Study Desk

They were asking each other, "Isn't he Jesus, the son of Joseph? Don't we know his father and mother? How can he say that he has come down from heaven?"

Your ancestors ate manna in the desert, and later they died.

They started arguing with each other and asked, "How can he give us his flesh to eat?"

When the Pharisees heard the crowd arguing about Jesus, they got together with the chief priests and sent some temple police to arrest him.

When the temple police returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, they were asked, "Why didn't you bring Jesus here?"

Then they said, "Nicodemus, you must be from Galilee! Read the Scriptures, and you will find that no prophet is to come from Galilee."

The Pharisees and the teachers of the Law of Moses brought in a woman who had been caught in bed with a man who wasn't her husband. They made her stand in the middle of the crowd.

They asked Jesus this question, because they wanted to test him and bring some charge against him. But Jesus simply bent over and started writing on the ground with his finger.

They kept on asking Jesus about the woman. Finally, he stood up and said, "If any of you have never sinned, then go ahead and throw the first stone at her!"

But you are doing exactly what your father does." "Don't accuse us of having someone else as our father!" they said. "We just have one father, and he is God."

They asked him how he was able to see, and he answered, "Jesus made some mud and smeared it on my eyes. Then after I washed it off, I could see."

When he has led out all of his sheep, he walks in front of them, and they follow, because they know his voice.

The sheep will not follow strangers. They don't recognize a stranger's voice, and they run away.

I am the gate. All who come in through me will be saved. Through me they will come and go and find pasture.

Hired workers are not like the shepherd. They don't own the sheep, and when they see a wolf coming, they run off and leave the sheep. Then the wolf attacks and scatters the flock.

I am the good shepherd. I know my sheep, and they know me.

I have other sheep that are not in this sheep pen. I must bring them together too, when they hear my voice. Then there will be one flock of sheep and one shepherd.

and the people gathered all around him. They said, "How long are you going to keep us guessing? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly!"

My sheep know my voice, and I know them. They follow me,

and I give them eternal life, so that they will never be lost. No one can snatch them out of my hand.