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"For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever trusts in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Jesus answered him. "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No man ever comes to the Father but by me.
But to all who receive him, to them he has given the right to become children of God, even to those who trust in his name;
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was face to face with God, and the Word was God.
And the Word became flesh and tented with us. And we gazed on his glory??lory as of the Father's only Son??ull of grace and truth.
"In very truth I tell you," answered Jesus, "that unless a man is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God."
"The thief never comes except to steal and kill and destroy. I am come that they may have life, and may have it in abundance.
Now two days after this there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there;
"and I will pray the Father, and he will give you another Comforter to be with you forever, the Spirit of Truth.
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."
"I tell you solemnly," Jesus answered, "that unless a man is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
Accordingly when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard it said, "Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John,"
The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said: "Behold, that is God's Lamb, who takes and bears away the sin of the world.
But when he is come, that Spirit of Truth, he will guide you into the whole truth. For he will not speak on his own authority, but all that he hears he will speak, and will make known to you that which is to come.
All things came into being through him, and apart from him nothing that exists came into being.
"But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything, and bring to your remembrance everything that I have told you.
"You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a man-slayer from the very beginning; and he has no standing place in the truth, because truth is not in him. Whenever he utters a lie, he speaks from his nature, for he is a liar and the father of lying.
He came as a witness, that he might bear testimony concerning the Light??o that all men might believe through him.
"I am the Vine you are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him, bears abundant fruit; because apart from me you can do nothing.
"I tell you solemnly that he who listens to my messages and believes Him who sent me, has eternal life. He will not come under condemnation, but has passed out of death into life.
So he plaited a scourge of rushes, and drove all out of the temple??oth the sheep and oxen. He began to pour out the coins of the money-changers, and to overturn their tables,
"I am the resurrection and the life," said Jesus. "He who believes in me, even if he has died, shall live.
And this is eternal life, to know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
"In solemn truth I tell you," answered Jesus, "that before Abraham came into existence, I am."
The wind blows where it wills, and you hear its voice, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with every one who has been born of the Spirit."
"Sir," answered the sick man, "I have no man to put me into the pool whenever the water is troubled; and while I am trying to come, some one else steps down before me."
So Jesus spoke to the Jews that believed him, saying. "If you abide in my teaching, you are my true disciples;
He who trusts in him is not condemned, but he who does not trust has already been condemned, because he has not put his trust in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Once more Jesus addressed them. "I am the light of the world," he said; "He who follows me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the Light of life."
This man came to Jesus by night, and said to him. "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher sent from God; for no man can do these signs which you are continually doing, unless God is with him."
When they heard that, they went out one by one, beginning with the eldest. And Jesus was left behind alone??nd the woman in the middle of the court.
I have said all this to you that in me you might have peace. In the world you will have tribulation, but be courageous; I have overcome the world."
He was not the Light; it was to bear testimony concerning the Light that he came into being.
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but he who disobeys the Son shall not see life, but he who disobeys the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides upon him."
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved.
But an hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father is seeking such as his worshipers.
"You are searching the Scriptures because you suppose that in tem you have eternal life; and though these are they that bear witness concerning me,
"Do not wonder at this, because an hour is coming in which all who are in their graves shall hear his voice and shall come forth again;
No man has ever seen God; God, only begotten, who is in the bosom of the Father??e has interpreted him.
On the evening of that same day, the first day of the week, although the doors of the room where the disciples gathered had been locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came, and there he stood among them, saying. "Peace to you!"
answered Jesus; "no one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him; then I will raise him up on the last day.
And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up,
"How can a man be born when he is old?" Nicodemus replied; "Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb, and be born?"
"Peace I leave with you. My own peace I give to you. It is not the world's 'Peace' I give you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
"Yet?? am telling you the truth??y going is for your good. For unless I go away the Comforter will not come to you; but if I depart I will send him unto you.
"Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me; and him who comes to me I will never reject.
Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink" (for his disciples were gone away into the city to buy food.)
"When the Comforter is come whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of Truth who comes forth from the Father, he will bear witness of me;
On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, while it was yet dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and discovered that the stone had been removed from the tomb.
"Thirty-five dollars worth of bread," answered Philip, "is not enough for them, so that each can take a morsel."
So Jesus answered them in these words. "In solemn truth I tell that the Son cannot do anything of himself, except what he sees the Father doing; for whatever he does, that the Son does also.
"Nor do I pray for them alone, but for those also who believe in me through their word,
Now the last day, that the great day of the feast, Jesus stood up and cried in a loud voice.
"If you had known the free gift of God," Jesus answered, "and who it is that says to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked of him, and he would have given you living water."
Afterward Jesus found him in the Temple, and said to him. "Look! You have become well. Do not go on sinning, lest a worse thing befall you."
Now just before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour was come when he should leave this world to go to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, showed forth his love to the end.
And he, when he comes, will convict the world of sins and of righteousness and of judgment;
Jesus replied. "If any loves me he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
In my Father's house there are many rooms If it were not so, would I have told you that I went to prepare a place for you?
When they were through breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these others do?" "Yes, Lord, you know that you are dear to me." he answered. Jesus said to him, "Feed my lambs."
"I myself am the bread of life," answered Jesus; "he who comes to me shall never hunger, and he that believes on me shall never thirst again.
Then the Jews asked Jesus, "What sign are you going to show us, seeing that you do these things?"
But he who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had moved away, as there was a crowd in that place.
Then Jesus said to them again. "Peace to you. As my Father has sent me forth, I also now am sending you."
At this some of his disciples said among themselves. "What does he mean by telling us, 'In a little while you shall behold me no more; and again in a little while you shall see me,' and 'because I am going to the Father'?"
"You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
"I tell you solemnly that he who trusts in me shall himself do the works that I am doing; and still greater works than these, because I am going to my Father.
And this is the condemnation, that Light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another."
"I am giving them eternal life, and they shall never perish, nor shall any one snatch them out of my hand.
that they may all be one, even as thou, Father, art in me and I in thee; that they also may be in us; in order that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
"Have I been so long among you, and yet you, Philip, have you not recognized me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Cause us to see the Father'?
"If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask whatever your will is, and it shall be yours.
Jesus answered him. "My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants have fought hard that I should not be handed the Jews; but in reality my kingdom is not of such origins."
"for you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband; in this you have spoken truly."
Then after he had taken the vinegar, Jesus said, "IT IS FINISHED!" And bowing his head, he yielded up his spirit.
"The spirit is what gives life; the flesh is of no avail. The words which I have been speaking to you, are spirit and are life.
but whoever once drinks of the water that I will give him, shall never thirst any more, but the water that I will give him shall become a living spring of water within him, welling up into eternal life."
"In solemn truth I tell you that whoever does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other way, that man is a thief and a robber;
but these have been written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
There is no one gone up to heaven, except the One who came down from heaven??he Son of man himself.
"How is it," answered the Samaritan woman, "that you who are a Jew ask a drink from me, a woman, and a Samaritan?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
Now a man named Lazarus was ill. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha??2 it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill.
"It is he who has my commands and obeys them that loves me; and he who loves me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will manifest myself to him."
He was in the world, and through him the world came into being, yet the world knew him not.
"Do not cling to me," said Jesus, "for I am not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, "'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"
When he had thus spoken, Jesus raised his eyes to heaven and said: "Father, the hour is come. Glorify the Son, that thy Son may glorify thee;
After this Jesus showed himself again to his disciples by the Sea of Tiberias. He showed himself as follows.
It has five colonnades. In these there used to lie a great crowd of sick people??lind, lame, paralyzed.
