Study Desk

He spoke these words by the treasury, while teaching in the temple. But no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come.

Why don’t you understand what I say? Because you cannot listen to

Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.

The one who is from God listens to God’s words. This is why you don’t listen, because you are not from God.”

Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath.” But others were saying, “How can a sinful man perform such signs?” And there was a division among them.

His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jews, since the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed him as the Messiah, he would be banned from the synagogue.

When he has brought all his own outside, he goes ahead of them. The sheep follow him because they know his voice.

They will never follow a stranger; instead they will run away from him, because they don’t know the voice of strangers.”

This happens because he is a hired hand and doesn’t care about the sheep.

Again the Jews were divided because of these words.

But you don’t believe because you are not of my sheep.

“We aren’t stoning you for a good work,” the Jews answered, “but for blasphemy, because you—being a man—make yourself God.”

do you say, ‘You are blaspheming’ to the one the Father set apart and sent into the world, because I said: I am the Son of God?

I know that you always hear me, but because of the crowd standing here I said this, so that they may believe you sent

He didn’t say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief. He was in charge of the money-bag and would steal part of what was put in it.

Then a large crowd of the Jews learned he was there. They came not only because of Jesus but also to see Lazarus, the one he had raised from the dead.

because he was the reason many of the Jews were deserting them and believing in Jesus.

This is also why the crowd met him, because they heard he had done this sign.

This is why they were unable to believe, because Isaiah also said:

Isaiah said these things because he saw his glory and spoke about him.