John 12:37 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³⁷But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him:

John 12:37 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Luke 16:31
And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
John 15:24
If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
John 1:11
He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
John 11:42
And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.
Matthew 11:20
Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not:

Topics

Atheism Disbelief Godlessness Impenitence Infidelity Scoffing Skepticism Unbelief

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 37-41)

We have here the honour done to our Lord Jesus by the Old-Testament prophets, who foretold and lamented the infidelity of the many that believed not on him. It was indeed a dishonour and grief to Christ that his doctrine met with so little acceptance and so much opposition; but this takes off the wonder and reproach, makes the offence of it to cease, and made it no disappointment to Christ, that h…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 37)

37-41. It is the manner of this Evangelist alone to record his own reflections on the scenes he describes; but here, having arrived at what was virtually the close of our Lord’s public ministry, he casts an affecting glance over the fruitlessness of His whole ministry on the bulk of the now doomed people. though he had done so many miracles--The word used suggests their nature as well as number.