And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see?

His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind:

But by what means he now seeth, we know not; or who hath opened his eyes, we know not: he is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself.

Then again called they the man that was blind, and said unto him, Give God the praise: we know that this man is a sinner.

He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.

He answered them, I told you even now, and ye did not hear; wherefore would ye hear it again? would ye also become his disciples?

Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple, but we are the disciples of Moses: we know that God spake to Moses:

We know that God spake unto Moses: as for this fellow, we know not from whence he is.

The man answered and said unto them, Why herein is a marvellous thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine 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.

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

And they cast him out. Now Jesus heard that they had turned him out of the synagogue; and when He met him, He said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God?

Jesus said to him, “You have both seen Him, and [in fact] He is the one who is talking with you.”

Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.

the porter lets him in, and the sheep know his voice: he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out to pasture.

And when he putteth forth his own sheep, 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.

This allegory spoke Jesus to them, but they did not know what it was of which he spoke to them.

The hired servant--one who is not a shepherd and does not own the sheep--no sooner sees the wolf coming than he leaves the sheep and runs away; and the wolf worries and scatters them.

Now he who serves for wages flees because he serves for wages, and is not himself concerned about the sheep.

I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.

As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.

No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.

Now the feast of the dedication was celebrating at Jerusalem, and it was winter.

Jesus said in answer, I have said it and you have no belief: the works which I do in my Father's name, these give witness about me.

But you do not believe Me [so you do not trust and follow Me] because you are not My sheep.

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:

and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, and no one shall 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.

"For no good deed," the Jews replied, "are we going to stone you, but for blasphemy, and because you, who are only a man, are making yourself out to be God."

do you now say to me whom my Father has set apart to it and sent into the world, 'You are a blasphemer,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?

But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.

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 was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.

It was the Mary who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.

Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

The disciples say unto him, Rabbi, the Jews were but now seeking to stone thee; and goest thou thither again?

Jesus answered - Are there not, twelve hours, in the day? If one walk in the day, he doth no stumble, because, the light of this world, he seeth;

But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.

Now Jesus had spoken of his death: but they thought that he spake of taking rest in sleep.

And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there [when he died], so that [now] you will believe [i.e., when you see him miraculously raised up]. But let us go to him [now]."

Now when Jesus came, he made the discovery that Lazarus had been put into the earth four days before.

Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off:

Now Martha, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went to meet him, but Mary was sitting in the house.

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

Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.

And no one who is living and has faith in me will ever see death. Is this your faith?

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

Now Jesus was not yet come into the town, but was in that place where Martha met him.

Now when Mary came to the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."

Now when Jesus saw her wailing and saw the Jews who accompanied her wailing, he chafed in spirit and was disquieted.

Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it.

Jesus said, "Remove the stone." Martha, the dead man's sister, told him, "Lord, there must be a stench by now, because he's been dead for four days."

And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.

Now a number of the Jews who had come to visit Mary and who witnessed what he had done, believed in him.

Upon this the Chief Priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the High Council, and said: "What are we to do, now that this man is giving so many signs?

"What are we going to do?" they said, "now that this man is performing many signs?" If we leave him alone, this way, every one will believe on him, and the Romans will come and rob us of both our sacred place and of our people."

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

You know nothing, you do not consider that it is profitable to you, that one man may die for the people, and the whole nation perish not.

Now this he said not of himself: but, being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation;

And not for the nation only, but also that he might unite in one body the Children of God now scattered far and wide.

Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews; but went thence unto a country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples.

And the Jews' passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves.

Therefore they sought Jesus, and spoke with each other as they stood in the temple, What does it seem to you? That he will, no, not come to the feast?

Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should shew it, that they might take him.

Now six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus lived, whom He had raised from the dead.

Then Mary took three quarters of a pound of expensive aromatic oil from pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus. She then wiped his feet dry with her hair. (Now the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfumed oil.)

Now this he said, not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and having the bag took away what was put therein.

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

Now there was talk among the chief priests of putting Lazarus to death;

now Jesus was riding upon a young ass, which he got by the way; as it is written,

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

Now his disciples knew not these things at the first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things to him.

Now the people who were with him when his voice came to Lazarus in the place of the dead, and gave him life again, had been talking about it.

Then said the Pharisees among themselves, Do ye not perceive that ye gain no advantage? behold, the world is gone after him.

Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship at the feast:

Truly I say to you, If a seed of grain does not go into the earth and come to an end, it is still a seed and no more; but through its death it gives much fruit.

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.

Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.

Now the crowd that stood [there] and heard [it] said {it had thundered}. Others were saying, "An angel has spoken to him!"

Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.

(Now he said this to indicate by what sort of death he was going to die.)

Jesus therefore said to them, Yet a little while is the light amongst you. Walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you. And he who walks in the darkness does not know where he goes.

But though he had done such a number of signs before them, they still had no belief in him:

Now Jesus, speaking in a loud voice, had said:

I have come like light into the world, in order that no one who believes in me may remain in the dark.

And if any person hears my message and does not obey it, I will not judge him [now], for I did not come into the world to judge it, but to save it.

And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.

Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.

And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him;

that Jesus, knowing that the Father had put everything into His hands, and that He had come from God and was [now] returning to God,

and was now going to God, rose from supper, laid aside his upper garments, and took a towel and girded himself.

Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.

Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.

Jesus saith to him, 'He who hath been bathed hath no need save to wash his feet, but he is clean altogether; and ye are clean, but not all;'

For he knew who should betray him; therefore said he, Ye are not all clean.

So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you?

I assure you and most solemnly say to you, a slave is not greater than his master, nor is one who is sent greater than the one who sent him.

If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.

I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me.