Quotes About Understanding

Judas (not Iscariot) asked Him, “Lord, why are You going to reveal Yourself to us and not to the world?”

And now I have told you before it happens, so that when it does happen, you will believe.

No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you.

If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first.

But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.

They will do these things because they have not known the Father or Me.

But I have told you these things so that when their hour comes, you will remember that I told you about them. I did not tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

Now, however, I am going to Him who sent Me; yet none of you asks Me, ëWhere are You going?í

I still have much to tell you, but you cannot yet bear to hear it.

However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come.

He will glorify Me by taking from what is Mine and disclosing it to you.

Then some of His disciples asked one another, “Why is He telling us, ëIn a little while you will not see Me, and then after a little while you will see Meí and ëBecause I am going to the Fatherí?”

They kept asking, “Why is He saying, ëa little whileí? We do not understand what He is saying.”

Aware that they wanted to question Him, Jesus said to them, “Are you asking one another why I said, ëIn a little while you will not see Me, and then after a little while you will see Meí?

I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. An hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you this way, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

His disciples said, “See, now You are speaking plainly and without figures of speech.

Now we understand that You know all things and that You have no need for anyone to question You. Because of this, we believe that You came from God.”

“Do you finally believe?” Jesus replied.

Now they know that everything You have given Me comes from You.

For I have given them the words You gave Me, and they have received them. They knew with certainty that I came from You, and they believed that You sent Me.

Why are you asking Me? Ask those who heard My message. Surely they know what I said.”

“Are you saying this on your own,” Jesus asked, “or did others tell you about Me?”

and he went back into the Praetorium. “Where are You from?” he asked. But Jesus gave no answer.

The one who saw it has testified to this, and his testimony is true. He knows that he is telling the truth, so that you also may believe.