Study Desk

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

I am telling you what my Father has shown me, but you do what your father has told you."

I am a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God, but you are trying to kill me. Abraham did nothing like that.

So you are doing the things your own father did." But they said, "We are not like children who never knew who their father was. God is our Father; he is the only Father we have."

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."

Jesus answered, "I have no demon in me. I give honor to my Father, but you dishonor me.

They said to Jesus, "Now we know that you have a demon in you! Even Abraham and the prophets died. But you say, ‘Whoever obeys my teaching will never die.'

You don't really know him, but I know him. If I said I did not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I obey what he says.

When Jesus said this, the people picked up stones to throw at him. But Jesus hid himself, and then he left the Temple.

Some said, "He is the one," but others said, "No, he only looks like him." The man himself said, "I am the man."

So some of the Pharisees were saying, "This man does not keep the Sabbath day, so he is not from God." But others said, "A man who is a sinner can't do miracles like these." So they could not agree with each other.

But we don't know how he can now see. We don't know who opened his eyes. Ask him. He is old enough to speak for himself."

Then they insulted him and said, "You are his follower, but we are followers of Moses.

We know that God spoke to Moses, but we don't even know where this man comes from."

We all know that God does not listen to sinners, but he listens to anyone who worships and obeys him.

Jesus said, "If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin. But since you keep saying you see, your guilt remains."

Jesus said, "I tell you the truth, the person who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.

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

Jesus told the people this story, but they did not understand what it meant.