Cross references

John 10:6

Jesus spoke to them using this illustration, but they did not understand what He was telling them.

John 10:6 BSB

John 10:6 has 16 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 1 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Isaiah 56:11 (4 votes) and Psalm 82:5 (3 votes). 3 other verses point back to it. It links with 9 other books, from Psalm 82 to 1 John 5.

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Which verses does John 10:6 point to?

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  1. Like ravenous dogs, they are never satisfied. They are shepherds with no discernment; they all turn to their own way, each one seeking his own gain:

  2. Psalm 82:53 votes

    They do not know or understand; they wander in the darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

  3. Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD comprehend fully.

  4. Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea.

  5. And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’ Make the hearts of this people calloused; deafen their ears and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”

  6. Many will be purified, made spotless, and refined, but the wicked will continue to act wickedly. None of the wicked will understand, but the wise will understand.

  7. Have you understood all these things?” “Yes,” they answered.

  8. John 16:252 votes

    I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. An hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you this way, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

  9. This is why I speak to them in parables: ‘Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.’ In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled: ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.

  10. John 6:521 vote

    At this, the Jews began to argue among themselves, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?”

  11. John 6:601 vote
  12. John 7:361 vote
  13. John 8:271 vote
  14. John 8:431 vote
  15. And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true—in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

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