Study Desk

Then they said to him, How may we do the works of God?

Jesus, answering, said to them, This is to do the work of God: to have faith in him whom God has sent.

The bread of God is the bread which comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world.

The writings of the prophets say, And they will all have teaching from God. Everyone whose ears have been open to the teaching of the Father comes to me.

Not that anyone has ever seen the Father; only he who is from God, he has seen the Father.

And we have faith and are certain that you are the Holy One of God.

If any man is ready to do God's pleasure he will have knowledge of the teaching and of where it comes from--from God or from myself.

But now you have a desire to put me to death, a man who has said to you what is true, as I had it from God: Abraham did not do that.

You are doing the works of your father. They said to him, We are true sons of Abraham; we have one Father, who is God.

Jesus said to them, If God was your Father you would have love for me, because it was from God I came and am here. I did not come of myself, but he sent me.

He who is a child of God gives ear to the words of God: your ears are not open to them because you are not from God.

Jesus said in answer, If I take glory for myself, my glory is nothing: it is my Father who gives me glory, of whom you say that he is your God.

Jesus said in answer, It was not because of his sin, or because of his father's or mother's; it was so that the works of God might be seen openly in him.

Then some of the Pharisees said, That man has not come from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath. Others said, How is it possible for a sinner to do such signs? So there was a division among them.

So they sent a second time for the man who had been blind and they said to him, Give glory to God: it is clear to us that this man is a sinner.

We are certain that God gave his word to Moses: but as for this man, we have no knowledge where he comes from.

We have knowledge that God does not give ear to sinners, but if any man is a worshipper of God and does his pleasure, to him God's ears are open.

If this man did not come from God he would be unable to do anything.

This was their answer: We are not stoning you for a good work but for evil words; because being a man you make yourself God.

If he said they were gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Writings may not be broken),