John 11:42 我也知道你常听我，但我说这话是为周围站着的众人，叫他们信是你差了我来。”

11:42 MSG

逐节对照

新标点和合本 - 我也知道你常听我，但我说这话是为周围站着的众人，叫他们信是你差了我来。”
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 我知道你常常听我，但我说这话是为了周围站着的众人，要使他们信是你差了我来的。”
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 我知道你常常听我，但我说这话是为了周围站着的众人，要使他们信是你差了我来的。”
当代译本 - 我知道你常常垂听我的祷告。我这样说是为了周围站着的众人，好叫他们相信是你差我来的。”
圣经新译本 - 我知道你常常听我，但我说这话，是为了周围站着的群众，叫他们信是你差了我来。”
中文标准译本 - 我知道你总是在垂听我，但我这么说，是为了这些站在周围的民众，好让他们相信是你差派了我。”
现代标点和合本 - 我也知道你常听我，但我说这话是为周围站着的众人，叫他们信是你差了我来。”
和合本（拼音版） - 我也知道你常听我。但我说这话，是为周围站着的众人，叫他们信是你差了我来。”
New International Version - I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.”
New International Reader's Version - I know that you always hear me. But I said this for the benefit of the people standing here. I said it so they will believe that you sent me.”
English Standard Version - I knew that you always hear me, but I said this on account of the people standing around, that they may believe that you sent me.”
New Living Translation - You always hear me, but I said it out loud for the sake of all these people standing here, so that they will believe you sent me.”
Christian Standard Bible - I know that you always hear me, but because of the crowd standing here I said this, so that they may believe you sent me.”
New American Standard Bible - But I knew that You always hear Me; nevertheless, because of the people standing around I said it, so that they may believe that You sent Me.”
New King James Version - And I know that You always hear Me, but because of the people who are standing by I said this, that they may believe that You sent Me.”
Amplified Bible - I knew that You always hear Me and listen to Me; but I have said this because of the people standing around, so that they may believe that You have sent Me [and that You have made Me Your representative].”
American Standard Version - And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the multitude that standeth around I said it, that they may believe that thou didst send me.
King James Version - And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.
New English Translation - I knew that you always listen to me, but I said this for the sake of the crowd standing around here, that they may believe that you sent me.”
World English Bible - I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude standing around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me.”
新標點和合本 - 我也知道你常聽我，但我說這話是為周圍站着的眾人，叫他們信是你差了我來。」
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 我知道你常常聽我，但我說這話是為了周圍站着的眾人，要使他們信是你差了我來的。」
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 我知道你常常聽我，但我說這話是為了周圍站着的眾人，要使他們信是你差了我來的。」
當代譯本 - 我知道你常常垂聽我的禱告。我這樣說是為了周圍站著的眾人，好叫他們相信是你差我來的。」
聖經新譯本 - 我知道你常常聽我，但我說這話，是為了周圍站著的群眾，叫他們信是你差了我來。”
呂振中譯本 - 我本知道你時常聽我；但是為了周圍站着的羣眾、我才說話，叫他們相信是你差遣了我。」
中文標準譯本 - 我知道你總是在垂聽我，但我這麼說，是為了這些站在周圍的民眾，好讓他們相信是你差派了我。」
現代標點和合本 - 我也知道你常聽我，但我說這話是為周圍站著的眾人，叫他們信是你差了我來。」
文理和合譯本 - 我知爾恆聽我、但我言此、乃為環立之眾、俾其信爾遣我也、
文理委辦譯本 - 我知爾常聽我、第言此、使環立者信爾遣我也、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 我知爾常聽我、但我言此、乃為環立之人、使其信遣我者乃爾也、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 然予之言此、乃欲使環立於斯之眾庶、篤信父之遣予耳。』
Nueva Versión Internacional - Ya sabía yo que siempre me escuchas, pero lo dije por la gente que está aquí presente, para que crean que tú me enviaste.
현대인의 성경 - 나는 아버지께서 항상 내 말을 들어주시는 것을 압니다. 그러나 나는 둘러선 이들이 아버지께서 나를 보내신 것을 믿게 하려고 이 말씀을 드립니다.”
Новый Русский Перевод - Я знаю, что Ты всегда слышишь Меня, но Я сказал это ради тех, кто стоит здесь, чтобы они поверили, что Ты послал Меня.