For this reason the Jews continued to seek the more eagerly to put him to death, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was actually speaking of God as his own Father, thus making himself of God's equal.
"The world cannot receive him because it does not see him nor know him, but you know him, for he is ever with you and within you.
I will return and will take you to be with me, so that where I am you may be also.
Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
John also was baptizing in Aenon, near Salim, because there were many streams there, and people kept coming to receive baptism.
"For the Father loves the Son, and shows him every thing that he himself is doing. And greater deeds than these will he show him, that you may wonder.
So then Jesus came six days before the Passover, to Bethany, where Lazarus was whom Jesus had raised from the dead.
and said to those who were selling doves. "Take these things away! Make not my Father's house a house of trade!
"If those to whom the word of God came are called gods (and the Scripture cannot be annulled),
"And whatever' you ask in my name I will do; that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
After this Jesus went away across the Sea of Galilee (that is the lake of Tiberias).
"You heard me tell you, 'I am going away, and yet I am coming to you.' If you loved me you would have been glad because I said 'I am going to the Father,' for my Father is greater than I.
"I am the Door. Whoever enters by me shall be saved, and he shall go in and come out and find pasture.
"How can this be?" said Nicodemus in reply.
After this Jesus and his disciples went into the countryside of Judea, and there he was staying with them and baptizing.
"Abide in me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine, no more can you, unless you abide in me.
"Who is it," they asked, "that said to you, 'take up your bed and go walking away'?"
"I have other sheep also, which do not belong to this fold. I must bring them too, and they will listen to my voice, and they will become one flock, one shepherd.
Now there were six stone water-jars standing there, according to the Jewish rites of purification, each holding about twenty gallons.
"If any man thirst let him come to me and drink. From the heart of him who believes in me will flow, as the Scripture said, rivers of living water."
after he had been raised from the dead, they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said.
"That is why I said that you would die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins."
"The Father indeed does not judge any one, but has given all judgment to the Son,
I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own Name these whom thou hast given me, that they may be one as we are one.
"Our forefathers worshiped in this mountain, yet you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one must worship."
The Jews retorted, "This Temple took forty-six years to build, and will you 'raise it in three days'?"
So they kept asking. "What does that 'little while' mean of which he speaks? We do not know what he is talking about."
"I tell you solemnly," said Jesus, "that unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
But he answered them, "My Father has continued working until now, and I am working too."
In solemn truth I tell you that except a kernel of wheat fall into the ground and die, it remains a single kernel; but if it die it bears a great crop.
There were then many other signs which Jesus performed in the presence of his disciples, which have not been written in this book;
and because of this the Jews began to persecute Jesus, because he had done it on the Sabbath.
"I can of my own self do nothing. As I listen, I judge, and my own judgment is just, because I am not seeking my own will, but the will of Him who sent me.
"I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have learned from my Father.
"I myself am the living bread that has come down from heaven. Any one who eats this bread will live forever; and moreover, the bread which I will give is my flesh, given for the life of the world."
who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
This inscription was read by many of the Jews, because the place where they crucified Jesus was near the city, and the inscription was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.
And now, O Father, glorify thou me with own self, with the glory I had with thee before the world began.
"There is a lad who has five barley loaves and a couple of fish; but what is that among so many?"
"Woman, believe me," said Jesus, "that the hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.
Afterward he went down to Capernaum, he and his mother and his brothers and his disciples, and remained there a few days.
Now there stood near the cross of Jesus, his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
"For just as the Father raises the dead and makes them alive, even so the Son makes whom he will alive.
Now this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent some priests and Levites to him from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"
He who rejects me, and does not receive my words, has indeed a judge. The message which I have spoken, that shall judge him in the Last Day,
But Thomas, one of the Twelve, who was called "The Twin." was not with them when Jesus came.
Then said they to him. "Who are you? That we may give some answer to those who sent us. What account do you give of yourself?"
After that, when Jesus knew that everything was now accomplished, he said in fulfilment of the words of Scripture, "I am thirsty."
he left Judea and returned to Galilee.
so they questioned him, saying, "Why then are you baptizing, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"
For every one who practices wrong hates light, and does not come to the light, lest his actions be exposed;
"In solemn truth I tell you," Jesus replied, "every one who commits sin is a slave
After he had spoken these words Jesus went forth with his disciples to a place across the Ravine of the Cedars, where there was a garden into which he and his disciples went.
When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to get well?"
"If any one wills to do God's will he shall know concerning my teaching, whether it is from God, or I speak my own authority. Dedicate them in thy truth; thy word is truth."
"If you obey my commands you will abide in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and abide in his love.
"Make the men sit down," said Jesus. The ground was covered with thick grass; so the men sat down, in numbers about five thousand. "of righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you will no longer see me;
Now there is in Jerusalem a pool near the Sheep-gate, called in the Hebrew, Bethesda.
Now when he was in Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover, many believed in his name, when they beheld the signs which he did;
Jesus said to them. "My food is to do the will of Him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
"I have made known thy name to the men whom thou gavest me out of the world. Thine they were, and thou gavest them to me, and they have kept thy word.
Now there were certain Greeks among those who had come up to worship during the Passover feast;
I am not asking that thou wilt take them out of the world, but that thou wilt protect them from the Evil One.
"You are a king, then? You!" said Pilate. "You say truly that I am a king." answered Jesus, "for this purpose I was born, and to this end came I into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Every man who is of the truth listens to my voice."
"I indeed am baptizing in water," John said in reply, "but in your midst stands One whom you do not recognize,
Jacob's Spring was there. So Jesus, tired out with his journey, was sitting thus by the spring.
But Jesus stooped down, and began to write on the ground with his finger. When they continued to question him, he raised himself and said to them, "Let the innocent man among you be the first to throw the stone at her."
so he came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the piece of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
"This is the work of God," answered Jesus, "that you believe on him whom He has sent you."
His disciples recalled that it is written, The zeal of thine house will devour me.
"Most solemnly I tell you we are speaking of what we know, and it is about that of which we were eyewitnesses that we give testimony. Yet all of you reject our testimony.
Next day the big crowd who had come up for the Passover heard that Jesus was coming into Jerusalem,
And in that day you will ask me no questions. "Most solemnly I tell you that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give you.
"Solemnly I tell you that the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear shall live.
When Jesus saw his mother, and standing near her the disciple whom he loved, he said to his mother, "Woman behold your son."
So when he was gone, Jesus said: "Now has the Son of man been glorified, and God has been glorified in him.
"And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should not lose one of all those whom he has given me, but should raise them up at the last day.
"By this is my Father glorified, by your bearing abundant fruit, and so being my disciples.
Do you not say, 'It wants yet four months, and then comes the harvest'? Look, I tell you! Lift up your eyes and behold the fields, that they are already white for harvest.
"For this is my Fathers will, that every one who beholds the Son and believes on him, shall have eternal life. and I will raise him up at the last day."
"Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father in me? The words that I speak to you I speak not of myself; but the Father, who ever dwells in me, is doing his own work.
I myself did not recognize him; I only came baptizing in water, in order that he might be openly shown to Israel."
"Labor not for food which perishes, but for the food that endures eternal life??hat which the Son of man will give you; for on the Father??od??as set his seal."
One of the soldiers, however, pierced his side with a lance, and immediately blood and water flowed out.
This beginning of signs Jesus performed in Cana of Galilee, and showed forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him there.
"Because you have seen me, Thomas, you have believed," Jesus told him. "Blessed are those who, without seeing, yet believed."
"Are you the Teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things?" said Jesus.
