John 11:52

New English Translation

and not for the Jewish nation only, but to gather together into one the children of God who are scattered.)

Cross References

Genesis 49:10

The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs; the nations will obey him.

Psalm 22:15

The roof of my mouth is as dry as a piece of pottery; my tongue sticks to my gums. You set me in the dust of death.

Psalm 22:27

Let all the people of the earth acknowledge the Lord and turn to him! Let all the nations worship you!

Psalm 72:19

His glorious name deserves praise forevermore! May his majestic splendor fill the whole earth! We agree! We agree!

Isaiah 49:18

Look all around you! All of them gather to you. As surely as I live,” says the Lord, “you will certainly wear all of them like jewelry; you will put them on as if you were a bride.

Isaiah 49:6

he says, “Is it too insignificant a task for you to be my servant, to reestablish the tribes of Jacob, and restore the remnant of Israel? I will make you a light to the nations, so you can bring my deliverance to the remote regions of the earth.”

Isaiah 55:5

Look, you will summon nations you did not previously know; nations that did not previously know you will run to you, because of the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he bestows honor on you.

Isaiah 56:8

The sovereign Lord says this, the one who gathers the dispersed of Israel: “I will still gather them up.”

Isaiah 60:4

Look all around you! They all gather and come to you – your sons come from far away and your daughters are escorted by guardians.

Ezekiel 34:12

As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his scattered sheep, so I will seek out my flock. I will rescue them from all the places where they have been scattered on a cloudy, dark day.

Hosea 1:10

(2:1) However, in the future the number of the people of Israel will be like the sand of the sea which can be neither measured nor numbered. Although it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it will be said to them, “You are children of the living God!”

Luke 15:8

“Or what woman, if she has ten silver coins and loses one of them, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search thoroughly until she finds it?

Luke 2:32

a light, for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to your people Israel.”

John 1:12

But to all who have received him – those who believe in his name – he has given the right to become God’s children

John 1:29

On the next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

John 10:16

I have other sheep that do not come from this sheepfold. I must bring them too, and they will listen to my voice, so that there will be one flock and one shepherd.

John 12:32

And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”

Acts 18:10

because I am with you, and no one will assault you to harm you, because I have many people in this city.”

Romans 3:29

Or is God the God of the Jews only? Is he not the God of the Gentiles too? Yes, of the Gentiles too!

Romans 4:17

(as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”). He is our father in the presence of God whom he believed – the God who makes the dead alive and summons the things that do not yet exist as though they already do.

Ephesians 1:5

He did this by predestining us to adoption as his sons through Jesus Christ, according to the pleasure of his will –

Ephesians 3:11

This was according to the eternal purpose that he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord,

James 1:1

From James, a slave of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes dispersed abroad. Greetings!

1 Peter 1:1

From Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those temporarily residing abroad (in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, the province of Asia, and Bithynia) who are chosen

1 John 2:2

and he himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for our sins but also for the whole world.

1 John 3:1

(See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God’s children – and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.

1 John 3:10

By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness – the one who does not love his fellow Christian – is not of God.

1 John 3:2

Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever it is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is.

Revelation 5:9

They were singing a new song: “You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals because you were killed, and at the cost of your own blood you have purchased for God persons from every tribe, language, people, and nation.