The Words of Jesus Christ Page 21 Jesus Christ (cont'd). 7 What Think Ye of Christ? (cont'd). Assertions concerning Himself (cont'd)
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7 What Think Ye of Christ? (cont'd)
Assertions concerning Himself (cont'd)
I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth on me, though he die, yet shall he live:.... j1125
I am not come to call the righteous but sinners to
repentance. l0532/m0913/k0217
I came to cast fire upon the earth; and what will I, if it is already kindled?
But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be
accomplished! Think ye that I am come to give peace in the earth? I tell you,
Nay; but rather division: ....
l1249-51/m1034
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that
beareth not fruit, he taketh it away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he
cleanseth it, that it may bear more fruit. Already ye are clean because of the
word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch
cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; so neither can ye,
except ye abide in me.
j1501-4
I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall not hunger, and he that
believeth on me shall never thirst. But I said unto you, that ye have seen me,
and yet believe not. All that which the Father giveth me shall come unto me;
and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. For I am come down from
heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. And this is
the will of him that sent me, that of all that which he hath given me I should
lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day. For this is the will of
my Father, that every one that beholdeth the Son, and believeth on him, should
have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
[The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, I am the bread
which came down out of heaven.
Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how
doth he now say, I am come down out of heaven?]
Murmur not among yourselves. No man can come to me, except the Father which
sent me draw him: and I will raise him up in the last day. It is written in
the prophets, And they shall all be taught of God. Every one that hath heard
from the Father, and hath learned, cometh unto me. Not that any man hath seen
the Father, save he which is from God, he hath seen the Father. Verily,
verily, I say unto you, He that believeth hath eternal life. I am the bread of
life. Your fathers did eat the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is
the bread which cometh down out of heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not
die. I am the living bread which came down out of heaven: if any man eat of
this bread, he shall live for ever: yea and the bread which I will give is my
flesh, for the life of the world.
[How can this man give us his flesh to eat?]
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and
drink his blood, ye have not life in yourselves. He that eateth my flesh and
drinketh my blood hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my
flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me, and I in him. As the living Father
sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he that eateth me, he also shall
live because of me. This is the bread which came down out of heaven: not as
the fathers did eat, and died: he that eateth this bread shall live for ever.
[Many of his disciples: This is a hard saying; who can hear it?]
Doth this cause you to stumble? What then if ye should behold the Son of man
ascending where he was before? It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh
profiteth nothing: the words that I have spoken unto you are spirit, and are
life. j0635-63