Study Desk

So a second time they summoned the man who had been blind and told him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”

We know that God has spoken to Moses. But this man—we don’t know where he’s from.”

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is God-fearing and does his will, he listens to him.

If this man were not from God, he wouldn’t be able to do anything.”

“We aren’t stoning you for a good work,” the Jews answered, “but for blasphemy, because you—being a man—make yourself God.”

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

When Jesus heard it, he said, “This sickness will not end in death but is for the glory of God,

Yet even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will give you.”

“Yes, Lord,” she told him, “I believe you are the Messiah, the Son of God, who comes into the world.”

and not for the nation only, but also to unite the scattered children of God.

For they loved human praise more than praise from God.

Jesus knew that the Father had given everything into his hands, that he had come from God, and that he was going back to God.

If God is glorified in him,

Now we know that you know everything and don’t need anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came from God.”

“We have a law,” the Jews replied to him, “and according to that law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.”

Thomas responded to him, “My Lord and my God!”

But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

He said this to indicate by what kind of death Peter would glorify God. After saying this, he told him, “Follow me.”

After he had suffered, he also presented himself alive to them by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God.

Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring the magnificent acts of God in our own tongues.”