Matthew 11:18

World English Bible (2000)

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, 'He has a demon.'

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  • Luke 1:15 : 15 For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.
  • Matt 3:4 : 4 Now John himself wore clothing made of camel's hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
  • John 7:20 : 20 The multitude answered, "You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?"
  • John 8:48 : 48 Then the Jews answered him, "Don't we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?"
  • John 10:20 : 20 Many of them said, "He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?"
  • Acts 26:24 : 24 As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, "Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!"
  • 1 Cor 9:27 : 27 but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
  • 2 Kgs 9:11 : 11 Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said to him, "Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to you?" He said to them, "You know the man and what his talk was."
  • Jer 15:17 : 17 I didn't sit in the assembly of those who make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of your hand; for you have filled me with indignation.
  • Jer 16:8-9 : 8 You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink. 9 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.
  • Jer 29:26 : 26 Yahweh has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in the house of Yahweh, for every man who is mad, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.
  • Hos 9:7 : 7 The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, and the man who is inspired to be insane, because of the abundance of your sins, and because your hostility is great.
  • Matt 10:25 : 25 It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!

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    32 They are like children who sit in the marketplace, and call one to another, saying, 'We piped to you, and you didn't dance. We mourned, and you didn't weep.'

    33 For John the Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, 'He has a demon.'

    34 The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, 'Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!'

  • Matt 11:19
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    19 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' But wisdom is justified by her children."

  • Luke 5:33-34
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    33 They said to him, "Why do John's disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?"

    34 He said to them, "Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast, while the bridegroom is with them?

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    17 and say, 'We played the flute for you, and you didn't dance. We mourned for you, and you didn't lament.'

  • Matt 9:14-15
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    14 Then John's disciples came to him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don't fast?"

    15 Jesus said to them, "Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

  • Mark 2:16-19
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    16 The scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, "Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?"

    17 When Jesus heard it, he said to them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."

    18 John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and asked him, "Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don't fast?"

    19 Jesus said to them, "Can the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they can't fast.

  • John 10:20-21
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    20 Many of them said, "He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?"

    21 Others said, "These are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon. It isn't possible for a demon to open the eyes of the blind, is it?"

  • Mark 3:20-22
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    20 The multitude came together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.

    21 When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him: for they said, "He is insane."

    22 The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, "He has Beelzebul," and, "By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons."

  • Luke 11:14-15
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    14 He was casting out a demon, and it was mute. It happened, when the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke; and the multitudes marveled.

    15 But some of them said, "He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons."

  • Matt 3:3-4
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    3 For this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness, make ready the way of the Lord. Make his paths straight."

    4 Now John himself wore clothing made of camel's hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.

  • Mark 3:30
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    30 --because they said, "He has an unclean spirit."

  • Luke 7:18
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    18 The disciples of John told him about all these things.

  • John 8:48
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    48 Then the Jews answered him, "Don't we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?"

  • Matt 9:11
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    11 When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"

  • Mark 1:6
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    6 John was clothed with camel's hair and a leather belt around his waist. He ate locusts and wild honey.

  • John 3:26
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    26 They came to John, and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, the same baptizes, and everyone is coming to him."

  • Luke 5:30
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    30 Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?"

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    32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn't believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you didn't even repent afterward, that you might believe him.

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    34 But the Pharisees said, "By the prince of the demons, he casts out demons."

  • Matt 3:1
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    1 In those days, John the Baptizer came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying,

  • Matt 12:24
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    24 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, "This man does not cast out demons, except by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons."

  • Luke 11:18-20
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    18 If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebul.

    19 But if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore will they be your judges.

    20 But if I by the finger of God cast out demons, then the Kingdom of God has come to you.

  • 1 Cor 11:21
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    21 For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken.

  • John 4:33
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    33 The disciples therefore said one to another, "Has anyone brought him something to eat?"

  • Prov 4:17
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    17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

  • Luke 15:2
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    2 The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, "This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them."

  • Mark 9:38
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    38 John said to him, "Teacher, we saw someone who doesn't follow us casting out demons in your name; and we forbade him, because he doesn't follow us."

  • Luke 4:2
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    2 for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry.

  • Mark 5:3
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    3 He lived in the tombs. Nobody could bind him any more, not even with chains,

  • Luke 7:24
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    24 When John's messengers had departed, he began to tell the multitudes about John, "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

  • Matt 11:2
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    2 Now when John heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples

  • Luke 9:49
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    49 John answered, "Master, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we forbade him, because he doesn't follow with us."

  • Matt 25:42
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    42 for I was hungry, and you didn't give me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink;

  • Matt 11:7
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    7 As these went their way, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John, "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

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    13 Then the disciples understood that he spoke to them of John the Baptizer.

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    53 Jesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in yourselves.