And He has granted Him the right to pass judgment, because He is the Son of Man.

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

“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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

But He said to them, “It is I. Don’t be afraid!”

Jesus replied, “This is the work of God—that you believe in the One He has sent.”

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

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

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

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

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.”

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’?”

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.

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

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.”

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

because My flesh is real food and My blood is real drink.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

If anyone wants to do His will, he will understand whether the teaching is from God or if I am speaking on My own.

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.

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?

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

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;

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

On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, he should come to Me and drink!

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

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

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

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

In the law Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do You say?”

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

“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.

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

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

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.”

“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.”

So Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on My own. But just as the Father taught Me, I say these things.

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

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

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

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

“Our father is Abraham!” they replied.

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

You are of your father the Devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of liars.

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

“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.

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

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

As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

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

“Where is He?” they asked.

“I don’t know,” he said.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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!”

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

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will, He listens to him.

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

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

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

“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.

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.

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

as the Father knows Me, and I know the Father. I lay down My life for the sheep.

This is why the Father loves Me, because I am laying down My life so I may take it up again.

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.”

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.

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.”

So the sisters sent a message to Him: “Lord, the one 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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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?”

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!”

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

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

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

“Now My soul is troubled. What should I say—Father, save Me from this hour? But that is why I came to this hour.

Now is the judgment of this world. Now the ruler of this world will be cast out.

As for Me, if I am lifted up from the earth I will draw all people to Myself.”