"No one, Sir," she answered. "Neither do I condemned you," said Jesus. "Go, and never sin again."
For he whom God sent utters the words of God; for God does not give the Spirit sparingly.
Surely you are not greater than our Father Jacob, who gave us the well, and used to drink from it himself, and his sons, and his cattle, too?"
"For I am come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
"The Father loves me for this, because I am laying down my life that I may take it again.
Meanwhile, outside, Mary stood sobbing near the tomb. Still sobbing she stooped and looked into the tomb,
He answered. "The man who is called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash'; so I went and washed and received my sight."
You are worshiping something you do not know. we know what we worship, for salvation comes from the Jews.
Then to Thomas he said: "Place your finger here, and see my hands; and place your hand here, and thrust it into my side, and become not unbelieving, but believing."
"Father, it is my will that wherever I am these also, thy gift to me, may be with me, that they may see the glory, my glory which thou hast given me, because thou didst love me before the foundations of the world.
After these things Jesus continued to travel about in Galilee, for he did not wish to go about in Judea, because the Jews kept trying to kill him.
But there are also many other things which Jesus did; if every one of them were to be recorded in detail I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that would have to be written.
Next day Jesus decided to go into Galilee; and he found Philip and said to him, "Follow me."
"I have told you these things that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
so the Jews kept saying to the man who had been cured. "It is the Sabbath Day; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed."
"I must work the works of him that sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no man can work.
It was Preparation Day, so in order to prevent the bodies' hanging on the cross during the Sabbath (for the Sabbath was a great day) the Jews begged Pilate to have the legs broken, and the bodies taken away.
This he said, then told them, "Lazarus, our friend, has fallen asleep, but I am going to wake him."
and when they were satisfied, he said to his disciples, "Gather up the fragments that are left, so that nothing may be wasted."
"My Father who has given them to me is stronger than all, and no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand.
"Your father Abraham rejoiced that he should see my day; and he saw it and was glad."
If I have told you earthly things and yet none of you believe me, how will you believe if I tell you concerning heavenly things?
I in them and thou in me; that they may be made perfectly one, so that the world may recognize that thou didst send me, and hast loved them as thou hast loved me.
but he who does what is true, comes to the light, in order that his actions may be shown to have been wrought in God."
So they took Jesus, who went forth bearing his own cross, to a place called The Place of a Skull??n the Hebrew tongue, Golgotha.
I have glorified thee on the earth; I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
"those who have done good into a resurrection of life, and those who have practised evil to a resurrection of condemnation.
"If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, for that reason the world hates you.
"Sir," said the woman, "you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep; whence have you that living water?
"I have no husband," answered the woman. "You are right in saying 'I have no husband,'" Jesus said to her,
"What are we to do habitually," they asked him, "that we may keep working the words of God?"
"Receive the Holy Spirit. If you remit any one's sins, they are remitted; if you retain them they are retained."
If you had known me, you would have known my Father too; from now on you know him and have seen him."
And I did not recognize him, but He who sent me to baptize in water said to me, 'The one on whom you see the Spirit descending and resting upon him, is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.'
"They will excommunicate you from their synagogues; indeed the time is coming when any one who kills you will suppose that he is doing God's service.
Jesus said to them. "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I proceeded forth and am now come from God. I did not come on my own authority, but God himself sent me.
So they carried it. And when the master of the feast had tasted of the water which had been made wine, not knowing where it came from, though the attendants who had drawn it knew, he called the bridegroom and said to him.
And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one even as we are one,
"I am praying for them; I am not praying for the world, but for those whom thou hast given me; for they are thine,
"For as the Father has life in himself, so also has he granted to the Son to have life in himself.
so Jesus added. "When you lifted up the Son of man, then you will know that I am He; and that I do nothing on my own authority, but that I speak just as the Father has taught me,
I do not speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen, but it is that the Scripture may be fulfilled, which says. "He who eats my bread has lifted up his heel against me.
So the high priests of the Jews said to Pilate, "Do not write 'King of the Jews,' but 'He said, I am King of the Jews.'"
I have given them thy word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
When he had spoken thus, Jesus was deeply moved. He testified and said, "In solemn truth I tell you that one of you will betray me."
From the house of Caiaphas they took Jesus to the Praetorium, and it was dawn. They themselves would not enter the Praetorium, in order that they might not be ceremonially defiled, but might be able to eat the Passover.
and did not need any one's testimony concerning man, for he himself knew what was in man.
"Remember what I told you, 'A slave is not better than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you. If they have obeyed my word, they will obey yours also.
After the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his garments and divided them into four parts, to each soldier a part, and the tunic. Now the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom;
Simon Peter answered. "To whom shall we go Master? You have words of eternal life;
"He cuts back any of my branches that bear no fruit, and prunes every fruit-bearing branch, that it may bear more.
If then I have washed your feet, I the 'Master' and the 'Teacher', you also ought to wash one another's feet,
Accordingly the other disciples kept telling him, "We have seen the Lord." But he told them, "Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, and thrust my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe it."
Now is my soul disquieted. What shall I say? 'Father, save me from this hour'? Nay, for this very cause I am come to this hour.
"We are not going to stone you for a good deed," answered the Jews, "but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, are making yourself God."
So many of his disciples, when they heard it, said: "This teaching is unbelievable! Who can listen to him?"
"in order that all may honor the Son even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor Son, does not honor the Father who sent him.
After these things Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but in secret because of fear of the Jews, asked Pilate for permission to take the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him leave. So he came and took the body.
Then Philip found Nathanael and told him, "We have found him about whom Moses wrote in the Law, as did the prophets??esus of Nazareth, Joseph's son."
This is he of whom I said, 'After me comes One who has been put before me, for he was before me.'
So Pilate went into the Praetorium again, and summoned Jesus. "Are you the King of the Jews?" he said.
He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked intently at him and said: "You are Simon, son of John; you shall be called Cephas" (or 'Peter,' which means 'Rock').
John also bore this testimony, saying. "I saw the Spirit like a dove descend from heaven and rest upon him.
As thou hast sent me into the world, even so I also have sent them into the world.
A week later his disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, although the doors were locked, and stood there among and said: "Peace to you!"
but for his part Jesus was not trusting himself to them, because he knew all men,
when the Scribes and Pharisees had brought a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery. They made her stand in the middle of the court, and said to him.
While I was with them I kept them by the power of thy name which thou hast given me. I guarded them, and none of them was lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
If any one is ready to serve me, let him follow me; and where I am there shall my servant be also. If any man is ready to serve me, him will my Father honor.
So they filled them brimful. Then he said, "Draw some out now, and carry it to the master of the feast."
There he found in the temple those who were selling cattle and sheep and doves, and the money-changers sitting there.
Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and said: "Are you questioning one another about my saying, 'A little while and you shall behold me no more, and again a little while you shall see me'?
In the morning he found his brother Simon, and said to him, "We have found the Messiah" (a word which means Christ, the Anointed One).
"It is written in the Prophets, "And they shall all of them be taught of God. Every one who has listened to the father and learns from him, comes to me.
Then again he said them. "I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I am going, you cannot come."
"Sir!" exclaimed the woman, "give me this water, so that I may not be thirsty, nor come all this way to draw water."
Now he said this concerning the Spirit whom those who believed in him should receive. For the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.
He who loves his life loses it; and he who regards not his life in this world shall keep it for eternal life.
"No man is taking it away from me. I am laying it down on my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father."
"I am come in the name of my Father and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, him you will receive.
Hitherto you have asked nothing in my name; ask, and you shall receive, that your joy may be full.
