John 12:42

Many rulers actually believed in Jesus but kept silent for fear of being expelled from the synagogue. It exposes the danger of a faith too timid to confess Christ openly.

Cross-references · 22

• Isa 51:7Listen to Me, you who know what is right, you people with My law in your hearts: Do not fear the scorn of men; do not be broken by their insults.
• John 7:13Yet no one would speak publicly about Him for fear of the Jews.
• John 9:22His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews. For the Jews had already determined that anyone who confessed Jesus as the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.
• Prov 29:25The fear of man is a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD is set securely on high.
• Matt 10:32Therefore everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father in heaven.
• Isa 66:5You who tremble at His word, hear the word of the LORD: “Your brothers who hate you and exclude you because of My name have said, ‘Let the LORD be glorified that we may see your joy!’ But they will be put to shame.”
• John 19:38Afterward, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus (but secretly for fear of the Jews), asked Pilate to let him remove the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission, so he came and removed His body.
• John 11:45Therefore many of the Jews who had come to Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed in Him.
• John 16:2They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.
• John 9:34They replied, “You were born in utter sin, and you are instructing us?” And they threw him out.
• John 12:11for on account of him many of the Jews were deserting them and believing in Jesus.
• Acts 5:41The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they had been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name.
• Isa 57:11Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lied and failed to remember Me or take this to heart? Is it not because I have long been silent that you do not fear Me?
• Luke 6:22Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil because of the Son of Man.
• Matt 26:69–75Meanwhile, Peter was sitting out in the courtyard, and a servant girl came up to him. “You also were with Jesus the Galilean,” she said.
• 1 Jn 4:15If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
• 1 Jn 4:2By this you will know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,
• Luke 12:8I tell you, everyone who confesses Me before men, the Son of Man will also confess him before the angels of God.
• 1 Pet 4:12–16Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial that has come upon you, as though something strange were happening to you.
• John 7:48–51“Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in Him?
• John 3:2He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs You are doing if God were not with him.”
• Rom 10:10For with your heart you believe and are justified, and with your mouth you confess and are saved.

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