Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible



Now as the time was coming to a head when He should be taken up to heaven, He firmly set His face to continue His journey to Jerusalem; so He sent messengers before Him. Then they went on and entered into a Samaritan town, to make preparations for Him. But they would not receive Him, because He was facing in the direction of Jerusalem. read more.
When the disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, "Lord, do you want us to bid fire come down from heaven and consume them?" But He turned at once and reproved them. Then they went on to a different village.

so He sent messengers before Him. Then they went on and entered into a Samaritan town, to make preparations for Him. But they would not receive Him, because He was facing in the direction of Jerusalem.

Now as the time was coming to a head when He should be taken up to heaven, He firmly set His face to continue His journey to Jerusalem; so He sent messengers before Him. Then they went on and entered into a Samaritan town, to make preparations for Him. But they would not receive Him, because He was facing in the direction of Jerusalem. read more.
When the disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, "Lord, do you want us to bid fire come down from heaven and consume them?" But He turned at once and reproved them. Then they went on to a different village. While they were going along the road, a man said to Him, "I will follow you wherever you go." But Jesus said to him, "Foxes have holes, even wild birds have roosts, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head." He said to another man, "Follow me." But he said, "Let me first go back and bury my father." Then He answered him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead; but you go on and continue to spread the good news of the kingdom of God." Still another man said, "I will follow you, Lord, but let me first say 'Goodbye' to the homefolks." Jesus said to him, "No one who puts his hand to the plow, and then continues to look back, is fitted for service in the kingdom of God."

Now the Jewish feast of Dwelling in Tents was approaching. So His brothers said to Him, "You must leave here and go to Judea, to let your disciples also see the works that you are doing; for no one does anything in secret when he is trying to be known to the public. If you are going to do this, show yourself publicly to the world." read more.
For even His brothers did not believe in Him. Then Jesus said to them, "It is not yet time for me to do so, but anytime is suitable for you. It is impossible for the world to hate you; it is I whom it hates, because I continue to testify that its works are wicked. Go up to the feast yourselves; I am not going up to it yet, for it is not quite time for me to go." He told them this and stayed on in Galilee. But after His brothers had gone up to the feast, then He went up too, not publicly but, as it were, privately. Now the Jews at the feast were looking for Him and kept asking, "Where is He?"


so He sent messengers before Him. Then they went on and entered into a Samaritan town, to make preparations for Him. Verse ConceptsPeople Going BeforeA Place Prepared

so He sent messengers before Him. Then they went on and entered into a Samaritan town, to make preparations for Him. But they would not receive Him, because He was facing in the direction of Jerusalem.


Many of the Samaritans in that town believed in Him because of the woman's testimony, when she said, "He has told me everything I ever did." Verse ConceptsExamples Of Faithevangelism, kinds ofRevival, CorporateReligious AwakeningsContemporary Witness To ChristChrist Knowing About PeopleThose Who Believed In ChristHard Work

So the Samaritan woman said to Him, "How is it that a Jew like you asks a Samaritan woman like me for a drink?" For Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans. Verse ConceptsExclusivenessAskingJews, TheRacial PrejudiceLonelinessOutsidersSamaritansDisfellowshipDiscourtesyOutcastsMan Providing WaterJews Separate From GentilesNo Dealings



But a Samaritan, while on a journey, came down to him, and when he saw him, his heart was moved with pity for him. Verse ConceptsOpportunities, In LifeOutsidersTravelPeople Showing Mercy

Then the Jews answered Him, "Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and are under the power of a demon?" Verse ConceptsAccused Of Being DemonisedDemonic Influence


So after they had given their testimony and spoken the Lord's message, they started back to Jerusalem, and on the way continued to tell the good news in many Samaritan villages. Verse Conceptsevangelists, identity ofLordship, Human And DivineVillagesThe Gospel PreachedIndividuals going homeevangelizing

so He sent messengers before Him. Then they went on and entered into a Samaritan town, to make preparations for Him. Verse ConceptsPeople Going BeforeA Place Prepared

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and fell on his face at Jesus' feet, and continued to thank Him. Now he was a Samaritan. Verse ConceptsBowingOutsidersPrejudiceBowing Before MessiahThanking God For BenefitsThanks For Christ

Although He was abused, He never retorted; although He continued to suffer, He never threatened, but committed His case to Him who judges justly. Verse ConceptsFaith, Nature OfInsultsPunishment, By GodRevenge, Examples OfSuffering, Of The InnocentViolenceJesus Christ, Meekness OfForbearance Of GodBelief In GodAbuse


But because Jesus knew it, He left there. And many people followed Him, and He cured them all, and charged them not to publish Him, and in this way fulfilled the saying spoken by the prophet Isaiah: read more.
"Here is my Servant whom I have chosen, My Beloved, in whom my soul delights itself. I will endow Him with my Spirit, and He will announce a judgment to the heathen. He will not debate, nor challenge anyone; His voice will no one hear in the streets;

so He sent messengers before Him. Then they went on and entered into a Samaritan town, to make preparations for Him. But they would not receive Him, because He was facing in the direction of Jerusalem. When the disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, "Lord, do you want us to bid fire come down from heaven and consume them?" read more.
But He turned at once and reproved them. Then they went on to a different village.