Doors – Bible references
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Revelation 3:8 ESV / 149
“‘I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.
Matthew 7:7 ESV / 111 helpful
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
Revelation 3:20 ESV / 66 helpful
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.
Psalm 24:7 ESV / 58 helpful
Lift up your heads, O gates! And be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in.
John 10:1-42 ESV / 56 helpful
“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber. But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.” ...
Matthew 6:6 ESV / 52 helpful
But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Matthew 7:13-14 ESV / 43 helpful
“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
Proverbs 8:34 ESV / 42 helpful
Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting beside my doors.
1 Corinthians 16:8-9 ESV / 40 l
But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost, for a wide door for effective work has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.
1 Corinthians 16:9 ESV / 35
For a wide door for effective work has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.
John 10:9 ESV / 30
I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.
List of the Parables of Jesus
The parables of Jesus are found in the three synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark, and Luke) and the Gospel of Thomas. We will be studying 27 of the parables found in these texts. In our examination of these stories, we'll consider their literary form and placement within each gospel and the ways scholars of the New Testament and early Christianity have analyzed these texts.
New Testament scholars believe that Mark's gospel was used as a source by both Matthew and Luke, so their versions of each parable can be usefully compared to the Markan version to see their editing [or redaction] of the Markan source (though it also possible that they had access to another source in addition to Mark). But New Testament scholars also recognize that all of the parables were shaped prior to Mark by years of oral transmission among followers of Jesus and communities of the earliest church -- from Aramaic-speaking communities of Galilee into the Greek-speaking world/s of the Mediterranean, where early Christian apostles preached the gospel message they had heard.
The parables are listed below in four groups: first, those that are found in the Gospel of Mark and other gospels; second, those that are found in Matthew (and sometimes in Luke and Thomas), but not in Mark; third, those that are found in Luke (and sometimes in Thomas), but not in Mark or Matthew; fourth, those that are found only in Thomas. See also the Table of Parables and their parallels.
PARABLES OF THE GOSPEL OF MARK AND THEIR PARALLELS
1. THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER
· Mark 4:1–20, Matthew 13:3–23, Luke 8:5–15, Thomas 9
2. THE PARABLE OF THE SEED GROWING SECRETLY
· Mark 4:26-29 [unique to Mark]
3. THE PARABLE OF THE MUSTARD SEED
· Mark 4:30-32, Matthew 13:31-32, Luke 13:18-19, Thomas 20
4. THE PARABLE OF THE TENANTS
· Mark 12:1-11, Matthew 21:33-46, Luke 20:9-18, Thomas 65
5. THE PARABLE OF THE BUDDING FIG TREE
· Mark 13:28-32, Matthew 24:32-36, Luke 21:29-33
6. THE PARABLE OF THE FAITHFUL SERVANT
· Mark 13:33-37, Matthew 24:42, Luke 12:35-48, Thomas 21, 103
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PARABLES OF MATTHEW NOT FOUND IN MARK
7. THE PARABLE OF THE WHEAT AND TARES
· Matthew 13:24-30, Thomas 57
8. THE PARABLE OF THE LEAVEN
· Matthew 13:33, Luke 13:20-21, Thomas 96
9. THE PARABLE OF THE HIDDEN TREASURE
· Matthew 13:44, Thomas 109
10. THE PARABLE OF THE PEARL
· Matthew 13:45-46, Thomas 76
11. THE PARABLE OF THE NET Matthew 13:47-50, Thomas 8
12. THE PARABLE OF THE LOST SHEEP
· Matthew 18:12-14, Luke 15:3-7, Thomas 107
13. THE PARABLE OF THE UNMERCIFUL SERVANT
· Matthew 18:23-35 [unique to Matthew]
14. THE PARABLE OF THE LABORERS IN THE VINEYARD
· Matthew 20:1-16 [unique to Matthew]
15. THE PARABLE OF THE TWO SONS
· Matthew 21:28-31 [unique to Matthew]
16. THE PARABLE OF THE WEDDING FEAST/BANQUET
· Matthew 22:1-14, Luke 14:15-24, Thomas 64
17. THE PARABLE OF THE TEN VIRGINS
· Matthew 25:1-12 [unique to Matthew]
17b. THE PARABLE OF THE TALENTS
· Matthew 25:14-25:30
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PARABLES OF LUKE NOT FOUND IN MARK OR MATTHEW
18. THE PARABLE OF THE TWO DEBTORS
· Luke 10:30-37 [unique to Luke]
19. THE PARABLE OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN
· Luke 10:30-37 [unique to Luke]
20. THE PARABLE OF THE RICH FOOL
· Luke 12:16-21, Thomas 63
21. THE PARABLE OF THE LOST COIN
· Luke 15:8-10 [unique to Luke]
22. THE PARABLE OF THE PRODIGAL SON
· Luke 15:11-32 [unique to Luke]
23. THE PARABLE OF THE UNJUST STEWARD
· Luke 16:1-8 [unique to Luke]
24. THE PARABLE OF THE RICH MAN AND THE BEGGAR LAZARUS
· Luke 16:19-31 [unique to Luke]
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