Luke 14:26
14:26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate
his own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own life,
he cannot be my disciple.
Isaiah 55:3
55:3 Pay attention and come to me!
Listen, so you can live!
Then I will make an unconditional covenantal promise to you,
just like the reliable covenantal promises I made to David.
Matthew 11:28
11:28 Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
John 5:40
5:40 but you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life.
John 6:35
6:35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. The one who comes to me will never go hungry, and the one who believes in me will never be thirsty.
John 6:37
6:37 Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never send away.
John 6:44-45
6:44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him,
and I will raise him up at the last day.
6:45 It is written in the prophets, ‘
And they will all be taught by God.’
Everyone who hears and learns from the Father
comes to me.
John 6:1
The Feeding of the Five Thousand
6:1 After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (also called the Sea of Tiberias).
John 2:4
2:4 Jesus replied,
“Woman,
why are you saying this to me?
My time
has not yet come.”