Jesus replied, “Do you now believe?

For now we see in a mirror indirectly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I have been fully known.

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

when people lie about us, we answer in a friendly manner. We are the world’s dirt and scum, even now.

This brings you great joy, although you may have to suffer for a short time in various trials.

So he told them, “My Father is working until now, and I too am working.”

I am telling you this now, before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe that I am he.

If you have known me, you will know my Father too. And from now on you do know him and have seen him.”

To the present hour we are hungry and thirsty, poorly clothed, brutally treated, and without a roof over our heads.

Then he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.

As we have said before, and now I say again, if any one is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, let him be condemned to hell!

I wish I could be with you now and change my tone of voice, because I am perplexed about you.

For the hidden power of lawlessness is already at work. However, the one who holds him back will do so until he is taken out of the way,

The one who says he is in the light but still hates his fellow Christian is still in the darkness.

So Jesus replied to him, “Let it happen now, for it is right for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John yielded to him.

From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence, and forceful people lay hold of it.

For I tell you, you will not see me from now until you say, ‘Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!’”

Or do you think that I cannot call on my Father, and that he would send me more than twelve legions of angels right now?

and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the cheaper wine when the guests are drunk. You have kept the good wine until now!”

They asked the parents, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?”