John 12:38

Their unbelief fulfilled Isaiah's prophecy that few would believe the prophetic report about the Lord's saving arm. It shows that rejection of the Messiah was anticipated by God's Word.

Cross-references · 22

• Isa 53:1Who has believed our message? To whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed?
• Rom 10:16But they didn’t all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”
• Rom 10:20Isaiah is very bold, and says, “I was found by those who didn’t seek me. I was revealed to those who didn’t ask for me.”
• 2 Cor 4:3–6Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who perish;
• 1 Cor 1:24but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.
• Gal 1:16to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn’t immediately confer with flesh and blood,
• 2 Cor 3:14–18But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away.
• Acts 13:27–29For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they didn’t know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.
• Acts 8:28–30He was returning and sitting in his chariot, and was reading the prophet Isaiah.
• Matt 16:17Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.
• Isa 40:10–11Behold, the Lord Yahweh will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.
• Isa 51:5My righteousness is near. My salvation has gone out, and my arms will judge the peoples. The islands will wait for me, and they will trust my arm.
• 2 Chr 32:20Hezekiah the king and Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, prayed because of this, and cried to heaven.
• Ps 44:3For they didn’t get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, because you were favorable to them.
• Eph 1:17–20that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;
• John 19:36–37For these things happened, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, “A bone of him will not be broken.”
• John 19:24Then they said to one another, “Let’s not tear it, but cast lots for it to decide whose it will be,” that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which says, “They parted my garments among them. For my cloak they cast lots.” Therefore the soldiers did these things.
• John 17:12While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. Those whom you have given me I have kept. None of them is lost, except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
• Isa 51:9Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?
• 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 15:7You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,
• Matt 27:35When they had crucified him, they divided his clothing among them, casting lots,

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