Восточный перевод - Я знаю, что Ты всегда слышишь Меня, но Я сказал это ради тех, кто стоит здесь, чтобы они поверили, что Ты послал Меня.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Я знаю, что Ты всегда слышишь Меня, но Я сказал это ради тех, кто стоит здесь, чтобы они поверили, что Ты послал Меня.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Я знаю, что Ты всегда слышишь Меня, но Я сказал это ради тех, кто стоит здесь, чтобы они поверили, что Ты послал Меня.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Pour moi, je sais que tu m’exauces toujours, mais si je parle ainsi, c’est pour que tous ceux qui m’entourent croient que c’est toi qui m’as envoyé.
リビングバイブル - あなたがいつもわたしの願いを聞いてくださることはわかっています。ただ、あなたがわたしをお遣わしになったことを、ここに立っているみんなが信じるように、こう申し上げたのです」と祈られました。
Nestle Aland 28 - ἐγὼ δὲ ᾔδειν ὅτι πάντοτέ μου ἀκούεις, ἀλλὰ διὰ τὸν ὄχλον τὸν περιεστῶτα εἶπον, ἵνα πιστεύσωσιν ὅτι σύ με ἀπέστειλας.
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - ἐγὼ δὲ ᾔδειν ὅτι πάντοτέ μου ἀκούεις, ἀλλὰ διὰ τὸν ὄχλον τὸν περιεστῶτα, εἶπον, ἵνα πιστεύσωσιν ὅτι σύ με ἀπέστειλας.
Nova Versão Internacional - Eu sei que sempre me ouves, mas disse isso por causa do povo que está aqui, para que creia que tu me enviaste”.
Hoffnung für alle - Ich weiß, dass du mich immer erhörst, aber ich sage es wegen der vielen Menschen, die hier stehen. Sie sollen alles miterleben und glauben, dass du mich gesandt hast.«
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Con biết Cha luôn luôn nghe lời Con cầu xin, nhưng Con nói lên để những người đứng quanh đây tin Cha đã sai Con xuống trần.”
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - ข้าพระองค์รู้ว่าพระองค์ทรงฟังข้าพระองค์เสมอ แต่ที่ทูลเช่นนี้ก็เพื่อประโยชน์ของผู้คนซึ่งยืนอยู่ที่นี่ เพื่อพวกเขาจะได้เชื่อว่าพระองค์ทรงส่งข้าพระองค์มา”
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - และข้าพเจ้าทราบว่าพระองค์ฟังข้าพเจ้าเสมอ แต่เป็นเพราะผู้คนที่กำลังยืนอยู่รอบตัวข้าพเจ้า ข้าพเจ้าจึงได้กล่าวเช่นนี้เพื่อว่าพวกเขาจะได้เชื่อว่า พระองค์ได้ส่งข้าพเจ้ามา”

交叉引用

Matthew 12:22 - Next a poor demon-afflicted wretch, both blind and deaf, was set down before him. Jesus healed him, gave him his sight and hearing. The people who saw it were impressed—“This has to be the Son of David!”
Matthew 12:24 - But the Pharisees, when they heard the report, were cynical. “Black magic,” they said. “Some devil trick he’s pulled from his sleeve.”
John 8:42 - “If God were your father,” said Jesus, “you would love me, for I came from God and arrived here. I didn’t come on my own. He sent me. Why can’t you understand one word I say? Here’s why: You can’t handle it. You’re from your father, the Devil, and all you want to do is please him. He was a killer from the very start. He couldn’t stand the truth because there wasn’t a shred of truth in him. When the Liar speaks, he makes it up out of his lying nature and fills the world with lies. I arrive on the scene, tell you the plain truth, and you refuse to have a thing to do with me. Can any one of you convict me of a single misleading word, a single sinful act? But if I’m telling the truth, why don’t you believe me? Anyone on God’s side listens to God’s words. This is why you’re not listening—because you’re not on God’s side.”
John 12:27 - “Right now I am shaken. And what am I going to say? ‘Father, get me out of this’? No, this is why I came in the first place. I’ll say, ‘Father, put your glory on display.’” A voice came out of the sky: “I have glorified it, and I’ll glorify it again.”
