Bible Verses About Religious Zeal

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!

He said to them, “Is the lamp brought to be put under a basket or under a bed? Isn’t it put on a stand?

For there is nothing hidden, except that it should be made known; neither was anything made secret, but that it should come to light.

He didn’t allow him, but said to him, “Go to your house, to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how he had mercy on you.”

He went his way, and began to proclaim in Decapolis how Yeshua had done great things for him, and everyone marveled.

He marveled because of their unbelief. He went around the villages teaching.

But Peter said to him, “Although all will be offended, yet I will not.”

Yeshua said to him, “Most certainly I tell you, that you today, even this night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.”

But he spoke all the more, “If I must die with you, I will not deny you.” They all said the same thing.

They went out, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the signs that followed. Amen.

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

He will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord, their God.

He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord.”

“No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a container, or puts it under a bed; but puts it on a stand, that those who enter in may see the light.

For nothing is hidden, that will not be revealed; nor anything secret, that will not be known and come to light.

As they went on the way, a certain man said to him, “I want to follow you wherever you go, Lord.”

Yeshua said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

When he drew near, he saw the city and wept over it,

saying, “If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.

but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn’t fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers.”

He said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death!”

One of the two who heard Yochanan, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother.

He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which is, being interpreted, Anointed One ).

He brought him to Yeshua. Yeshua looked at him, and said, “You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Kefa ” (which is by interpretation, Peter).

Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him, of whom Moses in the Torah, and the Prophets, wrote: Yeshua of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”