(They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father.)

concerning sin, because they do not believe in me;

You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.

because I have given them the words you have given me. They accepted them and really understand that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.

Jesus said to him, “Because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You will see greater things than these.”

You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but rather, ‘I have been sent before him.’

Now when Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that he was winning and baptizing more disciples than John

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

Thus I told you that you will die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”

I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. But you want to kill me, because my teaching makes no progress among you.

Some people said, “This is the man!” while others said, “No, but he looks like him.” The man himself kept insisting, “I am the one!”

So again they asked the man who used to be blind, “What do you say about him, since he caused you to see?” “He is a prophet,” the man replied.

So his parents replied, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.

do you say about the one whom the Father set apart and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?

I knew that you always listen to me, but I said this for the sake of the crowd standing around here, that they may believe that you sent me.”

(Now Judas said this not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief. As keeper of the money box, he used to steal what was put into it.)

Because Jesus knew that the Father had handed all things over to him, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,

For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

Now we know that you know everything and do not need anyone to ask you anything. Because of this we believe that you have come from God.”

For we have all received from his fullness one gracious gift after another.