And leaving them, He again embarked and went away to the other side.
Parallel translations
- WEB He left them, and again entering into the boat, departed to the other side.
- KJV And he left them, and entering into the ship again 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.
- 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 18:6When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!”
- Matt 7:6“Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.
- John 12:36While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light.” Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.
- Luke 8:37All the people of the surrounding country of the Gadarenes asked him to depart from them, for they were very much afraid. He entered into the boat, and returned.
- Hos 4:17Ephraim is joined to idols. Leave him alone!
- Jer 23:33“When this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask you, saying, ‘What is the message from Yahweh?’ Then you shall tell them, ‘“What message? I will cast you off,” says Yahweh.’
- Acts 13:45–46But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.
- Hos 9:12Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!
- Ps 81:12So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.
- Matt 15:14Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”
- John 8:21Jesus said therefore again to them, “I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can’t come.”
- Zech 11:8–9I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
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