Then said some of the Pharisees, "This man is not from God, for he does not keep the sabbath"; others said, "How can a sinner perform such Signs?" They were divided on this.

and asked them, "Is this your son, the son you declare was born blind? How is it that he can see now?"

But how he can see to-day, we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask himself; he is of age, he can speak for himself."

To which he replied, "I do not know whether he is a sinner; one thing I do know, that once I was blind and now I can see."

Others said, "These are not a madman's words. Can a madman open the eyes of the blind?"

My Father who gave me them is stronger than all, and no one can snatch anything out of the Father's hand.

Then said the Pharisees to one another, "You see, you can do nothing! Look, the world has gone after him."

Remain in me, as I remain in you: just as a branch cannot bear fruit by itself, without remaining on the vine, neither can you, unless you remain in me.

I am the vine, you are the branches. He who remains in me, as I in him, bears rich fruit (because apart from me you can do nothing).

So with you. Just now you are in sorrow, but I shall see you again and your heart will rejoice ??with a joy that no one can take from you.

Simon Peter, Thomas (who was called 'the Twin'), Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, the two sons of Zebedaeus, and two other disciples of his, were all together.

For the third time he asked him, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Now Peter was vexed at being asked a third time, "Do you love me?" So he replied; "Lord, you know everything, you can see I love you." Jesus said, "Then feed my sheep.

They were all amazed and quite at a loss. "What can it mean?" they said to one another.

Brothers, I can speak quite plainly to you about the patriarch David; he died and was buried and his tomb remains with us to this day.

This Jesus God raised, as we can all bear witness.

and you killed the pioneer of Life. But God raised him from the dead, as we can bear witness.

he asked. "Why, how can I possibly understand it," said the eunuch, "unless some one puts me on the right track?" And he begged Philip to get up and sit beside him.

By humbling himself he had his doom removed. Who can tell his family? For his life is cut off from the earth.

As for what he did in the land of the Jews and of Jerusalem, we can testify to that. They slew him by hanging him on a gibbet,

"Can anyone refuse water for the baptism of these people ??people who have received the holy Spirit just as we ourselves have?"

But as these are merely questions of words and persons and your own Law, you can attend to them for yourselves. I decline to adjudicate upon matters like that."

Indeed there is a danger of our being charged with riot over to-day's meeting; there is not a single reason we can give for this disorderly gathering."

as the high priest and all the council of elders can testify. It was from them that I got letters to the brotherhood at Damascus, and then journeyed thither to bind those who had gathered there and bring them back to Jerusalem for punishment.

because it is not more than twelve days, as you can easily ascertain, since I went up to worship at Jerusalem.

but when he argued about morality, self-mastery, and the future judgment, Felix grew uneasy. "You may go for the present," he said; "when I can find a moment, I will send for you"

Festus replied that Paul would be kept in custody at Caesarea, but that he himself meant to leave for Caesarea before long ??5 "when," he added, "your competent authorities can come down with me and charge the man with whatever crime he has committed."

If I am a criminal, if I have done anything that deserves death, I do not object to die; but if there is nothing in any of their charges against me, then no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!"

Why, the king is well aware of this! To the king I can speak without the slightest hesitation. I do not believe any of it has escaped his notice, for this was not done in a corner.

But if so, what can we say about Abraham, our forefather by natural descent?

Never! How can we live in sin any longer, when we died to sin?

but now we are done with the Law, we have died to what once held us, so that we can serve in a new way, not under the written code as of old but in the Spirit.

So this is my experience of the Law: I want to do what is right, but wrong is all I can manage;

Now what follows from all this? If God is for us, who can be against us?

What can ever part us from Christ's love? Can anguish or calamity or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or the sword?

"Then," you will retort, "why does he go on finding fault? Who can oppose his will?"

I can vouch for their zeal for God; only, it is not zeal with knowledge.

Moses writes of law-righteousness, Anyone who can perform it, shall live by it.

And how can men preach unless they are sent? ??as it is written, How pleasant is the coming of men with glad, good news!

And even the others will be grafted in, if they do not adhere to their unbelief; God can graft them in again.

Now in Christ Jesus I can be proud of my work for God.

[Now to Him who can strengthen you by my gospel, by the preaching of Jesus Christ, by revealing the secret purpose which after the silence of long ages

so that no one can say you were baptized in my name.

What human being can understand the thoughts of a man, except the man's own inner spirit? So too no one understands the thoughts of God, except the Spirit of God.

The spiritual man, again, can read the meaning of everything; and yet no one can read what he is.

The foundation is laid, namely Jesus Christ, and no one can lay any other.

I have no orders from the Lord for unmarried women, but I will give you the opinion of one whom you can trust, after all the Lord's mercy to him.

If others share this right over you, why not we all the more? We did not avail ourselves of it, you say? No, we do not mind any privations if we can only avoid putting any obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ.

And my reward? This, that I can preach the gospel free of charge, that I can refrain from insisting on all my rights as a preacher of the gospel.

No temptation has waylaid you that is beyond man's power; trust God, he will never let you be tempted beyond what you can stand, but when temptation comes, he will provide the way out of it, so that you can bear up under it.

What! have you no houses to eat and drink in? Do you think you can show disrespect to the church of God and put the poor to shame? What can I say to you? Commend you? Not for this.

