John 12:42

New English Translation

Nevertheless, even among the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they would not confess Jesus to be the Christ, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue.

Cross References

Proverbs 29:25

The fear of people becomes a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord will be set on high.

Isaiah 51:7

Listen to me, you who know what is right, you people who are aware of my law! Don’t be afraid of the insults of men; don’t be discouraged because of their abuse!

Isaiah 57:11

Whom are you worried about? Whom do you fear, that you would act so deceitfully and not remember me or think about me? Because I have been silent for so long, you are not afraid of me.

Isaiah 66:5

Hear the word of the Lord, you who respect what he has to say! Your countrymen, who hate you and exclude you, supposedly for the sake of my name, say, “May the Lord be glorified, then we will witness your joy.” But they will be put to shame.

Jeremiah 38:19

Then King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid of the Judeans who have deserted to the Babylonians. The Babylonians might hand me over to them and they will torture me.”

Matthew 10:32

“Whoever, then, acknowledges me before people, I will acknowledge before my Father in heaven.

Luke 12:8

“I tell you, whoever acknowledges me before men, the Son of Man will also acknowledge before God’s angels.

Luke 23:13

Then Pilate called together the chief priests, the rulers, and the people,

Luke 6:22

“Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject you as evil on account of the Son of Man!

John 11:45

Then many of the people, who had come with Mary and had seen the things Jesus did, believed in him.

John 12:11

for on account of him many of the Jewish people from Jerusalem were going away and believing in Jesus.

John 16:2

They will put you out of the synagogue, yet a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God.

John 19:38

After this, Joseph of Arimathea, a disciple of Jesus (but secretly, because he feared the Jewish leaders), asked Pilate if he could remove the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission, so he went and took the body away.

John 3:2

came to Jesus at night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs that you do unless God is with him.”

John 7:13

However, no one spoke openly about him for fear of the Jewish leaders.

John 7:31

Yet many of the crowd believed in him and said, “Whenever the Christ comes, he won’t perform more miraculous signs than this man did, will he?”

John 9:22

(His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jewish religious leaders. For the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus to be the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.

John 9:34

They replied, “You were born completely in sinfulness, and yet you presume to teach us?” So they threw him out.

Acts 5:41

So they left the council rejoicing because they had been considered worthy to suffer dishonor for the sake of the name.

Romans 10:10

For with the heart one believes and thus has righteousness and with the mouth one confesses and thus has salvation.

1 John 4:15

If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God resides in him and he in God.

1 John 4:2

By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses Jesus as the Christ who has come in the flesh is from God,