Quotes About Perception

But their eyes were kept from recognizing Him.

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.

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

He testifies to what He has seen and heard, yet no one accepts His testimony.

Now He Himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.

If I testify about Myself, My testimony is not valid.

Many in the crowds were whispering about Him. Some said, “He is a good man.” But others replied, “No, He deceives the people.”

Stop judging by outward appearances, and start judging justly.”

Then some of the people of Jerusalem began to say, “Isnít this the man they are trying to kill?

Others declared, “This is the Christ.” But still others asked, “How can the Christ come from Galilee?

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

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

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

At this, his neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging began to ask, “Isnít this the man who used to sit and beg?”

Some claimed that he was, but others said, “No, he just looks like him.” But the man kept saying, “I am the one.”

and asked, “Is this your son, the one you say was born blind? So how is it that he can now see?”

Never before has anyone heard of opening the eyes of a man born blind.

Then Jesus declared, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind may see and those who see may become blind.”

Some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard this, and they asked Him, “Are we blind too?”

“If you were blind,” Jesus replied, “you would not be guilty of sin. But since you claim you can see, your guilt remains.”

Many of them said, “He is demon-possessed and insane. Why would you listen to Him?”

But others replied, “These are not the words of a man possessed by a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”

The crowd standing there heard it and said that it had thundered. Others said that an angel had spoken to Him.