Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began to argue with one another, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

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

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

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

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

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?”

But if a male child is circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?

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.

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?”

(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.)

Then the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him back with you?”

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

They replied, “You aren’t from Galilee too, are you? Investigate carefully and you will see that no prophet comes from Galilee!”

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.

Thus I told you that you will die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”

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.”

I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. But you want to kill me, because my teaching makes no progress among you.