Study Desk

Bestow your pains not on the food which perishes, but on the food that remains unto the Life of the Ages--that food which will be the Son of Man's gift to you; for on Him the Father, God, has set His seal."

"What are we to do," they asked, "in order to carry out the things that God requires?"

"This," replied Jesus, "is above all the thing that God requires--that you should be believers in Him whom He has sent."

For this is my Father's will, that every one who fixes his gaze on the Son of God and believes in Him should have the Life of the Ages, and I will raise him to life on the last day."

It stands written in the Prophets, `And they shall all of them be taught by God'. Every one who listens to the Father and learns from Him comes to me.

No one has ever seen the Father--except Him who is from God. He has seen the Father.

And we have come to believe and know that *you* are indeed the Holy One of God."

If any one is willing to do His will, he shall know about the teaching, whether it is from God or originates with me.

But, in fact, you are longing to kill me, a man who has spoken to you the truth which I have heard from God. Abraham did not do that.

You are doing the deeds of your father." "We," they replied, "are not illegitimate children. We have one Father, namely God."

"If God were your Father," said Jesus, "you would love me; for it is from God that I came and I am now here. I have not come of myself, but *He* sent me.

He who is a child of God listens to God's words. You do not listen to them: and why? It is because you are not God's children."

"Were I to glorify myself," answered Jesus, "I should have no real glory. There is One who glorifies me--namely my Father, who you say is your God.

This led some of the Pharisees to say, "That man has not come from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath." "How is it possible for a bad man to do such miracles?" argued others.

A second time therefore they called the man who had been blind, and said, "Give God the praise: we know that that man is a sinner."

We know that God spoke to Moses; but as for this fellow we do not know where he comes from."

We know that God does not listen to bad people, but that if any one is a God-fearing man and obeys Him, to him He listens.

Had that man not come from God, he could have done nothing."

Jesus heard that they had done this. So having found him, He asked him, "Do you believe in the Son of God?"

"For no good deed," the Jews replied, "are we going to stone you, but for blasphemy, and because you, who are only a man, are making yourself out to be God."