Matthew 21:32

John came preaching righteousness; the leaders rejected him while sinners believed, and even then the leaders would not repent. Persistent unbelief, not lack of evidence, condemns them.

Cross-references · 17

• Luke 7:37–50Behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that he was reclining in the Pharisee’s house, she brought an alabaster jar of ointment.
• Luke 7:29–30When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared God to be just, having been baptized with John’s baptism.
• Zech 7:11–12But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.
• Matt 21:25The baptism of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men?” They reasoned with themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will ask us, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’
• Acts 13:25–29As John was fulfilling his course, he said, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. But behold, one comes after me the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.’
• 2 Pet 2:21For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
• Matt 11:18For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’
• Matt 3:1–12In those days, John the Baptizer came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying,
• John 5:33–40You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.
• Rev 2:21I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.
• Isa 35:8A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called The Holy Way. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools will not go there.
• 2 Tim 2:25in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,
• Heb 6:6–8and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.
• Heb 3:12Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;
• Ps 81:11–12But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.
• Jer 6:16Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
• Luke 3:8–13Therefore produce fruits worthy of repentance, and don’t begin to say among yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father;’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones!

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