Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?

Yet I do not seek my own glory; there is One who seeks it and he will be the judge.

I assure you and most solemnly say to you, if anyone keeps My word [by living in accordance with My message] he will indeed never, ever see and experience death.”

The Jews said to Him, “Now we know that You have a demon [and are under its power]. Abraham died, and also the prophets; yet You say, ‘If anyone keeps My word, he will never, ever taste of death.’

Are You greater than our father Abraham, who died? The prophets died too! Whom do You make Yourself out to be?”

and you have not come to know Him, but I know Him; and if I say that I do not know Him, I will be a liar like you, but I do know Him and keep His word.

Jesus told them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, before there was an Abraham, I AM!"

I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

Some were saying, "It's him," while others were saying, "No, but it's someone like him." But he himself kept saying, "It's me!"

His father and mother answered them and said, "We know well that this is our son, and that he was born blind.

but how he now sees we do not know, or who has opened his eyes we do not know. He is of age: ask him; he will speak concerning himself.

He is of age: ask him; he will speak concerning himself. His parents said this, because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed, That if any man should own him to be Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.

So the man born blind was summoned a second time, and told, "Now give God the praise; this man, we know quite well, is only a sinner."

He answered, "I do not know about his being a sinful man. All I know is that I was blind before and now I can see."

He answered them, I have told you already, and ye did not hear: wherefore would ye hear it again? will ye also be his disciples?

The man replied, “Well, this is astonishing! You do not know where He comes from, and yet He opened my eyes!

Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.

In all the years nobody has ever before seen the eyes of a man blind from birth made open.

If this man had not been from God, he could not have done anything at all."

They replied to the beggar, "You were born entirely in sins [i.e., you have been a sinner all your life], and you are [trying] to teach us?" Then they threw him out [of the synagogue. See verse 22].

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.”

"Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the person who doesn't enter the sheepfold through the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a bandit.

When he hath put forth all his own, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.

And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.

So again Jesus said, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, I'm the gate for the sheep.

All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.

I am the Door; anyone who enters through Me will be saved [and will live forever], and will go in and out [freely], and find pasture (spiritual security).

the thief comes only to steal, to kill, and destroy: but I am come that they might have life, and have it with all its advantages.

I am the good shepherd. A good shepherd will give his life for his sheep.

He who is a servant, and not the keeper or the owner of the sheep, sees the wolf coming and goes in flight, away from the sheep; and the wolf comes down on them and sends them in all directions:

and other sheep I have that are not of this fold, these also it behoveth me to bring, and my voice they will hear, and there shall become one flock -- one shepherd.

No one is taking it from me; I lay it down of my own free will. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it back again. This is what my Father has commanded me."

So the Jews surrounded him and began to say to him, "{How long will you keep us in suspense}? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly!"

Jesus answered, "I have told you so, and you will not believe it. The things I have been doing by my Father's authority are my credentials,

And I give them eternal life, and they will never, ever [by any means] perish; and no one will ever snatch them out of My hand.

My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.

Jesus answered them, "Many good works have I showed you from my father: for which of them will ye stone me?"

But if I am doing them and you don’t believe Me, believe the works. This way you will know and understand that the Father is in Me and I in the Father.”

And many resorted unto him, and said, John did no miracle: but all things that John spake of this man were true.

Now a certain man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village where Mary and her sister Martha lived.

(Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)

So the sisters sent word to Him, saying, “Lord, he [our brother and Your friend] whom You love is sick.”

When Jesus heard it, He said, “This sickness will not end in death but is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

When, however, He heard that Lazarus was ill, He still remained two days in that same place.

Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours in a day? [i.e., hours of daylight]. If a person walks during daylight, he will not stumble because he can see [by] the sun's light.

but if he travels at night he will stumble because he has no light."

He said this, and afterwards He added, "Our friend Lazarus is sleeping, but I will go and wake him."

Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.

