but one of the soldiers pierced His side through with the spear, and immediately blood and water came out.

And again another scripture says, They shall look on him whom they pierced.

Then He said to Thomas, "Put your finger here [i.e., to touch the nail scars] and look at my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side [i.e., where the spear had pierced Him]. Stop doubting and believe [that it is really I]."

but these have been written so that you may believe [with a deep, abiding trust] that Jesus is the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed), the Son of God; and that by believing [and trusting in and relying on Him] you may have life in His name.

For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

He came to be a witness, so that he might testify concerning that Light, so that all people would believe [in Jesus] through him [i.e., through his testimony. See Acts 19:4].

"Now my heart is distressed; and what shall I say [i.e., to God]? 'Father, bring me safely through this time.' But, this is the reason I came [to earth]; to [go through] such a time.

As the living Father sent me, and I live through the Father: also he chewing me, the same also shall live through me.

who were begotten as such not by human descent, nor through an impulse of their own nature, nor through the will of a human father, but from God.

for God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

but being obliged to pass through Samaria,