John 12:39
For this reason they could not believe, because again Isaiah said,
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- John 5:44 : 44 How can you believe, if you accept praise from one another and don’t seek the praise that comes from the only God?
- John 6:44 : 44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
- John 10:38 : 38 But if I do them, even if you do not believe me, believe the deeds, so that you may come to know and understand that I am in the Father and the Father is in me.”
- 2 Pet 2:14 : 14 Their eyes, full of adultery, never stop sinning; they entice unstable people. They have trained their hearts for greed, these cursed children!
- Isa 6:9-9 : 9 He said,“Go and tell these people:‘Listen continually, but don’t understand! Look continually, but don’t perceive!’ 10 Make the hearts of these people calloused; make their ears deaf and their eyes blind! Otherwise they might see with their eyes and hear with their ears, their hearts might understand and they might repent and be healed.”
- Isa 44:18-20 : 18 They do not comprehend or understand, for their eyes are blind and cannot see; their minds do not discern. 19 No one thinks to himself, nor do they comprehend or understand and say to themselves:‘I burned half of it in the fire– yes, I baked bread over the coals; I roasted meat and ate it. With the rest of it should I make a disgusting idol? Should I bow down to dry wood?’ 20 He feeds on ashes; his deceived mind misleads him. He cannot rescue himself, nor does he say,‘Is this not a false god I hold in my right hand?’
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37The Outcome of Jesus’ Public Ministry Foretold Although Jesus had performed so many miraculous signs before them, they still refused to believe in him,
38so that the word of the prophet Isaiah would be fulfilled. He said,“Lord, who has believed our message, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
- John 12:40-423 verses84%
40“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they would not see with their eyes and understand with their heart, and turn to me, and I would heal them.”
41Isaiah said these things because he saw Christ’s glory, and spoke about him.
42Nevertheless, even among the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they would not confess Jesus to be the Christ, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue.
- Matt 13:13-164 verses78%
13For this reason I speak to them in parables: Although they see they do not see, and although they hear they do not hear nor do they understand.
14And concerning them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says:‘You will listen carefully yet will never understand, you will look closely yet will never comprehend.
15For the heart of this people has become dull; they are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’
16“But your eyes are blessed because they see, and your ears because they hear.
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12so that although they look they may look but not see, and although they hear they may hear but not understand, so they may not repent and be forgiven.”
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25So they began to leave, unable to agree among themselves, after Paul made one last statement:“The Holy Spirit spoke rightly to your ancestors through the prophet Isaiah
26when he said,‘Go to this people and say,“You will keep on hearing, but will never understand, and you will keep on looking, but will never perceive.
27For the heart of this people has become dull, and their ears are hard of hearing, and they have closed their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.”’
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17This fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah:
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16But not all have obeyed the good news, for Isaiah says,“Lord, who has believed our report?”
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58And he did not do many miracles there because of their unbelief.
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19So we see that they could not enter because of unbelief.
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8as it is written,“God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, to this very day.”
- Isa 6:9-102 verses71%
9He said,“Go and tell these people:‘Listen continually, but don’t understand! Look continually, but don’t perceive!’
10Make the hearts of these people calloused; make their ears deaf and their eyes blind! Otherwise they might see with their eyes and hear with their ears, their hearts might understand and they might repent and be healed.”
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39Jesus said,]“For judgment I have come into this world, so that those who do not see may gain their sight, and the ones who see may become blind.”
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39Then they attempted again to seize him, but he escaped their clutches.
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18They do not comprehend or understand, for their eyes are blind and cannot see; their minds do not discern.
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18Now the Jewish religious leaders refused to believe that he had really been blind and had gained his sight until at last they summoned the parents of the man who had become able to see.
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9concerning sin, because they do not believe in me;
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52because they did not understand about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.
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13They went back and told the rest, but they did not believe them.
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37But some of them said,“This is the man who caused the blind man to see! Couldn’t he have done something to keep Lazarus from dying?”
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38nor do you have his word residing in you, because you do not believe the one whom he sent.
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36But I told you that you have seen me and still do not believe.
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32Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but(as if it were possible) by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,
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32Despite all this, they continued to sin, and did not trust him to do amazing things.
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25Jesus replied,“I told you and you do not believe. The deeds I do in my Father’s name testify about me.
26But you refuse to believe because you are not my sheep.
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43Why don’t you understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot accept my teaching.
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6But they could not reply to this.
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22because they did not have faith in God, and did not trust his ability to deliver them.
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18The Lord Reasons with His People“Listen, you deaf ones! Take notice, you blind ones!
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14so that what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah would be fulfilled:
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11for on account of him many of the Jewish people from Jerusalem were going away and believing in Jesus.
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5So they discussed it with one another, saying,“If we say,‘From heaven,’ he will say,‘Why did you not believe him?’
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44Jesus’ Final Public Words But Jesus shouted out,“The one who believes in me does not believe in me, but in the one who sent me,
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41‘Look, you scoffers; be amazed and perish! For I am doing a work in your days, a work you would never believe, even if someone tells you.’”
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1Who would have believed what we just heard? When was the LORD’s power revealed through him?
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11This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?”
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