Thematic Bible: Man's


Thematic Bible



For while all sorts of beasts and birds, and of reptiles and creatures in the sea, are tameable, and actually have been tamed by man, Verse ConceptsHumanities Responsibility To CreationAnimal LifeRespect, For EnvironmentAbraham, New Testament ReferencesBirds, Features OfMan's DominionWild Beasts SubduedMan's FunctionBirdsPetshumanity




Thou hast placed all things beneath his feet.' This 'placing of everything' under man means that there was nothing which was not placed under him. As yet, however, we do not see everything placed under man. Verse ConceptsHumanities Responsibility To CreationFootstoolsHeadshipAnimal LifeRespect, For EnvironmentSatan, As TempterVictory, Over Spiritual ForcesMan's DominionNot Seeing Spiritual ThingsNothing MissingPutting God FirstAll Enemies Under God's Feet

But they will do all this to you, because you believe in my Name, for they do not know him who sent me. Verse Conceptsenemies, of believersGod, Revelation OfIgnorance Towards God, Leads ToThe One Who Sent ChristReasons Why The World Hates ChristiansPersecution

For as I was going about, looking at your sacred shrines, I came upon an altar with this inscription--'To an Unknown God.' What, therefore, you worship in ignorance, that I am now proclaiming to you. Verse ConceptsAmbassadorsGod, Revelation OfIgnorance, Of GodInscriptionsOpportunities, And SalvationSuperstitionPolytheismUnknown GodsHow Not To WorshipIgnorance of GodEclipseignorancedevotion







John's answer was--"I baptize with water, but among you stands one whom you do not know; Verse ConceptsIgnorance, Of ChristWater For BaptismNot Knowing About ChristChrist With People On Earth



"If you knew of the gift of God," replied Jesus, "and who it is that is saying to you 'Give me some water,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you 'living water'." Verse ConceptsGiftsIgnorance, Of ChristGifts From God, SpiritualBeverages, FigurativeAnswered PromisesSalvation, As A GiftAsking For HelpMan Providing WaterMetaphorical SpringsLife Through ChristGod Giving His SonWho He Might BeKnowing About God's Kingdomthe Gifts of God

"Where is your father, then?" they asked. "You know neither me nor my Father," replied Jesus. "If you had known me, you would have also known my Father." Verse ConceptsKnowing God, Nature OfIgnorance, Of ChristKnowledge, Of Jesus ChristEquality With GodIgnorance Towards God, Shown ByNot Knowing About ChristFather And Son AlikeRelationship Of Father And SonWhere Is God?

"Well," the man replied, "this is very strange; you do not know where he comes from, and yet he has given me my sight! Verse ConceptsAmazingIgnorance, Of ChristNot Knowing About ChristChrist's OriginWhere From?


The people of Jerusalem and their leading men, failing to recognize Jesus, and not understanding the utterances of the Prophets that are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him. Verse ConceptsIgnorance, Of ChristRulersNot Knowing About ChristReading The ScripturesCondemning JesusOn The SabbathScriptures FulfilledWritten In The Prophets







The wind blows where it wills, and you can hear the sound of it, but you do not know whence it comes, or where it goes; it is the same with every one that owes his birth to the Spirit." Verse ConceptsThe Holy SpiritMetaphysicsBeing Born AgainMetaphorsSymbolsWeather, God's Sovereignty OverWindAbraham, New Testament ReferencesHoly Spirit, Types OfThe Holy Spirit Described As The WindGod In The WindNot Knowing WhereLack Of ExpectationWhere From?Where To?muscles







The Bread that comes down from Heaven is such that whoever eats of it will never die. Verse ConceptsEating, Metaphorical UseImmortality, In NtChrist Going DownNot DyingChrist And HeavenJesus As Food


For this perishable body of ours must put on an imperishable form, and this dying body a deathless form. Verse ConceptsIncorruptibleImmortality, In NtHandicappedTransient BodyPeople Are CorruptibleMoralityinvestingMoral Decay






But the Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees were goaded to madness, and consulted together what they could do to Jesus. Verse Conceptsenemies, of Jesus ChristPharisees, Attitudes To Jesus ChristRevenge, Examples OfTemperPlottingConversationAngry With Christ



When they heard this, the men were greatly enraged, and began shouting--"Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!" Verse ConceptsShoutingAngry People




Then I saw thrones, and to those who took their seats upon them authority was given to act as judges. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of the testimony to Jesus and because of the Message of God, for they had refused to worship the Beast or its image, and had not received the brand on their foreheads and on their hands. They were restored to life, and they reigned with the Christ for a thousand years. Verse ConceptsForeheads666Faithfulness, To Godevil, victory overdefianceBeheadingThe BeastJudgesJudgment SeatPunishment, Legal Aspects OfSelf SacrificeThe Immortal SoulMartyrdom, Methods OfSufferings RewardedRemoving HeadsCosmic CreaturesBelievers JudgingMarks On PeopleAuthority Of DisciplesAvoiding IdolatrySubsequent Witness To ChristWorshipping The DevilMark Of The BeastHow First Resurrection Is Spread OutSigns Of The Timesend times prophecyMartyrdom


And, when this dying body has put on its deathless form, then indeed will the words of Scripture come true- Verse ConceptsThe Immortal SoulTransient BodyClothed With Good ThingsOvercoming DeathPeople Are CorruptibleScriptures Fulfilled

