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

So Pilate said, “Do you refuse to speak to me? Don’t you know I have the authority to release you, and to crucify you?”

No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down of my own free will. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it back again. This commandment I received from my Father.”

Jesus replied, “You would have no authority over me at all, unless it was given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of greater sin.”

But to all who have received him – those who believe in his name – he has given the right to become God’s children

just as you have given him authority over all humanity, so that he may give eternal life to everyone you have given him.

I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.

so that the word of Isaiah the prophet would be fulfilled. He said, “Lord, who has believed our message, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”

A great number of sick, blind, lame, and paralyzed people were lying in these walkways.

and he has granted the Son authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man.

The Judeans replied, “Aren’t we correct in saying that you are a Samaritan and are possessed by a demon?”

Jesus did this as the first of his miraculous signs, in Cana of Galilee. In this way he revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.

Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so the one who consumes me will live because of me.

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

Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but he was born blind so that the acts of God may be revealed through what happens to him.

Jesus replied, “I told you and you do not believe. The deeds I do in my Father’s name testify about me.

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

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,

Then the Judeans responded, “Now we know you’re possessed by a demon! Both Abraham and the prophets died, and yet you say, ‘If anyone obeys my teaching, he will never experience death.’

Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you, I do not speak on my own initiative, but the Father residing in me performs his miraculous deeds.