He runs to discourses of some length, as for example,
concerning the new birth, in his conversation with Nicodemus (chapter 3); on the bread of
life after the feeding of the five thousand (6:22 ff); on the true children of Abraham (8:31 - 59); on the shepherd and the
sheep (10:1 - 18); and particularly his forceful discourse after eating the Last Supper with his disciples, which include some of the most highly cherished utterances recorded of Jesus.