John 7:7 Cross References - Moffatt

⁷ the world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that its deeds are evil.

²⁶ Woe to you when all men speak well of you! that is just what their fathers did to the false prophets.

³⁹ but the Lord said to him, "You Pharisees do clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but your inner life is filled with rapacity and malice. ⁴⁰ Foolish men! did not He who made the outside make the inside of things too? ⁴¹ Better cleanse what is within; then nothing will be unclean for you. ⁴² But woe to you Pharisees! you tithe mint and rue and every vegetable, but justice and the love of God you disregard; these latter you ought to have practised — without omitting the former. ⁴³ Woe to you Pharisees! you love the front bench in the synagogues and salutations in the marketplaces. ⁴⁴ Woe to you! you are like unsuspected tombs; men walk over them unawares." ⁴⁵ One of the jurists said to him, "Teacher, when you say this you are insulting us as well." ⁴⁶ He said, "And woe to you jurists! you load men with irksome burdens, and you will not put a single finger to their burdens. ⁴⁷ Woe to you! you build tombs for the prophets whom your own fathers killed: ⁴⁸ thus you testify and consent to what your fathers did, for they killed and you build. ⁴⁹ This is why the Wisdom of God said, 'I will send them prophets and apostles, some they will kill and some they will persecute'; ⁵⁰ it was that the blood of all the prophets shed from the foundation of the world might be charged upon this generation, ⁵¹ from the blood of Abel down to the blood of Zechariah who was slain between the altar and the House of God — yes, I tell you, it will all be charged upon this generation. ⁵² Woe to you jurists! you have taken the key that unlocks the door of knowledge; you have not entered yourselves, and you have stopped those who were entering." ⁵³ After he had gone away, the scribes and Pharisees commenced to follow him up closely and cross-question him on many points, ⁵⁴ lying in ambush to catch a word from his lips.

¹⁹ And this is the sentence of condemnation, that the Light has entered the world and yet men have preferred darkness to light. It is because their actions have been evil;

¹⁸ If the world hates you, remember it hated me first. ¹⁹ If you belonged to the world, the world would love what it owned; it is because you do not belong to the world, because I have chosen you from the world, that the world hates you.

²³ he who hates me hates my Father also. ²⁴ They would not be guilty, if I had not done deeds among them such as no one has ever done; but, as it is, they have seen — and they have hated — both me and my Father. ²⁵ It is that the word written in their Law may be fulfilled: they hated me for no cause.

¹⁴ I have given them thy word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.

²⁸ "We strictly forbade you to teach about this Name, did we not? And here you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine! You want to make us responsible for this man's death!" ²⁹ Peter and the apostles answered, "One must obey God rather than men. ³⁰ The God of our fathers raised Jesus whom you murdered by hanging him on a gibbet. ³¹ God lifted him up to his right hand as our pioneer and saviour, in order to grant repentance and remission of sins to Israel. ³² To these facts we bear witness, with the holy Spirit which God has given to those who obey him." ³³ When they heard this, they were so furious that they determined to make away with the apostles.

⁵¹ Stiff-necked, uncircumcised in heart and ear, you are always resisting the holy Spirit! As with your fathers, so with you! ⁵² Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Just One. And here you have betrayed him, murdered him! — ⁵³ you who got the Law that angels transmitted, and have not obeyed it!" ⁵⁴ When they heard this, they were furious and gnashed their teeth at him.

⁷ For the interests of the flesh are hostile to God; they do not yield to the law of God (indeed they cannot).

¹⁶ Am I your enemy to-day, because I have been honest with you?

⁴ (Wanton creatures! do you not know that the world's friendship means enmity to God? Whoever, then, chooses to be the world's friend, turns enemy to God.

¹² we are not to be like Cain, who belonged to the evil One and slew his brother. And why did he slay him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's just. ¹³ Do not wonder, brothers, that the world hates you.

⁵ They belong to the world, therefore they speak as inspired by the world, and the world listens to them:

⁵ whoever tries to harm them, fire will issue from their mouth and consume their enemies; whoever should try to harm them, so must he be killed." ⁶ They have power to shut up the sky, so that no rain falls during the days when they are prophesying; and they have power over the waters, to turn them into blood, and also to smite the earth with all manner of plagues as often as they choose. ⁷ But, when they have finished their testimony, the Beast that ascends from the abyss will make war on them and conquer them and kill them, ⁸ and their corpses will lie in the streets of that great City whose mystical name is Sodom and Egypt — where their Lord also was crucified. ⁹ For three days and a half men from all peoples and tribes and tongues and nations look at their corpses, refusing to let their corpses be buried; ¹⁰ and the dwellers on earth will gloat over them and rejoice, sending presents to congratulate one another — for these two prophets were a torment to the dwellers on earth. ¹¹ But after three days and a half the breath of life from God entered them; they stood on their feet (terror fell on those who saw them)