Jesus Christ

Founder of Christianity

Ancient influential 156 sayings

Sayings by Jesus Christ

If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

Approx. 30 AD — Teaching his disciples about the cost of following him
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Let the dead bury their own dead.

Approx. 30 AD — Response to a follower who asked to bury his father first
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I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.

Approx. 30 AD — Warning his disciples about division his teachings would cause
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Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.

c. 30-33 CE — Matthew 10:34, addressing his disciples about the consequences of following him.
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Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but division. For from now on in one house there will be five divided, three against two and two against three. They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.

c. 30-33 CE — Luke 12:51-53, speaking to the crowds about the divisive nature of his message.
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Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.

c. 30-33 CE — Matthew 8:22, said to a disciple who wanted to go bury his father first.
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Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.

c. 30-33 CE — Luke 16:18, teaching on divorce and remarriage.
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And he said to them, 'When I sent you out with no moneybag or knapsack or sandals, did you lack anything?' They said, 'Nothing.' He said to them, 'But now let the one who has a moneybag take it, and likewise a knapsack. And let the one who has no sword sell his cloak and buy one.'

c. 30-33 CE — Luke 22:35-36, preparing his disciples for future challenges.
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And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

c. 30-33 CE — Matthew 10:28, instructing his disciples on whom to fear.
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Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven people, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.

c. 30-33 CE — Matthew 12:31-32, warning against a specific unforgivable sin.
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Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

c. 30-33 CE — John 6:53, teaching on his body and blood.
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So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.

c. 30-33 CE — Luke 14:33, teaching on the cost of discipleship.
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Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

c. 27-30 CE — Matthew 4:17, beginning of his public ministry.
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Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me. For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.

c. 30-33 CE — Matthew 16:23, rebuking Peter.
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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.

c. 30-33 CE — Matthew 23:15, part of a series of woes against the religious leaders.
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You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?

c. 30-33 CE — Matthew 23:33, further condemnation of the scribes and Pharisees.
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I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.

c. 30-33 CE — Matthew 7:23, describing his judgment of those who claim to know him but do not obey.
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The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all law-breakers, and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

c. 30-33 CE — Matthew 13:41-42, parable of the weeds, describing final judgment.
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Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.'

c. 30-33 CE — Matthew 25:41, describing the judgment of the sheep and the goats.
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And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.

c. 30-33 CE — Matthew 25:46, conclusion of the judgment of the sheep and the goats.
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