Jesus seeing Nathanael coming, said of him, there's a true Israelite, in whom is no guile. how do you know me?

Nicodemus replied, how can a man be born when he is old? can he enter into his mother, and be born a second time?

Nicodemus answered, how can that be?

if you don't believe when I tell you what is plain, how should you believe, if I tell you of things more sublime?

but the woman of Samaria said to him, how is it that you who are a Jew, ask drink of me, who am a Samaritan? (for the Jews have no friendly intercourse with the Samaritans.)

how can you believe, who are catching at honour one from another, regardless of that glory that comes from God only?

but if you don't believe what he has writ, how should you believe what I say?

is not this, said they, Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how comes he then to say, I came down from heaven?

Upon this the Jews disputed among themselves, saying, how can this man give us his flesh to eat?

at which the Jews were surprized, saying, how came be acquainted with the scriptures, a man of no education?

thereupon they said to him, how did you come to your sight?

the Pharisees therefore ask'd him likewise, how he had received his sight. he told them, he put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and now see.

thereupon some of the Pharisees said, this man has no divine mission, because he does not observe the sabbath. but said others, if he be an impostor, how can he do such miracles? and there was a schism among them.

and ask'd them, is this your son, who you say was born blind? how came it then that he now sees?

they still urg'd the same question, what did he do to thee? how did he make you see?

the Jews came about him, and said, how long will you keep us in suspense? if you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.

how can you say that I blaspheme, I whom the father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, because I said I am the son of God?

upon which the Jews said, see how he loved him.

this passage his disciples did not understand at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, they remembred how they had mounted him, and perceiv'd that those words related to him.

Thomas said to him, Lord, we know not whither you are going, how then can we know the way?