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Don't think that I will be the one to accuse you to the Father. You have put your hope in Moses, yet he is the very one who will accuse you.

Even Jesus' own brothers had not yet become his followers.

Jesus answered, "My time hasn't yet come, but your time is always here.

Go on to the festival. My time hasn't yet come, and I am not going."

Didn't Moses give you the Law? Yet none of you obey it! So why do you want to kill me?

Yet here he is, speaking for everyone to hear. And no one is arguing with him. Do you suppose the authorities know that he is the Messiah?

Some of the people wanted to arrest Jesus right then. But no one even laid a hand on him, because his time had not yet come.

Jesus was talking about the Holy Spirit, who would be given to everyone that had faith in him. The Spirit had not yet been given to anyone, since Jesus had not yet been given his full glory.

Jesus said this while he was still teaching in the place where the temple treasures were stored. But no one arrested him, because his time had not yet come.

I know that you are from Abraham's family. Yet you want to kill me, because my message isn't really in your hearts.

"How strange!" the man replied. "He healed my eyes, and yet you don't know where he comes from.

Yet even now I know that God will do anything you ask."

Yet Jesus would not die just for the Jewish nation. He would die to bring together all of God's scattered people.

Jesus told her, "Don't hold on to me! I have not yet gone to the Father. But tell my disciples that I am going to the one who is my Father and my God, as well as your Father and your God."

While he was still with them, he said: Don't leave Jerusalem yet. Wait here for the Father to give you the Holy Spirit, just as I told you he has promised to do.

Crete, and Arabia. Some of us were born Jews, and others of us have chosen to be Jews. Yet we all hear them using our own languages to tell the wonderful things God has done.

You say people should be faithful in marriage. But are you faithful? You hate idols, yet you rob their temples.

Even when we were God's enemies, he made peace with us, because his Son died for us. Yet something even greater than friendship is ours. Now that we are at peace with God, we will be saved by his Son's life.

Yet death still had power over all who lived from the time of Adam to the time of Moses. This happened, though not everyone disobeyed a direct command from God, as Adam did. In some ways Adam is like Christ who came later.

But the gift that God was kind enough to give was very different from Adam's sin. That one sin brought death to many others. Yet in an even greater way, Jesus Christ alone brought God's gift of kindness to many people.