CHAPTER 9 JESUS AND THE PEOPLE

Nathanael, you will even see heaven open
Nicodemus, you must be born again
Human nature is changeable
Jesus went to Galilee
To a Samaritan woman, Jesus says, “I am the Messiah”
Jesus, doing the will of God
Jesus goes to Galilee
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me
Turn from sin and turn to God
Jesus must preach in other places too
Invitation to Matthew
Getting sinners back to God
God, the Father of Jesus
Jesus teaches and heals
Jesus’ tour of Galilee
Jesus’ stories
Anger and unbelief at Nazareth
Show us more miracles
The representative of one who is Truth
You won’t be able to come where I am
Rivers of Living Water
Martha and Mary, one thing worth being concerned about
Zacchaeus, salvation has come to this home today
He is the Messiah
Onward towards Jerusalem
I am the Way and the Truth and the Life
I am going away to the One who sent me
The Comforter will come
We believe that you came from God
I could ask my Father
What I teach is widely known
I am the Son of God
All who love the truth are my followers

Nathanael, you will even see heaven open
John 1:47-51
Jesus said, “Here comes an honest man – a true son of Israel.”
“How do you know what I am like?” Nathanael demanded
And Jesus replied, “I could see you under the fig tree before Philip found you.”
Nathanael replied, “Sir, you are the Son of God – the King of Israel!”
Jesus asked him, “Do you believe all this just because I told you I had seen you under the fig tree? You will see greater proofs than this. You will even see heaven open and the angels of God coming back and forth to me, the Man of Glory.”

Nicodemus, you must be born again
John 3:1-13
After dark one night a Jewish religious leader named Nicodemus, a member of the sect of the Pharisees, came for an interview with Jesus. “Sir, “he said, “we all know that God has sent you to teach us. Your miracles are proof enough of this.”
Jesus replied, “With all the earnestness I possess I tell you this: Unless you are born again, you can never get into the Kingdom of God.”
“Born again!” exclaimed Nicodemus. “What do you mean? How can an old man go back into his mother’s womb and be born again?”
Jesus replied, “What I am telling you so earnestly is this: Unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God. Men can only reproduce human life, but the Holy Spirit gives new life from heaven; so don’t be surprised at my statement that you must be born again. Just as you can hear the wind but can’t tell where it comes from or where it will go next, so it is with the Spirit. We do not know on whom he will next bestow this life from heaven.”
“What do you mean?” Nicodemus asked.
Jesus replied, “You, a respected Jewish teacher, and yet you don’t understand these things? I am telling you what I know and have seen – and yet you won’t believe me. But if you don’t even believe me when I tell you about such things as these that happen here among men, how can you possibly believe if I tell you what is going on in heaven? For only I, the Man of Heaven, have come to earth and will return to heaven again.”

Human nature is changeable
John 2:23-25
Because of the miracles he did in Jerusalem at the Passover celebration, many people were convinced that he was indeed the Messiah. But Jesus didn’t trust them, for he knew mankind to the core. No one needed to tell him how changeable human nature is.

Jesus went to Galilee
John 4:1-4
When the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that greater crowds were coming to him than to John to be baptized and to become his disciples – (though Jesus himself didn’t baptize them, but his disciples did) – he left Judea and returned to the province of Galilee. He had to go through Samaria on the way.
Mark 1:14
Later on, after John was arrested by King Herod, Jesus went to Galilee to preach God’s Good News.
Matthew 4:12-13
When Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he left Judea and returned (home) to Nazareth in Galilee.
Luke 4:14
Then Jesus returned to Galilee, full of the Holy Spirit’s power.

