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Yet you refuse to come to me to receive this life.

For I have come to you in my Father's name, and you have rejected me. Yet if others come in their own name, you gladly welcome them.

"Yet it isn't I who will accuse you before the Father. Moses will accuse you! Yes, Moses, in whom you put your hopes.

You go on. I'm not going to this festival, because my time has not yet come."

Then the leaders tried to arrest him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his time had not yet come.

(When he said "living water," he was speaking of the Spirit, who would be given to everyone believing in him. But the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet entered into his glory.)

Jesus made these statements while he was teaching in the section of the Temple known as the Treasury. But he was not arrested, because his time had not yet come.

Yes, I realize that you are descendants of Abraham. And yet some of you are trying to kill me because there's no room in your hearts for my message.

"Why, that's very strange!" the man replied. "He healed my eyes, and yet you don't know where he comes from?

Jesus replied, "Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and yet you still don't know who I am? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father! So why are you asking me to show him to you?

If I hadn't done such miraculous signs among them that no one else could do, they would not be guilty. But as it is, they have seen everything I did, yet they still hate me and my Father.

But the time is coming—indeed it's here now—when you will be scattered, each one going his own way, leaving me alone. Yet I am not alone because the Father is with me.

"Don't cling to me," Jesus said, "for I haven't yet ascended to the Father. But go find my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"

So Simon Peter went aboard and dragged the net to the shore. There were 153 large fish, and yet the net hadn't torn.

and yet we hear them speaking in our own native languages!

For David himself never ascended into heaven, yet he said, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit in the place of honor at my right hand

Yet more and more people believed and were brought to the Lord—crowds of both men and women.

"But God gave him no inheritance here, not even one square foot of land. God did promise, however, that eventually the whole land would belong to Abraham and his descendants—even though he had no children yet.

The Holy Spirit had not yet come upon any of them, for they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

In fact, that is why the twelve tribes of Israel zealously worship God night and day, and they share the same hope I have. Yet, Your Majesty, they accuse me for having this hope!