Now when Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that he was winning and baptizing more disciples than John

“Do not be amazed at this, because a time is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice

And the Father who sent me has himself testified about me. You people have never heard his voice nor seen his form at any time,

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.

The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about Jesus, so the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.

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

Now when they heard this, they began to drift away one at a time, starting with the older ones, until Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.

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!”

But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!

Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, so he found the man and said to him, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this and asked him, “We are not blind too, are we?”

The doorkeeper opens the door for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

So they took away the stone. Jesus looked upward and said, “Father, I thank you that you have listened to me.

I knew that you always listen to me, but I said this for the sake of the crowd standing around here, that they may believe that you sent me.”

The crowd that stood there and heard the voice said that it had thundered. Others said that an angel had spoken to him.

Why do you ask me? Ask those who heard what I said. They know what I said.”

When Pilate heard these words he brought Jesus outside and sat down on the judgment seat in the place called “The Stone Pavement” (Gabbatha in Aramaic).

The wind blows wherever it will, and you hear the sound it makes, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands by and listens for him, rejoices greatly when he hears the bridegroom’s voice. This then is my joy, and it is complete.

They said to the woman, “No longer do we believe because of your words, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this one really is the Savior of the world.”