To a Samaritan woman, Jesus says “I am the Messiah”
John 4:5-26
Around noon as Jesus approached the village of Sychar, he came to Jacob’s Well, on the plot of ground Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Jesus was tired from the long walk in the hot sun and sat wearily beside the well.
Soon a Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus asked her for a drink. He was alone at the time as his disciples had gone into the village to buy some food. The woman was surprised that a Jew would ask a “despised Samaritan” for anything – usually they wouldn’t even speak to them – and she remarked about this to Jesus.
He replied, “If you only knew what a wonderful gift God has for you, and who I am, you would ask me for some living water.”
“But you don’t have a rope or a bucket,” she said, “and this is a very deep well. From where would you get this living water? And besides are you greater than our ancestor Jacob? How can you offer better water than this which he and his sons and cattle enjoyed?”
Jesus replied that people soon became thirsty again after drinking this water. “But the water I give them,” he said, “becomes a perpetual spring within them, watering them forever with eternal life.”
“Please, sir,” the woman said, “give me some of that water! Then I’ll never be thirsty again and won’t have to make this long trip out here every day.”
“Go and get your husband,” Jesus told her.
“But I’m not married,” the woman replied.
“All too true!” Jesus said. “For you have had five husbands, and you aren’t even married to the man you’re living with now, [You couldn’t have spoken a truer word.]”
“Sir,” the woman said, “you must be a prophet. But tell me, why is it that you Jews insist that Jerusalem is the only place of worship, while we Samaritans claim it is here [at Mount Gerazim] where our ancestors worshipped?”
Jesus replied, “The time is coming when we will no longer be concerned about whether to worship the Father here or in Jerusalem. For it’s not where we worship that counts, but how we worship – is our worship spiritual and real? For God is Spirit, and we must have his help to worship as we should. The Father wants this kind of worship from us. But you Samaritans know so little about him, worshipping blindly, while we Jews know all about him, for salvation comes to the world through the Jews.”
The woman said, “Well, at least I know that the Messiah will come – the one they call Christ – and when he does, he will explain everything to us.”
Then Jesus told her, “I am the Messiah.”
John 4:27-30
Just then his disciples arrived. They were surprised to find him talking to a woman, but none of them asked him why, or what they had been discussing.
Then the woman left her waterpot beside the well and went back to the village and told everyone, “Come and meet a man who told me everything I ever did! Can this be the Messiah?” So the people came streaming from the village to see him.
John 4:39-42
Many from that Samaritan village believed he was the Messiah because of the woman’s report: “He told me everything I ever did!”
(When they came out to see him at the well, they begged him to stay in their village; and he did, for two days, long enough for many of them to believe in him after hearing him. Then they said to the woman, “Now we believe because we have heard him ourselves, not just because of what you told us. He is indeed the Savior of the world.”)

Jesus, doing the will of God
John 4:31-38
Meanwhile, the disciples were urging Jesus to eat. “No,” he said, “I have some food you don’t know about.”
“Who brought it to him?” the disciples asked each other.
Then Jesus explained: “My nourishment comes from doing the will of God who sent me, and from finishing his work. Do you think the work of harvesting will not begin until the summer ends four months from now? Look around you! Vast fields are ripening all around us, and are ready now for reaping. The reapers will be paid good wages and will be gathering men and women into the granaries of heaven. What joys await the sower and the reaper, both together! For it is true that one sows and someone else reaps. I sent you to reap where you didn’t sow; others did the work, and you received the harvest.”

