John 8:37

The Truth Will Set You Free

³⁶ So if the son sets you free, you will be truly free. ³⁷ I know that you are descendants of Abraham. But you are seeking to kill me, because my word makes no progress among you. ³⁸ I speak [the things] that I have seen with the Father; so also you do [the things] that you have heard from the Father."

Seed of Abraham

Descendants Of Abraham

Trying To Kill Me

Abraham

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John 7:1

And after these [things] Jesus was going about in Galilee. For he did not want to go about in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him.

Matthew 13:15

For the heart of this people has become dull, and with their ears they hear with difficulty, and they have shut their eyes, so that they would 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 and does not understand [it], the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is what was sown on the side of the path.

John 5:16-18

And on account of this the Jews began to persecute Jesus, because he was doing these [things] on the Sabbath.

John 5:44

How are you able to believe, [if you] accept glory from one another, and do not seek the glory [which is] from the only God?

John 7:19

Has not Moses given you the law, and none of you carries out the law? Why do you seek to kill me?"

John 7:25

Then some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem began to say, "Is this not [the one] whom they are seeking to kill?

John 8:6

(Now they were saying this to test him, so that they would have [an occasion] to bring charges against him.) But Jesus, bending down, began to write with [his] finger on the ground, taking no notice.

John 8:33

They replied to him, "We are descendants of Abraham and have not been enslaved to anyone at any time. How do you say, 'You will become free'?"

John 8:39-40

They answered and said to him, "Abraham is our father!" Jesus said to them, "If you are children of Abraham, do the deeds of Abraham!

John 8:43

{Why} do you not understand my way of speaking? Because you are not able to listen to my message.

John 8:45-47

But because I am telling the truth, you do not believe me.

John 8:59

Then they picked up stones in order to throw [them] at him. But Jesus was hidden and went out of the temple [courts].

John 10:31

Then the Jews picked up stones again so that they could stone him.

John 11:53

So from that day they resolved that they should kill him.

John 12:39-43

For this [reason] they were not able to believe, because again Isaiah said,

Acts 13:26

"Men [and] brothers, sons of the family of Abraham and those among you who fear God--to us the message of this salvation has been sent!

Romans 9:7

nor [are they] all children because they are descendants of Abraham, but "In Isaac will your descendants be named."

1 Corinthians 2:14

But the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is not able to understand [them], because they are spiritually discerned.