Jesus answered, "I tell you, if a man does not owe his birth to water and spirit, he cannot get into the Kingdom of God.

John answered, "A man cannot get anything unless it is given to him from heaven.

So Jesus answered them, "I tell you, the Son cannot do anything of his own accord, unless he sees the Father doing it. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does.

I cannot do anything of my own accord. I pass judgment just as I am told to do, and my judgment is just, for I am not seeking to do what I please, but what pleases him who has sent me.

Then he said to them again, "I am going away, and you will look for me, but you will die in the midst of your sin. You cannot come where I am going."

So the Jews said, "Is he going to kill himself, and is that why he says, 'You cannot come where I am going'?"

Why is it that you do not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to listen to my message.

And Jesus said, "I have come into this world to judge men, that those who cannot see may see, and that those who can see may become blind."

If those to whom God's message was addressed were called gods??nd the Scripture cannot be set aside??36 do you mean to say to me whom the Father has consecrated and made his messenger to the world, 'You are blasphemous,' because I said, 'I am God's Son'?

So the Pharisees said to one another, "You see, you cannot do anything! The whole world has run after him!"

He said this to show the kind of death he was going to die.

Jesus answered, "You cannot understand now what I am doing, but you will learn by and by."

My children, I am to be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, but, as I said to the Jews, where I am going you cannot follow,

Simon Peter said to him, "Master, where are you going?" Jesus answered, "I am going where you cannot follow me now, but you will follow me later."

Peter said to him, "Master, why cannot I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you."

It is the Spirit of Truth. The world cannot obtain that Spirit, because it does not see it or recognize it; you recognize it because it stays with you and is within you.

You must remain united to me and I will remain united to you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains united to the vine, you cannot unless you remain united to me.

I am the vine, you are the branches. Anyone who remains united to me, with me united to him, will be very fruitful, for you cannot do anything apart from me.

I have much more to tell you, but you cannot take it in now,

He said this to show the kind of death by which Peter was to honor God; and after he had said it he said to Peter, "Follow me!"