John replied, “A man can receive nothing [he can claim nothing at all] unless it has been granted to him from heaven [for there is no other source than the sovereign will of God].

But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper (Comforter, Advocate, Intercessor—Counselor, Strengthener, Standby) will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him (the Holy Spirit) to you [to be in close fellowship with you].

So Jesus made this answer to them: "Truly, truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, nothing but what he sees the Father doing; for whatever he does, the Son also does the same.

I will not speak with you much longer, for the ruler of the world (Satan) is coming. And he has no claim on Me [no power over Me nor anything that he can use against Me];

The woman says to him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: whence then hast thou the living water?

And when they had been filled, he says to his disciples, Gather together the fragments which are over and above, that nothing may be lost.

And this is the will of him that has sent me, that of all that he has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up in the last day.

It is the Spirit which quickens, the flesh profits nothing: the words which I have spoken unto you are spirit and are life.

and behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Have the rulers then indeed recognised that this is the Christ?

Jesus therefore said to them, When ye shall have lifted up the Son of man, then ye shall know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself, but as the Father has taught me I speak these things.

Jesus answered, If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing: it is my Father who glorifies me, of whom ye say, He is our God.

If this man were not of God he would be able to do nothing.

But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, Ye know nothing

The Pharisees therefore said to one another, Ye see that ye profit nothing: behold, the world is gone after him.

I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abides in me and I in him, he bears much fruit; for without me ye can do nothing.

And in that day ye shall demand nothing of me: verily, verily, I say to you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give you.

Hitherto ye have asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.

Jesus answered him, I spoke openly to the world; I taught always in the synagogue and in the temple, where all the Jews come together, and in secret I have spoken nothing.

Simon Peter says to them, I go to fish. They say to him, We also come with thee. They went forth, and went on board, and that night took nothing.

I can of my own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father who has sent me.

We know that God spake to Moses: but we know nothing of this man, whence he is.

This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they knew nothing of the things which he spake to them.

Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, "Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you."