John 5:35
He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.
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John 5:35
He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.
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John 5:31
“If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid.
John 5:32
It is another who testifies about me. I know that the testimony which he testifies about me is true.
John 5:34
But the testimony which I receive is not from man. However, I say these things that you may be saved.
John 5:35
He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.
John 5:36
But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John; for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me.
John 5:37
The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.
John 5:38
You don’t have his word living in you, because you don’t believe him whom he sent.
John 5:39
“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.
John 5:40
Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.
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Ezekiel 33:31
They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.
Mark 4:16
These in the same way are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.
Luke 8:13
Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root. They believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.
Galatians 4:15
What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.
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Matthew 3:5
Then people from Jerusalem, all of Judea, and all the region around the Jordan went out to him.
Matthew 21:25
The baptism of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men?” They reasoned with themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will ask us, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’
Matthew 21:26
But if we say, ‘From men,’ we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet.”
Mark 1:5
All the country of Judea and all those of Jerusalem went out to him. They were baptized by him in the Jordan river, confessing their sins.
John 1:19
This is John’s testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”
Matthew 3:7
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Matthew 11:9
But why did you go out? To see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and much more than a prophet.
Matthew 11:12
From the days of John the Baptizer until now, the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.
Matthew 21:32
For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn’t believe him; but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you didn’t even repent afterward, that you might believe him.
Luke 1:15
For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.
Luke 7:28
“For I tell you, among those who are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptizer; yet he who is least in God’s Kingdom is greater than he.”
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John 1:9
The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.
Matthew 5:16
Even so, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
John 1:7
The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him.
Ephesians 5:8
For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
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Ecclesiastes 8:1
Who is like the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man’s wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.
Daniel 12:3
Those who are wise will shine as the brightness of the expanse. Those who turn many to righteousness will shine as the stars forever and ever.
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