Thematic Bible: Modern


Thematic Bible



And continuing, Jesus said [while] teaching in the temple [courts], "How can the scribes say that the Christ is David's son?

and [after] calling together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired from them where the Christ was to be born.

And the disciples asked him, saying, "Then why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"



But [when] the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful [things] that he did, and the children shouting in the temple [courts] and saying, "Hosanna to the Son of David!" they were indignant.

Now some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts, "Why does this man speak like this? He is blaspheming! Who is able to forgive sins except God alone?"


And they incited the people and the elders and the scribes, and they came up [and] seized him and brought [him] to the Sanhedrin.

And it happened that on the next day, their rulers and elders and scribes came together in Jerusalem,

And they called them [back] [and] commanded [them] not to speak or to teach at all in the name of Jesus.


And one of them, a legal expert, put a question to [him] to test him:

And one of the scribes came up [and] heard them debating. [When he] saw that he answered them well, he asked him, "Which commandment is the most important of all?"


Then the chief priests and the elders of the people assembled in the palace of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas,

And the chief priests and the scribes were standing there vehemently accusing him.


because he was teaching them like one who had authority, and not like their scribes.

And they were amazed at his teaching, because he was teaching them like one who had authority, and not like the scribes.


Where [is] the wise person? Where [is] the scribe? Where [is] the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?


And in his teaching he said, "Beware of the scribes, who like walking around in long robes and greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets,


"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees--hypocrites!--because you travel around the sea and the dry [land] to make one convert, and when he becomes [one], you make him twice as much a son of hell [as] you [are]!




And there was loud shouting, and some of the scribes from the party of the Pharisees stood up [and] contended sharply, saying, "We find nothing wrong with this man! But [what] if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?"


Now the scribes and the Pharisees brought to him a woman caught in adultery. And standing her in [their] midst,