And He has conferred on Him authority to act as Judge, because He is the Son of Man.

"I can of my own self do nothing. As I am bidden, so I judge; and mine is a just judgement, because it is not my own will that guides me, but the will of Him who sent me.

"You search the Scriptures, because you suppose that in them you will find the Life of the Ages; and it is those Scriptures that yield testimony concerning me;

A vast multitude followed Him, because they witnessed the miracles on the sick which He was constantly performing.

The Lake also was getting rough, because a strong wind was blowing.

"In most solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "that you are searching for me not because you have seen miracles, but because you ate the loaves and had a hearty meal.

Now the Jews began to find fault about Him because of His claiming to be the bread which came down out of Heaven.

As the ever-living Father has sent me, and I live because of the Father, so also he who eats me will live because of me.

After this Jesus moved from place to place in Galilee. He would not go about in Judaea, because the Jews were seeking an opportunity to kill Him.

It is impossible for the world to hate you; but me it does hate, because I give testimony concerning it that its conduct is evil.

As for you, go up to the Festival. I do not now go up to this Festival, because my time is not yet fully come."

If a child is circumcised even on a Sabbath day, are you bitter against me because I have restored a man to perfect health on a Sabbath day?

I know Him, because I came from Him, and He sent me."

On hearing this they wanted to arrest Him; yet not a hand was laid on Him, because His time had not yet come.

He referred to the Spirit which those who believed in Him were to receive; for the Spirit was not bestowed as yet, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

These sayings He uttered in the Treasury, while teaching in the Temple; yet no one arrested Him, because His time had not yet come.

You are descendants of Abraham, I know; but you want to kill me, because my teaching gains no ground within you.

How is it you do not understand me when I speak? It is because you cannot bear to listen to my words.

But because I speak the truth, you do not believe me.

He who is a child of God listens to God's words. You do not listen to them: and why? It is because you are not God's children."

His neighbours, therefore, and the other people to whom he had been a familiar object because he was a beggar, began asking, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"

Such was their answer, because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already settled among themselves that if any one should acknowledge Jesus as the Christ, he should be excluded from the synagogue.

When he has brought out his own sheep--all of them--he walks at the head of them; and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.

But a stranger they will by no means follow, but will run away from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."

For this reason my Father loves me, because I am laying down my life in order to receive it back again.

Again there arose a division among the Jews because of these words.

But you do not believe, because you are not my sheep.

"For no good deed," the Jews replied, "are we going to stone you, but for blasphemy, and because you, who are only a man, are making yourself out to be God."

how is it that you say to one whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am God's Son'?

"Are there not twelve hours in the day?" replied Jesus. "If any one walks in the daytime, he does not stumble--because he sees the light of this world.

But if a man walks by night, he does stumble, because the light is not in him."

for because of him many of the Jews left them and became believers in Jesus.

This was also why the crowd came to meet Him, because they had heard of His having performed that miracle.

For this reason they were unable to believe--because Isaiah said again,

Isaiah uttered these words because he saw His glory; and he spoke of Him.

Nevertheless even from among the Rulers many believed in Him. But because of the Pharisees they did not avow their belief, for fear they should be shut out from the synagogue.

Because I have not spoken on my own authority; but the Father who sent me, Himself gave me a command what to say and in what words to speak.

Some, however, supposed that because Judas had the money-box Jesus meant, "Buy what we require for the Festival," or that he should give something to the poor.

Believe me, all of you, that I am in the Father and that the Father is in me; or at any rate, believe me because of what I do.

In most solemn truth I tell you that he who trusts in me--the things which I do he shall do also; and greater things than these he shall do, because I am going to the Father.

That Spirit the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him. You know Him, because He remains by your side and is in you.

Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me: because I live, you also shall live.

"You heard me say to you, 'I am going away, and yet I am coming to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced because I am going to the Father; for the Father is greater than I am.

No longer do I call you servants, because a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because all that I have heard from the Father I have made known to you.

If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own property. But because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world--for that reason the world hates you.

But they will inflict all this suffering upon you on account of your bearing my name--because they do not know Him who sent me.

And you also are witnesses, because you have been with me from the first.

And they will do these things because they have failed to recognize the Father and to discover who I am.

But I have spoken these things to you in order that when the time for their accomplishment comes you may remember them, and may recollect that I told you. I did not, however, tell you all this at first, because I was still with you.

But grief has filled your hearts because I have said all this to you.

of sin, because they do not believe in me;

of righteousness, because I am going to the Father, and you will no longer see me;

of judgement, because the Prince of this world is under sentence.

He will glorify me, because He will take of what is mine and will make it known to you.

Some of His disciples therefore said to one another, "What does this mean which He is telling us, 'A little while and you do not see me, and again a little while and you shall see me,' and 'Because I am going to the Father'?"

A woman, when she is in labour, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has given birth to the babe, she no longer remembers the pain, because of her joy at a child being born into the world.

for the Father Himself holds you dear, because you have held me dear and have believed that I came from the Father's presence.

