Thematic Bible: Slandered


Thematic Bible



One of the elders said to me, "Do not weep. Behold, the Lion who is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals."

And just then a Canaanite woman came out from those borders, and started shouting, saying, "Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David. My daughter is severely demonized."


And all the crowds were amazed, and said, "Can this be the son of David?"

The crowds who went before him, and who followed kept shouting, "Hosanna to the son of David. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest."

Many rebuked him, that he should be quiet, but he shouted all the louder, "Son of David, have mercy on me."

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

Hasn't the Scripture said that the Messiah comes of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"






Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.


Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"



They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down, and wrote on the ground with his finger.







So also Christ did not glorify himself to be made a high priest, but it was he who said to him, "You are my Son. Today I have become your father."




They began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man perverting our nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is the Messiah, a king."

and set up false witnesses who said, "This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the Law.


For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.