Jesus goes to Galilee
Matthew 4:12
Jesus returned (home) to Nazareth in Galilee.
Mark 1:14
Jesus went to Galilee.
Luke 4:14
Then Jesus returned to Galilee, full of the Holy Spirit’s power.
John 4:43-45
At the end of the two days’ stay he went on into Galilee, for as Jesus put it, “A prophet is honored everywhere except in his own country!” But the Galileans welcomed him with open arms, for they had been in Jerusalem at the Passover celebration and had seen some of his miracles.
Luke 4:14
Soon he became well known throughout that entire region for his sermons in the synagogues; everyone praised him.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me
Luke 4:16-31
When Jesus came to the village of Nazareth, his boyhood home, he went as usual to the synagogue on Saturday, and stood up to read the Scriptures. The book of Isaiah the prophet was handed to him, and he opened it to the place where it says: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; he has appointed me to preach Good News to the poor; he had sent me to heal the brokenhearted and to announce that captives shall be released and the blind shall see, that the downtrodden shall be freed from their oppressors, and that God is ready to give blessings to all who come to him.”
He closed the book and handed it back to the attendant and sat down, while everyone in the synagogue gazed at him intently. Then Jesus added, “These Scriptures came true today!”
All who were there spoke well of him and were amazed by the beautiful words that fell from his lips. “How can this be?” they asked.
“Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”
Then Jesus said, “Probably you will quote me that proverb, ‘Physician, heal yourself’ – meaning, ‘Why don’t you do miracles here in your own home town like those you did in Capernaum?’ But I solemnly declare to you that no prophet is accepted in his own home town.
For example, remember how Elijah the prophet used a miracle to help the widow of Zarephath – a foreigner from the land of Sidon. There were many Jewish widows needing help in those days of famine, for there had been no rain for three and a half years, and hunger stalked the land; yet Elijah was not sent to them. Or think of the prophet Elisha, who healed Naaman, a Syrian, rather than the many Jewish lepers needing help.”
These remarks stung them to fury. Jumping up, they mobbed him and took him to the edge of the hill on which the city was built, to push him over the cliff. But he walked away through the crowd and left them.
Then he returned to Capernaum, a city in Galilee.

Turn from sin and turn to God
Matthew 4:13-17
Soon Jesus moved to Capernaum, beside the Lake of Galilee, close to Zebulun and Naphtali. This fulfilled Isaiah’s prophecy: “The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, beside the Lake, and the countryside beyond the river Jordan, and Upper Galilee where so many foreigners live – there the people who sat in darkness have seen a great Light; they sat in the land of death, and the Light broke through upon them.” From then on, Jesus began to preach, “Turn from sin, (turn from disobeying God’s laws) and turn to God, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near.”
Mark 1:15
“At last the time has come,” Jesus announced. “God’s Kingdom is near! Turn from your sins (your thoughts, speech and actions against the laws of God) and act on this glorious news.”
Luke 4:42
Early the next morning Jesus went out into the desert.
Mark 1:35-38
The next morning Jesus was up long before daybreak and went out alone into the wilderness to pray.
Later, Simon and the others went out to find him, and told him, “Everyone is asking for you.”
But Jesus replied, “We must go on to other towns as well, and give my message to them too, for that is why I came.”

Jesus must preach in other places too
Luke 4:42-44
The crowds searched everywhere for him and when they finally found him they begged him not to leave them, but to stay at Capernaum. But Jesus replied, “I must preach the Good News of the Kingdom of God in other places too, for that is why I was sent.”
So he continued to travel around preaching in synagogues throughout Judea.
Mark 1:39
So Jesus traveled throughout the province of Galilee, preaching in the synagogues and releasing many from the power of demons.
Matthew 4:23-24
Jesus traveled all through Galilee teaching in the Jewish synagogues, everywhere preaching the Good News about the Kingdom of Heaven. And he healed every kind of sickness and disease. The report of his miracles spread far beyond the borders of Galilee so that sick folk were soon coming to be healed from as far away as Syria. And whatever their illness and pain, or if they were possessed by demons, or were insane, or paralysed – he healed them all.
Mark 1:45
As the man went on his way he began to shout the good news that he was healed: as a result, such crowds soon surrounded Jesus that he could not publicly enter a city anywhere, but had to stay out in the barren wastelands. And people from everywhere came to him there.
Luke 5:15-16
Now the report of his power spread even faster and vast crowds came to hear him preach and to be healed of their diseases. But Jesus often withdrew to the wilderness for prayer.
Mark 2:13
Then Jesus went out to the seashore again, and preached to the crowds that gathered around him.

