For so greatly did God love the world that He gave His only Son, that every one who trusts in Him may not perish but may have the Life of Ages.

"I am the Way," replied Jesus, "and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

But all who have received Him, to them--that is, to those who trust in His name--He has given the privilege of becoming children of God;

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

And the Word came in the flesh, and lived for a time in our midst, so that we saw His glory--the glory as of the Father's only Son, sent from His presence. He was full of grace and truth.

"In most solemn truth I tell you," answered Jesus, "that unless a man is born anew he cannot see the Kingdom of God."

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy: I have come that they may have Life, and may have it in abundance.

"Let not your hearts be troubled. Trust in God: trust in me also.

The true Light was that which illumines every man by its coming into the world.

Two days later there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there,

A new commandment I give you, to love one another; that as I have loved you, you also may love one another.

Now there was one of the Pharisees whose name was Nicodemus--a ruler among the Jews.

And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be for ever with you--the Spirit of truth.

God is Spirit; and those who worship Him must bring Him true spiritual worship."

"If you love me, you will obey my commandments.

"In most solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "that unless a man is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God.

Now as soon as the Master was aware that the Pharisees had heard it said, "Jesus is gaining and baptizing more disciples than John"--

and you shall know the Truth, and the Truth will make you free."

The next day John saw Jesus coming towards him and exclaimed, "Look, that is the Lamb of God who is to take away the sin of the world!

But when He has come--the Spirit of Truth--He will guide you into all the truth. For He will not speak as Himself originating what He says, but all that He hears He will speak, and He will make known the future to you.

All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing that exists came into being.

But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send at my request, will teach you everything, and will bring to your memories all that I have said to you.

The father whose sons you are is the Devil; and you desire to do what gives him pleasure. *He* was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand firm in the truth--for there is no truth in him. Whenever he utters his lie, he utters it out of his own store; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

He came as a witness, in order that he might give testimony concerning the Light--so that all might believe through him.

I am the Vine, you are the branches. He who continues in me and in whom I continue bears abundant fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

"In most solemn truth I tell you that he who listens to my teaching and believes Him who sent me, has the Life of the Ages, and does not come under judgement, but has passed over out of death into Life.

So He plaited a whip of rushes, and drove all--both sheep and bullocks--out of the Temple. The small coin of the brokers He upset on the ground and overturned their tables.

Make them holy in the truth: Thy Message is truth.

"I am the Resurrection and the Life," said Jesus; "he who believes in me, even if he has died, he shall live;

And in this consists the Life of the Ages--in knowing Thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent.

Presently there came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus asked her to give Him some water;

"In most solemn truth," answered Jesus, "I tell you that before Abraham came into existence, I am."

The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So is it with every one who has been born of the Spirit."

"Sir," replied the sufferer, "I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is moved; but while I am coming some one else steps down before me."

Jesus therefore said to those of the Jews who had now believed in Him, "As for you, if you hold fast to my teaching, then you are truly my disciples;

He who trusts in Him does not come up for judgement. He who does not trust has already received sentence, because he has not his trust resting on the name of God's only Son.

Once more Jesus addressed them. "I am the Light of the world," He said; "the man who follows me shall certainly not walk in the dark, but shall have the light of Life."

I and the Father are one."

"I am the Vine--the True Vine, and my Father is the vine-dresser.

He came to Jesus by night and said, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher from God; for no one can do these miracles which you are doing, unless God is with him.

They listened to Him, and then, beginning with the eldest, took their departure, one by one, till all were gone. And Jesus was left behind alone--and the woman in the centre of the court.

"I have spoken all this to you in order that in me you may have peace. In the world you have affliction. But keep up your courage: *I* have won the victory over the world."

The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overpowered it.

He was not the Light, but he existed that he might give testimony concerning the Light.

He who believes in the Son has the Life of the Ages; he who disobeys the Son will not enter into Life, but God's anger remains upon him.

For God did not send His Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.

But a time is coming--nay, has already come--when the true worshippers will worship the Father with true spiritual worship; for indeed the Father desires such worshippers.

"You search the Scriptures, because you suppose that in them you will find the Life of the Ages; and it is those Scriptures that yield testimony concerning me;

Wonder not at this. For a time is coming when all who are in the graves will hear His voice and will come forth--

No human eye has ever seen God: the only Son, who is in the Father's bosom--He has made Him known.

No one has greater love than this--a man laying down his life for his friends.

On that same first day of the week, when it was evening and, for fear of the Jews, the doors of the house where the disciples were, were locked, Jesus came and stood in their midst, and said to them, "Peace be to you!"

"no one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him; then I will raise him to life on the last day.

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

And just as Moses lifted high the serpent in the Desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

"How is it possible," Nicodemus asked, "for a man to be born when he is old? Can he a second time enter his mother's womb and be born?"

Peace I leave with you: my own peace I give to you. It is not as the world gives its greetings that I give you peace. Let not your hearts be troubled or dismayed.

My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

"Yet it is the truth that I am telling you--it is to your advantage that I go away. For unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.