"But now I go my way to Him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, 'Where are you going?'
Then said the Pharisees to him. "You are bearing testimony to yourself; your testimony is not true."
In reply Jesus said to them; "My teaching is not mine, but is his who sent me. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world."
"Believe me, all of you, that I am in the Father and the Father in me, or else believe me for the very words' sake.
Instantly the man became well, and he took up his bed and started to walk. Now it was Sabbath on that day;
When Jesus perceived that they intended to seize him in order to make him a king, he retired again to the hill all by himself.
so when Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been four days in the tomb.
since thou hast given him authority over all mankind, to give eternal life to all whom thou hast given him.
"He who feeds upon my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
"If any one does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers. Such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire and burned.
Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said, "Do you believe in the Son of man?"
The third time Jesus asked him, "Am I really dear to you?" Peter was grieved because the third time he asked, "Am I really dear to you?" and he answered, "Master, you know all things, you know that you are dear to me."
and there was much disputing about him among the crowd. Some would say, "He is a good man." Others. "No! he is misleading the people." "While I was with them I kept them by the power of thy name which thou hast given me. I guarded them, and none of them was lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves??he broken pieces that were left after they had eaten.
for I have given you an example, that you also should do what I have done to you.
"At that day you shall understand that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
"And the Father who sent me has himself borne testimony concerning me. None of you has heard his at any time or seen him,
And if any one hears my words and does not keep them, it is not I who judge him; for I am not come to judge the world, but to save the world.
"Which one of you convicts me of sin? Why then, if I am speaking the truth, do you not believe me?
"Though even if I do judge, my judgment is trustworthy, because I am not alone, but the Father who sent me is with me.
Accordingly the report spread among the brothers that this disciple should not die; but Jesus did not say that he was not to die, but said, "If I choose that he remain until I come, what is that to you?"
"Why do you question me? Ask those who heard what I have said to them; these witnesses here know what I said."
Then the Pharisees said among themselves. "You see! You can do nothing! Look! The world is gone after him!"
"But they will do all these things to you for my name's sake, because they know not Him who sent me.
No one, however, was speaking openly about him, for fear of the Jews. "But now I am coming to thee, and I am speaking these things while I am in the world, so that they may have my joy in all its fulness in themselves.
Now Jesus had been speaking concerning his death, but they thought that he was talking about natural sleep.
O righteous Father, though the world knew thee not, I have known thee, and these have known that though didst send me.
His disciples did not understand these things at first; but when Jesus had been glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written concerning him, and what they had done to him.
"I am one who gives testimony concerning myself, and the Father who sent me gives testimony concerning me."
Meanwhile the crowd which was with him when he summoned Lazarus from the tomb and raised him from the dead, kept witnessing.
Then Jesus turned and saw them following him, and said, "What do you want?" They replied, "Rabbi" (which may be translated 'Teacher'), "where are you staying?"
"Lazarus is dead; and for your sakes I am glad I was not there, in order that you may believe. Come, let us go to him."
"From this time forward, I tell you before it comes to pass, that when it is come to pass you may believe who I am.
After gazing intently on Jesus as he walked about, he said, "Look! that is the Lamb of God!"
After they had rowed three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking upon the sea, and drawing near to the boat, and they were terrified;
Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said therefore to him, "You are not also one of his disciples, are you not?" He denied it, saying "I am not."
Then some of John's disciples got into a controversy with a Jew in regard to purification; so they came to John and said to him.
He said to them, "Come, and you shall see." So they went and saw where he was staying, and spent that day with him. It was then about four o'clock in the afternoon.
Others were saying. "These are not the words of one demon-possessed. Can a demoniac open the eyes of the blind?"
The Jews were amazed. They said, "How does this fellow know the sacred writings when he has never learned them?" "I am not asking that thou wilt take them out of the world, but that thou wilt protect them from the Evil One.
"Rabbi, see! The man who was with you on the other side of Jordan, and to whom you yourself have borne testimony, is now baptizing, and everybody is coming to him."
When he had spoken these words, one of the police standing by gave him a blow with his hand, saying as he did so, "Is that the way you answer the high priest?"
So there was a difference of opinion among them. Accordingly they said to the blind man, "What have you to say about him, now that he has opened your eyes?" "He is a prophet," he answered.
so the Pharisees again began to ask him questions about how he had regained his sight; and he said to them, "He put clay on my eyes, and I washed them, and now I see."
He said these words in the Treasury, while he was teaching in the Temple; yet no one arrested him, because his hour was not yet come.
In solemn truth I tell you, he who receives any one that I send is receiving me; and he who receives me is receiving Him who sent me."
"If I had not done among them such works as none ever did, they would have had no sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Then the Jews said: "He will not kill himself, will he? Is that why he says, 'Where I am going you cannot come'?"
You yourselves are my witnesses that I said, 'I am not the Christ, but have been sent before him.'
so the soldiers said one to another. "Let us not tear it. Let us draw lots, to see whose it shall be"??hat the Scripture might be fulfilled. They divided my garments among them, For my raiment did they cast lots. This was what the soldiers did.
"The man who speaks on his own authority is always seeking his own glory. But one who is eager for the glory of Him who sent him, he is true, and therefore is nothing false about him.
Then some of the Pharisees began to say, "This man in not from God, because he does not keep the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?"
"And now I tell you this before it happens, so that when it does happen you may believe.
Jesus had not yet come to them, and the sea began to rise, because a strong wind was blowing.
"Come! see a man who has told me everything that I ever did. He can't be the Christ, can he?"
Jesus replied "If I have said anything wrong, give evidence concerning the wrong; but if I said what was true, why do you strike me?"
Then in reply his parents said: "We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind;
"Did not Moses give you the Law? Yet none of you is keeping the Law. Why are you seeking to kill me?"
Then they were willing to take him on board, and immediately the boat reached the shore they were making for.
"I have told you these things in figures; but the time is coming when I shall no longer speak in figures, but will tell you about the Father in plain words.
There they got in a boat, and started across the sea for Capernaum. The darkness had already fallen,
and questioned them. "Is this your son," they said, "who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?"
Jesus said in reply. "Do you believe because I said to you, 'I saw you under the fig tree?'
A great crowd were following him, because they witnessed the signs which he was continually performing among those who were ill.
Then Jesus walked up the hills and sat down there with his disciples. Now the Jewish feast, the Passover, was at hand.
For this reason, too, the crowd came to meet him, because they had heard about this sign which he had done.
so a number of the Jews had gone to Martha and Mary to sympathize with them concerning their brother.
The Jews, however, did not believe about him that he was blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man whose sight had been restored,
Then the woman left her water-jar, and went away into the city and began saying to the people.
So, on the following day, when boats came from Tiberias near the place were they had eaten bread, after the Lord had given thanks, they got into the boats themselves,
Then the disciples began looking at one another, wondering which one of them he meant.
"but how he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who has opened his eyes. Ask him, himself. He is of age. He will speak for himself."
"Now Moses, in the Law, has commanded us to stone such creatures. But you, what do you say?"
So that disciples just leaned back against Jesus' breast and said to him, "Lord, who is it?"
"And look! he is speaking boldly and they are saying nothing to him. Can it possibly be that the rulers have really discovered that he is the Christ?
"Consider, therefore, Moses has given you circumcision??ot that Moses originated it, but the fathers??nd you are accustomed to circumcise a child even on the Sabbath.
"Give glory to God! we know that this man is a sinner." Upon this the blind man answered. "I do not know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know, that once I was blind, and know I can see."
