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Then they tried to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

Jesus said this about the Spirit, which those who believed in him were going to receive. At that time the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not been raised to glory.

I know you are Abraham's descendants. Yet you are trying to kill me, because you will not accept my teaching.

All I have ever done is to tell you the truth I heard from God, yet you are trying to kill me. Abraham did nothing like this!

They said to him, "Now we know for sure that you have a demon! Abraham died, and the prophets died, yet you say that whoever obeys your teaching will never die.

Yet when he received the news that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was for two more days.

(Jesus had not yet arrived in the village, but was still in the place where Martha had met him.)

Jesus answered, "For a long time I have been with you all; yet you do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. Why, then, do you say, ‘Show us the Father'?

But now I am going to him who sent me, yet none of you asks me where I am going.

"Do not hold on to me," Jesus told her, "because I have not yet gone back up to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them that I am returning to him who is my Father and their Father, my God and their God."

both Jews and Gentiles converted to Judaism, and some of us are from Crete and Arabia—yet all of us hear them speaking in our own languages about the great things that God has done!"

You are the ones who received God's law, that was handed down by angels—yet you have not obeyed it!"

For the Holy Spirit had not yet come down on any of them; they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

For the people who live in Jerusalem and their leaders did not know that he is the Savior, nor did they understand the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath. Yet they made the prophets' words come true by condemning Jesus.

But Paul said to the police officers, "We were not found guilty of any crime, yet they whipped us in public—and we are Roman citizens! Then they threw us in prison. And now they want to send us away secretly? Not at all! The Roman officials themselves must come here and let us out."

He did this so that they would look for him, and perhaps find him as they felt around for him. Yet God is actually not far from any one of us;

Paul said to him, "God will certainly strike you—you whitewashed wall! You sit there to judge me according to the Law, yet you break the Law by ordering them to strike me!"

They know that God's law says that people who live in this way deserve death. Yet, not only do they continue to do these very things, but they even approve of others who do them.

For creation was condemned to lose its purpose, not of its own will, but because God willed it to be so. Yet there was the hope

And Isaiah exclaims about Israel: "Even if the people of Israel are as many as the grains of sand by the sea, yet only a few of them will be saved;