"I am the Good Shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his very life for the sheep.

and Jesus also was invited and His disciples.

Every one whom the Father gives me will come to me, and him who comes to me I will never on any account drive away.

for His disciples were gone to the town to buy provisions.

"When the Advocate is come whom I will send to you from the Father's presence--the Spirit of Truth who comes forth from the Father's presence--He will be a witness concerning me.

On the first day of the week, very early, while it was still dark, Mary of Magdala came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from it.

"Seven pounds' worth of bread," replied Philip, "is not enough for them all to get even a scanty meal."

"In most solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "that the Son can do nothing of Himself--He can only do what He sees the Father doing; for whatever He does, that the Son does in like manner.

"Nor is it for them alone that I make request. It is also for those who trust in me through their teaching;

On the last day of the Festival--the great day--Jesus stood up and cried aloud. "Whoever is thirsty," He said, "let him come to me and drink.

"If you had known God's free gift," replied Jesus, "and who it is that said to you, 'Give me some water,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water."

Afterwards Jesus found him in the Temple and said to him, "You are now restored to health. Do not sin any more, or a worse thing may befall you."

Now just before the Feast of the Passover this incident took place. Jesus knew that the time had come for Him to leave this world and go to the Father; and having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.

In Him was Life, and that Life was the Light of men.

And He, when He comes, will convict the world in respect of sin, of righteousness, and of judgement; --

"If any one loves me," replied Jesus, "he will obey my teaching; 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 resting-places. Were it otherwise, I would have told you; for I am going to make ready a place for you.

"Demolish this Sanctuary," said Jesus, "and in three days I will rebuild it."

When they had finished breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these others do?" "Yes, Master," was his answer; "you know that you are dear to me." "Then feed my lambs," replied Jesus.

"I am the bread of Life," replied Jesus; "he who comes to me shall never hunger, and he who believes in me shall never, never thirst.

So the Jews asked Him, "What proof of your authority do you exhibit to us, seeing that you do these things?"

But the man who had been cured did not know who it was; for Jesus had passed out unnoticed, there being a crowd in the place.

A second time, therefore, He said to them, "Peace be to you! As the Father sent me, I also now send you."

Some of His disciples therefore said to one another, "What does this mean which He is telling us, 'A little while and you do not see me, and again a little while and you shall see me,' and 'Because I am going to the Father'?"

"He who cured me," he replied, "said to me, 'Take up your mat and walk.'"

His road lay through Samaria,

It is not you who chose me, but it is I who chose you and appointed you that you might go and be fruitful and that your fruit might remain; so that whatever petition you present to the Father in my name He may give you.

"Go and call your husband," said Jesus; "and come back."

In most solemn truth I tell you that he who trusts in me--the things which I do he shall do also; and greater things than these he shall do, because I am going to the Father.

There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

And this is the test by which men are judged--the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness more than they loved the Light, because their deeds were wicked.

He came to the things that were His own, and His own people gave Him no welcome.

It is by this that every one will know that you are my disciples--if you love one another."

This is my commandment to you, to love one another as I have loved you.

I give them the Life of the Ages, and they shall never, never perish, nor shall any one wrest them from my hand.

Now the wine ran short; whereupon the mother of Jesus said to Him, "They have no wine."

that they may all be one, even as Thou art in me, O Father, and I am in Thee; that they also may be in us; that the world may believe that Thou didst send me.

"Sir," replied the woman, "I see that you are a Prophet.

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"Have I been so long among you," Jesus answered, "and yet you, Philip, do not know me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How can *you* ask me, 'Cause us to see the Father'?

"If you continue in me and my sayings continue in you, ask what you will and it shall be done for you.

Whatever has been born of the flesh is flesh, and whatever has been born of the Spirit is spirit.

"My kingdom," replied Jesus, "does not belong to this world. If my kingdom did belong to this world, my subjects would have resolutely fought to save me from being delivered up to the Jews. But, as a matter of fact, my kingdom has not this origin."

"for you have had five husbands, and the man you have at present is not your husband. You have spoken the truth in saying that."

As soon as Jesus had taken the wine, He said, "It is finished." And then, bowing His head, He yielded up His spirit.

One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to Him,

He was in the beginning with God.

It is the spirit which gives Life. The flesh confers no benefit whatever. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and are Life.

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

but whoever drinks any of the water that I shall give him will never, never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become a fountain within him of water springing up for the Life of the Ages."

"In most solemn truth I tell you that the man who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs over some other way, is a thief and a robber.

But these have been recorded in order that you may believe that He is the Christ, the Son of God, and that, through believing, you may have Life through His name.

There is no one who has gone up to Heaven, but there is One who has come down from Heaven, namely the Son of Man whose home is in Heaven.

"How is it," replied the woman, "that a Jew like you asks me, who am a woman and a Samaritan, for water?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

in order that every one who trusts in Him may have the Life of the Ages."

Now a certain man, named Lazarus, of Bethany, was lying ill-- Bethany being the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

Do not be astonished at my telling you, 'You must all be born anew.'

