Voices of Scripture
The Bible, quoted
in its own voices.
Every passage is traced to the person behind it — stated in the text,
carried by tradition, or spoken where no author is named.
“If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
Speaker, not author
Spoken by Jesus; the Gospel does not name its own author.
I tell you, it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that city. “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you. You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades. Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”
Speaker, not author
Spoken by Jesus; the Gospel does not name its own author.
‘You will seek me, and won’t find me;’ ‘Where I am, you can’t come’ “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink! He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”
Speaker, not author
Spoken by Jesus; the Gospel does not name its own author.
“Before the rooster crows you will deny me three times.”
Speaker, not author
Spoken by Jesus; the Gospel does not name its own author.
“Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn’t walk naked, and they see his shame.”
Speaker, not author
Words of Jesus as recorded in Revelation.
“Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”
Speaker, not author
Spoken by Jesus; the Gospel does not name its own author.
“The foxes have holes and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.” “Follow me!” “Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce God’s Kingdom.”
Speaker, not author
Spoken by Jesus; the Gospel does not name its own author.
“My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me. If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God or if I am speaking from myself. He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him. Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?”
Speaker, not author
Spoken by Jesus; the Gospel does not name its own author.
“Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so. I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”
Speaker, not author
Spoken by Jesus; the Gospel does not name its own author.
That’s everything for now.