These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
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Matthew 11
Brit Hadashah 30 verses
- 1 When had concluded His instructions to His twelve disciples, He left in order to teach and to proclaim His Message in the neighbouring towns.
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Now had heard in prison about the Messiah’s doings, and he sent some of his disciples to inquire:
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“Are you the Coming One, or is it a different person that we are to expect?”
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Hebrews 10:37 John 11:27 Deuteronomy 18:15-18 Genesis 3:15 Malachi 3:1 John 7:31 Psalm 110:1-5 Zechariah 9:9 Psalm 2:6-12 John 12:13 Matthew 2:2-6 Matthew 21:5 Numbers 24:17 Micah 5:2 Haggai 2:7 Genesis 49:10 Joel 2:28-32 Matthew 21:9 Jeremiah 23:5-6 John 16:14 Genesis 12:3 Ezekiel 34:23-24 Mark 11:9 Hosea 3:5 Luke 19:38 John 4:21 Psalm 118:26 Amos 9:11-12 John 7:41-42 Isaiah 9:6-7 Malachi 4:2 Zephaniah 3:14-17 John 6:14 Isaiah 7:14 Obadiah 1:21 Daniel 9:24-26 - 4 “Go and report to what you see and ,” replied ;
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“blind eyes receive sight, and cripples walk; lepers are cleansed, and deaf ears ; the dead are raised to life, and the poor have the Good News proclaimed to them;
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Isaiah 35:4-6 Isaiah 61:1-3 Luke 4:18 Luke 7:21-22 James 2:5 John 14:11-12 Matthew 15:30-31 Isaiah 29:18 Matthew 21:14 Isaiah 42:6-7 Acts 14:8-10 2 Kings 5:14 Psalm 22:26 Isaiah 66:2 Mark 7:37 Zechariah 11:7 John 11:43-44 2 Kings 5:7 Matthew 9:30 Matthew 10:8 Mark 9:25 Acts 3:2-8 Matthew 9:24-25 John 3:2 Matthew 5:3 John 2:23 John 10:25 Matthew 8:1-4 Psalm 146:8 Acts 4:9-10 Luke 7:14-16 John 10:38 Psalm 72:12-13 John 5:36 Isaiah 43:8 Acts 2:22 -
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and blessed is every one who does not stumble and fall because of my claims.”
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- 7 When the messengers had taken their leave, proceeded to say to the multitude concerning , “What did you go out into the Desert to gaze at? A reed waving in the wind?
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But what did you go out to see? A man luxuriously dressed? Those who wear luxurious clothes are to be found in kings’ palaces.
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But why did you go out? To see a ? Yes, I tell you, and far more than a .
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This is he of whom it is written, “’See I am sending My messenger before Thy face, and he will make Thy road ready before Thee.’
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“I solemnly tell you that among all of woman born no greater has ever been raised up than the Baptist; yet one who is of lower rank in the Kingdom of the Heavens is greater than he.
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Ephesians 3:8 Romans 16:25-26 1 Corinthians 15:9 Isaiah 30:26 John 7:39 Hebrews 11:40 Job 15:14 Matthew 5:19 John 3:30 Job 14:4 Zechariah 12:8 John 1:15 John 1:27 John 5:35 1 Corinthians 6:4 Job 14:1 John 10:41 Matthew 3:11 Job 25:4 Luke 1:15 1 Samuel 2:30 Luke 9:48 Luke 7:28 Psalm 51:5 1 Peter 1:10 Ephesians 2:3 Colossians 1:26-27 2 Timothy 1:10 -
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But from the time of the Baptist till now, the Kingdom of the Heavens has been suffering violent assault, and the violent have been seizing it by force.
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For all the Prophets and the Law taught until .
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- 14 And (if you are willing to receive it)
- 15 Listen, every one who has ears!
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“But to what shall I compare the present generation? It is like children sitting in the open places, who call to their playmates.
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- 17 “’We have played the flute to you,’ they say, ‘and you have not danced: we have sung dirges, and you have not beaten your breasts.’
- 18 “For came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a .’
- 19 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they exclaim, ‘See this man!—given to gluttony and tippling, and a friend of tax-gatherers and notorious sinners!’ And yet Wisdom is vindicated by her actions.”
- 20 Then began He to upbraid the towns where most of His mighty works had been done—because they had not repented.
