Nicodemus replied, “How can these things be?”

If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”

For this reason they could not believe, because again Isaiah said,

“I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.

Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter his mother’s womb and be born a second time, can he?”

You will look for me but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come.”

Why don’t you understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot accept my teaching.

Others said, “These are not the words of someone possessed by a demon. A demon cannot cause the blind to see, can it?”

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

Jesus replied, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

John replied, “No one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven.

How can you believe, if you accept praise from one another and don’t seek the praise that comes from the only God?

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.

Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began to argue with one another, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

Then many of his disciples, when they heard these things, said, “This is a difficult saying! Who can understand it?”

So Jesus added, “Because of this I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has allowed him to come.”

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

So the Jewish leaders began to say, “Perhaps he is going to kill himself, because he says, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’”

We must perform the deeds of the one who sent me as long as it is daytime. Night is coming when no one can work.

My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch them from my Father’s hand.