John 11:48

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“If we let Him go on like this, everyone will believe in Him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.””

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BSBPD

“If we let Him go on like this, everyone will believe in Him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
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“if we may let him alone thus, all will believe in him; and the Romans will come, and will take away both our place and nation.'”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo John 11:48 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Deuteronomy 28:50a ruthless nation with no respect for the old and no pity for the young.
  2. Daniel 9:26Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed.
  3. Zechariah 13:7Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd,against the man who is My Companion,declares the LORD of Hosts.Strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered,and I will turn My hand against the little ones.
  4. Zechariah 14:1Behold, a day of the LORD is coming when your plunder will be divided in your presence.
  5. Matthew 21:40Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard returns, what will he do to those tenants?”
  6. Matthew 22:7The king was enraged, and he sent his troops to destroy those murderers and burn their city.
  7. Matthew 23:35And so upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
  8. Matthew 27:25All the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”
  9. Luke 8:12The seeds along the path are those who hear, but the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved.
  10. Luke 11:52Woe to you experts in the law! For you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering.”
  11. Luke 19:41As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it
  12. Luke 21:20But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, you will know that her desolation is near.
  13. Luke 23:28But Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.
  14. John 1:7He came as a witness to testify about the Light, so that through him everyone might believe.
  15. Acts 5:28“We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,” he said. “Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us responsible for this man’s blood.”
  16. Acts 5:38So in the present case I advise you: Leave these men alone. Let them go! For if their purpose or endeavor is of human origin, it will fail.
  17. 1 Thessalonians 2:15who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,

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