John 12:39

Webster's Bible (1833)

For this cause they couldn't believe, for Isaiah said again,

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  • John 5:44 : 44 How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don't seek the glory 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 in the last day.
  • John 10:38 : 38 But if I do them, though you don't believe me, believe the works; that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father."
  • 2 Pet 2:14 : 14 having eyes full of adultery, and who can't cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;
  • Isa 6:9-9 : 9 He said, "Go, and tell this people, 'You hear indeed, But don't understand; And you see indeed, But don't perceive.' 10 Make the heart of this people fat; Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; Lest they see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And turn again, and be healed."
  • Isa 44:18-20 : 18 They don't know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can't see; and their hearts, that they can't understand. 19 None calls to mind, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yes, also I have baked bread on the coals of it; I have roasted flesh and eaten it: and shall I make the residue of it an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree? 20 He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can't deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

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  • John 12:37-38
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    37But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they didn't believe in him,

    38that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, "Lord, who has believed our report? To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?"

  • John 12:40-42
    3 verses
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    40"He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, Lest they should see with their eyes, And perceive with their heart, And would turn, And I would heal them."

    41Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke of him.

    42Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn't confess it, so that they wouldn't be put out of the synagogue,

  • Matt 13:13-16
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    78%

    13Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don't see, and hearing, they don't hear, neither do they understand.

    14In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, 'By hearing you will hear, And will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, And will in no way perceive:

    15For this people's heart has grown callous, Their ears are dull of hearing, They have closed their eyes; Or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, Hear with their ears, Understand with their heart, And should turn again; And I would heal them.'

    16"But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.

  • Mark 4:12
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    12that 'seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.'"

  • Acts 28:25-27
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    25When they didn't agree among themselves, they departed after Paul had spoken one word, "The Holy Spirit spoke rightly through Isaiah, the prophet, to our fathers,

    26saying, 'Go to this people, and say, In hearing, you will hear, But will in no way understand. In seeing, you will see, But will in no way perceive.

    27For this people's heart has grown callous. Their ears are dull of hearing. Their eyes they have closed. Lest they should see with their eyes, Hear with their ears, Understand with their heart, And would turn again, And I would heal them.'

  • Matt 12:17
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    17that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,

  • Rom 10:16
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    16But they didn't all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?"

  • Matt 13:58
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    58He didn't do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.

  • Heb 3:19
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    19We see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.

  • Rom 11:8
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    8According as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day."

  • Isa 6:9-10
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    9He said, "Go, and tell this people, 'You hear indeed, But don't understand; And you see indeed, But don't perceive.'

    10Make the heart of this people fat; Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; Lest they see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And turn again, and be healed."

  • John 9:39
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    39Jesus said, "I came into this world for judgment, that those who don't see may see; and that those who see may become blind."

  • John 10:39
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    39They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.

  • Isa 44:18
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    18They don't know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can't see; and their hearts, that they can't understand.

  • John 9:18
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    18The Jews therefore did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight,

  • John 16:9
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    9about sin, because they don't believe in me;

  • Mark 6:52
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    52for they hadn't understood about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.

  • Mark 16:13
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    13They went away and told it to the rest. They didn't believe them, either.

  • John 11:37
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    37Some of them said, "Couldn't this man, who opened the eyes of him who was blind, have also kept this man from dying?"

  • John 5:38
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    38You don't have his word living in you; because you don't believe him whom he sent.

  • John 6:36
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    36But I told you that you have seen me, and yet you don't believe.

  • Rom 9:32-33
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    32Why? Because they didn't seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

    33even as it is written, "Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; And no one who believes in him will be disappointed."

  • Ps 78:32
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    32For all this they still sinned, And didn't believe in his wondrous works.

  • John 10:25-26
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    25Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you don't believe. The works that I do in my Father's name, these testify about me.

    26But you don't believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you.

  • Mark 11:31
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    31They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we should say, 'From heaven;' he will say, 'Why then did you not believe him?'

  • John 8:43
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    43Why don't you understand my speech? Because you can't hear my word.

  • Mark 8:17
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    17Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, "Why do you reason that it's because you have no bread? Don't you perceive yet, neither understand? Is your heart still hardened?

  • Luke 9:45
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    45But they didn't understand this saying. It was concealed from them, that they should not perceive it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.

  • Luke 14:6
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    6They couldn't answer him regarding these things.

  • Ps 78:22
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    22Because they didn't believe in God, And didn't trust in his salvation.

  • Isa 42:18
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    18Hear, you deaf; and look, you blind, that you may see.

  • Matt 4:14
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    14that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,

  • John 12:11
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    11because on account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus.

  • Luke 20:5
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    5They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will say, 'Why didn't you believe him?'

  • John 12:44
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    44Jesus cried out and said, "Whoever believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me.

  • Acts 13:41
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    41'Behold, you scoffers, and wonder, and perish; For I work a work in your days, A work which you will in no way believe, if one declares it to you.'"

  • Isa 53:1
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    1Who has believed our message? and to whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed?

  • Mark 12:11
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    11This was from the Lord, It is marvelous in our eyes'?"

  • John 20:29
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    29Jesus said to him, "Because you have seen me,{TR adds " Thomas,"} you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed."