¹⁸ But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind and received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight.

¹⁵ while it is said:

Failure of the Wilderness Wanderers

^16 (B)For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses? ¹⁷ Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, ^(C)whose corpses fell in the wilderness? ¹⁸ And ^(D)to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? ¹⁹ So we see that they could not enter in because of ^(E)unbelief.

The Word Discovers Our Condition

^11 (A)Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience.

Who Has Believed Our Report?

³⁷ But although He had done so many ^(A)signs before them, they did not believe in Him, ³⁸ that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke:

³⁹ Therefore they could not believe, because Isaiah said again:

²² His parents said these things because ^(A)they feared the Jews, for the Jews had agreed already that if anyone confessed that He was Christ, he ^(B)would be put out of the synagogue.

^44 (A)How can you believe, who receive honor from one another, and do not seek ^(B)the honor that comes from the only God?

A Voice in the Wilderness^(A)

¹⁹ Now this is ^(B)the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”

³¹ But he said to him, ^(A)‘If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, ^(B)neither will they be persuaded though one rise from the dead.’ ”

The Sin-Bearing Messiah