John 8:37

The Truth Will Set You Free

³⁶ So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed!" ³⁷ "I know that you are Abraham's descendants. Yet you are trying to kill me because you've not received what I've told you. ³⁸ I declare what I've seen in my Father's presence, and you're doing what you've heard from your father."

Seed of Abraham

Descendants Of Abraham

Trying To Kill Me

Abraham

John

No

John 7:1

After this, Jesus traveled throughout Galilee, because he didn't want to travel in Judea, since the Jewish leaders there were trying to kill him.

Matthew 13:15

for this people's heart has become dull, and their ears are hard of hearing. They have shut their eyes so that they might not see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.'

Matthew 13:19-22

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

John 5:16-18

So the Jewish leaders began persecuting Jesus, because he kept doing such things on the Sabbath.

John 5:44

How can you believe when you accept each other's praise and do not look for the praise that comes from the only God?

John 7:19

Moses gave you the Law, didn't he? Yet none of you is keeping the Law. Why are you trying to kill me?"

John 7:25

Then some of the people of Jerusalem began saying, "This is the man they are trying to kill, isn't it?

John 8:6

They said this to test him, so that they might have a charge against him. But Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with his finger.

John 8:33

They replied to him, "We are Abraham's descendants and have never been slaves to anybody. So how can you say, "You will be set free'?"

John 8:39-40

They replied to him, "Our father is Abraham!"

John 8:43

Why don't you understand what I've said? It's because you can't listen to my words.

John 8:45-47

But it is because I speak the truth that you don't believe me.

John 8:59

At this, they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the Temple.

John 10:31

Again the Jewish leaders picked up stones to stone him to death.

John 11:53

So from that day on they resolved to put him to death.

John 12:39-43

This is why they could not believe: Isaiah also said,

Acts 13:26

"My brothers, descendants of Abraham's family, and those among you who fear God, it is to us that the message of this salvation has been sent.

Romans 9:7

and not all of Abraham's descendants are his true descendants. On the contrary, "It is through Isaac that descendants will be named for you."

1 Corinthians 2:14

A person who isn't spiritual doesn't accept the things of God's Spirit, for they are nonsense to him. He can't understand them because they are spiritually evaluated.