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 Then the people came to Moses and said,“We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD and against you. Pray to the LORD that he would take away the snakes from us.” So Moses prayed for the people. 8 The LORD said to Moses,“Make a poisonous snake and set it on a pole. When anyone who is bitten looks at it, he will live.” 9 So Moses made a bronze snake and put it on a pole, so that if a snake had bitten someone, when he looked at the bronze snake he lived.
  • John 8:28 : 28 Then Jesus said,“When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing on my own initiative, but I speak just what the Father taught me.
  • Ps 22:16 : 16 Yes, wild dogs surround me– a gang of evil men crowd around me; like a lion they pin my hands and feet.
  • John 12:32-34 : 32 And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.” 33 (Now he said this to indicate clearly what kind of death he was going to die.) 34 Then the crowd responded,“We have heard from the law that the Christ will remain forever. How can you say,‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this Son of Man?”
  • Acts 2:23 : 23 this man, who was handed over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you executed by nailing him to a cross at the hands of Gentiles.
  • Acts 4:27-28 : 27 “For indeed both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, assembled together in this city against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, 28 to do as much as your power and your plan had decided beforehand would happen.
  • Matt 26:54 : 54 How then would the scriptures that say it must happen this way be fulfilled?”
  • Luke 18:31-33 : 31 Another Prediction of Jesus’ Passion Then Jesus took the twelve aside and said to them,“Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written about the Son of Man by the prophets will be accomplished. 32 For he will be handed over to the Gentiles; he will be mocked, mistreated, and spat on. 33 They will flog him severely and kill him. Yet on the third day he will rise again.”
  • Luke 24:20 : 20 and how our chief priests and leaders handed him over to be condemned to death, and crucified him.
  • Luke 24:26-27 : 26 Wasn’t it necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and enter into his glory?” 27 Then beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them the things written about himself in all the scriptures.
  • Luke 24:44-46 : 44 Jesus’ Final Commission Then he said to them,“These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled.” 45 Then he opened their minds so they could understand the scriptures, 46 and said to them,“Thus it stands written that the Christ would suffer and would rise from the dead on the third day,
  • 2 Kgs 18:4 : 4 He eliminated the high places, smashed the sacred pillars to bits, and cut down the Asherah pole. He also demolished the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had been offering incense to it; it was called Nehushtan.

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  • Num 21:6-9
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    6 So the LORD sent venomous snakes among the people, and they bit the people; many people of Israel died.

    7 Then the people came to Moses and said,“We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD and against you. Pray to the LORD that he would take away the snakes from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.

    8 The LORD said to Moses,“Make a poisonous snake and set it on a pole. When anyone who is bitten looks at it, he will live.”

    9 So Moses made a bronze snake and put it on a pole, so that if a snake had bitten someone, when he looked at the bronze snake he lived.

  • John 3:12-13
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    12 If I have told you people about earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?

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

  • John 3:15-18
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    15 so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.”

    16 For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

    17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

    18 The one who believes in him is not condemned. The one who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

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

    33 (Now he said this to indicate clearly what kind of death he was going to die.)

    34 Then the crowd responded,“We have heard from the law that the Christ will remain forever. How can you say,‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this Son of Man?”

  • John 6:62
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    62 Then what if you see the Son of Man ascending where he was before?

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

  • Exod 4:3
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    3 The LORD said,“Throw it to the ground.” So he threw it to the ground, and it became a snake, and Moses ran from it.

  • John 1:51
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    51 He continued,“I tell all of you the solemn truth– 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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    3 Jesus replied,“I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

    4 Nicodemus said to him,“How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter his mother’s womb and be born a second time, can he?”

    5 Jesus answered,“I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born of water and spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

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

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

  • 1 Cor 10:9
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    9 And let us not put Christ to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by snakes.

  • John 3:31
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    31 The one who comes from above is superior to all. The one who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks about earthly things. The one who comes from heaven is superior to all.

  • John 17:1
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    1 Jesus Prays for the Father to Glorify Him When Jesus had finished saying these things, he looked upward to heaven and said,“Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, so that your Son may glorify you–

  • John 6:53
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    53 Jesus said to them,“I tell you the solemn truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in yourselves.

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

  • 2 Cor 3:13
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    13 and not like Moses who used to put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from staring at the result of the glory that was made ineffective.

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

  • Matt 3:13
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    13 The Baptism of Jesus Then Jesus came from Galilee to John to be baptized by him in the Jordan River.

  • John 5:23
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    23 so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

  • Matt 12:40
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    40 For just as Jonah was in the belly of the huge 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
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    36 The one who believes in the Son has eternal life. The one who rejects the Son will not see life, but God’s wrath remains on him.

  • Matt 17:22
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    22 Second Prediction of Jesus’ Death and Resurrection When they gathered together in Galilee, Jesus told them,“The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of men.

  • Exod 19:3
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    3 Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain,“Thus you will tell the house of Jacob, and declare to the people of Israel:

  • Matt 3:16
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    16 After Jesus was baptized, just as he was coming up out of the water, the heavens opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him.

  • Luke 17:30
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    30 It will be the same on the day the Son of Man is revealed.

  • John 5:21
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    21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes.

  • Jas 4:10
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    10 Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you.

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

  • Luke 4:9
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    9 Then the devil brought him to Jerusalem, had him stand on the highest point 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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    22 saying,“The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and experts in the law, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.”

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

  • John 4:4
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    4 Conversation With a Samaritan Woman But he had to pass through Samaria.

  • Matt 17:8
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    8 When they looked up, all they saw was Jesus alone.

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

  • John 8:36
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    36 So if the son sets you free, you will be really free.

  • Luke 3:6
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    6 and all humanity will see the salvation of God.’”

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  • John 6:50
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    50 This is the bread that has come down from heaven, so that a person may eat from it and not die.

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