Bible Cross References
unto
Matthew 11:20-22
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The people in the towns where Jesus had performed most of his miracles did not turn from their sins, so he reproached those towns.
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"How terrible it will be for you, Chorazin! How terrible for you too, Bethsaida! If the miracles which were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, the people there would have long ago put on sackcloth and sprinkled ashes on themselves, to show that they had turned from their sins!
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I assure you that on the Judgment Day God will show more mercy to the people of Tyre and Sidon than to you!
for
Ezekiel 3:6
If I sent you to great nations that spoke difficult languages you didn't understand, they would listen to you.
Ezekiel 3:7
But none of the people of Israel will be willing to listen; they will not even listen to me. All of them are stubborn and defiant.
Acts 28:25-28
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So they left, disagreeing among themselves, after Paul had said this one thing: "How well the Holy Spirit spoke through the prophet Isaiah to your ancestors!
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For he said, 'Go and say to this people: You will listen and listen, but not understand; you will look and look, but not see,
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because this people's minds are dull, and they have stopped up their ears and closed their eyes. Otherwise, their eyes would see, their ears would hear, their minds would understand, and they would turn to me, says God, and I would heal them.' "
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And Paul concluded: "You are to know, then, that God's message of salvation has been sent to the Gentiles. They will listen!"
Romans 9:29-33
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It is as Isaiah had said before, "If the Lord Almighty had not left us some descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah."
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So we say that the Gentiles, who were not trying to put themselves right with God, were put right with him through faith;
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while God's people, who were seeking a law that would put them right with God, did not find it.
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And why not? Because they did not depend on faith but on what they did. And so they stumbled over the "stumbling stone"
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that the scripture speaks of: "Look, I place in Zion a stone that will make people stumble, a rock that will make them fall. But whoever believes in him will not be disappointed."
Romans 11:8-11
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As the scripture says, "God made their minds and hearts dull; to this very day they cannot see or hear."
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And David says, "May they be caught and trapped at their feasts; may they fall, may they be punished!
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May their eyes be blinded so that they cannot see; and make them bend under their troubles at all times."
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I ask, then: When the Jews stumbled, did they fall to their ruin? By no means! Because they sinned, salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make the Jews jealous of them.
1 Timothy 4:2
Such teachings are spread by deceitful liars, whose consciences are dead, as if burnt with a hot iron.
Tyre
Isaiah 23:1-18
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This is a message about Tyre. Howl with grief, you sailors out on the ocean! Your home port of Tyre has been destroyed; its houses and its harbor are in ruins. As your ships return from Cyprus, you learn the news.
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Wail, you merchants of Sidon! You sent agents
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across the sea to buy and sell the grain that grew in Egypt and to do business with all the nations.
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City of Sidon, you are disgraced! The sea and the great ocean depths disown you and say, "I never had any children. I never raised sons or daughters."
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Even the Egyptians will be shocked and dismayed when they learn that Tyre has been destroyed.
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Howl with grief, you people of Phoenicia! Try to escape to Spain!
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Can this be the joyful city of Tyre, founded so long ago? Is this the city that sent settlers across the sea to establish colonies?
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Who was it that planned to bring all this on Tyre, that imperial city, whose merchant princes were the most honored men on earth?
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The LORD Almighty planned it. He planned it in order to put an end to their pride in what they had done and to humiliate their honored ones.
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Go and farm the land, you people in the colonies in Spain! There is no one to protect you any more.
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The LORD has stretched out his hand over the sea and overthrown kingdoms. He has commanded that the Phoenician centers of commerce be destroyed.
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City of Sidon, your happiness has ended, and your people are oppressed. Even if they escape to Cyprus, they will still not be safe.
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(It was the Babylonians, not the Assyrians, who let the wild animals overrun Tyre. It was the Babylonians who put up siege towers, tore down the fortifications of Tyre, and left the city in ruins. )
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Howl with grief, you sailors out on the ocean! The city you relied on has been destroyed.
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A time is coming when Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, the lifetime of a king. When those years are over, Tyre will be like the prostitute in the song:
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Take your harp, go round the town, you poor forgotten whore! Play and sing your songs again to bring men back once more.
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When the seventy years are over, the LORD will let Tyre go back to her old trade, and she will hire herself out to all the kingdoms of the world.
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The money she earns by commerce will be dedicated to the LORD. She will not store it away, but those who worship the LORD will use her money to buy the food and the clothing they need.
Ezekiel 26:1-28
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On the first day of the...month of the eleventh year of our exile, the LORD spoke to me.
