The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

Ecclesiasticus ch. 38, v. 24

How can he get wisdom...whose talk is of bullocks?

Ecclesiasticus ch. 38, v. 25

Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us.

Ecclesiasticus ch. 44, v. 1

Such as did bear rule in their kingdoms.

Ecclesiasticus ch. 44, v. 3

Such as found out musical tunes, and recited verses in writing:

Rich men furnished with ability, living peaceably in their habitations.

Ecclesiasticus ch. 44, v. 5

There be of them, that have left a name behind them.

Ecclesiasticus ch. 44, v. 8

And some there be, which have no memorial.

Ecclesiasticus ch. 44, v. 9

Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.

Ecclesiasticus ch. 44, v. 14

As the flower of roses in the spring of the year, as lilies by the rivers of waters, and as the branches of the frankincense tree in the time of summer.

Ecclesiasticus ch. 50, v. 8

Get learning with a great sum of money, and get much gold by her.

Ecclesiasticus ch. 51, v. 28

2.116.3.6 2 Maccabees

It is a foolish thing to make a long prologue, and to be short in the story itself.

2 Maccabees ch. 2, v. 32

When he was at the last gasp.

2 Maccabees ch. 7, v. 9

2.116.4 New Testament

2.116.4.1 St Matthew

There came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,

Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.

St Matthew ch. 2, v. 1

They presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.

St Matthew ch. 2, v. 11

They departed into their own country another way.

St Matthew ch. 2, v. 12

In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.

St Matthew ch. 2, v. 18. See Jeremiah ch. 31, v. 15

Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

St Matthew ch. 3, v. 2

The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

St Matthew ch. 3, v. 3.

John had his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.

St Matthew ch. 3, v. 4

O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

St Matthew ch. 3, v. 7

And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees.

St Matthew ch. 3, v. 10

This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

St Matthew ch. 3, v. 17

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

St Matthew ch. 4, v. 4.

Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

St Matthew ch. 4, v. 7. See Deuteronomy ch. 6, v. 16

The devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them.

St Matthew ch. 4, v. 8

Angels came and ministered unto him.

St Matthew ch. 4, v. 11

Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

St Matthew ch. 4, v. 19

Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

St Matthew ch. 5, v. 3

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?

St Matthew ch. 5, v. 13

Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

St Matthew ch. 5, v. 14

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works.

St Matthew ch. 5, v. 16

Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am come not to destroy, but to fulfil.

St Matthew ch. 5, v. 17

Except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

St Matthew ch. 5, v. 20

Whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

St Matthew ch. 5, v. 22

Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him.

St Matthew ch. 5, v. 25

Till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.

St Matthew ch. 5, v. 26

Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God’s throne: Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool.

St Matthew ch. 5, v. 34

Let your communication be Yea, yea; Nay, nay.

St Matthew ch. 5, v. 37

Resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.

St Matthew ch. 5, v. 39

Whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.

St Matthew ch. 5, v. 41

He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

St Matthew ch. 5, v. 45

For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?

St Matthew ch. 5, v. 46

Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

St Matthew ch. 5, v. 48

When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.

That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward you openly.

St Matthew ch. 6, v. 3

Use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

St Matthew ch. 6, v. 7

After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

St Matthew ch. 6, v. 9. See St Luke ch. 11, v. 2

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.

St Matthew ch. 6, v. 19

Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

St Matthew ch. 6, v. 21

No man can serve two masters...Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

St Matthew ch. 6, v. 24

Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns.

St Matthew ch. 6, v. 25

Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

St Matthew ch. 6, v. 27

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:

And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

St Matthew ch. 6, v. 28

Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

St Matthew ch. 6, v. 33

Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

St Matthew ch. 6, v. 34

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

St Matthew ch. 7, v. 1.

Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

St Matthew ch. 7, v. 3

Neither cast ye your pearls before swine.

St Matthew ch. 7, v. 6

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

St Matthew ch. 7, v. 7

Every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth.

St Matthew ch. 7, v. 8

Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?

St Matthew ch. 7, v. 9

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

St Matthew ch. 7, v. 12

Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be that go in thereat.

St Matthew ch. 7, v. 13

Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

St Matthew ch. 7, v. 14

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

St Matthew ch. 7, v. 15

Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

St Matthew ch. 7, v. 16

By their fruits ye shall know them.

St Matthew ch. 7, v. 20

The winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.

St Matthew ch. 7, v. 25

Every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:

And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

St Matthew ch. 7, v. 27

For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.

St Matthew ch. 7, v. 29

Lord I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof.

