Luke 16:31

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

He replied to him,‘If they do not respond to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’”

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  • Gen 9:27 : 27 May God enlarge Japheth’s territory and numbers! May he live in the tents of Shem and may Canaan be the slave of Japheth!”
  • John 11:43-53 : 43 When he had said this, he shouted in a loud voice,“Lazarus, come out!” 44 The one who had died came out, his feet and hands tied up with strips of cloth, and a cloth wrapped around his face. Jesus said to them,“Unwrap him and let him go.” 45 The Response of the Jewish Leaders Then many of the people, who had come with Mary and had seen the things Jesus did, believed in him. 46 But some of them went to the Pharisees and reported to them what Jesus had done. 47 So the chief priests and the Pharisees called the council together and said,“What are we doing? For this man is performing many miraculous signs. 48 If we allow him to go on in this way, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away our sanctuary and our nation.” 49 Then one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said,“You know nothing at all! 50 You do not realize that it is more to your advantage to have one man die for the people than for the whole nation to perish.” 51 (Now he did not say this on his own, but because he was high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the Jewish nation, 52 and not for the Jewish nation only, but to gather together into one the children of God who are scattered.) 53 So from that day they planned together to kill him.
  • John 12:10-11 : 10 So the chief priests planned to kill Lazarus too, 11 for on account of him many of the Jewish people from Jerusalem were going away and believing in Jesus.
  • Acts 19:8 : 8 Paul Continues to Minister at Ephesus So Paul entered the synagogue and spoke out fearlessly for three months, addressing and convincing them about the kingdom of God.
  • Acts 26:28 : 28 Agrippa said to Paul,“In such a short time are you persuading me to become a Christian?”
  • Acts 28:23 : 23 They set a day to meet with him, and they came to him where he was staying in even greater numbers. From morning until evening he explained things to them, testifying about the kingdom of God and trying to convince them about Jesus from both the law of Moses and the prophets.
  • 2 Cor 4:3 : 3 But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled only to those who are perishing,
  • 2 Cor 5:11 : 11 The Message of Reconciliation Therefore, because we know the fear of the Lord, we try to persuade people, but we are well known to God, and I hope we are well known to your consciences too.

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    26Besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us, so that those who want to cross over from here to you cannot do so, and no one can cross from there to us.’

    27So the rich man said,‘Then I beg you, father– send Lazarus to my father’s house

    28(for I have five brothers) to warn them so that they don’t come into this place of torment.’

    29But Abraham said,‘They have Moses and the prophets; they must respond to them.’

    30Then the rich man said,‘No, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’

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    16For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised.

  • Exod 4:8
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    8“If they do not believe you or pay attention to the former sign, then they may believe the latter sign.

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    26Now as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him,‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?

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    31They discussed with one another, saying,“If we say,‘From heaven,’ he will say,‘Then why did you not believe him?’

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    13They went back and told the rest, but they did not believe them.

  • John 20:9
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    9(For they did not yet understand the scripture that Jesus must rise from the dead.)

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    17So the crowd who had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead were continuing to testify about it.

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    43When he had said this, he shouted in a loud voice,“Lazarus, come out!”

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    5No, I tell you! But unless you repent you will all perish as well!”

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  • Luke 20:5-6
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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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