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John 10:29–34

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My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.
I and my Father are one.
Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
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From verse 29

  1. John 6:37Rank 1 from verse 29
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    37All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.

  2. John 17:2Rank 2 from verse 29
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    2As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.

  3. John 17:9Rank 3 from verse 29
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    9I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.

  4. John 14:28Rank 4 from verse 29
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    28Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.

  5. John 17:6Rank 5 from verse 29
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    6I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.

  6. Malachi 1:14Rank 6 from verse 29
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    14But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the Lord of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen.

  7. John 17:11Rank 7 from verse 29
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    11And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.

  8. Exodus 18:11Rank 8 from verse 29
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    11Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them.

  9. Daniel 4:3Rank 9 from verse 29
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    3How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.

  10. Psalms 145:3Rank 10 from verse 29
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    3Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.

From verse 30

  1. John 1:1–2Rank 1 from verse 30
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    1IN the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

    2The same was in the beginning with God.

  2. John 14:9Rank 2 from verse 30
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    9Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?

  3. John 17:21–23Rank 3 from verse 30
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    21That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

    22And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:

    23I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

  4. John 5:23Rank 4 from verse 30
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    23That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.

  5. John 8:58Rank 5 from verse 30
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    58Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.

  6. Matthew 11:27Rank 6 from verse 30
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    27All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.

  7. Matthew 28:19Rank 7 from verse 30
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    19¶ Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

  8. John 5:17Rank 8 from verse 30
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    17¶ But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.

  9. John 14:23Rank 9 from verse 30
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    23Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

  10. 1 John 5:20Rank 10 from verse 30
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    20And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

  11. John 17:10Rank 11 from verse 30
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    10And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.

  12. Titus 2:13Rank 12 from verse 30
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    13Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

  13. 1 Timothy 3:16Rank 13 from verse 30
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    16And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

  14. John 16:15Rank 14 from verse 30
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    15All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.

  15. 1 John 5:7Rank 15 from verse 30
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    7For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

From verse 31

  1. John 5:18Rank 1 from verse 31
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    18Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.

  2. John 8:59Rank 2 from verse 31
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    59Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.

  3. 1 Samuel 30:6Rank 3 from verse 31
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    6And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.

  4. Exodus 17:4Rank 4 from verse 31
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    4And Moses cried unto the Lord, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.

  5. John 11:8Rank 5 from verse 31
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    8His disciples say unto him, Master, the Jews of late sought to stone thee; and goest thou thither again?

  6. Acts 7:52Rank 6 from verse 31
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    52Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:

  7. Acts 7:58–59Rank 7 from verse 31
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    58And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feet, whose name was Saul.

    59And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

  8. Matthew 21:35Rank 8 from verse 31
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    35And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.

  9. Matthew 23:35Rank 9 from verse 31
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    35That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

From verse 32

  1. 1 John 3:12Rank 1 from verse 32
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    12Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

  2. 1 Samuel 19:4–6Rank 2 from verse 32
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    4¶ And Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his father, and said unto him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David; because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his works have been to thee-ward very good:

    5For he did put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the Lord wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou sawest it, and didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?

    6And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and Saul sware, As the Lord liveth, he shall not be slain.

  3. 2 Chronicles 24:20–22Rank 3 from verse 32
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    20And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the Lord, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the Lord, he hath also forsaken you.

    21And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the Lord.

    22Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The Lord look upon it, and require it.

  4. Acts 10:38Rank 4 from verse 32
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    38How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.

  5. Acts 2:22Rank 5 from verse 32
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    22Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:

  6. Ecclesiastes 4:4Rank 6 from verse 32
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    4¶ Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

  7. John 10:37Rank 7 from verse 32
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    37If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.

  8. John 5:19–20Rank 8 from verse 32
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    19Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.

    20For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.

  9. John 5:36Rank 9 from verse 32
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    36¶ But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.

  10. Matthew 11:5Rank 10 from verse 32
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    5The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.

  11. Psalms 109:4–5Rank 11 from verse 32
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    4For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.

    5And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

  12. Psalms 35:12Rank 12 from verse 32
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    12They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.

  13. John 10:25Rank 13 from verse 32
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    25Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father’s name, they bear witness of me.

From verse 33

  1. John 5:18Rank 1 from verse 33
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    18Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.

  2. John 10:30Rank 2 from verse 33
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    30I and my Father are one.

  3. Leviticus 24:16Rank 3 from verse 33
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    16And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the Lord, shall be put to death.

  4. Philippians 2:6Rank 4 from verse 33
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    6Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

  5. Psalms 82:6Rank 5 from verse 33
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    6I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.

  6. Romans 13:1Rank 6 from verse 33
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    1LET every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

  7. 1 Kings 21:10Rank 7 from verse 33
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    10And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him, that he may die.

  8. Leviticus 24:14Rank 8 from verse 33
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    14Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him.

From verse 34

  1. Psalms 82:6–7Rank 1 from verse 34
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    6I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.

    7But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.

  2. Exodus 7:1Rank 2 from verse 34
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    1AND the Lord said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.

  3. Psalms 82:1Rank 3 from verse 34
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    1GOD standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.

  4. Exodus 4:16Rank 4 from verse 34
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    16And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God.

  5. Psalms 138:1Rank 5 from verse 34
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    1I WILL praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing praise unto thee.

  6. Exodus 22:28Rank 6 from verse 34
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    28¶ Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.

