Luke 7:30

World English Bible (2000)

But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves.

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 22:35 : 35 One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him.
  • Luke 13:34 : 34 "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused!
  • Acts 20:27 : 27 for I didn't shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.
  • Rom 10:21 : 21 But as to Israel he says, "All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people."
  • 2 Cor 6:1 : 1 Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,
  • Gal 2:21 : 21 I don't make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!"
  • Eph 1:11 : 11 in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;
  • Jer 8:8 : 8 How do you say, We are wise, and the law of Yahweh is with us? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has worked falsely.

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    29 When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared God to be just, having been baptized with John's baptism.

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    31 "To what then will I liken the people of this generation? What are they like?

    32 They are like children who sit in the marketplace, and call one to another, saying, 'We piped to you, and you didn't dance. We mourned, and you didn't weep.'

  • Mark 7:1-5
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    1 Then the Pharisees, and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem.

    2 Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is, unwashed, hands, they found fault.

    3 (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, don't eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders.

    4 They don't eat when they come from the marketplace, unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things, which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.)

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  • Mark 7:7-9
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    7 But in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'

    8 "For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly to the tradition of men--the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things."

    9 He said to them, "Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.

  • Matt 3:6-7
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    6 They were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.

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  • John 4:1-2
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    1 Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John

    2 (although Jesus himself didn't baptize, but his disciples),

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    47 The Pharisees therefore answered them, "You aren't also led astray, are you?

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    30 The baptism of John--was it from heaven, or from men? Answer me."

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    45 One of the lawyers answered him, "Teacher, in saying this you insult us also."

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    32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn't believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you didn't even repent afterward, that you might believe him.

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    38 When the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed himself before dinner.

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    15 Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.

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    52 Which of the prophets didn't your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.

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    11 But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.