The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesLet him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterThat thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.
Luke
GospelsIn the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six months.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThere go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
Psalms
PoetryAnd so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them;
Judges
HistoryAnd I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow.
2 Kings
HistoryBlessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even unto Arnon.
Numbers
LawAnd Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and mocked him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThese all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.
Acts
HistoryAnd it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to enquire of the LORD, and sat before me.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd of the priests; Jedaiah, and Jehoiarib, and Jachin,
1 Chronicles
HistoryThen should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
Job
WisdomAs the LORD thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when they said, He is not there; he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they found thee not.
1 Kings
HistoryThou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd 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 ProphetsThe LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahBecause ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThe one and twentieth to Hothir, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraTherefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.