He did not refuse to answer, but he declared: “I am not the Messiah.”

Truly, truly I tell you, we are speaking of what we do understand, we testify to what we have actually seen ??and yet you refuse our testimony.

Nor have you His word dwelling within you, for you refuse to believe Him whom *He* has sent.

You search the scriptures, imagining you possess eternal life in their pages ??and they do testify to me ??40 but you refuse to come to me for life.

but you refuse to come to me to get possession of life.

I have come in my Father's name, but you refuse to accept me. If anyone else should come in his own name, you would accept him.

But if you refuse to believe what he wrote, how are you ever to believe what I say?"

All that my Father gives to me will come to me, and I will never refuse anyone who comes to me,

Who among you can prove me guilty of sin? But if I tell you the truth, why do you refuse to believe me?

Whoever is sprung from God listens to God's words. The reason you refuse to listen is that you are not sprung from God."

But you refuse to believe because you are not my sheep.

Jesus therefore said to Peter, "Put back your sword. Shall I refuse to drink the cup of sorrow which the Father has given me to drink?"

Then Pilate said to Him, "Do you refuse to speak to me? Do you not know that I have it in my power to set you free or to crucify you?"

and when the rest of the disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord," he said, "Unless I see his hands with the mark of the nails, and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I refuse to believe it."

Then he said to Thomas: "Place your finger here, and look at my hands; and place your hand here, and put it into my side; and do not refuse to believe, but believe."