From Nave’s Topical Bible
Craftiness
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 13Passages listed
- 6Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- INSTANCES OF
- Satan, in the temptation of EveGenesis 3:1–5
- Jacob, in purchase of Esau's birthrightGenesis 25:31–33
- Obtaining Isaac's blessingGenesis 27:6–29
- In management of Laban's flocks and herdsGenesis 30:31–43
- Gibeonites, in deceiving Joshua and the Israelites into a treatyJoshua 9:3–15
- Sanballat, in trying to deceive Nehemiah into a conferenceNehemiah 6
- Jews, in seeking to entangle the MasterMatthew 22:15–17Matthew 22:24–28Mark 12:13Mark 14:18–23Luke 20:19–26
- In seeking to kill JesusMatthew 26:4Mark 14:1
The passages, in Bible order (13)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 13 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Genesis 3:1–5
Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’”
Commentary on Genesis 3:1–51 voice
(Chapter 3, Verse 1) Now the serpent was more cunning than any other wild animal that was on the earth. In Hebrew, the word for cunning is Arom (אָרוּם), which Aquila and Theodotion translate as πανοῦργον. This means wicked and deceitful. Therefore, from this word, it is demonstrated more of a craftiness and cunningness than wisdom.
Jerome· Hebrew Questions on GenesisPatristic
- Genesis 27:6–29
Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Behold, I overheard your father saying to your brother Esau,
- Genesis 30:31–43
“What can I give you?” Laban asked. “You do not need to give me anything,” Jacob replied. “If you do this one thing for me, I will keep on shepherding and keeping your flocks.
- Joshua 9:3–15
But the people of Gibeon, having heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,
- Nehemiah 6:1
When Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall and not a gap was left—though to that time I had not yet installed the doors in the gates—
- Matthew 22:15–17
Then the Pharisees went out and conspired to trap Jesus in His words.
- Matthew 22:24–28
“Teacher,” they said, “Moses declared that if a man dies without having children, his brother is to marry the widow and raise up offspring for him.
Commentary on Matthew 22:24–281 voice
Saying, master,.... Rabbi, or doctor, as he was usually called; Moses said, in Deu 25:5 if a man die having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother; which, though not expressed in the self same words, yet is the sense of the passage referred to, and was a practice in use before the times of Moses, as appears from the case of Er and Onan; the design of which was, to preserve families, and keep their inheritances distinct and entire.
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)Reformed
- Matthew 26:4
and they conspired to arrest Jesus covertly and kill Him.
- Mark 12:13
Later, they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to catch Jesus in His words.
Commentary on Mark 12:131 voice
We have said elsewhere of the Herodians, that they were a certain new heresy, who said that Herod was the Christ, because the succession of the kingdom of Judah had failed. Others however say that the Herodians were the soldiers of Herod, whom the Pharisees brought as witnesses of the words of Christ, that they might take Him, and lead Him away. But observe how in their wickedness they wished to deceive Christ by flattery; for it goes on: Master, we know that thou art true.
Theophylact of Ohrid· Catena Aurea by AquinasPatristic
- Mark 14:1
Now the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread were two days away, and the chief priests and scribes were looking for a covert way to arrest Jesus and kill Him.
- Mark 14:18–23
And while they were reclining and eating, Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, one of you who is eating with Me will betray Me.”
Commentary on Mark 14:18–231 voice
While he might have at once specially pointed out the betrayer, he did not do so, but said generally, "One of you will betray me," so the character of each might be tested by the witness of his astonished heart. This underscored the goodness of the disciples who believed Christ's words more than their own consciousness, and the wickedness of Judas because he did not believe the One who knew his plans. He embraced the obscurity by lying through his own teeth.
Origen of Alexandria· COMMENTARY ON MATTHEW 50Patristic
- Luke 20:19–26
When the scribes and chief priests realized that Jesus had spoken this parable against them, they sought to arrest Him that very hour. But they were afraid of the people.
Commentary on Luke 20:19–261 voice
Again the gang of Pharisees is inflamed with unbridled rage. They draw the bow of their envy. They grind their teeth at him who calls them to life. They savagely attack him who seeks to save and who humbled himself from his supreme and godlike glory to our condition. They plot the death of he who became man that he might abolish death. The wise Evangelist shows us the only cause that hindered their shameless pride. He said that they feared the people. He understood, therefore, that they were not restrained by a feeling of piety toward God.
Cyril of Alexandria· COMMENTARY ON LUKE, HOMILY 135Patristic