It is written in the Prophets: ‘And they shall all be taught of God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father, comes to Me.
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- WEB It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who hears from the Father, and has learned, comes to me.
- KJV It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.
- BSB It is written in the Prophets: ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from Him comes to Me—
- NKJV It is written in the prophets, ‘And they shall all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me.
- NLT As it is written in the Scriptures, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me.
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Quick answer
Citing the prophets, Jesus says all will be taught by God, and everyone who hears and learns from the Father comes to Him. God's inward teaching leads sinners to Christ.
Overview
Jesus appeals to Isaiah 54:13 to show that the Father's drawing is a gracious teaching of the heart. Those truly taught by God respond by coming to the Son. This unites divine initiative and human response: the Father's instruction infallibly produces faith in Christ.
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- Isa 54:13All your children will be taught by Yahweh; and your children’s peace will be great.
- Jer 31:33–34“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:
- Heb 10:16“This is the covenant that I will make with them: ‘After those days,’ says the Lord, ‘I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;’” then he says,
- Heb 8:10–11“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
- 1 Th 4:9But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,
- Mic 4:2Many nations will go and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law will go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem;
- Isa 2:3Many peoples shall go and say, “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For out of Zion the law shall go out, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem.
- John 6:65He said, “For this cause I have said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father.”
- 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.
- Matt 17:5While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”
- Eph 1:17that 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 5:38–40You don’t have his word living in you; because you don’t believe him whom he sent.
- John 10:27My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
- Eph 4:21–22if indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:
- John 16:14–15He will glorify me, for he will take from what is mine, and will declare it to you.
- Luke 18:31He took the twelve aside, and said to them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written through the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be completed.
- Matt 11:27All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.
- Mark 1:2As it is written in the prophets, “Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you:
- Luke 1:70(as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets who have been from of old),
- 1 Jn 4:1–3Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
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