You have not come to a mountain which may be touched, and is burning with fire, and to a black cloud, and a dark smoke, and a violent wind, And to the sound of a horn, and the voice of words, the hearers of which made request that not a word more might be said to them:

Symbols and similitudes » Being mute

Ezekiel 24:27

In that day your mouth will be open to him who has got away safe, and you will say words to him and your lips will no longer be shut: so you will be a sign to them and they will be certain that I am the Lord. Verse Concepts

Ezekiel 33:22

Now the hand of the Lord had been on me in the evening, before the man who had got away came to me; and he made my mouth open, ready for his coming to me in the morning; and my mouth was open and I was no longer without voice. Verse Concepts

Ezekiel 29:21

In that day I will make a horn put out buds for the children of Israel, and I will let your words come freely among them, and they will be certain that I am the Lord. Verse Concepts

Ezekiel 3:26-27

And I will make your tongue fixed to the roof of your mouth, so that you have no voice and may not make protests to them: for they are an uncontrolled people. But when I have talk with you I will make your mouth open, and you are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: Let the hearer give ear; and as for him who will not, let him keep his ears shut: for they are an uncontrolled people.

Luke 1:20-22

Now, see, you will be without voice or language till the day when these things come about, because you had not faith in my words, which will have effect at the right time. And the people were waiting for Zacharias and were surprised because he was in the Temple for such a long time. And when he came out he was not able to say anything, and they saw that he had seen a vision in the Temple; and he was making signs to them without words.

Luke 1:62-64

And they made signs to his father, to say what name was to be given to him. And he sent for writing materials and put down: His name is John; and they were all surprised. And straight away his mouth was open and his tongue was free and he gave praise to God.

Symbols and similitudes » Tabernacle

Psalm 15:1

Lord, who may have a resting-place in your tent, a living-place on your holy hill? Verse Concepts

Hebrews 8:2

As a servant of the holy things and of the true Tent, which was put up by God, not by man. Verse Concepts

Hebrews 8:5

Being servants of that which is a copy and an image of the things in heaven, as Moses, when he was about to make the Tent, had special orders from God: for, See, he said, that you make everything like the design which you saw in the mountain. Verse Concepts

Ezekiel 37:27

And my House will be over them; and I will be to them a God, and they will be to me a people. Verse Concepts

Hebrews 9:1-12

Now the first agreement had its rules of worship, and a holy order. For the first Tent was made ready, having in it the vessels for the lights and the table and the ordering of the bread; and this is named the holy place. And inside the second veil was the place which is named the Holy of holies; read more.
Having a vessel of gold in it for burning perfumes, and the ark of the agreement, which was covered with gold and which had in it a pot made of gold for the manna, and Aaron's rod which put out buds, and the stones with the writing of the agreement; And over it were the winged ones of glory with their wings covering the mercy-seat; about which it is not possible now to say anything in detail. Now while these things were in existence, the priests went into the first Tent at all times, for prayer and the making of offerings. But only the high priest went into the second, once a year, not without making an offering of blood for himself and for the errors of the people: The Holy Spirit witnessing by this that the way into the holy place had not at that time been made open, while the first Tent was still in being; And this is an image of the present time; when the offerings which are given are not able to make the heart of the worshipper completely clean, Because they are only rules of the flesh, of meats and drinks and washings, which have their place till the time comes when things will be put right. But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things of the future, through this greater and better Tent, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this world, And has gone once and for ever into the holy place, having got eternal salvation, not through the blood of goats and young oxen, but through his blood.

Hebrews 9:23-24

For this cause it was necessary to make the copies of the things in heaven clean with these offerings; but the things themselves are made clean with better offerings than these. For Christ did not go into a holy place which had been made by men's hands as the copy of the true one; but he went into heaven itself, and now takes his place before the face of God for us.

Symbols and similitudes » Wine

Matthew 26:27

And he took a cup and, having given praise, he gave it to them, saying, Verse Concepts

Mark 14:23

And he took a cup, and when he had given praise, he gave it to them: and they all had a drink from it.

Jeremiah 25:15-17

For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said to me: Take the cup of the wine of this wrath from my hand, and make all the nations to whom I send you take of it. And after drinking it, they will go rolling from side to side, and be off their heads, because of the sword which I will send among them. Then I took the cup from the Lord's hand, and gave a drink from it to all the nations to whom the Lord sent me;

Luke 22:17

And he took a cup and, having given praise, he said, Make division of this among yourselves; Verse Concepts

Symbols and similitudes » Wine, of the atoning blood

Luke 22:20

And in the same way, after the meal, he took the cup, saying, This cup is the new testament, made with my blood which is given for you. Verse Concepts

Matthew 26:27-29

And he took a cup and, having given praise, he gave it to them, saying, Take of it, all of you, for this is my blood of the testament, which is given for men for the forgiveness of sins. But I say to you that from now I will not take of this fruit of the vine, till that day when I take it new with you in my Father's kingdom.

Mark 14:23-25

And he took a cup, and when he had given praise, he gave it to them: and they all had a drink from it. And he said to them, This is my blood of the testament, which is given for men. Truly I say to you, I will take no more of the fruit of the vine till the day when I take it new in the kingdom of God.

Luke 22:17-18

And he took a cup and, having given praise, he said, Make division of this among yourselves; For I say to you, I will not take of the fruit of the vine till the kingdom of God has come.

Symbols and similitudes » Of the holy spirit » Illuminating

1 John 2:20

And you have the Spirit from the Holy One and you all have knowledge. Verse Concepts

1 John 2:27

As for you, the Spirit which he gave you is still in you, and you have no need of any teacher; but as his Spirit gives you teaching about all things, and is true and not false, so keep your hearts in him, through the teaching which he has given you. Verse Concepts

Exodus 13:21

Psalm 78:14

In the daytime he was guiding them in the cloud, and all through the night with a light of fire. Verse Concepts

Matthew 25:3-4

For the foolish, when they took their lights, took no oil with them. But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lights.

Zechariah 4:2-3

And he said to me, What do you see? And I said, I see a light-support, made all of gold, with its cup on the top of it and seven lights on it; and there are seven pipes to every one of the lights which are on the top of it; And two olive-trees by it, one on the right side of the cup and one on the left.

Zechariah 4:11-13

And I made answer and said to him, What are these two olive-trees on the right side of the light-support and on the left? And answering a second time, I said to him, What are these two olive branches, through whose gold pipes the oil is drained out? And he said in answer to me, Have you no knowledge what these are? And I said, No, my lord.

Symbols and similitudes » Of the holy spirit » Cleansing by

Hebrews 10:22

Let us go in with true hearts, in certain faith, having our hearts made free from the sense of sin and our bodies washed with clean water: Verse Concepts

Ephesians 5:26

So that he might make it holy, having made it clean with the washing of water by the word, Verse Concepts

Ezekiel 36:25

And I will put clean water on you so that you may be clean: from all your unclean ways and from all your images I will make you clean. Verse Concepts

Ezekiel 16:9

Then I had you washed with water, washing away all your blood and rubbing you with oil. Verse Concepts

Symbols and similitudes » Of the holy spirit » Fertilizing

Hosea 10:12

Put in the seed of righteousness, get in your grain in mercy, let your unploughed earth be turned up: for it is time to make search for the Lord, till he comes and sends righteousness on you like rain. Verse Concepts

Hosea 14:5

I will be as the dew to Israel; he will put out flowers like a lily, and send out his roots like Lebanon. Verse Concepts

Hosea 6:3

And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth. Verse Concepts

Ezekiel 34:26-27

And I will give the rain at the right time, and I will make the shower come down at the right time; there will be showers of blessing. And the tree of the field will give its fruit and the earth will give its increase, and they will be safe in their land; and they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I have had their yoke broken and have given them salvation from the hands of those who made them servants.

