These words spake Jesus in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no man laid hands on him; for his hour was not yet come.

And he was saying unto them - Ye, are, of the realms below, I, am, of the realms above: Ye, are, of this world, I, am not of this world.

They did not realize [or have the spiritual insight to understand] that He was speaking to them about the Father.

[While] he was saying these [things], many believed in him.

Jesus was saying, therefore, unto the Jews who had believed on him - If, ye, abide in my word, of a truth, my disciples, ye are;

"We are descendants of Abraham," was their answer, "and have never yet been in slavery to any one. What do you mean by saying 'you will be set free'?"

And this was the answer Jesus gave them: Truly I say to you, Everyone who does evil is the servant of sin.

They answered Him, "Our forefather was Abraham." Jesus replied to them, "If you were Abraham's descendants, you would do the [kinds of] deeds that Abraham did.

Jesus said to them, If God was your Father you would have love for me, because it was from God I came and am here. I did not come of myself, but he sent me.

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

And this was the answer of Jesus: I have not an evil spirit; but I give honour to my Father and you do not give honour to me.

Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.

Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.

Then they picked up stones in order to throw [them] at him. But Jesus was hidden and went out of the temple [courts].

And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.

And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?

Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but it was so that the works of God might be displayed and illustrated in him.

And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.

The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?

Others were saying, "It is this man"; others were saying, "No, but he is like him." That one was saying, "I am [he]!"

So, they said to him, "How was your sight restored, then?"

He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash: and I went and washed, and I received sight.

And they said to him, Where is he? His answer was: I have no knowledge.

They brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind.

And it was the sabbath day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.

Again, therefore, the Pharisees also were asking him how he received sight, and he said to them, 'Clay he did put upon my eyes, and I did wash -- and I see.'

Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them.

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 therefore did not believe concerning him that he was blind and had received sight, until they had called the parents of him that had received sight.

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 how it is that he can see now we do not know; nor do we know who it was that gave him his sight. Ask him--he is old enough- -he will tell you about himself."

These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.

That was why his parents said, "He is of full age: ask him 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.

"What was it he did to you?" they asked him; "How did he open your eyes?"

His answer was: I have said it before, but your ears were shut: why would you have me say it again? is it your desire to become his disciples?

Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind.

unless this man was from God he would have been able to do nothing.

They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.

And Jesus added: "It was to put men to the test that I came into this world, in order that those that cannot see should see, and that those that can see should become blind."

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

There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these sayings.

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

it was winter; and Jesus was walking in the temple in Solomon's porch.

This was their answer: We are not stoning you for a good work but for evil words; because being a man you make yourself God.

If those to whom God's word was addressed are called gods (and the Scripture cannot be annulled)

And he went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was at the first baptizing; and there be abode.

Many came to Him, and they were saying, “John did not perform a single sign (attesting miracle), but everything John said about this Man was true and accurate.”

Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.

(It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)

But when Jesus heard this, He said, "This illness will not result in [his] death, but was intended to bring honor to God, so that the Son of God would be honored by it."

And Jesus was loving Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus,

When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was.

he still remained where he was for two days; then after that he said to his disciples, "Let us go back again to Judea."

"Rabbi," answered his disciples, "it was but just now that the Jews were trying to stone you, and are you going there again?"

(Now Jesus had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was speaking about {real sleep}.)

Then said Jesus to them plainly, Lazarus is dead. And I am glad for your sake I was not there, that ye may believe:

And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent ye may believe; nevertheless let us go unto him.

Then Thomas, who was called Didymus (the twin), said to his fellow disciples, “Let us go too, that we may die with Him.”

When Jesus was arriv'd, he found that Lazarus had been then four days in the grave.

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

Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat still in the house.

She said to Him, “Yes, Lord; I have believed and continue to believe that You are the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed), the Son of God, He who was [destined and promised] to come into the world [and it is for You that the world has waited].”

And, she, when she heard, was roused up quickly, and was coming unto him.

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

The Jews then who were with her in the house, and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, supposing that she was going unto the tomb to weep there.

Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.

When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,

though deeply troubled, asked them, "Where have you laid him?" "Master, come and see," was their reply.

And Jesus himself was weeping.

The Jews, therefore, said, 'Lo, how he was loving him!'

But some of them said, Could not this man, who opened the eyes of him that was blind, have caused that this man also should not die?

Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.

Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.

Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.

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 he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.

So, the leading priests and the Pharisees assembled the Council [Note: This was the Jewish governing body called "the Sanhedrin"] and said, "What should we do, for this man is performing many [miraculous] signs?

But one of them, Caiaphas, who was the high priest that year [the year of Christ’s crucifixion], said to them, “You know nothing at all!

But this he did not say of himself; but, being high priest that year, prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation;

So from that day their plan was to kill him.

Jesus, therefore, was no more freely walking among the Jews, but went away thence to the region nigh the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there he tarried 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.

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

Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.

There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.

Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

One of his disciples therefore, Judas son of Simon, Iscariote, who was about to deliver him up, says,

Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?

This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.

So Jesus said, “Let her alone, so that she may keep [the rest of] it for the day of My burial.

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;

because he was the reason many of the Jews were deserting them and believing in Jesus.

On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, Took branches of palm-trees, and went out to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord, the king of Israel.

And Jesus got a young ass and sat thereon, according to that which was written,

These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things unto him.