Most Popular Bible Verses in John

John Rank:

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Now two days after this there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there;

12

Now there was one of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler among the Jews.

24

He came as a witness, that he might bear testimony concerning the Light??o that all men might believe through him.

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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,

31

It was about noon, and a woman of Samaria came to draw water.

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"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."

40

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."

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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.

44

He was not the Light; it was to bear testimony concerning the Light that he came into being.

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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.

49

"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;

52

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!"

54

After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

63

Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink" (for his disciples were gone away into the city to buy food.)

65

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.

66

"Thirty-five dollars worth of bread," answered Philip, "is not enough for them, so that each can take a morsel."

67

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.

68

"Nor do I pray for them alone, but for those also who believe in me through their word,

71

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."

78

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."

80

Then the Jews asked Jesus, "What sign are you going to show us, seeing that you do these things?"

81

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.

83

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'?"

84

He replied, "The man who healed me told me to take up my bed and walk."

85

Now he had to pass through Samaria;

87

Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and then come here."

88

"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.

89

A man came into being, sent from God, whose name was John.

95

And when the wine ran short, Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no wine."

102

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."

103

"for you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband; in this you have spoken truly."

105

One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon, said to him.

108

Now as he was passing along he saw a man, blind from birth.

109

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."

110

"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;

112

There is no one gone up to heaven, except the One who came down from heaven??he Son of man himself.

113

"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.)

115

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.

116

Marvel not at my telling you, 'You must all be born again from above.'

119

"I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them just now.

121

"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.'"

122

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;

123

After this Jesus showed himself again to his disciples by the Sea of Tiberias. He showed himself as follows.

124

It has five colonnades. In these there used to lie a great crowd of sick people??lind, lame, paralyzed.

125

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.

127

Now the Passover of the Jews was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

130

Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

131

John also was baptizing in Aenon, near Salim, because there were many streams there, and people kept coming to receive baptism.

134

He acknowledged??e did not deny it??ut acknowledged, "I am not the Christ."

135

"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.

136

So then Jesus came six days before the Passover, to Bethany, where Lazarus was whom Jesus had raised from the dead.

137

and said to those who were selling doves. "Take these things away! Make not my Father's house a house of trade!

138

"If those to whom the word of God came are called gods (and the Scripture cannot be annulled),

140

After this Jesus went away across the Sea of Galilee (that is the lake of Tiberias).

143

"How can this be?" said Nicodemus in reply.

144

After this Jesus and his disciples went into the countryside of Judea, and there he was staying with them and baptizing.

147

"Who is it," they asked, "that said to you, 'take up your bed and go walking away'?"

149

Now there were six stone water-jars standing there, according to the Jewish rites of purification, each holding about twenty gallons.

153

after he had been raised from the dead, they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said.

157

"Our forefathers worshiped in this mountain, yet you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one must worship."

158

The Jews retorted, "This Temple took forty-six years to build, and will you 'raise it in three days'?"

159

"Woman," said Jesus, "what have you to do with me? My time is not yet come."

160

So they kept asking. "What does that 'little while' mean of which he speaks? We do not know what he is talking about."

163

"All who drink of this water," Jesus answered, "will thirst again;

166

There were then many other signs which Jesus performed in the presence of his disciples, which have not been written in this book;

167

and because of this the Jews began to persecute Jesus, because he had done it on the Sabbath.

170

"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."

173

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.

176

"He is only a hired servant, and the sheep are no care to him.

177

"Woman, believe me," said Jesus, "that the hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.

178

Afterward he went down to Capernaum, he and his mother and his brothers and his disciples, and remained there a few days.

180

Now there stood near the cross of Jesus, his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

182

(though Jesus himself was not accustomed to baptize, but his disciples),

183

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?"

185

Next day again, John was standing with two of his disciples.

186

But Thomas, one of the Twelve, who was called "The Twin." was not with them when Jesus came.

