love