Luke 16:16 Cross References - Goodspeed

¹⁶ Until John came, it was the Law and the Prophets. From that time the Kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everyone has been crowding into it.

² "Repent!" he said, "for the Kingdom of Heaven is coming!"

¹⁷ From that time Jesus began to preach and say, "Repent! for the Kingdom of Heaven is coming!"

²³ Then he went all over Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and curing any disease or sickness among the people.

⁷ And as you go about, preach and say, 'The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!'

⁹ Then why did you go out there? Was it to see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and far more than a prophet! ¹⁰ This is the man of whom the Scripture says, " 'Here I send my messenger on before you; He will prepare the road ahead of you.' ¹¹ "I tell you, among men born of women no one greater than John the Baptist has ever appeared. And yet those who are of little importance in the Kingdom of Heaven are greater than he. ¹² But from the time of John the Baptist until now men have been taking the Kingdom of Heaven by storm and impetuously crowding into it. ¹³ For up to the time of John all the Prophets and the Law itself prophesied about it, ¹⁴ and, if you are ready to accept the idea, he is himself Elijah who was to come.

³² For John came to you with a way of uprightness, and you would not believe him. The tax-collectors and prostitutes believed him, but even after seeing that, you would not change your minds and believe him!

¹⁴ After John was arrested, Jesus went into Galilee proclaiming the good news from God,

⁴⁵ But he went off and began to talk so much about it, and to spread the story so widely, that Jesus could no longer go into a town openly, but stayed out in unfrequented places, and people came to him from every direction.

²⁶ Then what did you go out there to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and far more than a prophet! ²⁷ This is the man of whom the Scripture says, " 'Here I send my messenger on before you, He will prepare the road ahead of you!' ²⁸ "I tell you, among men born of women there is none greater than John; and yet those who are of little importance in the Kingdom of God are greater than he. ²⁹ And all the people, even the tax-collectors, when they heard him, acknowledged the justice of God's demands, by accepting baptism from John,

² and he sent them out to proclaim the Kingdom of God and to cure the sick.

⁹ and cure the sick there, and say to them, 'The Kingdom of God is close upon you!'

¹¹ 'The very dust of your town that sticks to our feet we wipe off in protest. But understand this: the Kingdom of God is at hand!'

²⁹ Abraham answered, 'They have Moses and the prophets; let them listen to them.'

³¹ He answered, 'If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead!' "

⁴⁵ Philip sought out Nathanael, and said to him, "We have found the one about whom Moses wrote in the Law and about whom the prophets wrote; it is Jesus, the son of Joseph, who comes from Nazareth!"

⁴⁸ If we let him go on, everybody will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and put an end to our holy place and our people."

¹⁹ So the Pharisees said to one another, "You see, you cannot do anything! The whole world has run after him!"

¹⁸ it was in this way that God fulfilled what he by all the prophets foretold that his Christ must suffer.

²⁴ Why, all the prophets from Samuel down, who have spoken, have also foretold these days. ²⁵ You are the descendants of the prophets and the heirs of the agreement that God made with your forefathers when he said to Abraham, 'Through your posterity all the families of the earth will be blessed.'