John 3:14

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Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

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  • Num 21:7-9 : 7 The people came to Moses and said, 'We have sinned, for we spoke against the LORD and against you. Pray to the LORD to take the serpents away from us.' So Moses prayed for the people. 8 The LORD said to Moses, 'Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole. Anyone who is bitten and looks at it will live.' 9 So Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on a pole, and if a serpent bit someone, they looked at the bronze serpent and lived.
  • John 8:28 : 28 So Jesus said to them, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he and that I do nothing on my own, but speak just as the Father taught me.
  • Ps 22:16 : 16 My strength is dried up like a broken piece of pottery, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; you lay me in the dust of death.
  • John 12:32-34 : 32 And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to Myself." 33 He said this to indicate the kind of death He was going to die. 34 The crowd answered Him, "We have heard from the Law that the Christ remains forever. So how can You say, 'The Son of Man must be lifted up'? Who is this Son of Man?"
  • Acts 2:23 : 23 He was delivered up by God’s determined plan and foreknowledge; and you, with the help of wicked men, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.
  • Acts 4:27-28 : 27 'Indeed, in this city, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed.' 28 'They did what your hand and will had predestined to take place.'
  • Matt 26:54 : 54 But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen in this way?
  • Luke 18:31-33 : 31 Jesus took the twelve disciples aside and said to them, 'Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that has been written by the prophets about the Son of Man will be fulfilled.' 32 'He will be handed over to the Gentiles, mocked, abused, and spit upon.' 33 'They will flog him and kill him, but on the third day, he will rise.'
  • Luke 24:20 : 20 The chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him.
  • Luke 24:26-27 : 26 Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?" 27 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.
  • Luke 24:44-46 : 44 He said to them, "This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms." 45 Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. 46 He told them, "This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day.
  • 2 Kgs 18:4 : 4 He removed the high places, broke the sacred pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and smashed the bronze serpent that Moses had made, because the people of Israel had been burning incense to it, calling it Nehushtan.

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  • Num 21:6-9
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    6Then the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many Israelites died.

    7The people came to Moses and said, 'We have sinned, for we spoke against the LORD and against you. Pray to the LORD to take the serpents away from us.' So Moses prayed for the people.

    8The LORD said to Moses, 'Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole. Anyone who is bitten and looks at it will live.'

    9So Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on a pole, and if a serpent bit someone, they looked at the bronze serpent and lived.

  • John 3:12-13
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    78%

    12If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?

    13No one has ascended into heaven except the One who descended from heaven—the Son of Man.

  • John 3:15-18
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    15so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.

    16For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.

    17For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.

    18Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is already condemned, because they have not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

  • John 12:32-34
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    32And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to Myself."

    33He said this to indicate the kind of death He was going to die.

    34The crowd answered Him, "We have heard from the Law that the Christ remains forever. So how can You say, 'The Son of Man must be lifted up'? Who is this Son of Man?"

  • John 6:62
    74%

    62Then what if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before?

  • John 8:28
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    28So Jesus said to them, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he and that I do nothing on my own, but speak just as the Father taught me.

  • Exod 4:3
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    3Then He said, 'Throw it to the ground.' So Moses threw it to the ground, and it became a serpent, and he ran away from it.

  • John 1:51
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    51Then He said, 'Truly, truly, I tell you, you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.'

  • John 3:3-7
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    3Jesus answered him, 'Truly, truly, I tell you, unless someone is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God.'

    4Nicodemus said to Him, 'How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter his mother's womb a second time and be born?'

    5Jesus answered, 'Truly, truly, I tell you, unless someone is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.'

    6What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

    7Do not be amazed that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’

  • 1 Cor 10:9
    68%

    9We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and they were killed by snakes.

  • John 3:31
    67%

    31The one who comes from above is above all. The one who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks about earthly things. The one who comes from heaven is above all.

  • John 17:1
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    1After Jesus had spoken these words, He looked up to heaven and said, 'Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, so that the Son may glorify You.'

  • John 6:53
    67%

    53Jesus said to them, 'Truly, truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.'

  • John 6:40
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    40For this is the will of my Father: that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him may have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day.

  • 2 Cor 3:13
    67%

    13not like Moses, who put a veil over his face to prevent the Israelites from seeing the end of what was fading away.

  • Luke 24:7
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    7"The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, be crucified, and on the third day rise again."

  • Matt 3:13
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    13Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan, to John, to be baptized by him.

  • John 5:23
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    23'So that everyone may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.'

  • Matt 12:40
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    40For just as Jonah was in the belly of the great fish for three days and three nights, so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.

  • John 3:36
    66%

    36The one who believes in the Son has eternal life. But the one who disobeys the Son will not see life; instead, the wrath of God remains on him.

  • Matt 17:22
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    22When they came together in Galilee, Jesus said to them, 'The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men.'

  • Exod 19:3
    66%

    3Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain, saying, "This is what you shall say to the house of Jacob and declare to the children of Israel:

  • Matt 3:16
    66%

    16After Jesus was baptized, He immediately came up from the water. At that moment, the heavens were opened, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming upon Him.

  • Luke 17:30
    66%

    30It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed.

  • John 5:21
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    21'Just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever He wills.'

  • Jas 4:10
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    10Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.

  • John 12:23
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    23Jesus replied to them, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

  • Luke 4:9
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    9Then he brought Him to Jerusalem, set Him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him, 'If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down from here.'

  • Luke 9:22
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    22He said, 'The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and teachers of the law. He must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.'

  • Mark 9:9
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    9As they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus instructed them not to tell anyone what they had seen until the Son of Man had risen from the dead.

  • John 4:4
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    4Now he had to pass through Samaria.

  • Matt 17:8
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    8When they looked up, they saw no one except Jesus alone.

  • Luke 11:30
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    30For just as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so also the Son of Man will be a sign to this generation.

  • John 8:36
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    36So if the Son sets you free, you will be truly free.

  • Luke 3:6
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    6and all humanity will see God's salvation.

  • John 3:1
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    1There was a man from the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

  • John 6:50
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    50But this is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that anyone may eat of it and not die.