Let a man test himself; then he can eat from the loaf and drink from the cup.

so I tell you now, that no one is speaking in the Spirit of God when he cries, 'Cursed be Jesus,' and that no one can say, 'Jesus is Lord,' except in the holy Spirit.

I may prophesy, fathom all mysteries and secret lore, I may have such absolute faith that I can move hills from their place, but if I have no love, I count for nothing;

Inanimate instruments, such as the flute or the harp, may give a sound, but if no intervals occur in their music, how can one make out the air that is being played either on flute or on harp?

Well, it is the same with yourselves. Unless your tongue utters language that is readily understood, how can people make out what you say? You will be pouring words into the empty air!

You can all prophesy quite well, one after another, so as to let all learn and all be encouraged.

Prophets can control their own prophetic spirits,

Now if we preach that Christ rose from the dead, how can certain individuals among you assert that 'there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead'?

I tell you this, my brothers, flesh and blood cannot inherit the Realm of God, nor can the perishing inherit the imperishable.

You don't have to read between the lines of my letters; you can understand them. Yes, I trust you will understand the full meaning of my letters

This is not 'recommending myself to you again'; it is giving you an incentive to be proud of me, which you can use against men who are proud of externals instead of the inward reality.

[Keep out of all incongruous ties with unbelievers. What have righteousness and iniquity in common, or how can light associate with darkness?

What harmony can there be between Christ and Beliar, or what business has a believer with an unbeliever?

What compact can there be between God's temple and idols? For we are the temple of the living God ??as God has said, I will dwell and move among them, I will be their God and they shall be my people.

I can testify that up to their means, aye and beyond their means, they have given ??4 begging me of their own accord, most urgently, for the favour of contributing to the support of the saints.

So let them have proof of how you can love, and of my reasons for being proud of you; it will be a proof read by the churches.

He who furnishes the sower with seed and with bread to eat will supply seed for you and multiply it; he will increase the crop of your charities ??11 you will be enriched on all hands, so that you can be generous on all occasions, and your generosity, of which I am the agent, will make men give thanks to God;

this man was caught up to paradise and heard sacred secrets which no human lips can repeat.

(If I did care to boast of other things, I would be no 'fool,' for I would have a true tale to tell; however, I abstain from that ??I want no one to take me for more than he can see in me or make out from me.)

Now, what has become of all that? (I can bear witness that you would have torn out your very eyes, if you could, and given me them.)

Now it is fine for you to be made much of honestly and all the time ??not simply when I can be with you.

illuminating the eyes of your heart so that you can understand the hope to which He calls us, the wealth of his glorious heritage in the saints,

you can understand my insight into that secret of Christ

May you be so fixed and founded in love that you can grasp with all the saints what is the meaning of 'the Breadth,' 'the Length,' 'the Depth' and 'the Height,'

Now to him who by the action of his power within us can do all things, aye far more than we ever ask or imagine,

hold fast the word of life, so that I can be proud of you on the Day of Christ, because I have not run or worked for nothing.

Though I could rely on outward privilege, if I chose. Whoever thinks he can rely on that, I can outdo him.

to see if I too can attain the resurrection from the dead.

I can testify to his exertions on your behalf and on behalf of those at Laodicea and Hierapolis.

How can I render thanks enough to God for you, for all the joy you make me feel in the presence of our God?

Well, you can recall now what it is that restrains him from being revealed before his appointed time.

They too must be put on probation; after that, if they are above reproach, they can serve as deacons.

for we bring nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it.

who alone has immortality, who dwells in light that none can approach, whom no man has ever seen or can see. To him be honour and eternal dominion: Amen.

remember you have known from childhood the sacred writings that can impart saving wisdom by faith in Christ Jesus.

let your words be sound and such that no exception can be taken to them, so that the opposite side may be confounded by finding nothing that they can say to our discredit.

I pray that by their participation in your loyal faith they may have a vivid sense of how much good we Christians can attain.

can deal gently with those who err through ignorance, since he himself is beset with weakness ??3 which obliges him to present offerings for his own sins as well as for those of the People.

(for the Law made nothing perfect), and there is introduced a better Hope, by means of which we can draw near to God.

For as the Law has a mere shadow of the bliss that is to be, instead of representing the reality of that bliss, it never can perfect those who draw near with the same annual sacrifices that are perpetually offered.

Again, while every priest stands daily at his service, offering the same sacrifices repeatedly, sacrifices which never can take sins away ??12 He offered a single sacrifice for sins and then seated himself for all time at the right hand of God,

let us hold the hope we avow without wavering (for we can rely on him who gave us the Promise);

You have not come to what you can touch, to flames of fire, to mist and gloom and stormy blasts,

So that we can say confidently, The Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid. What can men do to me?

if you attend to the wearer of the handsome clothes and say to him, "Sit here, this is a good place," and tell the poor man, "You can stand," or "Sit there at my feet,"

My brothers, what is the use of anyone declaring he has faith, if he has no deeds to show? Can his faith save him?

We all make many a slip, but whoever avoids slips of speech is a perfect man; he can bridle the whole of the body as well as the tongue.

We put bridles into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, and so, you see, we can move the whole of their bodies.

So the tongue is a small member of the body, but it can boast of great exploits. What a forest is set ablaze by a little spark of fire!

no man can tame the tongue ??plague of disorder that it is, full of deadly venom!