Symbols and similitudes » Of the holy spirit » Vivifying

Isaiah 58:11

Isaiah 27:3

I, the Lord, am watching it; I will give it water at all times: I will keep it night and day, for fear that any damage comes to it. Verse Concepts

Psalm 1:3

Isaiah 27:6

In days to come Jacob will take root: Israel will put out buds and flowers; and the face of the world will be full of fruit. Verse Concepts

Isaiah 44:3-4

For I will send water on the land needing it, and streams on the dry earth: I will let my spirit come down on your seed, and my blessing on your offspring. And they will come up like grass in a well-watered field, like water-plants by the streams.

Symbols and similitudes » Childhood

Matthew 18:3

Mark 10:14-15

And when Jesus saw it, he was angry, and said to them, Let the little children come to me, and do not keep them away; for of such is the kingdom of God. Truly I say to you, Whoever does not put himself under the kingdom of God like a little child, will not come into it at all.

Luke 18:16-17

But Jesus sent for them, saying, Let the children come to me, and do not keep them away, for of such is the kingdom of heaven. Truly I say to you, Whoever does not put himself under the kingdom of God like a little child, will not come into it at all.

Symbols and similitudes » Sticks and staves

Zechariah 11:7

So I took care of the flock of death, for those who made profit out of the flock; and I took for myself two rods, naming one Beautiful, and the other Bands; and I took care of the flock. Verse Concepts

Zechariah 11:14

Then I took my other rod, the one named Bands, cutting it in two, so that the relation of brothers between Judah and Israel might be broken. Verse Concepts

Ezekiel 37:16-17

And you, son of man, take one stick, writing on it, For Judah and for the children of Israel who are in his company: then take another stick, writing on it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and all the children of Israel who are in his company: Then, joining them one to another, make them one stick, so that they may be one in your hand.

Zechariah 11:10-11

And I took my rod Beautiful, cutting it in two, so that the Lord's agreement, which he had made with all the peoples, might be broken. And it was broken on that day: and the sheep-traders, who were watching me, were certain that it was the word of the Lord.

Symbols and similitudes » Of the divine presence, the pillar of cloud

Exodus 19:9

And the Lord said to Moses, See, I will come to you in a thick cloud, so that what I say to you may come to the ears of the people and they may have belief in you for ever. And Moses gave the Lord word of what the people had said. Verse Concepts

Exodus 19:16

And when morning came on the third day, there were thunders and flames and a thick cloud on the mountain, and a horn sounding very loud; and all the people in the tents were shaking with fear. Verse Concepts

Exodus 14:19-20

Then the angel of God, who had been before the tents of Israel, took his place at their back; and the pillar of cloud, moving from before them, came to rest at their back: And it came between the army of Egypt and the army of Israel; and there was a dark cloud between them, and they went on through the night; but the one army came no nearer to the other all the night.

Exodus 13:21-22

And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, guiding them on their way; and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light: so that they were able to go on day and night: The pillar of cloud went ever before them by day, and the pillar of fire by night.

Symbols and similitudes » Waving the wave offering and lifting up the heave offering

Leviticus 9:21

And Aaron took the breasts and the right leg, waving them for a wave offering before the Lord, as Moses gave orders. Verse Concepts

Exodus 29:24-28

And put them all on the hands of Aaron and of his sons, to be waved for a wave offering before the Lord. Then take them from their hands, and let them be burned on the burned offering on the altar, a sweet smell before the Lord, an offering made by fire to the Lord. Then take the breast of Aaron's sheep, waving it before the Lord; and it is to be your part of the offering. read more.
So you are to make holy the breast of the sheep which is waved and the leg which is lifted up on high, that is, of the sheep which is offered for Aaron and his sons; And it will be their part as a right for ever from the children of Israel, it is a special offering from the children of Israel, made from their peace-offerings, a special offering lifted up to the Lord.

Leviticus 8:27-29

And he put them all on the hands of Aaron and on the hands of his sons, waving them for a wave offering before the Lord. And Moses took them from their hands, and they were burned on the altar on the burned offering, as a priest's offering for a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord. And Moses took the breast, waving it for a wave offering before the Lord; it was Moses' part of the sheep of the priest's offering, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

Symbols and similitudes » Cooking

Ezekiel 24:3-5

And make a comparison for this uncontrolled people, and say to them, This is what the Lord has said: Put on the cooking-pot, put it on the fire and put water in it: And get the bits together, the fat tail, every good part, the leg and the top part of it: make it full of the best bones. Take the best of the flock, put much wood under it: see that its bits are boiling well; let the bones be cooked inside it.

Jeremiah 1:13

And the word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying, What do you see? And I said, I see a boiling pot, and its face is from the north. Verse Concepts

Ezekiel 4:9-15

And take for yourself wheat and barley and different sorts of grain, and put them in one vessel and make bread for yourself from them; all the days when you are stretched on your side it will be your food. And you are to take your food by weight, twenty shekels a day: you are to take it at regular times. And you are to take water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: you are to take it at regular times. read more.
And let your food be barley cakes, cooking it before their eyes with the waste which comes out of a man. And the Lord said, Even so the children of Israel will have unclean bread for their food among the nations where I am driving them. Then I said, Ah, Lord! see, my soul has never been unclean, and I have never taken as my food anything which has come to a natural death or has been broken by beasts, from the time when I was young even till now; no disgusting flesh has ever come into my mouth. Then he said to me, See, I have given you cow's waste in place of man's waste, and you will make your bread ready on it.

Symbols and similitudes » Bread

Matthew 26:26

And when they were taking food, Jesus took bread and, after blessing it, he gave the broken bread to the disciples and said, Take it; this is my body. Verse Concepts

Mark 14:22

And while they were taking food, he took bread, and after blessing it, he gave the broken bread to them, and said, Take it: this is my body. Verse Concepts

Luke 22:19

And he took bread and, having given praise, he gave it to them when it had been broken, saying, This is my body, which is given for you: do this in memory of me. Verse Concepts

Symbols and similitudes » Of the holy spirit » Earnest

Ephesians 4:30

And do not give grief to the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were marked for the day of salvation. Verse Concepts

2 Corinthians 1:22

And it is he who has put his stamp on us, even the Spirit, as the sign in our hearts of the coming glory. Verse Concepts

Ephesians 1:13-14

In whom you, having been given the true word, the good news of your salvation, and through your faith in him, were given the sign of the Holy Spirit of hope, Which is the first-fruit of our heritage, till God gets back that which is his, to the praise of his glory.

