No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him.

Nicodemus *said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born, can he?”

After these things Jesus and His disciples came into the land of Judea, and there He was spending time with them and baptizing.

When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had already been a long time in that condition, He *said to him, “Do you wish to get well?”

And the Father who sent Me, He has testified of Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time nor seen His form.

So Jesus *said to them, “My time is not yet here, but your time is always opportune.

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

So a second time they called the man who had been blind, and said to him, “Give glory to God; we know that this man is a sinner.”

Since the beginning of time it has never been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a person born blind.

At that time the Feast of the Dedication took place at Jerusalem;

Jesus *said, “Remove the stone.” Martha, the sister of the deceased, *said to Him, “Lord, by this time there will be a stench, for he has been dead four days.”

This is now the third time that Jesus was manifested to the disciples, after He was raised from the dead.

He *said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me?” He *said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.” He *said to him, “Shepherd My sheep.”

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.