"How do you know me?" asked Nathanael. "Before Philip called you," replied Jesus, "when you were under the fig tree, I saw you."

"How can a man be born when he is old?" Nicodemus replied; "Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb, and be born?"

"How can this be?" said Nicodemus in reply.

If I have told you earthly things and yet none of you believe me, how will you believe if I tell you concerning heavenly things?

"How is it," answered the Samaritan woman, "that you who are a Jew ask a drink from me, a woman, and a Samaritan?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

"How can you believe when you receive glory from, one another, and have no desire for the glory which comes from the only God?

And if you do not believe his writings, how will you ever believe my words?"

"Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph? Do we not know his father and mother? How is it that he now says, 'I have come down from heaven'?"

Then the Jews began to dispute among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

The Jews were amazed. They said, "How does this fellow know the sacred writings when he has never learned them?" "I am not asking that thou wilt take them out of the world, but that thou wilt protect them from the Evil One.

"If a child receives circumcision on the Sabbath, in order that the Law of Moses may not be broken, how can you be angry with me because I made a man sound and well on the Sabbath?

"How is it that you do not understand what I say? It is because you cannot listen to my message.

So they asked him, "How then were your eyes opened?"

so the Pharisees again began to ask him questions about how he had regained his sight; and he said to them, "He put clay on my eyes, and I washed them, and now I see."

Then some of the Pharisees began to say, "This man in not from God, because he does not keep the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?"

and questioned them. "Is this your son," they said, "who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?"

"but how he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who has opened his eyes. Ask him, himself. He is of age. He will speak for himself."

"What was it he did to you?" they asked him; "How did he open your eyes?"

Then all the Jews encircled him and kept asking him. "How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."

"See how he loved him," said the Jews. But some of them said,

"We do not know where you are going Lord," said Thomas, "so how can we know the way?"

"Have I been so long among you, and yet you, Philip, have you not recognized me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Cause us to see the Father'?

"How is it, Lord," said Judas (not Iscariot) "that you will manifest yourself to us and not to the world?"