And for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”

So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet Him, while Mary remained sitting in the house.

But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee.

Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again."

Martha says to him, I know that he will rise again in the resurrection in the last day.

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me, even if he dies, will live,

and everyone who lives and believes in Me [as Savior] will never die. Do you believe this?”

no sooner she heard that, but she arose with all speed, and came to him.

and when the Jews who were condoling with her inside the house noticed her rise hurriedly and go out, they followed her, as they imagined she was going to wail at the tomb.

When Jesus then saw her weeping, and all the Jews who came with her lamenting, he groaned in spirit, and was himself greatly agitated:

Jesus said, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said, Lord, by this time the body will be smelling, for he has been dead four days.

Jesus *said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?”

I was certain that your ears are at all times open to me, but I said it because of these who are here, so that they may see that you sent me.

And the man who died came forth, wrapped hands and feet with grave-clothes, and his face had been wrapped around with a face cloth. Jesus says to them, Loose him, and allow him to go.

If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.

And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all,

Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.

and not for the nation only, but in order to unite into one body all the far-scattered children of God.

Then sought they for Jesus, and spake among themselves, as they stood in the temple, What think ye, that he will not come to the feast?

And all the chief priests and the Pharisees had given commands, that if anyone knew where He was, he should make it known so that they might seize Him.

There Mary and Martha prepared a meal for Jesus. Martha served it while Lazarus was among those who reclined at the table with Him. [Note: See Matt. 23:6].

Then Mary took a pound of very expensive perfume of pure nard, and she poured it on Jesus’ feet and wiped His feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

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

But Jesus interposed. "Do not blame her," He said, "allow her to have kept it for the time of my preparation for burial.

because you will always have the destitute with you, but you won't always have me."

Then the whole multitude of the Jews knew that he was there: and they came not for the sake of Jesus only, but also that they might see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

The Chief Priests, however, plotted to put Lazarus, as well as Jesus, to death,

"Do not be afraid, daughter of Zion [i.e., people of Jerusalem]. Look, the King is coming [to you]; He [will be] riding on a donkey's colt."

His disciples did not understand all this at first; but, when Jesus had been exalted, then they remembered that these things had been said of him in Scripture, and that they had done these things for him.

The crowd of people that was with Jesus [and saw Him] when He called Lazarus out of the grave and raised him from the dead, gave testimony [about all this].

Then the Pharisees [argued and] said to one another, “You see that your efforts are futile. Look! The whole world has gone [running] after Him!”

And Jesus answered them, saying, "The hour has come that the Son of Man will be glorified.

Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it produces a lot of grain.

The one who loves his life [eventually] loses it [through death], but the one who hates his life in this world [and is concerned with pleasing God] will keep it for life eternal.

If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.

Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.

Then a voice came from heaven, "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again!" The crowd standing there heard this and said that it was thunder. Others were saying, "An angel has spoken to him."

Now is the judgment of this world! Now the ruler of this world will be thrown out!

And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.

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?”

Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.

While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them.

Now for all the Signs he had performed before them, they did not believe in him ??38 that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: Lord, who has believed what they heard from us, And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

He has made their eyes blind, and their hearts hard; for fear that they might see with their eyes and get knowledge with their hearts, and be changed, and I might make them well.

Nevertheless, even many of the leading men believed in Him [as Savior and Messiah], but because of the Pharisees they would not confess it, for fear that [if they acknowledged Him openly] they would be put out of the synagogue (excommunicated);

I have come [as] a light into the world, in order that everyone who believes in me will not remain in the darkness.

And if anyone hears my words and does not observe [them], I will not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

'He who is rejecting me, and not receiving my sayings, hath one who is judging him, the word that I spake, that will judge him in the last day,

And I know well that his commandment is life everlasting. Whatsoever I speak therefore: even as the father bade me, so I speak."

While supper was proceeding, the Devil having by this time suggested to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, the thought of betraying Him, Jesus,

Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God;