Bible Verses About School

And the prince of the eunuchs said to Daniel: I fear my lord, the king, who hath appointed you meat and drink: who if he should see your faces leaner than those of the other youths, your equals, you shall endanger my head to the king.

And Daniel said to Malasar, whom the prince of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Ananias, Misael, and Azarias:

Try, I beseech thee, thy servants for ten days, and let pulse be given us to eat, and water to drink:

And look upon our faces, and the faces of the children that eat of the king's meat: and as thou shalt see, deal with thy servants.

And when he had heard these words, he tried them for ten days.

And after ten days, their faces appeared fairer and fatter than all the children that ate of the king's meat.

So Malasar took their portions, and the wine that they should drink: and he gave them pulse.

And to these children God gave knowledge, and understanding in every book, and wisdom: but to Daniel the understanding also of all visions and dreams.

And when the days were ended, after which the king had ordered they should be brought in: the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nabuchodonosor.

And when the king had spoken to them, there were not found among them all such as Daniel, Ananias, Misael, and Azarias: and they stood in the king's presence.

And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king enquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the diviners, and wise men, that were in all his kingdom.

And Daniel continued even to the first year of king Cyrus.

But one in the council rising up, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, respected by all the people, commanded the men to be put forth a little while.

But when some were hardened and believed not, speaking evil of the way of the Lord before the multitude, departing from them, he separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.

And he saith: I am a Jew, born at Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, taught according to the truth of the law of the fathers, zealous for the law, as also all you are this day:

Wherefore the law was our pedagogue in Christ: that we might be justified by faith.

But after the faith is come, we are no longer under a pedagogue.