Most Popular Bible Verses in John

John Rank:

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On the third day a wedding took place in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, and

12

There was a man from the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

24

He came as a witness
to testify about the light,
so that all might believe through him.

27

After making a whip out of cords, He drove everyone out of the temple complex with their sheep and oxen. He also poured out the money changers’ coins and overturned the tables.

31

A woman of Samaria came to draw water.

“Give Me a drink,” Jesus said to her,

34

“Sir,” the sick man answered, “I don’t have a man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, someone goes down ahead of me.”

40

This man came to Him at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher, for no one could perform these signs You do unless God were with him.”

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When they heard this, they left one by one, starting with the older men. Only He was left, with the woman in the center.

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But an hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. Yes, the Father wants such people to worship Him.

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Do not be amazed at this, because a time is coming when all who are in the graves will hear His voice

52

In the evening of that first day of the week, the disciples were gathered together with the doors locked because of their fear of the Jews. Then Jesus came, stood among them, and said to them, “Peace to you!”

54

After this, a Jewish festival took place, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

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“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?”

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for His disciples had gone into town to buy food.

65

On the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark. She saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb.

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Philip answered, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread wouldn’t be enough for each of them to have a little.”

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Then Jesus replied, “I assure you: The Son is not able to do anything on His own, but only what He sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does these things in the same way.

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I pray not only for these,
but also for those who believe in Me
through their message.

71

After this, Jesus found him in the temple complex and said to him, “See, you are well. Do not sin anymore, so that something worse doesn’t happen to you.”

77

Jesus answered, “Destroy this sanctuary, and I will raise it up in three days.”

78

When they had eaten breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me more than these?”

“Yes, Lord,” he said to Him, “You know that I love You.”

“Feed My lambs,” He told him.

80

So the Jews replied to Him, “What sign of authority will You show us for doing these things?”

81

But the man who was cured did not know who it was, because Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.

83

Therefore some of His disciples said to one another, “What is this He tells us: ‘A little while and you will not see Me; again a little while and you will see Me’; and, ‘because I am going to the Father’?”

84

He replied, “The man who made me well told me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’

85

He had to travel through Samaria,

87

“Go call your husband,” He told her, “and come back here.”

88

“I assure you: The one who believes in Me will also do the works that I do. And he will do even greater works than these, because I am going to the Father.

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There was a man named John
who was sent from God.

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When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother told Him, “They don’t have any wine.”

98

because an angel would go down into the pool from time to time and stir up the water. Then the first one who got in after the water was stirred up recovered from whatever ailment he had].

102

“My kingdom is not of this world,” said Jesus. “If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would fight, so that I wouldn’t be handed over to the Jews. As it is, My kingdom does not have its origin here.”

103

“For you’ve had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.”

105

One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to Him,

108

As He was passing by, He saw a man blind from birth.

109

But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty again—ever! In fact, the water I will give him will become a well of water springing up within him for eternal life.”

110

“I assure you: Anyone who doesn’t enter the sheep pen by the door but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.

112

No one has ascended into heaven except the One who descended from heaven—the Son of Man.

113

“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.

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Now a man was sick, Lazarus, from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

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Do not be amazed that I told you that you must be born again.

119

“I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.

121

“Don’t cling to Me,” Jesus told her, “for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to My brothers and tell them that I am ascending to My Father and your Father—to My God and your God.”

122

Jesus spoke these things, looked up to heaven, and said:

Father,
the hour has come.
Glorify Your Son
so that the Son may glorify You,

123

After this, Jesus revealed Himself again to His disciples by the Sea of Tiberias. He revealed Himself in this way:

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Within these lay a large number of the sick—blind, lame, and paralyzed [—waiting for the moving of the water,

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This is why the Jews began trying all the more to kill Him: Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

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The Jewish Passover was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

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But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

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John also was baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water there. People were coming and being baptized,

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He did not refuse to answer, but he declared: “I am not the Messiah.”

136

Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus was, the one Jesus had raised from the dead.

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He told those who were selling doves, “Get these things out of here! Stop turning My Father’s house into a marketplace!”

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If He called those whom the word of God came to ‘gods’—and the Scripture cannot be broken—

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After this, Jesus crossed the Sea of Galilee (or Tiberias).

143

“How can these things be?” asked Nicodemus.

144

After this, Jesus and His disciples went to the Judean countryside, where He spent time with them and baptized.

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Remain in Me, and I in you. Just as a branch is unable to produce fruit by itself unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in Me.

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

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So when He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this. And they believed the Scripture and the statement Jesus had made.

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Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, yet you Jews say that the place to worship is in Jerusalem.”

158

Therefore the Jews said, “This sanctuary took 46 years to build, and will You raise it up in three days?”

159

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

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They said, “What is this He is saying, ‘A little while’? We don’t know what He’s talking about!”

163

Jesus said, “Everyone who drinks from this water will get thirsty again.

166

Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of His disciples that are not written in this book.

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Therefore, the Jews began persecuting Jesus because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.

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I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.”

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Many of the Jews read this sign, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.

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This happens because he is a hired man and doesn’t care about the sheep.

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Jesus told her, “Believe Me, woman, an hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

178

After this, He went down to Capernaum, together with His mother, His brothers, and His disciples, and they stayed there only a few days.

179

Then the Festival of Dedication took place in Jerusalem, and it was winter.

180

Standing by the cross of Jesus were His mother, His mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

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(though Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His disciples were),

183

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

185

Again the next day, John was standing with two of his disciples.

186

But one of the Twelve, Thomas (called “Twin”), was not with them when Jesus came.

187

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

189

He left Judea and went again to Galilee.

191

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

195

After Jesus had said these things, He went out with His disciples across the Kidron Valley, where there was a garden, and He and His disciples went into it.

196

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

199

Then Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.”

There was plenty of grass in that place, so they sat down. The men numbered about 5,000.

200

By the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem there is a pool, called Bethesda in Hebrew, which has five colonnades.

201

While He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, many trusted in His name when they saw the signs He was doing.

206

Now some Greeks were among those who went up to worship at the festival.

208

“You are a king then?” Pilate asked.

“You say that I’m a king,” Jesus replied. “I was born for this, and I have come into the world for this: to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to My voice.”

209

“I baptize with water,” John answered them. “Someone stands among you, but you don’t know Him.

