John 9:28

Plain English Version

The Jewish leaders got angry with the man and said, “You are his follower, not us. We follow Moses.

Cross References

Matthew 5:11

And you too. Some people will not like you following me, and they will say bad things about you, and they will make trouble for you. Sometimes people will tell lies about you. But don’t worry. Be really happy when they do that.

John 7:19

Listen, Moses gave you God’s law, but you mob don’t follow God’s law. You see, you are trying to kill me.”

John 9:34

The Jewish leaders got really angry and said, “Don’t try to teach us. You were born blind, so we know that you always went against God and did bad things. You can’t teach us anything. Get out of this meeting house, and don’t come back.”

1 Corinthians 4:12

We have to work hard all the time to get money for food. Some people swear at us and ask bad spirits to hurt us, but we just ask God to be good to them. If people are hard on us, we just put up with it.

1 Corinthians 6:10

and people that steal things, and greedy people that want a lot of money and things, they will not be in God’s family. And people that always get drunk, and people that yell at other people and swear at them, and people that trick other people to get their money, none of those people will be in God’s family.

1 Peter 2:23

People rubbished him, but he didn’t rubbish them back. They hit him with whips, but he didn’t talk to them in a bad way. No, he trusted God. God is the one that judges fairly.