"I have many things to say and to judge concerning you. But he who sent me is true, and I speak to the world only those things which I have heard from him."
"Who are you?" then they asked him. "What I am telling you from the beginning," Jesus answered.
In that day you shall pray in my name; and I do not tell you that I will ask the Father on your behalf;
"If a child receives circumcision on the Sabbath, in order that the Law of Moses may not be broken, how can you be angry with me because I made a man sound and well on the Sabbath?
So when Martha learned that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him, but Mary remained sitting in the house.
"All that came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.
Then some of the men of Jerusalem were saying. "Is not this the man they are seeking to kill?
With these words she went away to call her sister Mary, saying privately, "The Teacher is here and is asking for you."
"The world cannot hate you, but me it does hate, because I am bearing testimony against it, that its ways are wicked.
his brothers said to him. "Leave here and go into Judea, so that your disciples also may behold the works which you are doing.
"It is that one," answered Jesus, " to whom I am going to give a piece of bread, after dipping it."
Then they kept seeking to arrest him, but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.
Philip went and told Andrew. Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. Jesus answered.
"But a stranger they will not follow, but flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."
Now we are sure that you know all things, and have no need for any one to question you; by this we believe that you came forth from God."
This his parents said because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if any one should confess that he was the Christ, he should be expelled from the synagogue.
Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what he was talking about; so he said to them again.
"How do you know me?" asked Nathanael. "Before Philip called you," replied Jesus, "when you were under the fig tree, I saw you."
When Mary came to the place where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell at his feet, saying, "Master had you been here, my brother would not have died."
Then he said to the disciple, "Behold your mother." And from that hour the disciple took her to his home.
But many of the crowd believed on him and began to say, "The Christ, when he comes, will he do more signs than this man has done?"
When he had thus spoken he spat on the ground, and made clay with the spittle, and smeared the clay on the man's eyes.
So Jesus cried aloud as he was teaching in the Temple, and said: "You both know me and you know where I am from; and I am not come on my own authority, but he who sent me is trustworthy, and him you do not know.
Then he said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (a word which means "sent"). So the man went and washed his eyes, and came back seeing.
"But we know this man and where he is from; but when the Christ comes no one will know where he comes from."
"For no one ever does anything in secret if he himself seeks to be known publicly. If you are performing these signs, show yourself openly to the world."
"He has nothing in me, but in his coming the world may know that I love the Father, and that I do just as the Father commanded. Rise, let us be going!"
One of the slaves of the high priest, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Did not I myself see you with him in the garden."
So Simon Peter beckoned to him, saying, "Ask who it is about whom he is speaking."
So Pilate came outside to them and asked, "What charge do you bring against this man?"
"behold the hour approaches and is already come when you will be scattered, each man to his home, and will leave me alone; and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
"I am not a Jew, am I?" replied Pilate; "It is your own nation and the high priests who have handed you over to me. What have you done?"
The Jews answered him, "We are not allowed to put anyone to death" (that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled in which he predicted the kind of death he was to die).
So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man and of the other who had been crucified with him.
And he who saw it has borne testimony, and his testimony is trustworthy, and he knows that he is telling the truth in order that you may believe.
Upon this the neighbors and those who used to know him by sight as a beggar, began asking, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"
Some said, "It is he." Others said, "No, but he looks like him." "I am the man," he said.
"Your life you will lay down for me? In solemn truth I tell you, the cock shall not crow before you have three times disowned me."
"I find no crime in this man. Now it is a custom of yours that I release one prisoner to you at the time of the Passover feast. Do you wish me to release to you the King of the Jews?"
Martha answered, "I know that he will rise in the resurrection, at the Last Day."
He answered. "I have told you already, and you did not listen. Why do you wish to hear it again? Can it be that you, too, wish to become his disciples?"
Jesus replied. "Are there not twelve hours in the daytime? If any one walks in the daytime he does not stumble, because he beholds the light of this world;
Then the people answered. "We have heard out of the Law that the Christ abides forever. What do you mean by 'The Son of man must be lifted up'? Who is this Son of man?"
"We know that God spoke to Moses. But this fellow! We do not know where he comes from."
I sent you to reap a crop on which you have not toiled. Others have toiled, and you have reaped the benefit of their toil."
Then Mary took a pound of pure spikenard, very costly, and poured it over his feet, and wiped his feet with her hair, and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
You shall see greater things than that! Believe me," he added, "you all shall see heaven opened wide, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man."
"It is not for my sake," answered Jesus, "that the voice came, but for your sakes.
Nicodemus also (the one who visited Jesus by night, at first) came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, weighing nearly a hundred pounds.
"This is truly astonishing," said the man in reply, "that you do not know where he is from, and yet he has opened my eyes.
Judas the Traitor also knew this place; for Jesus and his disciples often met there.
When he had taken the piece of bread, Judas went out immediately; and it was night.
So he came back again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. Now there was one of the king's officers whose son was lying ill at Capernaum.
and the soldiers plaited a crown of thorns, placed it on his head, and threw a purple cloak about him, and kept marching up to him,
After that Pilate began to seek to release him, but the Jews shouted out. "If you release this man you are no friend of the Emperor. Any man who makes himself out to be king is a rebel against the Emperor."
So they gave a dinner for him there, and Martha served it; but Lazarus was one of those who reclined with him at table.
So after getting troops and some Temple police from the chief priests and Pharisees, Judas came there with lanterns and torches and weapons.
"My little children, I am only to be with you a little longer. You will seek me; just as I said to the Jews, 'Where I go you cannot come,' so now I say to you.
"We no longer believe because of what you said, for we ourselves have heard him, and we know that this is certainly the Saviour of the world."
There were together Simon Peter and Thomas, called "The Twin," and Nathanael, from Cana of Galilee, and the two sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples.
So when the people saw the sign which he had performed, they said, "This is in the truth the Prophet who is to come into the world."
"The porter opens the door for him; the sheep listen to his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.
This he said not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and, carrying the purse,
On hearing what they said, Pilate brought Jesus out and made him sit on the judge's seat in a place called the Mosaic Pavement (the Hebrew name is Gabbatha).
"Yet a little while and the world shall see me no more, but you shall see me; because I live, you, too, shall live.
And Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see."
because it was on his account that many of the Jews were leaving them, and beginning to believe on Jesus.
So while supper was proceeding, and the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray him,
The crowd that remained on the other side of the sea had seen that there was only one small boat there, and that Jesus had not gone aboard with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away by themselves.
"Feed my sheep," said Jesus. "In solemn truth I tell you that when you were young, you used to put on your own girdle, and walk wherever you wished; but when you grow old you will stretch out your hands for some one to gird you, and carry you where you do not wish to go."
"You would have no power over me," answered Jesus, "unless it had been given you from above. For this reason he who has betrayed me to you has the greater sin."
In reply Jesus said to them. "Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? And yet even of you one is an enemy."
Out came the dead man, wrapped hand and foot with grave-clothes, and his face bound up in a napkin. Jesus said to them, "Untie him, and let him go."
just as the Father knows me, I know the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep.
"and he who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, for I do always the things that please him."
So they took the body of Jesus and wound it in linen with the spices, according to the Jewish mode of burial.
In solemn truth I tell you that a slave is not greater than his master, neither is a messenger greater than the one who sends him.
Simon Peter asked him, "Lord, where are you going?" "Where I am going," answered Jesus, "you cannot follow me now; but you shall follow me later."
Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it, and striking at the high priest's slave, cut off his right ear.