187

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?"

189

he left Judea and returned to Galilee.

191

so they questioned him, saying, "Why then are you baptizing, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"

195

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.

196

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?"

197

"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."

199

"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;

200

Now there is in Jerusalem a pool near the Sheep-gate, called in the Hebrew, Bethesda.

201

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;

205

"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.

206

Now there were certain Greeks among those who had come up to worship during the Passover feast;

208

"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."

209

"I indeed am baptizing in water," John said in reply, "but in your midst stands One whom you do not recognize,

211

"Is it written in your law," replied Jesus, "I said, You are gods?

212

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."

213

so he came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the piece of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

215

Now it was some of the Pharisees who had been sent to him;

217

"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.

218

Next day the big crowd who had come up for the Passover heard that Jesus was coming into Jerusalem,

219

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.

221

When Jesus saw his mother, and standing near her the disciple whom he loved, he said to his mother, "Woman behold your son."

222

So when he was gone, Jesus said: "Now has the Son of man been glorified, and God has been glorified in him.

225

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.

229

I myself did not recognize him; I only came baptizing in water, in order that he might be openly shown to Israel."

230

His mother said to the attendants, "Whatever he may tell you to do, do it."

232

One of the soldiers, however, pierced his side with a lance, and immediately blood and water flowed out.

234

This happened in Bethany, beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.

235

"Because you have seen me, Thomas, you have believed," Jesus told him. "Blessed are those who, without seeing, yet believed."

236

"Are you the Teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things?" said Jesus.

237

"No one, Sir," she answered. "Neither do I condemned you," said Jesus. "Go, and never sin again."

239

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?"

242

"Lord," said Philip, "cause us to see the Father, and we shall be satisfied."

243

Meanwhile, outside, Mary stood sobbing near the tomb. Still sobbing she stooped and looked into the tomb,

244

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."

246

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."

249

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.

250

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.

251

Next day Jesus decided to go into Galilee; and he found Philip and said to him, "Follow me."

252

Then they departed each to his own house.

254

then he went too??ot openly, but as it were a secret.

255

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."

258

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.

259

This he said, then told them, "Lazarus, our friend, has fallen asleep, but I am going to wake him."

261

and when they were satisfied, he said to his disciples, "Gather up the fragments that are left, so that nothing may be wasted."

262

"My Father who has given them to me is stronger than all, and no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand.

264

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?

267

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.

273

"Sir," said the woman, "you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep; whence have you that living water?

274

"I have no husband," answered the woman. "You are right in saying 'I have no husband,'" Jesus said to her,

275

"What are we to do habitually," they asked him, "that we may keep working the words of God?"

276

"Receive the Holy Spirit. If you remit any one's sins, they are remitted; if you retain them they are retained."

277

If you had known me, you would have known my Father too; from now on you know him and have seen him."

278

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.'

280

One who is to come after me, whose sandal-strap I am not worthy to untie."

281

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.

283

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.

285

"I am praying for them; I am not praying for the world, but for those whom thou hast given me; for they are thine,

289

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.'"

291

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."

292

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.

293

and did not need any one's testimony concerning man, for he himself knew what was in man.

295

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;

296

Simon Peter answered. "To whom shall we go Master? You have words of eternal life;

298

If then I have washed your feet, I the 'Master' and the 'Teacher', you also ought to wash one another's feet,

299

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."

301

"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."

303

"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.

304

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.

305

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."

306

This is he of whom I said, 'After me comes One who has been put before me, for he was before me.'

307

So Pilate went into the Praetorium again, and summoned Jesus. "Are you the King of the Jews?" he said.

308

(For John had not yet been thrown into prison.)

310

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').

311

Jesus said, "Fill up the jars with water."

315

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!"

316

but for his part Jesus was not trusting himself to them, because he knew all men,

317

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.

320

So they filled them brimful. Then he said, "Draw some out now, and carry it to the master of the feast."

