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GOSPELS AND ACTS

MATTHEW

    2:13    “an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream”
    2:19    “an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt”
    5:45    “He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just
               and on the unjust”
    6:8     “your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him”
    6:18    “your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly”
    6:25    “your heavenly Father feeds them”
    6:30    “if God so clothes the grass of the field”
    6:32    “your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things”
    7:23    “I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness”
    8:15    “He touched her hand, and the fever left her”
    8:31    “If You cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of swine”
    9:25    “He went in and took her by the hand, and the girl arose”
    10:29  “And not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will”
    10:30  “But the very hairs of your head are all numbered”
    11:26  “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things
               from the wise and prudent and have revealed them to babes”
    13:41  “the Son of Man will send out His angels”
    14:26  “the disciples saw Him walking on the sea”
    18:7    “for offenses must come”
    20:16  “So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few chosen”
    24:24  “the Son of Man indeed goes just as it is written of Him”
    24:31  “He will send His angels . . . and they will gather together His elect”
    26:39  “not as I will but as You will”
    28:18  “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and earth”

MARK

    1:12    “the Spirit drove Him into the wilderness”
    2:10-11“But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins
               . . . I say to you, arise, take up your bed and go to your house”
    4:11    “To you it has been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God;
               but to those who are outside, all things come in parables”
    4:39    “He arose and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, ‘Peace, be still’”
    5:8     “Come out of the man, unclean spirit”
    9:31    “The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of men, and they will kill Him;
               and after he is killed, He will rise the third day”
    10:27  “for with God all things are possible”
    11:2    “you will find a colt tied, on which no one has sat. Loose it and bring it”
    11:21  “the fig tree which You cursed has withered away”
    14:21  “the Son of Man goes indeed just as it is written of Him”
    14:72  “before the rooster crows twice, you will deny Me three times”

LUKE

    1:13    “your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son”
    1:49    “He who is mighty has done great things for me”
    1:52    “He has put down the mighty from their thrones and exalted the lowly”
    1:68    “for He has visited and redeemed His people”
    2:11    “there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior”
    2:26    “it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death
               before he had seen the Lord’s Christ”
    4:39    “He stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her”
    6:5     “The Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath”
    8:25    “For He commands even the winds and water, and they obey Him”
    8:39    “return to your own house, and tell what great things God has done for you”
    12:12  “the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say”
    12:32  “it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom”
    12:49  “I came to send fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled”
    20:38  “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord”
    22:13  “they went and found it just as He had said to them”
    22:22  “the Son of Man goes as it has been determined”
    24:31  “He vanished from their sight”

JOHN

    1:13    “who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man,
               but of God”
    1:48    “when you were under the fig tree, I saw you”
    2:19    “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up”
    3:27    “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from heaven”
    4:29    “Come, see a Man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?”
    6:37    “All that the Father gives Me will come to Me”
    6:38    “I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who
               sent Me”
    6:44    “No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him”
    6:63    “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing”
    7:33    “I shall be with you a little while longer, and then I go to Him who sent Me”
    8:36    “if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed”
    11:3    “This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God”
    13:3    “Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands”
    13:21  “one of you will betray me”
    15:16  “you did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you”
    15:19  “I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you”
    16:32  “you will be scattered, each to his own, and will leave Me alone”
    17:2    “that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him”
    17:6    “I have manifested Your name to the men whom You have given Me
               out of the world”
    17:9    “I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me”
    17:12  “Those whom You gave Me I have kept”
    19:30  “and bowing His head, He gave up His spirit”
    20:26  “Jesus came, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst”
    21:18  “when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will gird you and
               carry you where you do not wish”

ACTS

    2:23    “Him, being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God”
    2:24    “whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible
               that He should be held by it”
    2:39    “as many as the Lord our God will call”
    2:47    “the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved”
    3:18    “those things which God foretold by the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ
              would suffer, He has thus fulfilled”
    4:27-28“the Gentiles and the people of Israel were gathered together to do whatever
               Your hand and Your purpose determined before to be done”
    4:31    “they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness”
    5:31    “Him God has exalted to His right hand to be a Prince and Savior,
               to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins”
    5:39    “if it is of God, you cannot overthrow it”
    7:2     “The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia”
    7:7     “God spoke . . . that his descendants would dwell in a foreign land, and that they
               would bring them into bondage and oppress them four hundred years”
    7:9-10 “God was with him and delivered him out of all his troubles and gave him favor
               and wisdom in the presence of Pharaoh”
    7:30    “an Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire in a bush in the wilderness
               of Mount Sinai”
    7:38    “the Angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai”
    7:45    “whom God drove out before the face of our fathers until the days of David”
    8:26    “an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip”
    8:39    “the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, so that the eunuch saw him no more”
    9:15-16“Go, for he is a chosen vessel of Mine to bear My name before Gentiles, kings, and the
                children of Israel. For I will show him how many things he must suffer
                for My name’s sake”
    10:19-20“the Spirit said to him, ‘Behold, three men are seeking you. Arise therefore, go down
                and go with them, doubting nothing; for I have sent them’”
    10:44  “the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who heard the word”
    11:18  “The God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life”
    11:21  “the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned
               to the Lord”
    11:28  “Agabus stood up and showed by the Spirit that there was going to be a great famine
               throughout all the world, which also happened in the days of Claudius Caesar”
    12:11  “when Peter came to himself, he said, ‘. . . the Lord has sent His angel and has delivered
               me from the hand of Herod’”
    12:23   “an angel of the Lord struck him . . . and he was eaten by worms and died”
    13:11  “the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you shall be blind, not seeing the sun for a time”
    13:48  “And as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed”
    14:16  “who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all things that are in them”
    15:12  “Paul declaring how many miracles and wonders God had worked through them among
               the Gentiles”
    15:18  “known to God from eternity are all His works”
    16:6    “they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia”
    6:7      “the Spirit did not permit them”
    16:14  “the Lord opened her heart to heed the thing spoken by Paul”
    17:24  “God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth”
    17:25  “He gives to all life, breath, and all things”
    17:26  “He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth
               and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings”
    17:28  “in Him we live and move and have our being”
    17:31  “He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man
               whom He has ordained”
    20:23  “the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that chains and tribulations await me”
    21:14  “the will of the Lord be done”
    22:14  “the God of our fathers has chosen you that you should know His will, and see
               the Just One, and hear the voice of His mouth”
    23:3    “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall”
    27:23  “there stood by me this night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve,
               saying ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; you must be brought before Caesar; and indeed
               God has granted you all those who sail with you’”
    28:28  “let it be known to you that the salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles,
               and they will hear it”


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