Hebrews 12:3 Cross References - Goodspeed

³ Think of the opposition that he encountered from those sinners against themselves, if you would not grow weary and faint-hearted.

²⁴ A pupil is not better than his teacher, nor a slave better than his master. ²⁵ A pupil should be satisfied to come to be like his teacher, or a slave, to come to be like his master. If men have called the head of the house Beelzebub, how much worse names will they give to the members of his household!

¹⁹ Now that the Son of Man has come, he does eat and drink, and people say, 'Look at him! A glutton and a drinker, the companion of tax-collectors and irreligious people!' And yet Wisdom is vindicated by her actions!"

²⁴ But when the Pharisees heard of it they said, "This man cannot drive out demons except by the aid of Beelzebub, the prince of the demons."

² "Why do your disciples break the rules handed down by our ancestors? For they eat their bread without first washing their hands."

¹⁵ But when the high priests and the scribes saw the wonders that he did and saw the boys shouting in the Temple, "God bless the Son of David!" they were indignant, ¹⁶ and said to him, "Do you hear what they are saying?" Jesus said to them, "Yes. Did you never read, 'You have drawn praise from the mouths of children and infants'?"

²³ When he had entered the Temple, and was teaching, the high priests and the elders of the people came up to him, and said, "What authority have you for doing as you do, and who gave you this authority?"

⁴⁶ and they wanted to have him arrested, but they were afraid of the people, for the people considered him a prophet.

¹⁵ Then the Pharisees went and made a plot to entrap him in argument.

³⁴ And he gave them his blessing, and said to Mary, the child's mother, "This child is destined to cause the fall and rise of many in Israel, and to be a portent that will be much debated—

²⁸ And when the people in the synagogue heard this, they were all very angry, ²⁹ and they got up and drove him out of the town and took him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, intending to throw him down from it.

²¹ And the scribes and the Pharisees began to debate and say, "Who is this man who talks blasphemy? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

¹⁵ But some of them said, "It is with the aid of Beelzebub, the prince of the demons, that he drives the demons out." ¹⁶ Others to test him asked him for a sign from heaven.

⁵³ After he left the house, the scribes and the Pharisees began to watch him closely and to try to draw him out on many subjects, ⁵⁴ plotting to entrap him in something he might say.

¹³ And he laid his hands on her, and she instantly became erect, and praised God. ¹⁴ But the leader of the synagogue, in his vexation because Jesus had cured her on the Sabbath, spoke out and said to the crowd, "There are six days on which it is right to work. Come on them and be cured, but not on the Sabbath day."

¹ One Sabbath, when he went to take a meal at the house of a member of the council who was a Pharisee, they were watching him closely.

² And the Pharisees and scribes grumbled, and said, "This man welcomes irreligious people, and even eats with them!"

¹⁴ The Pharisees, who were avaricious, heard all this, and they ridiculed him.

³⁹ Some Pharisees in the crowd said to him, "Master, reprove your disciples!" ⁴⁰ And he answered, "I tell you, if they keep silence, the stones will cry out!"

¹⁶ This was why the Jews used to persecute Jesus, because he did things like this on the Sabbath.

¹² and there was a great deal of muttering about him among the crowds, some saying that he was a good man, and others that he was not, but was imposing on the people.

¹³ The Pharisees said to him, "You are testifying to yourself. Your testimony is not true."

⁴⁸ The Jews answered, "Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and are possessed?" ⁴⁹ Jesus answered, "I am not possessed, but I have respect for my Father, and you have no respect for me.

⁵² The Jews said to him, "Now we are sure that you are possessed! Abraham is dead and so are the prophets, and yet you say, 'If anyone observes my teaching, he will never know what death is!'

⁵⁹ At that, the Jews picked up stones to throw at him, but he disappeared and made his way out of the Temple.

⁴⁰ Some Pharisees who were present heard this, and they said to him, "Then are we blind too?"

²⁰ Many of them said, "He is possessed and mad! Why do you listen to him?"

³¹ The Jews again picked up stones to stone him with. ³² Jesus answered, "I have let you see many good things from the Father; which of them do you mean to stone me for?" ³³ The Jews answered, "We are not stoning you for doing anything good, but for your impious talk, and because you, a mere man, make yourself out to be God." ³⁴ Jesus answered, "Is it not declared in your Law, 'I said, "You are gods" '? ³⁵ If those to whom God's message was addressed were called gods—and the Scripture cannot be set aside— ³⁶ do you mean to say to me whom the Father has consecrated and made his messenger to the world, 'You are blasphemous,' because I said, 'I am God's Son'? ³⁷ If I am not doing the things my Father does, do not believe me. ³⁸ But if I am doing them, then even if you will not believe me, believe the things I do, in order that you may realize and learn that the Father is in union with me, and I am in union with the Father." ³⁹ In consequence of this they again tried to arrest him, and he withdrew out of their reach.

⁹ A great many of the Jews found out that he was there, and they came to Bethany not only to see Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. ¹⁰ But the high priests planned to kill Lazarus also,

¹⁸ If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first. ¹⁹ If you belonged to the world, the world would love what was its own. But it is because you do not belong to the world, but I have selected you from the world, that the world hates you. ²⁰ Remember what I said to you: No slave is greater than his master. If they have persecuted me they will persecute you too. If they have observed my teaching, they will observe yours too. ²¹ But they will do all this to you on my account, because they do not understand him who sent me. ²² If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but as it is, they have no excuse for their sin. ²³ Whoever hates me hates my Father also. ²⁴ If I had not done things before them that no one else ever did they would not be guilty of sin. But as it is, they have seen both me and my Father, and they have hated us both.

²² When he said this, one of the attendants who stood near struck him and said, "Is that the way you answer the high priest?"

⁵⁸ So my dear brothers, be firm and unmoved, and always devote yourselves to the Lord's work, for you know that through the Lord your labor is not thrown away.

¹ So since by the mercy of God I am engaged in this service, I never lose heart.

¹⁶ So I never lose heart. Though my outer nature is wasting away, my inner is being renewed every day.

⁹ Let us not get tired of doing right, for at the proper time we shall reap, if we do not give out.

¹³ But you, brothers, must not get tired of doing right.

⁷ Think over what I say. For the Lord will help you to understand it perfectly. ⁸ Remember Jesus Christ as risen from the dead, and descended from David, as I preach the good news,

¹ Therefore, my fellow-Christians, who have likewise heard the heavenly invitation, observe how faithful Jesus, the commissioner and high priest of our religion,

² fixing our eyes upon Jesus, our leader and example in faith, who in place of the happiness that belonged to him, submitted to a cross, caring nothing for its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

⁵ and you have forgotten the challenge addressed to you as God's sons, "My son, do not think lightly of the Lord's discipline, Or give up when he corrects you.

³ You show endurance; you have undergone much for my sake, and you have not grown weary.