Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.

General references

Bible References

Rejected

Luke 13:34
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, just as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not have it!
Jeremiah 8:8
How can you say, ‘We are wise,
And the law of the Lord is with us’?
But behold, the lying pen of the scribes
Has made it into a lie.
Romans 10:21
But as for Israel He says, “All the day long I have stretched out My hands to a disobedient and obstinate people.”
2 Corinthians 6:1
And working together with Him, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain—
Galatians 2:21
I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the Law, then Christ died needlessly.”

The counsel

Acts 20:27
For I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole purpose of God.
Ephesians 1:11
also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will,

General references

Matthew 19:30
But many who are first will be last; and the last, first.
Mark 10:31
But many who are first will be last, and the last, first.”
Luke 5:30
The Pharisees and their scribes began grumbling at His disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”