  7. John 12:34Rank 7 from verse 34
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    34The people answered him, We have heard out of the law that Christ abideth for ever: and how sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man?

  8. John 8:17Rank 8 from verse 34
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    17It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true.

  9. John 15:25Rank 9 from verse 34
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    25But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.

  10. Romans 3:10–19Rank 10 from verse 34
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    10As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

    11There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

    12They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

    13Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

    14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

    15Their feet are swift to shed blood:

    16Destruction and misery are in their ways:

    17And the way of peace have they not known:

    18There is no fear of God before their eyes.

    19Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

  11. 1 Corinthians 14:21Rank 11 from verse 34
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    21In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.

WORDS IN THIS PASSAGE

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DEFINED WORDS

John 10:29

COMBINED MEANING

father

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Sense 1: A male parent or begetter. Sense 2: An ancestor, forefather, founder, source, originator, chief, elder, or one bearing paternal authority and care. Sense 3: God as Father, including the Father of Jesus Christ and of those described as his children.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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which

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1. An interrogative or relative pronoun identifying one or more persons or things from a stated or implied set. 2. That which; what.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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gave

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1. Bestowed, delivered, or granted. 2. Caused or appointed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

man

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1. A human being or person. 2. Mankind collectively. 3. A male person.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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able

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Having physical power sufficient; having competent power or strength, bodily or mental.

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out

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Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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hand

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Sense 1: The part of the body at the end of the arm. Sense 2: Figuratively, power, possession, aid, or agency.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

John 10:30

COMBINED MEANING

father

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Sense 1: A male parent or begetter. Sense 2: An ancestor, forefather, founder, source, originator, chief, elder, or one bearing paternal authority and care. Sense 3: God as Father, including the Father of Jesus Christ and of those described as his children.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

John 10:31

COMBINED MEANING

again

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Another time; once more; back to a former place or condition; or in return.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

stone

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Sense 1: A piece or mass of rock. Sense 2: To strike or kill with stones.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

John 10:32

COMBINED MEANING

answered

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of answer, meaning to reply, respond, or give account.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

good

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Sense 1: Right, morally upright, beneficial, pleasing, useful, suitable, sound, favourable, or excellent. Sense 2: A good thing, benefit, welfare, possession, or goods. Sense 3: In ‘make good,’ to repair, repay, fulfil, establish, or prove.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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works

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Plural of work: acts, deeds, labours, operations, products, or things made.

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shewed

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Past-tense or past-participial form of show (to reveal, declare, display, or make known).

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

you

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The second-person plural pronoun referring to those being addressed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

father

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Sense 1: A male parent or begetter. Sense 2: An ancestor, forefather, founder, source, originator, chief, elder, or one bearing paternal authority and care. Sense 3: God as Father, including the Father of Jesus Christ and of those described as his children.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

which

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1. An interrogative or relative pronoun identifying one or more persons or things from a stated or implied set. 2. That which; what.

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ye

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The second-person plural subject pronoun, referring to the persons being addressed as those who are, do, or receive the stated predicate.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

stone

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Sense 1: A piece or mass of rock. Sense 2: To strike or kill with stones.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

John 10:33

COMBINED MEANING

answered

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of answer, meaning to reply, respond, or give account.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

good

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Sense 1: Right, morally upright, beneficial, pleasing, useful, suitable, sound, favourable, or excellent. Sense 2: A good thing, benefit, welfare, possession, or goods. Sense 3: In ‘make good,’ to repair, repay, fulfil, establish, or prove.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

work

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Sense 1: Labour, occupation, an assigned task, or service. Sense 2: An action, deed, operation, effect, product, thing made, or manner of workmanship. Sense 3: To labour, act, operate, perform, make, produce, accomplish, or bring about.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

stone

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Sense 1: A piece or mass of rock. Sense 2: To strike or kill with stones.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

blasphemy

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Reviling, contemptuous, or irreverent speech against God, his name, or what belongs to him; by extension in stated contexts, abusive or slanderous speech against persons.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

thou

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The singular second-person subject pronoun, meaning you when directly addressing one person, being, or individually treated addressee.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

man

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1. A human being or person. 2. Mankind collectively. 3. A male person.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

John 10:34

COMBINED MEANING

answered

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of answer, meaning to reply, respond, or give account.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

written

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Past-tense or past-participial form of write (to set down, record, or communicate in letters or writing).

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

your

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The possessive form of ye or you, ordinarily plural, marking what belongs to, concerns, proceeds from, or stands in relation to the persons addressed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

law

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Sense 1: An authoritative rule, command, ordinance, instruction, standard, or body of requirements. Sense 2: The writings containing such instruction. Sense 3: A governing principle, power, regular order, or civil rule. Sense 4: In family compounds, relationship by marriage.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

ye

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The second-person plural subject pronoun, referring to the persons being addressed as those who are, do, or receive the stated predicate.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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10:22¶ And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter.

10:23And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon’s porch.

10:24Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.

10:25Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father’s name, they bear witness of me.

10:26But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.

10:27My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:

10:28And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

10:29My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.

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10:30I and my Father are one.

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10:31Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.

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10:32Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?

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10:33The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.

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10:34Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?

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10:35If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;

10:36Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?

10:37If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.

10:38But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.

10:39Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand,

10:40And went away again beyond Jordan into the place where John at first baptized; and there he abode.

10:41And many resorted unto him, and said, John did no miracle: but all things that John spake of this man were true.

10:42And many believed on him there.

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