John 12:29 - The listening crowd said, “Thunder!” Others said, “An angel spoke to him!”
John 12:30 - Jesus said, “The voice didn’t come for me but for you. At this moment the world is in crisis. Now Satan, the ruler of this world, will be thrown out. And I, as I am lifted up from the earth, will attract everyone to me and gather them around me.” He put it this way to show how he was going to be put to death.
John 7:28 - That provoked Jesus, who was teaching in the Temple, to cry out, “Yes, you think you know me and where I’m from, but that’s not where I’m from. I didn’t set myself up in business. My true origin is in the One who sent me, and you don’t know him at all. I come from him—that’s how I know him. He sent me here.”
John 11:45 - That was a turning point for many of the Jews who were with Mary. They saw what Jesus did, and believed in him. But some went back to the Pharisees and told on Jesus. The high priests and Pharisees called a meeting of the Jewish ruling body. “What do we do now?” they asked. “This man keeps on doing things, creating God-signs. If we let him go on, pretty soon everyone will be believing in him and the Romans will come and remove what little power and privilege we still have.”
John 11:49 - Then one of them—it was Caiaphas, the designated Chief Priest that year—spoke up, “Don’t you know anything? Can’t you see that it’s to our advantage that one man dies for the people rather than the whole nation be destroyed?” He didn’t say this of his own accord, but as Chief Priest that year he unwittingly prophesied that Jesus was about to die sacrificially for the nation, and not only for the nation but so that all God’s exile-scattered children might be gathered together into one people.
Galatians 4:4 - But when the time arrived that was set by God the Father, God sent his Son, born among us of a woman, born under the conditions of the law so that he might redeem those of us who have been kidnapped by the law. Thus we have been set free to experience our rightful heritage. You can tell for sure that you are now fully adopted as his own children because God sent the Spirit of his Son into our lives crying out, “Papa! Father!” Doesn’t that privilege of intimate conversation with God make it plain that you are not a slave, but a child? And if you are a child, you’re also an heir, with complete access to the inheritance.
Hebrews 5:7 - While he lived on earth, anticipating death, Jesus cried out in pain and wept in sorrow as he offered up priestly prayers to God. Because he honored God, God answered him. Though he was God’s Son, he learned trusting-obedience by what he suffered, just as we do. Then, having arrived at the full stature of his maturity and having been announced by God as high priest in the order of Melchizedek, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who believingly obey him.
Romans 8:3 - God went for the jugular when he sent his own Son. He didn’t deal with the problem as something remote and unimportant. In his Son, Jesus, he personally took on the human condition, entered the disordered mess of struggling humanity in order to set it right once and for all. The law code, weakened as it always was by fractured human nature, could never have done that. The law always ended up being used as a Band-Aid on sin instead of a deep healing of it. And now what the law code asked for but we couldn’t deliver is accomplished as we, instead of redoubling our own efforts, simply embrace what the Spirit is doing in us.
John 9:24 - They called the man back a second time—the man who had been blind—and told him, “Give credit to God. We know this man is an impostor.”
John 9:25 - He replied, “I know nothing about that one way or the other. But I know one thing for sure: I was blind . . . I now see.”
John 9:26 - They said, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”
John 9:27 - “I’ve told you over and over and you haven’t listened. Why do you want to hear it again? Are you so eager to become his disciples?”
John 9:28 - With that they jumped all over him. “You might be a disciple of that man, but we’re disciples of Moses. We know for sure that God spoke to Moses, but we have no idea where this man even comes from.”
John 9:30 - The man replied, “This is amazing! You claim to know nothing about him, but the fact is, he opened my eyes! It’s well known that God isn’t at the beck and call of sinners, but listens carefully to anyone who lives in reverence and does his will. That someone opened the eyes of a man born blind has never been heard of—ever. If this man didn’t come from God, he wouldn’t be able to do anything.”
John 9:34 - They said, “You’re nothing but dirt! How dare you take that tone with us!” Then they threw him out in the street.
John 6:39 - “This, in a nutshell, is that will: that everything handed over to me by the Father be completed—not a single detail missed—and at the wrap-up of time I have everything and everyone put together, upright and whole. This is what my Father wants: that anyone who sees the Son and trusts who he is and what he does and then aligns with him will enter real life, eternal life. My part is to put them on their feet alive and whole at the completion of time.”

