Bible Verses About The Christ Jesus

but the Pharisees, and the lawyers, the counsel of God did put away for themselves, not having been baptized by him.

And the Lord said, `To what, then, shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?

they are like to children, to those sitting in a market-place, and calling one to another, and saying, We piped to you, and ye did not dance, we mourned to you, and ye did not weep!

`For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and ye say, He hath a demon;

the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and ye say, Lo, a man, a glutton, and a wine drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners;

and the wisdom was justified from all her children.'

And there entered a reasoning among them, this, Who may be greater of them?

and Jesus having seen the reasoning of their heart, having taken hold of a child, set him beside himself,

and said to them, `Whoever may receive this child in my name, doth receive me, and whoever may receive me, doth receive Him who sent me, for he who is least among you all--he shall be great.'

he who is not with me is against me, and he who is not gathering with me doth scatter.

`When the unclean spirit may go forth from the man it walketh through waterless places seeking rest, and not finding, it saith, I will turn back to my house whence I came forth;

and having come, it findeth it swept and adorned;

then doth it go, and take to it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and having entered, they dwell there, and the last of that man becometh worst than the first.'

`Fire I came to cast to the earth, and what will I if already it was kindled?

but I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I pressed till it may be completed!

`Think ye that peace I came to give in the earth? no, I say to you, but rather division;

for there shall be henceforth five in one house divided--three against two, and two against three;

a father shall be divided against a son, and a son against a father, a mother against a daughter, and a daughter against a mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.'

and he said to them, `Having gone, say to this fox, Lo, I cast forth demons, and perfect cures to-day and to-morrow, and the third day I am being perfected;

but it behoveth me to-day, and to-morrow, and the day following, to go on, because it is not possible for a prophet to perish out of Jerusalem.

and he said to him, `A certain man made a great supper, and called many,

and he sent his servant at the hour of the supper to say to those having been called, Be coming, because now are all things ready.

`And they began with one consent all to excuse themselves: The first said to him, A field I bought, and I have need to go forth and see it; I beg of thee, have me excused.

`And another said, Five yoke of oxen I bought, and I go on to prove them; I beg of thee, have me excused:

and another said, A wife I married, and because of this I am not able to come.