321

There he found in the temple those who were selling cattle and sheep and doves, and the money-changers sitting there.

322

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'?

323

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).

324

"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.

325

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."

326

"Sir!" exclaimed the woman, "give me this water, so that I may not be thirsty, nor come all this way to draw water."

327

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.

329

"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."

330

"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.

333

"you will not come to me that you may have life.

334

"But now I go my way to Him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, 'Where are you going?'

335

"Rise," said Jesus, "take up your bed and go walking away."

336

Then said the Pharisees to him. "You are bearing testimony to yourself; your testimony is not true."

340

He will glorify me; for he will take of what is mine and will make known to you.

342

Instantly the man became well, and he took up his bed and started to walk. Now it was Sabbath on that day;

343

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.

344

And Jesus found a young ass and seated himself on it, as it is written,

345

so when Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been four days in the tomb.

349

Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said, "Do you believe in the Son of man?"

350

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."

351

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.

352

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.

355

"And the Father who sent me has himself borne testimony concerning me. None of you has heard his at any time or seen him,

356

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.

358

Many of them kept saying. "He has a demon and is mad! Why do you listen to him?"

359

"Where is he?" they asked. "I do not know," answered the man.

360

"Though even if I do judge, my judgment is trustworthy, because I am not alone, but the Father who sent me is with me.

362

The man went to and told the Jews that it was Jesus who made him well;

363

Then they brought the man who had been blind to the Pharisees.

364

Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written!"

365

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?"

366

"Why do you question me? Ask those who heard what I have said to them; these witnesses here know what I said."

367

Then the Pharisees said among themselves. "You see! You can do nothing! Look! The world is gone after him!"

370

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.

371

Now Jesus had been speaking concerning his death, but they thought that he was talking about natural sleep.

373

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.

376

Now it was on the Sabbath that Jesus had made clay and opened his eyes;

377

Meanwhile the crowd which was with him when he summoned Lazarus from the tomb and raised him from the dead, kept witnessing.

378

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?"

379

"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."

380

Fear not, daughter of Zion, Behold thy King cometh seated upon an ass's colt.

382

"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.

383

After gazing intently on Jesus as he walked about, he said, "Look! that is the Lamb of God!"

384

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;

385

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."

386

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.

387

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.

388

Others were saying. "These are not the words of one demon-possessed. Can a demoniac open the eyes of the blind?"

389

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.

390

It was winter, and Jesus used to walk in the Temple, in Solomon's Portico.

391

"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."

392

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?"

393

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.

394

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."

395

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.

396

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."

397

"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.

398

Then the Jews said: "He will not kill himself, will he? Is that why he says, 'Where I am going you cannot come'?"

399

You yourselves are my witnesses that I said, 'I am not the Christ, but have been sent before him.'

400

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.

401

"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.

403

"And now I tell you this before it happens, so that when it does happen you may believe.

404

Jesus had not yet come to them, and the sea began to rise, because a strong wind was blowing.

406

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?"

407

Jesus said to her, "I who am now talking to you, am he."

408

Then in reply his parents said: "We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind;

409

"Did not Moses give you the Law? Yet none of you is keeping the Law. Why are you seeking to kill me?"

410

They left the city and set out to go to him.

411

Then they were willing to take him on board, and immediately the boat reached the shore they were making for.

412

Jesus answered them. "There was one thing I did, and you are all amazed.

413

"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.

414

Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, only about two miles away;

415

There they got in a boat, and started across the sea for Capernaum. The darkness had already fallen,

416

The two disciples heard his exclamation, and they followed Jesus.

418

and questioned them. "Is this your son," they said, "who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?"

419

Jesus said in reply. "Do you believe because I said to you, 'I saw you under the fig tree?'

421

Then Jesus walked up the hills and sat down there with his disciples. Now the Jewish feast, the Passover, was at hand.

422

For this reason, too, the crowd came to meet him, because they had heard about this sign which he had done.

