John 6:45

Plain English Version

A long time ago, God told one of his men to write about this, and it is in God’s book. He wrote, ‘God is the one that will teach all of them.’ And that’s how it happens. The people that listen to God and learn from him, those people will come to me.

Cross References

Matthew 11:27

Then Jesus told the people, “God, my father, gave me everything, so I can teach people all about him. You see, I am God’s son, and my father knows me properly. Nobody else knows me properly. And I know my father properly. I pick some people, and I show them what my father is like, but nobody else knows God properly.”

Mark 1:2

A long time before Jesus was born, God told a man called Isaiah to write in God’s book about something God was going to do for Jesus. And it happened the way Isaiah wrote. He wrote this, “God will send a man to get everything ready for him. That man will talk about him and make a way for people to listen to him. That man will be out in the bush, and he will call out to people, and he will say, ‘You mob get ready. God is coming to this country, so you have to get ready for him. It is like when a big boss comes, and you have to make a good road for him.’ ”

Luke 1:70

God promised this to us a long time ago, and he got his men to tell us this message.

John 10:27

I know the people that are my sheep. They listen to my voice, and they believe what I say, and they follow me.

John 6:37

You see, my father gives me some people. They will all come to me, and I will look after them. I will never send them away.

John 6:65

So Jesus said to them, “Some of you don’t believe me. That is the reason why I told you before that my father gets some people to come and believe in me. And they are the only people that can come to me.”

Acts 13:40

A long time ago, God told some of his men to write about that, and it is in God’s book. And now you people be careful. Don’t be like the people that those men wrote about in God’s book. One of them wrote,

Acts 7:42

So God turned away from our grand-fathers. He left them, and they showed respect to the sun and the moon, and the stars too. Some time later God told one of his men to write about that, and now it is in God’s book. He wrote, ‘You people of Israel, you were in the desert for 40 years, and at that time, did you bring animals to kill and give to me? No, they were not for me.

Ephesians 1:17

I pray to our very great father, the God of our leader Jesus Christ. I pray that his spirit will help you to think properly and show you more about God, so that you will know him better.

Philippians 3:15

And all of us have to think like that. That will show that we are spiritually strong now and live properly for Jesus. But if you think differently about anything, God will help you, and he will show you the right way.

1 Thessalonians 4:9

I don’t need to write to you about how you have to love other Christians. God himself taught you to love each other.