John 12:34

The crowd is puzzled, since they expect the Christ to remain forever, not be lifted up. They ask who this Son of Man is.

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• Ezek 37:24–25My servant David shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them.
• Isa 9:7Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on David’s throne, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.
• Dan 7:14There was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
• Ps 110:4Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”
• Dan 2:44In the days of those kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall its sovereignty be left to another people; but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.
• Dan 7:27The kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole sky, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High: his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
• 2 Sam 7:13He will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
• John 3:14–16As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
• Ps 89:36–37His offspring will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me.
• John 5:25–27Most certainly, I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who hear will live.
• Mic 4:7and I will make that which was lame a remnant, and that which was cast far off a strong nation: and Yahweh will reign over them on Mount Zion from then on, even forever.”
• Matt 22:42–45saying, “What do you think of the Christ? Whose son is he?” They said to him, “Of David.”
• Ps 72:17–19His name endures forever. His name continues as long as the sun. Men shall be blessed by him. All nations will call him blessed.
• Rom 5:18So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.
• Ps 72:7In his days, the righteous shall flourish, and abundance of peace, until the moon is no more.
• Isa 53:8He was taken away by oppression and judgment; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?
• John 10:34Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’
• John 8:53–58Are you greater than our father, Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?”
• Rom 3:19Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
• John 12:32And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”
• John 15:25But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’
• Matt 16:13Now when Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?”
• Matt 8:20Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”
• Matt 21:10When he had come into Jerusalem, all the city was stirred up, saying, “Who is this?”

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