Study Desk

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it, that its deeds are evil.

You go up to the feast. I am not going up to this feast, because my time is not yet completed.

Then the Jews were astonished, saying, "How does this man possess knowledge, because he has not been taught?"

Because of this Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.

If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses would not be broken, are you angry with me because I made a whole man well on the Sabbath?

I know him, because I am from him and he sent me."

So they were seeking to seize him, and no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

Now he said this concerning the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were about to receive. For the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.)

So there was a division in the crowd because of him.

Jesus answered and said to them, "Even if I testify concerning myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I have come from and where I am going. But you do not know where I have come from or where I am going.

But even if I judge, my judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent me.

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

Then the Jews began to say, "Perhaps he will kill himself, because he is saying, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.'"

And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do the things that are pleasing to him."

I know that you are descendants of Abraham. But you are seeking to kill me, because my word makes no progress among you.

Why do you not understand my way of speaking? Because you are not able to listen to my message.

You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father! That one was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand firm in the truth, because truth is not in him. Whenever he speaks the lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

But because I am telling the truth, you do not believe me.

The one who is from God listens to the words of God. Because of this you do not listen—because you are not of God."

Then the neighbors and those who saw him previously (because he was a beggar) began to say, "Is this man not the one who used to sit and beg?"