He who comes from above is above all others. A son of earth belongs to earth and speaks of earth. He who comes from heaven is above all others.

The Father loves his Son, and has put everything in his hands.

Whoever believes in the Son possesses eternal life, but whoever disobeys the Son will not experience life, but will remain under the anger of God.

So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph,

Are you a greater man than our forefather Jacob, who gave us this well, and drank from it himself, with his sons and his flocks?"

So he came back to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water into wine. There was at Capernaum one of the king's officials whose son was sick.

When he heard that Jesus had come back from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and begged him to come down and cure his son, for he was at the point of death.

Jesus said to him, "You can go home. Your son is going to live." The man believed what Jesus said to him and went home.

So the father knew that it was the very time when Jesus had said to him "Your son is going to live." And he and his whole household believed in Jesus.

So Jesus answered them, "I tell you, the Son cannot do anything of his own accord, unless he sees the Father doing it. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does.

For the Father loves the Son and lets him see everything that he himself is doing, and he will let him see greater deeds than these, to make you wonder.

For just as the Father awakens the dead and makes them come to life, the Son makes anyone whom he chooses come to life.

For the Father passes judgment on no one, but he has committed the judgment entirely to the Son,

so that all men may honor the Son just as much as they honor the Father. Whoever refuses to honor the Son refuses to honor the Father who sent him.

I tell you, the time is coming??t is here already!??hen those who are dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen to it will live.

For just as the Father is self-existent, he has given self-existence to the Son,

and he has given him the authority to act as judge, because he is a son of man.

You must not work for the food that perishes, but for that which lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, for God the Father has authorized him to do so."

For it is the purpose of my Father that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and that I shall raise him to life on the Last Day."

and they said, "Is he not Joseph's son, Jesus, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, 'I have come down out of heaven'?"

Then Jesus said to them, "I tell you, if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no self-existent life.

Then what if you see the Son of Man go up where he was before?

He meant Judas the son of Simon Iscariot, for he, though he was one of the Twelve, was going to betray him.

So Jesus said, "When you lift the Son of Man up in the air, then you will know that I am what I say, and that I do nothing of my own accord, but speak as the Father has instructed me.

Now a slave does not belong to a household permanently; but a son does.

So if the Son sets you free you will be really free.

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

His parents answered, "We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind.

Jesus learned that they had excluded him, and he found the man and said to him, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"

If those to whom God's message was addressed were called gods??nd the Scripture cannot be set aside??36 do you mean to say to me whom the Father has consecrated and made his messenger to the world, 'You are blasphemous,' because I said, 'I am God's Son'?

When Jesus received it he said, "This sickness is not to end in death, but is for the honor of God, that through it the Son of God may be honored."

She said to him, "Yes, Master, I do indeed believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world."

Jesus answered, "The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

The crowd answered, "We have learned from the Law that the Christ is to remain here forever. So how can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?"

While you have the light believe in the light, that you may become sons of light." With these words Jesus went away, and disappeared from them.

So at supper??he devil having by this time put the thought of betraying Jesus into the mind of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son??3 Jesus, fully aware that the Father had put everything into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,

Jesus answered, "It is the one to whom I am going to give this piece of bread when I have dipped it in the dish." So he dipped the piece of bread and took it and gave it to Judas, Simon Iscariot's son.

When he was gone, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man has been honored, and God has been honored through him,

Anything you ask for as followers of mine I will grant, so that the Father may be honored through the Son.

When Jesus had said all this he raised his eyes to heaven and said, "Father, the time has come. Do honor to your son, that your son may do honor to you,

The Jews answered, "We have a law, and by our law he deserves death, for declaring himself to be a son of God."

So Jesus, seeing his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing near, said to his mother, "There is your son!"

But these have been recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and through believing you may have life as his followers.

Simon Peter, Thomas called the Twin, Nathanael, of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two other disciples of Jesus were all together.

When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, are you more devoted to me than these others are?" Peter said to him, "Yes, Master, you know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Then feed my lambs!"

Again Jesus said to him a second time, "Simon, son of John, are you devoted to me?" He said to him, "Yes, Master, you know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Then be a shepherd to my sheep!"

Jesus said to him a third time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter was hurt because the third time Jesus asked him if he loved him, and he answered, "Master, you know everything, you can see that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Then feed my sheep!

When they entered the city they went to the upstairs room where they were staying. There were Peter, John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James, the son of Alpheus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas, the son of James.

" 'It will come about in the last days, God says, That I will pour out my Spirit upon all mankind; Your sons and daughters will become prophets, Your young men will have visions, And your old men will have dreams.

Joseph, a Levite, and a native of Cyprus, whom the apostles had named Barnabas, which means Son of Encouragement,

and they were carried back to Shechem, and laid in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

When he was abandoned, the daughter of Pharaoh adopted him and brought him up as her own son.