Symbols and similitudes » Of the holy spirit » Healing

Isaiah 1:6

The body, from head to foot, is all diseased; it is a mass of open wounds, marks of blows, and broken flesh: the flow of blood has not been stopped, and no oil has been put on the wounds. Verse Concepts

Luke 10:34

And came to him and put clean linen round his wounds, with oil and wine; and he put him on his beast and took him to a house and took care of him. Verse Concepts

Revelation 18:13

And sweet-smelling plants, and perfumes, and wine, and oil, and well crushed grain, and cattle and sheep; and horses and carriages and servants; and souls of men. Verse Concepts

Symbols and similitudes » The tearing of the curtain in the temple

Matthew 27:51

And the curtain of the Temple was parted in two from end to end; and there was an earth-shock; and the rocks were broken; Verse Concepts

Mark 1:38

And he said to them, Let us go to other parts into the nearest towns, so that I may give teaching there, because for this purpose I came. Verse Concepts

Luke 23:45

The light of the sun went out, and the curtain in the Temple was parted in two. Verse Concepts

Symbols and similitudes » Of the holy spirit » Imperceptible

2 Samuel 17:12

Then we will come on him in some place, wherever he may be, falling on him as the dew comes on the earth: and of him and all the men who are with him not one will get away with his life. Verse Concepts

Mark 4:26-28

And he said, Such is the kingdom of God, as if a man put seed in the earth, And went to sleep and got up, night and day, and the seed came to growth, though he had no idea how. The earth gives fruit by herself; first the leaf, then the head, then the full grain.

Symbols and similitudes » Trees of life and knowledge

Genesis 3:24

So he sent the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden he put winged ones and a flaming sword turning every way to keep the way to the tree of life. Verse Concepts

Genesis 2:17

Genesis 3:3

But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, If you take of it or put your hands on it, death will come to you. Verse Concepts

Revelation 22:2

Genesis 2:9

And out of the earth the Lord made every tree to come, delighting the eye and good for food; and in the middle of the garden, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Verse Concepts

Symbols and similitudes » Of the holy spirit » Guiding

John 16:13

However, when he, the Spirit of true knowledge, has come, he will be your guide into all true knowledge: for his words will not come from himself, but whatever has come to his hearing, that he will say: and he will make clear to you the things to come. Verse Concepts

Isaiah 30:21

And at your back, when you are turning to the right hand or to the left, a voice will be sounding in your ears, saying, This is the way in which you are to go. Verse Concepts

Symbols and similitudes » Of the holy spirit » Consecrating

Isaiah 61:1

The spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make the broken-hearted well, to say that the prisoners will be made free, and that those in chains will see the light again; Verse Concepts

Exodus 29:7

Then take the oil and put it on his head. Verse Concepts

Exodus 30:30

And put the oil on Aaron and his sons, making them holy to do the work of priests to me. Verse Concepts

Symbols and similitudes » Of the holy spirit » Impressing

2 Corinthians 3:18

But we all, with unveiled face giving back as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord who is the Spirit. Verse Concepts

Job 38:14

It is changed like wet earth under a stamp, and is coloured like a robe; Verse Concepts

Symbols and similitudes » Of the holy spirit » Searching

Zephaniah 1:12

And it will come about at that time, that I will go searching through Jerusalem with lights; and I will send punishment on the men who have become like wine stored over-long, who say to themselves, The Lord will not do good and will not do evil. Verse Concepts

1 Corinthians 2:10

Symbols and similitudes » Shadow on ahaz' sun-dial

2 Kings 20:8-11

And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, What is to be the sign that the Lord will make me well, and that I will go up to the house of the Lord on the third day? And Isaiah said, This is the sign the Lord will give you, that he will do what he has said; will the shade go forward ten degrees or back? And Hezekiah said in answer, It is a simple thing for the shade to go forward; but let it go back ten degrees. read more.
Then Isaiah the prophet made prayer to the Lord, and he made the shade go back ten degrees from its position on the steps of Ahaz.

Isaiah 38:7-8

And Isaiah said, This is the sign the Lord will give you, that he will do what he has said: See, I will make the shade which has gone down on the steps of Ahaz with the sun, go back ten steps. So the shade went back the ten steps by which it had gone down.

Symbols and similitudes » Sacrificial animals

John 1:29

John 1:36

And looking at Jesus while he was walking he said, See, there is the Lamb of God! Verse Concepts

Genesis 15:8-11

And he said, O Lord God, how may I be certain that it will be mine? And he said, Take a young cow of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a sheep of three years old, and a dove and a young pigeon. All these he took, cutting them in two and putting one half opposite the other, but not cutting the birds in two. read more.
And evil birds came down on the bodies, but Abram sent them away.

Symbols and similitudes » Of the holy spirit » Powerful

1 Kings 19:11

Then he said, Go out and take your place on the mountain before the Lord. Then the Lord went by, and mountains were parted by the force of a great wind, and rocks were broken before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind. And after the wind there was an earth-shock, but the Lord was not in the earth-shock. Verse Concepts

Acts 2:2

And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like the rushing of a violent wind, and all the house where they were was full of it. Verse Concepts

Symbols and similitudes » Basket of fruit

Amos 8:1-2

This is what the Lord God let me see: and I saw a basket of summer fruit. And he said, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then the Lord said to me, The end has come to my people Israel; never again will my eyes be shut to their sin.

Jeremiah 24:1-3

The Lord gave me a vision, and I saw two baskets full of figs put in front of the Temple of the Lord, after Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, had taken prisoner Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the chiefs of Judah, and the expert workmen and metal-workers from Jerusalem, and had taken them to Babylon. One basket had very good figs, like the figs which first come to growth: and the other basket had very bad figs, so bad that they were of no use for food. Then the Lord said to me, What do you see, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs are very good, and the bad very bad, and of no use for food, they are so bad.

Symbols and similitudes » Belt

Jeremiah 13:1-7

This is what the Lord said to me: Go and get yourself a linen band and put it round you and do not put it in water. So, as the Lord said, I got a band for a price and put it round my body. And the word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying, read more.
Take the band which you got for a price, which is round your body, and go to Parah and put it in a secret place there in a hole of the rock. So I went and put it in a secret place by Parah, as the Lord had said to me. Then after a long time, the Lord said to me, Up! go to Parah and get the band which I gave you orders to put there. So I went to Parah and, uncovering the hole, took the band from the place where I had put it away: and the band was damaged and of no use for anything.

Acts 21:11

And he came to us, and took the band of Paul's clothing, and putting it round his feet and hands, said, The Holy Spirit says these words, So will the Jews do to the man who is the owner of this band, and they will give him up into the hands of the Gentiles. Verse Concepts

Symbols and similitudes » Bottles

Jeremiah 19:10

Then let the potter's bottle be broken before the eyes of the men who have gone with you, Verse Concepts

Jeremiah 13:12

So you are to say this word to them: This is the word of the Lord, the God of Israel: Every skin bottle will be full of wine; and they will say to you, Is it not quite clear to us that every skin bottle will be full of wine? Verse Concepts

Jeremiah 19:1-2

This is what the Lord has said: Go and get for money a potter's bottle made of earth, and take with you some of the responsible men of the people and of the priests; And go out to the valley of the son of Hinnom, by the way into the door of broken pots, and there say in a loud voice the words which I will give you;

Symbols and similitudes » Jonah

Matthew 16:4

An evil and false generation is searching after a sign; and no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah. And he went away from them. Verse Concepts

Luke 11:29-30

And when a great number of people came together to him, he said, This generation is an evil generation: it is looking for a sign and no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah. For even as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of man be to this generation.

