Nicodemus said to him, “How can anyone be born after having grown old? Can one enter a second time into the mother’s womb and be born?”

Jesus and John the Baptist

After this Jesus and his disciples went into the region of Judea, and he spent some time there with them and baptized.

When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be made well?”

Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always here.

Go to the festival yourselves. I am not going to this festival, for my time has not yet fully come.”

So for the second time they called the man who had been blind, and they said to him, “Give glory to God! We know that this man is a sinner.”

Jesus Is Rejected by the Jews

At that time the Festival of the Dedication took place in Jerusalem. It was winter,

Jesus answered, “Will you lay down your life for me? Very truly, I tell you, before the cock crows, you will have denied me three times.

Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

This was now the third time that Jesus appeared to the disciples after he was raised from the dead.

A second time he said to him, “Simon son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Tend my sheep.”

He said to him the third time, “Simon son of John, do you love me?” Peter felt hurt because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” And he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.