How can you believe, if you accept praise from one another and don’t seek the praise that comes from the only God?

Now when the people saw the miraculous sign that Jesus performed, they began to say to one another, “This is certainly the Prophet who is to come into the world.”

Then Jesus, because he knew they were going to come and seize him by force to make him king, withdrew again up the mountainside alone.

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

Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never send away.

Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began complaining about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven,”

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

After this Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He stayed out of Judea because the Jewish leaders wanted to kill him.

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

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

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

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

So then they tried to seize Jesus, but no one laid a hand on him, because his time had not yet come.

Others said, “This is the Christ!” But still others said, “No, for the Christ doesn’t come from Galilee, does he?

Early in the morning he came to the temple courts again. All the people came to him, and he sat down and began to teach them.

She replied, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “I do not condemn you either. Go, and from now on do not sin any more.”]]

(Jesus spoke these words near the offering box while he was teaching in the temple courts. No one seized him because his time had not yet come.)

So the Jewish leaders began to say, “Perhaps he is going to kill himself, because he says, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’”

Then Jesus said to those Judeans who had believed him, “If you continue to follow my teaching, you are really my disciples