And he left them, and entering into the ship again departed to the other side.
Parallel translations
- WEB He left them, and again entering into the boat, departed to the other side.
- BSB And He left them, got back into the boat, and crossed to the other side.
- NKJV And He left them, and getting into the boat again, departed to the other side.
- NASB And leaving them, He again embarked and went away to the other side.
- NLT So he got back into the boat and left them, and he crossed to the other side of the lake.
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Quick answer
Jesus leaves the Pharisees and crosses again to the other side. He turns from hardened unbelief to continue teaching his own.
Overview
His departure is an enacted judgment, leaving those who refuse him to their chosen blindness. Yet he continues investing in his disciples. The movement underscores that Jesus does not force himself on the resistant but persists with those he is forming for the kingdom.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Acts 18:6And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.
- Matt 7:6Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
- John 12:36While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them.
- Luke 8:37Then the whole multitude of the country of the Gadarenes round about besought him to depart from them; for they were taken with great fear: and he went up into the ship, and returned back again.
- Hos 4:17Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.
- Jer 23:33And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD.
- Acts 13:45–46But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
- Hos 9:12Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!
- Ps 81:12So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
- Matt 15:14Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
- John 8:21Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come.
- Zech 11:8–9Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
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