Bible Verses About The Christ Jesus

The woman was a Greek, by birth a Syro-phoenician, and she begged him to drive the demon out of her daughter.

He said, "Let the children be fed first, for it is not right to take the children's food and toss it to their pet dogs."

She answered him, "That is true, sir; but even the dogs under the table eat the children's leftovers."

Then he said to her, "For such an answer you may go on home; the demon has left your daughter."

She went back home and found the child lying on the couch, the demon gone.

Yeshua said, "Yes! I tell you that there is no one who has left house, brothers, sisters, mother, father, children or fields, for my sake and for the sake of the Good News,

who will not receive a hundred times over, now, in the `olam hazeh, homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and lands -- with persecutions! -- and in the `olam haba, eternal life.

They were on the road going up to Yerushalayim. Yeshua was walking ahead of them, and they were amazed -- and those following were afraid. So again taking the Twelve along with him, he began telling them what was about to happen to him.

"We are now going up to Yerushalayim, where the Son of Man will be handed over to the head cohanim and the Torah-teachers. They will sentence him to death and turn him over to the Goyim,

who will jeer at him, spit on him, beat him and kill him; but after three days, he will rise."

But among you, it must not be like that! On the contrary, whoever among you wants to be a leader must be your servant;

and whoever wants to be first among you must become everyone's slave!

For the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve -- and to give his life as a ransom for many."

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

"Blessed is the coming Kingdom of our father David!" and, "You in the highest heaven! Please! Deliver us!"

The next day, as they came back from Beit-Anyah, he felt hungry.

Spotting in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came up to it, he found nothing but leaves; for it wasn't fig season.

He said to it, "May no one ever eat fruit from you again!" And his talmidim heard what he said.

Yeshua began speaking to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a pit for the wine press and built a tower; then he rented it to tenant-farmers and left.

When harvest-time came, he sent a servant to the tenants to collect his share of the crop from the vineyard.

But they took him, beat him up and sent him away empty-handed.

So he sent another servant; this one they punched in the head and insulted.

He sent another one, and him they killed; and so with many others -- some they beat up, others they killed.

He had still one person left, a son whom he loved; in the end, he sent him to them, saying, `My son they will respect.'

But the tenants said to each other, `This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, and the inheritance will be ours!'