Was not it Moses who gave you the Law? Yet not one of you obeys it! Why are you seeking to put me to death?"

"You must be possessed by a demon!" the people exclaimed. "Who is seeking to put you to death?"

Therefore, Jesus, as he was teaching in the Temple Courts, raised his voice and said: "Yes; you know me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on my own authority, but he who sent me may be trusted; and him you do not know.

On which Jesus said: "I shall be with you but a little longer, and then I am going to him who sent me.

On the last and greatest day of the Festival, Jesus, who was standing by, exclaimed: "If any one thirsts, let him come to me, and drink.

He who believes in me--As Scripture says, Out of his heart shall flow rivers of 'Living Water.'"

(By this he meant the Spirit, which those who had believed in him were to receive; for the Spirit had not yet come, because Jesus had not yet been exalted.)

As for these people who do not know the Law--they are cursed!"

But one of their number, Nicodemus, who before this had been to see Jesus, said to them:

Jesus again addressed the people. "I am the Light of the World," he said. "He who follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the Light of Life."

Yet, even if I were to judge, my judgment would be trustworthy; because I am not alone, but the Father who sent me is with me.

I, who bear testimony to myself, am one, and the Father who sent me also bears testimony to me."

"Who are you?" they asked. "Why ask exactly what I have been telling you?" said Jesus.

"I have still much that concerns you to speak of and to pass judgment on; yet he who sent me may be trusted, and I speak to the world only of the things which I have heard from him."

Moreover, he who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone; for I always do what pleases him."

So Jesus went on to say to those Jews who had believed him: "If you remain constant to my Message, you are truly my disciples;

"In truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "every one who sins is a slave to sin.

But, as it is, you are seeking to put me to death--a man who has told you the Truth as he heard it from God. Abraham did not act in that way.

He who comes from God listens to God's teaching; the reason why you do not listen is because you do not come from God."

Not that I am seeking honor for myself; there is one who is seeking my honor, and he decides.

Are you greater than our ancestor Abraham, who died? And the Prophets died too. Whom do you make yourself out to be?"

"If I do honor to myself," answered Jesus, "such honor counts for nothing. It is my Father who does me honor--and you say that he is your God;

As Jesus passed by, he saw a man who had been blind from his birth.

"Rabbi," asked his disciples, "who was it that sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"

We must do the work of him who sent me, while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.

Upon this his neighbors, and those who had formerly known him by sight as a beggar, exclaimed: "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"

"The man whom they call Jesus," he answered, "made clay, and anointed my eyes, and said to me 'Go to Siloam and wash your eyes.' So I went and washed my eyes, and gained my sight."

They took the man, who had been blind, to the Pharisees.

"Is this your son," they asked, "who you say was born blind? If so, how is it that he can see now?"

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."

So the Jews again called the man who had been blind, and said to him: "Give God the praise; we know that this is a bad man."

"Tell me who he is, Sir," he replied, "so that I may believe in him."

"Not only have you seen him," said Jesus; "but it is he who is now speaking to you."

Hearing this, some of the Pharisees who were with him said: "Then are we blind too?"

But the man who goes in through the door is shepherd to the sheep.

All who came before me were thieves and robbers; but the sheep did not listen to them.

I am the Door; he who goes in through me will be safe, and he will go in and out and find pasture.

The hired man who is not a shepherd, and who does not own the sheep, when he sees a wolf coming, leaves them and runs away; then the wolf seizes them, and scatters the flock.

Others said: "This is not the teaching of one who is possessed by a demon. Can a demon give sight to the blind?"

"It is not for any good action that we would stone you," answered the Jews, "but for blasphemy; and because you, who are only a man, make yourself out to be God."

If those to whom God's word were addressed were said to be 'gods'--and Scripture cannot be set aside--

Do you say of one whom the Father has consecrated and sent as his Messenger to the world 'You are blaspheming,' because I said 'I am God's Son'?

This Mary, whose brother Lazarus was ill, was the Mary who anointed the Master with perfume, and wiped his feet with her hair.

At this, Thomas, who was called 'The Twin,' said to his fellow-disciples: "Let us go too, so that we may die with him."

And he who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?"

"Yes Master," she answered; "I have learned to believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, 'who was to come' into the world."

So the Jews, who were in the house with Mary, condoling with her, when they saw her get up quickly and go out, followed her, thinking that she was going to the tomb to weep there.

When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her weeping also, he groaned deeply, and was greatly distressed.

But some of them said: "Could not this man, who gave sight to the blind man, have also prevented Lazarus from dying?"

In consequence of this, many of the Jews, who had come to visit Mary and had seen what Jesus did, learned to believe in him.

One of them, however, Caiaphas, who was High Priest that year, said to them:

Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead, was living.

