John 3:14

Bible in Basic English (1941)

As the snake was lifted up by Moses in the waste land, even so it is necessary for the Son of man to be lifted up:

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  • Num 21:7-9 : 7 Then the people came to Moses and said, We have done wrong in crying out against the Lord and against you: make prayer to the Lord to take away the snakes from us. So Moses made prayer for the people. 8 And the Lord said to Moses, Make an image of a snake and put it on a rod, and anyone who has been wounded by the snakes, looking on it will be made well. 9 So Moses made a snake of brass and put it on a rod; and anyone who had a snakebite, after looking on the snake of brass, was made well.
  • John 8:28 : 28 So Jesus said, When the Son of man has been lifted up by you, then it will be clear to you who I am, and that I do nothing of myself, but say as the Father gave me teaching.
  • Ps 22:16 : 16 Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet.
  • John 12:32-34 : 32 And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will make all men come to me. 33 (This he said, pointing to the sort of death he would have.) 34 Then the people in answer said to him, The law says that the Christ will have life without end: how say you then that it is necessary for the Son of man to be lifted up? Who is this Son of man?
  • Acts 2:23 : 23 Him, when he was given up, by the decision and knowledge of God, you put to death on the cross, by the hands of evil men:
  • Acts 4:27-28 : 27 For, truly, in this town, against your holy servant, Jesus, who was marked out by you as Christ, Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, came together, 28 To do that which had been fixed before by your hand and your purpose.
  • Matt 26:54 : 54 But how then would the Writings come true, which say that so it has to be?
  • Luke 18:31-33 : 31 And he took with him the twelve and said to them, Now we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things which were said by the prophets will be done to the Son of man. 32 For he will be given up to the Gentiles, and will be made sport of and put to shame: 33 And he will be given cruel blows and put to death, and on the third day he will come back to life.
  • Luke 24:20 : 20 And how the chief priests and our rulers gave him up to be put to death on the cross.
  • Luke 24:26-27 : 26 Was it not necessary for the Christ to go through these things, and to come into his glory? 27 And he made clear to them all the things in the Writings, from Moses and from all the prophets, which had to do with himself.
  • Luke 24:44-46 : 44 And he said to them, These are the words which I said to you when I was still with you, how it was necessary for all the things which are in the writings of Moses and the prophets and in the Psalms about me, to be put into effect. 45 Then he made the holy Writings clear to their minds. 46 And he said to them, So it is in the Writings that the Christ would undergo death, and come back to life again on the third day;
  • 2 Kgs 18:4 : 4 He had the high places taken away, and the stone pillars broken to bits, and the Asherah cut down; and the brass snake which Moses had made was crushed to powder at his order, because in those days the children of Israel had offerings burned before it, and he gave it the name Nehushtan.

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    6 Then the Lord sent poison-snakes among the people; and their bites were a cause of death to numbers of the people of Israel.

    7 Then the people came to Moses and said, We have done wrong in crying out against the Lord and against you: make prayer to the Lord to take away the snakes from us. So Moses made prayer for the people.

    8 And the Lord said to Moses, Make an image of a snake and put it on a rod, and anyone who has been wounded by the snakes, looking on it will be made well.

    9 So Moses made a snake of brass and put it on a rod; and anyone who had a snakebite, after looking on the snake of brass, was made well.

  • John 3:12-13
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    12 If you have no belief when my words are about the things of earth, how will you have belief if my words are about the things of heaven?

    13 And no one has ever gone up to heaven but he who came down from heaven, the Son of man.

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    15 So that whoever has faith may have in him eternal life.

    16 For God had such love for the world that he gave his only Son, so that whoever has faith in him may not come to destruction but have eternal life.

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  • John 12:32-34
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    32 And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will make all men come to me.

    33 (This he said, pointing to the sort of death he would have.)

    34 Then the people in answer said to him, The law says that the Christ will have life without end: how say you then that it is necessary for the Son of man to be lifted up? Who is this Son of man?

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    62 What then will you say if you see the Son of man going up to where he was before?

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    28 So Jesus said, When the Son of man has been lifted up by you, then it will be clear to you who I am, and that I do nothing of myself, but say as the Father gave me teaching.

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    3 And he said, Put it down on the earth. And he put it down on the earth and it became a snake; and Moses went running from it.

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    51 And he said to him, Truly I say to you all, You will see heaven opening and God's angels going up and coming down on the Son of man.

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    3 Jesus said to him, Truly, I say to you, Without a new birth no man is able to see the kingdom of God.

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    5 Jesus said in answer, Truly, I say to you, If a man's birth is not from water and from the Spirit, it is not possible for him to go into the kingdom of God.

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    9 And let us not put the Lord to the test, as some of them did, and came to their death by snakes.

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    31 He who comes from heaven is greater than all others: he who comes from earth is of the earth, and of the earth are his words: he who comes from heaven is over all.

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    53 Then Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, If you do not take the flesh of the Son of man for food, and if you do not take his blood for drink, you have no life in you.

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    40 This, I say, is my Father's pleasure, that everyone who sees the Son and has faith in him may have eternal life: and I will take him up on the last day.

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    13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan, to be given baptism by him.

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    36 He who has faith in the Son has eternal life; but he who has not faith in the Son will not see life; God's wrath is resting on him.

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    3 And Moses went up to God, and the voice of the Lord came to him from the mountain, saying, Say to the family of Jacob, and give word to the children of Israel:

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    16 And Jesus, having been given baptism, straight away went up from the water; and, the heavens opening, he saw the Spirit of God coming down on him as a dove;

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    10 Make yourselves low in the eyes of the Lord and you will be lifted up by him.

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    23 And Jesus said to them in answer, The hour of the glory of the Son of man has come.

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    9 And he took him to Jerusalem and put him on the highest point of the Temple and said to him, If you are the Son of God, let yourself go down from here; for it is said in the Writings,

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    4 And it was necessary for him to go through Samaria.

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    8 And lifting up their eyes, they saw no one, but Jesus only.

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    6 And all flesh will see the salvation of God.

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