Answer: Everyone who is on the side of Truth listens to Jesus, (verse 37).
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The following short article is essential to those who are on the side of Truth and who listen to Jesus, Who IS Truth. The article is entitled, "The Triumph of Truth." The author is unknown:
It is better to be divided by Truth than to be united by error. It is better to speak the Truth that hurts, and then heals, than falsehood that comforts, and then kills. It is not love, and it is not friendship if we fail to declare the whole counsel of God. It is better to be hated for telling the Truth than to be loved for telling a lie. It is impossible to find anyone in the Bible who was a power for God who did not have enemies and was not hated. It is better to stand alone with the Truth than to be wrong with a multitude. It is better to ultimately succeed with the Truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie. ‘Buy the Truth and sell it not.'
Deuteronomy 30:19-20: [God said,] "This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to His voice, and hold fast to Him. For the Lord is your life, and He will give you many years in the land He swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob."
Psalm 78:1: [God said,] "O My people, hear My teaching; listen to the Words of My mouth."
Isaiah 51:4: [God said,] "Listen to Me, My people; hear Me, My nation: The law will go out from Me; My justice will become a light to the nations."
Matthew 17:5: "While he [Peter] was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the cloud said, ‘This [Jesus] is My Son, Whom I love; with Him I am well pleased. Listen to Him!'"
Mark 7:14: "Again Jesus called the crowd to Him and said, ‘Listen to Me, everyone, and understand this.'"
John 8:47: [Jesus said,] "He who belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God."
John 10:1-5: [Jesus said,] "I tell you the Truth, the man who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber. The man who enters by the gate is the shepherd of his sheep. The watchman opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice. But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger's voice."
Acts 3:22-23: "For Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people; you must listen to everything He tells you. Anyone who does not listen to Him will be completely cut off from among His people.'"
1 John 4:6: "We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit of Truth and the spirit of falsehood."
