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 replied, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and yet one of you is the devil?”

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

For no one who seeks to make a reputation for himself does anything in secret. If you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.”

So Jesus replied, “My teaching is not from me, but from the one who sent me.

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

However, because Moses gave you the practice of circumcision (not that it came from Moses, but from the forefathers), you circumcise a male child on the Sabbath.

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

Yet many of the crowd believed in him and said, “Whenever the Christ comes, he won’t perform more miraculous signs than this man did, will he?”

Don’t the scriptures say that the Christ is a descendant of David and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”

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

When they persisted in asking him, he stood up straight and replied, “Whoever among you is guiltless may be the first to throw a stone at her.”

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

And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do those things that please him.”

“We are descendants of Abraham,” they replied, “and have never been anyone’s slaves! How can you say, ‘You will become free’?”

I am telling you the things I have seen while with the Father; as for you, practice the things you have heard from the Father!”

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

His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who committed the sin that caused him to be born blind, this man or his parents?”