John 6:66 Cross References - WPNT

⁶⁶ From that time many of His disciples turned back and stopped going around with Him.

⁴⁰ For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the stomach of the sea monster, so will the Son of the Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. ⁴¹ Ninevite men will arise with this generation at the judgment and will condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and really, a greater than Jonah is here. ⁴² The queen of the South will be raised with this generation at the judgment and she will condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and really, a greater than Solomon is here. ⁴³ “Now when an unclean spirit [demon] goes out from a man, he goes through arid places looking for rest, but finds none. ⁴⁴ Then he says, ‘I will return to my house from where I came’. And coming he finds it unoccupied, swept and put in order. ⁴⁵ Then he goes and takes along with himself seven different spirits, more malignant than himself, and going in he dwells there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. Just so it will be for this malignant generation also.”

²⁰ But the seed sown on stony places—this is he who hears the word and directly receives it with joy, ²¹ but he has no root in himself and is short-lived; for when trial or persecution comes because of the word, directly he is offended.

²² So upon hearing that word the young man went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.

⁸ And the very large crowd spread their clothes on the road, while others were cutting branches from the trees and spreading them on the road. ⁹ Then the crowds who went in front and those who followed kept crying out, saying: “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD! Hosanna in the highest heaven!” ¹⁰ So when He came into Jerusalem the whole city was stirred up, saying, “Who is this?” ¹¹ And the crowds kept saying, “This is Jesus, the prophet from Natsareth of Galilee.”

²⁰ But the chief priests and elders had persuaded the crowds that they should ask for Barabbas, but destroy Jesus. ²¹ So the governor spoke up and said to them, “Which of the two do you want me to release to you?” And they said, “Barabbas!” ²² Pilate says to them, “What then shall I do with Jesus who is called Messiah?” They all say to him, “Let Him be crucified!” ²³ So the governor said, “But, what evil did He do?” But they kept yelling all the more saying, “Let Him be crucified!!” ²⁴ When Pilate saw that nothing was being gained but rather a riot was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd saying: “I am innocent of the blood of this righteous man. It’s your problem!” ²⁵ So in answer all the people said, “His blood be upon us and upon our children!”

⁶² But Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to ‘the plow’ and looks back is suitable for the Kingdom of God”.

⁶⁰ Therefore, upon hearing this many from among His disciples said, “This word is hard! Who is able to hear it?”

⁶⁴ But there are some among you who do not believe.” (For Jesus knew from the start who they were who didn’t believe, and who was betraying Him.)

³¹ So Jesus said to those Jews who had believed Him: “If you abide in my word, you really are my disciples;

¹⁵ This you know, that all those in Asia have been turned away from me, including Phygellus and Hermogenes.

¹⁰ for Demas, loving this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica—Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

³⁸ Now the righteous one will live by faith, yet if he backs away, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

²⁰ For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the real knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter circumstances have become worse for them than the first ones. ²¹ For it would have been better for them not to have really known the way of the righteousness, than having really known it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. ²² But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: a dog returns to its own vomit and a bathed sow to wallowing in mud.

¹⁹ They went out from us but were not of us, for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us—they left so that they might be exposed, that none of them were of us.