Topical Listing of the Hard Sayings of Jesus
I have tried to arrange the hard sayings according to similar topics. I am sure that I have not done an adequate job, and there are better ways to group the, so please feel free to suggest your own groupings. I encourage you to find a theme and then study and teach on the topics relative to that theme. I bought two copies of G.F. Bruce’s book, so please let me know if you would like to borrow it. Please send me notes that you would like posted on the web.
Communion
1 Eating the Flesh and Drinking the Blood of the Son of Man 21 (Zagnoli)
66 This Is My Body… This Is My Blood 236 (Zagnoli)
Sabbath
4 The Sabbath for Man 32
Forgiveness
2 The Son of Man Forgiving Sins 26
3 Not the Righteous but Sinners 29
18 If You Do Not Forgive Your Brother 77
Death
5 Not Dead but Sleeping 35
51 The Great Gulf 189
Christ Paid the Penalty
70 Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me? 248
68 Why Are You Here? 243
Christian Lifestyle
6 Saltless Salt 37 (Mateko)
57 The Cursing of the Fig Tree 208 (Mateko)
60 Render to Caesar 214 (Mateko)
7 The Old Is Better 40 (Mateko)
8 One jot or One Tittle Shall in No Wise Pass 42 (Mateko)
Commitment/Discipleship
29 Hating One’s Parents 119
40 The Son of Man Has Nowhere to Lay His Head 159
37 Taking Up the Cross 150
46 Sell What You Have 174
39 For or Against 157
41 Let the Dead Bury Their Dead 161
42 Looking Back 164
56 The Wedding Garment 206
20 Pearls before Swine 86
24 Go Nowhere among the Gentiles 104
Humility
53 The Rate for the job? 195
54 The First Will Be Last 199
44 The Elder Brother 169
Wealth
46 Sell What You Have 174
48 The Camel and the Eye of a Needle 180
49 Serving God and Mammon 184
47 Give for Alms What Is Within 178
50 Using Unrighteous Mammon to Make Friends 186
60 Render to Caesar 214
Seriousness of Sin/Repentance
11 Plucking Out the Right Eye 54
13 Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven’s Sake 63
9 “You Fool!” Merits Hell Fire 49
62 You Brood of Vipers 221
19 Lead Us Not into Temptation 81
Marriage/Purity/ Oaths
10 Adultery in the Heart 52
12 Divorce and Remarriage 56
14 Do Not Swear at All 66
Love for Enemies
15 Turning the Other Cheek 68
16 Love Your Enemies 72
17 You Must Be Perfect 74
Faith
58 Faith That Removes Mountains 210
52 Will the Son of Man Find Faith on Earth? 192
26 Let the Children First Be Fed 110
Eschatology
63 This Generation Will Not Pass Away 225
64 There the Eagles Will Be Gathered Together 231
38 The Kingdom Coming with Power 153
69 You Will See the Son of Man 245
25 You Will Not Have Gone through All the Towns of Israel 107
Spiritual Warfare
28 Violence and the Kingdom 115
30 Casting Fire on Earth 122
31 How I Am Constrained Until It Is Accomplished! 125
32 Not Peace but a Sword 130
33 The Fall of Satan 133
36 Get behind Me, Satan! 146
67 Let Him Who Has No Sword Buy One 240
Election/Salvation/God?s Sovereignty
23 Seeing and Not Perceiving 99
55 Many Are Called, But Few Are Chosen 202
65 I Do Not Know You 233
51 The Great Gulf 189
21 The Sin against the Holy Spirit 88
27 Who Is Greater Than John the Baptist? 112
35 You Are Peter 139
Trinity/Nature of God
34 The Father and the Son 136
45 Why Do You Call Me Good? 172
59 Neither Will I Tell You 212
61 Call No Man Your Father 218
43 1 Will Warn You Whom to Fear 166
22 No Sign 94