"I am making request for them: for the world I do not make any request, but for those whom Thou hast given me. Because they are Thine,

I have given them Thy Message, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

"Father, those whom Thou hast given me--I desire that where I am they also may be with me, that they may see the glory--my glory--my gift from Thee, which Thou hast given me because Thou didst love me before the creation of the world.

Now because it was cold the servants and the police had lighted a charcoal fire, and were standing and warming themselves; and Peter too remained with them, standing and warming himself.

Meanwhile the Jews, because it was the day of Preparation for the Passover, and in order that the bodies might not remain on the crosses during the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was one of special solemnity)

Therefore, because it was the day of Preparation for the Jewish Passover, and the tomb was close at hand, they put Jesus there.

They spoke to her. "Why are you weeping?" they asked. "Because," she replied, "they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have put him."

"Because you have seen me," replied Jesus, "you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."

So when this noise was heard, they came crowding together, and were amazed because everyone heard his own language spoken.

For David says in reference to Him, "'I constantly fixed my eyes upon the Lord, because He is at my right hand in order that I may continue unshaken.

The Court added further threats and then let them go, being quite unable to find any way of punishing them on account of the people, because all gave God the glory for the thing that had happened.

About this time, as the number of disciples was increasing, complaints were made by the Greek-speaking Jews against the Hebrews because their widows were habitually overlooked in the daily ministration.

"Perish your money and yourself," replied Peter, "because you have imagined that you can obtain God's free gift with money!

Now the people of Tyre and Sidon had incurred Herod's violent displeasure. So they sent a large deputation to wait on him; and having secured the good will of Blastus, his treasurer, they begged the king to be friendly with them again, because their country was dependent on his for its food supply.

Instantly an angel of the Lord struck him, because he had not given the glory to God, and being eaten up by worms, he died.

Because in another Psalm also He says, 'Thou wilt not give up Thy Holy One to undergo decay.'

Behold, you despisers, be astonished and perish, because I am carrying on a work in your time--a work which you will utterly refuse to believe, though it be fully declared to you.'"

A few of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also encountered him. Some of them asked, "What has this beggarly babbler to say?" "His business," said others, "seems to be to cry up some foreign gods." This was because he had been telling the Good News of Jesus and the Resurrection.

Here he found a Jew, a native of Pontus, of the name of Aquila. He and his wife Priscilla had recently come from Italy because of Claudius's edict expelling all the Jews from Rome. So Paul paid them a visit;

and because he was of the same trade--that of tent-maker--he lodged with them and worked with them.

After remaining a considerable time longer in Corinth, Paul took leave of the brethren and set sail for Syria; and Priscilla and Aquila were with him. He had shaved his head at Cenchreae, because he was bound by a vow.

When Paul was going up the steps, he had to be carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the mob;

"And as I could not see because the light had been so dazzling, those who were with me had to lead me by the arm, and so I came to Damascus.

I saw Jesus, and He said to me, "'Make haste and leave Jerusalem quickly, because they will not accept your testimony about Me.'

Noticing, however, that the Sanhedrin consisted partly of Sadducees and partly of Pharisees, he called out loudly among them, "Brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of Pharisees. It is because of my hope of a resurrection of the dead that I am on my trial."

So he took him and brought him to the Tribune, and said, "Paul, the prisoner, called me to him and begged me to bring this youth to you, because he has something to say to you."

And now I stand here impeached because of my hope in the fulfilment of the promise made by God to our forefathers--

Putting to sea again, we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the winds were against us;

The strange-speaking natives showed us remarkable kindness, for they lighted a fire and made us all welcome because of the pelting rain and the cold.

They, after they had sharply questioned me, were willing to set me at liberty, because they found no offence in me for which I deserve to die.

because what may be known about Him is plain to their inmost consciousness; for He Himself has made it plain to them.

a schoolmaster for the dull and ignorant, a teacher of the young, because in the Law you possess an outline of real knowledge and an outline of the truth:

For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentile nations because of you, as Holy Writ declares.

The privilege is great from every point of view. First of all, because the Jews were entrusted with God's truth.

He it is whom God put forward as a Mercy-seat, rendered efficacious through faith in His blood, in order to demonstrate His righteousness-- because of the passing over, in God's forbearance, of the sins previously committed--

who was surrendered to death because of the offences we had committed, and was raised to life because of the acquittal secured for us.

and that this hope never disappoints, because God's love for us floods our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

because we know that Christ, having come back to life, is no longer liable to die.

In the same way you also must regard yourselves as dead in relation to sin, but as alive in relation to God, because you are in Christ Jesus.

Are we therefore to sin because we are no longer under the authority of Law, but under grace? No, indeed!

For what was impossible to the Law--powerless as it was because it acted through frail humanity--God effected. Sending His own Son in a body like that of sinful human nature and as a sacrifice for sin, He pronounced sentence upon sin in human nature;

Because for the mind to be given up to earthly things means death; but for it to be given up to spiritual things means Life and peace.

But if Christ is in you, though your body must die because of sin, yet your spirit has Life because of righteousness.