John the Baptist’s Testimony

This is John’s testimony when the Jews from Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him, “Who are you?”

“What then?” they asked him. “Are you Elijah?” “I am not,” he said. “Are you the Prophet?” “No,” he answered.

“Who are you, then?” they asked. “We need to give an answer to those who sent us. What can you tell us about yourself?”

So they asked him, “Why then do you baptize if you aren’t the Messiah, or Elijah, or the Prophet?”

When Jesus turned and noticed them following Him, He asked them, “What are you looking for?” They said to Him, “Rabbi” (which means “Teacher”), “where are You staying?”

“Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Nathanael asked him. “Come and see,” Philip answered.

“How do you know me?” Nathanael asked. “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you,” Jesus answered.

“What has this concern of yours to do with Me, woman?” Jesus asked. “My hour has not yet come.”

“But how can anyone be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked Him. “Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time and be born?”

“How can these things be?” asked Nicodemus.

“How is it that You, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” she asked Him. For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.

Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God, and who is saying to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would ask Him, and He would give you living water.”

Therefore, when the Samaritans came to Him, they asked Him to stay with them, and He stayed there two days.

He asked them at what time he got better. “Yesterday at seven in the morning the fever left him,” they answered.

“Who is this man who told you, ‘Pick up your mat and walk’ ?” they asked.

Therefore, when Jesus looked up and noticed a huge crowd coming toward Him, He asked Philip, “Where will we buy bread so these people can eat?”

He asked this to test him, for He Himself knew what He was going to do.

“What can we do to perform the works of God?” they asked.

“What sign then are You going to do so we may see and believe You?” they asked. “What are You going to perform?

Jesus, knowing in Himself that His disciples were complaining about this, asked them, “Does this offend you?

Debate over Jesus’ Claims

Then the temple police came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why haven’t you brought Him?”

They asked this to trap Him, in order that they might have evidence to accuse Him. Jesus stooped down and started writing on the ground with His finger.

Then they asked Him, “Where is Your Father?” “You know neither Me nor My Father,” Jesus answered. “If you knew Me, you would also know My Father.”

Therefore they asked him, “Then how were your eyes opened?”

“Where is He?” they asked. “I don’t know,” he said.