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"Mortal man," he said, "this is what the people in the city of Tyre are cheering about. They shout, 'Jerusalem is shattered! Her commercial power is gone! She won't be our rival any more!'
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"Now then, this is what I, the Sovereign LORD, am saying: I am your enemy, city of Tyre. I will bring many nations to attack you, and they will come like the waves of the sea.
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They will destroy your city walls and tear down your towers. Then I will sweep away all the dust and leave only a bare rock.
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Fishermen will dry their nets on it, there where it stands in the sea. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken. The nations will plunder Tyre,
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and with their swords they will kill those who live in her towns on the mainland. Then Tyre will know that I am the LORD."
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The Sovereign LORD says, "I am going to bring the greatest king of all---King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia---to attack Tyre. He will come from the north with a huge army, with horses and chariots and with cavalry.
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Those who live in the towns on the mainland will be killed in the fighting. The enemy will dig trenches, build earthworks, and make a solid wall of shields against you.
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They will pound in your walls with battering rams and tear down your towers with iron bars.
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The clouds of dust raised by their horses will cover you. The noise of their horses pulling wagons and chariots will shake your walls as they pass through the gates of the ruined city.
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Their cavalry will storm through your streets, killing your people with their swords. Your mighty pillars will be thrown to the ground.
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Your enemies will help themselves to your wealth and merchandise. They will pull down your walls and shatter your luxurious houses. They will take the stones and wood and all the rubble, and dump them into the sea.
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I will put an end to all your songs, and I will silence the music of your harps.
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I will leave only a bare rock where fishermen can dry their nets. The city will never be rebuilt. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken."
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The Sovereign LORD has this to say to the city of Tyre: "When you are being conquered, the people who live along the coast will be terrified at the screams of those who are slaughtered.
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All the kings of the seafaring nations will come down from their thrones. They will take off their robes and their embroidered clothes and sit trembling on the ground. They will be so terrified at your fate that they will not be able to stop trembling.
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They will sing this funeral song for you: The famous city is destroyed! Her ships have been swept from the seas. The people of this city ruled the seas And terrified all who lived on the coast.
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Now, on the day it has fallen, The islands are trembling, And their people are shocked at such destruction."
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The Sovereign LORD says: "I will make you as desolate as ruined cities where no one lives. I will cover you with the water of the ocean depths.
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I will send you down to the world of the dead to join the people who lived in ancient times. I will make you stay in that underground world among eternal ruins, keeping company with the dead. As a result you will never again be inhabited and take your place in the land of the living.
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I will make you a terrifying example, and that will be the end of you. People may look for you, but you will never be found." The Sovereign LORD has spoken.
which
Luke 9:10-17
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The apostles came back and told Jesus everything they had done. He took them with him, and they went off by themselves to a town named Bethsaida.
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When the crowds heard about it, they followed him. He welcomed them, spoke to them about the Kingdom of God, and healed those who needed it.
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When the sun was beginning to set, the twelve disciples came to him and said, "Send the people away so that they can go to the villages and farms around here and find food and lodging, because this is a lonely place."
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But Jesus said to them, "You yourselves give them something to eat." They answered, "All we have are five loaves and two fish. Do you want us to go and buy food for this whole crowd?"
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(There were about five thousand men there.) Jesus said to his disciples, "Make the people sit down in groups of about fifty each."
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After the disciples had done so,
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Jesus took the five loaves and two fish, looked up to heaven, thanked God for them, broke them, and gave them to the disciples to distribute to the people.
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They all ate and had enough, and the disciples took up twelve baskets of what was left over.
Mark 8:22-26
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They came to Bethsaida, where some people brought a blind man to Jesus and begged him to touch him.
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Jesus took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village. After spitting on the man's eyes, Jesus placed his hands on him and asked him, "Can you see anything?"
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The man looked up and said, "Yes, I can see people, but they look like trees walking around."
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Jesus again placed his hands on the man's eyes. This time the man looked intently, his eyesight returned, and he saw everything clearly.
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Jesus then sent him home with the order, "Don't go back into the village."
repented
Job 42:6
So I am ashamed of all I have said and repent in dust and ashes.
Isaiah 61:3
To give to those who mourn in Zion Joy and gladness instead of grief, A song of praise instead of sorrow. They will be like trees That the LORD himself has planted. They will all do what is right, And God will be praised for what he has done.
Daniel 9:3
And I prayed earnestly to the Lord God, pleading with him, fasting, wearing sackcloth, and sitting in ashes.
John 3:5
"I am telling you the truth," replied Jesus, "that no one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit.
John 3:6
A person is born physically of human parents, but is born spiritually of the Spirit.