St Matthew ch. 8, v. 8

I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.

St Matthew ch. 8, v. 9

I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.

St Matthew ch. 8, v. 10

But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

St Matthew ch. 8, v. 12

The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

St Matthew ch. 8, v. 20

Let the dead bury their dead.

St Matthew ch. 8, v. 22

The whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the

waters.

St Matthew ch. 8, v. 32

He saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose and followed him.

Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?

They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.

I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

Neither do men put new wine into old bottles.

Thy faith hath made thee whole.

The maid is not dead, but sleepeth.

He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils.

The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few.

Go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Freely ye have received, freely give.

When ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.

Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.

Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.

The very hairs of your head are all numbered.

Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.

I came not to send peace, but a sword.

St Matthew ch. 10, v. 34

A man’s foes shall be they of his own household.

St Matthew ch. 10, v. 36

He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

St Matthew ch. 10, v. 39

Whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.

St Matthew ch. 10, v. 42

Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another?

St Matthew ch. 11, v. 3

What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind? But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment?...

But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? yea, I say unto you, and more than a prophet.

St Matthew ch. 11, v. 7

We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.

St Matthew ch. 11, v. 17

Wisdom is justified of her children.

St Matthew ch. 11, v. 19

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

St Matthew ch. 11, v. 28

He that is not with me is against me.

St Matthew ch. 12, v. 30 and St Luke ch. 11, v. 23

The blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.

St Matthew ch. 12, v. 31

The tree is known by his fruit.

St Matthew ch. 12, v. 33

Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

St Matthew ch. 12, v. 34

Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

St Matthew ch. 12, v. 36

An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign.

St Matthew ch. 12, v. 39

Behold, a greater than Solomon is here.

St Matthew ch. 12, v. 42

When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.

Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.

St Matthew ch. 12, v. 43

Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.

St Matthew ch. 12, v. 45

Behold my mother and my brethren!

St Matthew ch. 12, v. 49

Behold, a sower went forth to sow;

And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the wayside, and the fowls came and devoured them up:

Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:

And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.

And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up and choked them:

But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.

St Matthew ch. 13, v. 3

He also that received the seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.

St Matthew ch. 13, v. 22

His enemy came and sowed tares.

St Matthew ch. 13, v. 25

An enemy hath done this.

St Matthew ch. 13, v. 28

The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field:

Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.

St Matthew ch. 13, v. 31

The kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls:

Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.

St Matthew ch. 13, v. 45

Is not this the carpenter’s son?

St Matthew ch. 13, v. 55

A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.

St Matthew ch. 13, v. 57

They took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full.

St Matthew ch. 14, v. 20

In the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.

St Matthew ch. 14, v. 25

Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.

St Matthew ch. 14, v. 27

O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?

St Matthew ch. 14, v. 31

Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.

St Matthew ch. 15, v. 11

They be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

St Matthew ch. 15, v. 14

Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.

St Matthew ch. 15, v. 27

When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.

St Matthew ch. 16, v. 2

Ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?

St Matthew ch. 16, v. 3

Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

St Matthew ch. 16, v. 18

Get thee behind me, Satan.

St Matthew ch. 16, v. 23

What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

St Matthew ch. 16, v. 26.

If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove.

St Matthew ch. 17, v. 20

Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

St Matthew ch. 18, v. 3

Whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.

But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged abut his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

St Matthew ch. 18, v. 5

It must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!

St Matthew ch. 18, v. 7

If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.

St Matthew ch. 18, v. 9

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

St Matthew ch. 18, v. 20

Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith unto him I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but

Until seventy times seven.

St Matthew ch. 18, v. 21

What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

St Matthew ch. 19, v. 6

If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven.

St Matthew ch. 19, v. 21

He went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.

St Matthew ch. 19, v. 22

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

St Matthew ch. 19, v. 24

With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.

St Matthew ch. 19, v. 26

But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.

St Matthew ch. 19, v. 30

Why stand ye here all the day idle?

St Matthew ch. 20, v. 6

These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.

St Matthew ch. 20, v. 12

I will give unto this last, even as unto thee.

Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?

St Matthew ch. 20, v. 14

It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.

St Matthew ch. 21, v. 13. See Isaiah ch. 56, v. 7

For many are called, but few are chosen.

St Matthew ch. 22, v. 14

Whose is this image and superscription?

St Matthew ch. 22, v. 20

Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s.

St Matthew ch. 22, v. 21

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage.

St Matthew ch. 22, v. 30

They make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,