Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him. (Matthew 2:2)

A deed without a name. (Shakespeare, Macbeth)

The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon! Where gott’st thou that goose look? (Shakespeare, Macbeth)

Many of those [in Ephesus] who believed [in Christianity] now came and openly confessed their evil deeds. A number who had practised sorcery brought their scrolls together and burned them publicly. When they calculated the value of the scrolls, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas. In this way the word of the Lord spread widely and grew in power. (Acts 19)

How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags! (Shakespeare, Macbeth)

By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. (Shakespeare, Macbeth)

"A little water clears us of this deed,” she tells him. “How easy it is then!" (Shakespeare, Macbeth)

Now John wore a garment of camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey. (Matthew 3:4)

Then the king said to the wise men who knew the times…the men next to him being…the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king's face, and sat first in the kingdom. (Esther 1:13–14)

Let us meet And question this most bloody piece of work, To know it further. (Shakespeare, Macbeth)

And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say, “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!” And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him who is seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever, the twenty-four elders fall down before him who is seated on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying, “Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created. (Revelation 4:8-11)

Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem. (Matthew 2:1)

If you can look into the seeds of time, And say which grain will grow and which will not. (Shakespeare, Macbeth)

The word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, will you judge her? Will you judge this city of bloodshed? Then confront her with all her detestable practices and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: You city that brings on herself doom by shedding blood in her midst and defiles herself by making idols, you have become guilty because of the blood you have shed and have become defiled by the idols you have made.

You have brought your days to a close, and the end of your years has come. Therefore I will make you an object of scorn to the nations and a laughingstock to all the countries. Those who are near and those who are far away will mock you, you infamous city, full of turmoil. (Ezekial 22:2-5)

See how each of the princes of Israel who are in you uses his power to shed blood. In you they have treated father and mother with contempt; in you they have oppressed the foreigner and mistreated the fatherless and the widow. You have despised my holy things and desecrated my Sabbaths. In you are slanderers who are bent on shedding blood; in you are those who eat at the mountain shrines and commit lewd acts.

In you are those who dishonor their father’s bed; in you are those who violate women during their period, when they are ceremonially unclean. In you one man commits a detestable offense with his neighbor’s wife, another shamefully defiles his daughter-in-law, and another violates his sister, his own father’s daughter. In you are people who accept bribes to shed blood; you take interest and make a profit from the poor. You extort unjust gain from your neighbors. And you have forgotten me, declares the Sovereign Lord. (Ezekial 22:6-12)

‘I will surely strike my hands together at the unjust gain you have made and at the blood you have shed in your midst. Will your courage endure or your hands be strong in the day I deal with you? I the Lord have spoken, and I will do it.

I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you through the countries; and I will put an end to your uncleanness. When you have been defiled in the eyes of the nations, you will know that I am the Lord.’ (Ezekial 22:6-12)

Now does he feel his title Hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe Upon a dwarfish thief. (Shakespeare, MacBeth)

Then the word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, the people of Israel have become dross to me; all of them are the copper, tin, iron and lead left inside a furnace. They are but the dross of silver. Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: ‘Because you have all become dross, I will gather you into Jerusalem. As silver, copper, iron, lead and tin are gathered into a furnace to be melted with a fiery blast, so will I gather you in my anger and my wrath and put you inside the city and melt you. I will gather you and I will blow on you with my fiery wrath, and you will be melted inside her. As silver is melted in a furnace, so you will be melted inside her, and you will know that I the Lord have poured out my wrath on you.” (Ezekial 22:17-22)

Again the word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, say to the land, ‘You are a land that has not been cleansed or rained on in the day of wrath.’ There is a conspiracy of her princes within her like a roaring lion tearing its prey; they devour people, take treasures and precious things and make many widows within her.

Her priests do violence to my law and profane my holy things; they do not distinguish between the holy and the common; they teach that there is no difference between the unclean and the clean; and they shut their eyes to the keeping of my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them. Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey; they shed blood and kill people to make unjust gain.

Her prophets whitewash these deeds for them by false visions and lying divinations. They say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says’—when the Lord has not spoken. The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery; they oppress the poor and needy and mistreat the foreigner, denying them justice. (Ezekial 22:23-29)

“I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one. So I will pour out my wrath on them and consume them with my fiery anger, bringing down on their own heads all they have done, declares the Sovereign Lord.” (Ezekial 22:30-31)

What! can the devil speak true? (Shakespeare, Macbeth)

Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout. (Shakespeare, Macbeth)

Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings. (Shakespeare, Macbeth)

Hell is empty and all the devils are here. (Shakespeare, The Tempest)

I have a strange infirmity which is nothing To those that know me. (Shakespeare, Macbeth)

Something greater than Solomon is here. (Matthew 12:42)

If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well It were done quickly. (Shakespeare, Macbeth)

At Jesus’s birth, everything changed. This time around, a star led the Magi on a journey, in search of the scepter rising out of Israel (Num. 24:17) but they do not find a man seated at the right hand of King Nebuchadnezzar, but a child seated on his mother’s lap.

As they bow, they become the first to recognize the end from the beginning. This child rose above both Daniel and Joseph as chief of the magi.

And Jesus came and said to them, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.’ (Matthew 28:18)

The watchmen found me as they went about in the city; they beat me, they bruised me, they took away my veil, those watchmen of the walls. (Song of Solomon 5:7)

Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill. (Shakespeare, Macbeth)

Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. (Shakespeare, Macbeth)

And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. (Matthew 24:6-8)

What bloody man is that? (Shakespeare, Macbeth)

O horror, horror, horror! Tongue nor heart cannot conceive nor name thee!... Confusion now hath made his masterpiece. Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope The Lord’s anointed temple, and stole thence The life o’ th’ building! (Shakespeare, Macbeth)

Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? (Isaiah 58:6)

Do you see a man skillful in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men. (Proverbs 22:29 )

They die in youth,
And their life perishes among the cult prostitutes. (Job 36:14)

There’s daggers in men’s smiles. (Shakespeare, Macbeth)

Fair is foul, and foul is fair. (Shakespeare, Macbeth)

And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophecy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions. (Joel 2:28)

What’s done cannot be undone. (Shakespeare, Macbeth)

Great caravans of camels will come, from Midian and Ephah. They will come from Sheba, bringing gold and incense. People will tell the good news of what the Lord has done!. (Isaiah 60:6)

By th’ clock ʼtis day, And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp. (Shakespeare, Macbeth)

Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love. (DaVinci)