Jesus answered and said to him, “Because I said to you that I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You will see greater things than these.”

and because He did not need anyone to testify concerning man, for He Himself knew what was in man.

He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

John also was baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there was much water there; and people were coming and were being baptized—

He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. So this joy of mine has been made full.

From that city many of the Samaritans believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me all the things that I have done.”

Many more believed because of His word;

and they were saying to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this One is indeed the Savior of the world.”

For this reason the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.

For this reason therefore the Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

and He gave Him authority to execute judgment, because He is the Son of Man.

“I can do nothing on My own initiative. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me;

A large crowd followed Him, because they saw the signs which He was performing on those who were sick.

The sea began to be stirred up because a strong wind was blowing.

Jesus answered them and said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you seek Me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled.

Therefore the Jews were grumbling about Him, because He said, “I am the bread that came down out of heaven.”

As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also will live because of Me.

After these things Jesus was walking in Galilee, for He was unwilling to walk in Judea because the Jews were seeking to kill Him.

The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify of it, that its deeds are evil.

Go up to the feast yourselves; I do not go up to this feast because My time has not yet fully come.”

For this reason Moses has given you circumcision (not because it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a man.

If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the Law of Moses will not be broken, are you angry with Me because I made an entire man well on the Sabbath?

I know Him, because I am from Him, and He sent Me.”

So they were seeking to seize Him; and no man laid his hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.

But this He spoke of the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were to receive; for the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

So a division occurred in the crowd because of Him.

These words He spoke in the treasury, as He taught in the temple; and no one seized Him, because His hour had not yet come.

I know that you are Abraham’s descendants; yet you seek to kill Me, because My word has no place in you.

Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot hear My word.

You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me.

He who is of God hears the words of God; for this reason you do not hear them, because you are not of God.”

Therefore some of the Pharisees were saying, “This man is not from God, because He does not keep the Sabbath.” But others were saying, “How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?” And there was a division among them.

His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed Him to be Christ, he was to be put out of the synagogue.

When he puts forth all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.

A stranger they simply will not follow, but will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.”

He flees because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep.

For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I may take it again.

A division occurred again among the Jews because of these words.

But you do not believe because you are not of My sheep.

The Jews answered Him, “For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy; and because You, being a man, make Yourself out to be God.”

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

Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”

I knew that You always hear Me; but because of the people standing around I said it, so that they may believe that You sent Me.”

Now he said this, not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief, and as he had the money box, he used to pilfer what was put into it.

because on account of him many of the Jews were going away and were believing in Jesus.

For this reason also the people went and met Him, because they heard that He had performed this sign.

These things Isaiah said because he saw His glory, and he spoke of Him.

Nevertheless many even of the rulers believed in Him, but because of the Pharisees they were not confessing Him, for fear that they would be put out of the synagogue;

For some were supposing, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus was saying to him, “Buy the things we have need of for the feast”; or else, that he should give something to the poor.

Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me; otherwise believe because of the works themselves.

Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father.

that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.

After a little while the world will no longer see Me, but you will see Me; because I live, you will live also.

You heard that I said to you, ‘I go away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced because I go to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.

You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.

But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know the One who sent Me.

and you will testify also, because you have been with Me from the beginning.

These things they will do because they have not known the Father or Me.

But these things I have spoken to you, so that when their hour comes, you may remember that I told you of them. These things I did not say to you at the beginning, because I was with you.

But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.

concerning sin, because they do not believe in Me;

and concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father and you no longer see Me;

and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.

Some of His disciples then said to one another, “What is this thing He is telling us, ‘A little while, and you will not see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me’; and, ‘because I go to the Father’?”

Whenever a woman is in labor she has pain, because her hour has come; but when she gives birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy that a child has been born into the world.

for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came forth from the Father.

Behold, an hour is coming, and has already come, for you to be scattered, each to his own home, and to leave Me alone; and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.

I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and by that law He ought to die because He made Himself out to be the Son of God.”

Then the Jews, because it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

Therefore because of the Jewish day of preparation, since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.

And they *said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She *said to them, “Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid Him.”

Jesus *said to him, “Because you have seen Me, have you believed? Blessed are they who did not see, and yet believed.”

And He said to them, “Cast the net on the right-hand side of the boat and you will find a catch.” So they cast, and then they were not able to haul it in because of the great number of fish.

He *said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me?” Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, “Do you love Me?” And he said to Him, “Lord, You know all things; You know that I love You.” Jesus *said to him, “Tend My sheep.