"In solemn truth I tell you," said Jesus in reply, "Moses did not give you the bread out of heaven, but my Father does give you the true bread out of heaven;
for some were thinking, as Judas kept the purse, that Jesus meant to tell him, "Buy the things that we need for the feast," or that he should give something to the poor.
and led him to Annas first. (For Annas was the Father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was the high priest that year??14 the Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it was for their advantage that one man should die for the people.)
"Ah," said the disciples, "now you are speaking plain language, and not using figures.
And he said to them. "You are from below. I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world.
He bears testimony to what he has heard and seen, yet no one receives his testimony.
He who has the bride is the bridegroom, but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. So then this joy of mine has now complete fulfilment.
"The hired servant, since he is not a shepherd and does not own his sheep, leaves the sheep and flees when he sees a wolf coming??nd the wolf worries them and scatters them.
Like light am I come into the world, so that no one who believes in me may remain in darkness.
Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said that he will take of what is mine and make it known to you.
because I have never spoken on my own authority, but the Father himself who sent me gave me commandment what to say and what words to speak.
So when he had dipped the bread, he took it and gave it to Judas Iscariot, son of Simon. And after he had received the piece of bread, Satan entered into him. "What you do, do quickly," said Jesus.
Then the Jews began to find fault with Jesus, because he said, "I am the bread which comes down out of heaven," and they kept asking.
"I know," said the woman, "that Messiah is coming, who is called the Christ; when he has come he will tell us everything."
And it was the day of Preparation for the Passover, about six o'clock in the morning. Then he said to the Jews, "Behold your King!"
"In solemn truth I tell you that if any one obeys my teaching he shall never behold death."
Jesus made no answer. So Pilate said to him. "Do you not speak to me? Do you not know that I have power to release you, or power to crucify you?"
"Do you understand what I have been doing to you? You call me 'Teacher' and 'Master', and you say well, for such I am.
So they asked him, "How then were your eyes opened?"
Peter answered, "No, never shall you wash my feet." "If I do not wash you," said Jesus, "you have no part in me."
But he was speaking about the temple of his body; and when the disciples recalled what he had said,
Then that disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It is the Lord!" On hearing that it was the Lord, Simon Peter girt his fisher's coat about him (for he was naked), and threw himself into the water.
And Pilate moreover wrote an inscription and placed it above the cross. What he wrote was, "JESUS, THE NAZARENE, KING OF THE JEWS"
"for the bread of God is what come down from heaven, and gives life to the world."
Then Jesus, knowing all that was coming upon him, went forth to meet them, and asked them, "Who is it that you are looking for?"
When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, "Rabbi, when did you get here?"
Meanwhile Simon Peter was following Jesus, and so was another disciple who was known to the high priest, and they went in with Jesus into the court of the high priest's palace.
"We do not know where you are going Lord," said Thomas, "so how can we know the way?"
"Neither he nor his parents sinned." replied Jesus; "it happened that the works of God might be made manifest in him.
Then the Jews who were in the house trying to console her, when they saw that Mary rose quickly and went out, followed her, because they thought she was going to the tomb to weep there.
"How can you believe when you receive glory from, one another, and have no desire for the glory which comes from the only God?
Pilate said to him, "What is truth?" As he said this, he went outside again to the Jews and said to them.
Away went Mary Magdalene to the disciples with the tidings, "I have seen the Master!" and that he said these things to her.
"For judgment am I come into the world, to make the sightless see, and to make the seeing blind."
Jesus had not yet arrived in the village, but was still at the place where Martha met him.
Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him, and said, "Behold a true Israelite in whom there is no deceit."
And I have declared??nd will declare??hy name unto them, that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them, and that I may be in them."
One of the two men who heard what John said and followed Jesus, was Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter.
"What then?" they questioned; "Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" "No," he replied.
but if any one walks during the night he does stumble, because the light is not in him."
Jesus answered. "In solemn truth I tell you that you are looking for me, not because you saw miracles signs, but because you ate of the bread and were filled.
"But I have testimony greater than that of John; for the work which the Father has given me to bring to completion??he work which I am doing??ears testimony concerning me, that the Father has sent me.
and taking branches from the palm trees went out to meet him, shouting, "Hosanna! Blessed is he who cometh in the name of the Lord. Even Israel's King!"
"I know you are Abraham's descendants; but you are seeking to kill me, Because my teaching has no place in you.
"He that comes from above is above all; but one who is of the earth, of the earth he is, and of the earth he speaks. He who comes from heaven is above all.
But one of their number, Caiaphas by name, who was high priest that year, said to them,
I tell you solemnly that you will be weeping and wailing while the world is rejoicing; you will be grief-stricken, but your grief shall be turned into gladness.
"When he has brought all his own sheep, he walks before them and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.
The reaper is already receiving wages and gathering a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.
"In a little while you shall behold me no more; and again in a little while you shall see me, because I am going to the Father."
Then he came to Simon Peter, who said to him, "Lord, are you going to wash my feet?"
Peter turned around and saw that the disciple whom Jesus loved was following??e who at the supper leaned back upon his breast and said, "Lord, who is to betray you?"
In reply the Jews said to him, "Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan, and you also have a demon?"
Then the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching.
While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so that you may become Sons of Light."
With these words Jesus went away and hid himself from them. But although he had wrought such signs in their presence, still they did not believe in him.
He said, "I am a voice of one who cries aloud in the desert, 'Make straight the way of the Lord,' as said the prophet Isaiah."
"Why was not this perfume sold for fifty dollars, and the proceeds given to the poor?"
"Mary," said Jesus. She turned to him. "Rabboni!" she cried in Hebrew. That is to say, "Teacher."
"You are doing the deeds of your father." "We were not born of adultery," they said; "we have one Father, God."
So Simon Peter went and dragged the net to shore, full of large fish, a hundred and fifty-three of them; but for all this number the net was not torn.
Jesus, knowing that the Father had given everything into his hands, and that he was come from God,
"He who is from God listens to God's words. For this reason you do not listen, because you are not from God."
Do you go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fully come."
So after he had washed their feet, and had put on his upper garments again, and taken his place, he said to them.
As he said this he showed them his hands and his side. Then were the disciple glad, when they saw the Lord.
"Our fathers ate manna in the wilderness, as it is written, 'He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.'"
nor had his word dwelling within you, because you do not believe him whom he sent.
"That man was the Lamp-burning and shining??nd you were willing for a time rejoice in his light.
There was a garden near the place where Jesus had been crucified, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had ever been laid.
Then Jesus said to him, "Unless you all see signs and wonders, you will not believe."
Simon Peter said to them, "I am going fishing." They answered him, "And we are going with you." So they went out and got into the boat, and throughout the night they caught nothing.
There they crucified him; and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them.
But Peter took his stand outside, near the door. So the other disciple who was known to the high priest came out and spoke to the doorkeeper and brought Peter in.
"You know nothing at all, nor do you consider that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, rather than the whole nation be destroyed."
Then the crowd who stood around and heard it, said, "It thundered!" But others said, "An angel has spoken to him."
used to purloin what was put in it. Then said Jesus. "Let her alone. Against the day of my burial has she kept this;
They said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She answered, "Because they have taken away my Master, and I do not know where they have laid him."
I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world. again, I am leaving the world, and am going to the Father."
"Abraham is our father," they answered. "If you are indeed Abraham's children," said Jesus "do the deeds of Abraham.
"Rabbi," they said, "eat something." But he answered, "I have food to eat of which you know nothing."
"But I have told you these things, that when the time comes you may remember that I told you about them, myself. I did not, however, speak of these things at first, because I was with you.
"Everybody serves first the good wine, and when people have drunk freely, the poor wine; but you have kept the good wine until now."