423

so a number of the Jews had gone to Martha and Mary to sympathize with them concerning their brother.

425

Accordingly when he looked up, and perceived a great crowd was coming unto him,

426

"but he who comes in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

427

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,

428

Now Philip belonged to Bethsaida, the same town as Andrew and Peter.

429

He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he intended to do.

430

Then the woman left her water-jar, and went away into the city and began saying to the people.

431

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,

432

The crowd answered. "You have a demon! Who is trying kill you?"

433

Then the disciples began looking at one another, wondering which one of them he meant.

434

"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."

435

"Now Moses, in the Law, has commanded us to stone such creatures. But you, what do you say?"

436

So that disciples just leaned back against Jesus' breast and said to him, "Lord, who is it?"

437

"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?

438

"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.

439

"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."

440

Then he stooped down again, and again began to write on the ground.

441

"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."

442

"Who are you?" then they asked him. "What I am telling you from the beginning," Jesus answered.

443

"Rabbi, this woman has been found in the very act of adultery.

444

When the time of the Jewish feast of Tabernacles drew near,

445

They did not understand that he meant the Father,

446

In that day you shall pray in my name; and I do not tell you that I will ask the Father on your behalf;

447

"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?

448

So when Martha learned that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him, but Mary remained sitting in the house.

449

"All that came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

450

Then some of the men of Jerusalem were saying. "Is not this the man they are seeking to kill?

451

With these words she went away to call her sister Mary, saying privately, "The Teacher is here and is asking for you."

453

his brothers said to him. "Leave here and go into Judea, so that your disciples also may behold the works which you are doing.

454

"It is that one," answered Jesus, " to whom I am going to give a piece of bread, after dipping it."

455

Then they kept seeking to arrest him, but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.

457

Philip went and told Andrew. Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. Jesus answered.

458

"But a stranger they will not follow, but flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."

459

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."

460

Now no one at the table understood why he said this to him,

462

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.

463

Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what he was talking about; so he said to them again.

464

"My time is not yet come," said Jesus, "but your time is always at hand.

465

Then Annas sent him in chains to Caiaphas, the high priest.

466

So the Jews a second time summoned the man who had been blind, and said to him.

467

"How do you know me?" asked Nathanael. "Before Philip called you," replied Jesus, "when you were under the fig tree, I saw you."

468

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."

470

Then he said to the disciple, "Behold your mother." And from that hour the disciple took her to his home.

471

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?"

472

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.

473

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.

474

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.

475

but even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you."

476

"But we know this man and where he is from; but when the Christ comes no one will know where he comes from."

477

"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."

478

"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!"

479

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."

480

So Simon Peter beckoned to him, saying, "Ask who it is about whom he is speaking."

481

So Pilate came outside to them and asked, "What charge do you bring against this man?"

482

"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.

483

"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?"

484

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).

486

So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man and of the other who had been crucified with him.

487

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.

488

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?"

489

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

490

Then they stormed at him. "You are his disciple. We are Moses' disciples.

491

Some said, "It is he." Others said, "No, but he looks like him." "I am the man," he said.

492

"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."

493

Meanwhile the disciples kept urging him.

494

It was because this that his parents said: "He is of age. Ask him, himself."

495

"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?"

497

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?"

498

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;

499

Whoever does receive it has set his seal that God is true.

500

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?"

501

"We know that God spoke to Moses. But this fellow! We do not know where he comes from."

502

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."

505

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.

507

"It is not for my sake," answered Jesus, "that the voice came, but for your sakes.

508

Nicodemus also (the one who visited Jesus by night, at first) came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, weighing nearly a hundred pounds.

509

"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.

510

Judas the Traitor also knew this place; for Jesus and his disciples often met there.

511

Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again."

512

When he had taken the piece of bread, Judas went out immediately; and it was night.

513

(In saying this he was signifying by what kind of death he was to die.)