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“Alas for thee, Chorazin!” He cried. “Alas for thee, ! For had the mighty works been done in and which have been done in both of you, they would long ere now have repented, covered with sackcloth and ashes.
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Mark 6:45 Matthew 15:21 Luke 9:10 John 12:21 Matthew 11:22 John 1:44 Mark 8:22 Luke 6:17 Mark 3:8 Acts 12:20 Ezekiel 3:6-7 Jeremiah 13:27 Matthew 26:24 Matthew 23:13-29 Job 42:6 Jude 1:11 Mark 7:31 Luke 10:13-15 Mark 7:24 Luke 4:26 Luke 11:42-52 Acts 13:44-48 Acts 28:25-28 Acts 27:3 Matthew 12:41-42 John 3:5-10 Matthew 18:7 - 22 Only I tell you that it will be more endurable for and on the day of Judgement than for you.
- 23 And thou, , shalt thou be exalted even to Heaven? Even to Hades shalt thou descend. For had the mighty works been done in Sodom which have been done in thee, it would have remained until now.
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Only I tell you all, that it will be more endurable for the land of Sodom on the day of Judgement than for thee.”
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About that time exclaimed, “I heartily Thee, Father, Lord of Heaven and of earth, that Thou hast hidden these things from sages and men of discernment, and hast unveiled them to babes.
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Psalm 8:2 Matthew 16:17 John 11:41 Matthew 21:16 Isaiah 29:10-14 1 Corinthians 1:18-29 1 Samuel 3:4-21 Mark 10:14-16 Romans 11:8-10 Luke 22:42 1 Corinthians 2:6-8 Daniel 2:23 Luke 10:21-24 Isaiah 5:21 John 9:39-41 Mark 4:10-12 Matthew 18:3-4 Isaiah 66:1 Matthew 13:11-16 Acts 17:24 John 12:38-40 2 Corinthians 4:3-6 Isaiah 29:18-19 Jeremiah 1:5-8 John 7:48-49 Daniel 4:35 2 Thessalonians 2:13-14 Genesis 14:22 Deuteronomy 10:14-15 2 Corinthians 3:14 2 Kings 19:15 Genesis 14:19 1 Samuel 2:18 1 Chronicles 29:13 1 Corinthians 3:18-20 -
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Yes, Father, for such has been Thy gracious will.
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- 27 “All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one fully knows the Son except the Father, nor does any one fully the Father except the Son and all to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.
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“Come to me, all you toiling and burdened ones, and *I* will give you rest.
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Matthew 11:29 John 7:37 Galatians 5:1 Isaiah 55:1-3 John 6:37 Isaiah 66:2 Micah 6:6-8 Matthew 23:4 Revelation 22:17 Isaiah 45:22-25 2 Thessalonians 1:7 Isaiah 48:17-18 Psalm 38:4 Psalm 116:7 Hebrews 4:1 Jeremiah 6:16 Ecclesiastes 1:8 Isaiah 28:12 Isaiah 53:2-3 Isaiah 61:3 Ecclesiastes 1:14 Ecclesiastes 2:22-23 Psalm 90:7-10 Genesis 3:17-19 Isaiah 11:10 Romans 7:22-25 Isaiah 1:4 Psalm 32:4 Psalm 94:13 Acts 15:10 Job 14:1 Ecclesiastes 4:8 Job 5:7 -
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Take my yoke upon you and learn from me; for I am gentle and lowly in , and you will find rest for your souls.
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1 John 2:6 Philippians 2:7-8 Jeremiah 6:16 John 13:15 Philippians 2:5 1 Peter 2:21-23 2 Corinthians 10:1 John 15:10-14 Zechariah 9:9 Hebrews 5:9 Matthew 7:24 Hebrews 4:3-11 Numbers 12:3 Matthew 21:5 1 Thessalonians 4:2 2 Thessalonians 1:8 Ephesians 4:20-21 John 13:17 Acts 7:37 Matthew 17:5 Luke 8:35 Luke 10:39-42 Matthew 12:19-20 Psalm 131:1 2 Corinthians 10:5 Matthew 28:20 Isaiah 42:1-4 John 14:21-24 Luke 6:46-48 Luke 9:51-56 Matthew 11:27-28 Acts 3:22-23 1 Corinthians 9:21 - 30 For it is good to bear my yoke, and my burden is light.”