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.

No one who believes in him has to come up for judgment. Anyone who does not believe stands condemned already, for not believing in God's only Son.

For everyone who does wrong hates the light and will not come to it, for fear his actions will be exposed.

Whoever does accept it has thereby acknowledged that God is true.

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.

But Jesus, knowing that his disciples were complaining about this, said to them, "Does this stagger you?

It is impossible for the world to hate you, but it does hate me for testifying that its ways are wrong.

What does he mean by saying 'You will look for me and you will not find me, and you will not be able to go where I shall be'?"

The attendants answered, "No man ever talked as he does!"

"Does our Law condemn the accused without first hearing what he has to say, and finding out what he has done?"

Now a slave does not belong to a household permanently; but a son does.

You are doing as your father does." They said to him, "We are not illegitimate children. We have one father, God himself."

So they said to him, "Then how does it happen that you can see?"

Then some of the Pharisees said, "This man does not come from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a sinful man show such signs as this?" And there was a division of opinion among them.

We know that God does not listen to sinful people, but if a man is devout and obeys God, God will listen to him.

"I tell you, any man who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs over at some other place, is a thief and robber.

A hired man who is not a shepherd and does not own the sheep, when he sees a wolf coming, will leave the sheep and run away, and the wolf will carry them off and scatter the flock.

For he is only a hired man, and does not care about the sheep.

If I am not doing the things my Father does, do not believe me.

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.

Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said to him, "Master, how does it happen that you are going to show yourself to us and not to the world?"

No one who does not love me will observe my teaching, and yet the teaching you are listening to is not mine but is that of him who has sent me.

Any branch of mine that does not bear fruit he trims away, and he prunes every branch that bears fruit, to make it bear more.

Anyone who does not remain united to me is thrown away like a branch and withers up, and they gather them and throw them into the fire and burn them.

I do not call you slaves any longer, for a slave does not know what his master is doing, but now I call you friends, for I have made known to you everything that I have learned from my Father.

Then some of his disciples said to one another, "What does he mean when he tells us, 'In a little while you will not see me any longer, and a little while after, you will see me again,' and 'Because I am going away to the Father'?"

So they kept saying "What does he mean by 'In a little while'? We do not know what he is talking about."

Jesus said to him, "If I wish him to wait till I come, what does it matter to you? You must follow me."

So the story spread among the brothers that this disciple was not going to die. But Jesus did not tell him that he was not going to die; he said, "If I wish him to wait till I come, what does it matter to you?"