John 9:18 Cross References

John 9:18

18: The Jewish leaders wouldn't believe he had been blind, so they called in his parents.

So Lot rushed out to tell his daughters' fiances, "Quick, get out of the city! The LORD is going to destroy it." But the young men thought he was only joking.

No wonder you can't believe! For you gladly honor each other, but you don't care about the honor that comes from God alone.

"But Abraham said, 'If they won't listen to Moses and the prophets, they won't listen even if someone rises from the dead.'"

O LORD, they do not listen when you threaten. They do not see your upraised fist. Show them your eagerness to defend your people. Perhaps then they will be ashamed. Let your fire consume your enemies.

This was the testimony of John when the Jewish leaders sent priests and Temple assistants from Jerusalem to ask John whether he claimed to be the Messiah.

They said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders, who had announced that anyone saying Jesus was the Messiah would be expelled from the synagogue.

Let us do our best to enter that place of rest. For anyone who disobeys God, as the people of Israel did, will fall.

But never forget the warning: "Today you must listen to his voice. Don't harden your hearts against him as Israel did when they rebelled."
And who were those people who rebelled against God, even though they heard his voice? Weren't they the ones Moses led out of Egypt?
And who made God angry for forty years? Wasn't it the people who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
And to whom was God speaking when he vowed that they would never enter his place of rest? He was speaking to those who disobeyed him.
So we see that they were not allowed to enter his rest because of their unbelief.

But despite all the miraculous signs he had done, most of the people did not believe in him.
This is exactly what Isaiah the prophet had predicted: "Lord, who has believed our message? To whom will the Lord reveal his saving power?"
But the people couldn't believe, for as Isaiah also said,
"The Lord has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts--so their eyes cannot see, and their hearts cannot understand, and they cannot turn to me and let me heal them."

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