Commands
208 utterances 1101 versesDirect imperatives he expects obeyed — including the words that still storms and raises the dead.
Advice
4 utterances 56 versesPractical counsel and prudence, offered more than ordered.
Universal Knowledge
125 utterances 855 versesFlat statements of how reality and God’s economy work.
Warnings
59 utterances 800 versesDanger ahead if unheeded — “watch out.”
Woes
22 utterances 212 versesJudgment pronounced outward — on hypocrites, opponents, unrepentant cities.
Promises
73 utterances 580 versesWhat he or the Father commits to do.
Blessings
29 utterances 193 versesBeatitudes and benedictions pronounced on people.
Invitations
19 utterances 73 versesThe open calls to come, follow, receive.
Parables
48 utterances 725 versesThe story-sayings and extended similitudes.
Questions
147 utterances 628 versesWhat he asks rather than tells — including the rhetorical.
Self-Revelation
97 utterances 491 versesWho he says he is — the I AMs, the Son of Man, the sent Son.
Prophecy
103 utterances 651 versesForetelling — the passion, the temple, the denials, his return.
Prayers
12 utterances 68 versesHis own words addressed to the Father.
Commissions
23 utterances 109 versesThe sendings — tasks and appointments given.
Rebukes
33 utterances 133 versesCorrective words to his own — disciples, insiders, the seven churches.