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.

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)

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)

⁷ and not all of Abraham’s children are his descendants, but “it is through Isaac that descendants shall be named for you.”^(A)

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)

⁵⁹ So they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple.^(A)

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.

⁴³ Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot accept my word.

³⁹ And so they could not believe, because Isaiah also said,

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.

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