Bible Cross References
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Jeremiah 15:10
What an unhappy man I am! Why did my mother bring me into the world? I have to quarrel and argue with everyone in the land. I have not lent any money or borrowed any; yet everyone curses me.
Luke 12:49-53
49
"I came to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already kindled!
50
I have a baptism to receive, and how distressed I am until it is over!
51
Do you suppose that I came to bring peace to the world? No, not peace, but division.
52
From now on a family of five will be divided, three against two and two against three.
53
Fathers will be against their sons, and sons against their fathers; mothers will be against their daughters, and daughters against their mothers; mothers-in-law will be against their daughters-in-law, and daughters-in-law against their mothers-in-law."
John 7:40-52
40
Some of the people in the crowd heard him say this and said, "This man is really the Prophet!"
41
Others said, "He is the Messiah!" But others said, "The Messiah will not come from Galilee!
42
The scripture says that the Messiah will be a descendant of King David and will be born in Bethlehem, the town where David lived."
43
So there was a division in the crowd because of Jesus.
44
Some wanted to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him.
45
When the guards went back, the chief priests and Pharisees asked them, "Why did you not bring him?"
46
The guards answered, "Nobody has ever talked the way this man does!"
47
"Did he fool you, too?" the Pharisees asked them.
48
"Have you ever known one of the authorities or one Pharisee to believe in him?
49
This crowd does not know the Law of Moses, so they are under God's curse!"
50
One of the Pharisees there was Nicodemus, the man who had gone to see Jesus before. He said to the others,
51
"According to our Law we cannot condemn people before hearing them and finding out what they have done."
52
"Well," they answered, "are you also from Galilee? Study the Scriptures and you will learn that no prophet ever comes from Galilee."
Acts 13:45-50
45
When the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy; they disputed what Paul was saying and insulted him.
46
But Paul and Barnabas spoke out even more boldly: "It was necessary that the word of God should be spoken first to you. But since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we will leave you and go to the Gentiles.
47
For this is the commandment that the Lord has given us: 'I have made you a light for the Gentiles, so that all the world may be saved.' "
48
When the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and praised the Lord's message; and those who had been chosen for eternal life became believers.
49
The word of the Lord spread everywhere in that region.
50
But the Jews stirred up the leading men of the city and the Gentile women of high social standing who worshiped God. They started a persecution against Paul and Barnabas and threw them out of their region.
Acts 14:2
But the Jews who would not believe stirred up the Gentiles and turned them against the believers.
Acts 14:4
The people of the city were divided: some were for the Jews, others for the apostles.