John 1:19

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

The Jewish leaders in Jerusalem sent some priests and Levites to John to ask him, “Who are you?” He told them the truth.

Cross References

John 10:24

The Jewish leaders gathered around him. They said, “How long will you make us wonder about you? If you are the Messiah, then tell us clearly.”

Acts 19:4

Paul said, “John told people to be baptized to show they wanted to change their lives. He told people to believe in the one who would come after him, and that one is Jesus.”

Acts 13:25

When John was finishing his work, he said, ‘Who do you think I am? I am not the Messiah. He is coming later, and I am not worthy to be the slave who unties his sandals.’

John 2:18

Some Jews said to Jesus, “Show us a miracle as a sign from God. Prove that you have the right to do these things.”

John 5:10

So some Jews said to the man who had been healed, “Today is the Sabbath. It is against our law for you to carry your mat on the Sabbath day.”

John 6:52

Then the Jews began to argue among themselves. They said, “How can this man give us his body to eat?”

John 6:41

Some Jews began to complain about Jesus because he said, “I am the bread that comes down from heaven.”

Deuteronomy 24:8

“When you have a very bad skin disease, be very careful to follow everything the Levite priests teach you. You must follow carefully what I told the priests to do.

John 1:7

He came to tell people about the light. Through him all people could hear about the light and believe.

John 2:20

They answered, “People worked 46 years to build this Temple! Do you really believe you can build it again in three days?”

John 5:15

Then the man left and went back to the Jews who questioned him. He told them that Jesus was the one who made him well.

John 5:16

Jesus was doing all this on the Sabbath day. So these Jews began trying to make him stop.

John 5:18

This made them even more determined to kill him. They thought it was bad enough that he was breaking the law about the Sabbath day. And now he was saying that God is his Father, making himself equal with God!

John 7:1

After this, Jesus traveled around the country of Galilee. He did not want to travel in Judea, because the Jewish leaders there wanted to kill him.

John 7:11

At the festival the Jewish leaders were looking for him. They said, “Where is that man?”

John 7:15

The Jewish leaders were amazed and said, “How did this man learn so much? He never had the kind of teaching we had!”

John 8:22

So the Jewish leaders asked themselves, “Will he kill himself? Is that why he said, ‘You cannot come where I am going’?”

John 8:48

The Jews there answered, “We say you are a Samaritan. We say a demon is making you crazy! Are we not right when we say this?”

John 8:52

The Jews said to Jesus, “Now we know that you have a demon in you! Even Abraham and the prophets died. But you say, ‘Whoever obeys my teaching will never die.’

John 8:57

The Jews said to Jesus, “What? How can you say you have seen Abraham? You are not even 50 years old!”

John 10:31

Again the Jews there picked up stones to kill Jesus.

John 11:19

Many Jews had come to see Martha and Mary. They came to comfort them about their brother Lazarus.

1 John 1:5

We heard the true teaching from God. Now we tell it to you: God is light, and in him there is no darkness.