Luke 15:5 Cross References - Mace

⁵ and when he hath found it, joyfully lay it upon his shoulders?

²³ take the fatted calf, and kill it: let us eat and be merry: ²⁴ for this son of mine was dead, and is come to life: he was lost, and is found again. and then they began their feast.

³² but it was necessary to feast and rejoice, because your brother here was dead, and is again alive: he was lost and is now found.

⁹ then said Jesus, speaking of him, this day is salvation come to this family, since he is now become a true son of Abraham.

⁴³ Jesus answer'd, verily I tell you, this day thou shalt be with me in paradise.

³⁴ Jesus said to them, my meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. ³⁵ is it not a common saying, "t'other four months, and then comes harvest?" lift up your eyes now, I say, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.

¹¹ These things have I spoken to you, that you might have some present comfort, and that hereafter your joy might be compleat.

¹ Saul still breathing out nothing but threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, ² went to the high priest, and demanded letters for the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any of this sect, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. ³ As he was on his journey, and near Damascus, on a sudden, a light from heaven surrounded him, ⁴ and he fell to the ground, and heard a voice which said to him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? ⁵ and he said, who art thou, Lord? and the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: [it is hard for thee to kick against the goad. Then trembling with the fright Saul said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? and the Lord said to him,] ⁶ but rise, and go into the city, and you shall be told what you must do. ⁷ the mean while the men who accompany'd him, remain'd astonish'd, hearing a voice, but seeing no one. ⁸ at length Saul rose from the ground; and when he opened his eyes, he could not see: so that they led him by the hand, and brought him to Damascus, ⁹ where he was three days without sight, and did neither eat nor drink. ¹⁰ Now there was a disciple at Damascus, named Ananias, to whom the Lord said in a vision, Ananias! and he said, Lord, here I am. ¹¹ and the Lord said unto him, arise, and go to the street called Straight, and enquire at the house of Judas, for one Saul of Tarsus: for he is there at prayer. ¹² (at that very instant Saul saw in a vision the said Ananias come in, and put his hand on him, to restore his sight.) ¹³ then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard from many that this man has done a world of mischief to thy saints at Jerusalem: he is now here, ¹⁴ and is impower'd by the chief priests, to imprison all that make profession of thy name. ¹⁵ go, said the Lord to him: for he is the instrument I have chosen, to bear my name to the Gentiles, to kings, and to the children of Israel. ¹⁶ for I will make him see how much he must suffer for my name.

²⁰ but Esaias is more express, and says, "I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest to them that asked not after me. ²¹ and to Israel he says, "all day long I have stretched forth my hands to an incredulous and rebellious people."

¹⁹ and how exceedingly great that power is, which he has employ'd upon us who believe, a power corresponding to that energy of his mighty strength; ²⁰ which he exerted in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at the head of his heavenly kingdom,

³ of which number we all have formerly been, leading our dissolute lives in gratifying the desires of our sensual imaginations: and were indeed obnoxious to the divine displeasure, as other. Gentiles were: ⁴ then it was that God, who is rich in mercy, thro' his great love, wherewith he loved us, ⁵ did raise us all, who were in that deadly state of sin, to life by Christ, for by grace ye are saved: ⁶ he hath raised us up together, and made us partakers of his heavenly kingdom.

¹⁰ for he hath made us a-new, and form'd us by Christ Jesus to do good works, for which God had before prepared us, that we might live in them.

⁷ of this I was made a minister, according to the gracious gift God bestowed on me, by the effectual operation of his influence:

⁵ since the gospel we preach'd, did not consist only of words, but was fully confirm'd by miracles and gifts of the holy spirit, you yourselves being witnesses, what we did among you and for you.

²⁶ and so they may rouze out of the snare of the devil, who leads them captive at his discretion.

³ for even we ourselves were once inconsiderate, disobedient, deluded, addicted to variety of passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, the deserving objects of mutual hatred. ⁴ but when the kindness and love of God our saviour display'd itself to mankind, ⁵ he saved us not in consideration of any virtuous actions which we had done, but out of his meer mercy, by the baptism of regeneration, he form'd us anew, by the plentiful effusion of the holy spirit, ⁶ thro' Jesus Christ our saviour: ⁷ that being justified by his favour, we should have the inheritance of eternal life, according to our hopes.

² having Jesus in our view, the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down on the right hand of the throne of God.

⁵ whom the divine power preserves through faith for that salvation, which is going to be made manifest in the latter time.