Study Desk

Then he led them out to the vicinity of Bethany, and lifting up his hands he blessed them.

He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.

But to all who did receive him, he gave them the right to be children of God, to those who believe in his name,

The Word became flesh and dwelt among us. We observed his glory, the glory as the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Indeed, we have all received grace upon grace from his fullness,

The next day, John was standing with two of his disciples.

He first found his own brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah” (which is translated “the Christ”),

Jesus and his disciples were invited to the wedding as well.

“Do whatever he tells you,” his mother told the servants.

Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee. He revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.

After this, he went down to Capernaum, together with his mother, his brothers, and his disciples, and they stayed there only a few days.

And his disciples remembered that it is written: Zeal for your house will consume me.

But he was speaking about the temple of his body.

So when he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the statement Jesus had made.

While he was in Jerusalem during the Passover Festival, many believed in his name when they saw the signs he was doing.

“How can anyone be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked him. “Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time and be born?”

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn

After this, Jesus and his disciples went to the Judean countryside, where he spent time with them and baptized.

He testifies to what he has seen and heard, and yet no one accepts his testimony.

The one who has accepted his testimony has affirmed that God is true.