Quotes About Suffering

At the ninth hour, Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”

When some of those standing nearby heard this, they said, “Behold, He is calling Elijah.”

And someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine. He put it on a reed and held it up for Jesus to drink, saying, “Leave Him alone. Let us see if Elijah comes to take Him down.”

But Jesus let out a loud cry and breathed His last.

so that the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed—and a sword will pierce your soul as well.”

Herod added this to them all: He locked John up in prison.

But I tell you truthfully that there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and great famine swept over all the land.

After Jesus had left the synagogue, He went to the home of Simon, whose mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever. So they appealed to Jesus on her behalf,

Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.

including a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years. She had spent all her money on physicians, but no one was able to heal her.

“The Son of Man must suffer many things,” He said. “He must be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and He must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.”

Suddenly a man in the crowd cried out, “Teacher, I beg You to look at my son, for he is my only child.

A spirit keeps seizing him, and he screams abruptly. It throws him into convulsions so that he foams at the mouth. It keeps mauling him and rarely departs from him.

“Let these words sink into your ears: The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men.”

Jesus took up this question and said, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho when he fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him, beat him, and went away, leaving him half dead.

Because of this, the wisdom of God said, ëI will send them prophets and apostles; some of them they will kill and others they will persecute.í

But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!

At that time some of those present told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.

To this He replied, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered this fate?

Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower of Siloam collapsed on them: Do you think that they were more sinful than all the others living in Jerusalem?

Right there before Him was a man with dropsy.

He longed to fill his belly with the pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him a thing.

And a beggar named Lazarus lay at his gate, covered with sores

and longing to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich manís table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.