210

Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, worn out from His journey, sat down at the well. It was about six in the evening.

211

Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your scripture, I said, you are gods?

212

When they persisted in questioning Him, He stood up and said to them, “The one without sin among you should be the first to throw a stone at her.”

213

so He came to a town of Samaria called Sychar near the property that Jacob had given his son Joseph.

215

Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.

218

The next day, when the large crowd that had come to the festival heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

219

In that day you will not ask Me anything.

“I assure you: Anything you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.

221

When Jesus saw His mother and the disciple He loved standing there, He said to His mother, “Woman, here is your son.”

222

When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in Him.

225

“Don’t you say, ‘There are still four more months, then comes the harvest’? Listen to what I’m telling you: Open your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ready for harvest.

230

“Do whatever He tells you,” His mother told the servants.

232

But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and at once blood and water came out.

234

All this happened in Bethany across the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

235

Jesus said, “Because you have seen Me, you have believed. Those who believe without seeing are blessed.”

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“No one, Lord,” she answered.

“Neither do I condemn you,” said Jesus. “Go, and from now on do not sin anymore.”]

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You aren’t greater than our father Jacob, are You? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and livestock.”

242

“Lord,” said Philip, “show us the Father, and that’s enough for us.”

243

But Mary stood outside facing the tomb, crying. As she was crying, she stooped to look into the tomb.

244

He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud, spread it on my eyes, and told me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So when I went and washed I received my sight.”

246

Then He said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and observe My hands. Reach out your hand and put it into My side. Don’t be an unbeliever, but a believer.”

249

After this, Jesus traveled in Galilee, since He did not want to travel in Judea because the Jews were trying to kill Him.

250

And there are also many other things that Jesus did, which, if they were written one by one, I suppose not even the world itself could contain the books that would be written.

251

The next day He decided to leave for Galilee. Jesus found Philip and told him, “Follow Me!”

252

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254

After His brothers had gone up to the festival, then He also went up, not openly but secretly.

255

so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “This is the Sabbath! It’s illegal for you to pick up your mat.”

258

Since it was the preparation day, the Jews did not want the bodies to remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special day). They requested that Pilate have the men’s legs broken and that their bodies be taken away.

259

He said this, and then He told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I’m on My way to wake him up.”

261

When they were full, He told His disciples, “Collect the leftovers so that nothing is wasted.”

262

My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.

264

If I have told you about things that happen on earth and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you about things of heaven?

267

Carrying His own cross, He went out to what is called Skull Place, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha.

269

and come out—those who have done good things, to the resurrection of life, but those who have done wicked things, to the resurrection of judgment.

273

“Sir,” said the woman, “You don’t even have a bucket, and the well is deep. So where do You get this ‘living water’?

274

“I don’t have a husband,” she answered.

“You have correctly said, ‘I don’t have a husband,’” Jesus said.

275

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

276

If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.”

277

“If you know Me, you will also know My Father. From now on you do know Him and have seen Him.”

278

I didn’t know Him, but He who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘The One you see the Spirit descending and resting on—He is the One who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’

280

He is the One coming after me, whose sandal strap I’m not worthy to untie.”

281

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, because I came from God and I am here. For I didn’t come on My own, but He sent Me.

283

When the chief servant tasted the water (after it had become wine), he did not know where it came from—though the servants who had drawn the water knew. He called the groom

285

I pray for them.
I am not praying for the world
but for those You have given Me,
because they are Yours.

289

So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Don’t write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but that He said, ‘I am the King of the Jews.’”

291

When Jesus had said this, He was troubled in His spirit and testified, “I assure you: One of you will betray Me!”

292

Then they took Jesus from Caiaphas to the governor’s headquarters. It was early morning. They did not enter the headquarters themselves; otherwise they would be defiled and unable to eat the Passover.

293

and because He did not need anyone to testify about man; for He Himself knew what was in man.

294

Remember the word I spoke to you: ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will also keep yours.

295

When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took His clothes and divided them into four parts, a part for each soldier. They also took the tunic, which was seamless, woven in one piece from the top.

296

Simon Peter answered, “Lord, who will we go to? You have the words of eternal life.

298

So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.

299

So the other disciples kept telling him, “We have seen the Lord!”

But he said to them, “If I don’t see the mark of the nails in His hands, put my finger into the mark of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will never believe!”

301

“We aren’t stoning You for a good work,” the Jews answered, “but for blasphemy, because You—being a man—make Yourself God.”

303

so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

304

After this, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus—but secretly because of his fear of the Jews—asked Pilate that he might remove Jesus’ body. Pilate gave him permission, so he came and took His body away.

305

Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the One Moses wrote about in the Law (and so did the prophets): Jesus the son of Joseph, from Nazareth!”

306

This is the One I told you about: ‘After me comes a man who has surpassed me, because He existed before me.’

307

Then Pilate went back into the headquarters, summoned Jesus, and said to Him, “Are You the King of the Jews?”

308

since John had not yet been thrown into prison.

310

and he brought Simon to Jesus.

When Jesus saw him, He said, “You are Simon, son of John. You will be called Cephas” (which means “Rock”).

311

“Fill the jars with water,” Jesus told them. So they filled them to the brim.

314

If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.

315

After eight days His disciples were indoors again, and Thomas was with them. Even though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them. He said, “Peace to you!”

316

Jesus, however, would not entrust Himself to them, since He knew them all

320

Then He said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the chief servant.” And they did.

321

In the temple complex He found people selling oxen, sheep, and doves, and He also found the money changers sitting there.

322

Jesus knew they wanted to question Him, so He said to them, “Are you asking one another about what I said, ‘A little while and you will not see Me; again a little while and you will see Me’?

323

He first found his own brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which means “Anointed One”),

324

It is written in the Prophets: And they will all be taught by God. Everyone who has listened to and learned from the Father comes to Me—

325

Then He said to them again, “I’m going away; you will look for Me, and you will die in your sin. Where I’m going, you cannot come.”

326

“Sir,” the woman said to Him, “give me this water so I won’t get thirsty and come here to draw water.”

327

He said this about the Spirit. Those who believed in Jesus were going to receive the Spirit, for the Spirit had not yet been received because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

328

The one who loves his life will lose it, and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

330

I have come in My Father’s name, yet you don’t accept Me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.

333

And you are not willing to come to Me so that you may have life.

