Bible Verses About Quotations and Allusions

"The voice of someone crying out: `In the desert prepare the way for ADONAI! Make straight paths for him!'"

so that they may be always looking but never seeing; always listening but never understanding. Otherwise, they might turn and be forgiven!"

Yeshua answered them, "Yesha`yahu was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites -- as it is written, `These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far away from me.

Their worship of me is useless, because they teach man-made rules as if they were doctrines.'

For Moshe said, `Honor your father and your mother,' and `Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.'

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

However, at the beginning of creation, God made them male and female.

For this reason, a man should leave his father and mother and be united with his wife,

and the two are to become one flesh. Thus they are no longer two, but one.

You know the mitzvot -- `Don't murder, don't commit adultery, don't steal, don't give false testimony, don't defraud, honor your father and mother, . .'"

Those who were ahead and those behind shouted, "Please! Deliver us!"m "Blessed is he who comes in the name of ADONAI!"

Then, as he taught them, he said, "Isn't it written in the Tanakh, My house will be called a house of prayer for all the Goyimp But you have made it into a den of robbers!"

Haven't you read the passage in the Tanakh that says, `The very rock which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone!

"Rabbi, Moshe wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife but no child, his brother must take the wife and have children to preserve the man's family line.

And as for the dead being raised, haven't you read in the book of Moshe, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him, `I am the God of Avraham, the God of Yitz'chak and the God of Ya`akov'?

Yeshua answered, "The most important is, `Sh'ma Yisra'el, ADONAI Eloheinu, ADONAI echad [Hear, O Isra'el, the LORD our God, the LORD is one],

and you are to love ADONAI your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your understanding and with all your strength.'

The second is this: `You are to love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other mitzvah greater than these."

David himself, inspired by the Ruach HaKodesh, said, `ADONAI said to my Lord, "Sit here at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet." '

Yeshua said to them, "You will all lose faith in me, for the Tanakh says, `I will strike the shepherd dead, and the sheep will be scattered.'

And the passage from the Tanakh was fulfilled which says,

At three, he uttered a loud cry, "Elohi! Elohi! L'mah sh'vaktani?" (which means, "My God! My God! Why have you deserted me?")

He will go out ahead of ADONAI in the spirit and power of Eliyahu to turn the hearts of fathers to their childrena and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, to make ready for ADONAI a people prepared."

(as it is written in the Torah of ADONAI, "Every firstborn male is to be consecrated to ADONAI")

and also to offer a sacrifice of a pair of doves or two young pigeons,h as required by the Torah of ADONAI.