John 5:40

Yet they refuse to come to Jesus to have life. Their problem is not ignorance but unwillingness.

Cross-references · 20

• John 3:19And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.
• John 1:11He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.
• John 6:37Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.
• Ps 81:11But My people would not listen to Me, and Israel would not obey Me.
• John 6:40For it is My Father’s will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
• Isa 50:2Why was no one there when I arrived? Why did no one answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem you? Or do I lack the strength to deliver you? Behold, My rebuke dries up the sea; I turn the rivers into a desert; the fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.
• John 7:37–38On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
• Rom 6:23For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• 1 Jn 5:11–13And this is that testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
• Matt 23:37O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!
• John 8:45–46But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me!
• Isa 49:7Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel, to Him who was despised and abhorred by the nation, to the Servant of rulers: “Kings will see You and rise, and princes will bow down, because of the LORD, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen You.”
• Rev 22:17The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” Let the one who hears say, “Come!” And let the one who is thirsty come, and the one who desires the water of life drink freely.
• Matt 22:3He sent his servants to call those he had invited to the banquet, but they refused to come.
• John 6:68–69Simon Peter replied, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
• John 12:37–41Although Jesus had performed so many signs in their presence, they still did not believe in Him.
• John 6:27Do not work for food that perishes, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on Him God the Father has placed His seal of approval.”
• Isa 53:1–3Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
• John 11:25–26Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.
• John 5:44How can you believe if you accept glory from one another, yet do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?

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