163 questions on this theme across 14 books
“Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?”
“Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him”
“How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?”
“Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?”
“Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days?”
“What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?”
“How much then is a man better than a sheep?”
“If Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand?”
“If I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out?”
“Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? From whence then hath it tares?”
“Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?”
“Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?”
“How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?”
“Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?”
“Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?”
“Didst not thou agree with me for a penny?”
“By what authority doest thou these things? And who gave thee this authority?”
“What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not?”
“Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?”
“Whose is this image and superscription?”
“Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?”
“Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?”
“See ye not all these things?”
“Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?”
“Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me?”
“Answerest thou nothing? What is it which these witness against thee?”
“What further need have we of witnesses?”
“What think ye?”
“Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee?”
“Whom will ye that I release unto you? Barabbas, or Jesus which is called Christ?”
“Whether of the twain will ye that I release unto you?”
“What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ?”
“Why, what evil hath he done?”
“Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful?”
“Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungred, he, and they that were with him?”
“How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the shewbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to them which were with him?”
“Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? To save life, or to kill?”
“How can Satan cast out Satan?”
“Know ye not this parable? And how then will ye know all parables?”
“What shall I ask?”
“Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife?”
“What did Moses command you?”
“By what authority doest thou these things? And who gave thee this authority to do these things?”
“Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?”
“Shall we give, or shall we not give? Why tempt ye me?”
“In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them?”
“Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?”
“Seest thou these great buildings?”
“Are ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and with staves to take me?”
“What need we any further witnesses?”
“Will ye that I release unto you the King of the Jews?”
“What will ye then that I shall do unto him whom ye call the King of the Jews?”
“Master, what shall we do?”
“And what shall we do?”
“Why do ye that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days?”
“How he went into the house of God, and did take and eat the shewbread, and gave also to them that were with him; which it is not lawful to eat but for the priests alone?”
“Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? To save life, or to destroy it?”
“And if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye?”
“Can the blind lead the blind? Shall they not both fall into the ditch?”
“And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your sons cast them out?”
“Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?”
“What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?”
“Then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?”
“Yea, and why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right?”
“Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering?”
“Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day?”
“Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?”
“How is it that I hear this of thee?”
“What shall I do?”
“How much owest thou unto my lord?”
“And how much owest thou?”
“If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?”
“And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?”
“Where, Lord?”
“And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?”
“Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?”
“Tell us, by what authority doest thou these things? Or who is he that gave thee this authority?”
“Is it lawful for us to give tribute unto Caesar, or no?”
“Why tempt ye me?”
“Whose image and superscription hath it?”
“Be ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and staves?”
“What need we any further witness?”
“What man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?”
“Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?”
“If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?”
“Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?”
“Are ye also deceived?”
“Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth?”
“Art thou also of Galilee?”
“But what sayest thou?”
“Why askest thou me?”
“Answerest thou the high priest so?”
“If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil: but if well, why smitest thou me?”
“What accusation bring ye against this man?”
“Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or did others tell it thee of me?”
“Am I a Jew? What hast thou done?”
“What is truth?”
“Will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews?”
“Speakest thou not unto me? Knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee?”
“If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee?”
“What shall we do to these men?”
“Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye.”
“And now do they thrust us out privily?”
“What will this babbler say?”
“What man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?”
“Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?”
“Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?”
“Tell me, art thou a Roman?”
“Sittest thou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?”
“Revilest thou God's high priest?”
“Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me?”
“Hast thou appealed unto Caesar?”
“Thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?”
“Shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?”
“But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance?”
“For then how shall God judge the world?”
“What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God?”
“Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?”
“Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?”
“Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?”
“Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power?”
“Who art thou that judgest another man's servant?”
“But why dost thou judge thy brother? Or why dost thou set at nought thy brother?”
“Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?”
“For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him?”
“For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? Do not ye judge them that are within?”
“Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?”
“Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?”
“Know ye not that we shall judge angels? How much more things that pertain to this life?”
“Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? No, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?”
“Why do ye not rather take wrong? Why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?”
“If any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols”
“Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? Who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? Or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?”
“Say I these things as a man? Or saith not the law the same also?”
“Doth God take care for oxen?”
“Or saith he it altogether for our sakes?”
“Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? And they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?”
“What say I then? That the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?”
“For why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience?”
“Is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?”
“Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?”
“Do ye look on things after the outward appearance?”
“Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?”
“Did Titus make a gain of you? Walked we not in the same spirit? Walked we not in the same steps?”
“Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?”
“After the commandments and doctrines of men?”
“For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?”
“Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?”
“Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?”
“Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you?”
“Who art thou that judgest another?”
“What glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently?”
“If it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?”
“If the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?”
“How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?”
“Who shall be able to stand?”
“Wherefore didst thou marvel?”
“What city is like unto this great city!”