The one who belongs to God listens and responds to God’s words. You don’t listen and respond, because you don’t belong to God.”

They asked the parents, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?”

He answered, “I told you already and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You people don’t want to become his disciples too, do you?”

do you say about the one whom the Father set apart and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?

Then one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said, “You know nothing at all!

If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you too ought to wash one another’s feet.

And if I go and make ready a place for you, I will come again and take you to be with me, so that where I am you may be too.

For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

And the person who saw it has testified (and his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth), so that you also may believe.

Therefore let all the house of Israel know beyond a doubt that God has made this Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ.”

But Simon replied, “You pray to the Lord for me so that nothing of what you have said may happen to me.”

you know what happened throughout Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism that John announced:

And I remembered the word of the Lord, as he used to say, ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’

But the evil spirit replied to them, “I know about Jesus and I am acquainted with Paul, but who are you?”

“And now I know that none of you among whom I went around proclaiming the kingdom will see me again.

Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men stay with the ship, you cannot be saved.”

“And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”

Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who create dissensions and obstacles contrary to the teaching that you learned. Avoid them!

He is the reason you have a relationship with Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

If someone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, which is what you are.