4 Bible Verses about Highways
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"'Go out,' replied the master, 'to the high roads and hedge-rows, and compel the people to come in, so that my house may be filled.
Go out therefore to the crossroads, and everybody you meet invite to the wedding.'
"So they went out into the roads and gathered together all they could find, both bad and good, and the banqueting hall was filled with guests.
"The voice of one crying aloud: 'In the Desert prepare a road for the Lord: Make His highways straight.'"
From Thematic Bible
Highways » Figurative
He it is who was spoken of through the Prophet Isaiah when he said, "The voice of one crying aloud, 'In the desert prepare ye a road for the Lord: make His highway straight.'"
Highways » Roads for public use
Highways » Desolation of, threatened as a punishment
Highways » Infested with » Robbers
Jesus replied, "A man was once on his way down from Jerusalem to Jericho when he fell among robbers, who after both stripping and beating him went away, leaving him half dead. Now a priest happened to be going down that way, and on seeing him passed by on the other side. In like manner a Levite also came to the place, and seeing him passed by on the other side. read more.
But a certain Samaritan, being on a journey, came where he lay, and seeing him was moved with pity.
Highways » Illustrative » Of facilities for the restoration of the jews
Highways » Infested with » Wild beasts
Highways » Generally straight
Highways » Generally broad
Highways » Illustrative » (made in the deserts,) of facilities for the spread of the gospel
Highways » Beggars sat by sides of
They came to Jericho; and as He was leaving that town--Himself and His disciples and a great crowd--Bartimaeus (the son of Timaeus)
two blind men sitting by the roadside heard that it was Jesus who was passing by, and cried aloud, "Sir, Son of David, pity us."
Highways » Made to all cities of refuge
Highways » Marked out by heaps of stones
Highways » Often obstructed
Highways » Infested with » Serpents
Highways » All obstructions removed from, before persons of distinction
Highways » Called the king's highway
Highways » Illustrative » (broad,) of the way to destruction
"Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad the road which leads to ruin, and many there are who enter by it;
Highways » Illustrative » (narrow,) of the way of life
because narrow is the gate and contracted the road which leads to Life, and few are those who find it.
Highways » Illustrative » Of the way of holiness
Highways » Often made in deserts
Highways » By-paths more secure in times of danger
Highways » Illustrative » Of Christ
"I am the Way," replied Jesus, "and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
