For God did not send his Son into the world in order that he should judge the world, but in order that the world should be saved through him.

"But I have a testimony greater than John's, for the works which the Father has given to me that I should complete them--the very works which I am doing--[these] testify about me, that the Father has sent me.

I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me. If another should come in his own name, you would accept that one!

because I have come down from heaven not that I should do my will, but the will of the one who sent me.

And his disciples asked him, saying, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?"

(His parents said these [things] because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already decided that if anyone should confess him [to be] Christ, he would be expelled from the synagogue.

Nor do you consider that it is profitable for you that one man should die for the people, and the whole nation not perish."

So from that day they resolved that they should kill him.

(Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, they should report [it], in order that they could arrest him.)

For I have not spoken from myself, but the Father himself who sent me {has commanded me} what I should say and what I should speak.

And [as] a dinner was taking place, [when] the devil had already put into the heart of Judas [son] of Simon Iscariot that he should betray him,

For some were thinking because Judas had the money box, Jesus was telling him, "Purchase {what we need} for the feast," or that he should give something to the poor.)

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and your fruit should remain, in order that whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.