One of the disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was about to betray Jesus, asked:

Now great numbers of the Jews found out that Jesus was at Bethany; and they came there, not solely on his account, but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

On the following day great numbers of people who had come to the Festival, hearing that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem, took palm-branches,

And went out to meet him, shouting as they went: "'God save Him! Blessed is He who Comes in the name of the Lord'--The King of Israel!"

Meanwhile the people who were with him, when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead, were telling what they had seen.

Among those who were going up to worship at the Festival were some Greeks,

Who went to Philip of Bethsaida in Galilee, and said: "Sir, we wish to see Jesus."

He who loves his life loses it; while he who hates his life in the present world shall preserve it for Immortal Life.

The crowd of bystanders, who heard the sound, said that it was thundering. Others said: "An angel has been speaking to him."

"We," replied the people, "have learned from the Law that the 'Christ is to remain for ever'; how is it, then, that you say that the Son of Man must be 'lifted up' Who is this 'Son of Man'?"

"Only a little while longer," answered Jesus, "will you have the Light among you. Travel on while you have the Light, so that darkness may not overtake you; he who travels in the darkness does not know where he is going.

In fulfillment of the words of the Prophet Isaiah, where he says--'Lord, who has believed our teaching? And to whom has the might of the Lord been revealed?'

Yet for all this, even among the leading men there were many who came to believe in Jesus; but, on account of the Pharisees, they did not acknowledge it, for fear that they should be expelled from their Synagogues;

But Jesus had proclaimed: "He who believes in me believes, not in me, but in him who sent me;

And he who sees me sees him who sent me.

I have come as a Light into the world, that no one who believes in me should remain in the darkness.

He who rejects me, and disregards my teaching, has a judge already--the very Message which I have delivered will itself be his judge at the Last Day.

For I have not delivered it on my own authority; but the Father, who sent me, has himself given me his command as to what I should say, and what message I should deliver.

Before the Passover Festival began, Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave the world and go to the Father. He had loved those who were his own in the world, and he loved them to the last.

"He who has bathed," replied Jesus, "has no need to wash, unless it be his feet, but is altogether clean; and you," he said to the disciples, "are clean, yet not all of you."

For he knew who was going to betray him, and that was why he said 'You are not all clean.'

In truth I tell you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor yet a messenger than the man who sends him.

I am not speaking about all of you. I know whom I have chosen; but this is in fulfillment of the words of Scripture--'He that is eating my bread has lifted his heel against me.'

In truth I tell you, he who receives any one that I send receives me; and he who receives me receives him who sent me."

After saying this, Jesus was much troubled, and said solemnly: "In truth I tell you that it is one of you who will betray me."

The disciples looked at one another, wondering whom he meant.

Next to Jesus, in the place on his right hand, was one of his disciples, whom he loved.

So Simon Peter made signs to that disciple, and whispered: "Tell me who it is that he means."

Being in this position, that disciple leant back on Jesus' shoulder, and asked him: "Who is it, Master?"

"It is the one," answered Jesus, "to whom I shall give a piece of bread after dipping it in the dish." And, when Jesus had dipped the bread, he took it and gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot;

"Have I been all this time among you," said Jesus, "and yet you, Philip, have not recognized me? He who has seen me has seen the Father, how can you say, then, 'Show us the Father'?

In truth I tell you, he who believes in me will himself do the work that I am doing; and he will do greater work still, because I am going to the Father.

It is he who has my commands and lays them to heart that loves me; and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him."

He who does not love me will not lay my Message to heart; and the Message to which you are listening is not my own, but that of the Father who sent me.

But the Helper--the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my Name--he will teach you all things, and will recall to your minds all that I have said to you.

It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you, and I appointed you to go and bear fruit--fruit that should remain, so that the Father might grant you whatever you ask in my Name.

But they will do all this to you, because you believe in my Name, for they do not know him who sent me.

He who hates me hates my Father also.

But, when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father--the Spirit of Truth, who comes from the Father--he will bear testimony to me;

They will expel you from their Synagogues; indeed the time is coming when any one who kills you will think that he is making an offering to God.

I did not tell you all this at first, because I was with you. But now I am to return to him who sent me; and yet not one of you asks me--'Where are you going?'

Even as thou gavest him power over all mankind, that he should give Immortal Life to all those whom thou has given him.

And the Immortal Life is this--to know thee the one true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou has sent as thy Messenger.

I have revealed thee to those whom thou gavest me from the world; they were thy own, and thou gavest them to me; and they have laid thy Message to heart.

I intercede for them; I am not interceding for the world, but for those whom thou has given me, for they are thy own--

But it is not only for them that I am interceding, but also for those who believe in me through their Message,

Father, my desire for all those whom thou has given me is that they may be with me where I am, so that they may see the honor which thou has given me; for thou didst love me before the beginning of the world.

So Judas, who had obtained the soldiers of the Roman garrison, and some police-officers from the Chief Priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.