Study Desk

Many of his disciples hearing it, said, This is an hard saying: who can hear it?

Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured about this, said to them, Doth this offend you?

From this time many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him.

His brethren therefore said to him, Depart hence and go into Judea, that thy disciples there also may see the works which thou dost.

(For neither did his brethren believe on him.) Jesus saith to them, My time is not yet come: your time is always ready.

But when his brethren were gone up, then he also went up to the feast, not openly, but as it were privately.

Jesus answered them and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.

If any man be willing to do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.

He that speaketh of himself, seeketh his own glory; but he that seekth the glory of him that sent him, the same is true, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

Then they sought to seize him; but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.

He that believeth on me, out of his belly (as the scripture hath said) shall flow rivers of living water.

Search and see, that out of Galilee ariseth no prophet. And every man went to his own house.

What therefore sayest t`ou? This they spoke tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooping down, wrote with his finger on the ground.

These words spake he in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. And no man seized him; for his hour was not yet come.

Ye are of your father the devil, and your will is, to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth; for there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own; for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Yet ye have not known him: but I know him. And if I should say, I know him not, I should be a liar like you; but I know him, and keep his word.

And as he passed on, he saw a man who had been blind from his birth.

And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who sinned, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?

Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents, but that the works of God might be made manifest thro' him.

(It was the sabbath, when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes.)