514

And the way is known to you all, where I am going."

515

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.

516

Then said Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, who was about to betray him,

517

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,

518

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."

519

So they gave a dinner for him there, and Martha served it; but Lazarus was one of those who reclined with him at table.

520

So after getting troops and some Temple police from the chief priests and Pharisees, Judas came there with lanterns and torches and weapons.

521

"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.

524

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.

525

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."

528

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).

529

"Yet a little while and the world shall see me no more, but you shall see me; because I live, you, too, shall live.

530

And Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see."

531

because it was on his account that many of the Jews were leaving them, and beginning to believe on Jesus.

532

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,

533

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.

534

"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."

536

In reply Jesus said to them. "Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? And yet even of you one is an enemy."

537

So the sisters sent to him, saying. "Master, see who you hold dear is ill."

538

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."

541

So they took the body of Jesus and wound it in linen with the spices, according to the Jewish mode of burial.

543

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.

544

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."

545

Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it, and striking at the high priest's slave, cut off his right ear.

546

"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;

548

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.

549

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.)

550

"Ah," said the disciples, "now you are speaking plain language, and not using figures.

551

And he said to them. "You are from below. I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world.

552

"I have told you all this so that you may not stumble.

553

When evening came on, his disciples went down to the sea.

554

"If I bear testimony concerning myself, my testimony is not valid.

555

He bears testimony to what he has heard and seen, yet no one receives his testimony.

557

"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.

559

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.

560

When he had said this he cried with a great voice, "Lazarus, come forth!"

561

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.

563

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.

564

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.

565

"I know," said the woman, "that Messiah is coming, who is called the Christ; when he has come he will tell us everything."

567

So Peter and the other disciples set out at once to go to the tomb.

569

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!"

571

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?"

572

"Do you understand what I have been doing to you? You call me 'Teacher' and 'Master', and you say well, for such I am.

573

So they asked him, "How then were your eyes opened?"

574

Peter answered, "No, never shall you wash my feet." "If I do not wash you," said Jesus, "you have no part in me."

575

But he was speaking about the temple of his body; and when the disciples recalled what he had said,

576

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.

577

And Pilate moreover wrote an inscription and placed it above the cross. What he wrote was, "JESUS, THE NAZARENE, KING OF THE JEWS"

580

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?"

581

When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, "Rabbi, when did you get here?"

582

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.

583

Then the disciples went back again to their home.

584

"We do not know where you are going Lord," said Thomas, "so how can we know the way?"

585

"Neither he nor his parents sinned." replied Jesus; "it happened that the works of God might be made manifest in him.

586

he said to Philip, "Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?"

588

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.

589

"How can you believe when you receive glory from, one another, and have no desire for the glory which comes from the only God?

590

Pilate said to him, "What is truth?" As he said this, he went outside again to the Jews and said to them.

591

Away went Mary Magdalene to the disciples with the tidings, "I have seen the Master!" and that he said these things to her.

593

Jesus had not yet arrived in the village, but was still at the place where Martha met him.

594

Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him, and said, "Behold a true Israelite in whom there is no deceit."

595

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."

596

One of the two men who heard what John said and followed Jesus, was Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter.

597

"What then?" they questioned; "Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" "No," he replied.

599

but if any one walks during the night he does stumble, because the light is not in him."

601

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.

602

"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.

603

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!"

604

"I know you are Abraham's descendants; but you are seeking to kill me, Because my teaching has no place in you.

605

"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.

606

But one of their number, Caiaphas by name, who was high priest that year, said to them,

608

"When he has brought all his own sheep, he walks before them and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.

609

The reaper is already receiving wages and gathering a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.

610

"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."

611

Then he came to Simon Peter, who said to him, "Lord, are you going to wash my feet?"

613

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?"

615

In reply the Jews said to him, "Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan, and you also have a demon?"

616

Then the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching.

619

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."

