Study Desk

But then some boats came from Tiberias and landed near the place where the people had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.

But as I told you before, you have seen me and still don't believe.

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.

But Jesus answered, "Stop complaining to each other.

Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but still they died.

But some of you don't believe." (Jesus knew from the beginning who did not believe and who would turn against him.)

Then Jesus answered, "I chose all twelve of you, but one of you is a devil."

Jesus was talking about Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. Judas was one of the twelve, but later he was going to turn against Jesus.

Jesus said to his brothers, "The right time for me has not yet come, but any time is right for you.

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I tell it the evil things it does.

But after Jesus' brothers had gone to the feast, Jesus went also. But he did not let people see him.

But no one was brave enough to talk about Jesus openly, because they were afraid of the elders.

Jesus answered, "The things I teach are not my own, but they come from him who sent me.

Those who teach their own ideas are trying to get honor for themselves. But those who try to bring honor to the one who sent them speak the truth, and there is nothing false in them.

Moses gave you the law, but none of you obeys that law. Why are you trying to kill me?"

Moses gave you the law about circumcision. (But really Moses did not give you circumcision; it came from our ancestors.) And yet you circumcise a baby boy on a Sabbath day.

Stop judging by the way things look, but judge by what is really right."

But he is teaching where everyone can see and hear him, and no one is trying to stop him. Maybe the leaders have decided he really is the Christ.

But we know where this man is from. Yet when the real Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from."

Jesus, teaching in the Temple, cried out, "Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from. But I have not come by my own authority. I was sent by the One who is true, whom you don't know.