Invitation to Matthew
Matthew 9:9
As Jesus was going on down the road, he saw a tax collector, Matthew, sitting at a tax collection booth. “Come and be my disciple,” Jesus said to him, and Matthew jumped up and went along with him.
Mark 2:14
As Jesus was walking up the beach he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at his tax collection booth. “Come with me,” Jesus told him. “Come, be my disciple.” And Levi jumped to his feet and went with him.
Luke 5:27-28
Later on as Jesus left the town he saw a tax collector – with the usual reputation for cheating – sitting at a tax collection booth. The man’s name was Levi. Jesus said to him, “Come and be one of my disciples.” So Levi left everything, sprang up and went with him.

Getting sinners back to God
Matthew 9:10-13
Later, as Jesus and his disciples were eating dinner [at Matthew’s house], there were many notorious swindlers (cheats) there as guests.
The Pharisees were indignant. “Why does your teacher associate with men like that?”
“Because people who are well don’t need a doctor! It’s the sick people who do!” was Jesus’ reply. Then he added, “Go away and learn this verse of Scripture, ‘It isn’t your sacrifices and your gifts I care about – it’s that you have some pity.’ My job down here on earth is to get sinners (those people who disobey God’s laws) back to God – not to worry about the good people.”
Mark 2:15-17
That night Levi invited his fellow tax collectors and many other notorious sinners to be his dinner guests so that they could meet Jesus and his disciples. (There were many men of this type among the crowds that followed him.) But when some of the Jewish religious leaders saw Jesus eating with these men of ill repute, they said to his disciples, “How can he stand it, to eat with such scum?
When Jesus heard what they were saying, he told them, “Sick people need the doctor, not healthy ones! I haven’t come to tell the good people to repent, but the bad ones (to repent and turn right around to God).”
Luke 5:29-32
Levi held a reception in his home with Jesus as the guest of honor. Many of Levi’s fellow tax collectors and other guests were there.
But the Pharisees and teachers of the Law complained bitterly to Jesus’ disciples about his eating with such notorious sinners.
Jesus answered them, “It is the sick who need a doctor, not those in good health. My purpose is to invite sinners to turn from their sins, not to spend my time with those who think themselves already good enough.”

God, the Father of Jesus
John 5:15-18
Then the man went to find the Jewish leaders and told them it was Jesus who had healed him.
So they began harassing Jesus as a Sabbath-breaker. But Jesus replied, “My Father constantly does good, and I am following his example.”
Then the Jewish leaders were all the more eager to kill him, because in addition to disobeying their Sabbath laws, he had spoken of God as his Father, thereby making himself equal with God.

Jesus teaches and heals
Luke 6:17-19
When they came down from the slopes of the mountain, they stood with Jesus on a large, level area, surrounded by many of his followers who, in turn, were surrounded by the crowds. For people from all over Judea and from Jerusalem and from as far north as the sea coasts of Tyre and Sidon had come to hear him or to be healed. And he cast out many demons. Everyone was trying to touch him, for when they did healing power went out from him and they were cured.
Matthew 5:1
One day as the crowds were gathering, he went up the hillside with his disciples and sat down and taught them there.
Luke 6:20
Then he turned to his disciples and said…
Matthew 7:28-29
The crowds were amazed at Jesus’ sermons, for he taught as one who had great authority, and not as their Jewish leaders.

Jesus’ tour of Galilee
Luke 8:1-3
Not long afterwards Jesus began a tour of the cities and villages of Galilee to announce the coming of the Kingdom of God, and took his twelve disciples with him. Some women went along, from whom he had cast out demons or whom he had healed; among them were Mary Magdalene (Jesus had cast out seven demons from her), Joanna, Chuza’s wife (Chuza was King Herod’s business manager and was in charge of his palace and domestic affairs), Susanna, and many others who were contributing from their private means to the support of Jesus and his disciples.

Jesus’ stories
Matthew 13:34-35
Jesus constantly used these stories with a meaning when speaking to the crowds. In fact, because the prophets said that he would use so many, he never spoke to them without at least one story. For it had been prophesied, “I will talk in parables; I will explain mysteries hidden since the beginning of time.”
Mark 4:33-34
Jesus used many such illustrations to teach the people as much as they were ready to understand. In fact, he taught only by illustrations in his public teaching, but afterwards, when he was alone with his disciples; he would explain his meaning to them.

