John 8:37
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37 I know that you are descendants of Abraham, yet you look for an opportunity to kill me because there is no place in you for my word.
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1 Corinthians 2:14
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14 Those who are unspiritual[a] do not receive the gifts of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to them, and they are unable to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.(A)
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- 2.14 Or natural
John 7:1
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The Unbelief of Jesus’s Brothers
7 After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He did not wish to go about in Judea because the Jews were looking for an opportunity to kill him.(A)
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Romans 9:7
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7 and not all of Abraham’s children are his descendants, but “it is through Isaac that descendants shall be named for you.”(A)
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John 8:45-47
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45 But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.[a] 46 Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? 47 Whoever is from God hears the words of God. The reason you do not hear them is that you are not from God.”(A)
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- 8.45 Or You do not believe even though I tell the truth
John 8:59
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59 So they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple.(A)
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Acts 13:26
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26 “Brothers and sisters,[a] you descendants of Abraham’s family and others who fear God, to us[b] the message of this salvation has been sent.
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John 8:43
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43 Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot accept my word.
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John 12:39-43
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39 And so they could not believe, because Isaiah also said,
40 “He has blinded their eyes
and hardened their heart,
so that they might not look with their eyes
and understand with their heart and turn—
and I would heal them.”(A)
41 Isaiah said this because[a] he saw his glory and spoke about him.(B) 42 Nevertheless many, even of the authorities, believed in him. But because of the Pharisees they did not confess it, for fear that they would be put out of the synagogue,(C) 43 for they loved human glory more than the glory that comes from God.
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- 12.41 Other ancient witnesses read when
John 11:53
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53 So from that day on they planned to put him to death.(A)
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John 7:19
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19 “Did not Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why are you looking for an opportunity to kill me?”(A)
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John 10:31
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31 The Jews took up stones again to stone him.
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John 8:39-40
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Jesus and Abraham
39 They answered him, “Abraham is our father.” Jesus said to them, “If you are Abraham’s children, you would do[a] what Abraham did,(A) 40 but now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did.
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- 8.39 Other ancient authorities read you were . . . you would do or you are . . . then do
John 8:6
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6 They said this to test him, so that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.
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John 7:25
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Is This the Christ?
25 Now some of the people of Jerusalem were saying, “Is not this the man whom they are trying to kill?
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John 5:44
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44 How can you believe when you accept glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the one who alone is God?[a](A)
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- 5.44 Other manuscripts read the Only One
John 5:16-18
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16 Therefore the Jews started persecuting Jesus, because he was doing such things on the Sabbath. 17 But Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, and I also am working.”(A) 18 For this reason the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because he was not only breaking the Sabbath but was also calling God his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God.(B)
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Matthew 13:15
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15 For this people’s heart has grown dull,
and their ears are hard of hearing,
and they have shut their eyes,
so that they might not look with their eyes,
and hear with their ears
and understand with their heart and turn—
and I would heal them.’(A)
John 8:33
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33 They answered him, “We are descendants of Abraham and have never been slaves to anyone. What do you mean by saying, ‘You will be made free’?”(A)
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Matthew 13:19-22
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19 When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what is sown in the heart; this is what was sown on the path.(A) 20 As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy, 21 yet such a person has no root but endures only for a while, and when trouble or persecution arises on account of the word, that person immediately falls away.[a](B) 22 As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of this[b] age and the lure of wealth choke the word, and it yields nothing.(C)
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