Symbols and similitudes » Food

2 Kings 19:29

And this will be the sign to you: you will get your food this year from what comes up of itself; and in the second year from the produce of the same; and in the third year you will put in your seed and get in the grain and make vine-gardens and take of their fruit. Verse Concepts

Isaiah 37:30

And this will be the sign to you: you will get your food this year from what comes up of itself, and in the second year from the produce of the same; and in the third year you will put in your seed, and get in the grain, and make vine-gardens, and take of their fruit. Verse Concepts

Symbols and similitudes » Passover, of the sparing of the firstborn, and of the atonement made by Christ

1 Corinthians 5:7

Take away, then, the old leaven, so that you may be a new mass, even as you are without leaven. For Christ has been put to death as our Passover. Verse Concepts

Exodus 12:3-28

Say to all the children of Israel when they are come together, In the tenth day of this month every man is to take a lamb, by the number of their fathers' families, a lamb for every family: And if the lamb is more than enough for the family, let that family and its nearest neighbour have a lamb between them, taking into account the number of persons and how much food is needed for every man. Let your lamb be without a mark, a male in its first year: you may take it from among the sheep or the goats: read more.
Keep it till the fourteenth day of the same month, when everyone who is of the children of Israel is to put it to death between sundown and dark. Then take some of the blood and put it on the two sides of the door and over the door of the house where the meal is to be taken. And let your food that night be the flesh of the lamb, cooked with fire in the oven, together with unleavened bread and bitter-tasting plants. Do not take it uncooked or cooked with boiling water, but let it be cooked in the oven; its head with its legs and its inside parts. Do not keep any of it till the morning; anything which is not used is to be burned with fire. And take your meal dressed as if for a journey, with your shoes on your feet and your sticks in your hands: take it quickly: it is the Lord's Passover. For on that night I will go through the land of Egypt, sending death on every first male child, of man and of beast, and judging all the gods of Egypt: I am the Lord. And the blood will be a sign on the houses where you are: when I see the blood I will go over you, and no evil will come on you for your destruction, when my hand is on the land of Egypt. And this day is to be kept in your memories: you are to keep it as a feast to the Lord through all your generations, as an order for ever. For seven days let your food be unleavened bread; from the first day no leaven is to be seen in your houses: whoever takes bread with leaven in it, from the first till the seventh day, will be cut off from Israel. And on the first day there is to be a holy meeting and on the seventh day a holy meeting; no sort of work may be done on those days but only to make ready what is necessary for everyone's food. So keep the feast of unleavened bread; for on this very day I have taken your armies out of the land of Egypt: this day, then, is to be kept through all your generations by an order for ever. In the first month, from the evening of the fourteenth day, let your food be unleavened bread till the evening of the twenty-first day of the month. For seven days no leaven is to be seen in your houses: for whoever takes bread which is leavened will be cut off from the people of Israel, if he is from another country or if he is an Israelite by birth. Take nothing which has leaven in it; wherever you are living let your food be unleavened cakes. Then Moses sent for the chiefs of Israel, and said to them, See that lambs are marked out for yourselves and your families, and let the Passover lamb be put to death. And take some hyssop and put it in the blood in the basin, touching the two sides and the top of the doorway with the blood from the basin; and let not one of you go out of his house till the morning. For the Lord will go through the land, sending death on the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the two sides and the top of the door, the Lord will go over your door and will not let death come in for your destruction. And you are to keep this as an order to you and to your sons for ever. And when you come into the land which the Lord will make yours, as he gave his word, you are to keep this act of worship. And when your children say to you, What is the reason of this act of worship? Then you will say, This is the offering of the Lord's Passover; for he went over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he sent death on the Egyptians, and kept our families safe. And the people gave worship with bent heads. And the children of Israel went and did so; as the Lord had given orders to Moses and Aaron, so they did.

Symbols and similitudes » The bronze serpent, of Christ

John 3:14

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: Verse Concepts

Numbers 21:8-9

And the Lord said to Moses, Make an image of a snake and put it on a rod, and anyone who has been wounded by the snakes, looking on it will be made well. So Moses made a snake of brass and put it on a rod; and anyone who had a snakebite, after looking on the snake of brass, was made well.

Symbols and similitudes » Of the holy spirit » Incomprehensible

John 3:8

The wind goes where its pleasure takes it, and the sound of it comes to your ears, but you are unable to say where it comes from and where it goes: so it is with everyone whose birth is from the Spirit. Verse Concepts

1 Corinthians 12:11

But all these are the operations of the one and the same Spirit, giving to every man separately as his pleasure is. Verse Concepts

Symbols and similitudes » Of the holy spirit » Purifying

Malachi 3:2-3

But by whom may the day of his coming be faced? and who may keep his place when he is seen? for he is like the metal-tester's fire and the cleaner's soap. He will take his seat, testing and cleaning the sons of Levi, burning away the evil from them as from gold and silver; so that they may make offerings to the Lord in righteousness.

Isaiah 4:4

When Zion has been washed from her sin by the Lord, and Jerusalem made clean from her blood by a judging and a burning wind. Verse Concepts

Symbols and similitudes » A vine

Ezekiel 19:10-14

Your mother was in comparison like a vine, planted by the waters: she was fertile and full of branches because of the great waters. And she had a strong rod for a rod of authority for the rulers, and it became tall among the clouds and it was seen lifted up among the number of its branches. But she was uprooted in burning wrath, and made low on the earth; the east wind came, drying her up, and her branches were broken off; her strong rod became dry, the fire made a meal of it. read more.
And now she is planted in the waste land, in a dry and unwatered country. And fire has gone out from her rod, causing the destruction of her branches, so that there is no strong rod in her to be the ruler's rod of authority. This is a song of grief, and it was for a song of grief.

Ezekiel 15:2

Son of man, what is the vine-tree more than any branching tree which is among the trees of the woods?

Symbols and similitudes » Of the holy spirit » Refreshing

Isaiah 18:4

For this is what the Lord has said to me: I will be quiet, watching from my place; like the clear heat when the sun is shining, like a mist of dew in the heat of summer. Verse Concepts

Psalm 68:9

You, O God, did freely send the rain, giving strength to the weariness of your heritage. Verse Concepts

Symbols and similitudes » Of the holy spirit » Comforting

Hebrews 1:9

You have been a lover of righteousness and a hater of evil; and so God, your God, has put the oil of joy on your head more than on the heads of those who are with you. Verse Concepts

Isaiah 61:3

Symbols and similitudes » The rock that was struck, of Christ

1 Corinthians 10:4

And the same holy drink: for they all took of the water from the holy rock which came after them: and the rock was Christ. Verse Concepts

Exodus 17:6

See, I will take my place before you on the rock in Horeb; and when you give the rock a blow, water will come out of it, and the people will have drink. And Moses did so before the eyes of the chiefs of Israel. Verse Concepts

Symbols and similitudes » Praying toward the temple

Daniel 6:10

1 Kings 8:29

That your eyes may be open to this house night and day, to this place of which you have said, My name will be there; hearing the prayer which your servant may make, turning to this place. Verse Concepts

Symbols and similitudes » The rock that was struck

1 Corinthians 10:4

And the same holy drink: for they all took of the water from the holy rock which came after them: and the rock was Christ. Verse Concepts

Exodus 17:6

Symbols and similitudes » Offering water to drink

Genesis 24:13-15

See, I am waiting here by the water-spring; and the daughters of the town are coming out to get water: Now, may the girl to whom I say, Let down your vessel and give me a drink, and who says in answer, Here is a drink for you and let me give water to your camels: may she be the one marked out by you for your servant Isaac: so may I be certain that you have been good to my master Abraham. And even before his words were ended, Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah, who was the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, came out with her water-vessel on her arm.

Genesis 24:42-44

And I came today to the water-spring, and I said, O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, if it is your purpose to give a good outcome to my journey, Let it come about that, while I am waiting here by the water-spring, if a girl comes to get water and I say to her, Give me a little water from your vessel, and she says, Take a drink, and I will get water for your camels; let her be the woman marked out by the Lord for my master's son.

