John 8:37

The Truth Will Set You Free

³⁶ Therefore, if the Son sets you free, you really will be free. ³⁷ I know you are descendants of Abraham, but you are trying to kill Me because My word is not welcome among you. ³⁸ I speak what I have seen in the presence of the Father; therefore, you do what you have heard from your father.”

Seed of Abraham

Descendants Of Abraham

Trying To Kill Me

Abraham

John

No

John 7:1

After this, Jesus traveled in Galilee, since He did not want to travel in Judea because the Jews were trying to kill Him.

Matthew 13:15

For this people’s heart has grown callous;
their ears are hard of hearing,
and they have shut their eyes;
otherwise they might see with their eyes
and hear with their ears,
understand with their hearts
and turn back—
and I would cure them.

Matthew 13:19-22

When anyone hears the word about the kingdom and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the one sown along the path.

John 5:16-18

Therefore, the Jews began persecuting Jesus because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.

John 5:44

How can you believe? While accepting glory from one another, you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God.

John 7:19

Didn’t Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law! Why do you want to kill Me?”

John 7:25

Some of the people of Jerusalem were saying, “Isn’t this the man they want to kill?

John 8:6

They asked this to trap Him, in order that they might have evidence to accuse Him.

Jesus stooped down and started writing on the ground with His finger.

John 8:33

“We are descendants of Abraham,” they answered Him, “and we have never been enslaved to anyone. How can You say, ‘You will become free’?”

John 8:39-40

“Our father is Abraham!” they replied.

“If you were Abraham’s children,” Jesus told them, “you would do what Abraham did.

John 8:43

Why don’t you understand what I say? Because you cannot listen to My word.

John 8:45-47

Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me.

John 8:59

At that, they picked up stones to throw at Him. But Jesus was hidden and went out of the temple complex.

John 10:31

Again the Jews picked up rocks to stone Him.

John 11:53

So from that day on they plotted to kill Him.

John 12:39-43

This is why they were unable to believe, because Isaiah also said:

Acts 13:26

“Brothers, sons of Abraham’s race, and those among you who fear God, the message of this salvation has been sent to us.

Romans 9:7

Neither are they all children because they are Abraham’s descendants. On the contrary, your offspring will be traced through Isaac.

1 Corinthians 2:14

But the unbeliever does not welcome what comes from God’s Spirit, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it since it is evaluated spiritually.