Thematic Bible: Reproves


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(for in that case he would have needed to suffer repeatedly, ever since the foundation of the world;)but now, once for all, at the end of the ages, he has appeared to abolish sin, but the offering of himself. Verse ConceptsAbolitionLast DaysPriesthood, In NtEnd Of The AgesOnceChrist AppearingFrom The BeginningOnly OnceDoing RepeatedlyChrist AtoningRight SacrificesAppointments




"and hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and scourged and crucified; and on the third day he will rise from the grave." Verse ConceptsFloggingThe Third Day Of The WeekHanding Over ChristBeating JesusSuffering From ForeignersChrist Would RiseChrist's Crucifixion ForetoldMocking Christ

But after I am raised up I will go before you into Galilee." Verse ConceptsChrist Going BeforeChrist Would Risereuniting

As they came down the mountain he strictly forbade them to narrate to any one what they had seen, until after the Son of man had risen from the dead. Verse ConceptsMan Going DownChrist Concealing ThingsChrist Would RiseChrist's OrdersJesus Foretelling His Resurrection

"But after my resurrection I will go before you into Galilee." Verse ConceptsChrist Would Rise

"Destroy this temple," answered Jesus, "and in three days I will raise it up." Verse ConceptsRiddlesProphecies Said By JesusDestruction Of The TempleRebuilding The TempleThe First Templerebuilding

"But having obtained the help that comes from God, I stand even to this day witnessing both to small and great, saying nothing except what the prophets and Moses said should come; "how that the Christ must suffer, and how he should be the first to rise from the dead, and should bring a message of light to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles."

On their return the apostles told him what they had done. and he took them and withdrew in private to a town called Bethsaida. Verse ConceptsApostles, During Jesus Earthly MinistryRetirementTelling What People DidThe Apostles In Actionfeedback


On leaving that place Jesus went along the shore of the Sea of Galilee; and after climbing a hill, took his seat there. Verse ConceptsRetirementSitting To TeachMoving Onlakes

Six days later Jesus took with him Peter and James and his brother John, and led them up a high mountain, by themselves apart. Verse ConceptsApostles, During Jesus Earthly MinistryRetirementSix DaysChrist Going With PeopleRelationships And Dating

When Jesus was about to go up to Jerusalem, he took the Twelve aside by themselves, and as they went he said to them. Verse ConceptsRetirementTwelve DisciplesChrist With His Disciples

Then he said to them, "Come apart, yourselves, to a quiet spot, and rest a while." For there were many coming and going, and they could not get time even to eat. Verse ConceptsGiving, Of TimeHow Disciples LearnRest, PhysicalRecreationRetirementSolitudeDealing With Many PeopleComing To RestPeople EatingDisadvantages Of CrowdsGod Giving RestRest

After he rose and left that place, he went away into the region of Tyre and Sidon. Here he went into a house and wished no one to know it but he could not be hid. Verse ConceptsSecrecyRetirementAnonymityImpotence Of ChristEntering HousesChrist Concealing Things

But he himself withdrew from them about a stone's throw, kneeling down he prayed repeatedly, saying. Verse ConceptsAttitudes, in prayerKneelingPrayer, Practicalities OfRetirementSecret PrayerThrowing StonesSaying Repeatedly


"And blessed is the man who finds no cause of stumbling in me." Verse ConceptsStumbling Over ChristBlessed Through God



This kept them from believing in him. Wherefore Jesus said, "A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and among his own family." Verse ConceptsStumbling Over ChristUnderestimationProphecy Ignoredhonour

And why? Because they sought it not by faith, but thought to gain it by works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling; Verse ConceptsProphecies Concerning ChristTrusting In WorksSaved By FaithWorks Of The LawConversion Of Israel

and, A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense. They stumble over it because they are disobeying God's word, and to this they were also appointed. Verse ConceptsLibertinismPredestined PlansStumblingAbuse, Of Christian FreedomProphecies Concerning ChristStumbling Over ChristPeople StumblingChrist The RockRoyal Priesthood

Forthwith a woman whose little daughter was possessed by an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet Verse ConceptsFeetSpiritsBowing Before MessiahThose Demonised

And behold! a leper came and knelt before him, saying, "Lord if you choose, you can make me clean." Verse ConceptsBowingKneelingCleansing The BodyChrist WillingHealing Cancercancer

As he was saying these words to them, a ruler came up and knelt before him, saying. "My daughter has just died; but come, put your hand upon her, and she will live." Verse ConceptsFeetChildren, examples ofBowingKneelingChildren, In Jesus MiraclesLaying On Hands To HealWhile Still SpeakingDeath Of Unnamed IndividualsThose Jesus HealedChildren In The Miracles Of Jesus Christ

But the woman came and knelt to him and said, "Lord, do help me." Verse ConceptsFeetBowingKneelingCrying To JesusGod Help!

Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee, with her sons, kneeling down and begging a favor of him. Verse ConceptsKneelingBowing Before MessiahMothersMothers Love For Her ChildrenMothers And SonsMotherhood

Then one of the wardens of the synagogue, named Jairus, came up, and as soon as he saw Jesus, fell at his feet, with many entreaties, Verse Conceptselders, as community leadersSynagogueSalutationsBowing Before Messiah

"I do believe, Sir," said the man, and he prostrated himself at his feet. And Jesus said, Verse ConceptsAdoration, Of ChristThose Who Believed In ChristWorshipping ChristWorshiping GodFaith And Healing


"Moses, for example, said: "The Lord your God will raise up a Prophet for you from among your brothers, as he raised up me; you must listen to whatever he may tell you; Verse ConceptsGod, Unity OfMoses, Significance OfChrist Like PeopleJesus The Prophet


