BSN: What Jesus and Others Said about His Word

(In other words, what Jesus and others said about what He said.)

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What Jesus Said about His Own Word

Mt 7:24-27; Lk 6:47-49 – “Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to…”Everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them, will be like…”
Mt 24:35; Mk 13:31; Lk 21:33 – “Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.”
Mt 26:55 – At that time Jesus said to the crowds, “Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest Me as you would against a robber? Every day I used to sit in the temple teaching and you did not seize Me.
Matt 28:18-20 – …”All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
Mk 8:38; Lk 9:26 – “For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.”
Lk 6:46 – “Why do you call Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say?”
Jn 3:11-12 – “Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know and testify of what we have seen, and you do not accept our testimony. If I told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?”
Jn 5:24-25 – “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.”
Jn 5:28-29 – “Do not marvel at this; for an hour is coming, in which all who are in the tombs will hear His voice, and…”
Jn 5:31 – “If I alone testify about Myself, My testimony is not true.”
Jn 5:34 – “…but I say these things so that you may be saved.”
Jn 5:47 – “But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”
John 7:7 – “The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify of it, that its deeds are evil.”
John 7:16-18 – So Jesus answered them and said, “My teaching is not Mine, but His who sent Me. If anyone is willing to do His will, he will know of the teaching, whether it is of God or whether I speak from Myself. He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but He who is seeking the glory of the One who sent Him, He is true, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.”
Jn 8:18 – “I am He who testifies about Myself, and the Father who sent Me testifies about Me.”
Jn 8:30-32 – …”If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
Jn 8:43 – “Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot hear My word.”
Jn 8:46 – “Which one of you convicts Me of sin? If I speak truth, why do you not believe Me?
Jn 13:13 – “You call Me Teacher and Lord; and you are right, for so I am.”
Jn 15:7 – “If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you…
Jn 15:22 – “If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.”
John 18:20-21 – Jesus answered him, “I have spoken openly to the world; I always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where all the Jews come together; and I spoke nothing in secret. Why do you question Me? Question those who have heard what I spoke to them; they know what I said.”

What Others Said about Jesus’ Word

Mt 5:1-2 – When Jesus saw the crowds, He went up on the mountain; and after He sat down, His disciples came to Him. He opened His mouth and began to teach them, saying,
Matt 28:18 – And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying…
Lk 19:47-48 – And He was teaching daily in the temple; but the chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among the people were trying to destroy Him, and they could not find anything that they might do, for all the people were hanging on to every word He said.
Lk 20:19 – The scribes and the chief priests tried to lay hands on Him that very hour, and they feared the people; for they understood that He spoke this parable against them.
Lk 21:37-38 – Now during the day He was teaching in the temple, but at evening He would go out and spend the night on the mount that is called Olivet. And all the people would get up early in the morning to come to Him in the temple to listen to Him.
Lk 24:32 – …”Were not our hearts burning within us while He was speaking to us on the road, while He was explaining the Scriptures to us?”
Jn 2:5 – His mother said to the servants, “Whatever He says to you, do it.”
Jn 3:32-33 – “What He has seen and heard, of that He testifies; and no one receives His testimony. He who has received His testimony has set his seal to this, that God is true.”
Jn 4:41-42 – Many more believed because of His word; and they were saying to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this One is indeed the Savior of the world.”
Jn 7:45-46 – …”Never has a man spoken the way this man speaks.”
John 8:30-32 – As He spoke these things, many came to believe in Him. So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed Him…
Jn 18:19 – The high priest then questioned Jesus about His disciples, and about His teaching.
Acts 3:22-23 – “Moses said, ‘THE LORD GOD WILL RAISE UP FOR YOU A PROPHET LIKE ME FROM YOUR BRETHREN; TO HIM YOU SHALL GIVE HEED to everything He says to you.’ And it will be that every soul that does not heed that prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people’.”
Acts 10:40-42 – “God raised Him up on the third day and granted that He become visible, not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen beforehand by God, that is, to us who ate and drank with Him after He arose from the dead. And He ordered us to preach to the people, and solemnly to testify that this is the One who has been appointed by God as Judge of the living and the dead.”
Acts 20:35 – “…and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He Himself said…”
Acts 26:23 – that the Christ was to suffer, and that by reason of His resurrection from the dead He would be the first to proclaim…
Rom 10:17 – So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ. [This sentence could refer what Jesus says or to what is said about Jesus or both.]
1 Cor 7:10-11 – “But to the married I give instructions, not I, but the Lord, that…”
1 Thess 4:15 – For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that…
Heb 2:3 – …After it was at the first spoken through the Lord, it was confirmed to us by those who heard,
Heb 11:4 – …though he is dead, he still speaks.
Dt 18:15 – “The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your countrymen, you shall listen to him.”

Other Relevant Verses

1 Cor 12:2 – You know that when you were pagans, you were led astray to the mute idols, however you were led.
Ps 115:3-5 – But our God is in the heavens; He does whatever He pleases. Their idols are silver and gold, The work of man’s hands. They have mouths, but they cannot speak…