Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you people say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.”

Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

You study the scriptures thoroughly because you think in them you possess eternal life, and it is these same scriptures that testify about me,

Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”

It is written in the prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who hears and learns from the Father comes to me.

Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began to argue with one another, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

So Jesus replied, “My time has not yet arrived, but you are ready at any opportunity!

Hasn’t Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law! Why do you want to kill me?”

let the one who believes in me drink. Just as the scripture says, ‘From within him will flow rivers of living water.’”

“Our law doesn’t condemn a man unless it first hears from him and learns what he is doing, does it?”

So they said to him, “Who are you?” Jesus replied, “What I have told you from the beginning.

Jesus answered them, “I tell you the solemn truth, everyone who practices sin is a slave of sin.

You aren’t greater than our father Abraham who died, are you? And the prophets died too! Who do you claim to be?”

He answered, “I told you already and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You people don’t want to become his disciples too, do you?”

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is devout and does his will, God listens to him.

They replied, “You were born completely in sinfulness, and yet you presume to teach us?” So they threw him out.

Jesus replied, “If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin, but now because you claim that you can see, your guilt remains.”

“I tell you the solemn truth, the one who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.

The Jewish leaders replied, “We are not going to stone you for a good deed but for blasphemy, because you, a man, are claiming to be God.”

So the chief priests and the Pharisees called the council together and said, “What are we doing? For this man is performing many miraculous signs.