"How can you believe, who receive honor from one another, and do not seek the honor that [comes] from the only God?

He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.

"And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

"But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me.

"Which of you convicts Me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe Me?

But although He had done so many signs before them, they did not believe in Him,

Therefore they could not believe, because Isaiah said again:

These things Isaiah said when he saw His glory and spoke of Him.

"But My people would not heed My voice, And Israel would [have] none of Me.

Thus says the LORD, The Redeemer of Israel, their Holy One, To Him whom man despises, To Him whom the nation abhors, To the Servant of rulers: "Kings shall see and arise, Princes also shall worship, Because of the LORD who is faithful, The Holy One of Israel; And He has chosen You."

Why, when I came, [was there] no man? [Why,] when I called, [was there] none to answer? Is My hand shortened at all that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Indeed with My rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness; Their fish stink because [there is] no water, And die of thirst.

Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, [our] faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.

"and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding; and they were not willing to come.

" O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under [her] wings, but you were not willing!

And the Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" And let him who hears say, "Come!" And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely.

"Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him."

"All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out.

"And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day."

But Simon Peter answered Him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.

"Also we have come to believe and know that You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."

On the last day, that great [day] of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink.

"He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water."

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live.

"And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?"

For the wages of sin [is] death, but the gift of God [is] eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.

These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may [continue to] believe in the name of the Son of God.