Study Desk

I know you are Abraham's children, but you want to kill me because you don't accept my teaching.

Jesus said to them, "If God were really your Father, you would love me, because I came from God and now I am here. I did not come by my own authority; God sent me.

You don't understand what I say, because you cannot accept my teaching.

You belong to your father the devil, and you want to do what he wants. He was a murderer from the beginning and was against the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he shows what he is really like, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

But because I speak the truth, you don't believe me.

The person who belongs to God accepts what God says. But you don't accept what God says, because you don't belong to God."

His parents said this because they were afraid of the elders, who had already decided that anyone who said Jesus was the Christ would be avoided.

When he brings all his sheep out, he goes ahead of them, and they follow him because they know his voice.

But they will never follow a stranger. They will run away from him because they don't know his voice."

The man runs away because he is only a paid worker and does not really care about the sheep.

The Father loves me because I give my life so that I can take it back again.

Again the leaders did not agree with each other because of these words of Jesus.

But you don't believe, because you are not my sheep.

They answered, "We are not killing you because of any good work you did, but because you speak against God. You are only a human, but you say you are the same as God!"

So why do you say that I speak against God because I said, ‘I am God's Son'? I am the one God chose and sent into the world.

Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the daylight, he will not stumble, because he can see by this world's light.

But if anyone walks at night, he stumbles because there is no light to help him see."

I know that you always hear me, but I said these things because of the people here around me. I want them to believe that you sent me."

But Judas did not really care about the poor; he said this because he was a thief. He was the one who kept the money box, and he often stole from it.

Because of Lazarus many of the Jews were leaving them and believing in Jesus.