John 8:37

Jesus acknowledges their physical descent from Abraham yet exposes their murderous intent because his word finds no place in them. Heritage cannot replace receptive faith.

Cross-references · 19

• 1 Cor 2:14Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
• John 8:45–47But because I tell the truth, you don’t believe me.
• Rom 9:7Neither, because they are Abraham’s offspring, are they all children. But, “your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac.”
• John 7:1After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.
• John 8:59Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the middle of them, and so passed by.
• Acts 13:26Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.
• John 8:43Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word.
• John 11:53So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.
• Matt 13:15for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again; and I would heal them.’
• John 7:19Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?”
• John 12:39–43For this cause they couldn’t believe, for Isaiah said again,
• John 5:16–18For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.
• John 8:39–40They answered him, “Our father is Abraham.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham.
• John 10:31Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him.
• 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?
• John 7:25Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, “Isn’t this he whom they seek to kill?
• John 8:6They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down, and wrote on the ground with his finger.
• Matt 13:19–22When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.
• John 8:33They answered him, “We are Abraham’s offspring, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, ‘You will be made free’?”

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