But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
Psalms
PoetryHe that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThey drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Genesis
LawAnd there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three ranks.
1 Kings
HistoryEnquire, I pray thee, of the LORD for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us; if so be that the LORD will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosNow the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings
HistoryHave I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?
Numbers
LawAnd say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielIncline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersEven so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
James
General Epistles / JamesAnd I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnWhen Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Shew a miracle for you: then thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast it before Pharaoh, and it shall become a serpent.
Exodus
Law / MosesHe that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.
Proverbs
WisdomTill a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
Proverbs
WisdomThese are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
Numbers
LawLet your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;
Luke
Gospels / LukeBehold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThat the cruelty done to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, which slew them; and upon the men of Shechem, which aided him in the killing of his brethren.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.
2 Kings
HistoryFor thy word's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all these great things, to make thy servant know them.