Anger and unbelief at Nazareth
Matthew 13:54-58
Jesus returned to his home town, Nazareth in Galilee
Jesus taught there in the synagogue and astonished everyone with his wisdom and his miracles.
“How is this possible?” the people exclaimed. “He’s just a carpenter’s son, and we know Mary his mother and his brothers – James, Joseph, Simon and Judas. And his sisters – they all live here. How can he be so great?” And they became angry with him.
Then Jesus told them, “A prophet is honored everywhere except in his own country, and among his own people!” And so he did only a few miracles there, because of their unbelief.
Mark6:1-6
Soon afterwards Jesus left that section of the country and returned with his disciples to Nazareth, his home town. The next Sabbath he went to the synagogue to teach, and the people were astonished at his intellect and his miracles because he was just a local man like themselves.
“He’s no better than we are,” they said. “He’s just a carpenter, Mary’s boy, and a brother of James and Joseph, Judas and Simon. And his sisters live right here among us.” And they were offended.
Then Jesus told them, “A prophet is honored everywhere except in his home town and among his relatives and by his own family.” And because of their unbelief he couldn’t do any mighty miracles among them except to place his hands on a few sick people and heal them. He could hardly accept the fact that they wouldn’t believe in him.
John 6:22-28
The next morning, back across the lake, crowds began gathering on the shore [waiting to see Jesus]. For they knew that he and his disciples had come over together and that the disciples had gone off in their boat, leaving him behind. Several small boats from Tiberius were nearby, so when the people saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and went across to Capernaum to look for him.
When they arrived and found him, they said, “Sir, how did you get here?” Jesus replied, “The truth of the matter is that you want to be with me because I fed you, not because you believe in me. But you shouldn’t be so concerned about perishable things like food. No, spend your energy seeking the eternal life that I, the Man from heaven can give you. For God the Father has sent me for this very purpose.”
They replied, “What should we do to satisfy God?”
Jesus told them, “This is the will of God that you believe in the one he has sent.”

Show us more miracles
John 6:30-31
They replied, “You must show us more miracles if you want us to believe you are the Messiah. Give us free bread every day, like our fathers had while they journeyed through the wilderness! As the Scriptures say, ‘Moses gave them bread from heaven.”
John 6:34
“Sir,” they said, “give us that bread every day of our lives!”
John 6:36
Jesus said, “But the trouble is, as I have told you before, you haven’t believed even though you have seen me.”
John 7:11-13
The Jewish leaders tried to find him at the celebration and kept asking if anyone had seen him. There was a lot of discussion about him among the crowds. Some said, “He is a wonderful man,” while others said, “No, he’s fooling the public.” But no one had the courage to speak out for him in public for fear of reprisals from the Jewish leaders.
John 7:14-20
Then, midway through the festival, Jesus went up to the Temple and preached openly. The Jewish leaders were surprised when they heard him. “How can he know so much when he’s never been to our schools?” they asked.
So Jesus told them, “I’m not teaching you my own thoughts, but those of God who sent me. If any of you really determines to do God’s will, then he will certainly know whether my teaching is from God or is merely my own. Anyone presenting his own ideas is looking for praise for himself, but anyone seeking to honor the one who sent him is a good and true person. None of you obeys the laws of Moses. So why attack me for breaking them? Why kill me for this?”
The crowd replied, “You’re out of your mind! Who’s trying to kill you?”

The representative of one who is Truth
John 7:25-31
Some of the people who lived there in Jerusalem said among themselves, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill? But here he is preaching in public, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that our leaders have learned, after all, that he really is the Messiah? But how could he be? For we know where this man was born; when Christ comes, he will just appear and no one will know where he comes from.”

