Luke 22:67 Cross References - Moffatt

⁶⁷ "Tell us if you are the Christ." He said to them, "You will not believe me if I tell you,

³ to ask him, "Are you the Coming One? Or are we to look out for someone else?" ⁴ Jesus answered them, "Go and report to John what you hear and see: ⁵ the blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, and the dead are raised.

⁶³ Jesus said nothing. Then the high priest addressed him, "I adjure you by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God!" ⁶⁴ Jesus said to him, "Even so! But I tell you, in future you will all see the Son of man seated at the right hand of the Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven." ⁶⁵ Then the high priest tore his dress and cried, "He has blasphemed! What more evidence do we want? Look, you have heard his blasphemy for yourselves! ⁶⁶ What is your view?" They replied, "He is doomed to death." ⁶⁷ Then they spat in his face and buffeted him, some of them cuffing him ⁶⁸ and crying, "Prophesy to us, you Christ! tell us who struck you!"

⁶¹ He said nothing and made no answer. Again the high priest put a question to him. "Are you the Christ?" he said, "the Son of the Blessed?" ⁶² Jesus said, "I am. And, what is more, you will all see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of the Power and coming with the clouds of heaven." ⁶³ Then the high priest tore his clothes and cried, "What more evidence do we want? ⁶⁴ You have heard his blasphemy for yourselves. What is your mind?" They condemned him, all of them, to the doom of death; ⁶⁵ and some of them started to spit on him and to blindfold him and buffet him, asking him, "Prophesy." The attendants treated him to cuffs and slaps. ⁶⁶ Now as Peter was downstairs in the courtyard, a maidservant of the high priest came along,

³¹ He said to him, 'If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced, not even if one rose from the dead."

³⁹ You search the scriptures, imagining you possess eternal life in their pages — and they do testify to me — ⁴⁰ but you refuse to come to me for life. ⁴¹ I accept no credit from men, ⁴² but I know there is no love to God in you; ⁴³ here am I, come in the name of my Father, and you will not accept me: let someone else come in his own name, and you will accept him! ⁴⁴ How can you believe, you who accept credit from one another instead of aiming at the credit which comes from the only God? ⁴⁵ Do not imagine I am going to accuse you to the Father; Moses is your accuser, Moses who is your hope! ⁴⁶ For if you believed Moses you would believe me, since it was of me that he wrote. ⁴⁷ But if you do not believe what he wrote, how will you ever believe what I say?"

⁴³ Why do you not understand my speech? Because you are unable to listen to what I am saying. ⁴⁴ You belong to your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires; he was a slayer of men from the very beginning, and he has no place in the truth because there is no truth in him: when he tells a lie, he is expressing his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies. ⁴⁵ It is because I tell the truth, that you do not believe me.

²⁷ He retorted, "I have told you that already, and you would not listen to me. Why do you want to hear it over again? Do you want to be disciples of his?" ²⁸ Then they stormed at him: "You are his disciple, we are disciples of Moses!

²⁴ So the Jews gathered round him and asked, "How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly." ²⁵ Jesus replied, "I have told you, but you do not believe; the deeds I do in the name of my Father testify to me, but you do not believe, ²⁶ because you do not belong to my sheep.

³⁷ Now for all the Signs he had performed before them, they did not believe in him — ³⁸ that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: Lord, who has believed what they heard from us, And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? ³⁹ This was why they could not believe; for Isaiah again said, ⁴⁰ He has blinded their eyes and made their hearts insensible, to prevent them seeing with their eyes and understanding with their hearts and turning for me to cure them. ⁴¹ (Isaiah said this because he saw his glory and spoke of him.) ⁴² Still, a number even of the authorities believed in him, though they would not confess it on account of the Pharisees, in case of being excommunicated; ⁴³ they preferred the approval of men to the approval of God.