Quotes About Wisdom

Every day Jesus taught at the temple, but every evening He went out to spend the night on the Mount of Olives.

But you shall not be like them. Instead, the greatest among you should be like the youngest, and the one who leads like the one who serves.

“Now, however,” He told them, “the one with a purse should take it, and likewise a bag; and the one without a sword should sell his cloak and buy one.

And if I ask you a question, you will not answer.

Herod questioned Jesus at great length, but He gave no answer.

For if men do these things while the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?”

Then they remembered His words.

Then Jesus said to them, “O foolish ones, how slow are your hearts to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.

He was with God in the beginning.

In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.

The true Light who gives light to every man was coming into the world.

Jesus turned and saw them following. “What do you want?” He asked. They said to Him, “Rabbi” (which means Teacher), “where are You staying?”

His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever He tells you.”

But Jesus did not entrust Himself to them, for He knew them all.

He did not need any testimony about man, for He knew what was in a man.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews.

He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs You are doing if God were not with him.”

“How can a man be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked. “Can he enter his motherís womb a second time to be born?”

“You are Israelís teacher,” said Jesus, “and you do not understand these things?

If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?

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.

For the One whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit.

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