Matthew 7:8 Cross References - Etheridge

⁸ For every one who asketh receiveth, and he who seeketh findeth; and to him who knocketh it is opened.

²² And, beheld, a Canaanite woman from those coasts came forth crying, and saying, Have mercy upon me, my Lord, son of David! my daughter is grievously possessed with the demon! ²³ But he did not return her an answer. And the disciples approached and requested from him, saying, Dismiss her, for she crieth after us. ²⁴ But he answered and said to them, I am not sent but to the sheep which have wandered from the house of Israel. ²⁵ Then she came, worshipped him, and said, My Lord, help me! ²⁶ Jeshu said to her, It is not proper to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs. ²⁷ But she said, Even so, my Lord; yet the dogs eat from the crumbs that fall from the tables of their masters, and live. ²⁸ Then said Jeshu to her, O woman, great is thy faith! be it to thee as thou wilt! And healed was her daughter from that hour.

⁴² And he said to Jeshu, Remember me, my Lord, when thou art come into thy kingdom! ⁴³ Jeshu saith to him, Amen I say to thee, That to-day with me thou shalt be in Paradise. [Amin omar-no lok, d'yaumono ami tehve be-paradiso.]

² and Jeshu and his disciples were called to the feast.

⁸ The wind bloweth where she willeth,* and her voice thou hearest; but thou knowest not whence she cometh, nor whither she goeth: so is every man who is born of the Spirit. [* Rucho signifies either the Spirit, or the wind; as, in like manner, does the corresponding Greek word wneuma and hence most of the versions of the latter have, "The Spirit bloweth where he willeth;" but in the Syriac text the verbs and the pronominal affix to the noun "voice" being in the feminine, the application of Rucho to the Holy Spirit seems not to have been contemplated. OLSHAUSEN on the Greek text has well said, "The comparison itself, and the expression, fwnhn autou, show, beyond doubt, that wneuma does not here mean the breath of the Divine Spirit, but the wind properly so called."] ⁹ Nikodimos answered and said to him, How can these things be? ¹⁰ Jeshu answered and said to him, Art thou Malphona of Israel, and these knowest not?

¹¹ And our Lord said to him, Arise, go to the street which is called the Straight, and inquire in the house of Jihuda for Shaol, who is from Tarsos the city. For, behold, while praying,