Study Desk

I have come with my Father's authority, but you have not received me; when, however, someone comes with his own authority, you will receive him.

You like to receive praise from one another, but you do not try to win praise from the one who alone is God; how, then, can you believe me?

But since you do not believe what he wrote, how can you believe what I say?"

"There is a boy here who has five loaves of barley bread and two fish. But they will certainly not be enough for all these people."

Next day the crowd which had stayed on the other side of the lake realized that there had been only one boat there. They knew that Jesus had not gone in it with his disciples, but that they had left without him.

Now, I told you that you have seen me but will not believe.

because I have come down from heaven to do not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

And it is the will of him who sent me that I should not lose any of all those he has given me, but that I should raise them all to life on the last day.

Your ancestors ate manna in the desert, but they died.

But the bread that comes down from heaven is of such a kind that whoever eats it will not die.

This, then, is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the bread that your ancestors ate, but then later died. Those who eat this bread will live forever."

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I keep telling it that its ways are bad.

After his brothers had gone to the festival, Jesus also went; however, he did not go openly, but secretly.

But no one talked about him openly, because they were afraid of the Jewish authorities.

Jesus answered, "What I teach is not my own teaching, but it comes from God, who sent me.

Those who speak on their own authority are trying to gain glory for themselves. But he who wants glory for the one who sent him is honest, and there is nothing false in him.

Moses gave you the Law, didn't he? But not one of you obeys the Law. Why are you trying to kill me?"

Moses ordered you to circumcise your sons (although it was not Moses but your ancestors who started it), and so you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath.

But when the Messiah comes, no one will know where he is from. And we all know where this man comes from."

but I know him, because I come from him and he sent me."