So Jesus, in a sermon in the Temple, called out, “Yes, you know me and where I was born and brought up, but I am the representative of one you don’t know, and he is Truth. I know him because I was with him, and he sent me to you.”
Then the Jewish leaders sought to arrest him; but no hand was laid on him, for God’s time had not yet come.
Many among the crowds at the Temple believed on him. “After all,” they said, “what miracles do you expect the Messiah to do that this man hasn’t done?”

You won’t be able to come where I am
John 7:32-36
When the Pharisees heard that the crowds were in this mood, they and the chief priests sent officers to arrest Jesus. But Jesus told them, “[Not yet!] I am to be here a little longer. Then I shall return to the one who sent me. You will search for me but not find me. And you won’t be able to come where I am.”
The Jewish leaders were puzzled by this statement. “Where is he planning to go?” they asked. “Maybe he is thinking of leaving the country and going as a missionary among the Jews in other lands, or maybe even to the Gentiles. What does he mean about our looking for him and not being able to find him, and, ‘You won’t be able to come where I am’?”

Rivers of Living Water
John 7:37-44
On the last day, the climax of the holidays, Jesus shouted to the crowds, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. For the Scriptures declare that rivers of living water shall flow from the inmost being of anyone who believes in me.”
(He was speaking of the Holy Spirit, who would be given to everyone believing in him; but the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet returned to his glory in heaven.)
When the crowds heard him say this some of them declared, “This man surely is the prophet who will come just before the Messiah.” Others said, “He is the Messiah.” Still others, “But he can’t be! Will the Messiah come from Galilee? For the Scriptures clearly state that the Messiah will be born of the royal line of David, in Bethlehem, the village where David was born.” So the crowd was divided about him. And some wanted him arrested, but no one touched him.

Martha and Mary, one thing worth being concerned about
Luke 10:38-42
As Jesus and the disciples continued on their way to Jerusalem they came to a village where a woman named Martha welcomed them into her home. Her sister Mary sat on the floor, listening to Jesus as he talked.
But Martha was the jittery type, and was worrying over the big dinner she was preparing.
She came to Jesus and said, “Sir, doesn’t it seem unfair to you that my sister just sits here while I do all the work? Tell her to come and help me.”
But the Lord said to her, “Martha, dear friend, you are so upset over all these details! There is only one thing worth being concerned about. Mary has discovered it – and I won’t take it away from her.”

Zacchaeus, salvation has come to this home today
Luke 19:1-10
As Jesus was passing through Jericho, a man named Zacchaeus, one of the most influential Jews in the Roman tax-collecting business (and, of course, a very rich man) tried to get a look at Jesus, but he was too short to see over the crowds. So he ran ahead and climbed into a sycamore tree beside the road, to watch from there.
When Jesus came by he looked up at Zacchaeus and called him by name. “Zacchaeus,” he said, “Quick! Come down! For I am going to be a guest in your home today.”
Zacchaeus hurriedly climbed down and took Jesus to his house in great excitement and joy.
But the crowds were displeased. “He has gone to be the guest of a notorious sinner,” they grumbled.
Meanwhile, Zacchaeus stood before the Lord and said, “Sir, from now on I will give half my wealth to the poor, and if I find I have overcharged anyone on his taxes, I will give him back four times as much!”
Jesus told him, “This shows that salvation has come to this home today. This man was one of the lost sons of Abraham, and I, the Son of Mankind, have come to search for and to save such people.”

He is the Messiah
John 10:40-42
Jesus went beyond the river Jordan to stay near the place where John (the Baptist) was first baptizing. And many followed him.
“John didn’t do miracles,” they remarked to one another, “but all his predictions concerning this man have come true.” And many came to the decision that he was the Messiah.

Onward towards Jerusalem
Luke 13:22
Jesus went from city to city and village to village, teaching as he went, always pressing onward towards Jerusalem.

