John 8:37

The Truth Will Set You Free

³⁶ So if the son sets you free, you will be really free. ³⁷ I know that you are Abraham's descendants. But you want to kill me, because my teaching makes no progress among you. ³⁸ I am telling you the things I have seen while with the Father; as for you, practice the things you have heard from the Father!"

Seed of Abraham

Descendants Of Abraham

Trying To Kill Me

Abraham

John

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John 7:1

After this Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He stayed out of Judea because the Jewish leaders wanted to kill him.

Matthew 13:15

For the heart of this people has become dull; they are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts 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 what was sown in his heart; this is the seed sown along the path.

John 5:16-18

Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began persecuting him.

John 5:44

How can you believe, if you accept praise from one another and don't seek the praise that comes from the only God?

John 7:19

Hasn't Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law! Why do you want to kill me?"

John 7:25

Then some of the residents of Jerusalem began to say, "Isn't this the man they are trying to kill?

John 8:6

(Now they were asking this in an attempt to trap him, so that they could bring charges against him.) Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

John 8:33

"We are descendants of Abraham," they replied, "and have never been anyone's slaves! How can you say, 'You will become free'?"

John 8:39-40

They answered him, "Abraham is our father!" Jesus replied, "If you are Abraham's children, you would be doing the deeds of Abraham.

John 8:43

Why don't you understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot accept my teaching.

John 8:45-47

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

John 8:59

Then they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out from the temple area.

John 10:31

The Jewish leaders picked up rocks again to stone him to death.

John 11:53

So from that day they planned together to kill him.

John 12:39-43

For this reason they could not believe, because again Isaiah said,

Acts 13:26

Brothers, descendants of Abraham's family, and those Gentiles among you who fear God, the message of this salvation has been sent to us.

Romans 9:7

nor are all the children Abraham's true descendants; rather "through Isaac will your descendants be counted."

1 Corinthians 2:14

The unbeliever does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him. And he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.