"What then?" they inquired; "are you Elijah?" "I am not," he said. "Are you the Prophet?" "No," he answered.

So they pressed the question. "Who are you?" they said--"that we may take an answer to those who sent us. What account do you give of yourself?"

They were Pharisees who had been sent.

Again they questioned him. "Why then do you baptize," they said, "if you are neither the Christ nor Elijah nor the Prophet?"

The two disciples heard his exclamation, and they followed Jesus.

Then Jesus turned round, and seeing them following He asked them, "What is your wish?" "Rabbi," they replied--'Rabbi' means 'Teacher' --"where are you staying?"

"Come and you shall see," He said. So they went and saw where He was staying, and they remained and spent that day with Him. It was then about ten o'clock in the morning.

Now the wine ran short; whereupon the mother of Jesus said to Him, "They have no wine."

Jesus said to the attendants, "Fill the jars with water." And they filled them to the brim.

So they carried some to him. And no sooner had the President tasted the water now turned into wine, than--not knowing where it came from, though the attendants who had drawn the water knew--he called to the bridegroom

Afterwards He went down to Capernaum--He, and His mother, and His brothers, and His disciples; and they made a short stay there.

When however He had risen from among the dead, His disciples recollected that He had said this; and they believed the Scripture and the teaching which Jesus had given them.

And this is the test by which men are judged--the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness more than they loved the Light, because their deeds were wicked.

they came to John and reported to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you on the other side of the Jordan and to whom you bore testimony is now baptizing, and great numbers of people are resorting to him."

They left the town and set out to go to Him.

Meanwhile the disciples were urging Jesus. "Rabbi," they said, "eat something."

So the disciples began questioning one another. "Can it be," they said, "that some one has brought Him something to eat?"

Do you not say, 'It wants four months yet to the harvest'? But look round, I tell you, and observe these plains-- they are already ripe for the sickle.

When however the Samaritans came to Him, they asked Him on all sides to stay with them; and He stayed there two days.

and they said to the woman, "We no longer believe in Him simply because of your statements; for we have now heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Saviour of the world."

When however He reached Galilee, the Galilaeans welcomed Him eagerly, having been eye-witnesses of all that He had done in Jerusalem at the Festival; for they also had been to the Festival.

So he inquired of them at what hour he had shown improvement. "Yesterday, about seven o'clock," they replied, "the fever left him."

"Who is it," they asked, "that said to you, 'Take up your mat and walk'?"

that all may honour the Son even as they honour the Father. The man who withholds honour from the Son withholds honour from the Father who sent Him.

they who have done what is right to the resurrection of Life, and they whose actions have been evil to the resurrection of judgement.

A vast multitude followed Him, because they witnessed the miracles on the sick which He was constantly performing.

"Make the people sit down," said Jesus. The ground was covered with thick grass; so they sat down, the adult men numbering about 5,000.

Then Jesus took the loaves, and after giving thanks He distributed them to those who were resting on the ground; and also the fish in like manner--as much as they desired.

Accordingly they gathered them up; and with the fragments of the five barley loaves--the broken portions that remained over after they had done eating--they filled twelve baskets.

Perceiving, however, that they were about to come and carry Him off by force to make Him a king, Jesus withdrew again up the hill alone by Himself.

There they got on board a boat, and pushed off to cross the Lake to Capernaum. By this time it had become dark, and Jesus had not yet joined them.

When, however, they had rowed three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the water and coming near the boat.

They were terrified; but He called to them. "It is I," He said, "do not be afraid."

Then they were willing to take Him on board; and in a moment the boat reached the shore at the point to which they were going.

Next morning the crowd who were still standing about on the other side of the Lake found that there had been but one small boat there, and they had seen that Jesus did not go on board with His disciples, but that His disciples went away without Him.

Yet a number of small boats came from Tiberias to the neighbourhood of the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.

When however the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor His disciples were there, they themselves also took boats and came to Capernaum to look for Jesus.

So when they had crossed the Lake and had found Him, they asked Him, "Rabbi, when did you come here?"

"What are we to do," they asked, "in order to carry out the things that God requires?"

"What miracle then," they asked, "do you perform for us to see and become believers in you? What do you *do*?

"Sir," they said, "always give us that bread."

They kept asking, "Is not this man Joseph's son? Is he not Jesus, whose father and mother we know? What does he mean by now saying, 'I have come down out of Heaven'?"

It stands written in the Prophets, 'And they shall all of them be taught by God'. Every one who listens to the Father and learns from Him comes to me.

Your forefathers ate the manna in the Desert, and they died.

This led to an angry debate among the Jews. "How can this man," they argued, "give us his flesh to eat?"

This is the bread which came down out of Heaven; it is unlike that which your forefathers ate--for they ate and yet died. He who eats this bread shall live for ever."

Many therefore of His disciples, when they heard it, said, "This is hard to accept. Who can listen to such teaching?"

The Jews were astonished. "How does this man know anything of books," they said, "although he has never been at any of the schools?"

Some however of the people of Jerusalem said, "Is not this the man they are wanting to kill?

