Study Desk

"God has blinded their eyes and closed their minds, so that their eyes would not see, and their minds would not understand, and they would not turn to me, says God, for me to heal them."

They loved human approval rather than the approval of God.

Jesus knew that the Father had given him complete power; he knew that he had come from God and was going to God.

And if God's glory is revealed through him, then God will reveal the glory of the Son of Man in himself, and he will do so at once.

"Do not be worried and upset," Jesus told them. "Believe in God and believe also in me.

He is the Spirit, who reveals the truth about God. The world cannot receive him, because it cannot see him or know him. But you know him, because he remains with you and is in you.

"The Helper will come—the Spirit, who reveals the truth about God and who comes from the Father. I will send him to you from the Father, and he will speak about me.

You will be expelled from the synagogues, and the time will come when those who kill you will think that by doing this they are serving God.

When, however, the Spirit comes, who reveals the truth about God, he will lead you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own authority, but he will speak of what he hears and will tell you of things to come.

for the Father himself loves you. He loves you because you love me and have believed that I came from God.

We know now that you know everything; you do not need to have someone ask you questions. This makes us believe that you came from God."

And eternal life means to know you, the only true God, and to know Jesus Christ, whom you sent.

The crowd answered back, "We have a law that says he ought to die, because he claimed to be the Son of God."

Jesus answered, "You have authority over me only because it was given to you by God. So the man who handed me over to you is guilty of a worse sin."

"Do not hold on to me," Jesus told her, "because I have not yet gone back up to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them that I am returning to him who is my Father and their Father, my God and their God."

Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!"

But these have been written in order that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through your faith in him you may have life.

(In saying this, Jesus was indicating the way in which Peter would die and bring glory to God.) Then Jesus said to him, "Follow me!"

For forty days after his death he appeared to them many times in ways that proved beyond doubt that he was alive. They saw him, and he talked with them about the Kingdom of God.

both Jews and Gentiles converted to Judaism, and some of us are from Crete and Arabia—yet all of us hear them speaking in our own languages about the great things that God has done!"