He came for the purpose of testifying, to testify to the light, so that everyone through him might come to believe.

I did not know Him myself, but I came baptizing in water, that He might be made known to Israel."

For God sent His Son into the world, not to pass sentence on it, but that the world through Him might be saved.

They were asking this to trap him so that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped and began to write in the dirt with his finger.

Now the high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone should learn where He was, he should let it be known so that they might arrest Him.

so that the utterance of the prophet Isaiah was fulfilled: "Lord, who has believed what they heard from us? And to whom has the mighty arm of the Lord been shown?"

As long as I was with them, I kept them by your power which you gave me, and I protected them, and not one of them was lost, except the one who is now doomed to be lost, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

He said this that the statement He had just made might be fulfilled, "I have not lost one of those whom you have given me."

After this, as Jesus knew that everything was now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, He said, "I am thirsty."

As it was the day of Preparation for the Passover, that the bodies might not remain on the crosses during the Sabbath, for that Sabbath was a very important one, the Jews requested Pilate to have their legs broken and their bodies taken down.

For this took place that this Scripture might be fulfilled, "Not a bone of His will be broken."