“My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work,” Jesus told them.

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].

One man was there who had been sick for 38 years.

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.”

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

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

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

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

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.

“I assure you: Anyone who hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment but has passed from death to life.

“I assure you: An hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

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

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.

“I can do nothing on My own. I judge only as I hear, and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

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

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.

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

“There’s a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish—but what are they for so many?”

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.

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.

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

For the bread of God is the One who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

“I am the bread of life,” Jesus told them. “No one who comes to Me will ever be hungry, and no one who believes in Me will ever be thirsty again.

Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never cast out.

For I have come down from heaven, not to do My will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

This is the will of Him who sent Me: that I should lose none of those He has given Me but should raise them up on the last day.

For this is the will of My Father: that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up on the last day.

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—

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

“I assure you: Anyone who believes has eternal life.

Anyone who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day,

The one who eats My flesh and drinks My blood lives in Me, and I in him.

Just as the living Father sent Me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on Me will live because of Me.

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.”

Therefore, when many of His disciples heard this, they said, “This teaching is hard! Who can accept it?”

The Spirit is the One who gives life. The flesh doesn’t help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

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.)

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

Jesus answered them, “My teaching isn’t Mine but is from the One who sent Me.

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.

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

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;

Then Jesus said, “I am only with you for a short time. Then I’m going to the One who sent Me.

The one who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, will have streams of living water flow from deep within him.”

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.

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

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

Then Jesus spoke to them again: “I am the light of the world. Anyone who follows Me will never walk in the darkness but will have the light of life.”

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

I am the One who testifies about Myself, and the Father who sent Me testifies about Me.”

“Who are You?” they questioned.

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

“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.”

The One who sent Me is with Me. He has not left Me alone, because I always do what pleases Him.”

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you really are My disciples.

Jesus responded, “I assure you: Everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.

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!

Who among you can convict Me of sin? If I tell the truth, why don’t you believe Me?

The one who is from God listens to God’s words. This is why you don’t listen, because you are not from God.”

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

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

“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.

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

We must do the works of Him who sent Me while it is day. Night is coming when no one can work.

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

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

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.

“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.”

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!”

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

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.”

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

“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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die—ever. Do you believe this?”

“Yes, Lord,” she told Him, “I believe You are the Messiah, the Son of God, who comes into the world.”

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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!”

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

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

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.

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?”

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.

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?

Then Jesus cried out, “The one who believes in Me believes not in Me, but in Him who sent Me.

And the one who sees Me sees Him who sent Me.

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

The one who rejects Me and doesn’t accept My sayings has this as his judge: The word I have spoken will judge him on the last day.

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.

Before the Passover Festival, Jesus knew that His hour had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.