23 Bible Verses about Using Roads
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then you will say, we have eat, and drank with you, and you have taught in our streets.
abundance of people spread their garments upon the ground; others lop'd down branches from the trees, and strewed them in the way:
many spread their clothes in the way, others lopt down the branches of trees to strew them in the road.
insomuch that they brought the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least, the shadow of Peter might cover some of them, as he pass'd by.
and there were two blind men sitting by the way-side, who hearing that Jesus was passing by, cried out, "have mercy on us, O Lord, thou son of David."
At length they came to Jericho, and as he was leaving Jericho, accompanied by his disciples, and a great number of people, a blind man called Bartimeus sat begging in the high-way.
As they were near Jericho, a blind man happen'd to sit begging by the road,
accordingly they went, and finding the colt tied before a door, where two ways met, they untied it.
And when you pray, be not as the hypocrites are: for they chuse to stand praying in publick places, and at the corners of the streets, to be observ'd by men. I assure you, they have their reward.
therefore, when you give alms, do not make a proclamation of it as the hypocrites do, in their publick assemblies by sound of trumpet, that they may have the applause of men. for I assure you, they have their reward.
but when you enter into any city, and they refuse to entertain you, go through the streets,
so the servant return'd, and related the whole matter to his master, who in resentment said to his servant, go immediately into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring hither the poor, the maimed, the halt, and the blind.
go therefore into the high streets, and as many as ye find, invite to the marriage:
accordingly they went about the streets, and assembled all they met indifferently, both good and bad: so that the hall was furnished with guests.
the master reply'd, go then to the high-ways and by-paths, and compel them to come in, that my house may be full.
and in sowing, part of the grain fell in the high-way, and the fowls light and peck'd them up:
when any one heareth the doctrine of the gospel, and considers it not, then comes the wicked one, and catches away what was sown in his heart: he is the person meant by the high-way, where some of the seed was sown: but the stony ground,
some of the seed happened to fall by the wayside, which the birds light upon, and devoured.
they who receiv'd seed by the wayside, are those in whom the word is sown, who no sooner have heard it, but satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts.
a husbandman went out to sow his corn: and as he was sowing, some fell upon the beaten road, which was crush'd under foot, or devoured by the birds.
by the beaten road is meant, they who only hear: the word, by the lurking wiles of the devil, being hinder'd from taking root in their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.
he shall not strive, nor cry, neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets.