And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?
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And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees;
Luke
Gospels / LukeThey shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukAnd of the sons of Elam; Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah, and with him seventy males.
Ezra
HistoryNow no man at the table knew for what intent he spake this unto him.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.
Numbers
LawA man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahEvery man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of their father's house: far off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch.
Numbers
Law / MosesAccording as we hearkened unto Moses in all things, so will we hearken unto thee: only the LORD thy God be with thee, as he was with Moses.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array before the gate of the city: and the kings that were come were by themselves in the field.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraPraise the LORD from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil dealings by all this people.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelFor it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownThe prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahWherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.
Acts
History / LukeTherefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsI make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and of his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee.
Ezra
HistoryAnd Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:
Genesis
LawAs a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThen shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewMuch people of the Jews therefore knew that he was there: and they came not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.