Study Desk

Jesus saw him lying there, and he knew that the man had been sick for such a long time; so he asked him, "Do you want to get well?"

so the Jewish authorities told the man who had been healed, "This is a Sabbath, and it is against our Law for you to carry your mat."

Afterward, Jesus found him in the Temple and said, "Listen, you are well now; so stop sinning or something worse may happen to you."

So they began to persecute Jesus, because he had done this healing on a Sabbath.

So Jesus answered them, "I tell you the truth: the Son can do nothing on his own; he does only what he sees his Father doing. What the Father does, the Son also does.

so that all will honor the Son in the same way as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

"I can do nothing on my own authority; I judge only as God tells me, so my judgment is right, because I am not trying to do what I want, but only what he who sent me wants.

Jesus looked around and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, so he asked Philip, "Where can we buy enough food to feed all these people?"

"Make the people sit down," Jesus told them. (There was a lot of grass there.) So all the people sat down; there were about five thousand men.

So they gathered them all and filled twelve baskets with the pieces left over from the five barley loaves which the people had eaten.

Jesus knew that they were about to come and seize him in order to make him king by force; so he went off again to the hills by himself.

So they asked him, "What can we do in order to do what God wants us to do?"

They replied, "What miracle will you perform so that we may see it and believe you? What will you do?

So they said, "This man is Jesus son of Joseph, isn't he? We know his father and mother. How, then, does he now say he came down from heaven?"

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If you eat this bread, you will live forever. The bread that I will give you is my flesh, which I give so that the world may live."

Without being told, Jesus knew that they were grumbling about this, so he said to them, "Does this make you want to give up?

And he added, "This is the very reason I told you that no people can come to me unless the Father makes it possible for them to do so."

So he asked the twelve disciples, "And you—would you also like to leave?"

so Jesus' brothers said to him, "Leave this place and go to Judea, so that your followers will see the things that you are doing.

The Jewish authorities were greatly surprised and said, "How does this man know so much when he has never been to school?"