Voices of Scripture

The Bible, quoted
in its own voices.

Every passage is traced to the person behind it — stated in the text,
carried by tradition, or spoken where no author is named.

Jesus @jesus · Luke 12:36-40

Be like men watching for their lord when he returns from the wedding feast, that when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him. Blessed are those servants whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you that he will dress himself, make them recline, and will come and serve them. They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch and finds them so. But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into. Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don’t expect him.

Speaker, not author

Spoken by Jesus; the Gospel does not name its own author.

Jesus @jesus · John 11:4

“This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God’s Son may be glorified by it.”

Speaker, not author

Spoken by Jesus; the Gospel does not name its own author.

Jesus @jesus · John 4:13-14

“Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

Speaker, not author

Spoken by Jesus; the Gospel does not name its own author.

Jesus @jesus · Mark 3:3-5

“Stand up.” “Is it lawful on the Sabbath day to do good or to do harm? To save a life or to kill?” “Stretch out your hand.”

Speaker, not author

Spoken by Jesus; the Gospel does not name its own author.

Jesus @jesus · Mark 11:2-3

“Go your way into the village that is opposite you. Immediately as you enter into it, you will find a young donkey tied, on which no one has sat. Untie him and bring him. If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord needs him;’ and immediately he will send him back here.”

Speaker, not author

Spoken by Jesus; the Gospel does not name its own author.

Jesus @jesus · Luke 19:17-22

He said to him, ‘Well done, you good servant! Because you were found faithful with very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.’ The second came, saying, ‘Your mina, Lord, has made five minas.’ So he said to him, ‘And you are to be over five cities.’ Another came, saying, ‘Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief, for I feared you, because you are an exacting man. You take up that which you didn’t lay down, and reap that which you didn’t sow.’ He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn’t lay down and reaping that which I didn’t sow.

Speaker, not author

Spoken by Jesus; the Gospel does not name its own author.

Jesus @jesus · John 19:26-28

“Woman, behold, your son!” “Behold, your mother!” “I am thirsty!”

Speaker, not author

Spoken by Jesus; the Gospel does not name its own author.

Jesus @jesus · Luke 5:34-39

“Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast in those days.” “No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old. No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled and the skins will be destroyed. But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved. No man having drunk old wine immediately desires new, for he says, ‘The old is better.’”

Speaker, not author

Spoken by Jesus; the Gospel does not name its own author.

Jesus @jesus · Acts 22:21

‘Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.’

Speaker, not author

Words of Jesus as recorded in Acts.

“Why do you test me, you hypocrites? Show me the tax money.” “Whose is this image and inscription?” “Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

Speaker, not author

Spoken by Jesus; the Gospel does not name its own author.