I am the Way, and the Truth and the Life
John 14:1-11
Jesus said, “Let not your heart be troubled. You are trusting God, now trust in me. There are many homes up there where my Father lives, and I am going to prepare them for your coming. When everything is ready then I will come and get you, so that you can always be with me where I am. If this weren’t so, I would tell you plainly. And you know where I am going and how to get there.”
“No, we don’t,” Thomas said. “We haven’t any idea where you are going, so how can we know the way?”
Jesus told him, “I am the Way – yes, and the Truth and the Life. No one can get to the Father except by means of me. If you had known who I am, then you would have known who my Father is. From now on you know him – and have seen him!”
Philip said, “Sir, show us the Father and we will be satisfied.”
Jesus replied, “Don’t you even yet know who I am, Philip, even after all this time I have been with you? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. So why are you asking to see him? Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I say are not my own but are from my Father who lives in me. And he does his work through me. Just believe it – that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Or else believe it because of the mighty miracles you have seen me do.

I am going away to the One who sent me
John 16:4-5
Jesus said, “Yes I am telling you these things now so that when they happen you will remember I warned you. I didn’t tell you earlier because I was going to be with you for a little while longer.”
“But now I am going away to the one who sent me; and none of you seems interested in the purpose of my going; none wonders why.”

The Comforter will come
John 16:6-15
Instead you are only filled with sorrow. But the fact of the matter is that it is best for you that I go away, for if I don’t, the Comforter won’t come. If I do, he will – for I will send him to you.”
“And when he has come he will convince the world of its sin, and of the availability of God’s goodness, and of deliverance from judgment. The world’s sin is unbelief in me; there is righteousness available because I go to the Father and you shall see me no more; there is deliverance from judgment because the prince of this world has already been judged.”
“Oh, there is so much more I want to tell you, but you can’t understand it now. When the Holy Spirit, who is truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not be presenting his own ideas, but will be passing on to you what he has heard. He will tell you about the future. He shall praise me and bring me great honor by showing you my glory. All the Father’s glory is mine; this is what I mean when I say that he will show you my glory.

We believe that you came from God
John 16:28-33

Jesus said, “Yes, I came from the Father into the world and will leave the world and return to the Father.”
“At last you are speaking plainly,” his disciples said, “and not in riddles (and not in puzzles). Now we understand that you know everything and don’t need anyone to tell you anything. From this we believe that you came from God.”
“Do you finally believe this?” Jesus asked, “But the time is coming – in fact, it is here – when you will be scattered, each one returning to his own home, leaving me alone. Yet I will not be alone, for the Father is with me. I have told you all this so that you will have peace of heart and mind. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows; but take courage, I have overcome the world.”

I could ask my Father
Matthew 26:53-54
Jesus said, “Don’t you realize that I could ask my Father for thousands of angels to protect us, and he would send them instantly? But if I did, how would the Scriptures be fulfilled that describe what is happening now?”

What I teach is widely known
John 18:20
Jesus said, “What I teach is widely known, for I have preached regularly in the synagogue and Temple; I have been heard by all the Jewish leaders and teach nothing in private that I have not said in public.”

I am the Son of God
Luke 22:69-70
Jesus said, “But the time is soon coming when I, the Man of Glory, shall be enthroned beside Almighty God.”
They all shouted, “Then you claim you are the Son of God?”
And Jesus replied, “Yes, I am.”

All who love the truth are my followers
John 18:36-37
Then Jesus answered, “I am not an earthly king. If I were, my followers would have fought when I was arrested by the Jewish leaders. But my Kingdom is not of the world.”
Pilate replied, “But you are a king then?”
“Yes,” Jesus said. “I was born for that purpose. And I came to bring truth to the world. All who love the truth are my followers.”
Luke 23:28-31
But Jesus turned and said to them, “Daughters of Jerusalem don’t weep for me, but for yourselves and for your children. For the days are coming when the women who have no children will be counted fortunate indeed. Mankind will beg the mountains to fall on them and crush them, and the hills to bury them. For if such things as this are done to me, the Living Tree, what will they do to you?”
Luke 23:34
“Father, forgive these people,” Jesus said, “for they don’t know what they are doing.”