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Luke 7:11After Jesus had finished teaching all this to the people, he entered Capernaum.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 8:5-13Luke 7:1-10Matt 7:28-29

Luke 7:22A centurion there had a slave who was highly regarded, but who was sick and at the point of death.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 5:2-3Gen 24:27John 4:46-47Col 3:22-4:1Gen 24:2-14Gen 24:35-49Gen 35:8Gen 39:4-6Job 31:5John 11:2-3

Luke 7:33When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him, asking him to come and heal his slave.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 8:5John 4:47Luke 9:38Phlm 1:10Luke 8:41

Luke 7:44When they came to Jesus, they urged him earnestly, “He is worthy to have you do this for him,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 7:6-7Matt 10:11Matt 10:37-38Rev 3:4Luke 20:35Matt 10:13

Luke 7:55because he loves our nation, and even built our synagogue.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 2:11-121 Chr 29:3-91 John 3:141 John 3:18-191 John 5:1-31 Kgs 5:1Ezra 7:27-28Gal 5:6

Luke 7:66So Jesus went with them. When he was not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to say to him, “Lord, do not trouble yourself, for I am not worthy to have you come under my roof!Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 5:24Gen 32:10Jas 4:6Luke 8:49Matt 3:11Acts 10:38Luke 15:19-21Luke 5:8Luke 7:4Matt 5:26-27

Luke 7:77That is why I did not presume to come to you. Instead, say the word, and my servant must be healed.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 107:20Ps 33:9Luke 4:36Mark 1:27Deut 32:39Luke 5:131 Sam 2:6Exod 15:26

Luke 7:88For I too am a man set under authority, with soldiers under me. I say to this one, ‘Go!’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come!’ and he comes, and to my slave, ‘Do this!’ and he does it.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Tim 6:1-2Acts 10:7-8Acts 22:25-26Acts 23:17Col 3:22Acts 23:23Acts 23:26Acts 24:23Acts 25:26

Luke 7:99When Jesus heard this, he was amazed at him. He turned and said to the crowd that followed him, “I tell you, not even in Israel have I found such faith!”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 15:28Matt 8:10Rom 3:1-3Matt 9:33Rom 9:4-5

Luke 7:1010So when those who had been sent returned to the house, they found the slave well.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 4:50-53Matt 8:13Matt 15:28Mark 9:23

Luke 7:1111Soon afterward Jesus went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd went with him.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Luke 7:1212As he approached the town gate, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother (who was a widow ), and a large crowd from the town was with her.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 8:42Luke 8:521 Kgs 17:121 Kgs 17:181 Kgs 17:91 Tim 5:4-52 Kgs 4:162 Kgs 4:202 Sam 14:7Acts 9:39

Luke 7:1313When the Lord saw her, he had compassion for her and said to her, “Do not weep.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 63:9Ps 103:13Heb 4:15Lam 3:32-33Ps 86:15Jer 31:20Luke 8:52Ps 86:5Heb 2:17John 11:33-35

Luke 7:1414Then he came up and touched the bier, and those who carried it stood still. He said, “Young man, I say to you, get up!”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 11:43-44John 5:25Acts 9:40-41John 11:251 Kgs 17:21John 5:28-29Luke 8:54-55John 5:21Rom 4:17Ezek 37:3-10

Luke 7:1515So the dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him back to his mother.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 13:211 Kgs 17:23-242 Kgs 4:32-37

Luke 7:1616Fear seized them all, and they began to glorify God, saying, “A great prophet has appeared among us!” and “God has come to help his people!”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 9:8Jer 33:9Luke 1:68Luke 7:39Exod 4:31Luke 1:65Luke 2:20Luke 5:26Matt 15:31Matt 21:11

Luke 7:1717This report about Jesus circulated throughout Judea and all the surrounding country.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 7:14Mark 1:28Mark 6:14Matt 4:24Matt 9:26Matt 9:31

Luke 7:1818John’s disciples informed him about all these things. So John called two of his disciplesCopy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 3:26Matt 11:2-19

Luke 7:1919and sent them to Jesus to ask, “Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 9:6-7John 4:25Acts 10:7-8Dan 9:24-26Deut 18:15-18Gen 22:18Gen 3:15Gen 49:10Hag 2:7Isa 11:1

Luke 7:2020When the men came to Jesus, they said, “John the Baptist has sent us to you to ask, ‘Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?’”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 7:19

Luke 7:2121At that very time Jesus cured many people of diseases, sicknesses, and evil spirits, and granted sight to many who were blind.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 3:101 Cor 11:30-321 Kgs 8:37Heb 12:6Jas 5:14-15Mark 5:29Mark 5:34Matt 4:23Ps 90:7-9

Luke 7:2222So he answered them, “Go tell John what you have seen and heard: The blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have good news proclaimed to them.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 35:5-6Isa 61:1-3Luke 4:18Isa 29:18-19Jas 2:5Acts 14:8-10Acts 26:18Luke 7:14-15Luke 8:53-55Matt 15:30-31

Luke 7:2323Blessed is anyone who takes no offense at me.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 2:7-8Isa 8:14-15Matt 11:6Rom 9:32-33Matt 13:57-581 Cor 1:21-281 Cor 2:14John 6:60-66Luke 2:34

Luke 7:2424When John’s messengers had gone, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 4:14John 1:23Luke 1:80Luke 3:22 Cor 1:17-202 Pet 2:172 Pet 3:17Jas 1:6-8Matt 3:1-5Mark 1:4-5

Luke 7:2525What did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft clothing? Look, those who wear soft clothing and live in luxury are in the royal palaces!Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 10:52 Kgs 1:82 Sam 19:35Esth 1:11Esth 1:3Esth 4:2Esth 8:15Isa 59:17Matt 6:291 Pet 3:3-4

