Study Desk

We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God!"

If anyone wants to do God's will, he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak from my own authority.

But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!

You people are doing the deeds of your father." Then they said to Jesus, "We were not born as a result of immorality! We have only one Father, God himself."

Jesus replied, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. I have not come on my own initiative, but he sent me.

The one who belongs to God listens and responds to God's words. You don't listen and respond, because you don't belong to God."

Jesus replied, "If I glorify myself, my glory is worthless. The one who glorifies me is my Father, about whom you people say, ‘He is our God.'

Jesus answered, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but he was born blind so that the acts of God may be revealed through what happens to him.

Then some of the Pharisees began to say, "This man is not from God, because he does not observe the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner perform such miraculous signs?" Thus there was a division among them.

Then they summoned the man who used to be blind a second time and said to him, "Promise before God to tell the truth. We know that this man is a sinner."

We know that God has spoken to Moses! We do not know where this man comes from!"

We know that God doesn't listen to sinners, but if anyone is devout and does his will, God listens to him.

If this man were not from God, he could do nothing."

The Jewish leaders replied, "We are not going to stone you for a good deed but for blasphemy, because you, a man, are claiming to be God."

If those people to whom the word of God came were called ‘gods' (and the scripture cannot be broken),

do you say about the one whom the Father set apart and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,' because I said, ‘I am the Son of God'?

When Jesus heard this, he said, "This sickness will not lead to death, but to God's glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it."

But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will grant you."

She replied, "Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God who comes into the world."

Jesus responded, "Didn't I tell you that if you believe, you would see the glory of God?"