Quotes About Understanding

At this, the Jews said to one another, “Where does He intend to go that we will not find Him? Will He go where the Jews are dispersed among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?

What does He mean by saying, ëYou will look for Me, but you will not find Me,í and, ëWhere I am, you cannot comeí?”

“Never has anyone spoken like this man!” the officers answered.

“Have you also been deceived?” replied the Pharisees.

But this crowd that does not know the law, they are under a curse.”

Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier and who himself was one of them, asked,

“Does our law convict a man without first hearing from him to determine what he has done?”

You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.

“Where is Your Father?” they asked Him. “You do not know Me or My Father,” Jesus answered. “If you knew Me, you would know My Father as well.”

So the Jews began to ask, “Will He kill Himself, since He says, ëWhere I am going, you cannot comeí?”

“Who are You?” they asked. “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning,” Jesus replied.

They did not understand that He was telling them about the Father.

So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on My own, but speak exactly what the Father has taught Me.

Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

I know you are Abrahamís descendants, but you are trying to kill Me because My word has no place within you.

I speak of what I have seen in the presence of the Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.”

Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you are unable to accept My message.

But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me!

Which of you can prove Me guilty of sin? If I speak the truth, why do you not believe Me?

Whoever belongs to God hears the words of God. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.”

“I do not have a demon,” Jesus replied, “but I honor My Father, and you dishonor Me.

Then the Jews said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and You have seen Abraham?”

and His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

“How then were your eyes opened?” they asked.