John 5:40

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

Cross-references · 20

• John 3:19This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
• John 1:11He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him.
• John 6:37All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.
• Ps 81:11But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.
• John 6:40This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”
• Isa 50:2Why, when I came, was there no one? when I called, why was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea. I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.
• John 7:37–38Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!
• Rom 6:23For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• 1 Jn 5:11–13The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
• Matt 23:37“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!
• John 8:45–46But because I tell the truth, you don’t believe me.
• Isa 49:7Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up; princes, and they shall worship; because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”
• Rev 22:17The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” He who hears, let him say, “Come!” He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.
• Matt 22:3and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast, but they would not come.
• John 6:68–69Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
• John 12:37–41But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they didn’t believe in him,
• John 6:27Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”
• Isa 53:1–3Who has believed our message? To whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed?
• John 11:25–26Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.
• John 5:44How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?

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