Thematic Bible: Test believers
Thematic Bible
Hindrances » Test believers » Lack of sympathy on the part of the church
Now people were bringing little children to Jesus for him to touch them; but the disciples rebuked them.
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But he answered her not a word. Then the disciples came up and kept beseeching him. "Send her away," they said, "because she wails after us."
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Hindrances » Test believers » Discouraging circumstances
And behold there came men carrying a paralytic on a bed; and they tried to bring him and lay him before Jesus, but they could not because of the crowd. So they went up on the roof, and let him down through the tiling, with his bed, into the crowd, before Jesus.
Hindrances » Test believers » Divine delays, not a hindrance but a test
So the sisters sent to him, saying. "Master, see who you hold dear is ill." When Jesus heard it he said, "This illness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that through it the Son of God may be glorified." Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. read more.
However, when he heard that he was ill,
However, when he heard that he was ill,
Hindrances » Test believers » Unbelieving friends
While he was still speaking men came from the house of the warden of the synagogue to tell him, "Your daughter is dead, why trouble the Teacher any further?"
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Hindrances » Test believers » Scoffers
So the Jews a second time summoned the man who had been blind, and said to him.
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