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

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

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

However, because Moses gave you the practice of circumcision (not that it came from Moses, but from the forefathers), you circumcise a male child on the Sabbath.

(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.)

(Now they were asking this in an attempt to trap him, so that they could bring charges against him.) Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!

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.”

After he said this, he added, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep. But I am going there to awaken him.”

And when she had said this, Martha went and called her sister Mary, saying privately, “The Teacher is here and is asking for you.”

(Now he did not say this on his own, but because he was high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the Jewish nation,

(Now Judas said this not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief. As keeper of the money box, he used to steal what was put into it.)

And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to you.

When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord.

Therefore my heart was glad and my tongue rejoiced; my body also will live in hope,

Now when the commander of the temple guard and the chief priests heard this report, they were greatly puzzled concerning it, wondering what this could be.

Then he fell to his knees and cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them!” When he had said this, he died.

Then the eunuch said to Philip, “Please tell me, who is the prophet saying this about – himself or someone else?”

This went on for two years, so that all who lived in the province of Asia, both Jews and Greeks, heard the word of the Lord.