Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible




For if we wilfully persist in sin after having received the full knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains in reserve any other sacrifice for sins. There remains nothing but a certain awful expectation of judgement, and the fury of a fire which before long will devour the enemies of the truth.

King Herod heard of all this (for the name of Jesus had become widely known) Verse ConceptsPower, God's SavingSuperstitionTetrarchWho He Might BeWhy It Happened

Then when Judas, who had betrayed Him, saw that He was condemned, smitten with remorse he brought back the thirty shekels to the High Priests and Elders and said, "I have sinned, in betraying to death one who is innocent." "What does that matter to us?" they replied; it is your business." Flinging the shekels into the Sanctuary he left the place, and went and hanged himself.



They listened to Him, and then, beginning with the eldest, took their departure, one by one, till all were gone. And Jesus was left behind alone--and the woman in the centre of the court. Verse ConceptsAge, Glories OfConsciences, Description OfCommunicationOld Age, Attainment OfStandingAccusations, Source OfIsolated PersonsLeaving




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About that time Herod the Tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus, and he said to his courtiers, "This is John the Baptist: he has come back to life--and that is why these miraculous Powers are working in him."

But when Herod heard of Him, he said, "The John, whom I beheaded, has come back to life." Verse ConceptsPunishment, Legal Aspects OfMartyrdom, Methods OfBeheading





No, indeed; let us hold God to be true, though every man should prove to be false. As it stands written, "That Thou mayest be shown to be just in the sentence Thou pronouncest, and gain Thy cause when Thou contendest." Verse ConceptsHonestyReliabilityFar Be It!God SuingThose Who Are LiarsMan's Relation To GodOvercomingTelling The Truth







To you Gentiles also, who were dead through your offences and sins, which were once habitual to you while you walked in the ways of this world and obeyed the Prince of the powers of the air, the spirits that are now at work in the hearts of the sons of disobedience--to you God has given Life. Among them all of us also formerly passed our lives, governed by the inclinations of our lower natures, indulging the cravings of those natures and of our own thoughts, and were in our original state deserving of anger like all others.