Study Desk

"Come and you shall see," He said. So they went and saw where He was staying, and they remained and spent that day with Him. It was then about ten o'clock in the morning.

"Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" replied Nathanael. "Come and see," said Philip.

"Because I said to you, `I saw you under the fig-tree,'" replied Jesus, "do you believe? You shall see greater things than that."

"I tell you all in most solemn truth," He added, "that you shall see Heaven opened wide, and God's angels going up, and coming down to the Son of Man."

"In most solemn truth I tell you," answered Jesus, "that unless a man is born anew he cannot see the Kingdom of God."

"Sir," replied the woman, "I see that you are a Prophet.

"Come," she said, "and see a man who has told me everything I have ever done. Can this be the Christ, do you think?"

For it is in this that you see the real meaning of the saying, `The sower is one person, and the reaper is another.'

"Unless you and others see miracles and marvels," said Jesus, "nothing will induce you to believe."

"What miracle then," they asked, "do you perform for us to see and become believers in you? What do you *do*?

"Does this seem incredible to you? What then if you were to see the Son of Man ascending again where He was before?

"Do you also come from Galilee?" they asked in reply. "Search and see for yourself that no Prophet is of Galilaean origin."

In most solemn truth I tell you that if any one shall have obeyed my teaching he shall in no case ever see death."

"Go and wash in the pool of Siloam" --the name means `Sent.' So he went and washed his eyes, and returned able to see.

So the Pharisees renewed their questioning as to how he had obtained his sight. "He put clay on my eyes," he replied, "and I washed, and now I can see."

"Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How is it then that he can now see?"

but how it is that he can now see or who has opened his eyes we do not know. Ask him himself; he is of full age; he himself will give his own account of it."

"Whether he is a sinner or not, I do not know," he replied; "one thing I know--that I was once blind and that now I can see."

"I came into this world," said Jesus, "to judge men, that those who do not see may see, and that those who do see may become blind."

"If you were blind," answered Jesus, "you would have no sin; but as a matter of fact you boast that you see. So your sin remains!"