Symbols and similitudes » Circumcision, of the covenant of abraham

Romans 4:11

And he was given the sign of circumcision as a witness of the faith which he had before he underwent circumcision: so that he might be the father of all those who have faith, though they have not circumcision, and so that righteousness might be put to their account; Verse Concepts

Genesis 17:11

In the flesh of your private parts you are to undergo it, as a mark of the agreement between me and you. Verse Concepts

Symbols and similitudes » Yokes

Jeremiah 27:2-3

This is what the Lord has said to me: Make for yourself bands and yokes and put them on your neck; And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Zidon, by their servants who come to Jerusalem, to Zedekiah, king of Judah;

Jeremiah 28:10

Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from the neck of the prophet Jeremiah and it was broken by his hands. Verse Concepts

Symbols and similitudes » Of the holy spirit » Water

John 3:5

John 7:38-39

He who has faith in me, out of his body, as the Writings have said, will come rivers of living water. This he said of the Spirit which would be given to those who had faith in him: the Spirit had not been given then, because the glory of Jesus was still to come.

Symbols and similitudes » The whole system of mosaic rites

Hebrews 9:9-10

And this is an image of the present time; when the offerings which are given are not able to make the heart of the worshipper completely clean, Because they are only rules of the flesh, of meats and drinks and washings, which have their place till the time comes when things will be put right.

Hebrews 9:18-23

So that even the first agreement was not made without blood. For when Moses had given all the rules of the law to the people, he took the blood of goats and young oxen, with water and red wool and hyssop, and put it on the book itself and on all the people, Saying, This blood is the sign of the agreement which God has made with you. read more.
And the blood was put on the Tent and all the holy vessels in the same way. And by the law almost all things are made clean with blood, and without blood there is no forgiveness. For this cause it was necessary to make the copies of the things in heaven clean with these offerings; but the things themselves are made clean with better offerings than these.

Symbols and similitudes » Canaan, of the spiritual rest

Hebrews 3:11-12

And being angry I made an oath, saying, They may not come into my rest. My brothers, take care that there is not by chance in any one of you an evil heart without belief, turning away from the living God:

Hebrews 4:5

And in the same place he says again, They will not come into my rest. Verse Concepts

Symbols and similitudes » Marrying a whore

Hosea 1:2-9

The start of the word of the Lord by Hosea: And the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take for yourself a wife of loose ways, and children of the same, for the land has been untrue to the Lord. So he took as his wife Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she gave birth to a son. And the Lord said to him, Give him the name of Jezreel, for after a little time I will send punishment for the blood of Jezreel on the line of Jehu, and put an end to the kingdom of Israel. read more.
And in that day I will let the bow of Israel be broken in the valley of Jezreel. And after that she gave birth to a daughter. And the Lord said, Give her the name Lo-ruhamah; for I will not again have mercy on Israel, to give them forgiveness. But I will have mercy on Judah and will give them salvation by the Lord their God, but not by the bow or the sword or by fighting or by horses or horsemen. Now when Lo-ruhamah had been taken from the breast, the woman gave birth to a son. And the Lord said, Give him the name Lo-ammi; for you are not my people, and I will not be your God.

Hosea 3:1-4

And the Lord said to me, Give your love again to a woman who has a lover and is false to her husband, even as the Lord has love for the children of Israel, though they are turned to other gods and are lovers of grape-cakes. So I got her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a half of barley; And I said to her, You are to be mine for a long space of time; you are not to be false to me, and no other man is to have you for his wife; and so will I be to you. read more.
For the children of Israel will for a long time be without king and without ruler, without offerings and without pillars, and without ephod or images.

Symbols and similitudes » Of the holy spirit » Reviving

Ezekiel 37:9-10

And he said to me, Be a prophet to the wind, be a prophet, son of man, and say to the wind, The Lord has said: Come from the four winds, O wind, breathing on these dead so that they may come to life. And I gave the word at his orders, and breath came into them, and they came to life and got up on their feet, a very great army.

Ezekiel 37:14

And I will put my spirit in you, so that you may come to life, and I will give you a rest in your land: and you will be certain that I the Lord have said it and have done it, says the Lord. Verse Concepts

Symbols and similitudes » Handwriting on the wall

Daniel 5:5-6

In that very hour the fingers of a man's hand were seen, writing opposite the support for the light on the white wall of the king's house, and the king saw the part of the hand which was writing. Then the colour went from the king's face, and he was troubled by his thoughts; strength went from his body, and his knees were shaking.

Daniel 5:16-28

And I have had news of you, that you have the power of making things clear, and of answering hard questions: now if you are able to make out the writing and give me the sense of it, you will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain round your neck and be a ruler of high authority in the kingdom. Then Daniel made answer and said to the king, Keep your offerings for yourself, and give your rewards to another; but I, after reading the writing to the king, will give him the sense of it. As for you, O King, the Most High God gave to Nebuchadnezzar, your father, the kingdom and great power and glory and honour: read more.
And because of the great power he gave him, all peoples and nations and languages were shaking in fear before him: some he put to death and others he kept living, at his pleasure, lifting up some and putting others down as it pleased him. But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit became hard with pride, he was put down from his place as king, and they took his glory from him: And he was sent out from among the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts', and he was living with the asses of the fields; he had grass for his food like the oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till he was certain that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and gives power over it to anyone at his pleasure. And you, his son, O Belshazzar, have not kept your heart free from pride, though you had knowledge of all this; But you have been lifting yourself up against the Lord of heaven, and they have put the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your women, have taken wine in them; and you have given praise to gods of silver and gold, of brass and iron and wood and stone, who are without the power of seeing or hearing, and without knowledge: and to the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not given glory; Then the part of the hand was sent out from before him, and this writing was recorded. And this is the writing which was recorded, Mene, tekel, peres. This is the sense of the words: Mene; your kingdom has been numbered by God and ended. Tekel; you have been put in the scales and seen to be under weight. Peres; your kingdom has been cut up and given to the Medes and Persians.

Symbols and similitudes » Bow-shot » By jonathan

1 Samuel 20:21-37

And I will send my boy to have a look for the arrow. And if I say to him, See, the arrow is on this side of you; take it up! then you may come; for there is peace for you and no evil, by the living Lord. But if I say to the boy, See, the arrow has gone past you: then go on your way, for the Lord has sent you away. As for what you and I were talking of, the Lord is between you and me for ever. read more.
So David went to a secret place in the country: and when the new moon came, the king took his place at the feast. And the king took his seat, as at other times, by the wall: and Jonathan was in front, and Abner was seated by Saul's side, but there was no one in David's seat. But Saul said nothing that day, for his thought was, Something has taken place making him unclean; it is clear that he is not clean. And on the day after the new moon, that is, the second day, there was still no one in David's seat: and Saul said to his son Jonathan, Why has the son of Jesse not come to the feast yesterday or today? And answering Saul, Jonathan said, He made a request to me that he might go to Beth-lehem, Saying, Our family is making an offering in the town, and my brothers have given me orders to be there: so now, if I have grace in your eyes, let me go away and see my brothers. This is why he has not come to the king's table. Then Saul was moved to wrath against Jonathan, and he said to him, You son of an evil and uncontrolled woman, have I not seen how you have given your love to the son of Jesse, to your shame and the shame of your mother? For while the son of Jesse is living on the earth, your position is unsafe and your kingdom is in danger. So make him come here to me, for it is certainly right for him to be put to death. And Jonathan, answering his father Saul, said to him, Why is he to be put to death? What has he done? And Saul, pointing his spear at him, made an attempt to give him a wound: from which it was clear to Jonathan that his father's purpose was to put David to death. So Jonathan got up from the table, burning with wrath, and took no part in the feast the second day of the month, being full of grief for David because his father had put shame on him. Now in the morning, Jonathan went out into the fields at the time he had said to David, and he had a little boy with him. And he said to the boy, Go and get the arrow I let loose from my bow. And while the boy was running, he sent an arrow past him. And when the boy came to the place where the arrow was, Jonathan, crying out after the boy, said, Has it not gone past you?

