Quotes about Origin
As Jesus, the Word, is of divine origin as well as a thoroughly human figure of first-century Palestine, so is the Bible of ultimately divine origin yet also thoroughly a product of its time.
— Peter Enns
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
— Genesis 1:1
And the man said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for out of man she was taken.”
— Genesis 2:23
And Adam named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all the living.
— Genesis 3:20
“My brothers,” Jacob asked the shepherds, “where are you from?” “We are from Haran,” they answered.
— Genesis 29:4
“We are your servants,” they said to Joshua. Then Joshua asked them, “Who are you and where have you come from?”
— Joshua 9:8
And there was a young Levite from Bethlehem in Judah who had been residing within the clan of Judah.
— Judges 17:7
When he looked up and saw the traveler in the city square, the old man asked, “Where are you going, and where have you come from?”
— Judges 19:17
Then David asked him, “To whom do you belong, and where are you from?” “I am an Egyptian,” he replied, “the slave of an Amalekite. My master abandoned me three days ago when I fell ill.
— 1 Samuel 30:13
“Where have you come from?” David asked. “I have escaped from the Israelite camp,” he replied.
— 2 Samuel 1:3
And David inquired of the young man who had brought him the report, “Where are you from?” “I am the son of a foreigner,” he answered. “I am an Amalekite.”
— 2 Samuel 1:13
Then the prophet Isaiah went to King Hezekiah and asked, “Where did those men come from, and what did they say to you?” “They came from a distant land,” Hezekiah replied, “from Babylon.”
— 2 Kings 20:14