334

“But now I am going away to Him who sent Me, and not one of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’

335

“Get up,” Jesus told him, “pick up your mat and walk!”

336

So the Pharisees said to Him, “You are testifying about Yourself. Your testimony is not valid.”

340

He will glorify Me, because He will take from what is Mine and declare it to you.

342

Instantly the man got well, picked up his mat, and started to walk.

Now that day was the Sabbath,

343

Therefore, when Jesus knew that they were about to come and take Him by force to make Him king, He withdrew again to the mountain by Himself.

344

Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written:

345

When Jesus arrived, He found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days.

349

When Jesus heard that they had thrown the man out, He found him and asked, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

350

He asked him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me?”

Peter was grieved that He asked him the third time, “Do you love Me?” He said, “Lord, You know everything! You know that I love You.”

“Feed My sheep,” Jesus said.

351

And there was a lot of discussion about Him among the crowds. Some were saying, “He’s a good man.” Others were saying, “No, on the contrary, He’s deceiving the people.”

352

So they collected them and filled 12 baskets with the pieces from the five barley loaves that were left over by those who had eaten.

355

The Father who sent Me has Himself testified about Me. You have not heard His voice at any time, and you haven’t seen His form.

356

If anyone hears My words and doesn’t keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.

358

Many of them were saying, “He has a demon and He’s crazy! Why do you listen to Him?”

359

“Where is He?” they asked.

“I don’t know,” he said.

360

And if I do judge, My judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent Me judge together.

362

The man went and reported to the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

363

They brought the man who used to be blind to the Pharisees.

364

Pilate replied, “What I have written, I have written.”

365

So this report spread to the brothers that this disciple would not die. Yet Jesus did not tell him that he would not die, but, “If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you?”

366

Why do you question Me? Question those who heard what I told them. Look, they know what I said.”

367

Then the Pharisees said to one another, “You see? You’ve accomplished nothing. Look—the world has gone after Him!”

368

But they will do all these things to you on account of My name, because they don’t know the One who sent Me.

369

So Jesus then told them plainly, “Lazarus has died.

370

Still, nobody was talking publicly about Him because they feared the Jews.

371

Jesus, however, was speaking about his death, but they thought He was speaking about natural sleep.

373

His disciples did not understand these things at first. However, when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about Him and that they had done these things to Him.

374

Again a division took place among the Jews because of these words.

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The day that Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes was a Sabbath.

377

Meanwhile, the crowd, which had been with Him when He called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead, continued to testify.

378

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?”

379

I’m glad for you that I wasn’t there so that you may believe. But let’s go to him.”

380

Fear no more, Daughter Zion. Look, your King is coming, sitting on a donkey’s colt.

382

“I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe that I am He.

383

When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, “Look! The Lamb of God!”

384

After they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea. He was coming near the boat, and they were afraid.

385

Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said to him, “You aren’t one of His disciples too, are you?”

He denied it and said, “I am not!”

386

Then a dispute arose between John’s disciples and a Jew about purification.

387

“Come and you’ll see,” He replied. So they went and saw where He was staying, and they stayed with Him that day. It was about 10 in the morning.

388

Others were saying, “These aren’t the words of someone demon-possessed. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”

389

Then the Jews were amazed and said, “How does He know the Scriptures, since He hasn’t been trained?”

390

Jesus was walking in the temple complex in Solomon’s Colonnade.

391

So they came to John and told him, “Rabbi, the One you testified about, and who was with you across the Jordan, is baptizing—and everyone is flocking to Him.”

392

When He had said these things, one of the temple police standing by slapped Jesus, saying, “Is this the way you answer the high priest?”

393

Again they asked the blind man, “What do you say about Him, since He opened your eyes?”

“He’s a prophet,” he said.

394

So again the Pharisees asked him how he received his sight.

“He put mud on my eyes,” he told them. “I washed and I can see.”

395

He spoke these words by the treasury, while teaching in the temple complex. But no one seized Him, because His hour had not come.

396

I assure you: Whoever receives anyone I send receives Me, and the one who receives Me receives Him who sent Me.”

397

If I had not done the works among them that no one else has done, they would not have sin. Now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father.

398

So the Jews said again, “He won’t kill Himself, will He, since He says, ‘Where I’m going, you cannot come’?”

399

You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Messiah, but I’ve been sent ahead of Him.’

400

So they said to one another, “Let’s not tear it, but cast lots for it, to see who gets it.” They did this to fulfill the Scripture that says: They divided My clothes among themselves, and they cast lots for My clothing. And this is what the soldiers did.

401

The one who speaks for himself seeks his own glory. But He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him is true, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.

402

Therefore some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for He doesn’t keep the Sabbath!” But others were saying, “How can a sinful man perform such signs?” And there was a division among them.

403

I have told you now before it happens so that when it does happen you may believe.

404

Then a high wind arose, and the sea began to churn.

406

“If I have spoken wrongly,” Jesus answered him, “give evidence about the wrong; but if rightly, why do you hit Me?”

407

“I am He,” Jesus told her, “the One speaking to you.”

408

“We know this is our son and that he was born blind,” his parents answered.

409

Didn’t Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law! Why do you want to kill Me?”

410

They left the town and made their way to Him.

411

Then they were willing to take Him on board, and at once the boat was at the shore where they were heading.

412

“I did one work, and you are all amazed,” Jesus answered.

413

“I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. A time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures, but I will tell you plainly about the Father.

414

Bethany was near Jerusalem (about two miles away).

415

got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. Darkness had already set in, but Jesus had not yet come to them.

416

The two disciples heard him say this and followed Jesus.

418

They asked them, “Is this your son, the one you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”

419

Jesus responded to him, “Do you believe only because I told you I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than this.”

421

So Jesus went up a mountain and sat down there with His disciples.

422

This is also why the crowd met Him, because they heard He had done this sign.

423

Many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them about their brother.

424

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.

425

Now the Passover, a Jewish festival, was near.

426

The one who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

427

The Jews did not believe this about him—that he was blind and received sight—until they summoned the parents of the one who had received his sight.

428

Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the hometown of Andrew and Peter.

429

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

430

Then the woman left her water jar, went into town, and told the men,

431

Some boats from Tiberias came near the place where they ate the bread after the Lord gave thanks.

432

“You have a demon!” the crowd responded. “Who wants to kill You?”

