John 3:14

World English Bible (2000)

As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even 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, because we have spoken against Yahweh, and against you. Pray to Yahweh, that he take away the serpents from us." Moses prayed for the people. 8 Yahweh said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard: and it shall happen, that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live." 9 Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it on the standard: and it happened, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked to the serpent of brass, he lived.
  • John 8:28 : 28 Jesus therefore said to them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things.
  • Ps 22:16 : 16 For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.
  • John 12:32-34 : 32 And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself." 33 But he said this, signifying by what kind of death he should die. 34 The multitude answered him, "We have heard out of the law that the Christ remains forever. How do you say, 'The Son of Man must be lifted up?' Who is this Son of Man?"
  • Acts 2:23 : 23 him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;
  • Acts 4:27-28 : 27 "For truly, in this city against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together 28 to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.
  • Matt 26:54 : 54 How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?"
  • Luke 18:31-33 : 31 He took the twelve aside, and said to them, "Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written through the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be completed. 32 For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit on. 33 They will scourge and kill him. On the third day, he will rise again."
  • Luke 24:20 : 20 and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him.
  • Luke 24:26-27 : 26 Didn't the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?" 27 Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.
  • Luke 24:44-46 : 44 He said to them, "This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled." 45 Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures. 46 He said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,
  • 2 Kgs 18:4 : 4 He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made; for to those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.

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  • Num 21:6-9
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    6 Yahweh sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many people of Israel died.

    7 The people came to Moses, and said, "We have sinned, because we have spoken against Yahweh, and against you. Pray to Yahweh, that he take away the serpents from us." Moses prayed for the people.

    8 Yahweh said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard: and it shall happen, that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live."

    9 Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it on the standard: and it happened, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked to the serpent of brass, he lived.

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

    13 No one has ascended into heaven, but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.

  • John 3:15-18
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    15 that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

    16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

    17 For God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

    18 He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn't believe has been judged 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, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself."

    33 But he said this, signifying by what kind of death he should die.

    34 The multitude answered him, "We have heard out of the law that the Christ remains forever. How do 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 would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?

  • John 8:28
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    28 Jesus therefore said to them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things.

  • Exod 4:3
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    3 He said, "Throw it on the ground." He threw it on the ground, and it became a snake; and Moses ran away from it.

  • John 1:51
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    51 He said to him, "Most certainly, I tell you, hereafter 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 answered him, "Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can't see the Kingdom of God."

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

    5 Jesus answered, "Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can't enter into the Kingdom of God!

    6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

    7 Don't marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born anew.'

  • 1 Cor 10:9
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    9 Neither let us test the Lord, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.

  • John 3:31
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    31 He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the Earth belongs to the Earth, and speaks of the Earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.

  • John 17:1
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    1 Jesus said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, "Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you;

  • John 6:53
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    53 Jesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in yourselves.

  • John 6:40
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    40 This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day."

  • 2 Cor 3:13
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    13 and not as Moses, who put a veil on his face, that the children of Israel wouldn't look steadfastly on the end of that which was passing away.

  • Luke 24:7
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    7 saying that the Son of Man must be delivered up into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again?"

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

  • John 5:23
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    23 that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn't honor the Son doesn't honor the Father who sent him.

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

  • John 3:36
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    36 One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won't see life, but the wrath of God remains on him."

  • Matt 17:22
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    22 While they were staying in Galilee, Jesus said to them, "The Son of Man is about to be delivered up into the hands of men,

  • Exod 19:3
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    3 Moses went up to God, and Yahweh called to him out of the mountain, saying, "This is what you shall tell the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel:

  • Matt 3:16
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    16 Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him.

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

  • John 5:21
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    21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.

  • Jas 4:10
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    10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

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

  • Luke 4:9
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    9 He led him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, cast 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 scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up."

  • Mark 9:9
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    9 As they were coming down from the mountain, he commanded them that they should tell no one what things they had seen, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead.

  • John 4:4
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    4 He needed to pass through Samaria.

  • Matt 17:8
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    8 Lifting up their eyes, they saw no one, except Jesus alone.

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

  • John 8:36
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    36 If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

  • Luke 3:6
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    6 All flesh will see God's salvation.'"

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

  • John 6:50
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    50 This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die.