Thematic Bible: Modern


Thematic Bible



Jesus responded, as he taught in the temple, "How is it that the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?

Gathering together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he asked them where the Christ would be born.

His 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 who were crying in the temple and saying, "Hosanna to the son of David!" they were indignant,

But there were some of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts, "Why does this man speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"


They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and came against him and seized him, and brought him in to the council,

It happened in the morning, that their rulers, elders, and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem.

They called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.


One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him.

One of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together. Knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, "Which commandment is the greatest of all?"


Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.

The chief priests and the scribes stood, vehemently accusing him.



They were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as having authority, and not as the scribes.


Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn't God made foolish the wisdom of this world?


In his teaching he said to them, "Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and to get greetings in the marketplaces, and the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts:


Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much of a son of Gehenna as yourselves.




A great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees part stood up, and contended, saying, "We find no evil in this man. But if a spirit or angel has spoken to him, let's not fight against God!"