Moral state of before Pentecost
the Holy Bible

--Matthew--

Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me. (17:17)

And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. (18:3)

Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children with her sons, worshipping [him], and desiring a certain thing of him. (20:20)

And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom. (20:21)

But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able. (20:22)

--Luke--

And when his disciples James and John saw [this], they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did? (9:54)

But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. (9:55)

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