This is He about whom I said, 'After me is to come One who has been put before me, because He was before me.'

"Because I said to you, 'I saw you under the fig-tree,'" replied Jesus, "do you believe? You shall see greater things than that."

But for His part, Jesus did not trust Himself to them, because He knew them all,

He who trusts in Him does not come up for judgement. He who does not trust has already received sentence, because he has not his trust resting on the name of God's only Son.

And this is the test by which men are judged--the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness more than they loved the Light, because their deeds were wicked.

And John too was baptizing at Aenon, near Salim, because there were many pools of water there; and people came and received baptism.

Of the Samaritan population of that town a good many believed in Him because of the woman's statement when she declared, "He has told me all that I have ever done."

Then a far larger number of people believed because of His own words,

and they said to the woman, "We no longer believe in Him simply because of your statements; for we have now heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Saviour of the world."

and on this account the Jews began to persecute Jesus--because He did these things on the Sabbath.

On this account then the Jews were all the more eager to put Him to death--because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also spoke of God as being in a special sense His Father, thus putting Himself on a level with God.

And He has conferred on Him authority to act as Judge, because He is the Son of Man.

"I can of my own self do nothing. As I am bidden, so I judge; and mine is a just judgement, because it is not my own will that guides me, but the will of Him who sent me.

"You search the Scriptures, because you suppose that in them you will find the Life of the Ages; and it is those Scriptures that yield testimony concerning me;

A vast multitude followed Him, because they witnessed the miracles on the sick which He was constantly performing.

The Lake also was getting rough, because a strong wind was blowing.

"In most solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "that you are searching for me not because you have seen miracles, but because you ate the loaves and had a hearty meal.

Now the Jews began to find fault about Him because of His claiming to be the bread which came down out of Heaven.

As the ever-living Father has sent me, and I live because of the Father, so also he who eats me will live because of me.

After this Jesus moved from place to place in Galilee. He would not go about in Judaea, because the Jews were seeking an opportunity to kill Him.

It is impossible for the world to hate you; but me it does hate, because I give testimony concerning it that its conduct is evil.

As for you, go up to the Festival. I do not now go up to this Festival, because my time is not yet fully come."

If a child is circumcised even on a Sabbath day, are you bitter against me because I have restored a man to perfect health on a Sabbath day?

I know Him, because I came from Him, and He sent me."

On hearing this they wanted to arrest Him; yet not a hand was laid on Him, because His time had not yet come.

He referred to the Spirit which those who believed in Him were to receive; for the Spirit was not bestowed as yet, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

These sayings He uttered in the Treasury, while teaching in the Temple; yet no one arrested Him, because His time had not yet come.

You are descendants of Abraham, I know; but you want to kill me, because my teaching gains no ground within you.

How is it you do not understand me when I speak? It is because you cannot bear to listen to my words.

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

He who is a child of God listens to God's words. You do not listen to them: and why? It is because you are not God's children."

His neighbours, therefore, and the other people to whom he had been a familiar object because he was a beggar, began asking, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"

Such was their answer, because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already settled among themselves that if any one should acknowledge Jesus as the Christ, he should be excluded from the synagogue.

When he has brought out his own sheep--all of them--he walks at the head of them; and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.

But a stranger they will by no means follow, but will run away from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."

For this reason my Father loves me, because I am laying down my life in order to receive it back again.

Again there arose a division among the Jews because of these words.

But you do not believe, because you are not my sheep.

"For no good deed," the Jews replied, "are we going to stone you, but for blasphemy, and because you, who are only a man, are making yourself out to be God."

how is it that you say to one whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am God's Son'?

"Are there not twelve hours in the day?" replied Jesus. "If any one walks in the daytime, he does not stumble--because he sees the light of this world.

But if a man walks by night, he does stumble, because the light is not in him."

for because of him many of the Jews left them and became believers in Jesus.

This was also why the crowd came to meet Him, because they had heard of His having performed that miracle.

For this reason they were unable to believe--because Isaiah said again,

Isaiah uttered these words because he saw His glory; and he spoke of Him.

Nevertheless even from among the Rulers many believed in Him. But because of the Pharisees they did not avow their belief, for fear they should be shut out from the synagogue.

Because I have not spoken on my own authority; but the Father who sent me, Himself gave me a command what to say and in what words to speak.

Some, however, supposed that because Judas had the money-box Jesus meant, "Buy what we require for the Festival," or that he should give something to the poor.

Believe me, all of you, that I am in the Father and that the Father is in me; or at any rate, believe me because of what I do.

In most solemn truth I tell you that he who trusts in me--the things which I do he shall do also; and greater things than these he shall do, because I am going to the Father.

That Spirit the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him. You know Him, because He remains by your side and is in you.

Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me: because I live, you also shall live.

"You heard me say to you, 'I am going away, and yet I am coming to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced because I am going to the Father; for the Father is greater than I am.

No longer do I call you servants, because a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because all that I have heard from the Father I have made known to you.

If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own property. But because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world--for that reason the world hates you.

But they will inflict all this suffering upon you on account of your bearing my name--because they do not know Him who sent me.

And you also are witnesses, because you have been with me from the first.

And they will do these things because they have failed to recognize the Father and to discover who I am.

But I have spoken these things to you in order that when the time for their accomplishment comes you may remember them, and may recollect that I told you. I did not, however, tell you all this at first, because I was still with you.

But grief has filled your hearts because I have said all this to you.

of sin, because they do not believe in me;

of righteousness, because I am going to the Father, and you will no longer see me;

of judgement, because the Prince of this world is under sentence.

He will glorify me, because He will take of what is mine and will make it known to you.

Some of His disciples therefore said to one another, "What does this mean which He is telling us, 'A little while and you do not see me, and again a little while and you shall see me,' and 'Because I am going to the Father'?"

A woman, when she is in labour, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has given birth to the babe, she no longer remembers the pain, because of her joy at a child being born into the world.

for the Father Himself holds you dear, because you have held me dear and have believed that I came from the Father's presence.

"I am making request for them: for the world I do not make any request, but for those whom Thou hast given me. Because they are Thine,

I have given them Thy Message, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

"Father, those whom Thou hast given me--I desire that where I am they also may be with me, that they may see the glory--my glory--my gift from Thee, which Thou hast given me because Thou didst love me before the creation of the world.

Now because it was cold the servants and the police had lighted a charcoal fire, and were standing and warming themselves; and Peter too remained with them, standing and warming himself.

Meanwhile the Jews, because it was the day of Preparation for the Passover, and in order that the bodies might not remain on the crosses during the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was one of special solemnity)

Therefore, because it was the day of Preparation for the Jewish Passover, and the tomb was close at hand, they put Jesus there.

They spoke to her. "Why are you weeping?" they asked. "Because," she replied, "they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have put him."

"Because you have seen me," replied Jesus, "you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."