Jesus therefore answered and said to them, “Do not murmur among yourselves.
Parallel translations
- WEB Therefore Jesus answered them, “Don’t murmur among yourselves.
- KJV Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves.
- BSB “Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus replied.
- NASB Jesus answered and said to them, “Stop complaining among yourselves.
- NLT But Jesus replied, “Stop complaining about what I said.
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Quick answer
Jesus tells them to stop grumbling among themselves. He confronts their murmuring before explaining why they cannot believe on their own.
Overview
Rather than soften His claim, Jesus addresses the murmuring directly. Their grumbling, like Israel's of old, reveals hearts resistant to God. The rebuke leads into His teaching that no one comes to Him apart from the Father's drawing, exposing the true source of their unbelief.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Heb 4:13There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.
- John 6:64But there are some of you who don’t believe.” For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who didn’t believe, and who it was who would betray him.
- John 16:19Therefore Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, “Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, ‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me?’
- Mark 9:33He came to Capernaum, and when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you arguing among yourselves on the way?”
- Matt 16:8Jesus, perceiving it, said, “Why do you reason among yourselves, you of little faith, ‘because you have brought no bread?’
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