John 6:28

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

They said therefore unto him, `What may we do that we may work the works of God?'

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 5:27 : 27 Draw near thou, and hear all that which Jehovah our God saith, and thou, thou dost speak unto us all that which Jehovah our God speaketh unto thee, and we have hearkened, and done it.
  • Jer 42:3-6 : 3 and Jehovah thy God doth declare to us the way in which we walk, and the thing that we do.' 4 And Jeremiah the prophet saith unto them, `I have heard: lo, I am praying unto Jehovah your God according to your words, and it hath come to pass, the whole word that Jehovah answereth you, I declare to you -- I do not withhold from you a word.' 5 And they have said to Jeremiah, `Jehovah is against us for a witness true and faithful, if -- according to all the word with which Jehovah thy God doth send thee unto us -- we do not so. 6 Whether good or evil, to the voice of Jehovah our God, to whom we are sending thee, we do hearken; because it is good for us when we hearken to the voice of Jehovah our God.'
  • Jer 42:20 : 20 for ye have shewed yourselves perverse in your souls, for ye sent me unto Jehovah your God, saying, Pray for us unto Jehovah our God, and according to all that Jehovah our God saith, so declare to us, and we have done `it';
  • Mic 6:7-8 : 7 Is Jehovah pleased with thousands of rams? With myriads of streams of oil? Do I give my first-born `for' my transgression? The fruit of my body `for' the sin of my soul? 8 He hath declared to thee, O man, what `is' good; Yea, what is Jehovah requiring of thee, Except -- to do judgment, and love kindness, And lowly to walk with thy God?
  • Matt 19:16 : 16 And lo, one having come near, said to him, `Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have life age-during?'
  • Luke 10:25 : 25 And lo, a certain lawyer stood up, trying him, and saying, `Teacher, what having done, life age-during shall I inherit?'
  • Acts 2:37 : 37 And having heard, they were pricked to the heart; they say also to Peter, and to the rest of the apostles, `What shall we do, men, brethren?'
  • Acts 9:6 : 6 trembling also, and astonished, he said, `Lord, what dost thou wish me to do?' and the Lord `said' unto him, `Arise, and enter into the city, and it shall be told thee what it behoveth thee to do.'
  • Acts 16:30 : 30 and having brought them forth, said, `Sirs, what must I do -- that I may be saved?'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 6:29-30
    2 verses
    86%

    29 Jesus answered and said to them, `This is the work of God, that ye may believe in him whom He did send.'

    30 They said therefore to him, `What sign, then, dost thou, that we may see and may believe thee? what dost thou work?

  • John 6:26-27
    2 verses
    79%

    26 Jesus answered them and said, `Verily, verily, I say to you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw signs, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were satisfied;

    27 work not for the food that is perishing, but for the food that is remaining to life age-during, which the Son of Man will give to you, for him did the Father seal -- `even' God.'

  • 75%

    32 Jesus answered them, `Many good works did I shew you from my Father; because of which work of them do ye stone me?'

    33 The Jews answered him, saying, `For a good work we do not stone thee, but for evil speaking, and because thou, being a man, dost make thyself God.'

  • 10 And the multitudes were questioning him, saying, `What, then, shall we do?'

  • 34 Jesus saith to them, `My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work;

  • 17 And Jesus answered them, `My Father till now doth work, and I work;'

  • 36 and he said to them, `What do ye wish me to do for you?'

  • 39 They answered and said to him, `Our father is Abraham;' Jesus saith to them, `If children of Abraham ye were, the works of Abraham ye were doing;

  • John 6:32-34
    3 verses
    72%

    32 Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread out of the heaven; but my Father doth give you the true bread out of the heaven;

    33 for the bread of God is that which is coming down out of the heaven, and giving life to the world.'

    34 They said, therefore, unto him, `Sir, always give us this bread.'

  • 4 it behoveth me to be working the works of Him who sent me while it is day; night doth come, when no one is able to work: --

  • 46 `And why do ye call me, Lord, Lord, and do not what I say?

