Study Desk

I know that you are from Abraham's family. Yet you want to kill me, because my message isn't really in your hearts.

Jesus answered: If God were your Father, you would love me, because I came from God and only from him. He sent me. I did not come on my own.

Anyone who belongs to God will listen to his message. But you refuse to listen, because you don't belong to God.

Jesus' disciples asked, "Teacher, why was this man born blind? Was it because he or his parents sinned?"

"No, it wasn't!" Jesus answered. "But because of his blindness, you will see God work a miracle for him.

The man's parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. The leaders had already agreed that no one was to have anything to do with anyone who said Jesus was the Messiah.

When he has led out all of his sheep, he walks in front of them, and they follow, because they know his voice.

Hired workers run away because they don't care about the sheep.

The Father loves me, because I give up my life, so that I may receive it back again.

The people took sides because of what Jesus had told them.

They answered, "We are not stoning you because of any good thing you did. We are stoning you because you did a terrible thing. You are just a man, and here you are claiming to be God!"

But if I do what my Father does, you should believe because of that, even if you don't have faith in me. Then you will know for certain that the Father is one with me, and I am one with the Father.

But if you walk during the night, you will stumble, because you don't have any light."

I am glad that I wasn't there, because now you will have a chance to put your faith in me. Let's go to him."

and many people had come from the city to comfort Martha and Mary because their brother had died.

And everyone who lives because of faith in me will never really die. Do you believe this?"

Because of this plot against him, Jesus stopped going around in public. He went to the town of Ephraim, which was near the desert, and he stayed there with his disciples.

Judas did not really care about the poor. He asked this because he carried the moneybag and sometimes would steal from it.

A lot of people came when they heard that Jesus was there. They also wanted to see Lazarus, because Jesus had raised him from death.

A crowd had come to meet Jesus because they had seen him call Lazarus out of the tomb. They kept talking about him and this miracle.