For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for he does not give the Spirit sparingly.

Jacob’s well was there, so Jesus, since he was tired from the journey, sat right down beside the well. It was about noon.

You people worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.

Then Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed the bread to those who were seated. He then did the same with the fish, as much as they wanted.

So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves left over by the people who had eaten.

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

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 many of his disciples, when they heard these things, said, “This is a difficult saying! Who can understand it?”

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?”

If anyone wants to do God’s will, he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak from my own authority.

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

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?”

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

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

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

You people are doing the deeds of your father.” Then they said to Jesus, “We were not born as a result of immorality! We have only one Father, God himself.”

Having said this, he spat on the ground and made some mud with the saliva. He smeared the mud on the blind man’s eyes

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

I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my hand.