433

The disciples started looking at one another—uncertain which one He was speaking about.

434

“But we don’t know how he now sees, and we don’t know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he’s of age. He will speak for himself.”

436

So he leaned back against Jesus and asked Him, “Lord, who is it?”

437

Yet, look! He’s speaking publicly and they’re saying nothing to Him. Can it be true that the authorities know He is the Messiah?

438

“Consider this: Moses has given you circumcision—not that it comes from Moses but from the fathers—and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.

439

He answered, “Whether or not He’s a sinner, I don’t know. One thing I do know: I was blind, and now I can see!”

440

Then He stooped down again and continued writing on the ground.

441

“I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the One who sent Me is true, and what I have heard from Him—these things I tell the world.”

442

“Who are You?” they questioned.

“Precisely what I’ve been telling you from the very beginning,” Jesus told them.

443

“Teacher,” they said to Him, “this woman was caught in the act of committing adultery.

444

The Jewish Festival of Tabernacles was near,

445

They did not know He was speaking to them about the Father.

446

In that day you will ask in My name. I am not telling you that I will make requests to the Father on your behalf.

447

If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses won’t be broken, are you angry at Me because I made a man entirely well on the Sabbath?

448

As soon as Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet Him. But Mary remained seated in the house.

449

All who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them.

450

Some of the people of Jerusalem were saying, “Isn’t this the man they want to kill?

451

Having said this, she went back and called her sister Mary, saying in private, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.”

453

so His brothers said to Him, “Leave here and go to Judea so Your disciples can see Your works that You are doing.

454

Jesus replied, “He’s the one I give the piece of bread to after I have dipped it.” When He had dipped the bread, He gave it to Judas, Simon Iscariot’s son.

455

Then they tried to seize Him. Yet no one laid a hand on Him because His hour had not yet come.

457

Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus.

458

They will never follow a stranger; instead they will run away from him, because they don’t recognize the voice of strangers.”

459

Now we know that You know everything and don’t need anyone to question You. By this we believe that You came from God.”

460

None of those reclining at the table knew why He told him this.

462

His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jews, since the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed Him as Messiah, he would be banned from the synagogue.

463

Jesus gave them this illustration, but they did not understand what He was telling them.

464

Jesus told them, “My time has not yet arrived, but your time is always at hand.

465

Then Annas sent Him bound to Caiaphas the high priest.

466

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

467

“How do you know me?” Nathanael asked.

“Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you,” Jesus answered.

468

When Mary came to where Jesus was and saw Him, she fell at His feet and told Him, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died!”

470

Then He said to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.

471

However, many from the crowd believed in Him and said, “When the Messiah comes, He won’t perform more signs than this man has done, will He?”

472

After He said these things He spit on the ground, made some mud from the saliva, and spread the mud on his eyes.

473

As He was teaching in the temple complex, Jesus cried out, “You know Me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on My own, but the One who sent Me is true. You don’t know Him;

474

“Go,” He told him, “wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So he left, washed, and came back seeing.

475

Yet even now I know that whatever You ask from God, God will give You.”

476

But we know where this man is from. When the Messiah comes, nobody will know where He is from.”

477

For no one does anything in secret while he’s seeking public recognition. If You do these things, show Yourself to the world.”

478

On the contrary, I am going away so that the world may know that I love the Father. Just as the Father commanded Me, so I do.

“Get up; let’s leave this place.

479

One of the high priest’s slaves, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said, “Didn’t I see you with Him in the garden?”

480

Simon Peter motioned to him to find out who it was He was talking about.

481

Then Pilate came out to them and said, “What charge do you bring against this man?”

482

Look: An hour is coming, and has come, when each of you will be scattered to his own home, and you will leave Me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.

483

“I’m not a Jew, am I?” Pilate replied. “Your own nation and the chief priests handed You over to me. What have You done?”

484

They said this so that Jesus’ words might be fulfilled signifying what kind of death He was going to die.

485

Jesus responded to them, “Do you now believe?

486

So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man and of the other one who had been crucified with Him.

487

He who saw this has testified so that you also may believe. His testimony is true, and he knows he is telling the truth.

488

His neighbors and those who formerly had seen him as a beggar said, “Isn’t this the man who sat begging?”

489

Then they asked him, “What did He do to you? How did He open your eyes?”

490

They ridiculed him: “You’re that man’s disciple, but we’re Moses’ disciples.

491

Some said, “He’s the one.” “No,” others were saying, “but he looks like him.”

He kept saying, “I’m the one!”

492

Jesus replied, “Will you lay down your life for Me? I assure you: A rooster will not crow until you have denied Me three times.

493

In the meantime the disciples kept urging Him, “Rabbi, eat something.”

494

This is why his parents said, “He’s of age; ask him.”

495

You have a custom that I release one prisoner to you at the Passover. So, do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”

497

“I already told you,” he said, “and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don’t want to become His disciples too, do you?”

498

“Aren’t there 12 hours in a day?” Jesus answered. “If anyone walks during the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

499

The one who has accepted His testimony has affirmed that God is true.

500

Then the crowd replied to Him, “We have heard from the scripture that the Messiah will remain forever. So how can You say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this Son of Man?”

501

We know that God has spoken to Moses. But this man—we don’t know where He’s from!”

502

I sent you to reap what you didn’t labor for; others have labored, and you have benefited from their labor.”

503

Therefore the chief priests decided to kill Lazarus also

505

Then Mary took a pound of fragrant oil—pure and expensive nard—anointed Jesus’ feet, and wiped His feet with her hair. So the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil.

507

Jesus responded, “This voice came, not for Me, but for you.

508

Nicodemus (who had previously come to Him at night) also came, bringing a mixture of about 75 pounds of myrrh and aloes.

509

“This is an amazing thing,” the man told them. “You don’t know where He is from, yet He opened my eyes!

510

Judas, who betrayed Him, also knew the place, because Jesus often met there with His disciples.

511

“Your brother will rise again,” Jesus told her.

512

After receiving the piece of bread, he went out immediately. And it was night.

513

He said this to signify what kind of death He was about to die.

514

You know the way to where I am going.”

515

Then He went again to Cana of Galilee, where He had turned the water into wine. There was a certain royal official whose son was ill at Capernaum.