  • 71%

    37 if I do not the works of my Father, do not believe me;

    38 and if I do, even if me ye may not believe, the works believe, that ye may know and may believe that in me `is' the Father, and I in Him.'

  • 19 Jesus therefore responded and said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, The Son is not able to do anything of himself, if he may not see the Father doing anything; for whatever things He may do, these also the Son in like manner doth;

  • 25 Jesus answered them, `I told you, and ye do not believe; the works that I do in the name of my Father, these testify concerning me;

  • 62 if then ye may behold the Son of Man going up where he was before?

  • 18 the Jews then answered and said to him, `What sign dost thou shew to us -- that thou dost these things?'

  • John 6:52-53
    2 verses
    71%

    52 The Jews, therefore, were striving with one another, saying, `How is this one able to give us `his' flesh to eat?'

    53 Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, If ye may not eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and may not drink his blood, ye have no life in yourselves;

  • Mark 6:36-37
    2 verses
    71%

    36 let them away, that, having gone away to the surrounding fields and villages, they may buy to themselves loaves, for what they may eat they have not.'

    37 And he answering said to them, `Give ye them to eat,' and they say to him, `Having gone away, may we buy two hundred denaries' worth of loaves, and give to them to eat?'

  • 71%

    11 believe me, that I `am' in the Father, and the Father in me; and if not, because of the works themselves, believe me.

    12 `Verily, verily, I say to you, he who is believing in me, the works that I do -- that one also shall do, and greater than these he shall do, because I go on to my Father;

  • 2 and certain of the Pharisees said to them, `Why do ye that which is not lawful to do on the sabbaths?'

  • John 6:47-48
    2 verses
    70%

    47 `Verily, verily, I say to you, He who is believing in me, hath life age-during;

    48 I am the bread of the life;

  • 9 six days thou dost labour, and hast done all thy work,

  • John 6:5-6
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    70%

    5 Jesus then having lifted up `his' eyes and having seen that a great multitude doth come to him, saith unto Philip, `Whence shall we buy loaves, that these may eat?' --

    6 and this he said, trying him, for he himself had known what he was about to do.

  • 41 ye do the works of your father.' They said, therefore, to him, `We of whoredom have not been born; one Father we have -- God;'

  • 40 and this is the will of Him who sent me, that every one who is beholding the Son, and is believing in him, may have life age-during, and I will raise him up in the last day.'

  • 31 therefore ye may not be anxious, saying, What may we eat? or, What may we drink? or, What may we put round?

  • 28 `And what think ye? A man had two children, and having come to the first, he said, Child, go, to-day be working in my vineyard.'

  • 21 Jesus answered and said to them, `One work I did, and ye all wonder,

  • 28 Jesus, therefore, said to them, `When ye may lift up the Son of Man then ye will know that I am `he'; and of myself I do nothing, but according as my Father did teach me, these things I speak;

  • 1 What, then, shall we say? shall we continue in the sin that the grace may abound?

  • 47 he who is of God, the sayings of God he doth hear; because of this ye do not hear, because of God ye are not.'

  • 31 Jesus answered them, `Now do ye believe? lo, there doth come an hour,

  • 3 his brethren, therefore, said unto him, `Remove hence, and go away to Judea, that thy disciples also may behold thy works that thou dost;

  • 21 but he who is doing the truth doth come to the light, that his works may be manifested, that in God they are having been wrought.'

  • 10 for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

  • 36 he answered and said, `Who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?'

  • 39 `Ye search the Writings, because ye think in them to have life age-during, and these are they that are testifying concerning me;

  • 16 And lo, one having come near, said to him, `Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have life age-during?'

  • 58 this is the bread that came down out of the heaven; not as your fathers did eat the manna, and died; he who is eating this bread shall live -- to the age.'