Matthew 22:4 Cross References - Murdock

⁴ And again he sent other servants, and said: Tell those invited, Behold, my entertainment is prepared, my oxen and my fatlings are slain, and every thing is prepared; come ye to the feast.

³⁶ And again he sent other servants, more numerous than the first; and they did the like to them.

⁸ Then said he to his servants, The feast is prepared, but they who were invited were unworthy.

¹ And after these things, Jesus separated from among his disciples seventy other persons, and sent them, two and two, before his face, to every place and city whither he was to go. ² And he said to them: The harvest is great, and the laborers few: pray ye, therefore, the lord of the harvest that he would send laborers into his harvest. ³ Go ye: lo, I send you forth, as sheep among wolves. ⁴ Take to you no purses, nor wallets, nor shoes; and salute no man by the way. ⁵ And into whatever house ye enter, first say: Peace be to this house. ⁶ And if the son of peace is there, your salutation will rest upon it; but if not, your salutation will return to you. ⁷ And remain in that house, eating and drinking of what it affords; for the laborer is worthy of his hire. And pass not from house to house. ⁸ And into whatever city ye enter, and they receive you; eat that which set before you. ⁹ And heal them that are sick in it; and say to them: The kingdom of God hath come near you. ¹⁰ And into whatever city ye enter, and they receive you not; go out into the street, and say: ¹¹ Even the dust of your city which adhereth to our feet, we shake off against you: but this know ye, that the kingdom of God hath come near to you. ¹² I say to you, that for Sodom there will be comfort in that day, rather than for that city. ¹³ Woe to thee, Chorazin; woe to thee, Bethsaida; for if in Tyre and Sidon there had been the mighty deeds, that were in you, they would long ago have repented in sackcloth and ashes. ¹⁴ But for Tyre and Sidon there will be comfort in the day of judgment, rather than for you. ¹⁵ And thou Capernaum, that art lifted up to heaven, shalt be brought down to hell. ¹⁶ He that heareth you, heareth me; and he that despiseth you, despiseth me; and he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me.

¹⁷ And at the time for supper, he sent his servant to say to those invited: Lo, every thing is ready for you; come.

⁴⁶ And he said to them: Thus it is written, and thus it was right for Messiah to suffer, and rise from the dead on the third day; ⁴⁷ and that, in his name, repentance for the remission of sins should be preached among all nations, and that the commencement be at Jerusalem.

⁵⁰ But this is the bread which cometh from heaven, that a man may eat of it, and not die. ⁵¹ I am the bread of life, who have come down from heaven: and if a man shall eat of this bread, he will live for ever. And the bread which I shall give, is my body, which I give for the life of the world. ⁵² Then the Jews contended one with another, and said: How can he give us his body to eat? ⁵³ And Jesus said to them: Verily, verily, I say to you, That, unless ye eat the body of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life within you. ⁵⁴ But he that eateth of my body, and drinketh of my blood, to him is life eternal; and I will raise him up at the last day ⁵⁵ For my body truly is food, and my blood truly is drink. ⁵⁶ He that eateth my body, and drinketh my blood, abideth in me, and I in him ⁵⁷ As the living Father hath sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he that shall eat me, he also will live because of me.

⁸ But when the Holy Spirit shall come upon you, ye will receive energy, and will be witnesses for me in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and also among the Samaritans, and unto the ends of the earth.

¹⁹ And they who were dispersed, by the oppression which occurred on account of Stephen, travelled as far as Phenicia, and even to the country of Cyprus, and to Antioch, speaking the word to none except to Jews only. ²⁰ And there were some of them from Cyprus and from Cyrene, who went up to Antioch, and spoke to the Greeks, and preached concerning our Lord Jesus.

⁴⁶ And Paul and Barnabas said openly: To you first, ought the word of God to be spoken; but because ye repel it from you, and decide, against yourselves, that ye are not worthy of life eternal, lo, we turn ourselves to the Gentiles.

¹⁷ And after three days, Paul sent and called for the principal Jews. And when they were assembled, he said to them: Men, my brethren, although I had in nothing risen up against the people or the law of my fathers, I was at Jerusalem delivered over in bonds to the Romans: ¹⁸ and they, when they had examined me, were disposed to release me, because they found in me no offence deserving death. ¹⁹ And, as the Jews withstood me, I was compelled to utter an appeal to Caesar; but not because I had any thing of which to accuse the people of my nation. ²⁰ For this reason I sent for you to come, that I might see you, and might state these things to you: for it is on account of the hope of Israel, that I am bound with this chain. ²¹ They said to him: We have received no epistle from Judaea against thee; and none of the brethren who have come from Jerusalem, have told us any evil thing of thee. ²² But we are desirous to hear from thee what thou thinkest; for this doctrine, we know, is not received by any one. ²³ And they appointed him a day; and many assembled, and came to him at his lodgings. And he explained to them respecting the kingdom of God, testifying and persuading them concerning Jesus, out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening. ²⁴ And some of them assented to his discourses, and others did not assent. ²⁵ And they went out from him, disagreeing among themselves. And Paul addressed to them this speech: Well did the Holy Spirit, by the mouth of Isaiah the prophet, speak concerning your fathers, ²⁶ saying: Go unto this people, and say to them, Hearing ye will hear, and will not understand; and ye will see, and will not comprehend. ²⁷ For the heart of this people is stupefied, and their hearing they have made heavy, and their eyes they have closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and be converted unto me, and I should forgive them. ²⁸ Therefore, be this known to you, that to the Gentiles is this redemption of God sent: and, moreover, they will hear it. ²⁹ And when he had thus said, the Jews retired; and there were great disputations among them. ³⁰ And Paul hired a house, at his own cost, and resided in it two years; and there he received all that came to him. ³¹ And he preached concerning the kingdom of God, and taught boldly concerning our Lord Jesus Messiah, without hinderance. Completion of the Acts of the blessed Legates; that is, their Histories.

³² And, if he spared not his Son, but gave him up for us all, how shall he not give us all things, with him?

⁷ Purge out from you the old leaven, that ye may be a new mass, as ye are unleavened. For our passover is the Messiah, who was slain for us. ⁸ Therefore let us celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of wickedness and bitterness, but with the leaven of purity and sanctity.