John 8:37

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I know that you are Abraham’s descendants, but you are trying to kill me because my word has no place in you.

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  • John 7:1 : 1 After this, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for He did not want to walk in Judea because the Jews were seeking to kill Him.
  • 1 Cor 2:14 : 14 But the natural person does not accept the things of God's Spirit, because they are foolishness to him. He cannot understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
  • Matt 13:15 : 15 For the heart of this people has grown dull; they can barely hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise, they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, turn back to me, and I would heal them.
  • John 5:16-18 : 16 Because of this, the Jews began to persecute Jesus and tried to kill Him, because He was doing these things on the Sabbath. 17 But Jesus answered them, 'My Father is working until now, and I too am working.' 18 Because of this, the Jews were all the more determined to kill Him, not only because He was breaking the Sabbath, but also because He was calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.
  • John 5:44 : 44 How can you believe, when you accept glory from one another but do not seek the glory that comes from the one and only God?
  • John 7:19 : 19 Didn't Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill Me?
  • John 7:25 : 25 Then some of the people of Jerusalem began to say, 'Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?
  • John 8:6 : 6 They said this to test him, so they might have grounds to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down and began writing on the ground with his finger.
  • John 8:33 : 33 They answered him, "We are descendants of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How can you say, ‘You will become free’?"
  • John 8:39-40 : 39 They answered him, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham. 40 But now you are trying to kill me—a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do this.
  • John 8:43 : 43 Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word.
  • John 8:45-47 : 45 But because I tell you the truth, you do not believe me. 46 Who among you can convict me of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don’t you believe me? 47 The one who is from God listens to God’s words. This is why you do not listen, because you are not from God.
  • John 8:59 : 59 So they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and left the temple, passing through the midst of them, and went on his way.
  • John 10:31 : 31 Again, the Jews picked up stones to stone him.
  • John 11:53 : 53 So from that day on, they plotted to kill him.
  • John 12:39-43 : 39 This is why they were unable to believe, because Isaiah also said: 40 "He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so that they would not see with their eyes or understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them." 41 Isaiah said these things because he saw His glory and spoke about Him. 42 Nevertheless, many even among the rulers believed in Him. But because of the Pharisees, they did not confess Him, so that they would not be expelled from the synagogue. 43 For they loved the approval of people more than the approval of God.
  • Acts 13:26 : 26 Brothers, children of Abraham's lineage, and you who fear God, this message of salvation has been sent to us.
  • Rom 9:7 : 7 Nor because they are Abraham’s descendants are they all his children. On the contrary, 'Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.'
  • Matt 13:19-22 : 19 When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in their heart. This is the seed sown along the path. 20 The seed sown on rocky ground is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy. 21 But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away. 22 The seed sown among thorns is the one who hears the word, but the worries of this age and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, making it unfruitful.

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  • John 8:38-47
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    38I speak of what I have seen in the presence of the Father, and you do what you have heard from your father."

    39They answered him, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham.

    40But now you are trying to kill me—a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do this.

    41You are doing the works of your father." They said to him, "We are not illegitimate children. We have one Father—God."

    42Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I did not come on my own, but he sent me.

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

    44You are from your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

    45But because I tell you the truth, you do not believe me.

    46Who among you can convict me of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don’t you believe me?

    47The one who is from God listens to God’s words. This is why you do not listen, because you are not from God.

  • John 5:38-40
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    38Nor do you have His word abiding in you, because you do not believe the one He sent.

    39You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; yet it is they that testify about me.

    40But you are unwilling to come to me so that you may have life.

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

  • John 8:51-52
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    51Truly, truly, I tell you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death.

    52Then the Jews said, "Now we know you have a demon. Abraham died, and so did the prophets. Yet you say, 'If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.'

  • John 8:32-33
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    32And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."

    33They answered him, "We are descendants of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How can you say, ‘You will become free’?"

  • John 5:42
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    42But I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you.

  • John 8:55-56
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    55Yet you do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I know him and I keep his word.

    56Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day; he saw it and was glad.

  • John 16:2-3
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    2They will ban you from the synagogue. But the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God.

    3They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me.

  • John 8:19-24
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    19Then they asked him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also."

    20He spoke these words while teaching in the temple treasury. Yet no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come.

    21Then he said to them again, "I am going away, and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come."

    22So the Jews said, "Surely he won’t kill himself, will he, since he says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?

    23He said to them, "You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.

    24That is why I told you that you will die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins."

  • John 7:19
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    19Didn't Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill Me?

  • John 7:7
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    7'The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify about it that its works are evil.'

  • John 15:24-25
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    24If I had not done the works among them that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen these works, and yet they have hated both me and my Father.

    25But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: 'They hated me without reason.'

  • Acts 7:52
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    52Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, and now you have betrayed and murdered him—

  • John 8:13-15
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    13The Pharisees said to him, "You are testifying about yourself; your testimony is not valid."

    14Jesus answered, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you do not know where I come from or where I am going.

    15You judge by human standards; I judge no one.

  • John 7:36
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    36What does He mean when He said, ‘You will look for Me, but you will not find Me,’ and ‘Where I am, you cannot come’?”

  • John 7:34
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    34You will look for Me, but you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.'

  • John 15:18
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    18If the world hates you, know that it hated me before it hated you.

  • John 17:14
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    14I have given them Your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

  • Luke 3:8
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    8Produce fruit in keeping with repentance, and do not begin to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' For I tell you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones.

  • Rom 9:7
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    7Nor because they are Abraham’s descendants are they all his children. On the contrary, 'Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.'

  • John 8:26
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    26I have much to say about you and much to judge. But the one who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him."

  • John 15:4
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    4Remain in me, as I also remain in you. Just as a branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you unless you remain in me.

  • John 8:49
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    49Jesus answered, "I do not have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.

  • John 18:8
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    8Jesus answered, 'I told you that I am he. If you are looking for me, let these men go.'

  • John 7:25
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    25Then some of the people of Jerusalem began to say, 'Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?

  • John 3:11
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    11Truly, truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but you do not accept our testimony.

  • John 10:26
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    26but you do not believe because you are not my sheep.