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

He did not need anyone to testify about man, for he knew what was in man.

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

John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming to him and being baptized.

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

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

Now he came to a Samaritan town called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

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

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to complete his work.

How can you believe, if you accept praise from one another and don’t seek the praise that comes from the only God?

Then, when they had rowed about three or four miles, they caught sight of Jesus walking on the lake, approaching the boat, and they were frightened.

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

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,”

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.

(Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God – he has seen the Father.)

This is the bread that has come down from heaven, so that a person may eat from it and not die.

So Jesus added, “Because of this I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has allowed him to come.”

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

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.