Verse 12
From the dayes of Iohn the Baptist vntyll nowe, the kingdome of heauen suffereth violence, & the violent plucke it vnto them.
Referenced Verses
- Luke 16:16 : 16 The lawe & the prophetes raigned vntyll Iohn, and sence that tyme, the kyngdome of God is preached, & euery man stryueth to go in.
- Luke 13:24 : 24 Stryue to enter in at the strayte gate: for many I say vnto you, wyll seke to enter in, and shall not be able.
- Phil 2:12 : 12 Wherfore, my dearely beloued, as ye haue alwayes obeyed, not as in my presence only, but nowe much more in my absence, worke out your owne saluation with feare and tremblyng.
- John 6:27 : 27 Labour not for the meate whiche perisheth, but for that whiche endureth vnto euerlastyng lyfe, which meate the sonne of man shall geue vnto you: For hym hath God the father sealed.
- Eph 6:11-13 : 11 Put on all the armour of God, that ye may stande agaynst the assaultes of the deuyll. 12 For we wrastle not agaynst blood & flesshe: but agaynst rule, agaynst power, agaynst worldly gouernours of the darknesse of this worlde, agaynst spirituall craftynesse in heauenly places. 13 Wherfore take vnto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to resist in the euyll day, and hauing finished all thynges, to stande fast.
- Matt 21:23-32 : 23 And when he was come into the temple, the chiefe priestes, & the elders of the people, came vnto hym teaching, and saye: By what aucthoritie doest thou these thynges? and who gaue thee this power? 24 Iesus aunswered, & saide vnto them: I also wyll aske you one questio, which yf ye tell me, I in likewise wyll tell you by what aucthoritie I do these thinges: 25 The baptisme of Iohn, whence was it, from heauen, or of men? And they reasoned with them selues saying: if we shall say from heauen, he wyll say vnto vs, why dyd ye not then beleue hym? 26 But yf we shall say of men, then feare we the people: for all men holde Iohn as a prophete. 27 And they aunswered vnto Iesus, and sayde: we can not tell. And he saide vnto them: neither tell I you, by what aucthoritie I do these thynges. 28 But what thynke you? A man had two sonnes, and came to the firste, and saide: sonne, go and worke to day in my vineyarde. 29 He aunswered and saide, I wyll not: but afterwarde he repented, and went. 30 Then came he to the seconde, & sayde lykewyse. And he aunswered & saide, I wyll sir, and went not. 31 Whether of them twayne did the wyl of the father? And they saide vnto him, the first. Iesus sayth vnto them: Ueryly I saye vnto you, that publicanes & harlottes go into the kingdome of God, before you. 32 For Iohn came vnto you by the way of righteousnes, & ye beleued hym not: but publicanes & harlottes beleued him. And ye, when ye had sene it were not moued afterwarde with repentaunce, that ye myght haue beleued hym.
- Luke 7:29-30 : 29 And all the people, and the publicanes that hearde hym, iustified God, and were baptized with the baptisme of Iohn. 30 But the pharisees and lawyers despised the councel of God, agaynst them selues, and were not baptized of hym.