Thematic Bible: Sufferings of


Thematic Bible



Now in the middle of the feast Jesus went up to the Temple and was teaching.

for he was teaching as one having authority, and not as their scribes.


And with these words he gave them teaching, saying,

And he got out, and saw a great mass of people, and he had pity on them, because they were like sheep without a keeper: and he gave them teaching about a number of things.

And he was teaching in their Synagogues and all men gave him praise.

And he got into one of the boats, the property of Simon, and made a request to him to go a little way out from the land. And being seated he gave the people teaching from the boat.

He came to Jesus by night and said to him, Rabbi, we are certain that you have come from God as a teacher, because no man would be able to do these signs which you do if God was not with him.

And early in the morning he came again into the Temple and all the people came to him and he was seated teaching them.


Was it not necessary for the Christ to go through these things, and to come into his glory?

For I say to you that these words will be put into effect in me, And he was numbered among the evil-doers: for what has been said in the Writings about me has an end.



But there is a baptism which I have to undergo; and how am I kept back till it is complete!

The Son of man will be given up into the hands of evil-doers, and be put to death on the cross, and on the third day he will come back to life.

And he said to them, So it is in the Writings that the Christ would undergo death, and come back to life again on the third day;

As the snake was lifted up by Moses in the waste land, even so it is necessary for the Son of man to be lifted up:


And Jesus said, Who was touching me? And when they all said, It is not I, Peter and those who were with him said, Master, the people are pushing round you on every side.

And a great number had come together, so that there was no longer room for them, no, not even about the door: and he gave them teaching.

For he had made such a great number well that all those who were diseased were falling down before him for the purpose of touching him.

And he went with him; and a great number of people went after him, and came round him.

Now it came about that while the people came pushing to be near him, and to have knowledge of the word of God, he was by a wide stretch of water named Gennesaret;

And his mother and his brothers came to him, and they were not able to get near him because of the great number of people.





But you are those who have kept with me through my troubles;



Anyone who goes on and does not keep to the teaching of Christ, has not God: he who keeps to the teaching has the Father and the Son.

And it came about, when Jesus had come to the end of these words, that the people were surprised at his teaching,

And he gave them teaching about a number of things in the form of stories, and said to them in his teaching, Give ear:





There is another who gives witness about me and I am certain that the witness he gives about me is true.

And the Father himself who sent me has given witness about me. Not one of you has ever given ear to his voice; his form you have not seen.


If we take the witness of men to be true, the witness of God is greater: because this is the witness which God has given about his Son.








And Elimelech, Naomi's husband, came to his end; and only her two sons were with her.

Now when he came near the door of the town, a dead man was being taken out, the only son of his mother, who was a widow: and a great number of people from the town were with her.

Now a certain woman, the wife of one of the sons of the prophets, came crying to Elisha and said, Your servant my husband is dead; and to your knowledge he was a worshipper of the Lord; but now, the creditor has come to take my two children as servants in payment of his debt.

And Peter went with them. And when he had come, they took him into the room: and all the widows were there, weeping and putting before him the coats and clothing which Dorcas had made while she was with them.


Up! go now to Zarephath, in Zidon, and make your living-place there; I have given orders to a widow woman there to see that you have food.


And there came a poor widow, and she put in two little bits of money, which make a farthing.

And there was a widow in that town, and she kept on coming to him and saying, Give me my right against the man who has done me wrong.


So they went on from Beth-el; and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, the pains of birth came on Rachel and she had a hard time.

Their hearts will be full of fear; pains and sorrows will overcome them; they will be in pain like a woman in childbirth; they will be shocked at one another; their faces will be like flames.


When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it.

I have long been quiet, I have kept myself in and done nothing: now I will make sounds of pain like a woman in childbirth, breathing hard and quickly.

When a woman is about to give birth she has sorrow, because her hour is come; but when she has given birth to the child, the pain is put out of her mind by the joy that a man has come into the world.


Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain