John 20:17

New Century Version

Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold on to me, because I have not yet gone up to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am going back to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ”

Cross References

2 Kings 4:29

Then Elisha said to Gehazi, “Get ready. Take my walking stick in your hand and go quickly. If you meet anyone, don’t say hello. If anyone greets you, don’t respond. Lay my walking stick on the boy’s face.”

2 Kings 7:9

Then they said to each other, “We’re doing wrong. Today we have good news, but we are silent. If we wait until the sun comes up, we’ll be discovered. Let’s go right now and tell the people in the king’s palace.”

Psalm 22:22

Then I will tell my brothers and sisters about you; I will praise you in the public meeting.

Psalm 43:4

Then I will go to the altar of God, to God who is my joy and happiness. I will praise you with a harp, God, my God.

Psalm 48:14

This God is our God forever and ever. He will guide us from now on.

Psalm 68:18

When you went up to the heights, you led a parade of captives. You received gifts from the people, even from those who turned against you. And the Lord God will live there.

Psalm 89:26

He will say to me, ‘You are my father, my God, the Rock, my Savior.’

Isaiah 41:10

So don’t worry, because I am with you. Don’t be afraid, because I am your God. I will make you strong and will help you; I will support you with my right hand that saves you.

Jeremiah 31:33

“This is the agreement I will make with the people of Israel at that time,” says the Lord: “I will put my teachings in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Jeremiah 32:38

The people of Israel and Judah will be my people, and I will be their God.

Ezekiel 36:28

You will live in the land I gave to your ancestors, and you will be my people, and I will be your God.

Ezekiel 37:27

The place where I live will be with them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Matthew 12:50

My true brother and sister and mother are those who do what my Father in heaven wants.”

Matthew 25:40

“Then the King will answer, ‘I tell you the truth, anything you did for even the least of my people here, you also did for me.’

Matthew 28:7

And go quickly and tell his followers, ‘Jesus has risen from the dead. He is going into Galilee ahead of you, and you will see him there.’ ” Then the angel said, “Now I have told you.”

Mark 12:26

Surely you have read what God said about people rising from the dead. In the book in which Moses wrote about the burning bush, it says that God told Moses, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’

Mark 16:19

After the Lord Jesus said these things to his followers, he was carried up into heaven, and he sat at the right side of God.

Luke 10:4

Don’t carry a purse, a bag, or sandals, and don’t waste time talking with people on the road.

John 13:1

It was almost time for the Passover Feast. Jesus knew that it was time for him to leave this world and go back to the Father. He had always loved those who were his own in the world, and he loved them all the way to the end.

John 13:3

Jesus knew that the Father had given him power over everything and that he had come from God and was going back to God.

John 14:2

There are many rooms in my Father’s house; I would not tell you this if it were not true. I am going there to prepare a place for you.

John 14:28

You heard me say to you, ‘I am going, but I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you should be happy that I am going back to the Father, because he is greater than I am.

John 14:6

Jesus answered, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. The only way to the Father is through me.

John 16:28

I came from the Father into the world. Now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”

John 17:11

I am coming to you; I will not stay in the world any longer. But they are still in the world. Holy Father, keep them safe by the power of your name, the name you gave me, so that they will be one, just as you and I are one.

John 17:25

Father, you are the One who is good. The world does not know you, but I know you, and these people know you sent me.

John 17:5

And now, Father, give me glory with you; give me the glory I had with you before the world was made.

John 20:27

Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and look at my hands. Put your hand here in my side. Stop being an unbeliever and believe.”

John 7:33

Jesus said, “I will be with you a little while longer. Then I will go back to the One who sent me.

Romans 8:29

God knew them before he made the world, and he chose them to be like his Son so that Jesus would be the firstborn of many brothers and sisters.

2 Corinthians 6:18

“I will be your father, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”

Galatians 3:26

You were all baptized into Christ, and so you were all clothed with Christ. This means that you are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

Hebrews 11:16

But they were waiting for a better country—a heavenly country. So God is not ashamed to be called their God, because he has prepared a city for them.

Hebrews 8:10

This is the agreement I will make with the people of Israel at that time, says the Lord. I will put my teachings in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

1 Peter 1:3

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. In God’s great mercy he has caused us to be born again into a living hope, because Jesus Christ rose from the dead.

1 John 3:2

Dear friends, now we are children of God, and we have not yet been shown what we will be in the future. But we know that when Christ comes again, we will be like him, because we will see him as he really is.

Revelation 21:3

And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, “Now God’s presence is with people, and he will live with them, and they will be his people. God himself will be with them and will be their God.

Revelation 21:7

Those who win the victory will receive this, and I will be their God, and they will be my children.