4 Bible Verses about Irony
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For who makes you superior? And what do you have that you did not get from someone? But if you got it from someone, why do you boast as though you had not? Are you satisfied already? Have you grown rich already? Have you ascended your thrones without us to join you? Yes, I could wish that you had ascended your thrones, that we too might join you on them! For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on exhibition at the disgraced end of the procession, as they do with men who are doomed to die in the arena.read more.
For we have become a spectacle to the universe, to angels as well as men. For Christ's sake we are held as fools, while you through union with Christ are men of wisdom. We are weak; you are strong. You are held in honor; we in dishonor. To this very hour we have gone hungry, thirsty, poorly clad; we have been roughly knocked around; we have had no home. We have worked hard with our own hands for a living. When abused by people, we bless them. When persecuted, we patiently bear it. When we are slandered by them, we try to conciliate them. To this very hour we have been made the filth of the world, the scum of the universe! I do not write this to make you blush with shame but to give you counsel as my dear children.
Jesus heard it, and said to them, "Not well but sick people have to send for the doctor. It is not upright but sinful people that I have come to invite."
And they dressed Him in a purple robe and made a crown of thorns and crowned Him with it, and they began to shout at Him, "All hail, you king of the Jews!" And they kept hitting Him on the head with a stick, and kept spitting on Him, and on bending knees they kept doing Him homage.
Then Agrippa answered Paul, "In brief you are trying to persuade me and make a Christian of me!"
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Irony » Instances of » The roman soldiers to jesus
Then Herod and his bodyguard treated Him with contempt and made sport of Him and put a gorgeous robe on Him and sent Him back to Pilate.
and made a crown of thorns and set it on His head, and they put a stick in His hand, and kneeling before Him they made sport of Him, saying, "All hail, you king of the Jews!"
And they dressed Him in a purple robe and made a crown of thorns and crowned Him with it, and they began to shout at Him, "All hail, you king of the Jews!" And they kept hitting Him on the head with a stick, and kept spitting on Him, and on bending knees they kept doing Him homage.
And the soldiers made a crown out of thorns and put it on His head, and put a purple coat on Him, and kept marching up to Him and saying, "All hail, you king of the Jews!" each one slapping Him on the face.
Irony » Instances of » The inscription of pilate above jesus
Pilate had a placard written and had it put over the cross: "JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS."
They put above His head the charge against Him, which read: "THIS IS JESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS."
Irony » Instances of » Pilate, calling jesus "king,"
But they shouted, "Kill Him! Kill Him! Crucify Him!" Pilate said to them, "Must I crucify your king?" The high priests answered, "We have no king but the emperor!"
And they kept hitting Him on the head with a stick, and kept spitting on Him, and on bending knees they kept doing Him homage.
Irony » Instances of » Ezekiel to the prince of tyre
Irony » Instances of » Elijah to the priests of baal
Irony » Instances of » Micaiah
Irony » Instances of » The pharisees and the herodians to jesus
So they sent to Him their disciples with the Herodians, to say to Him, "Teacher, we know that you are in the habit of telling the truth and of teaching the way of God in honesty, and you do not care what anyone says, for you are not partial.
Irony » Instances of » Job to his accusers
Irony » Instances of » Michal to david
Irony » Instances of » Herod agrippa ii to paul
Then Agrippa answered Paul, "In brief you are trying to persuade me and make a Christian of me!"
Irony » Instances of » Jesus to the pharisees
Jesus heard it, and said to them, "Not well but sick people have to send for the doctor. It is not upright but sinful people that I have come to invite."