And for their sakes I dedicate myself, that they also may be thoroughly dedicated in the truth.
Jesus therefore, again shuddering in himself with indignation, came to the tomb, which was a cave with a stone lying upon it.
When the great mass of the Jews learned that Jesus was there, they came not alone because of Jesus, but to see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.
(The slave's name was Malchus.) Then Jesus said to Peter. "Put up your sword in its sheath. the cup which my Father has given me, shall I not drink it?"
Nevertheless, even among the rulers many believed on him, but did not confess in on account of the Pharisees, for fear lest they be put out of the Synagogue.
Then as Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, "BEHOLD, THE MAN!"
Then Martha said to Jesus. "Master, had you been here my brother would not have died;
For not yet had they understood the Scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.
Pilate again came forth and said to the people, "See, I am going to bring his out to you, that you may clearly know that I find no crime in him,"
Then when Jesus saw her sobbing, and the Jews likewise who accompanied her, sobbing, he shuddered with indignation in his spirit, and was deeply agitated.
Many of the Jews, therefore, who had come with Mary, and had seen what he did, believed on him;
and the napkin which had been about his head not lying with the wrappings, but rolled up in it's own place.
The they said to him. "What sign, then, are you performing, so that we may see it and believe in you? What work are you doing?
Upon this Thomas, who was called "The Twin," said to his fellow disciples, "Let us go too, that we may die with him."
and was now going to God, rose from supper, laid aside his upper garments, and took a towel and girded himself.
"Just as the living Father has sent me, and I live by the Father, so also that man who feeds on me shall live by me.
John bore witness concerning him, and cried aloud, saying, "This is he of whom I said, 'He who is coming after me has been put before me, for he was before me.'"
But when day was dawning Jesus stood on the beach. The disciples, however, did not recognize that it was Jesus.
he still remained where he was for two days; then after that he said to his disciples, "Let us go back again to Judea."
"Come and have breakfast," said Jesus to them. Not one of the disciples dared ask him, "Who are you?" Knowing that it was the Lord.
Jesus answered her, "Did I not tell you that if you would believe you should see the glory of God?"
Jesus said: "He who has bathed needs only to have his feet washed, and he is altogether clean; and you are clean, but not all of you."
So the troops and their commandant and the Jewish police took Jesus, and bound him,
"I have shown you many good deeds from my Father. For which of these are you going to stone me?"
Then he poured water into the basin, and began to wash the feet of his disciples and to wipe them with the towel with which he had girded himself.
Jesus answered them. "I have told you, and you do not believe. The works which I am doing in my Father's name, these bear witness concerning me.
"I am declaring what I have seen with the Father, and you are acting as you have learned from your father."
these came to Philip of Bethsaida in Galilee, with a request. "Sir," they said, "we want to see Jesus."
So when the chief priests and the police saw him, they shouted. "Crucify him! Crucify him!" "Take him yourselves and crucify him," said Pilate, "for I find no crime in him."
In reply John said: "A man cannot obtain anything unless it has been granted to him from heaven.
This he said to show by what kind of death Peter was to glorify God. After speaking thus, he said to him, "Follow me."
"For Jesus of Nazareth," they answered. He said to them, "I am he." (Now Judas also, the betrayer, was standing with them.)
Then they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the Temple.
"Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph? Do we not know his father and mother? How is it that he now says, 'I have come down from heaven'?"
They both began to run; and the other disciple ran faster than Peter, and came first to the tomb.
When they got to the shore they beheld a charcoal fire ready laid, with fish on it, and some bread.
When she had said this she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but did not know that it was Jesus.
Many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him because of the word of the woman when she declared, "He told me everything that I ever did."
"Yet there are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who it was who should betray him.
"We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if any one is God-fearing and does his will, to such he listens.
Jesus answered him, "What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will understand it later."
"Rabbi," his disciples asked him, "who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"
So he added, "This is why I told you that no on can come to me unless it be given from the Father."
A woman in labor has grief because her hour is come; but when she has given birth to the babe she no longer remembers her anguish, because of joy that a child has been born into the world.
So you also have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your heart will rejoice, and your joy shall no man snatch away from you.
After saying this, he remained in Galilee; but after his brothers had gone up to feast,
"How is it, Lord," said Judas (not Iscariot) "that you will manifest yourself to us and not to the world?"
"And so is fulfilled the word written in their Law, 'They hate me without cause.'
"Do not imagine that I shall accuse you to the Father. Moses is your accuser, on whom you build your hopes.
When Jesus heard it he said, "This illness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that through it the Son of God may be glorified."
and went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and there he remained.
"How is it that you do not understand what I say? It is because you cannot listen to my message.
This I have seen, and I am become a witness to the fact that he is the Son of God."
do you mean to tell me, whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?
But when it was already the middle of the feast, Jesus went up to the Temple and began to teach. "I have given them thy word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
"If you were blind," Jesus answered them, "you would have no sin. But now you are declaring, 'We see'; so your sin remains.
Jesus answered him. "I have spoken to all the world openly. I always taught in a synagogue and in the temple, places where all the Jews are wont to assemble, and in secret I have spoken nothing.
But upon coming to Jesus they saw that he was already dead, and did not break his legs.
"But now I am coming to thee, and I am speaking these things while I am in the world, so that they may have my joy in all its fulness in themselves.
Then Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks he distributed them among those who were seated; in like manner also of the fish, as much as they wished,
"If I glorify myself." said Jesus, "my glory is nothing. It is my Father that glorifies me, and you say, 'He is our God.'
The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by that law he ought to die, because he made himself out to be God's Son,"
For this happened that the Scripture might be fulfilled, Not one of his bones shall be broken.
Then they shouted. "Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!" "Crucify your King?" said Pilate. The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar!"
"Yes, Master," she answered, "I have come to believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world."
He hath blinded their eyes and make their hearts hard, Lest they should see with their eyes, perceive with their minds, And should turn, and I should heal them.
And every one who is living and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?"
Then all the Jews encircled him and kept asking him. "How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."
"Roll away the stone," said Jesus. "Master," said Martha, the sister of the dead man "he is offensive by this time, for he has been four days in the tomb."
Jesus therefore no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but went away from there into the region near the desert to a town called Ephraim,
Then the Jews said to one another. "Where does this fellow intend to go, so that we shall not find him? He is not intending to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and to teach the Greeks, is he?
At dawn, however, he came back to the Temple, where the people came to him in crowds. He had taken his seat and was teaching them,
saying, "Hail! King of the Jews!" They also gave him blow after blow with their hands.
(For he knew who should betray him, for that reason he said that they were not every one of them clean.)
and gazed at two angels in glistening white sitting, one at the head the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.
for I have given them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
"Not that any one has seen the Father, except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father.
Just then his disciples came up, and were astonished that he was talking with a woman; yet not one of them asked him, "What do you want?" or "Why are you talking with her?"
And I know that his commandment is eternal life. So whatever I speak, I speak as the Father has told me."
"The Light is among you a little longer," answered Jesus. "Walk while you have the Light, lest darkness overtake you. He who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
Father, glorify thy name!" Whereupon there came a voice from heaven, saying, "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again."
Then Peter also came following him, and he went inside the tomb; and he gazed at the linen wrapping as they lay,
So Jesus said to them, "Lads, you haven't any fish, have you?" They answered him, "No."
"You are not yet fifty years old," said the Jews to him, "and you have seen Abraham?"
And he said to them, "Cast your net on the right side of the boat, and you will find." So they cast it, and now they could not haul it in for the multitude of fishes.
when they saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, and went to Capernaum to look for Jesus.
