Quotes About Purpose

I came from the Father and entered the world. In turn, I will leave the world and go to the Father.”

Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.

I have glorified You on earth by accomplishing the work You gave Me to do.

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

I ask on their behalf. I do not ask on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those You have given Me; for they are Yours.

But now I am coming to You; and I am saying these things while I am in the world, so that they may have My joy fulfilled within them.

They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

As You sent Me into the world, I have also sent them into the world.

that all of them may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I am in You. May they also be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.

I have given them the glory You gave Me, so that they may be one as We are one—

I in them and You in Me—that they may be perfectly united, so that the world may know that You sent Me and have loved them just as You have loved Me.

Jesus, knowing all that was coming upon Him, stepped forward and asked them, “Whom are you seeking?”

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

Then the disciples returned to their homes.

Again Jesus said to them, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent Me, so also I am sending you.”

Simon Peter told them, “I am going fishing.” “We will go with you,” they said. So they went out and got into the boat, but caught nothing that night.

The other disciples came ashore in the boat. They dragged in the net full of fish, for they were not far from land, only about a hundred yards.

Jesus said this to indicate the kind of death by which Peter would glorify God. And after He had said this, He told him, “Follow Me.”

When Peter saw him, he asked, “Lord, what about him?”

Jesus answered, “If I want him to remain until I return, what is that to you? You follow Me!”

Because of this, the rumor spread among the brothers that this disciple would not die. However, Jesus did not say that he would not die, but only, “If I want him to remain until I return, what is that to you?”

Jesus replied, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority.

to take up this ministry and apostleship, which Judas abandoned to go to his rightful place.”

They carried out what Your hand and will had decided beforehand would happen.