John 12:42

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue:

Among

They did not

Lest

1 Peter 4:12

General references

John 7:48

John 9:13

John 10:42

Bible References

Among

he came one night to Jesus and said, "Rabbi, we know you have come from God to teach us, for no one could perform these Signs of yours unless God were with him."

Have any of the authorities or of the Pharisees believed in him?

Now a number of the Jews who had come to visit Mary and who witnessed what he had done, believed in him.

After this, Joseph of Arimathaea, a disciple of Jesus but a secret disciple ??for fear of the Jews ??asked Pilate for permission to remove the body of Jesus. And Pilate allowed him. So he went and removed the body,

They did not

Everyone who will acknowledge me before men, I will acknowledge him before my Father in heaven;

I tell you, whoever acknowledges me before men, the Son of man will acknowledge him before the angels of God;

for with his heart man believes and is justified, with his mouth he confesses and is saved.

You can recognize the Spirit of God by this: every spirit which confesses Jesus as the Christ incarnate comes from God,

Lest

For fear of the Jews, however, nobody spoke of him in public.

(His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that anyone who confessed him to be Christ should be excommunicated.

They will excommunicate you; indeed the time is coming when anyone who kills you will imagine he is performing a service to God.

Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. A maidservant came up and said to him, "You were with Jesus the Galilean too."

Blessed are you when men will hate you, when they will excommunicate you and denounce you and defame you as wicked on account of the Son of man;

The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they had been considered worthy of suffering dishonour for the sake of the Name;

Beloved, do not be surprised at the ordeal that has come to test you, as though some foreign experience befell you.

General references

Have any of the authorities or of the Pharisees believed in him?

They brought him before the Pharisees, this man who had once been blind.

And many believed in him there.