John 8:37
I know that you are descendants of Abraham; yet you are seeking to put me to death, because my Message finds no place in your hearts.
John 7:1
After this, Jesus went about in Galilee, for he would not do so in Judea, because the Jews were eager to put him to death.
Matthew 13:15
For the mind of this nation has grown dense, And their ears are dull of hearing, Their eyes also have they closed; Lest some day they should perceive with their eyes, And with their ears they should hear, And in their mind they should understand, and should turn--And I should heal them.'
Matthew 13:19-22
When any one hears the Message of the Kingdom without understanding it, the Evil One comes and snatches away what has been sown in his mind. This is the man meant by the seed which was sown along the path.
John 5:16-18
And that was why the Jews began to persecute Jesus--because he did things of this kind on the Sabbath.
John 5:44
How can you believe in me, when you receive honor from one another and do not desire the honor which comes from the only God?
John 7:19
Was not it Moses who gave you the Law? Yet not one of you obeys it! Why are you seeking to put me to death?"
John 7:25
At this some of the people of Jerusalem exclaimed: "Is not this the man that they are seeking to put to death?
John 8:6
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John 8:33
"We are descendants of Abraham," was their answer, "and have never yet been in slavery to any one. What do you mean by saying 'you will be set free'?"
John 8:39-40
"Our father is Abraham," was their answer. "If you are Abraham's children," replied Jesus, "do what Abraham did.
John 8:43
How is it that you do not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to listen to my Message.
John 8:45-47
But, as for me, it is because I speak the truth to you that you do not believe me.
John 8:59
At this they took up stones to throw at him; but Jesus hid himself, and left the Temple Courts.
John 10:31
The Jews again brought stones to throw at him;
John 11:53
So from that day they plotted to put Jesus to death.
John 12:39-43
The reason why they were unable to believe is given by Isaiah elsewhere, in these words--
Acts 13:26
Brothers, descendants of Abraham, and all those among you who reverence God, it was to us that the Message of this Salvation was sent.
Romans 9:7
Nor, because they are Abraham's descendants, are they all his Children; but-'It is Isaac's children who will be called thy descendants.'
1 Corinthians 2:14
The merely intellectual man rejects the teaching of the Spirit of God; for to him it is mere folly; he cannot grasp it, because it is to be understood only by spiritual insight.