Symbols and similitudes » Bow-shot » By joash

2 Kings 13:15-19

Then Elisha said to him, Take bow and arrows: and he took bow and arrows. And he said to the king of Israel, Put your hand on the bow: and he put his hand on it; and Elisha put his hands on the king's hands. Then he said; Let the window be open to the east: and he got it open. Then Elisha said, Let the arrow go; and he let it go. And he said, The Lord's arrow of salvation, of salvation over Aram; for you will overcome the Aramaeans in Aphek and put an end to them. read more.
And he said, Take the arrows: and he took them. And he said to the king of Israel, Send them down into the earth; and he did so three times and no more. Then the man of God was angry with him and said, If you had done it five or six times, then you would have overcome Aram completely; but now you will only overcome them three times.

Symbols and similitudes » Eating bread with alertness

Ezekiel 12:17-20

Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Son of man, take your food with shaking fear, and your water with trouble and care; And say to the people of the land, This is what the Lord has said about the people of Jerusalem and the land of Israel: They will take their food with care and their drink with wonder, so that all the wealth of their land may be taken from it because of the violent ways of the people living in it. read more.
And the peopled towns will be made waste, and the land will become a wonder; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

Symbols and similitudes » Mourning forbidden

Ezekiel 24:15-18

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Son of man, see, I am taking away the desire of your eyes by disease: but let there be no sorrow or weeping or drops running from your eyes. Let there be no sound of sorrow; make no weeping for your dead, put on your head-dress and your shoes on your feet, let not your lips be covered, and do not take the food of those in grief. read more.
So in the morning I was teaching the people and in the evening death took my wife; and in the morning I did what I had been ordered to do.

Symbols and similitudes » Rain and thunder

1 Samuel 12:16-18

Now keep where you are and see this great thing which the Lord will do before your eyes. Is it not now the time of the grain cutting? My cry will go up to the Lord and he will send thunder and rain: so that you may see and be conscious of your great sin which you have done in the eyes of the Lord in desiring a king for yourselves. So Samuel made prayer to the Lord; and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people were in fear of the Lord and of Samuel.

Symbols and similitudes » Two sticks

Ezekiel 37:15-28

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, And you, son of man, take one stick, writing on it, For Judah and for the children of Israel who are in his company: then take another stick, writing on it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and all the children of Israel who are in his company: Then, joining them one to another, make them one stick, so that they may be one in your hand. read more.
And when the children of your people say to you, Will you not make clear to us what these things have to do with us? Then say to them, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am taking the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel who are in his company; and I will put it on the stick of Judah and make them one stick, and they will be one in my hand. And the sticks with your writing on them will be in your hand before their eyes. And say to them, These are the words of the Lord: See, I am taking the children of Israel from among the nations where they have gone, and will get them together on every side, and take them into their land: And I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king will be king over them all: and they will no longer be two nations, and will no longer be parted into two kingdoms: And they will no longer make themselves unclean with their images or with their hated things or with any of their sins: but I will give them salvation from all their turning away in which they have done evil, and will make them clean; and they will be to me a people, and I will be to them a God. And my servant David will be king over them; and they will all have one keeper: and they will be guided by my orders and will keep my rules and do them. And they will be living in the land which I gave to Jacob, my servant, in which your fathers were living; and they will go on living there, they and their children and their children's children, for ever: and David, my servant, will be their ruler for ever. And I will make an agreement of peace with them: it will be an eternal agreement with them: and I will have mercy on them and make their numbers great, and will put my holy place among them for ever. And my House will be over them; and I will be to them a God, and they will be to me a people. And the nations will be certain that I who make Israel holy am the Lord, when my holy place is among them for ever.

Symbols and similitudes » Wounding

1 Kings 20:35-40

And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his neighbour by the word of the Lord, Give me a wound. But the man would not. Then he said to him, Because you have not given ear to the voice of the Lord, straight away when you have gone from me a lion will put you to death. And when he had gone, straight away a lion came rushing at him and put him to death. Then he came across another man, and said, Give me a wound. And the man gave him a blow wounding him. read more.
So the prophet went away, and pulling his head-band over his eyes to keep his face covered, took his place by the road waiting for the king. And when the king went by, crying out to him he said, Your servant went out into the fight; and a man came out to me with another man and said, Keep this man: if by any chance he gets away, your life will be the price of his life, or you will have to give a talent of silver in payment. But while your servant was turning this way and that, he was gone. Then the king of Israel said to him, You are responsible; you have given the decision against yourself.

Symbols and similitudes » death

Ezekiel 24:16-19

Son of man, see, I am taking away the desire of your eyes by disease: but let there be no sorrow or weeping or drops running from your eyes. Let there be no sound of sorrow; make no weeping for your dead, put on your head-dress and your shoes on your feet, let not your lips be covered, and do not take the food of those in grief. So in the morning I was teaching the people and in the evening death took my wife; and in the morning I did what I had been ordered to do. read more.
And the people said to me, Will you not make clear to us the sense of these things; is it for us you do them?

Symbols and similitudes » Of the holy spirit » Cloven tongues (like split, lashing, projections of fire)

Acts 2:11

Men of Crete and Arabia, to all of us they are talking in our different languages, of the great works of God. Verse Concepts

Acts 2:3

And they saw tongues, like flames of fire, coming to rest on every one of them. Verse Concepts

Acts 2:6

And when this sound came to their ears, they all came together, and were greatly surprised because every man was hearing the words of the disciples in his special language. Verse Concepts

Symbols and similitudes » Jeremiah's deeds of land

Jeremiah 32:1-16

The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of Zedekiah, king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar. Now at that time the king of Babylon's army was round Jerusalem, shutting it in: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the place of the armed watchmen, in the house of the king of Judah. For Zedekiah, king of Judah, had had him shut up, saying, Why have you, as a prophet, been saying, The Lord has said, See, I will give this town into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will take it; read more.
And Zedekiah, king of Judah, will not get away from the hands of the Chaldaeans, but will certainly be given up into the hands of the king of Babylon, and will have talk with him, mouth to mouth, and see him, eye to eye. And he will take Zedekiah away to Babylon, where he will be till I have pity on him, says the Lord: though you are fighting with the Chaldaeans, things will not go well for you? And Jeremiah said, The word of the Lord came to me, saying, See, Hanamel, the son of Shallum, your father's brother, will come to you and say, Give the price and get for yourself my property in Anathoth: for you have the right of the nearest relation. So Hanamel, the son of my father's brother, came to me, as the Lord had said, to the place of the armed watchmen, and said to me, Give the price and get my property which is in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: for you have the nearest relation's right to the heritage; so get it for yourself. Then it was clear to me that this was the word of the Lord. So I got for a price the property in Anathoth from Hanamel, the son of my father's brother, and gave him the money, seventeen shekels of silver; And I put it in writing, stamping it with my stamp, and I took witnesses and put the money into the scales. So I took the paper witnessing the business, one copy rolled up and stamped, and one copy open: And I gave the paper to Baruch, the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, before the eyes of Hanamel, the son of my father's brother, and of the witnesses who had put their names to the paper, and before all the Jews who were seated in the place of the armed watchmen. And I gave orders to Baruch in front of them, saying, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Take these papers, the witness of this business, the one which is rolled up and stamped, and the one which is open; and put them in a vessel of earth so that they may be kept for a long time. For the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, There will again be trading in houses and fields and vine-gardens in this land. Now after I had given the paper to Baruch, the son of Neriah, I made my prayer to the Lord, saying,

