But one after another they all<n id="1" /> began to make excuses.<n id="2" /> The first said to him, &#8216;I have bought a field,<n id="3" /> and I must go out and see it. Please excuse me.&#8217;<n id="4" />

Then<n id="1" /> his son said to him, &#8216;Father, I have sinned against heaven<n id="2" /> and against you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son.&#8217;<n id="3" />

So<n id="1" /> he called out,<n id="2" /> &#8216;Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus<n id="3" /> to dip the tip of his finger<n id="4" /> in water and cool my tongue, because I am in anguish<n id="5" /> in this fire.&#8217;<n id="6" />

But Jesus called for the children,<n id="1" /> saying, &#8220;Let the little children come to me and do not try to stop them, for the kingdom of God<n id="2" /> belongs to such as these.<n id="3" />

And when Jesus came to that place, he looked up<n id="1" /> and said to him, &#8220;Zacchaeus, come down quickly,<n id="2" /> because I must<n id="3" /> stay at your house today.&#8221;<n id="4" />

Then<n id="1" /> the Lord turned and looked straight at Peter, and Peter remembered the word of the Lord,<n id="2" /> how he had said to him, &#8220;Before a rooster crows today, you will deny me three times.&#8221;

Look at my hands and my feet; it&#8217;s me!<n id="1" /> Touch me and see; a ghost<n id="2" /> does not have flesh and bones like you see I have.&#8221;

Nathanael asked him, &#8220;How do you know me?&#8221; Jesus replied,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree,<n id="2" /> I saw you.&#8221;

The sick man answered him, &#8220;Sir,<n id="1" /> I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I am trying to get into the water,<n id="2" /> someone else<n id="3" /> goes down there<n id="4" /> before me.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;I tell you the solemn truth,<n id="1" /> the one who hears<n id="2" /> my message<n id="3" /> and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned,<n id="4" /> but has crossed over from death to life.

I can do nothing on my own initiative.<n id="1" /> Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just,<n id="2" /> because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.<n id="3" />p>

I have come in my Father&#8217;s name, and you do not accept<n id="1" /> me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept<n id="2" /> him.

Jesus replied,<n id="1" /> &#8220;I tell you the solemn truth,<n id="2" /> you are looking for me not because you saw miraculous signs, but because you ate all the loaves of bread you wanted.<n id="3" />

Now this is the will of the one who sent me &#8211; that I should not lose one person of every one he has given me, but raise them all up<n id="1" /> at the last day.

<t /><p class="bodytext">On the last day of the feast, the greatest day,<n id="1" /> Jesus stood up and shouted out,<n id="2" /> &#8220;If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then Jesus<n id="1" /> said to them again,<n id="2" /> &#8220;I am going away, and you will look for me<n id="3" /> but will die in your sin.<n id="4" /> Where I am going you cannot come.&#8221;

I have many things to say and to judge<n id="1" /> about you, but the Father<n id="2" /> who sent me is truthful,<n id="3" /> and the things I have heard from him I speak to the world.&#8221;<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">Then Jesus said,<n id="1" /> &#8220;When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he,<n id="2" /> and I do nothing on my own initiative,<n id="3" /> but I speak just what the Father taught me.<n id="4" />

Jesus replied,<n id="1" /> &#8220;If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here.<n id="2" /> I<n id="3" /> have not come on my own initiative,<n id="4" /> but he<n id="5" /> sent me.

Jesus replied,<n id="1" /> &#8220;If I glorify myself, my glory is worthless.<n id="2" /> The one who glorifies me is my Father, about whom you people<n id="3" /> say, &#8216;He is our God.&#8217;