A third time he said to them, “Why? What wrong has he done? I have found him guilty of no crime deserving death. I will therefore flog him and release him.”

But Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

Then some of those who were with us went to the tomb, and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see him.”

So he said to them, “You foolish people – how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

John said, “I am the voice of one shouting in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way for the Lord,’ as Isaiah the prophet said.”

This is the one about whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who is greater than I am, because he existed before me.’

Nathanael replied, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip replied, “Come and see.”

To those who sold the doves he said, “Take these things away from here! Do not make my Father’s house a marketplace!”

Jesus replied, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

John replied, “No one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven.

You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but rather, ‘I have been sent before him.’

“Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Surely he can’t be the Messiah, can he?”

But he answered them, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”

Jesus replied, “This is the deed God requires – to believe in the one whom he sent.”

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

When Jesus was aware that his disciples were complaining about this, he said to them, “Does this cause you to be offended?

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

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

(Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were going to receive, for the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.)

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