But here he is, speaking openly and boldly, and they say nothing to him! Can the Rulers really have ascertained that this man is the Christ?

On hearing this they wanted to arrest Him; yet not a hand was laid on Him, because His time had not yet come.

But from among the crowd a large number believed in Him. "When the Christ comes," they said, "will He perform more miracles than this teacher has performed?"

"Do you also come from Galilee?" they asked in reply. "Search and see for yourself that no Prophet is of Galilaean origin."

So they went away to their several homes;

and was teaching them when the Scribes and the Pharisees brought to Him a woman who had been found committing adultery. They made her stand in the centre of the court, and they put the case to Him.

"Rabbi," they said, "this woman has been found in the very act of committing adultery.

They asked this in order to put Him to the test, so that they might have some charge to bring against Him. But Jesus leant forward and began to write with His finger on the ground.

When however they persisted with their question, He raised His head and said to them, "Let the sinless man among you be the first to throw a stone at her."

They listened to Him, and then, beginning with the eldest, took their departure, one by one, till all were gone. And Jesus was left behind alone--and the woman in the centre of the court.

Then, raising His head, Jesus said to her, "Where are they? Has no one condemned you?"

"Where is your Father?" they asked. "You know my Father as little as you know me." He replied; "if you knew me, you would know my Father also."

"You--who are you?" they asked. "How is it that I am speaking to you at all?" replied Jesus.

They did not perceive that He was speaking to them of the Father.

"We are descendants of Abraham," they answered, "and have never at any time been in slavery to any one. What do those words of yours mean, 'You shall become free'?"

"Our father is Abraham," they said. "If you were Abraham's children," replied Jesus, "it is Abraham's deeds that you would be doing.

You are doing the deeds of your father." "We," they replied, "are not illegitimate children. We have one Father, namely God."

Thereupon they took up stones with which to stone Him, but He hid Himself and went away out of the Temple.

"How then were your eyes opened?" they asked.

"Where is he?" they inquired, but the man did not know.

They brought him to the Pharisees--the man who had been blind.

And there was a division among them. So again they asked the once blind man, "What is your account of him? --for he opened your eyes." "He is a Prophet," he replied.

The Jews, however, did not believe the statement concerning him--that he had been blind and had obtained his sight--until they called his parents and asked them,

Such was their answer, because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already settled among themselves that if any one should acknowledge Jesus as the Christ, he should be excluded from the synagogue.

A second time therefore they called the man who had been blind, and said, "Give God the praise: we know that that man is a sinner."

"What did he do to you?" they asked; "how did he open your eyes?"

Then they railed at him, and said, "You are that man's disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.

"You," they replied, "were wholly begotten and born in sin, and do *you* teach *us*?" And they put him out of the synagogue.

Jesus heard that they had done this. So having found him, He asked him, "Do you believe in the Son of God?"

These words were heard by those of the Pharisees who were present, and they asked Him, "Are *we* also blind?"

When he has brought out his own sheep--all of them--he walks at the head of them; and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.

But a stranger they will by no means follow, but will run away from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."

Jesus spoke to them in this figurative language, but they did not understand what He meant.

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy: I have come that they may have Life, and may have it in abundance.

I have also other sheep--which do not belong to this fold. Those also I must bring, and they will listen to my voice; and they shall become one flock under one Shepherd.

"I have told you," answered Jesus, "and you do not believe. The deeds that I do in my Father's name--they give testimony about me.

My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

I give them the Life of the Ages, and they shall never, never perish, nor shall any one wrest them from my hand.

But if they are, then even if you do not believe me, at least believe the deeds, that you may know and see clearly that the Father is in me, and that I am in the Father."

Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought He referred to the rest taken in ordinary sleep.

So the Jews who were with Mary in the house sympathizing with her, when they saw that she had risen hastily and had gone out, followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep aloud there.

So they removed the stone. Then Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, "Father, I thank Thee that Thou hast heard me.

I know that Thou always hearest me; but for the sake of the crowd standing round I have said this--that they may believe that Thou didst send me."

Therefore the High Priests and the Pharisees held a meeting of the Sanhedrin. "What steps are we taking?" they asked one another; "for this man is performing a great number of miracles.

So from that day forward they planned and schemed in order to put Him to death.

They therefore looked out for Jesus, and asked one another as they stood in the Temple, "What do you think? --will he come to the Festival at all?"

Now the High Priests and the Pharisees had issued orders that if any one knew where He was, he should give information, so that they might arrest Him.

So they gave a dinner there in honour of Jesus, at which Martha waited at table, but Lazarus was one of the guests who were with Him.

Now it became widely known among the Jews that Jesus was there; but they came not only on His account, but also in order to see Lazarus whom He had brought back to life.

took branches of the palm trees and went out to meet Him, shouting as they went, "God save him! Blessings on him who comes in the name of the Lord--even on the King of Israel!"

The meaning of this His disciples did not understand at the time; but after Jesus was glorified they recollected that this was written about Him, and that they had done this to Him.