Luke 5:33

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

They said to Jesus, “John’s followers often fast and pray, the same as the followers of the Pharisees. But your followers eat and drink all the time.”

Cross References

Luke 20:47

But they cheat widows and take their homes. Then they try to make themselves look good by saying long prayers. God will punish them very much.”

Luke 18:12

I fast twice a week, and I give a tenth of everything I get!’

Acts 9:11

The Lord said to him, “Get up and go to the street called Straight Street. Find the house of Judas and ask for a man named Saul from the city of Tarsus. He is there now, praying.

John 3:25

Some of John’s followers had an argument with another Jew about religious washing.

John 1:35

The next day John was there again and had two of his followers with him.

Luke 11:1

One time Jesus was out praying, and when he finished, one of his followers said to him, “John taught his followers how to pray. Lord, teach us how to pray too.”

Mark 12:40

But they cheat widows and take their homes. Then they try to make themselves look good by saying long prayers. God will punish them very much.”

Matthew 23:13

“It will be bad for you teachers of the law and you Pharisees! You are hypocrites! You close the way for people to enter God’s kingdom. You yourselves don’t enter, and you stop those who are trying to enter.

Zechariah 7:6

And when you ate and drank, was that for me? No, it was for your own good.

Isaiah 1:15

“When you raise your arms to pray to me, I will refuse to look at you. You will say more and more prayers, but I will refuse to listen because your hands are covered with blood.

Proverbs 28:9

When people do not listen to God’s teachings, he does not listen to their prayers.

Luke 2:37

before he died and left her alone. She was now 84 years old. Anna was always at the Temple; she never left. She worshiped God by fasting and praying day and night.

Luke 5:32

I have not come to ask good people to change. I have come to ask sinners to change the way they live.”

Luke 5:34

Jesus said to them, “At a wedding you can’t ask the friends of the bridegroom to be sad and fast while he is still with them.