He spoke openly and, remaining true to himself, admitted, "I am not the Messiah."

Jesus, however, did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people

and didn't need anyone to tell him what people were like, because he himself knew what was in every person.

since Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

Then the father realized that this was the very hour when Jesus had told him, "Your son will live." So he himself believed, along with his whole family.

So the Jewish leaders were trying all the harder to kill him, because he was not only breaking the Sabbath but was also calling God his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God.

Just as the Father has life in himself, so also he has granted the Son to have life in himself,

Moreover, the Father who sent me has himself testified on my behalf. You have never heard his voice or seen what he looks like,

Jesus said this to test him, because he himself knew what he was going to do.

Then Jesus, realizing that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, withdrew again to the hillside by himself.

But Jesus, knowing within himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, asked them, "Does this offend you?

But after his brothers had gone up to the festival, he went up himself, not openly but, as it were, in secret.

So the Jewish leaders were asking, "He isn't going to kill himself, is he? Is that why he said, "You cannot come where I'm going'?"

You are doing your father's actions." They told him, "We're not illegitimate children. We have one Father, God himself."

At this, they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the Temple.

Some were saying, "It's him," while others were saying, "No, but it's someone like him." But he himself kept saying, "It's me!"

But we don't know how it is that he now sees, and we don't know who opened his eyes. Ask him. He is of age and can speak for himself."

because I haven't spoken on my own authority. Instead, the Father who sent me has himself commanded me what to say and how to speak.

Jesus told him, "Whoever has bathed is entirely clean. He doesn't need to wash himself further, except for his feet. And you men are clean, though not all of you."

If God has been glorified by him, God himself also will glorify the Son of Man, and he will do so quickly.

because the Father himself loves you, and because you have loved me and believed that I came from God.

Meanwhile, the servants and officers were standing around a charcoal fire they had built and were warming themselves because it was cold. Peter was also standing with them, keeping himself warm.

Meanwhile, Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. Some people asked him, "You aren't one of his disciples, too, are you?" He denied it by saying, "I am not!"

The Jewish leaders answered Pilate, "We have a law, and according to that Law he must die because he made himself out to be the Son of God."

Carrying the cross all by himself, he went out to what is called The Place of a Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha.

Later on, Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples at the Sea of Tiberias. This is what happened:

This was now the third time that Jesus revealed himself to the disciples after he had been raised from the dead.