John 8:37

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

I know that you are descendants of Abraham; yet you look for an opportunity to kill me, because there is no place in you for my word.

Cross References

Matthew 13:15

For this people's heart has grown dull, and their ears are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes; so that they might not look with their eyes, and listen with their ears, and understand with their heart and turn— and I would heal them.’

Matthew 3:9

Do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our ancestor’; for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham.

John 10:31

The Jews took up stones again to stone him.

John 11:53

So from that day on they planned to put him to death.

John 5:44

How can you believe when you accept glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the one who alone is God?

John 7:1

After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He did not wish to go about in Judea because the Jews were looking for an opportunity to kill him.

John 7:19

“Did not Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why are you looking for an opportunity to kill me?”

John 7:25

Now some of the people of Jerusalem were saying, “Is not this the man whom they are trying to kill?

John 8:33

They answered him, “We are descendants of Abraham and have never been slaves to anyone. What do you mean by saying, ‘You will be made free’?”

John 8:43

Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot accept my word.

John 8:56

Your ancestor Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day; he saw it and was glad.”

John 8:59

So they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple.

John 8:6

They said this to test him, so that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.

Acts 13:26

“My brothers, you descendants of Abraham's family, and others who fear God, to us the message of this salvation has been sent.

Romans 9:7

and not all of Abraham's children are his true descendants; but “It is through Isaac that descendants shall be named for you.”

1 Corinthians 2:14

Those who are unspiritual do not receive the gifts of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to them, and they are unable to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

1 John 2:14

I write to you, children, because you know the Father. I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young people, because you are strong and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.