Jesus answered, "You believe because I told you I had seen you under that fig tree? You shall see more than that."

And this is the sentence of condemnation, that the Light has entered the world and yet men have preferred darkness to light. It is because their actions have been evil;

And this was why the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did things like this on the sabbath.

But this only made the Jews more eager to kill him, because he not merely broke the sabbath but actually spoke of God as his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God.

I can do nothing of my own accord; I pass judgment on men as I am taught by God, and my judgment is just, because my aim is not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

his word you have not kept with you, because you do not believe him whom he sent.

Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly I tell you, it is not because you saw Signs that you are in quest of me, but because you ate these loaves and had your fill.

After this Jesus moved about in Galilee; he would not move in Judaea, because the Jews were trying to kill him.

the world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that its deeds are evil.

but I know Him, because I have come from Him and He sent me."

So they tried to arrest him; but no one laid hands on him, because his time had not come yet.

(he meant by this the Spirit which those who believed in him were to receive: ??as yet there was no Spirit, because Jesus had not been glorified yet).

Jesus replied to them, "Though I do testify to myself, my evidence is valid, because I know where I have come from and where I am going to ??whereas you do not know where I have come from or where I am going to.

and though I do judge, my judgment is true, because I am not by myself ??there is myself and the Father who sent me.

These words he spoke in the treasury, as he was teaching in the temple, but no one arrested him, because his time had not come yet.

Why do you not understand my speech? Because you are unable to listen to what I am saying.

You belong to your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires; he was a slayer of men from the very beginning, and he has no place in the truth because there is no truth in him: when he tells a lie, he is expressing his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

It is because I tell the truth, that you do not believe me.

He who belongs to God listens to the words of God; you do not listen to them, because you do not belong to God."

(His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that anyone who confessed him to be Christ should be excommunicated.

When he has brought all his sheep outside, he goes in front of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice;

they will not follow a stranger, they will run from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."

just because he is a hired man, who has no interest in the sheep.

This is why my Father loves me, because I lay down my life to take it up again.

because you do not belong to my sheep.

The Jews retorted, "We mean to stone you, not for a good deed, but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, make yourself God."

If the Law said they were gods, to whom the word of God came ??and scripture cannot be broken ??36 do you mean to tell me, whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am God's Son'?

(Not that he cared for the poor; he said this because he was a thief, and because he carried the money-box and pilfered what was put in.)

and that was why the crowd went out to meet him, because they heard he had performed this Sign.

(Isaiah said this because he saw his glory and spoke of him.)

Believe me, I am in the Father and the Father is in me: ??or else, believe because of the deeds themselves.

even the Spirit of truth: the world cannot receive him, because it neither sees nor knows him, but you know him, because he remains with you and will be within you.

A little while longer and the world will see me no more; but you will see me, because I am living and you will be living too.

I am the vine, you are the branches. He who remains in me, as I in him, bears rich fruit (because apart from me you can do nothing).

I call you servants no longer, because a servant does not know what his master is doing: I call you friends, because I have imparted to you all that I have learned from my Father.

If you belonged to the world, the world would love what it owned; it is because you do not belong to the world, because I have chosen you from the world, that the world hates you.

They will do all this to you on account of my name, because they know not him who sent me.

This they will do to you, because they have not known the Father nor me.

I have told you all this, so that when the time for it arrives, you may remember what I said to you. I did not tell you about this at the beginning, because I was with you then;

of sin, because they do not believe in me;

of righteousness, because I go to the Father and you see me no more;

of judgment, because the Prince of this world has been judged.

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

I have given them thy word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.

Father, it is my will that these, thy gift to me, may be beside me where I am, to behold my glory which thou hast given me, because thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

The Jews retorted, "But we have a Law, and by [our] Law he is bound to die, because he has made himself out to be God's Son."

"Woman," they said to her, "why are you sobbing?" She said, "Because they have taken away my master, and I do not know where they have put him!"

Jesus said to him, "You believe because you have seen me? Blessed be those who believe though they have never seen me."