逐节对照

交叉引用

新标点和合本 - 我也知道你常听我，但我说这话是为周围站着的众人，叫他们信是你差了我来。”
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 我知道你常常听我，但我说这话是为了周围站着的众人，要使他们信是你差了我来的。”
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 我知道你常常听我，但我说这话是为了周围站着的众人，要使他们信是你差了我来的。”
当代译本 - 我知道你常常垂听我的祷告。我这样说是为了周围站着的众人，好叫他们相信是你差我来的。”
圣经新译本 - 我知道你常常听我，但我说这话，是为了周围站着的群众，叫他们信是你差了我来。”
中文标准译本 - 我知道你总是在垂听我，但我这么说，是为了这些站在周围的民众，好让他们相信是你差派了我。”
现代标点和合本 - 我也知道你常听我，但我说这话是为周围站着的众人，叫他们信是你差了我来。”
和合本（拼音版） - 我也知道你常听我。但我说这话，是为周围站着的众人，叫他们信是你差了我来。”
New International Version - I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.”
New International Reader's Version - I know that you always hear me. But I said this for the benefit of the people standing here. I said it so they will believe that you sent me.”
English Standard Version - I knew that you always hear me, but I said this on account of the people standing around, that they may believe that you sent me.”
New Living Translation - You always hear me, but I said it out loud for the sake of all these people standing here, so that they will believe you sent me.”
Christian Standard Bible - I know that you always hear me, but because of the crowd standing here I said this, so that they may believe you sent me.”
New American Standard Bible - But I knew that You always hear Me; nevertheless, because of the people standing around I said it, so that they may believe that You sent Me.”
New King James Version - And I know that You always hear Me, but because of the people who are standing by I said this, that they may believe that You sent Me.”
Amplified Bible - I knew that You always hear Me and listen to Me; but I have said this because of the people standing around, so that they may believe that You have sent Me [and that You have made Me Your representative].”
American Standard Version - And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the multitude that standeth around I said it, that they may believe that thou didst send me.
King James Version - And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.
New English Translation - I knew that you always listen to me, but I said this for the sake of the crowd standing around here, that they may believe that you sent me.”
World English Bible - I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude standing around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me.”
新標點和合本 - 我也知道你常聽我，但我說這話是為周圍站着的眾人，叫他們信是你差了我來。」
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 我知道你常常聽我，但我說這話是為了周圍站着的眾人，要使他們信是你差了我來的。」
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 我知道你常常聽我，但我說這話是為了周圍站着的眾人，要使他們信是你差了我來的。」
當代譯本 - 我知道你常常垂聽我的禱告。我這樣說是為了周圍站著的眾人，好叫他們相信是你差我來的。」
聖經新譯本 - 我知道你常常聽我，但我說這話，是為了周圍站著的群眾，叫他們信是你差了我來。”
呂振中譯本 - 我本知道你時常聽我；但是為了周圍站着的羣眾、我才說話，叫他們相信是你差遣了我。」
中文標準譯本 - 我知道你總是在垂聽我，但我這麼說，是為了這些站在周圍的民眾，好讓他們相信是你差派了我。」
現代標點和合本 - 我也知道你常聽我，但我說這話是為周圍站著的眾人，叫他們信是你差了我來。」
文理和合譯本 - 我知爾恆聽我、但我言此、乃為環立之眾、俾其信爾遣我也、
文理委辦譯本 - 我知爾常聽我、第言此、使環立者信爾遣我也、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 我知爾常聽我、但我言此、乃為環立之人、使其信遣我者乃爾也、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 然予之言此、乃欲使環立於斯之眾庶、篤信父之遣予耳。』
Nueva Versión Internacional - Ya sabía yo que siempre me escuchas, pero lo dije por la gente que está aquí presente, para que crean que tú me enviaste.
현대인의 성경 - 나는 아버지께서 항상 내 말을 들어주시는 것을 압니다. 그러나 나는 둘러선 이들이 아버지께서 나를 보내신 것을 믿게 하려고 이 말씀을 드립니다.”
Новый Русский Перевод - Я знаю, что Ты всегда слышишь Меня, но Я сказал это ради тех, кто стоит здесь, чтобы они поверили, что Ты послал Меня.
