Matthew 21:16
and they said to him, `Hearest thou what these say?' And Jesus saith to them, `Yes, did ye never read, that, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings Thou didst prepare praise?'
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- Ps 8:2 : 2 From the mouths of infants and sucklings Thou hast founded strength, Because of Thine adversaries, To still an enemy and a self-avenger.
- Matt 11:25 : 25 At that time Jesus answering said, `I do confess to Thee, Father, Lord of the heavens and of the earth, that thou didst hide these things from wise and understanding ones, and didst reveal them to babes.
- Matt 12:3 : 3 And he said to them, `Did ye not read what David did, when he was hungry, himself and those with him --
- Matt 19:4 : 4 And he answering said to them, `Did ye not read, that He who made `them', from the beginning a male and a female made them,
- Matt 22:31 : 31 `And concerning the rising again of the dead, did ye not read that which was spoken to you by God, saying,
- Mark 2:25 : 25 And he said to them, `Did ye never read what David did, when he had need and was hungry, he and those with him?
- Luke 19:39-40 : 39 And certain of the Pharisees from the multitude said unto him, `Teacher, rebuke thy disciples;' 40 and he answering said to them, `I say to you, that, if these shall be silent, the stones will cry out!'
- John 11:47-48 : 47 the chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees, gathered together a sanhedrim, and said, `What may we do? because this man doth many signs? 48 if we may let him alone thus, all will believe in him; and the Romans will come, and will take away both our place and nation.'
- Acts 4:16-18 : 16 saying, `What shall we do to these men? because that, indeed, a notable sign hath been done through them, to all those dwelling in Jerusalem `is' manifest, and we are not able to deny `it'; 17 but that it may spread no further toward the people, let us strictly threaten them no more to speak in this name to any man.' 18 And having called them, they charged them not to speak at all, nor to teach, in the name of Jesus,
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13 and he saith to them, `It hath been written, My house a house of prayer shall be called, but ye did make it a den of robbers.'
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15 And they were bringing near also the babes, that he may touch them, and the disciples having seen did rebuke them,
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13 And they were bringing to him children, that he might touch them, and the disciples were rebuking those bringing them,
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