516

Then one of His disciples, Judas Iscariot (who was about to betray Him), said,

517

The soldiers also twisted together a crown of thorns, put it on His head, and threw a purple robe around Him.

518

From that moment Pilate made every effort to release Him. But the Jews shouted, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend. Anyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar!”

519

So they gave a dinner for Him there; Martha was serving them, and Lazarus was one of those reclining at the table with Him.

520

So Judas took a company of soldiers and some temple police from the chief priests and the Pharisees and came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.

521

“Children, I am with you a little while longer. You will look for Me, and just as I told the Jews, ‘Where I am going you cannot come,’ so now I tell you.

523

Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with fragrant oil and wiped His feet with her hair, and it was her brother Lazarus who was sick.

524

Simon Peter, Thomas (called “Twin”), Nathanael from Cana of Galilee, Zebedee’s sons, and two others of His disciples were together.

525

When the people saw the sign He had done, they said, “This really is the Prophet who was to come into the world!”

527

He didn’t say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief. He was in charge of the money-bag and would steal part of what was put in it.

528

When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus outside. He sat down on the judge’s bench in a place called the Stone Pavement (but in Hebrew Gabbatha).

529

“In a little while the world will see Me no longer, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live too.

530

“Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Nathanael asked him.

“Come and see,” Philip answered.

531

because he was the reason many of the Jews were deserting them and believing in Jesus.

532

Now by the time of supper, the Devil had already put it into the heart of Judas, Simon Iscariot’s son, to betray Him.

533

The next day, the crowd that had stayed on the other side of the sea knew there had been only one boat. They also knew that Jesus had not boarded the boat with His disciples, but that His disciples had gone off alone.

534

“I assure you: When you were young, you would tie your belt and walk wherever you wanted. But when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands and someone else will tie you and carry you where you don’t want to go.”

536

Jesus replied to them, “Didn’t I choose you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is the Devil!”

537

So the sisters sent a message to Him: “Lord, the one You love is sick.”

538

The dead man came out bound hand and foot with linen strips and with his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Loose him and let him go.”

541

Then they took Jesus’ body and wrapped it in linen cloths with the aromatic spices, according to the burial custom of the Jews.

543

“I assure you: A slave is not greater than his master, and a messenger is not greater than the one who sent him.

544

“Lord,” Simon Peter said to Him, “where are You going?”

Jesus answered, “Where I am going you cannot follow Me now, but you will follow later.”

545

Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it, struck the high priest’s slave, and cut off his right ear. (The slave’s name was Malchus.)

547

So they removed the stone. Then Jesus raised His eyes and said, “Father, I thank You that You heard Me.

548

Since Judas kept the money-bag, some thought that Jesus was telling him, “Buy what we need for the festival,” or that he should give something to the poor.

549

First they led Him to Annas, for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.

550

“Ah!” His disciples said. “Now You’re speaking plainly and not using any figurative language.

551

“You are from below,” He told them, “I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.

552

“I have told you these things to keep you from stumbling.

553

When evening came, His disciples went down to the sea,

554

“If I testify about Myself, My testimony is not valid.

555

He testifies to what He has seen and heard, yet no one accepts His testimony.

557

The hired man, since he is not the shepherd and doesn’t own the sheep, leaves them and runs away when he sees a wolf coming. The wolf then snatches and scatters them.

558

I have come as a light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me would not remain in darkness.

559

Everything the Father has is Mine. This is why I told you that He takes from what is Mine and will declare it to you.

560

After He said this, He shouted with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”

561

For I have not spoken on My own, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a command as to what I should say and what I should speak.

562

So when He heard that he was sick, He stayed two more days in the place where He was.

563

After Judas ate the piece of bread, Satan entered him. Therefore Jesus told him, “What you’re doing, do quickly.”

564

Therefore the Jews started complaining about Him because He said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”

565

The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When He comes, He will explain everything to us.”

567

At that, Peter and the other disciple went out, heading for the tomb.

569

It was the preparation day for the Passover, and it was about six in the morning. Then he told the Jews, “Here is your king!”

571

So Pilate said to Him, “You’re not talking to me? Don’t You know that I have the authority to release You and the authority to crucify You?”

573

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

574

“You will never wash my feet—ever!” Peter said.

Jesus replied, “If I don’t wash you, you have no part with Me.”

575

But He was speaking about the sanctuary of His body.

576

Therefore the disciple, the one Jesus loved, said to Peter, “It is the Lord!”

When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he tied his outer garment around him (for he was stripped) and plunged into the sea.

577

Pilate also had a sign lettered and put on the cross. The inscription was:

JESUS THE NAZARENE

THE KING OF THE JEWS.

580

Then Jesus, knowing everything that was about to happen to Him, went out and said to them, “Who is it you’re looking for?”

581

When they found Him on the other side of the sea, they said to Him, “Rabbi, when did You get here?”

582

Meanwhile, Simon Peter was following Jesus, as was another disciple. That disciple was an acquaintance of the high priest; so he went with Jesus into the high priest’s courtyard.

584

“Lord,” Thomas said, “we don’t know where You’re going. How can we know the way?”

585

“Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” Jesus answered. “This came about so that God’s works might be displayed in him.

586

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?”

587

So then, because of them, he handed Him over to be crucified.

Therefore they took Jesus away.

588

The Jews who were with her in the house consoling her saw that Mary got up quickly and went out. So they followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to cry there.

590

“What is truth?” said Pilate.

After he had said this, he went out to the Jews again and told them, “I find no grounds for charging Him.

591

Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord!” And she told them what He had said to her.

592

Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, in order that those who do not see will see and those who do see will become blind.”

593

Jesus had not yet come into the village but was still in the place where Martha had met Him.

594

Then Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him and said about him, “Here is a true Israelite; no deceit is in him.”

595

I made Your name known to them
and will make it known,
so the love You have loved Me with
may be in them and I may be in them.

596

Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard John and followed Him.

597

“What then?” they asked him. “Are you Elijah?”

“I am not,” he said.

“Are you the Prophet?”

“No,” he answered.

599

If anyone walks during the night, he does stumble, because the light is not in him.”

600

So the chief priests and the Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we going to do since this man does many signs?

601

Jesus answered, “I assure you: You are looking for Me, not because you saw the signs, but because you ate the loaves and were filled.

602

“But I have a greater testimony than John’s because of the works that the Father has given Me to accomplish. These very works I am doing testify about Me that the Father has sent Me.

