Thematic Bible: Thorn


Thematic Bible




you know that previously I preached the gospel to you because of a physical illness.


They twisted together a crown of thorns, put it on His head, and placed a reed in His right hand. And they knelt down before Him and mocked Him: “Hail, King of the Jews!”

They dressed Him in a purple robe, twisted together a crown of thorns, and put it on Him.

Then Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!”

The soldiers also twisted together a crown of thorns, put it on His head, and threw a purple robe around Him.


They surrounded me like bees;
they were extinguished like a fire among thorns;
in the name of Yahweh I destroyed them.

for like the crackling of burning thorns under the pot,
so is the laughter of the fool.
This too is futile.

Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns—
whether green or burning—
He will sweep them away.



But if you don’t drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those you allow to remain will become thorns in your eyes and in your sides; they will harass you in the land where you will live.


The best of them is like a brier;
the most upright is worse than a hedge of thorns.
The day of your watchmen,
the day of your punishment, is coming;
at this time their panic is here.

Therefore, this is what I will do:
I will block her way with thorns;
I will enclose her with a wall,
so that she cannot find her paths.



Others fell among thorns, and the thorns came up and choked them.


Can you put a cord through his nose
or pierce his jaw with a hook?


There are thorns and snares on the path of the crooked;
the one who guards himself stays far from them.


It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.


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