Joh 6:42-44, 8:41-48, 55, 9:39-41, 15:22-24, Act 7:52-54, Rom 9:31-33 | ESV | STEP | They said , Is not this Jesus , the son of Joseph , whose father and mother we know ? How does he now say , I have come down from heaven ?

ak[See ver. 22 above]

alSee ch. 14:9

am 1 Kgs. 19:10; 2 Chr. 36:16; Jer. 2:30; Matt. 23:31, 37; See Matt. 5:12; 21:35

anSee ch. 3:14

aoSee ch. 5:28

ap Gal. 3:19; Heb. 2:2; [ver. 38; Deut. 33:2]

aq John 7:19

ar ch. 5:33; [ch. 2:37]

as Job 16:9; Ps. 35:16; 37:12

at[ch. 10:2, 3; 11:7]

av[Gal. 5:4]

awSee 1 Pet. 2:8

ax 1 Pet. 2:6, 7; Cited from Isa. 28:16; [Ps. 118:22]

ay Isa. 8:14

az ch. 10:11

ba Isa. 49:23; Joel 2:26, 27

John 6:42-44

42 They said, ^a“Is not this Jesus, ^bthe son of Joseph, whose father and mother ^cwe know? How does he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?” 43 Jesus answered them, “Do not grumble among yourselves. 44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me ^ddraws him. And ^eI will raise him up on the last day.

John 8:41-48

41 You are doing the works your father did.” They said to him, ^f“We were not born of sexual immorality. We have ^gone Father—even God.” 42 Jesus said to them, ^h“If God were your Father, you would love me, for ⁱI came from God and ^jI am here. ^kI came not of my own accord, but ^lhe sent me. 43 ^mWhy do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot ⁿbear to hear my word. 44 ^oYou are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. ^pHe was a murderer from the beginning, and ^qdoes not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. ^rWhen he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies. 45 But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me. 46 Which one of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? 47 ^sWhoever is of God hears the words of God. ^tThe reason why you do not hear them is that ^uyou are not of God.”

Before Abraham Was, I Am

48 The Jews answered him, “Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and ^vhave a demon?”

John 8:55

55 But ^wyou have not known him. ^xI know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be ^ya liar ^zlike you, but I do know him and I keep his word.

John 9:39-41

39 Jesus said, ^aa“For judgment I came into this world, ^abthat those who do not see may see, and ^acthose who see may become blind.” 40 Some of the Pharisees near him heard these things, and said to him, ^ad“Are we also blind?” 41 Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, ^aeyou would have no guilt; ^{▼▼Greek you would not have sin} but now that you say, ‘We see,’ your guilt remains.

John 15:22-24

22 If I had not come and spoken to them, ^agthey would not have been guilty of sin, ^{▼▼Greek they would not have sin; also verse 24} but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 ^aiWhoever hates me hates my Father also. 24 ^ajIf I had not done among them the works that no one else did, ^akthey would not be guilty of sin, but now they have ^alseen and hated both me and my Father.

Acts 7:52-54

52 ^amWhich of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of ^anthe Righteous One, ^aowhom you have now betrayed and murdered, 53 you who received the law ^apas delivered by angels and ^aqdid not keep it.”

The Stoning of Stephen

54 Now when they heard these things ^arthey were enraged, and they ^asground their teeth at him.

Romans 9:31-33

31 but that Israel ^atwho pursued a law that would lead to righteousness ^{▼▼Greek a law of righteousness} ^avdid not succeed in reaching that law. 32 Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the ^awstumbling stone, 33 as it is written,

^ax“Behold, I am laying in Zion ^aya stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense;
^azand whoever believes in him will not be ^baput to shame.”