603

they took palm branches and went out to meet Him. They kept shouting: “Hosanna! He who comes in the name of the Lord is the blessed One—the King of Israel!”

604

I know you are descendants of Abraham, but you are trying to kill Me because My word is not welcome among you.

605

The One who comes from above is above all. The one who is from the earth is earthly and speaks in earthly terms. The One who comes from heaven is above all.

606

One of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all!

608

When he has brought all his own outside, he goes ahead of them. The sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.

609

The reaper is already receiving pay and gathering fruit for eternal life, so the sower and reaper can rejoice together.

611

He came to Simon Peter, who asked Him, “Lord, are You going to wash my feet?”

612

For you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have Me.”

613

So Peter turned around and saw the disciple Jesus loved following them. That disciple was the one who had leaned back against Jesus at the supper and asked, “Lord, who is the one that’s going to betray You?”

615

The Jews responded to Him, “Aren’t we right in saying that You’re a Samaritan and have a demon?”

616

The high priest questioned Jesus about His disciples and about His teaching.

617

While you have the light, believe in the light so that you may become sons of light.” Jesus said this, then went away and hid from them.

619

He said, “I am a voice of one crying out in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord—just as Isaiah the prophet said.”

620

“Why wasn’t this fragrant oil sold for 300 denarii and given to the poor?”

621

Jesus said, “Mary.”

Turning around, she said to Him in Hebrew, “Rabbouni!”—which means “Teacher.”

623

You’re doing what your father does.”

“We weren’t born of sexual immorality,” they said. “We have one Father—God.”

624

So Simon Peter got up and hauled the net ashore, full of large fish—153 of them. Even though there were so many, the net was not torn.

625

Jesus knew that the Father had given everything into His hands, that He had come from God, and that He was going back to God.

626

After two days He left there for Galilee.

627

“I have spoken these things to you while I remain with you.

630

Go up to the festival yourselves. I’m not going up to the festival yet, because My time has not yet fully come.”

631

When Jesus had washed their feet and put on His robe, He reclined again and said to them, “Do you know what I have done for you?

632

Having said this, He showed them His hands and His side. So the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord.

633

Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat.

635

John was a burning and shining lamp, and for a time you were willing to enjoy his light.

637

There was a garden in the place where He was crucified. A new tomb was in the garden; no one had yet been placed in it.

639

“I’m going fishing,” Simon Peter said to them.

“We’re coming with you,” they told him. They went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing.

642

Also, another Scripture says: They will look at the One they pierced.

643

But Peter remained standing outside by the door. So the other disciple, the one known to the high priest, went out and spoke to the girl who was the doorkeeper and brought Peter in.

644

You’re not considering that it is to your advantage that one man should die for the people rather than the whole nation perish.”

645

The crowd standing there heard it and said it was thunder. Others said that an angel had spoken to Him.

646

Jesus answered, “Leave her alone; she has kept it for the day of My burial.

647

They said to her, “Woman, why are you crying?”

“Because they’ve taken away my Lord,” she told them, “and I don’t know where they’ve put Him.”

649

“Our father is Abraham!” they replied.

“If you were Abraham’s children,” Jesus told them, “you would do what Abraham did.

650

But He said, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”

651

But I have told you these things so that when their time comes you may remember I told them to you. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

653

and told him, “Everyone sets out the fine wine first, then, after people have drunk freely, the inferior. But you have kept the fine wine until now.”

654

I sanctify Myself for them,
so they also may be sanctified by the truth.

655

Then Jesus, angry in Himself again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it.

656

Then a large crowd of the Jews learned He was there. They came not only because of Jesus, but also to see Lazarus the one He had raised from the dead.

657

At that, Jesus said to Peter, “Sheathe your sword! Am I not to drink the cup the Father has given Me?”

658

Nevertheless, many did believe in Him even among the rulers, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, so they would not be banned from the synagogue.

659

Then Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!”

660

Then Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.

661

For they still did not understand the Scripture that He must rise from the dead.

663

Pilate went outside again and said to them, “Look, I’m bringing Him outside to you to let you know I find no grounds for charging Him.”

664

When Jesus saw her crying, and the Jews who had come with her crying, He was angry in His spirit and deeply moved.

666

Therefore, many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what He did believed in Him.

667

The wrapping that had been on His head was not lying with the linen cloths but was folded up in a separate place by itself.

668

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

669

Then Thomas (called “Twin”) said to his fellow disciples, “Let’s go so that we may die with Him.”

670

So He got up from supper, laid aside His robe, took a towel, and tied it around Himself.

673

(John testified concerning Him and exclaimed,
“This was the One of whom I said,
‘The One coming after me has surpassed me,
because He existed before me.’”)

674

When daybreak came, Jesus stood on the shore. However, the disciples did not know it was Jesus.

675

Then after that, He said to the disciples, “Let’s go to Judea again.”

676

“Come and have breakfast,” Jesus told them. None of the disciples dared ask Him, “Who are You?” because they knew it was the Lord.

677

They shouted back, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a revolutionary.

679

“One who has bathed,” Jesus told him, “doesn’t need to wash anything except his feet, but he is completely clean. You are clean, but not all of you.”

680

Everything I have is Yours,
and everything You have is Mine,
and I have been glorified in them.

681

Then the company of soldiers, the commander, and the Jewish temple police arrested Jesus and tied Him up.

682

Jesus replied, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. Which of these works are you stoning Me for?”

683

Next, He poured water into a basin and began to wash His disciples’ feet and to dry them with the towel tied around Him.

684

“I did tell you and you don’t believe,” Jesus answered them. “The works that I do in My Father’s name testify about Me.

685

I speak what I have seen in the presence of the Father; therefore, you do what you have heard from your father.”

686

So they came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and requested of him, “Sir, we want to see Jesus.”

687

When the chief priests and the temple police saw Him, they shouted, “Crucify! Crucify!”

Pilate responded, “Take Him and crucify Him yourselves, for I find no grounds for charging Him.”

688

John responded, “No one can receive a single thing unless it’s given to him from heaven.

690

“Jesus the Nazarene,” they answered.

“I am He,” Jesus told them.

Judas, who betrayed Him, was also standing with them.

692

Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

693

At that, they picked up stones to throw at Him. But Jesus was hidden and went out of the temple complex.

