Matthew 21:25 Cross References

Matthew 21:25

25: "Did John's baptism come from heaven or was it merely human?" They talked it over among themselves. "If we say it was from heaven, he will ask why we didn't believe him.

1 John 3:20

  1. even if our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.

Matthew 3:1

  1. In those days John the Baptist began preaching in the Judean wilderness. His message was,
  2. "Turn from your sins and turn to God, because the Kingdom of Heaven is near. "
  3. Isaiah had spoken of John when he said, "He is a voice shouting in the wilderness: 'Prepare a pathway for the Lord's coming! Make a straight road for him!'"
  4. John's clothes were woven from camel hair, and he wore a leather belt; his food was locusts and wild honey.
  5. People from Jerusalem and from every section of Judea and from all over the Jordan Valley went out to the wilderness to hear him preach.

John 10:25

  1. Jesus replied, "I have already told you, and you don't believe me. The proof is what I do in the name of my Father.
  2. But you don't believe me because you are not part of my flock.

John 3:18

  1. "There is no judgment awaiting those who trust him. But those who do not trust him have already been judged for not believing in the only Son of God.

John 1:15

  1. John pointed him out to the people. He shouted to the crowds, "This is the one I was talking about when I said, 'Someone is coming who is far greater than I am, for he existed long before I did.'"

Mark 1:1

  1. Here begins the Good News about Jesus the Messiah, the Son of God.
  2. In the book of the prophet Isaiah, God said, "Look, I am sending my messenger before you, and he will prepare your way.
  3. He is a voice shouting in the wilderness: 'Prepare a pathway for the Lord's coming! Make a straight road for him!'"
  4. This messenger was John the Baptist. He lived in the wilderness and was preaching that people should be baptized to show that they had turned from their sins and turned to God to be forgiven.
  5. People from Jerusalem and from all over Judea traveled out into the wilderness to see and hear John. And when they confessed their sins, he baptized them in the Jordan River.

Luke 20:5

  1. They talked it over among themselves. "If we say it was from heaven, he will ask why we didn't believe him.

Luke 3:2

  1. Annas and Caiaphas were the high priests. At this time a message from God came to John son of Zechariah, who was living out in the wilderness.
  2. Then John went from place to place on both sides of the Jordan River, preaching that people should be baptized to show that they had turned from their sins and turned to God to be forgiven.
  3. Isaiah had spoken of John when he said, "He is a voice shouting in the wilderness: 'Prepare a pathway for the Lord's coming! Make a straight road for him!
  4. Fill in the valleys, and level the mountains and hills! Straighten the curves, and smooth out the rough places!
  5. And then all people will see the salvation sent from God.'"

Luke 1:67

  1. Then his father, Zechariah, was filled with the Holy Spirit and gave this prophecy:
  2. "Praise the Lord, the God of Israel, because he has visited his people and redeemed them.
  3. He has sent us a mighty Savior from the royal line of his servant David,
  4. just as he promised through his holy prophets long ago.
  5. Now we will be saved from our enemies and from all who hate us.

Matthew 11:7

  1. When John's disciples had gone, Jesus began talking about him to the crowds. "Who is this man in the wilderness that you went out to see? Did you find him weak as a reed, moved by every breath of wind?
  2. Or were you expecting to see a man dressed in expensive clothes? Those who dress like that live in palaces, not out in the wilderness.
  3. Were you looking for a prophet? Yes, and he is more than a prophet.
  4. John is the man to whom the Scriptures refer when they say, 'Look, I am sending my messenger before you, and he will prepare your way before you.'
  5. "I assure you, of all who have ever lived, none is greater than John the Baptist. Yet even the most insignificant person in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he is!

John 5:33

  1. In fact, you sent messengers to listen to John the Baptist, and he preached the truth.
  2. But the best testimony about me is not from a man, though I have reminded you about John's testimony so you might be saved.
  3. John shone brightly for a while, and you benefited and rejoiced.
  4. But I have a greater witness than John--my teachings and my miracles. They have been assigned to me by the Father, and they testify that the Father has sent me.

Luke 7:28

  1. I tell you, of all who have ever lived, none is greater than John. Yet even the most insignificant person in the Kingdom of God is greater than he is!"
  2. When they heard this, all the people, including the unjust tax collectors, agreed that God's plan was right, for they had been baptized by John.
  3. But the Pharisees and experts in religious law had rejected God's plan for them, for they had refused John's baptism.
  4. "How shall I describe this generation?" Jesus asked. "With what will I compare them?
  5. They are like a group of children playing a game in the public square. They complain to their friends, 'We played wedding songs, and you weren't happy, so we played funeral songs, but you weren't sad.'

John 5:44

  1. 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.
  2. "Yet it is not I who will accuse you of this before the Father. Moses will accuse you! Yes, Moses, on whom you set your hopes.
  3. But if you had believed Moses, you would have believed me because he wrote about me.
  4. And since you don't believe what he wrote, how will you believe what I say?"

John 3:26

  1. John's disciples came to him and said, "Teacher, the man you met on the other side of the Jordan River, the one you said was the Messiah, is also baptizing people. And everybody is going over there instead of coming here to us."
  2. John replied, "God in heaven appoints each person's work.
  3. You yourselves know how plainly I told you that I am not the Messiah. I am here to prepare the way for him--that is all.
  4. The bride will go where the bridegroom is. A bridegroom's friend rejoices with him. I am the bridegroom's friend, and I am filled with joy at his success.
  5. He must become greater and greater, and I must become less and less.

John 1:6

  1. God sent John the Baptist

Matthew 17:12

  1. But I tell you, he has already come, but he wasn't recognized, and he was badly mistreated. And soon the Son of Man will also suffer at their hands."
  2. Then the disciples realized he had been speaking of John the Baptist.

John 12:37

  1. But despite all the miraculous signs he had done, most of the people did not believe in him.
  2. This is exactly what Isaiah the prophet had predicted: "Lord, who has believed our message? To whom will the Lord reveal his saving power?"
  3. But the people couldn't believe, for as Isaiah also said,
  4. "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."
  5. Isaiah was referring to Jesus when he made this prediction, because he was given a vision of the Messiah's glory.

Mark 11:27

  1. By this time they had arrived in Jerusalem again. As Jesus was walking through the Temple area, the leading priests, the teachers of religious law, and the other leaders came up to him. They demanded,
  2. "By whose authority did you drive out the merchants from the Temple? Who gave you such authority?"
  3. "I'll tell who gave me authority to do these things if you answer one question," Jesus replied.
  4. "Did John's baptism come from heaven or was it merely human? Answer me!"
  5. They talked it over among themselves. "If we say it was from heaven, he will ask why we didn't believe him.

John 1:25

  1. asked him, "If you aren't the Messiah or Elijah or the Prophet, what right do you have to baptize?"
  2. John told them, "I baptize with water, but right here in the crowd is someone you do not know,
  3. who will soon begin his ministry. I am not even worthy to be his slave. "
  4. This incident took place at Bethany, a village east of the Jordan River, where John was baptizing.
  5. The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look! There is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

Luke 1:11

  1. Zechariah was in the sanctuary when an angel of the Lord appeared, standing to the right of the incense altar.
  2. Zechariah was overwhelmed with fear.
  3. But the angel said, "Don't be afraid, Zechariah! For God has heard your prayer, and your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son! And you are to name him John.
  4. You will have great joy and gladness, and many will rejoice with you at his birth,
  5. for he will be great in the eyes of the Lord. He must never touch wine or hard liquor, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even before his birth.
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