Quotes About Sacrifice

Another of His disciples requested, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”

But Jesus told him, “Follow Me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”

When He got into the boat, His disciples followed Him.

In the distance a large herd of pigs was feeding.

“Go!” He told them. So they came out and went into the pigs, and the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea and died in the waters.

But go and learn what this means: ëI desire mercy, not sacrifice.í For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Simon the Zealot, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus.

Do not carry any gold or silver or copper in your belts.

Take no bag for the road, or second tunic, or sandals, or staff; for the worker is worthy of his provisions.

Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.

Do not assume that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.

For I have come to turn ëa man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me;

and anyone who does not take up his cross and follow Me is not worthy of Me.

Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been subject to violence, and the violent lay claim to it.

If only you had known the meaning of ëI desire mercy, not sacrifice,í you would not have condemned the innocent.

But the Pharisees went out and plotted how they might kill Jesus.

For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and in his joy he went and sold all he had and bought that field.

When he found one very precious pearl, he went away and sold all he had and bought it.

Prompted by her mother, she said, “Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist.”

and sent to have John beheaded in the prison.

Johnís head was brought in on a platter and presented to the girl, who carried it to her mother.