694

They were saying, “Isn’t this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can He now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”

695

The two were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and got to the tomb first.

697

When they got out on land, they saw a charcoal fire there, with fish lying on it, and bread.

698

Having said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, though she did not know it was Jesus.

699

Now many Samaritans from that town believed in Him because of what the woman said when she testified, “He told me everything I ever did.”

700

But there are some among you who don’t believe.” (For Jesus knew from the beginning those who would not believe and the one who would betray Him.)

702

Jesus answered him, “What I’m doing you don’t understand now, but afterward you will know.”

703

His disciples questioned Him: “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

704

He said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to Me unless it is granted to him by the Father.”

705

When a woman is in labor she has pain because her time has come. But when she has given birth to a child, she no longer remembers the suffering because of the joy that a person has been born into the world.

707

After He had said these things, He stayed in Galilee.

709

Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, “Lord, how is it You’re going to reveal Yourself to us and not to the world?”

711

Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom you have set your hope.

713

So He departed again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing earlier, and He remained there.

715

I have seen and testified that He is the Son of God!”

717

When the festival was already half over, Jesus went up into the temple complex and began to teach.

718

“If you were blind,” Jesus told them, “you wouldn’t have sin. But now that you say, ‘We see’—your sin remains.

719

When He told them, “I am He,” they stepped back and fell to the ground.

720

“I have spoken openly to the world,” Jesus answered him. “I have always taught in the synagogue and in the temple complex, where all the Jews congregate, and I haven’t spoken anything in secret.

721

When they came to Jesus, they did not break His legs since they saw that He was already dead.

722

Now I am coming to You,
and I speak these things in the world
so that they may have My joy completed in them.

723

Then Jesus took the loaves, and after giving thanks He distributed them to those who were seated—so also with the fish, as much as they wanted.

724

“If I glorify Myself,” Jesus answered, “My glory is nothing. My Father—you say about Him, ‘He is our God’—He is the One who glorifies Me.

725

“We have a law,” the Jews replied to him, “and according to that law He must die, because He made Himself the Son of God.”

726

For these things happened so that the Scripture would be fulfilled: Not one of His bones will be broken.

727

But they shouted, “Take Him away! Take Him away! Crucify Him!”

Pilate said to them, “Should I crucify your king?”

“We have no king but Caesar!” the chief priests answered.

729

As soon as she heard this, she got up quickly and went to Him.

731

Then the disciples said to Him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will get well.”

732

Even in your law it is written that the witness of two men is valid.

733

Now they know that all things
You have given to Me are from You,

734

He has blinded their eyes
and hardened their hearts,
so that they would not see with their eyes
or understand with their hearts,
and be converted,
and I would heal them.

736

Then the Jews surrounded Him and asked, “How long are You going to keep us in suspense? If You are the Messiah, tell us plainly.”

737

Again the Jews picked up rocks to stone Him.

738

“Remove the stone,” Jesus said.

Martha, the dead man’s sister, told Him, “Lord, he’s already decaying. It’s been four days.”

739

Therefore Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews but departed from there to the countryside near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim. And He stayed there with the disciples.

740

Then the Jews said to one another, “Where does He intend to go so we won’t find Him? He doesn’t intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, does He?

741

At dawn He went to the temple complex again, and all the people were coming to Him. He sat down and began to teach them.

742

And they repeatedly came up to Him and said, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and were slapping His face.

745

She saw two angels in white sitting there, one at the head and one at the feet, where Jesus’ body had been lying.

746

Yet, because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.

747

So Pilate told them, “Take Him yourselves and judge Him according to your law.”

“It’s not legal for us to put anyone to death,” the Jews declared.

748

because the words that You gave Me,
I have given them.
They have received them
and have known for certain
that I came from You.
They have believed that You sent Me.

749

not that anyone has seen the Father except the One who is from God. He has seen the Father.

750

Therefore Jesus said to the Twelve, “You don’t want to go away too, do you?”

751

Just then His disciples arrived, and they were amazed that He was talking with a woman. Yet no one said, “What do You want?” or “Why are You talking with her?”

752

I know that His command is eternal life. So the things that I speak, I speak just as the Father has told Me.”

753

Jesus answered, “The light will be with you only a little longer. Walk while you have the light so that darkness doesn’t overtake you. The one who walks in darkness doesn’t know where he’s going.

754

Father, glorify Your name!”

Then a voice came from heaven: “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again!”

755

Then, following him, Simon Peter came also. He entered the tomb and saw the linen cloths lying there.

756

“Men,” Jesus called to them, “you don’t have any fish, do you?”

“No,” they answered.

757

The Jews replied, “You aren’t 50 years old yet, and You’ve seen Abraham?”

758

“Cast the net on the right side of the boat,” He told them, “and you’ll find some.” So they did, and they were unable to haul it in because of the large number of fish.

759

When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor His disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum looking for Jesus.

760

“Rabbi,” the disciples told Him, “just now the Jews tried to stone You, and You’re going there again?”

761

A second time He asked him, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me?”

“Yes, Lord,” he said to Him, “You know that I love You.”

“Shepherd My sheep,” He told him.

762

The Jews were looking for Him at the festival and saying, “Where is He?”

763

“Even if I testify about Myself,” Jesus replied, “My testimony is valid, because I know where I came from and where I’m going. But you don’t know where I come from or where I’m going.

764

“If I want him to remain until I come,” Jesus answered, “what is that to you? As for you, follow Me.”

765

Jesus answered, “Are you asking this on your own, or have others told you about Me?”

766

The one who doesn’t love Me will not keep My words. The word that you hear is not Mine but is from the Father who sent Me.

768

If God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself and will glorify Him at once.

769

The Jewish Passover was near, and many went up to Jerusalem from the country to purify themselves before the Passover.

770

When Jesus stood up, He said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”

771

The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about Him, so the chief priests and the Pharisees sent temple police to arrest Him.

773

Caiaphas was the one who had advised the Jews that it was advantageous that one man should die for the people.

774

He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation,

776

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.”

777

Stooping down, he saw the linen cloths lying there, yet he did not go in.

778

Doesn’t the Scripture say that the Messiah comes from David’s offspring and from the town of Bethlehem, where David once lived?”

779

The other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, then entered the tomb, saw, and believed.

