Thematic Bible: Zealous


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Yet I deemed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and fellow-worker, and fellow-soldier, but your messenger and minister to my need; since he was longing after you all, and was in great distress, because ye heard that he was sick. For, in fact, he was sick, near to death; but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow. read more.
I sent him, therefore, the more urgently, that, seeing him again, ye may rejoice, and I may be the less sorrowful. Receive him, therefore, in the Lord with all joy, and hold such in honor; because, for the work of Christ, he came near to death; imperiling his soul, that he might fill up your lack of ministry toward me.

Epaphras, who is from among you, salutes you, a servant of Christ Jesus, always striving in your behalf in his prayers, that ye may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God. For I bear him witness, that he has much concern in behalf of you, and those in Laodicea, and those in Hierapolis.

But thanks be to God Who putteth the same diligence for you into the heart of Titus. For he accepted, indeed, our exhortation; but, being very earnest, he went forth to you of his own accord.

And I was weeping much, because no one was found worthy to open the book, or to look upon it; and one of the elders says to me, "Weep not; behold, the Lion Who is of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, prevailed to open the book, and its seven seals.

All the things relating to me Tychicus will make known to you, the beloved brother, and faithful minister, and fellow-servant in the Lord; Verse ConceptsGood FriendsFaithfulness, Examples OfLoyaltyTelling Of People's Situations

But they, having gone forth, spread abroad His fame in all that land. Verse ConceptsFameMaking Christ KnownSpreading StoriesSpreading The Gospel

The neighbors, therefore, and those formerly beholding him, that he was a beggar, said, "Is not this he that sits and begs?" Some said, "This is he;" others said, "No, but he is like him;" he said, "I am he." They said, therefore, to him, "How then were your eyes opened?" read more.
He answered, "The Man Who is called Jesus made clay, and anointed my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to Siloam, and wash;' having gone, therefore, and washed, I received sight." And they said to him, "Where is He?" He says, I know not." They bring to the Pharisees him who was once blind. And it was a sabbath on the day when Jesus made the clay, and anointed his eyes. Again, therefore, the Pharisees also asked him, how he received sight. And he said to them, "He put clay upon my eyes, and I washed, and see." Some of the Pharisees, therefore, said, "This Man is not from God, because He does not keep the sabbath." Others said, "How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?" And there was a division among them. They say, therefore, to the blind man again, "What do you say about Him, seeing that He opened your eyes?" And he said, "He is a Prophet." The Jews, therefore, did not believe concerning him, that he was blind, and received sight, until they called the parents of him who received sight, and asked them, "Is this your son, who ye say, was born blind? How, then, does he now see?" His parents, therefore, answered and said, "We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind; but how he now sees, we do not know. Ask him; he is of age; he will speak for himself." These things said his parents, because they were fearing the Jews; for the Jews had agreed already, that, if any one should confess Him to be Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue. On this account, his parents said, "He is of age; ask him." Therefore, they called a second time the man who was blind, and said to him, "Give glory to God: we know that this Man is a sinner." He, therefore, answered, "Whether He is a sinner, I know not: one thing I know, that, though I was blind, now I see." They said, therefore, to him, "What did He do to you? how did He open your eyes?" He answered them, "I told you already, and ye did not hear; why do ye wish to hear it again? Do ye also wish to become His disciples?" And they reviled him, and said, "You are His disciple; but we are disciples of Moses. We know that God hath spoken to Moses; but, as to this Man, we know not whence He is." The man answered and said to them, "Why, in this is the wonder, that ye do not know whence He is, and He opened my eyes. We know that God heareth not sinners; but, if any one is a worshiper of God, and does His will, him He heareth. From remotest antiquity, it was never heard that any one opened the eyes of one born blind! If this Man were not from God, He could do nothing." They answered and said to him, You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us!" And they cast him out. Jesus heard that they cast him out; and, finding him, He said, "Do you believe on the Son of God?" And He answered, and said, "And Who is He, Lord, that I may believe on Him?" Jesus said to him, "You have both seen Him, and it is He Who is talking with you." And he said, "Lord, I believe." And he worshiped Him.

The woman, therefore, left her waterjar, and went away into the city, and says to the men, "Come, see a Man Who told me all things that I ever did: can This be the Christ?"

Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who heard it from John, and followed Him. He first finds his own brother Simon, and says to him, "We have found the Messiah," (which, being translated, is Christ).

On the morrow, He wished to go forth into Galilee; and He findeth Philip, and saith to him, "Follow Me." Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. Philip finds Nathanael, and says to him, "We have found Him of Whom Moses in the law and the prophets wrote??esus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."


"Return to your house, and relate how great things God did for you." And he departed, publishing through all the city how great things Jesus did for him. Verse ConceptsExperience, of Godevangelists, identity ofTestify On God's BehalfFervourZealousness, Examples OfChrist's WorkTelling Of JesusFamily And FriendsGod Turning Bad Things Into Good

And He charged them that they should tell no one; but the more He charged them, the more a great deal did they publish it. Verse ConceptsUnwise ZealGrowth In ProclamationChrist Concealing ThingsSpreading StoriesChrist's Orders