Quotes about Religious

Then he brought me to the portico of the temple and measured the side pillars of the portico to be five cubits on each side. The width of the gateway was fourteen cubits and its sidewalls were three cubits on either side.

The side rooms were arranged one above another in three levels of thirty rooms each. There were ledges all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports would not be fastened into the wall of the temple itself.

The outer wall of the side rooms was five cubits thick, and the open area between the side rooms of the temple

the face of a man was toward the palm tree on one side, and the face of a young lion was toward the palm tree on the other side. They were carved all the way around the temple.

The outer sanctuary had a rectangular doorframe, and the doorframe of the sanctuary was similar.

You are to take some of its blood and put it on the four horns of the altar, on the four corners of the ledge, and all around the rim; thus you will cleanse the altar and make atonement for it.

No priest may drink wine before he enters the inner court.

But let no man contend; let no man offer reproof; for your people are like those who contend with a priest.

So Haggai asked, “If one who is defiled by contact with a corpse touches any of these, does it become defiled?” “Yes, it becomes defiled,” the priests answered.

But the Pharisees said, “It is by the prince of demons that He drives out demons.”

But beware of men; for they will hand you over to their councils and flog you in their synagogues.

When the Pharisees saw this, they said to Him, “Look, Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath.”