Study Desk

I tell you the truth, the time is coming and is already here when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will have life.

You try to get praise from each other, but you do not try to get the praise that comes from the only God. So how can you believe?

Then Jesus took the loaves of bread, thanked God for them, and gave them to the people who were sitting there. He did the same with the fish, giving as much as the people wanted.

Don't work for the food that spoils. Work for the food that stays good always and gives eternal life. The Son of Man will give you this food, because on him God the Father has put his power."

The people asked Jesus, "What are the things God wants us to do?"

Jesus answered, "The work God wants you to do is this: Believe the One he sent."

I came down from heaven to do what God wants me to do, not what I want to do.

Here is what the One who sent me wants me to do: I must not lose even one whom God gave me, but I must raise them all on the last day.

It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.' Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me.

No one has seen the Father except the One who is from God; only he has seen the Father.

We believe and know that you are the Holy One from God."

If people choose to do what God wants, they will know that my teaching comes from God and not from me.

I am a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God, but you are trying to kill me. Abraham did nothing like that.

So you are doing the things your own father did." But they said, "We are not like children who never knew who their father was. God is our Father; he is the only Father we have."

Jesus said to them, "If God were really your Father, you would love me, because I came from God and now I am here. I did not come by my own authority; God sent me.

The person who belongs to God accepts what God says. But you don't accept what God says, because you don't belong to God."

Jesus answered, "If I give honor to myself, that honor is worth nothing. The One who gives me honor is my Father, and you say he is your God.

So some of the Pharisees were saying, "This man does not keep the Sabbath day, so he is not from God." But others said, "A man who is a sinner can't do miracles like these." So they could not agree with each other.

So for the second time, they called the man who had been blind. They said, "You should give God the glory by telling the truth. We know that this man is a sinner."

We know that God spoke to Moses, but we don't even know where this man comes from."