Thematic Bible: People found at Christ's


Thematic Bible



He gives me the agility of a deer; he enables me to negotiate the rugged terrain.



He watches over his holy ones, but the wicked are made speechless in the darkness, for it is not by one's own strength that one prevails.



for they are eager to inflict harm, and they hasten to shed blood.


They are eager to do evil, quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful; they crush and destroy.





Then large crowds came to him bringing with them the lame, blind, crippled, mute, and many others. They laid them at his feet, and he healed them.


Then one of the synagogue rulers, named Jairus, came up, and when he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet. He asked him urgently, "My little daughter is near death. Come and lay your hands on her so that she may be healed and live."


Then when a woman of that town, who was a sinner, learned that Jesus was dining at the Pharisee's house, she brought an alabaster jar of perfumed oil. As she stood behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. She wiped them with her hair, kissed them, and anointed them with the perfumed oil.


She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to what he said.


Now when Mary came to the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."


Instead, a woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him and came and fell at his feet.


So the people went out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus. They found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus' feet, clothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid.


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