Luke 7:2626What did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 1:76John 5:35Luke 20:6John 3:26-30Luke 16:16Matt 11:9-14

Luke 7:2727This is the one about whom it is written, ‘Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.’Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mal 3:1Luke 1:76Mark 1:2John 1:23Luke 1:15-17Mal 4:5-6Matt 11:10Isa 40:3

Luke 7:2828I tell you, among those born of women no one is greater than John. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he is.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 11:39-40Matt 11:11Matt 13:16-17Col 1:25-271 Pet 1:10-12Eph 3:8-9Luke 10:23-24Luke 9:48Luke 3:16Luke 1:14-15

Luke 7:2929(Now all the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice, because they had been baptized with John’s baptism.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 3:12Luke 7:35Acts 18:25Acts 19:3Matt 21:31-32Matt 3:5-6Ps 51:4Rev 15:3Rev 16:5Rom 10:3

Luke 7:3030However, the Pharisees and the experts in religious law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John. )Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 13:342 Cor 6:1Jer 8:8Matt 22:35Acts 20:27Eph 1:11Gal 2:21Rom 10:21

Luke 7:3131“To what then should I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 11:16-19Lam 2:13Mark 4:30

Luke 7:3232They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to one another, ‘We played the flute for you, yet you did not dance; we wailed in mourning, yet you did not weep.’Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 11:16-19Jer 5:3-5Prov 17:16Isa 28:9-13Isa 29:11-12Zech 8:5

Luke 7:3333For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon!’Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 1:15Mark 1:6Acts 2:13Jer 16:8-10John 10:20John 8:48John 8:52Matt 3:4Matt 10:25

Luke 7:3434The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at him, a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 15:2Luke 7:36John 12:2Luke 14:1Luke 19:7Matt 9:11John 2:2Luke 11:37Luke 5:29

Luke 7:3535But wisdom is vindicated by all her children.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 8:32-36Matt 11:191 Cor 2:14-15Hos 14:9Prov 17:16Luke 7:29

Luke 7:3636Now one of the Pharisees asked Jesus to have dinner with him, so he went into the Pharisee’s house and took his place at the table.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 14:3-9Matt 26:5-6Luke 14:1John 11:2-16Luke 11:37Luke 7:34

Luke 7:3737Then when a woman of that town, who was a sinner, learned that Jesus was dining at the Pharisee’s house, she brought an alabaster jar of perfumed oil.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 14:3-9Matt 26:6-13Luke 5:30Luke 7:37-39Matt 21:311 Pet 4:181 Tim 1:9John 12:1-8Luke 18:13Luke 5:32

Luke 7:3838As she stood behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. She wiped them with her hair, kissed them, and anointed them with the perfumed oil.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 126:5-6Ps 51:17Gen 18:4Eccl 9:8Isa 61:3Luke 7:44-46Ps 6:6-82 Cor 7:10-11Jer 31:9John 13:4-5

Luke 7:3939Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know who and what kind of woman this is who is touching him, that she is a sinner.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 7:16Luke 15:2Isa 65:5Mark 7:21Prov 23:72 Kgs 5:20John 4:19John 7:12John 7:47-52John 9:24

Luke 7:4040So Jesus answered him, “Simon, I have something to say to you.” He replied, “Say it, Teacher.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 33:31John 13:13John 16:19John 16:30John 3:2Luke 18:18Luke 20:20-21Luke 5:22Luke 5:31Luke 6:8

Luke 7:4141“A certain creditor had two debtors; one owed him 500 silver coins, and the other fifty.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 7:47Matt 18:28Matt 6:12Rom 5:201 John 1:8-10Luke 11:4Rom 3:231 Tim 1:15-16Isa 50:1Jer 3:11

Luke 7:4242When they could not pay, he canceled the debts of both. Now which of them will love him more?”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 13:38-39Col 3:13Dan 9:18-19Eph 1:7Eph 4:32Gal 3:10Isa 43:25Isa 44:22Jer 31:33-34Matt 18:25-26

Luke 7:4343Simon answered, “I suppose the one who had the bigger debt canceled.” Jesus said to him, “You have judged rightly.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 116:16-181 Cor 15:9-101 Tim 1:13-162 Cor 5:14-15Luke 10:38Luke 7:47Mark 12:34

Luke 7:4444Then, turning toward the woman, he said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered your house. You gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Tim 5:10Gen 18:4Gen 19:2Judg 19:21Gen 43:241 Sam 25:41Jas 2:6

Luke 7:4545You gave me no kiss of greeting, but from the time I entered she has not stopped kissing my feet.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Sam 15:5Rom 16:161 Thess 5:262 Sam 19:391 Cor 16:20Gen 33:4Matt 26:48Gen 29:11

Luke 7:4646You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with perfumed oil.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 23:5Eccl 9:8Matt 6:172 Sam 14:2Dan 10:3Ps 104:15Ruth 3:3Amos 6:6Mic 6:15

Luke 7:4747Therefore I tell you, her sins, which were many, are forgiven, thus she loved much; but the one who is forgiven little loves little.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 4:191 John 3:18Gal 5:6Isa 1:18Rom 5:20John 21:15-17Eph 6:24Isa 55:71 Cor 6:9-111 John 5:3

Luke 7:4848Then Jesus said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 9:2Mark 2:5Luke 5:20

Luke 7:4949But those who were at the table with him began to say among themselves, “Who is this, who even forgives sins?”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 5:20-21Mark 2:7Matt 9:3

Luke 7:5050He said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 5:34Luke 8:48Luke 18:42Matt 9:22Mark 10:52Eph 2:8-10Rom 5:1-2Jas 2:14-26Hab 2:4Luke 8:42

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