Thematic Bible: Reproves


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or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.





and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, to scourge, and to crucify; and the third day he will be raised up."

But after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee."

As they were coming down from the mountain, he commanded them that they should tell no one what things they had seen, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead.

However, after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee."

Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."

Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the Prophets and Moses said would happen, how the Messiah must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles."


The apostles, when they had returned, told him what things they had done. He took them, and withdrew apart to a city called Bethsaida.

And after he had sent the crowds away, he went up into the mountain by himself to pray. When evening had come, he was there alone.

Jesus departed there, and came near to the sea of Galilee; and he went up into the mountain, and sat there.

After six days, Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John his brother, and brought them up into a high mountain by themselves.

As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the Twelve aside, and on the way he said to them,

And he said to them, "Come away by yourselves to an isolated place, and rest awhile." For there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.

From there he arose, and went away into the region of Tyre and Sidon. He entered into a house, and did not want anyone to know it, but he could not escape notice.




And blessed is he who is not offended by me."


And he will be a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock that makes them fall to both the houses of Israel, for a trap and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

And they were offended by him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and in his own house."

Why? Because they did not seek it by faith, but as it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

and, "a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense." For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.


For a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of him, immediately came and fell down at his feet.

And suddenly a leper came to him and worshiped him, saying, "Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean."

While he told these things to them, suddenly a ruler came and worshiped him, saying, "My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live."

But she came and worshiped him, saying, "Lord, help me."

Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, kneeling and asking a certain thing of him.

One of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, came; and seeing him, he fell at his feet,



I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.

For Moses indeed said to the fathers, 'The Lord your God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him in all things whatever he says to you.

for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came forth from you, and they have believed that you sent me.

I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world."



He who does not love me does not keep my words. The word which you hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.



He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his own arm brought salvation to him; and his righteousness, it upheld him.

"Behold, the days come," says the LORD, "that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.






We are witnesses of everything he did both in the countryside of Judea, and in Jerusalem; whom they also killed, hanging him on a tree. God raised him up the third day, and gave him to be revealed, not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen before by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.


him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed; whom God raised up, having freed him from the pains of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a man who was a murderer to be granted to you, and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.

Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures, explaining and demonstrating that the Messiah had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, "This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Messiah."



So they went with the guard and made the tomb secure, sealing the stone.

When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples therefore were glad when they saw the Lord.

See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones, as you see that I have."


Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads,

Let the Messiah, the King of Israel, now come down from the cross, that we may see and believe him." Those who were crucified with him insulted him.

One of the criminals who hung there insulted him, saying, "Are you not the Messiah? Save yourself and us."


He is not here, for he has risen, just like he said. Come, see the place where he was lying.

He said to them, "Do not be amazed. You seek Jesus, the Nazarene, who has been crucified. He has risen. He is not here. Look, the place where they put him.

He is not here, but is risen. Remember what he told you when he was still in Galilee,



But Jesus said, "Leave her alone, that she may keep this for the day of my burial.



Jesus answered, "Faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here."


Afterward he was revealed to the Eleven themselves as they sat at the table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen him after he had risen.


Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly, I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled.




It happened, as we were going to prayer, that a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling. She followed Paul and us, shouting, "These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to you the way of salvation." She was doing this for many days. But Paul, becoming greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, "I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her." And it came out at once.