Восточный перевод - Я знаю, что Ты всегда слышишь Меня, но Я сказал это ради тех, кто стоит здесь, чтобы они поверили, что Ты послал Меня.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Я знаю, что Ты всегда слышишь Меня, но Я сказал это ради тех, кто стоит здесь, чтобы они поверили, что Ты послал Меня.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Я знаю, что Ты всегда слышишь Меня, но Я сказал это ради тех, кто стоит здесь, чтобы они поверили, что Ты послал Меня.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Pour moi, je sais que tu m’exauces toujours, mais si je parle ainsi, c’est pour que tous ceux qui m’entourent croient que c’est toi qui m’as envoyé.
リビングバイブル - あなたがいつもわたしの願いを聞いてくださることはわかっています。ただ、あなたがわたしをお遣わしになったことを、ここに立っているみんなが信じるように、こう申し上げたのです」と祈られました。
Nestle Aland 28 - ἐγὼ δὲ ᾔδειν ὅτι πάντοτέ μου ἀκούεις, ἀλλὰ διὰ τὸν ὄχλον τὸν περιεστῶτα εἶπον, ἵνα πιστεύσωσιν ὅτι σύ με ἀπέστειλας.
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - ἐγὼ δὲ ᾔδειν ὅτι πάντοτέ μου ἀκούεις, ἀλλὰ διὰ τὸν ὄχλον τὸν περιεστῶτα, εἶπον, ἵνα πιστεύσωσιν ὅτι σύ με ἀπέστειλας.
Nova Versão Internacional - Eu sei que sempre me ouves, mas disse isso por causa do povo que está aqui, para que creia que tu me enviaste”.
Hoffnung für alle - Ich weiß, dass du mich immer erhörst, aber ich sage es wegen der vielen Menschen, die hier stehen. Sie sollen alles miterleben und glauben, dass du mich gesandt hast.«
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Con biết Cha luôn luôn nghe lời Con cầu xin, nhưng Con nói lên để những người đứng quanh đây tin Cha đã sai Con xuống trần.”
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - ข้าพระองค์รู้ว่าพระองค์ทรงฟังข้าพระองค์เสมอ แต่ที่ทูลเช่นนี้ก็เพื่อประโยชน์ของผู้คนซึ่งยืนอยู่ที่นี่ เพื่อพวกเขาจะได้เชื่อว่าพระองค์ทรงส่งข้าพระองค์มา”
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - และข้าพเจ้าทราบว่าพระองค์ฟังข้าพเจ้าเสมอ แต่เป็นเพราะผู้คนที่กำลังยืนอยู่รอบตัวข้าพเจ้า ข้าพเจ้าจึงได้กล่าวเช่นนี้เพื่อว่าพวกเขาจะได้เชื่อว่า พระองค์ได้ส่งข้าพเจ้ามา”

Matthew 12:22 - Next a poor demon-afflicted wretch, both blind and deaf, was set down before him. Jesus healed him, gave him his sight and hearing. The people who saw it were impressed—“This has to be the Son of David!”
Matthew 12:24 - But the Pharisees, when they heard the report, were cynical. “Black magic,” they said. “Some devil trick he’s pulled from his sleeve.”
John 8:42 - “If God were your father,” said Jesus, “you would love me, for I came from God and arrived here. I didn’t come on my own. He sent me. Why can’t you understand one word I say? Here’s why: You can’t handle it. You’re from your father, the Devil, and all you want to do is please him. He was a killer from the very start. He couldn’t stand the truth because there wasn’t a shred of truth in him. When the Liar speaks, he makes it up out of his lying nature and fills the world with lies. I arrive on the scene, tell you the plain truth, and you refuse to have a thing to do with me. Can any one of you convict me of a single misleading word, a single sinful act? But if I’m telling the truth, why don’t you believe me? Anyone on God’s side listens to God’s words. This is why you’re not listening—because you’re not on God’s side.”
John 12:27 - “Right now I am shaken. And what am I going to say? ‘Father, get me out of this’? No, this is why I came in the first place. I’ll say, ‘Father, put your glory on display.’” A voice came out of the sky: “I have glorified it, and I’ll glorify it again.”
John 12:29 - The listening crowd said, “Thunder!” Others said, “An angel spoke to him!”
