Thematic Bible: Test believers
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Hindrances » Test believers » Lack of sympathy on the part of the church
And people were bringing little children to Him for Him to touch them, but the disciples reproved them for it.
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But He did not answer her a word. And His disciples came up and kept begging Him, "Send her away, for she keeps on screaming after us."
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Hindrances » Test believers » Discouraging circumstances
Now some men were carrying on a bed a man who was paralyzed, and they were trying to get him in and lay him before Jesus. And as they could not find a way because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down with his pallet through the tiles, among the people right in front of Jesus.
Hindrances » Test believers » Divine delays, not a hindrance but a test
So the sisters sent this message to Jesus, "Lord, listen! the one you love so well is sick." When Jesus received the message, He said, "This sickness is not to end in death but is to honor God, that the Son of God through it may be honored." Now Jesus held in loving esteem Martha and her sister and Lazarus. read more.
But when He heard that Lazarus was sick, He stayed over for two days in the place where He was.
But when He heard that Lazarus was sick, He stayed over for two days in the place where He was.
Hindrances » Test believers » Unbelieving friends
Even while He was saying this, people came from the house of the leader of the synagogue and said, "Your daughter is dead; why trouble the Teacher any longer?"
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Hindrances » Test believers » Scoffers
So a second time they called the man who had been blind, and said to him, "Give God the praise; we know this man is a sinner."
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