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26 But you don’t believe me because you are not my sheep.

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26 but you do not believe because you are not my sheep.(A)

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47 Anyone who belongs to God listens gladly to the words of God. But you don’t listen because you don’t belong to God.”

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47 Whoever belongs to God hears what God says.(A) The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.”

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But we belong to God, and those who know God listen to us. If they do not belong to God, they do not listen to us. That is how we know if someone has the Spirit of truth or the spirit of deception.

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We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us.(A) This is how we recognize the Spirit[a] of truth(B) and the spirit of falsehood.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 John 4:6 Or spirit

If the Good News we preach is hidden behind a veil, it is hidden only from people who are perishing. Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. They are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News. They don’t understand this message about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God.

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And even if our gospel(A) is veiled,(B) it is veiled to those who are perishing.(C) The god(D) of this age(E) has blinded(F) the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ,(G) who is the image of God.(H)

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So this is the situation: Most of the people of Israel have not found the favor of God they are looking for so earnestly. A few have—the ones God has chosen—but the hearts of the rest were hardened. As the Scriptures say,

“God has put them into a deep sleep.
To this day he has shut their eyes so they do not see,
    and closed their ears so they do not hear.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 11:8 Isa 29:10; Deut 29:4.

What then? What the people of Israel sought so earnestly they did not obtain.(A) The elect among them did, but the others were hardened,(B) as it is written:

“God gave them a spirit of stupor,
    eyes that could not see
    and ears that could not hear,(C)
to this very day.”[a](D)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 11:8 Deut. 29:4; Isaiah 29:10

The Unbelief of the People

37 But despite all the miraculous signs Jesus had done, most of the people still did not believe in him. 38 This is exactly what Isaiah the prophet had predicted:

Lord, who has believed our message?
    To whom has the Lord revealed his powerful arm?”[a]

39 But the people couldn’t believe, for as Isaiah also said,

40 “The Lord has blinded their eyes
    and hardened their hearts—
so that their eyes cannot see,
    and their hearts cannot understand,
and they cannot turn to me
    and have me heal them.”[b]

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Belief and Unbelief Among the Jews

37 Even after Jesus had performed so many signs(A) in their presence, they still would not believe in him. 38 This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet:

“Lord, who has believed our message
    and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”[a](B)

39 For this reason they could not believe, because, as Isaiah says elsewhere:

40 “He has blinded their eyes
    and hardened their hearts,
so they can neither see with their eyes,
    nor understand with their hearts,
    nor turn—and I would heal them.”[b](C)

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Footnotes

  1. John 12:38 Isaiah 53:1
  2. John 12:40 Isaiah 6:10

27 My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.

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27 My sheep listen to my voice; I know them,(A) and they follow me.(B)

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After he has gathered his own flock, he walks ahead of them, and they follow him because they know his voice.

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When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice.(A)

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65 Then he said, “That is why I said that people can’t come to me unless the Father gives them to me.”

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65 He went on to say, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled them.”(A)

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44 For no one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them to me, and at the last day I will raise them up. 45 As it is written in the Scriptures,[a] ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me.

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  1. 6:45 Greek in the prophets. Isa 54:13.

44 “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them,(A) and I will raise them up at the last day. 45 It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’[a](B) Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me.

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  1. John 6:45 Isaiah 54:13

37 However, those the Father has given me will come to me, and I will never reject them.

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37 All those the Father gives me(A) will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away.

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