Bible Verses About Quotations and Allusions

The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make ye ready the way of the Lord, Make his paths straight;

that seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest haply they should turn again, and it should be forgiven them.

And he said unto them, Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoreth me with their lips, But their heart is far from me.

But in vain do they worship me, Teachingas theirdoctrines the precepts of men.

For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother; and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death:

Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

But from the beginning of the creation, Male and female made he them.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife;

and the two shall become one flesh: so that they are no more two, but one flesh.

Thou knowest the commandments, Do not kill, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor thy father and mother.

And they that went before, and they that followed, cried, Hosanna; Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord:

And he taught, and said unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations? but ye have made it a den of robbers.

Have ye not read even this scripture: The stone which the builders rejected, The same was made the head of the corner;

Teacher, Moses wrote unto us, If a man’s brother die, and leave a wife behind him, and leave no child, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.

But as touching the dead, that they are raised; have ye not read in the book of Moses, in the place concerning the Bush, how God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

Jesus answered, The first is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God, the Lord is one:

and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength.

The second is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

David himself said in the Holy Spirit, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, Till I make thine enemies the footstool of thy feet.

And Jesus saith unto them, All ye shall be offended: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered abroad.

And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, And he was numbered with the transgressors.

And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

And he shall go before his face in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to walk in the wisdom of the just; to make ready for the Lord a people prepared for him.

(as it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord),

and to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.