Study Desk

Because of this, many of Jesus' followers turned back and would not go with him any more.

After this, Jesus traveled in Galilee; he did not want to travel in Judea, because the Jewish authorities there were wanting to kill him.

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I keep telling it that its ways are bad.

You go on to the festival. I am not going to this festival, because the right time has not come for me."

But no one talked about him openly, because they were afraid of the Jewish authorities.

If a boy is circumcised on the Sabbath so that Moses' Law is not broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?

but I know him, because I come from him and he sent me."

Then they tried to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

You will look for me, but you will not find me, because you cannot go where I will be."

Jesus said this about the Spirit, which those who believed in him were going to receive. At that time the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not been raised to glory.

So there was a division in the crowd because of Jesus.

"No," Jesus answered, "even though I do testify on my own behalf, what I say is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going. You do not know where I came from or where I am going.

But if I were to do so, my judgment would be true, because I am not alone in this; the Father who sent me is with me.

Jesus said all this as he taught in the Temple, in the room where the offering boxes were placed. And no one arrested him, because his hour had not come.

And he who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, because I always do what pleases him."

I know you are Abraham's descendants. Yet you are trying to kill me, because you will not accept my teaching.

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

Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to listen to my message.

You are the children of your father, the Devil, and you want to follow your father's desires. From the very beginning he was a murderer and has never been on the side of truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he is only doing what is natural to him, because he is a liar and the father of all lies.

His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish authorities, who had already agreed that anyone who said he believed that Jesus was the Messiah would be expelled from the synagogue.