So when the Samaritans came to him, they began asking him to stay with them. He stayed there two days,

All who came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

I did not recognize him, but I came baptizing with water so that he could be revealed to Israel.”

Then the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him back with you?”

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

Many came to him and began to say, “John performed no miraculous sign, but everything John said about this man was true!”

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. But they no longer have any excuse for their sin.

So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the two men who had been crucified with Jesus, first the one and then the other.

So they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, the one who was with you on the other side of the Jordan River, about whom you testified – see, he is baptizing, and everyone is flocking to him!”

So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen all the things he had done in Jerusalem at the feast (for they themselves had gone to the feast).

So when the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and came to Capernaum looking for Jesus.

Jesus said,] “For judgment I have come into this world, so that those who do not see may gain their sight, and the ones who see may become blind.”

Now a large crowd of Judeans learned that Jesus was there, and so they came not only because of him but also to see Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead.

“Now my soul is greatly distressed. And what should I say? ‘Father, deliver me from this hour’? No, but for this very reason I have come to this hour.

If anyone hears my words and does not obey them, I do not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

Meanwhile the other disciples came with the boat, dragging the net full of fish, for they were not far from land, only about a hundred yards.

Jesus answered, “Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you people do not know where I came from or where I am going.