Symbols and similitudes » Invitation to approach

1 Samuel 14:8-12

Then Jonathan said, Now we will go over to these men and let them see us. If they say to us, Keep quiet where you are till we come to you; then we will keep our places and not go up to them. But if they say, Come up to us; then we will go up, for the Lord has given them into our hands: and this will be the sign to us. read more.
And they let the Philistine force see the two of them: and the Philistines said, Look! the Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they have taken cover. And the armed men of the force gave Jonathan and his servant their answer, saying, Come up here to us, and we will let you see something. Then Jonathan said to his servant, Come up after me: for the Lord has given them up into the hands of Israel.

Symbols and similitudes » Change of domicile

Ezekiel 12:3-11

And you, O son of man, by day, before their eyes, get ready the vessels of one who is taken away, and go away from your place to another place before their eyes: it may be that they will see, though they are an uncontrolled people. By day, before their eyes, take out your vessels like those of one who is taken away: and go out in the evening before their eyes, like those who are taken away as prisoners. Make a hole in the wall, before their eyes, and go out through it. read more.
And before their eyes, take your goods on your back and go out in the dark; go with your face covered: for I have made you a sign to the children of Israel. And I did as I was ordered: I took out my vessels by day, like those of one who is taken away, and in the evening I made a hole through the wall with a tent-pin; and in the dark I went out, taking my things on my back before their eyes. And in the morning the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Son of man, has not Israel, the uncontrolled people, said to you, What are you doing? You are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: This word has to do with the ruler in Jerusalem and all the children of Israel in it. Say, I am your sign: as I have done, so will it be done to them: they will go away as prisoners.

Symbols and similitudes » Manna

John 6:31-58

Our fathers had the manna in the waste land, as the Writings say, He gave them bread from heaven. Jesus then said to them, Truly I say to you, What Moses gave you was not the bread from heaven; it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. The bread of God is the bread which comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world. read more.
Ah, Lord, they said, give us that bread for ever! And this was the answer of Jesus: I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never be in need of food, and he who has faith in me will never be in need of drink. But it is as I said to you: you have seen me, and still you have no faith. Whatever the Father gives to me will come to me; and I will not send away anyone who comes to me. For I have come down from heaven, not to do my pleasure, but the pleasure of him who sent me. And this is the pleasure of him who sent me, that I am not to let out of my hands anything which he has given me, but I am to give it new life on the last day. This, I say, is my Father's pleasure, that everyone who sees the Son and has faith in him may have eternal life: and I will take him up on the last day. Now the Jews said bitter things about Jesus because of his words, I am the bread which came down from heaven. And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we have seen? How is it then that he now says, I have come down from heaven? Jesus made answer and said, Do not say things against me, one to another. No man is able to come to me if the Father who sent me does not give him the desire to come: and I will take him up from the dead on the last day. The writings of the prophets say, And they will all have teaching from God. Everyone whose ears have been open to the teaching of the Father comes to me. Not that anyone has ever seen the Father; only he who is from God, he has seen the Father. Truly I say to you, He who has faith in me has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your fathers took the manna in the waste land--and they are dead. The bread which comes from heaven is such bread that a man may take it for food and never see death. I am the living bread which has come from heaven: if any man takes this bread for food he will have life for ever: and more than this, the bread which I will give is my flesh which I will give for the life of the world. Then the Jews had an angry discussion among themselves, saying, How is it possible for this man to give us his flesh for food? Then Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, If you do not take the flesh of the Son of man for food, and if you do not take his blood for drink, you have no life in you. He who takes my flesh for food and my blood for drink has eternal life: and I will take him up from the dead at the last day. My flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. He who takes my flesh for food and my blood for drink is in me and I in him. As the living Father has sent me, and I have life because of the Father, even so he who takes me for his food will have life because of me. This is the bread which has come down from heaven. It is not like the food which your fathers had: they took of the manna, and are dead; but he who takes this bread for food will have life for ever.

Symbols and similitudes » Of the holy spirit » Warning

Hebrews 3:7-11

And so, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you let his voice come to your ears, Be not hard of heart, as when you made me angry, on the day of testing in the waste land, When your fathers put me to the test, and saw my works for forty years. read more.
So that I was angry with this generation, and I said, Their hearts are in error at all times, and they have no knowledge of my ways; And being angry I made an oath, saying, They may not come into my rest.

Symbols and similitudes » Ceremonially unclean food

Ezekiel 4:9-17

Symbols and similitudes » Thunder on mount sinai

Exodus 19:9

Exodus 19:16

Symbols and similitudes » Men meeting saul

1 Samuel 10:2-7

When you have gone away from me today, you will see two men by the resting-place of Rachel's body, in the land of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say to you, The asses which you went in search of have come back, and now your father, caring no longer for the asses, is troubled about you, saying, What am I to do about my son? Then you are to go on from there, and when you come to the oak-tree of Tabor, you will see three men going up to God to Beth-el, one having with him three young goats and another three cakes of bread and another a skin full of wine: They will say, Peace be with you, and will give you two cakes of bread, which you are to take from them. read more.
After that you will come to Gibeah, the hill of God, where an armed force of the Philistines is stationed: and when you come to the town, you will see a band of prophets coming down from the high place with instruments of music before them; and they will be acting like prophets: And the spirit of the Lord will come on you with power, and you will be acting like a prophet with them, and will be changed into another man. And when these signs come to you, see that you take the chance which is offered you; for God is with you.

Symbols and similitudes » The torn altar

1 Kings 13:3

The same day he gave them a sign, saying, This is the sign which the Lord has given: See, the altar will be broken and the burned waste on it overturned. Verse Concepts

1 Kings 13:5

And the altar was broken and the burned waste on it overturned; this was the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the Lord. Verse Concepts

Symbols and similitudes » Nakedness

Isaiah 20:2-4

At that time the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saying, Go, and take off your robe, and your shoes from your feet; and he did so, walking unclothed and without shoes on his feet. And the Lord said, As my servant Isaiah has gone unclothed and without shoes for three years as a sign and a wonder to Egypt and Ethiopia, So will the king of Assyria take away the prisoners of Egypt and those forced out of Ethiopia, young and old, unclothed and without shoes, and with backs uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

Symbols and similitudes » Boiling pot

Ezekiel 24:1-5

And the word of the Lord came to me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, saying, Son of man, put down in writing this very day: The king of Babylon let loose the weight of his attack against Jerusalem on this very day. And make a comparison for this uncontrolled people, and say to them, This is what the Lord has said: Put on the cooking-pot, put it on the fire and put water in it: read more.
And get the bits together, the fat tail, every good part, the leg and the top part of it: make it full of the best bones. Take the best of the flock, put much wood under it: see that its bits are boiling well; let the bones be cooked inside it.

