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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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37 I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. Yet you are looking for a way to kill me,(A) because you have no room for my word.

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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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  1. 2.14 Or natural

14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God(A) but considers them foolishness,(B) and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.

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The Unbelief of Jesus’s Brothers

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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Jesus Goes to the Festival of Tabernacles

After this, Jesus went around in Galilee. He did not want[a] to go about in Judea because the Jewish leaders(A) there were looking for a way to kill him.(B)

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  1. John 7:1 Some manuscripts not have authority

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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Nor because they are his descendants are they all Abraham’s children. On the contrary, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.”[a](A)

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  1. Romans 9:7 Gen. 21:12

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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  1. 8.45 Or You do not believe even though I tell the truth

45 Yet because I tell the truth,(A) you do not believe me! 46 Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don’t you believe me? 47 Whoever belongs to God hears what God says.(B) The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.”

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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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59 At this, they picked up stones to stone him,(A) but Jesus hid himself,(B) slipping away from the temple grounds.

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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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  1. 13.26 Gk Men, brothers
  2. 13.26 Other ancient authorities read you

26 “Fellow children of Abraham(A) and you God-fearing Gentiles, it is to us that this message of salvation(B) has been sent.

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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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43 Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say.

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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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  1. 12.41 Other ancient witnesses read when

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.”[a](A)

41 Isaiah said this because he saw Jesus’ glory(B) and spoke about him.(C)

42 Yet at the same time many even among the leaders believed in him.(D) But because of the Pharisees(E) they would not openly acknowledge their faith for fear they would be put out of the synagogue;(F) 43 for they loved human praise(G) more than praise from God.(H)

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  1. John 12:40 Isaiah 6:10

53 So from that day on they planned to put him to death.(A)

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53 So from that day on they plotted to take his life.(A)

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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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19 Has not Moses given you the law?(A) Yet not one of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill me?”(B)

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31 The Jews took up stones again to stone him.

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31 Again his Jewish opponents picked up stones to stone him,(A)

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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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  1. 8.39 Other ancient authorities read you were . . . you would do or you are . . . then do

39 “Abraham is our father,” they answered.

“If you were Abraham’s children,”(A) said Jesus, “then you would[a] do what Abraham did. 40 As it is, you are looking for a way to kill me,(B) a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God.(C) Abraham did not do such things.

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  1. John 8:39 Some early manuscripts “If you are Abraham’s children,” said Jesus, “then