Study Desk

So some of our group went to the tomb, too. They found it just as the women said, but they did not see Jesus."

But they begged him, "Stay with us, because it is late; it is almost night." So he went in to stay with them.

And then, they were allowed to recognize Jesus. But when they saw who he was, he disappeared.

But Jesus said, "Why are you troubled? Why do you doubt what you see?

I will send you what my Father has promised, but you must stay in Jerusalem until you have received that power from heaven."

John was not the Light, but he came to tell people the truth about the Light.

The Word was in the world, and the world was made by him, but the world did not know him.

He came to the world that was his own, but his own people did not accept him.

But to all who did accept him and believe in him he gave the right to become children of God.

The law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

No one has ever seen God. But God the only Son is very close to the Father, and he has shown us what God is like.

John answered, "I baptize with water, but there is one here with you that you don't know about.

This is the One I was talking about when I said, ‘A man will come after me, but he is greater than I am, because he was living before me.'

Then John said, "I saw the Spirit come down from heaven in the form of a dove and rest on him. Until then I did not know who the Christ was. But the God who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘You will see the Spirit come down and rest on a man; he is the One who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.'

But Nathanael said to Philip, "Can anything good come from Nazareth?" Philip answered, "Come and see."

When he tasted it, the water had become wine. He did not know where the wine came from, but the servants who had brought the water knew. The master of the wedding called the bridegroom

and said to him, "People always serve the best wine first. Later, after the guests have been drinking awhile, they serve the cheaper wine. But you have saved the best wine till now."

(But the temple Jesus meant was his own body.

But Jesus did not believe in them because he knew them all.

Nicodemus said, "But if a person is already old, how can he be born again? He cannot enter his mother's womb again. So how can a person be born a second time?"