780

If we let Him continue in this way, everyone will believe in Him! Then the Romans will come and remove both our place and our nation.”

781

The police answered, “No man ever spoke like this!”

783

Now the slaves and the temple police had made a charcoal fire, because it was cold. They were standing there warming themselves, and Peter was standing with them, warming himself.

784

But this was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet, who said:

Lord, who has believed our message?
And who has the arm of the Lord
been revealed to?

785

So she ran to Simon Peter and to the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put Him!”

786

When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, “Lord—what about him?”

789

He was referring to Judas, Simon Iscariot’s son, one of the Twelve, because he was going to betray Him.

790

Nicodemus—the one who came to Him previously, being one of them—said to them,

792

This was to fulfill the words He had said: “I have not lost one of those You have given Me.”

793

He went back into the headquarters and asked Jesus, “Where are You from?” But Jesus did not give him an answer.

794

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

795

“We are descendants of Abraham,” they answered Him, “and we have never been enslaved to anyone. How can You say, ‘You will become free’?”

796

This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that anyone may eat of it and not die.

798

You have sent messengers to John, and he has testified to the truth.

799

“You were born entirely in sin,” they replied, “and are you trying to teach us?” Then they threw him out.

800

Then the slave girl who was the doorkeeper said to Peter, “You aren’t one of this man’s disciples too, are you?”

“I am not!” he said.

802

Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, not only my feet, but also my hands and my head.”

803

This is the disciple who testifies to these things and who wrote them down. We know that his testimony is true.

804

“Woman,” Jesus said to her, “why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?”

Supposing He was the gardener, she replied, “Sir, if you’ve removed Him, tell me where you’ve put Him, and I will take Him away.”

805

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin. Now they have no excuse for their sin.

806

Then they said, “Sir, give us this bread always!”

807

At that, the Jews argued among themselves, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?”

808

A jar full of sour wine was sitting there; so they fixed a sponge full of sour wine on hyssop and held it up to His mouth.

809

But now you are trying to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!

811

They placed Jesus there because of the Jewish preparation and since the tomb was nearby.

812

Then what if you were to observe the Son of Man ascending to where He was before?

813

I know that You always hear Me, but because of the crowd standing here I said this, so they may believe You sent Me.”

814

As He was saying these things, many believed in Him.

816

When some from the crowd heard these words, they said, “This really is the Prophet!”

817

There is Another who testifies about Me, and I know that the testimony He gives about Me is valid.

818

The disciples said to one another, “Could someone have brought Him something to eat?”

819

“You aren’t from Galilee too, are you?” they replied. “Investigate and you will see that no prophet arises from Galilee.”

821

But some of them said, “Couldn’t He who opened the blind man’s eyes also have kept this man from dying?”

822

I don’t receive man’s testimony, but I say these things so that you may be saved.

824

Jesus answered them, “Stop complaining among yourselves.

825

But as I told you, you’ve seen Me, and yet you do not believe.

826

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

827

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

828

When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and pleaded with Him to come down and heal his son, for he was about to die.

829

A slave does not remain in the household forever, but a son does remain forever.

830

Jesus came, took the bread, and gave it to them. He did the same with the fish.

831

They answered him, “If this man weren’t a criminal, we wouldn’t have handed Him over to you.”

832

“Go,” Jesus told him, “your son will live.” The man believed what Jesus said to him and departed.

833

Others said, “This is the Messiah!” But some said, “Surely the Messiah doesn’t come from Galilee, does He?

834

This is why they were unable to believe, because Isaiah also said:

835

For in this case the saying is true: ‘One sows and another reaps.’

837

Then the Jews said, “Now we know You have a demon. Abraham died and so did the prophets. You say, ‘If anyone keeps My word, he will never taste death—ever!’

838

You will look for Me, but you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.”

839

Some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these things and asked Him, “We aren’t blind too, are we?”

840

I do not seek My glory; the One who seeks it also judges.

842

When they entered Galilee, the Galileans welcomed Him because they had seen everything He did in Jerusalem during the festival. For they also had gone to the festival.

845

He said these things while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.

846

When Pilate heard this statement, he was more afraid than ever.

847

What is this remark He made: ‘You will look for Me, and you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come’?”

848

“Bring some of the fish you’ve just caught,” Jesus told them.

849

But since they were not far from land (about 100 yards away), the other disciples came in the boat, dragging the net full of fish.

850

“I told you I am He,” Jesus replied. “So if you’re looking for Me, let these men go.”

851

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

852

This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the manna your fathers ate—and they died. The one who eats this bread will live forever.”

853

Then He asked them again, “Who is it you’re looking for?”

“Jesus the Nazarene,” they said.

854

Then they were trying again to seize Him, yet He eluded their grasp.

855

But if you don’t believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”

856

The father realized this was the very hour at which Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” Then he himself believed, along with his whole household.

857

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

858

Many came to Him and said, “John never did a sign, but everything John said about this man was true.”

859

Are You greater than our father Abraham who died? Even the prophets died. Who do You pretend to be?”

860

Throughout history no one has ever heard of someone opening the eyes of a person born blind.

861

This, therefore, was the second sign Jesus performed after He came from Judea to Galilee.

862

You’ve never known Him, but I know Him. If I were to say I don’t know Him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know Him, and I keep His word.

863

“Sir,” the official said to Him, “come down before my boy dies!”

864

Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in Him?

865

“Our law doesn’t judge a man before it hears from him and knows what he’s doing, does it?”

867

“I do not have a demon,” Jesus answered. “On the contrary, I honor My Father and you dishonor Me.

868

So a division occurred among the crowd because of Him.

869

While he was still going down, his slaves met him saying that his boy was alive.

870

“Where have you put him?” He asked.

“Lord,” they told Him, “come and see.”

871

Jesus answered, “You have seen Him; in fact, He is the One speaking with you.”

872

But this crowd, which doesn’t know the law, is accursed!”

873

“Who is He, Sir, that I may believe in Him?” he asked.

874

The chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where He was, he should report it so they could arrest Him.

875

If this man were not from God, He wouldn’t be able to do anything.”

876

But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.

877

Then the Pharisees responded to them: “Are you fooled too?

878

Some of them wanted to seize Him, but no one laid hands on Him.

879

They were looking for Jesus and asking one another as they stood in the temple complex: “What do you think? He won’t come to the festival, will He?”