His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone should confess Him as Christ, he would be expelled from the synagogue.
The one believing into the Son of God has the witness in himself. The one not believing God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed into the witness which God has witnessed concerning His Son.
I have written these things to you, the ones believing into the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have everlasting life, and that you may believe into the name of the Son of God.
And we know that the Son of God has come, and He has given to us an understanding that we may know the True One, and we are in the True One, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and the life everlasting.
Because of this, if I come, I will recall his works which he does, slandering us with evil words. And not being satisfied with these, neither does he receive the brothers; and the ones purposing it he stops, and thrusts them out from the assembly.