At those words Moses fled, and went and lived for a time in Midian, and two sons were born to him there.

And he said, "Look! I can see heaven open, and the Son of Man standing at God's right hand!"

and began at once to declare in the synagogues that Jesus was the Son of God.

and said, "You monster of underhandedness and cunning! You son of the devil! You enemy of all that is right! Will you never stop trying to make the Lord's straight paths crooked?

Then they demanded a king and for forty years God gave them Saul, the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin.

Then he removed him and raised David up to be their king, bearing this testimony to him: 'I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my own heart, who will do all that I desire.'

that God has fulfilled to us, their children, the promise that he made to our forefathers, by raising Jesus to life, just as the Scripture says in the second psalm, You are my Son! Today I have become your Father!'

A Jewish high priest named Sceva had seven sons who were doing this.

He was accompanied by Sopater of Berea, the son of Pyrrhus, Aristarchus and Secundus, from Thessalonica, Gaius of Derbe, Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus, from Asia.

Knowing that part of them were Sadducees and part of them Pharisees, Paul called out in the council, "Brothers, I am a Pharisee, and the son of Pharisees! It is for my hope for the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial!"

about his Son, who was physically descended from David,

and decisively declared Son of God in his holiness of spirit, by being raised from the dead??esus Christ our Lord,

As God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in spreading the good news of his Son, I never fail to mention you when I pray,

If, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, it is far more certain that now that we are reconciled we shall be saved through sharing in his life!

For though it was impossible for the Law to do it, hampered as it was by our physical limitations, God, by sending his own Son in our sinful physical form, as a sin-offering, put his condemnation upon sin through his physical nature,

For all who are guided by God's Spirit are God's sons.

It is not a consciousness of servitude that has been imparted to you, to fill you with fear again, but the consciousness of adoption as sons, which makes us cry, "Abba!" that is, Father.

For creation is waiting with eager longing for the sons of God to be disclosed.

More than that, we ourselves, though we have in the Spirit a foretaste of the future, groan to ourselves as we wait to be declared God's sons, through the redemption of our bodies.

For those whom he had marked out from the first he predestined to be made like his Son, so that he should be the eldest of many brothers;

Will not he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all, with that gift give us everything?

For this is what the promise said: "When I come back at this time next year, Sarah will have a son."

And that is not all, for there was Rebecca too, when she was about to bear twin sons to our forefather Isaac.

And in the very place where they were told, 'You are no people of mine,' They shall be called sons of the living God."

And Isaiah cries out about Israel, "Although the sons of Israel are as numerous as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved,

God can be depended on, and it was he who called you to this fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

Then what is the right course, brothers? When you meet together, suppose every one of you has a song, a teaching, a revelation, an ecstatic utterance, or an explanation of one; it must all be for the good of all.

And when everything is reduced to subjection to him, then the Son himself will also become subject to him who has reduced everything to subjection to him, so that God may be everything to everyone.

The Son of God, Christ Jesus, whom we proclaimed among you, Silvanus, Timothy, and I, you have not found wavering between "Yes" and "No." With him it has always been "Yes,"

I will become a father to you, And you shall become my sons and daughters, Says the Lord Almighty."

to reveal his Son to me, so that I might preach the good news about him to the heathen, immediately, instead of consulting with any human being,

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me. The life I am now living in the body I am living by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.

For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God through your faith.

but when the proper time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, and made subject to law,

And because you are sons, God has sent into our hearts the spirit of his Son, with the cry, "Abba!" that is, Father.

So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir, made so by God.

For the Scripture says that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave-girl, and one by the free woman.

Yet what does the Scripture say? "Drive the slave-girl and her son away, for the slave-girl's son shall not share the inheritance with the son of the free woman."

He foreordained us to become his sons through Jesus Christ, in fulfilment of his generous purpose,

so that we might praise the splendid blessing which he has given us through his beloved Son.

until we all attain unity in faith, and in the knowledge of the Son of God, and reach mature manhood, and that full measure of development found in Christ.

But you know his character, and how like a son helping his father he has worked like a slave with me in preaching the good news.

I was circumcised when I was eight days old. I am a descendant of Israel. I belong to the tribe of Benjamin. I am a Hebrew, and the son of Hebrews. As to the Law, I was a Pharisee;

He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness, and has transferred us into the realm of his dear Son,

and to wait for the coming from heaven of his Son, whom he raised from the dead??esus, our deliverer from God's coming wrath.

These are the instructions that I intrust to you, my son Timothy, and they are in accordance with the predictions made long ago about you. Fight the good fight with their aid,

So you, my son, must find strength in the blessing that comes through Christ Jesus.

but in these latter days he has spoken to us in a Son, whom he had destined to possess everything, and through whom he had made the world.