620

"Why was not this perfume sold for fifty dollars, and the proceeds given to the poor?"

621

"Mary," said Jesus. She turned to him. "Rabboni!" she cried in Hebrew. That is to say, "Teacher."

623

"You are doing the deeds of your father." "We were not born of adultery," they said; "we have one Father, God."

624

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.

626

After these two days Jesus went away from there into Galilee.

630

Do you go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fully come."

631

So after he had washed their feet, and had put on his upper garments again, and taken his place, he said to them.

632

As he said this he showed them his hands and his side. Then were the disciple glad, when they saw the Lord.

633

"Our fathers ate manna in the wilderness, as it is written, 'He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.'"

635

"That man was the Lamp-burning and shining??nd you were willing for a time rejoice in his light.

637

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.

639

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.

642

And again another Scripture says, They shall look on him whom they have pierced.

643

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.

644

"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."

645

Then the crowd who stood around and heard it, said, "It thundered!" But others said, "An angel has spoken to him."

646

used to purloin what was put in it. Then said Jesus. "Let her alone. Against the day of my burial has she kept this;

647

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."

649

"Abraham is our father," they answered. "If you are indeed Abraham's children," said Jesus "do the deeds of Abraham.

650

"Rabbi," they said, "eat something." But he answered, "I have food to eat of which you know nothing."

651

"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.

653

"Everybody serves first the good wine, and when people have drunk freely, the poor wine; but you have kept the good wine until now."

654

And for their sakes I dedicate myself, that they also may be thoroughly dedicated in the truth.

655

Jesus therefore, again shuddering in himself with indignation, came to the tomb, which was a cave with a stone lying upon it.

656

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.

657

(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?"

658

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.

659

Then as Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, "BEHOLD, THE MAN!"

660

Then Martha said to Jesus. "Master, had you been here my brother would not have died;

661

For not yet had they understood the Scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.

663

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,"

664

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.

666

Many of the Jews, therefore, who had come with Mary, and had seen what he did, believed on him;

667

and the napkin which had been about his head not lying with the wrappings, but rolled up in it's own place.

668

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?

669

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

670

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

673

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.'"

674

But when day was dawning Jesus stood on the beach. The disciples, however, did not recognize that it was Jesus.

675

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

676

"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.

677

Then they all shouted again. "No, not him! Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a robber.

679

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."

680

and all thine are mine, and mine are thine; and I am glorified in them.

681

So the troops and their commandant and the Jewish police took Jesus, and bound him,

682

"I have shown you many good deeds from my Father. For which of these are you going to stone me?"

683

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.

684

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.

685

"I am declaring what I have seen with the Father, and you are acting as you have learned from your father."

686

these came to Philip of Bethsaida in Galilee, with a request. "Sir," they said, "we want to see Jesus."

687

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."

688

In reply John said: "A man cannot obtain anything unless it has been granted to him from heaven.

690

"For Jesus of Nazareth," they answered. He said to them, "I am he." (Now Judas also, the betrayer, was standing with them.)

692

For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

693

Then they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the Temple.

694

"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'?"

695

They both began to run; and the other disciple ran faster than Peter, and came first to the tomb.

697

When they got to the shore they beheld a charcoal fire ready laid, with fish on it, and some bread.

698

When she had said this she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but did not know that it was Jesus.

699

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."

700

"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.

702

Jesus answered him, "What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will understand it later."

703

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

704

So he added, "This is why I told you that no on can come to me unless it be given from the Father."

705

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.

707

After saying this, he remained in Galilee; but after his brothers had gone up to feast,

709

"How is it, Lord," said Judas (not Iscariot) "that you will manifest yourself to us and not to the world?"

711

"Do not imagine that I shall accuse you to the Father. Moses is your accuser, on whom you build your hopes.

713

and went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and there he remained.

715

This I have seen, and I am become a witness to the fact that he is the Son of God."

716

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'?

717

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.

