But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewTherefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomThe same day there came certain of the Pharisees, saying unto him, Get thee out, and depart hence: for Herod will kill thee.
Luke
GospelsMoreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the workmen according to their service was:
1 Chronicles
HistoryBut Peter followed him afar off unto the high priest's palace, and went in, and sat with the servants, to see the end.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewYe have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd the people waited for Zacharias, and marvelled that he tarried so long in the temple.
Luke
Gospels / LukeI will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
Psalms
PoetryAnd there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahBut there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:
Acts
History / LukeAnd she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahHe made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
Deuteronomy
LawSo we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahOne golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
Numbers
LawHarden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
Hebrews
General EpistlesForasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
Amos
Minor ProphetsHe spake, and there came divers sorts of flies, and lice in all their coasts.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAt the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBe afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
James
General EpistlesHe took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Gedaliah sware to them, and to their men, and said unto them, Fear not to be the servants of the Chaldees: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon; and it shall be well with you.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahWhether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?