Study Desk

Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

Yet here he is, speaking publicly, and they are saying nothing to him. Do the rulers really know that this man is the Christ?

They replied, "You aren't from Galilee too, are you? Investigate carefully and you will see that no prophet comes from Galilee!"

The experts in the law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught committing adultery. They made her stand in front of them

(Now they were asking this in an attempt to trap him, so that they could bring charges against him.) Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

When they persisted in asking him, he stood up straight and replied, "Whoever among you is guiltless may be the first to throw a stone at her."

Jesus stood up straight and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Did no one condemn you?"

"We are descendants of Abraham," they replied, "and have never been anyone's slaves! How can you say, ‘You will become free'?"

Then they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden from them and went out from the temple area.

Now the Jewish religious leaders refused to believe that he had really been blind and had gained his sight until at last they summoned the parents of the man who had become able to see.

Then they summoned the man who used to be blind a second time and said to him, "Promise before God to tell the truth. We know that this man is a sinner."

They replied, "You were born completely in sinfulness, and yet you presume to teach us?" So they threw him out.

Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, so he found the man and said to him, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"

When he has brought all his own sheep out, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

I have other sheep that do not come from this sheepfold. I must bring them too, and they will listen to my voice, so that there will be one flock and one shepherd.

My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my hand.

Then the people who were with Mary in the house consoling her saw her get up quickly and go out. They followed her, because they thought she was going to the tomb to weep there.

He asked, "Where have you laid him?" They replied, "Lord, come and see."