On those who have accepted him, however, he has conferred the right of being children of God, that is, on those who believe in his Name,

"Then who are you?" they said; "tell us, so that we can give some answer to those who sent us. What have you to say for yourself?"

Truly, truly I tell you, the time is coming, it has come already, when the dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen will live;

Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks to God, and distributed them to those who were reclining; so too with the fish, as much as they wanted.

All those will come to me who are the Father's gift to me, and never will I reject one of them;

and the will of him who sent me is that I lose none of those who are his gift to me, but that I raise them all up on the last day.

(he meant by this the Spirit which those who believed in him were to receive: ??as yet there was no Spirit, because Jesus had not been glorified yet).

Whereupon the neighbours and those to whom he had been a familiar sight as a beggar, said, "Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?"

They gave a supper for him there; Martha waited on him, and Lazarus was among those who reclined at table beside him.

Now there were some Greeks among those who had come up to worship at the festival;

(None of those at table understood why he said this to him;

I pray for them ??not for the world but for those whom thou hast given me do I pray; for they are thine

(this was to fulfil his own word: 'I did not lose a single one of those whom thou didst give me').

Jesus said to him, "You believe because you have seen me? Blessed be those who believe though they have never seen me."