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, and yet you are trying to kill me, because there is no room in you for my teaching. ³⁸ I am telling you what I have seen in my Father's presence, and you are practicing what you have learned from your father."

Seed of Abraham

Descendants Of Abraham

Trying To Kill Me

Abraham

John

No

John 7:1

After this, Jesus went on moving about in Galilee; He would not do so in Judea, because the Jews were trying to kill Him.

Matthew 13:15

For this people's soul has grown dull, and with their ears they can scarcely hear, and they have shut tight their eyes, so that they will never see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn to me, so that I may cure them!'

Matthew 13:19-22

When anyone hears the message of the kingdom and does not understand it, the wicked one comes and carries off the seed that was sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the path.

John 5:16-18

This is why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because He persisted in doing such things on the Sabbath.

John 5:44

How can you believe, you who are always accepting honor from one another, but never seek the honor that comes from the one God?

John 7:19

Did not Moses give you the law? And yet not one of you is keeping that law. If so, why are you trying to kill me?"

John 7:25

Then some of the people of Jerusalem said, "Is not this the man they are trying to kill?

John 8:6

They were asking this to trap him so that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped and began to write in the dirt with his finger.

John 8:33

They answered Him, "We are Abraham's descendants and we never have been anybody's slaves. How can you say to us, 'You will be set free'?"

John 8:39-40

They answered Him, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus said to them, "If you are Abraham's children, you must be practicing what Abraham did.

John 8:43

Why is it that you misunderstand what I say? It is because you cannot listen to what I teach.

John 8:45-47

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

John 8:59

At this the Jews took up stones to stone Him, but Jesus made His way out of the temple unperceived.

John 10:31

The Jews again picked up stones to stone Him.

John 11:53

So from that day they plotted to kill Jesus.

John 12:39-43

So they could not believe, for Isaiah again has said:

Acts 13:26

Brothers, descendants of the race of Abraham, and all among you who reverence God, it is to us that the message of this salvation has been sent.

Romans 9:7

nor are they all children of Abraham, because they are his descendants, but the promise was "In the line of Isaac your descendants will I be counted."

1 Corinthians 2:14

An unspiritual man does not accept the things that the Spirit of God teaches, for they are nonsense to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are appreciated by spiritual insight.