But do not allow yourselves to be called 'Rabbi,' for you have only one Father, the heavenly Father. Verse ConceptsTeachersNames And Titles For The ChristianBrotherhood



"You are doubtless aware that it is forbidden for a Jew to be intimate with a foreigner, or even to enter his house; and yet God has shown me that I ought not to call any man 'defiled' or 'unclean.' Verse ConceptsExclusivenessGentiles, In NtClean, Spiritual UseequalityRacial PrejudiceBigotryRacismDisfellowshipPeople Being UncleanAvoiding ForeignersUnrelated PeopleBreaking Man's LawJews Separate From GentilesLack Of Holiness



For while all sorts of beasts and birds, and of reptiles and creatures in the sea, are tameable, and actually have been tamed by man, Verse ConceptsHumanities Responsibility To CreationAnimal LifeRespect, For EnvironmentAbraham, New Testament ReferencesBirds, Features OfMan's DominionWild Beasts SubduedMan's FunctionBirdsPetshumanity




Thou hast placed all things beneath his feet.' This 'placing of everything' under man means that there was nothing which was not placed under him. As yet, however, we do not see everything placed under man. Verse ConceptsHumanities Responsibility To CreationFootstoolsHeadshipAnimal LifeRespect, For EnvironmentSatan, As TempterVictory, Over Spiritual ForcesMan's DominionNot Seeing Spiritual ThingsNothing MissingPutting God FirstAll Enemies Under God's Feet




The people kept shouting: "It is the voice of God, and not of a man!" Verse ConceptsFlatteryVoicesMen As Godsworms

And the crowd, seeing what Paul had done, called out in the Lycaonian language: "The Gods have made themselves like men and have come down to us." Verse ConceptsLanguages Mentioned In ScriptureBecoming Like PeopleLike MenMen As Gods

The natives were expecting inflammation to set in, or that he would suddenly fall dead; but, after waiting for a long time, and seeing that there was nothing amiss with him, they changed their minds and said that he was a God. Verse ConceptsFalse GodsWaitingPossibility Of DeathPeople Changing Their MindsSwellingMen As Gods

"Teacher," answered a man in the crowd, "I brought my son to see you, as he has a dumb spirit in him; And, wherever it seizes him, it dashes him down; he foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth, and he is pining away. I asked your disciples to drive the spirit out, but they failed."

"I have no one, Sir," the afflicted man answered, "to put me into the Bath when there is a troubling of the water, and, while I am getting to it, some one else steps down before me." Verse ConceptsFriendlessnessLonelinessWeakness, PhysicalHelplessnessPeople Going BeforeDippingThings ShakingNo Help

Jesus was in the stern asleep upon the cushion; and the disciples roused him and cried: "Teacher! is it nothing to you that we are lost?" Verse ConceptsCriticism, against believersDependenceBody Of Christ, Physical BodyLeisure, And PastimesRest, PhysicalSleep, PhysicalWorryBedsPossibility Of DeathBack Of ThingsChrist Waking UpDyingDiscipleship

Seeing them laboring at the oars--for the wind was against them--about three hours after midnight Jesus came towards them, walking on the water, intending to join them. Verse ConceptsNightPassing ByChrist's Knowledge Of BelieversRowingharassment






'These last,' they said, 'have done only one hour's work, and yet you have put them on the same footing with us, who have borne the brunt of the day's work, and the heat.' Verse ConceptsEquality In PaymentHeatNoonWeather, God's Sovereignty OverApparent InjusticeOne HourHeavy BurdensHot WeatherHard WorkA New DayworkingstoriesWeather Causing Sufferings

Meanwhile a woman who for twelve years had suffered from hemorrhage, And undergone much at the hands of many doctors, (spending all she had without obtaining any relief, but, on the contrary, growing worse),



As neither sun nor stars were visible for several days, and, as the gale still continued severe, all hope of our being saved was at last abandoned. Verse ConceptsDespair, Description OfHope, Results Of Its AbsencePessimismDark DaysWithout HopeNavigationNatural DisastersFeeling Lost


This made him angry, and he would not go in. But his father came out and begged him to do so. Verse ConceptsGesturesAnger, HumanGoing OutsideUnnamed People Angry With Others

Just when Herod was intending to bring him before the people, on that very night Peter was asleep between two soldiers, chained to them both, while there were sentries in front of the door, guarding the prison. Verse ConceptsLeisure, And PastimesSleep, PhysicalGod Is ImmanentIron ChainsDuring One NightTwo Other ThingsTwo Other MenSleeping Peacefullytrailsjail


The wind blows where it wills, and you can hear the sound of it, but you do not know whence it comes, or where it goes; it is the same with every one that owes his birth to the Spirit." Verse ConceptsThe Holy SpiritMetaphysicsBeing Born AgainMetaphorsSymbolsWeather, God's Sovereignty OverWindAbraham, New Testament ReferencesHoly Spirit, Types OfThe Holy Spirit Described As The WindGod In The WindNot Knowing WhereLack Of ExpectationWhere From?Where To?muscles






But the Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees were goaded to madness, and consulted together what they could do to Jesus. Verse Conceptsenemies, of Jesus ChristPharisees, Attitudes To Jesus ChristRevenge, Examples OfTemperPlottingConversationAngry With Christ



When they heard this, the men were greatly enraged, and began shouting--"Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!" Verse ConceptsShoutingAngry People