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

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

Yet here he is, speaking publicly, and they are saying nothing to him. Do the rulers really know that this man is the Christ?

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

Then one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said, “You know nothing at all!

Thus the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you can do nothing. Look, the world has run off after him!”

I will not speak with you much longer, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me,

Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive it, so that your joy may be complete.

I can do nothing on my own initiative. Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.

The Spirit is the one who gives life; human nature is of no help! The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

Then Jesus said, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing on my own initiative, but I speak just what the Father taught me.

Jesus replied, “If I glorify myself, my glory is worthless. The one who glorifies me is my Father, about whom you people say, ‘He is our God.’

“I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me – and I in him – bears much fruit, because apart from me you can accomplish nothing.

At that time you will ask me nothing. I tell you the solemn truth, whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.

Jesus replied, “I have spoken publicly to the world. I always taught in the synagogues and in the temple courts, where all the Jewish people assemble together. I have said nothing in secret.

Simon Peter told them, “I am going fishing.” “We will go with you,” they replied. They went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing.

So Jesus answered them, “I tell you the solemn truth, the Son can do nothing on his own initiative, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise.