Study Desk

If you want to be well known, you must not hide what you do. So, if you can do such amazing things, let the whole world see you do them."

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

So his brothers left to go to the festival. After they left, Jesus went too, but he did not let people see him.

The Jewish leaders were amazed and said, "How did this man learn so much? He never had the kind of teaching we had!"

This shows that someone can be circumcised on a Sabbath day to obey the Law of Moses. So why are you angry with me for healing a person's whole body on the Sabbath day?

The Pharisees heard what the people were saying about Jesus. So the leading priests and the Pharisees sent some Temple police to arrest him.

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

The Pharisees answered, "So he has fooled you too!

They were saying this to trick Jesus. They wanted to catch him saying something wrong so that they could have a charge against him. But Jesus stooped down and started writing on the ground with his finger.

The Jewish leaders continued to ask him their question. So he stood up and said, "Anyone here who has never sinned should throw the first stone at her."

But the Pharisees said to Jesus, "When you talk about yourself, you are the only one to say that these things are true. So we cannot accept what you say."

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

So he said to them, "You will lift up the Son of Man. Then you will know that I Am . You will know that whatever I do is not by my own authority. You will know that I say only what the Father has taught me.

The one who sent me is with me. I always do what pleases him. So he has not left me alone."

So Jesus said to the Jews who believed in him, "If you continue to accept and obey my teaching, you are really my followers.

They answered, "We are Abraham's descendants. And we have never been slaves. So why do you say that we will be free?"

So if the Son makes you free, you are really free.

So you are doing what 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."

Do you think you are greater than our father Abraham? He died, and so did the prophets. Who do you think you are?"

Jesus answered, "It was not any sin of this man or his parents that caused him to be blind. He was born blind so that he could be used to show what great things God can do.