718

"If you were blind," Jesus answered them, "you would have no sin. But now you are declaring, 'We see'; so your sin remains.

720

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.

721

But upon coming to Jesus they saw that he was already dead, and did not break his legs.

722

"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.

723

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,

724

"If I glorify myself." said Jesus, "my glory is nothing. It is my Father that glorifies me, and you say, 'He is our God.'

725

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,"

726

For this happened that the Scripture might be fulfilled, Not one of his bones shall be broken.

727

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!"

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So when Mary heard this, she rose quickly and went to meet him.

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"Master, if he has fallen asleep, he will get well," replied the disciples.

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"And in your Law it is written that the testimony of two men is true.

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They know now that whatever thou hast given me was from thee;

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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.

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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."

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The Jews again took stones with which to stone him. Jesus said to them.

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"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."

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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,

740

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?

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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,

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saying, "Hail! King of the Jews!" They also gave him blow after blow with their hands.

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(For he knew who should betray him, for that reason he said that they were not every one of them clean.)

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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.

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"but sorrow has filled your hearts because I have told you these things.

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"Take him yourselves," answered Pilate, "and judge him according to your law."

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"Not that any one has seen the Father, except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father.

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So Jesus appealed to the Twelve. "You also do not wish to leave me, do you?"

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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?"

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And I know that his commandment is eternal life. So whatever I speak, I speak as the Father has told me."

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"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.

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Father, glorify thy name!" Whereupon there came a voice from heaven, saying, "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again."

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Then Peter also came following him, and he went inside the tomb; and he gazed at the linen wrapping as they lay,

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So Jesus said to them, "Lads, you haven't any fish, have you?" They answered him, "No."

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"You are not yet fifty years old," said the Jews to him, "and you have seen Abraham?"

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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.

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when they saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, and went to Capernaum to look for Jesus.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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"If I choose that he remain until I come," said Jesus, "what is that to you? Do you follow me."

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Jesus answered, "Are you saying this of your own accord, or did others say it to you about me?"

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"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.

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If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and straightway will he glorify him.

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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.

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Then Jesus raised himself up and said to her. "Woman, where are they? Has no man condemn you,"

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The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about him, and the high priest and Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.

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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,

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"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."

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Stooping down he glanced in and saw the linen wrapping lying on the ground; but he did not go in.

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"Does not the Scripture say that the Christ is coming of the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, David's town?"

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Then the other disciple also who arrived first at the tomb went inside, and he perceived and believed.

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"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."

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The officers answered, "Never yet did a man speak like this man."

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"I do believe, Sir," said the man, and he prostrated himself at his feet. And Jesus said,

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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.

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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?

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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!"

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On catching sight of him, Peter said to Jesus, "Lord, what about him?"

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"Why cannot I follow you now, Master?" said Peter. "I will lay down my life for you." Jesus answered him.

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Now Jesus was speaking of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot; for Judas was to betray him, although he was one of the Twelve.

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Nicodemus, one of their number, he who had formerly visited Jesus, said to them,

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(In order that the word which he had spoken might be fulfilled, "Of those whom thou hast given me I have not lost one.")

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and entering the Praetorium again, he said to Jesus, "What is your origin?"

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So when the Samaritans arrived, they began asking him to remain with them; and he stayed there two days.

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"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'?"

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"This is the bread that comes down from heaven, that one may eat thereof and never die.

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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.

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"You yourselves sent to John, and he has been and is a witness to the truth.

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They answered, "You were wholly born in sins, and do you teach us?" Then they cast him out.

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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.

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"Lord," said Simon Peter, "not my feet only, but also my hands and my head."

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It is this disciple who bears testimony to these facts and who recorded them; and we know that his testimony is true.

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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."

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"If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

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"Ah, Sir," said they, "evermore give us this bread."

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Then the Jews began to dispute among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

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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.

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"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.

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Here, because of its being Preparation Day, and as the tomb was near by, they placed Jesus.

