Jesus turned and saw them following and said to them, “What are you seeking?” And they said to him, “Rabbi” (which means Teacher), “where are you staying?”

But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.

Just then his disciples came back. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you seek?” or, “Why are you talking with her?”

Jesus Is Equal with God

This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

Witnesses to Jesus

“I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?

So when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats and went to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.

Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves.

Jesus at the Feast of Booths

After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He would not go about in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him.

For no one works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.”

The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.

Has not Moses given you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?”

The crowd answered, “You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?”

Can This Be the Christ?

Some of the people of Jerusalem therefore said, “Is not this the man whom they seek to kill?

So they were seeking to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

You will seek me and you will not find me. Where I am you cannot come.”

What does he mean by saying, ‘You will seek me and you will not find me,’ and, ‘Where I am you cannot come’ ?”

So he said to them again, “I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.”

I know that you are offspring of Abraham; yet you seek to kill me because my word finds no place in you.

but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did.

Yet I do not seek my own glory; there is One who seeks it, and he is the judge.

The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just now seeking to stone you, and are you going there again?”

Some Greeks Seek Jesus

Now among those who went up to worship at the feast were some Greeks.

Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek me, and just as I said to the Jews, so now I also say to you, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’

Then Jesus, knowing all that would happen to him, came forward and said to them, “Whom do you seek?”