Day after day I used to be with you teaching in the temple, and you never laid hands on me. But this is so to fulfill the Scriptures."

Then Zechariah said to the angel, "How shall I know that this is so? For I am an old man, and my wife is far advanced in years."

When His parents saw Him, they were utterly amazed, and yet His mother said to Him, "My child, why did you treat us so? Just see how your father and I, in agony of mind, have been searching for you!"

And will not God give justice and protection to His chosen people who continue to cry to Him day and night, since He is so patient with them?

Then they said to him, "Who are you? Tell us, so that we can have an answer to give to those who sent us. What have you to say for yourself?"

So the Jews surrounded Him and kept asking Him, "How much longer are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are really the Christ, tell us so plainly."

"Cease from fearing, Daughter of Zion; See, your King is coming mounted on an ass's colt!"

But this is so that the saying written in their law may be fulfilled, 'They hated me without a cause.'

for them all to be one, just as you, Father, are in union with me and I in union with you, for them to be in union with us, so that the world may be convinced that you have sent me.

For some of the things you bring sound startling to us; so we want to know just what they mean."

It is so, because God's nonsense is wiser than men's wisdom, and God's weakness is mightier than men's might.

the character of each one's work will come to light, for the judgment day will show it up. This is so, because that day will show itself in fire, and the fire will test the character of each one's work.

Love is so patient and so kind; love never boils with jealousy; it never boasts, is never puffed with pride;

If the meaning of the good news I preach is covered up at all, it is so only in the case of those who are on the way to destruction.

He made Him who personally knew nothing of sin to be a sin-offering for us, so that through union with Him we might come into right standing with God.

because he has acceded to my request, or rather, because he is so enthusiastic for you, of his own accord he is off to visit you.

But God, who is so rich in mercy on account of the great love He has for us,

It is so because it was the divine choice that all the divine fullness should dwell in Him,

who died for us, so that whether we still live or sleep we may live in fellowship with Him.

how can we escape, if we pay no attention at all to a salvation that is so great? This is so because it was first proclaimed by the Lord Himself, and then it was proved to us to be valid by the very men who heard Him themselves,

it is so because the message that you have heard from the beginning is this: We should love one another.

Dearly beloved, if God has loved us so, we ought to love one another too.