Quotes About Identity

“Then who are you?” they inquired. “Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” He answered, “No.”

So they said to him, “Who are you? We need an answer for those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”

asked him, “Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”

“I baptize with water,” John replied, “but among you stands One you do not know.

He is the One who comes after me, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.”

This is He of whom I said, ëA man who comes after me has surpassed me because He was before me.í

I myself did not know Him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that He might be revealed to Israel.”

I have seen and testified that this is the Son of God.”

Andrew brought him to Jesus, who looked at him and said, “You are Simon son of John. You will be called Cephas” (which is translated as Peter).

“How do You know me?” Nathanael asked. Jesus replied, “Before Philip called you, I saw you under the fig tree.”

Do not be amazed that I said, ëYou must be born again.í

You yourselves can testify that I said, ëI am not the Christ, but am sent ahead of Him.í

The One who comes from above is above all. The one who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks as one from the earth. The One who comes from heaven is above all.

Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock?”

Jesus told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”

“I have no husband,” the woman replied. Jesus said to her, “You are correct to say that you have no husband.

“Sir,” the woman said, “I see that You are a prophet.

You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.

Jesus answered, “I who speak to you am He.”

But the man who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away while the crowd was there.

There is another who testifies about Me, and I know that His testimony about Me is valid.

I have come in My Fatherís name, and you have not received Me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will receive him.

At this, the Jews began to grumble about Jesus because He had said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”

They were asking, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then can He say, ëI have come down from heaven?í”