So you testify that you approve of the deeds of your ancestors, because they killed the prophets and you build their tombs!

be like people waiting for their master to come back from the wedding celebration, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him.

So you too, when you have done everything you were commanded to do, should say, ‘We are slaves undeserving of special praise; we have only done what was our duty.’”

saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house will be a house of prayer,’ but you have turned it into a den of robbers!”

Not so with you; instead the one who is greatest among you must become like the youngest, and the leader like the one who serves.

So they all said, “Are you the Son of God, then?” He answered them, “You say that I am.”

John answered them, “I baptize with water. Among you stands one whom you do not recognize,

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

Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you people say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.”

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

He was a lamp that was burning and shining, and you wanted to rejoice greatly for a short time in his light.

nor do you have his word residing in you, because you do not believe the one whom he sent.

You study the scriptures thoroughly because you think in them you possess eternal life, and it is these same scriptures that testify about me,

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

“Do not suppose that I will accuse you before the Father. The one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope.

You go up to the feast yourselves. I am not going up to this feast because my time has not yet fully arrived.”

So the Jewish leaders began to say, “Perhaps he is going to kill himself, because he says, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’”

Then Jesus said to those Judeans who had believed him, “If you continue to follow my teaching, you are really my disciples

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!”

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.”