John 5:46-47
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46 For if you had believed Moses, you would have believed me, because he wrote about me.(A) 47 But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”
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John 11:44-48
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44 The dead man came out, tied hand and foot with burial bands, and his face was wrapped in a cloth. So Jesus said to them, “Untie him and let him go.”
Session of the Sanhedrin. 45 Now many of the Jews who had come to Mary and seen what he had done began to believe in him.(A) 46 But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. 47 So the chief priests and the Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we going to do? This man is performing many signs.(B) 48 If we leave him alone, all will believe in him, and the Romans will come[a] and take away both our land and our nation.”
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- 11:48 The Romans will come: Johannine irony; this is precisely what happened after Jesus’ death.
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