Study Desk

So they gathered them up, and they filled twelve large baskets with pieces from the five barley loaves which were left over by those who had eaten.

So when the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor His disciples were there, they boarded the small boats themselves and came to Capernaum looking for Jesus.

Then they asked Him, "What are we to do, so that we may habitually be doing the works of God?"

So they said to Him, "What sign (attesting miracle) will You do that we may see it and believe You? What [supernatural] work will You do [as proof]?

So Jesus answered, "Stop murmuring among yourselves.

"This is the Bread that comes down out of heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.

"Just as the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, even so the one who feeds on Me [believes in Me, accepts Me as Savior] will also live because of Me.

And He was saying, "This is the reason why I have told you that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted him [that is, unless he is enabled to do so] by the Father."

So Jesus said to the twelve [disciples], "You do not want to leave too, do you?"

So His brothers said to Him, "Leave here and go to Judea, so that Your disciples [there] may also see the works that You do.

So Jesus said to them, "My time has not yet come; but any time is right for you.

So the Jews kept looking for Him at the feast and asking, "Where is He?"

Then the Jews were perplexed. They said, "How did this man become learned [so versed in the Scriptures and theology] without formal training?"

So they were eager to arrest Him; but no one laid a hand on Him, because His time had not yet come.

So the crowd was divided because of Him.

"Now in the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women [to death]. So what do You say [to do with her—what is Your sentence]?"

So the Jews were asking [among themselves], "Will He kill Himself? Is that why He says, 'Where I am going, you cannot come'?"

So they said to Him, "Who are You [anyway]?" Jesus replied, "What have I been saying to you from the beginning?

So Jesus said, "When you lift up the Son of Man [on the cross], you will know then [without any doubt] that I am He, and that I do nothing on My own authority, but I say these things just as My Father taught Me.

So Jesus was saying to the Jews who had believed Him, "If you abide in My word [continually obeying My teachings and living in accordance with them, then] you are truly My disciples.