Symbols and similitudes » Rainbow

Genesis 9:12-13

And God said, This is the sign of the agreement which I make between me and you and every living thing with you, for all future generations: I will put my bow in the cloud and it will be for a sign of the agreement between me and the earth.

Symbols and similitudes » Ephah

Zechariah 5:6-11

And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah which is going out. And he said further, This is their evil-doing in all the land. And I saw a round cover of lead lifted up; and a woman was seated in the middle of the ephah. And he said, This is Sin; and pushing her down into the ephah, he put the weight of lead on the mouth of it. read more.
And lifting up my eyes I saw two women coming out, and the wind was in their wings; and they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they took the ephah, lifting it up between earth and heaven. And I said to the angel who was talking to me, Where are they taking the ephah? And he said to me, To make a house for her in the land of Shinar: and they will make a place ready, and put her there in the place which is hers.

Symbols and similitudes » Of the holy spirit » Wind

Song of Songs 4:16

Be awake, O north wind; and come, O south, blowing on my garden, so that its spices may come out. Let my loved one come into his garden, and take of his good fruits. Verse Concepts

Symbols and similitudes » The book thrown into the euphrates river

Jeremiah 51:63

And it will be that, when you have come to an end of reading this book, you are to have a stone fixed to it, and have it dropped into the Euphrates: Verse Concepts

Symbols and similitudes » Eating and drinking in fear

Ezekiel 12:18

Son of man, take your food with shaking fear, and your water with trouble and care; Verse Concepts

Symbols and similitudes » Ezekiel's beard

Ezekiel 5:1-4

And you, son of man, take a sharp sword, using it like a haircutter's blade, and making it go over your head and the hair of your chin: and take scales for separating the hair by weight. You are to have a third part burned with fire inside the town, when the days of the attack are ended; and a third part you are to take and give blows with the sword round about it; and give a third part for the wind to take away, and let loose a sword after them. And take from them a small number of hairs, folding them in your skirts. read more.
And again take some of these and put them in the fire, burning them up in the fire; and say to all the children of Israel,

Symbols and similitudes » A siege

Ezekiel 4:1-3

And you, son of man, take a back and put it before you and on it make a picture of a town, even Jerusalem. And make an attack on it, shutting it in, building strong places against it, and making high an earthwork against it; and put up tents against it, placing engines all round it for smashing down its walls. And take a flat iron plate, and put it for a wall of iron between you and the town: and let your face be turned to it, and it will be shut in and you will make an attack on it. This will be a sign to the children of Israel.

Symbols and similitudes » Posture

Ezekiel 4:4-8

Then, stretching yourself out on your left side, take the sin of the children of Israel on yourself: for as long as you are stretched out, so long will the sin of the children of Israel be on you. For I have had the years of their sin measured for you by a number of days, even three hundred and ninety days: and you will take on yourself the sin of the children of Israel. And when these days are ended, turning on your right side, you are to take on yourself the sin of the children of Judah: forty days, a day for a year, I have had it fixed for you. read more.
And let your face be turned to where Jerusalem is shut in, with your arm uncovered, and be a prophet against it. And see, I will put bands on you; and you will be stretched out without turning from one side to the other till the days of your attack are ended.

Symbols and similitudes » Harvest

2 Kings 19:29

Symbols and similitudes » Roll

Zechariah 5:2-4

And he said to me, What do you see? And I said, A roll going through the air; it is twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide. Then he said to me, This is the curse which goes out over the face of all the land: for long enough has every thief gone without punishment, and long enough has every taker of false oaths gone without punishment. And I will send it out, says the Lord of armies, and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of him who takes a false oath by my name: and it will be in his house, causing its complete destruction, with its woodwork and its stones.

Symbols and similitudes » Of the holy spirit » Speaking

Matthew 10:20

Because it is not you who say the words, but the Spirit of your Father in you. Verse Concepts

Symbols and similitudes » Of the holy spirit » Abundant

Psalm 133:3

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Symbols and similitudes » Isaiah's children

Isaiah 8:18

See, I and the children whom the Lord has given me, are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of armies, whose resting-place is in Mount Zion. Verse Concepts

Symbols and similitudes » The plumb-line

Amos 7:7-8

This is what he let me see: and I saw the Lord stationed by a wall made straight by a weighted line, and he had a weighted line in his hand. And the Lord said to me, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A weighted line. Then the Lord said, See, I will let down a weighted line among my people Israel; never again will my eyes be shut to their sin:

Symbols and similitudes » Lapping water

Judges 7:4-8

Then the Lord said to Gideon, There are still more people than is necessary; take them down to the water so that I may put them to the test for you there; then whoever I say is to go with you will go, and whoever I say is not to go will not go. So he took the people down to the water; and the Lord said to Gideon, Put on one side by themselves all those drinking up the water with their tongues like a dog; and in the same way, all those who go down on their knees to the water while drinking. Now the number of those who took up the water with their tongues was three hundred; all the rest of the people went down on their knees to the water. read more.
And the Lord said to Gideon, By those three hundred who were drinking with their tongues I will give you salvation and give the Midianites into your hands; let the rest of the people go away, every man to his place. So they took the vessels of the people, and their horns from their hands, and he sent them away, every man to his tent, keeping only the three hundred; and the tents of Midian were lower down in the valley.

Symbols and similitudes » Almond rod

Jeremiah 1:11

Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Jeremiah, what do you see? And I said, I see a branch of an almond-tree. Verse Concepts

Symbols and similitudes » Salt

Numbers 18:19

All the lifted offerings of the holy things which the children of Israel give to the Lord, I have given to you and to your sons and to your daughters as a right for ever. This is an agreement made with salt before the Lord, to you and to your seed for ever. Verse Concepts

Colossians 4:6

Symbols and similitudes » Of the holy spirit » Sensible in its effects

John 3:8

Symbols and similitudes » Of the holy spirit » Rain and dew

Psalm 72:6

May he come down like rain on the cut grass; like showers watering the earth. Verse Concepts

Symbols and similitudes » Of the holy spirit » A voice

Isaiah 6:8

Symbols and similitudes » Of the holy spirit » A dove

Matthew 3:16

And Jesus, having been given baptism, straight away went up from the water; and, the heavens opening, he saw the Spirit of God coming down on him as a dove; Verse Concepts

Symbols and similitudes » Of the holy spirit » Fire

Matthew 3:11

Truly, I give baptism with water to those of you whose hearts are changed; but he who comes after me is greater than I, whose shoes I am not good enough to take up: he will give you baptism with the Holy Spirit and with fire: Verse Concepts

Symbols and similitudes » Of the holy spirit » Oil

Psalm 45:7

You have been a lover of righteousness and a hater of evil: and so God, your God, has put the oil of joy on your head, lifting you high over all other kings. Verse Concepts

Symbols and similitudes » The sprinkled blood, of the covenant

Exodus 24:8

Then Moses took the blood and let it come on the people, and said, This blood is the sign of the agreement which the Lord has made with you in these words. Verse Concepts

Symbols and similitudes » Sanctuary

Psalm 20:2

May he send you help from the holy place, and give you strength from Zion; Verse Concepts

Symbols and similitudes » Of the holy spirit » A seal

Revelation 7:2

And I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the mark of the living God: and he said with a great voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to do damage to the earth and the sea, Verse Concepts

Symbols and similitudes » Breaking of a potter's vessel

Symbols and similitudes » The star in the east

Matthew 2:2

Saying, Where is the King of the Jews whose birth has now taken place? We have seen his star in the east and have come to give him worship. Verse Concepts