"Rabbi," answered his disciples, "it was but just now that the Jews were trying to stone you, and are you going there again?"
He said to him a second time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" He answered, "Yes, Lord, you know that you are dear to me." "Be a shepherd to my sheep," said Jesus.
The Jews meanwhile kept looking for him at feast, and saying, "Where is he?" "I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own Name these whom thou hast given me, that they may be one as we are one.
In reply Jesus said to them. "Even if I do bear testimony to concerning myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I have come from and where I am going. But you do not know where I have come from, or where I am going.
"If I choose that he remain until I come," said Jesus, "what is that to you? Do you follow me."
Jesus answered, "Are you saying this of your own accord, or did others say it to you about me?"
"He that loves me not does not obey words, and yet the words to which you are listening are not mine, but the Father's who sent me.
for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and believed that I came forth from the God.
If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and straightway will he glorify him.
and there remained with his disciples. Now the Jewish Passover was near, and many people went up from the country to Jerusalem for purification before the Passover.
Then Jesus raised himself up and said to her. "Woman, where are they? Has no man condemn you,"
The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about him, and the high priest and Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.
"But if I am doing them, then though you believe not me, believe the deeds, in order that you may come to know and keep on clearly understanding that the Father is in me and I am in the Father."
now he did not say this of his own accord; but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was about to die in behalf of the nation,
"Where is your Father?" they asked him. "You have neither known me nor my Father," answered Jesus. "If you had known me, you would have known my father also."
Stooping down he glanced in and saw the linen wrapping lying on the ground; but he did not go in.
"Does not the Scripture say that the Christ is coming of the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, David's town?"
Then the other disciple also who arrived first at the tomb went inside, and he perceived and believed.
"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."
"I do believe, Sir," said the man, and he prostrated himself at his feet. And Jesus said,
Now the slaves and the attendants were standing and warming themselves about a charcoal fire, which they had made because it was cold; and Peter also stood with them, and was warming himself.
So the words spoken by Isaiah, the prophet, were fulfilled. Lord, who hath believed our message, And to whom hath the Arm of the Lord been revealed?
So she came running to Simon Peter and that other disciple whom Jesus loved, saying, "They have taken the Master out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him!"
"Why cannot I follow you now, Master?" said Peter. "I will lay down my life for you." Jesus answered him.
Now Jesus was speaking of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot; for Judas was to betray him, although he was one of the Twelve.
of righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you will no longer see me; and of judgement,
(In order that the word which he had spoken might be fulfilled, "Of those whom thou hast given me I have not lost one.")
So when the Samaritans arrived, they began asking him to remain with them; and he stayed there two days.
"We are descendants of Abraham," they replied, "and have never been in slavery to any man. What do you mean by saying, 'You shall become free'?"
"This is the bread that comes down from heaven, that one may eat thereof and never die.
Then Jesus said to them. "Still for a little longer I am with you, and then I am going my way to him who sent me.
"You yourselves sent to John, and he has been and is a witness to the truth.
They answered, "You were wholly born in sins, and do you teach us?" Then they cast him out.
The doorkeeper (a maid servant) then said to Peter, "Are not you also one of this man's disciples?" "No I am not," he answered.
It is this disciple who bears testimony to these facts and who recorded them; and we know that his testimony is true.
Jesus said to her. "Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?" She, supposing that he was the gardener, said to him, "Sir, if you have borne him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will take him away, myself."
"If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
"Ah, Sir," said they, "evermore give us this bread."
Then the Jews began to dispute among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"
There was a jar full of vinegar standing there; and they filled a sponge with vinegar, and put it upon a stalk of hyssop, and put it to his lips.
"But now you are seeking to kill me?? man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham did not do that.
and not in behalf of the nation alone, but in order that he might gather into one the widely scattered children of God.
Here, because of its being Preparation Day, and as the tomb was near by, they placed Jesus.
"Does this displease you? What then if you were to behold the Son of man ascending to where he was before?
"Father, I thank thee that thou hast listened to me. And I knew that thou art ever listening to me, but for the sake of the crowd who are standing about, I said it, in order that they may believe that thou hast sent me."
Some of the crowd who had been listening to these discourses began to say, "Without a doubt this man is a Prophet."
"Another bears testimony to me, and I know that the testimony which he bears concerning me is valid.
So the disciples began to say to one another, "Can any one have brought him something to eat?"
In answer they said to him. "You are not from Galilee, are you? Search for yourself, and see that from Galilee arises no prophet."
"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.
"Could not this man, who has opened the eyes of the blind man, have prevented this man also from dying?"
"(Though for myself I accept no witness from man; I only mention that you may be saved.)
Then many more believed because of what he said, himself; and they told the woman.
This was the third time that Jesus showed himself to the disciples after he had risen from among the dead.
When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and begged him to come down and heal his son who was lying at the point of death.
"Now the slave does not remain permanently in the household, but the son does remain.
In reply they said, "If he had not been a criminal, we should not have handed him over you."
Jesus answered. "Go your way. Your son lives." And the man believed the word which Jesus spoke to him, and started to go home.
Other said, "He is the Christ." But others were saying. "Surely the Christ is not to come out of Galilee, is he?
"Now we know that you have a demon," exclaimed the Jews. Abraham died, and so did the prophets; and yet you say, 'If any man obeys my teaching he shall never taste death.'
Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this and asked, "We are not blind, are we?"
"Yet I am not seeking my own honor. There is One who is seeking it, and He is judge.
When he reached Galilee, however, the Galileans welcomed him, for they had seen all that he did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they, too, had been at the feast.
"But as for me, it is because I speak the truth to you that you do not believe me.
"What does he mean saying, 'You shall seek me and you shall not find me,' and 'Where I am you cannot come'?"
The rest of the disciples came in the boat, for they were not far from shore??nly about a hundred yards??ragging in the net full of fish.
"I have already told you that I am he," said Jesus. "If, then, you are looking for me, let these go their way."
So he asked them at what hour he had begun mend. They answered, "Yesterday, about one o'clock, the fever left him."
"This is the bread which came down from heaven; not such as your fathers ate and died, for he who feeds upon this bread shall live forever."
so he asked them once more, "Whom are you looking for?" and they replied, "Jesus of Nazareth."
Then the father realized that it had left him at the very hour when Jesus had said to him, "Your son lives," and he himself believed, and his whole household.
Jesus, conscious within himself that his disciples were finding fault with him about his teaching, said to them.
Many who came to him said, "John did not perform any signs, but everything he said about this man was true."
"You are not greater than our father Abraham, are you? And he died, and the prophets died. Who are you making yourself out to be?"
"Since the beginning of the world such a thing as opening the eyes of one who was born blind was never heard of.
This is the second sign which Jesus performed, on returning from Judea to Galilee.
"You are not acquainted with him; I know him. Were I to say, 'I do not know him,' I should be like you, a liar. But I do know him, and I obey his teaching.
"Our law does not condemn the accused, does it, before hearing his defense, and finding out what he is doing?"
"I do not have a demon," said Jesus, "but I am honoring my Father, and you are dishonoring me.
So a division arose in the crowd concerning him. Some of them wished to apprehend him, but no one laid hands on him.
And when he was already on his way down, his slaves met him, saying that his boy was living.
"You have already seen him," Jesus answered, "and it is he who now speaks to you."
Now the chief priests and Pharisees had given orders that if any one knew where he was. he should give information, so that they might arrest him.
So they kept looking for Jesus and saying to one another, as they stood in the Temple, "What do you think??hat he will not come to the feast at all?"