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Yet here he is, speaking openly; and they don't say anything to him. It couldn't be, could it, that the authorities have actually concluded he's the Messiah?

At this, they tried to arrest him; but no one laid a hand on him; because his time had not yet come.

(Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who trusted in him were to receive later — the Spirit had not yet been given, because Yeshua had not yet been glorified.)

He said these things when he was teaching in the Temple treasury room; yet no one arrested him, because his time had not yet come.

I know you are the seed of Avraham. Yet you are out to kill me, because what I am saying makes no headway in you.

The Judeans said to him, "Now we know for sure that you have a demon! Avraham died, and so did the prophets; yet you say, ‘Whoever obeys my teaching will never taste death.'

"Why, you're not yet fifty years old," the Judeans replied, "and you have seen Avraham?"

Yeshua had not yet come into the village but was still where Marta had met him;

Yeshua answered him, "You don't understand yet what I am doing, but in time you will understand."

But a time is coming — indeed it has come already — when you will be scattered, each one looking out for himself; and you will leave me all alone. Yet I am not alone; because the Father is with me.

(They had not yet come to understand that the Tanakh teaches that the Messiah has to rise from the dead.)

"Stop holding onto me," Yeshua said to her, "because I haven't yet gone back to the Father. But go to my brothers, and tell them that I am going back to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God."

He gave him no inheritance in it, not even space for one foot ; yet he promised to give it to him as a possession and to his descendants after him , even though at the time he was childless.

So repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord. Perhaps you will yet be forgiven for holding such a thought in your heart.

yet he did not leave himself without evidence of his nature; because he does good things, giving you rain from heaven and crops in their seasons, filling you with food and your hearts with happiness!"

Then Sha'ul said to him, "God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! Will you sit there judging me according to the Torah, yet in violation of the Torah order me to be struck?"

It is the fulfillment of this very promise that our twelve tribes hope to attain, as they resolutely carry on their acts of worship night and day; yet it is in connection with this hope, your Majesty, that I am being accused by Jews!

They know well enough God's righteous decree that people who do such things deserve to die; yet not only do they keep doing them, but they applaud others who do the same.

do you think that you, a mere man passing judgment on others who do such things, yet doing them yourself, will escape the judgment of God?

For he was past hope, yet in hope he trusted that he would indeed become a father to many nations , in keeping with what he had been told, "So many will your seed be."