Study Desk

It is not that I need what humans say; I tell you this so you can be saved.

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?

"Here is a boy with five loaves of barley bread and two little fish, but that is not enough for so many people."

When they had all had enough to eat, Jesus said to his followers, "Gather the leftover pieces of fish and bread so that nothing is wasted."

So they gathered up the pieces and filled twelve baskets with the pieces left from the five barley loaves.

Jesus knew that the people planned to come and take him by force and make him their king, so he left and went into the hills alone.

So the people asked, "What miracle will you do? If we see a miracle, we will believe you. What will you do?

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give up so that the world may have life."

The living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father. So whoever eats me will live because of me.

So Jesus' brothers said to him, "You should leave here and go to Judea so your followers there can see the miracles you do.

So you go to the feast. I will not go yet to this feast, because the right time for me has not yet come."

The people were amazed and said, "This man has never studied in school. How did he learn so much?"

The Pharisees heard the crowd whispering these things about Jesus. So the leading priests and the Pharisees sent some Temple guards to arrest him.

Some people said to each other, "Where will this man go so we cannot find him? Will he go to the Greek cities where our people live and teach the Greek people there?

So the people did not agree with each other about Jesus.

The Pharisees answered, "So Jesus has fooled you also!

They were asking this to trick Jesus so that they could have some charge against him. But Jesus bent over and started writing on the ground with his finger.

So the Jews asked, "Will he kill himself? Is that why he said, ‘You cannot come where I am going' ?"

So I told you that you would die in your sins. Yes, you will die in your sins if you don't believe that I am he."

So Jesus said to them, "When you lift up the Son of Man, you will know that I am he. You will know that these things I do are not by my own authority but that I say only what the Father has taught me.