Quotes about Authority
the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to Him. Unrolling it, He found the place where it was written:
- Luke 4:17
They were astonished at His teaching, because His message had authority.
- Luke 4:32
“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!”
- Luke 4:34
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.
- Luke 4:35
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!”
- Luke 4:36
and He stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. And she got up at once and began to serve them.
- Luke 4:39
But the scribes and Pharisees began thinking to themselves, “Who is this man who speaks blasphemy? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
- Luke 5:21
Which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk?’
- Luke 5:23
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.”
- Luke 5:24
Then Jesus declared, “The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”
- Luke 6:5
When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to ask Him to come and heal his servant.
- Luke 7:3
For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell one to go, and he goes; and another to come, and he comes. I tell my servant to do something, and he does it.”
- Luke 7:8