"I have many things to say and to judge concerning you. But he who sent me is true, and I speak to the world only those things which I have heard from him." Verse ConceptsGod, Revelation OfReliabilityGod Is TruthfulJesus Christ, JudgeChrist JudgingThe One Who Sent ChristGod's Things Revealed

because I have never spoken on my own authority, but the Father himself who sent me gave me commandment what to say and what words to speak. Verse ConceptsCommunicationGod, Revelation OfChrist's Relationship To GodNot AloneSubject To GodThe FatherThe One Who Sent ChristThe Father's Activity Regarding ChristSpeaking The Word God Givesmyself


"He that loves me not does not obey words, and yet the words to which you are listening are not mine, but the Father's who sent me. Verse ConceptsDoctrine, From GodSpeech, DivineFather And Son AlikeNot Loving GodThe FatherThey Do Not Keep CommandsFathers Love








"And we were witnesses of all that he did, both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They killed him, hanging him on a tree. "But him God raised up on the third day, and permitted him to be made manifest, "not to all the people, but to witnesses??en previously chosen by God??hat is, to us, who ate and drank with him after he had risen from the dead;


him, delivered up by the settled purpose and fore-knowledge of God, you crucified and killed at the hands of lawless men; but God has raised him to life, having loosed the pangs of death, because it was not possible for death to hold him.

"but you disowned the holy and righteous One, and asked as a favor the release of a murderer. "The Pioneer of Life you put to death. But God has raised him from the dead, and we are witnesses of that fact.

and Paul, according to his usual custom, went in to them and, for three Sabbath Days, he reasoned with them out of the Scriptures, explaining and quoting passages to prove that the Messiah had to suffer and to rise again from the dead and that "This Jesus whom I am proclaiming unto you is the Messiah."

After his sufferings he had also shown himself alive to them in many convincing manifestations, revealing himself to them during forty days, and speaking of the kingdom of God. Verse ConceptsAlive, Description OfAssurance, basis ofHistoryKingdom Of God, Coming OfPersuasionProof, As EvidenceThe Number FortyJesus Christ, ResurrectionInfallible ProofsForty DaysMore Than One MonthThe Witness Of ChristProofsDuring The DayChrist Is RisenPassion

So they went and made the sepulcher secure, by sealing the stone in the presence of the guard. Verse ConceptsInfallible ProofsSealing Things

As he said this he showed them his hands and his side. Then were the disciple glad, when they saw the Lord. Verse ConceptsFindingInfallible ProofsChrist's HandsSeeing The Risen ChristMaking Christ KnownThe Disciples ReactionsSide Of PeopleIdentity In Christscars

"Look at my hands and my feet. It is I! Feel me and see; for a ghost has not flesh and blood as I have." Verse ConceptsBonesDocetismJesus Christ, ResurrectionInfallible ProofsThe Existence Of ChristChrist's Handsghostsscarsmyself

Those who passed by reviled him, wagging their heads saying. Verse ConceptsGesturesShaking The HeadInsulting ChristAbusenagging

The Christ! The King of Israel! Let him now come down from the cross, that we may see and believe." They also who had been crucified with Jesus kept reviling him. Verse ConceptsMessianic Titles, King Of The JewsChrist Going DownReasons For Faith In ChristChrist Is King Of IsraelCrucifiedInsulting ChristOthers Crucified

And one of the criminals who had been hung there kept reviling him, saying. "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us." Verse ConceptsThe If's Of SatanJesus Christ, Temptation OfSaid To Be The ChristSaving OneselfSave Us!Abuseassertiveness

He is not here; for he is risen, even as he said. Come, see the place where the Master was lying! Verse ConceptsEasterJesus Christ, ResurrectionChrist Is RisenWhere From?The ResurrectionRisingRosesfitness

They were terrified, but he said to them. "Do not be terrified! You are seeking Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified? He is risen; he is not here. See, the place where they laid him! Verse ConceptsEasterLowering PeopleChrist Is Risen

"He is not here; he is risen. Do you remember how he told you when he was still in Galilee Verse ConceptsMiracles Of Christ


used to purloin what was put in it. Then said Jesus. "Let her alone. Against the day of my burial has she kept this; Verse ConceptsOintmentPerfumePreparation For BurialLeave Them Alone


"O faithless and perverse generation," said Jesus, "how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son to me." Verse ConceptsGenerationsUnbelief, And Life Of FaithEvil GenerationsTwisted WaysDrawing Near To ChristNot Believing In JesusGod EnduringBefore God ActsChrist Not Always With People

Afterward he appeared to the Eleven themselves, as they were eating, and reproached them for their lack of faith, and stubborn hearts, because they disbelieved those who had seen him risen. Verse ConceptsFaith, Necessity OfAttitudes Of StubbornnessRebukeUnbelief, And Life Of FaithUnbelief, Sourced InReclining To EatSeeing The Risen ChristChrist AppearingDoubting The ResurrectionNot Believing PeopleConsequences Of ObstinacyElevenChrist Is Risen

Jesus answered. "In solemn truth I tell you that you are looking for me, not because you saw miracles signs, but because you ate of the bread and were filled. Verse ConceptsSelfishness, Examples OfCrowds SeekingPeople EatingChrist Telling The TruthSigns Performed By ChristTruly TrulyFilling PeopleWhy People Did ThingsSelf LoveFishseeking


Now as we were going to the place of prayer, a certain slave girl met us, who had a spirit of divination, and who brought her masters great gain by fortune-telling. She used to follow after Paul and us, crying out again and again, "These men are servants of the most high God, who proclaimed to you the way of salvation." She persisted in this for many days, until Paul, worn out, turned round and said to the spirit, "I charge you, in the name of Jesus Christ, to come out of her." In that very hour it came out of her.