John 7:43 Cross References

John 7:43

43: So the crowd was divided in their opinion about him.

When he said these things, the people were again divided in their opinions about him.

Some of the Pharisees said, "This man Jesus is not from God, for he is working on the Sabbath." Others said, "But how could an ordinary sinner do such miraculous signs?" So there was a deep division of opinion among them.

There was a lot of discussion about him among the crowds. Some said, "He's a wonderful man," while others said, "He's nothing but a fraud, deceiving the people."

Do you think I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I have come to bring strife and division!

This divided the council--the Pharisees against the Sadducees--
for the Sadducees say there is no resurrection or angels or spirits, but the Pharisees believe in all of these.
So a great clamor arose. Some of the teachers of religious law who were Pharisees jumped up to argue that Paul was all right. "We see nothing wrong with him," they shouted. "Perhaps a spirit or an angel spoke to him."
The shouting grew louder and louder, and the men were tugging at Paul from both sides, pulling him this way and that. Finally, the commander, fearing they would tear him apart, ordered his soldiers to take him away from them and bring him back to the fortress.

I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

But the people of the city were divided in their opinion about them. Some sided with the Jews, and some with the apostles.

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