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"Does this displease you? What then if you were to behold the Son of man ascending to where he was before?

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"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."

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When he spoke in this way, many of the Jews believed in him.

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Some of the crowd who had been listening to these discourses began to say, "Without a doubt this man is a Prophet."

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"Another bears testimony to me, and I know that the testimony which he bears concerning me is valid.

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So the disciples began to say to one another, "Can any one have brought him something to eat?"

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In answer they said to him. "You are not from Galilee, are you? Search for yourself, and see that from Galilee arises no prophet."

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"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.

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"Could not this man, who has opened the eyes of the blind man, have prevented this man also from dying?"

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"(Though for myself I accept no witness from man; I only mention that you may be saved.)

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Then many more believed because of what he said, himself; and they told the woman.

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"Do not find fault with me among yourselves,"

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"But as I told you, you have seen me, and yet you do not believe.

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and they asked them, "Why have you not brought him?"

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This was the third time that Jesus showed himself to the disciples after he had risen from among the dead.

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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.

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"Now the slave does not remain permanently in the household, but the son does remain.

830

Jesus went and took bread and gave it to them, and the fish also.

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In reply they said, "If he had not been a criminal, we should not have handed him over you."

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Jesus answered. "Go your way. Your son lives." And the man believed the word which Jesus spoke to him, and started to go home.

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Other said, "He is the Christ." But others were saying. "Surely the Christ is not to come out of Galilee, is he?

834

This was why they could not believe, because Isaiah said again.

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For in this respect the saying is true, 'One sows, another reaps.'

837

"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.'

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"You will search for me and will not find me, and where I am you cannot come."

839

Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this and asked, "We are not blind, are we?"

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"Yet I am not seeking my own honor. There is One who is seeking it, and He is judge.

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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.

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He spoke these words while in the synagogue, while he was teaching in Capernaum.

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Now when Pilate heard these words he was more alarmed than ever,

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"What does he mean saying, 'You shall seek me and you shall not find me,' and 'Where I am you cannot come'?"

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"Bring some of the fish you have just caught," Jesus told them.

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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.

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"I have already told you that I am he," said Jesus. "If, then, you are looking for me, let these go their way."

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So he asked them at what hour he had begun mend. They answered, "Yesterday, about one o'clock, the fever left him."

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"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."

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so he asked them once more, "Whom are you looking for?" and they replied, "Jesus of Nazareth."

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Then again they attempted to seize him, but he escaped out of their hands,

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And if you do not believe his writings, how will you ever believe my words?"

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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.

857

Jesus, conscious within himself that his disciples were finding fault with him about his teaching, said to them.

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Many who came to him said, "John did not perform any signs, but everything he said about this man was true."

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"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?"

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"Since the beginning of the world such a thing as opening the eyes of one who was born blind was never heard of.

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This is the second sign which Jesus performed, on returning from Judea to Galilee.

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"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.

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"Sir," said the king's officer, "come down before my little boy dies."

864

"Has any one of the rulers believed on him, or of the Pharisees?

865

"Our law does not condemn the accused, does it, before hearing his defense, and finding out what he is doing?"

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"I do not have a demon," said Jesus, "but I am honoring my Father, and you are dishonoring me.

868

So a division arose in the crowd concerning him. Some of them wished to apprehend him, but no one laid hands on him.

869

And when he was already on his way down, his slaves met him, saying that his boy was living.

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"Where have you laid him?" he said: "Master, come and see," they answered.

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"You have already seen him," Jesus answered, "and it is he who now speaks to you."

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"As for this mob who do not understand the Law, they are accursed!"

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"Who is he, Sir," he replied, "that I may believe on him."

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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.

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"If this man had not come of God he could have done nothing."

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but some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.

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"Surely you have not been led astray, have you? answered the Pharisees.

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Then the officers returned to the chief priest and Pharisees,

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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?"