Praying from Matthew 22:8. Themes: Rejection, Worthiness, Invitation
Command. The servants are being instructed to inform those who were invited to the wedding that they are not worthy to attend.
Praying from Matthew 22:5. Themes: Neglect, Priorities, Materialism.
Command. The verse is a warning to not make light of the invitation to the kingdom of heaven.
Praying from Matthew 22:4. Themes: Invitation, Feast, Preparedness
Command. The servants are commanded to tell those who are invited to come to the wedding feast.
Praying from Matthew 22:3. Themes: Rejection, Invitation, Consequence
Command. The verse commands the reader to come to the wedding feast.
Praying from Matthew 21:44. Themes: Judgment, Salvation, Humility.
Command. The verse is warning the reader that if they fall on the stone (Jesus), they will be broken to pieces. This can be interpreted as a call to repent…
Praying from Matthew 21:43. Themes: Judgment, Kingdom, Fruitfulness.
Promise. The verse states that God’s Kingdom will be taken away from the current group and given to a nation producing its fruit.
Praying from Matthew 21:42. Themes: Rejection, Scripture, Marvelous.
Promise. The verse is a reference to Jesus being the cornerstone, which was rejected by the builders but became the most important part of the building. Th…
Praying from Matthew 21:37. Themes: Sonship, Respect, Authority
Promise. The verse is a statement made by a character in a parable told by Jesus, and it promises that the people will respect the son of the character who…
Praying from Matthew 21:32. Themes: Repentance, Righteousness, Belief
Command. The verse commands the reader to repent in order to believe in John’s message.
Praying from Matthew 21:31. Themes: Obedience, Repentance, Salvation
Promise. The verse states that tax collectors and prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before the religious leaders who were questioning Jesus. This…
Praying from Matthew 21:30. Themes: Obedience, Deception, Repentance.
Command. The verse is a parable told by Jesus in which a father asks his two sons to work in his vineyard. The son in this verse initially agrees to go but…
Praying from Matthew 21:28. Themes: Obedience, Repentance, Forgiveness.
Command. The father commands his son to go work in his vineyard.
Praying from Matthew 21:25. Themes: Authority, Faith, Truth
Command. The verse commands the reader to reason and answer the question posed about the origin of John’s baptism.
Praying from Matthew 21:22. Themes: Faith, Prayer, Belief
Promise. The verse promises that if the reader asks for anything in prayer and believes, they will receive it.
Praying from Matthew 21:21. Themes: Faith, Doubt, Power
Promise. The promise is that if the reader has faith and does not doubt, they will be able to move mountains.
Praying from Matthew 21:19. Themes: Judgment, Fruitfulness, Power
Command: “Let there be no fruit from you forever!”
Praying from Matthew 21:16. Themes: Praise, Humility, Faith
Promise. The verse is a reference to Psalm 8:2 and is a promise that even the praise of children and infants is perfect and pleasing to God.
Praying from Matthew 21:14. Themes: Healing, Compassion, Miracles.
Promise. The verse describes how Jesus healed the lame and the blind who came to him in the temple. There is no command given to the reader.
Praying from Matthew 21:13. Themes: Worship, Justice, Holiness.
Command. The verse commands the reader to make their house a house of prayer and not a den of robbers.
Praying from Matthew 21:12. Themes: Righteous anger, Holiness, Worship
Command. The verse commands the reader to follow Jesus’ example and drive out any corrupt practices or behaviors in their own lives or communities.