Quotes About Authority

After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, He was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.

and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever. His kingdom will never end!”

Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that a census should be taken of the whole empire.

In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, while Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

“Collect no more than you are authorized,” he answered.

Then some soldiers asked him, “And what should we do?” “Do not take money by force or false accusation,” he said. “Be content with your wages.”

But when he rebuked Herod the tetrarch regarding his brotherís wife Herodias and all the evils he had done,

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

Then the devil led Him up to a high place and showed Him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world.

“I will give You authority over all these kingdoms and all their glory,” he said. “For it has been relinquished to me, and I can give it to anyone I wish.

So if You worship me, it will all be Yours.”

He taught in their synagogues and was glorified by everyone.

Then He rolled up the scroll, returned it to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on Him,

Jesus said to them, “Surely you will quote this proverb to Me: ëPhysician, heal yourself! Do here in Your hometown what we have heard that You did in Capernaum.í”

They were astonished at His teaching, because His message had authority.

“Ha! What do You want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are—the Holy One of God!”

But Jesus rebuked the demon. “Be silent!” He said. “Come out of him!” At this, the demon threw the man down before them all and came out without harming him.

All the people were overcome with amazement and asked one another, “What is this message? With authority and power He commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!”

and He stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. And she got up at once and began to serve them.

Demons also came out of many people, shouting, “You are the Son of God!” But He rebuked the demons and would not allow them to speak, because they knew He was the Christ.

One day Jesus was teaching, and the Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there. People had come from Jerusalem and from every village of Galilee and Judea, and the power of the Lord was present for Him to heal the sick.

But the scribes and Pharisees began thinking to themselves, “Who is this man who speaks blasphemy? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

Which is easier: to say, ëYour sins are forgiven,í or to say, ëGet up and walk?í

But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on the earth to forgive sins...” He said to the paralytic, “I tell you, get up, pick up your mat, and go home.”