John 12:30 - Jesus said, “The voice didn’t come for me but for you. At this moment the world is in crisis. Now Satan, the ruler of this world, will be thrown out. And I, as I am lifted up from the earth, will attract everyone to me and gather them around me.” He put it this way to show how he was going to be put to death.
John 7:28 - That provoked Jesus, who was teaching in the Temple, to cry out, “Yes, you think you know me and where I’m from, but that’s not where I’m from. I didn’t set myself up in business. My true origin is in the One who sent me, and you don’t know him at all. I come from him—that’s how I know him. He sent me here.”
John 11:45 - That was a turning point for many of the Jews who were with Mary. They saw what Jesus did, and believed in him. But some went back to the Pharisees and told on Jesus. The high priests and Pharisees called a meeting of the Jewish ruling body. “What do we do now?” they asked. “This man keeps on doing things, creating God-signs. If we let him go on, pretty soon everyone will be believing in him and the Romans will come and remove what little power and privilege we still have.”
John 11:49 - Then one of them—it was Caiaphas, the designated Chief Priest that year—spoke up, “Don’t you know anything? Can’t you see that it’s to our advantage that one man dies for the people rather than the whole nation be destroyed?” He didn’t say this of his own accord, but as Chief Priest that year he unwittingly prophesied that Jesus was about to die sacrificially for the nation, and not only for the nation but so that all God’s exile-scattered children might be gathered together into one people.
Galatians 4:4 - But when the time arrived that was set by God the Father, God sent his Son, born among us of a woman, born under the conditions of the law so that he might redeem those of us who have been kidnapped by the law. Thus we have been set free to experience our rightful heritage. You can tell for sure that you are now fully adopted as his own children because God sent the Spirit of his Son into our lives crying out, “Papa! Father!” Doesn’t that privilege of intimate conversation with God make it plain that you are not a slave, but a child? And if you are a child, you’re also an heir, with complete access to the inheritance.
Hebrews 5:7 - While he lived on earth, anticipating death, Jesus cried out in pain and wept in sorrow as he offered up priestly prayers to God. Because he honored God, God answered him. Though he was God’s Son, he learned trusting-obedience by what he suffered, just as we do. Then, having arrived at the full stature of his maturity and having been announced by God as high priest in the order of Melchizedek, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who believingly obey him.
Romans 8:3 - God went for the jugular when he sent his own Son. He didn’t deal with the problem as something remote and unimportant. In his Son, Jesus, he personally took on the human condition, entered the disordered mess of struggling humanity in order to set it right once and for all. The law code, weakened as it always was by fractured human nature, could never have done that. The law always ended up being used as a Band-Aid on sin instead of a deep healing of it. And now what the law code asked for but we couldn’t deliver is accomplished as we, instead of redoubling our own efforts, simply embrace what the Spirit is doing in us.
John 9:24 - They called the man back a second time—the man who had been blind—and told him, “Give credit to God. We know this man is an impostor.”
John 9:25 - He replied, “I know nothing about that one way or the other. But I know one thing for sure: I was blind . . . I now see.”
John 9:26 - They said, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”
John 9:27 - “I’ve told you over and over and you haven’t listened. Why do you want to hear it again? Are you so eager to become his disciples?”
John 9:28 - With that they jumped all over him. “You might be a disciple of that man, but we’re disciples of Moses. We know for sure that God spoke to Moses, but we have no idea where this man even comes from.”
John 9:30 - The man replied, “This is amazing! You claim to know nothing about him, but the fact is, he opened my eyes! It’s well known that God isn’t at the beck and call of sinners, but listens carefully to anyone who lives in reverence and does his will. That someone opened the eyes of a man born blind has never been heard of—ever. If this man didn’t come from God, he wouldn’t be able to do anything.”
John 9:34 - They said, “You’re nothing but dirt! How dare you take that tone with us!” Then they threw him out in the street.
John 6:39 - “This, in a nutshell, is that will: that everything handed over to me by the Father be completed—not a single detail missed—and at the wrap-up of time I have everything and everyone put together, upright and whole. This is what my Father wants: that anyone who sees the Son and trusts who he is and what he does and then aligns with him will enter real life, eternal life. My part is to put them on their feet alive and whole at the completion of time.”