He who has my commandments and obeys them--he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will clearly reveal myself to him."

He was in the world, and the world came into existence through Him, and the world did not recognize Him.

"I have much more to say to you, but you are unable at present to bear the burden of it.

"My Lord and my God!" replied Thomas.

"Do not cling to me," said Jesus, "for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But take this message to my brethren: 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"

When Jesus had thus spoken, He raised his eyes towards Heaven and said, "Father, the hour has come. Glorify Thy Son that the Son may glorify Thee;

After this, Jesus again showed Himself to the disciples. It was at the Lake of Tiberias. The circumstances were as follows.

In these there used to lie a great number of sick persons, and of people who were blind or lame or paralyzed.

On this account then the Jews were all the more eager to put Him to death--because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also spoke of God as being in a special sense His Father, thus putting Himself on a level with God.

That Spirit the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him. You know Him, because He remains by your side and is in you.

But the Jewish Passover was approaching, and for this Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

If then the Son shall make you free, you will be free indeed.

And if I go and make ready a place for you, I will return and take you to be with me, that where I am you also may be.

but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

And John too was baptizing at Aenon, near Salim, because there were many pools of water there; and people came and received baptism.

If the world hates you, remember that it has first had me as the fixed object of its hatred.

And I-- if I am lifted up from the earth--will draw all men to me."

He avowed--he did not conceal the truth, but avowed, "I am not the Christ."

For the Father loves the Son and reveals to Him all that He Himself is doing. And greater deeds than these will He reveal to Him, in order that you may wonder.

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

And to the pigeon-dealers He said, "Take these things away. Do not turn my Father's house into a market."

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

And whatever any of you ask in my name, I will do, in order that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

After this Jesus went away across the Lake of Galilee (that is, the Lake of Tiberias)

"You heard me say to you, 'I am going away, and yet I am coming to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced because I am going to the Father; for the Father is greater than I am.

I am the Door. If any one enters by me, he will find safety, and will go in and out and find pasture.

"How is all this possible?" asked Nicodemus.

After this Jesus and His disciples went into Judaea; and there He made a stay in company with them and baptized.

Now is a judgement of this world: now will the Prince of this world be driven out.

Continue in me, and let me continue in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself--that is, if it does not continue in the vine--so neither can you if you do not continue in me.

"Who is it," they asked, "that said to you, 'Take up your mat and walk'?"

I have also other sheep--which do not belong to this fold. Those also I must bring, and they will listen to my voice; and they shall become one flock under one Shepherd.

Now there were six stone jars standing there (in accordance with the Jewish regulations for purification)

As the Father has loved me, I have also loved you: continue in my love.

He who believes in me, from within him--as the Scripture has said--rivers of living water shall flow."

For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

When however He had risen from among the dead, His disciples recollected that He had said this; and they believed the Scripture and the teaching which Jesus had given them.

That is why I told you that you will die in your sins; for, unless you believe that I am He, that is what will happen."

The Father indeed does not judge any one, but He has entrusted all judgement to the Son,

I am now no longer in the world, but they are in the world and I am coming to Thee. "Holy Father, keep them true to Thy name--the name which Thou hast given me to bear--that they may be one, even as we are.

Our forefathers worshipped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem."

"It has taken forty-six years," replied the Jews, "to build this Sanctuary, and will you rebuild it in three days?"

"Leave the matter in my hands," He replied; "the time for me to act has not yet come."

So they asked one another repeatedly, "What can that 'little while' mean which He speaks of? We do not understand His words."

"In most solemn truth I tell you," said Jesus, "that unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no Life in you.

Having said this He breathed upon them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit.

"Every one," replied Jesus, "who drinks any of this water will be thirsty again;

His reply to their accusation was, "My Father works unceasingly, and so do I."

In most solemn truth I tell you that unless the grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains what it was--a single grain; but that if it dies, it yields a rich harvest.

There were also a great number of other signs which Jesus performed in the presence of the disciples, which are not recorded in this book.

and on this account the Jews began to persecute Jesus--because He did these things on the Sabbath.

"I can of my own self do nothing. As I am bidden, so I judge; and mine is a just judgement, because it is not my own will that guides me, but the will of Him who sent me.

No longer do I call you servants, because a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because all that I have heard from the Father I have made known to you.

I am the living bread come down out of Heaven. If a man eats this bread, he shall live for ever. Moreover the bread which I will give is my flesh given for the life of the world."

"In most solemn truth I tell you that he who believes has the Life of the Ages.

who were begotten as such not by human descent, nor through an impulse of their own nature, nor through the will of a human father, but from God.

Many of the Jews read this notice, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the notice was in three languages--Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.

And now, Father, do Thou glorify me in Thine own presence, with the glory that I had in Thy presence before the world existed.

"There is a boy here with five barley loaves and a couple of fish: but what is that among so many?"

For he is only a hired servant and cares nothing for the sheep.

"Believe me," said Jesus, "the time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

Afterwards He went down to Capernaum--He, and His mother, and His brothers, and His disciples; and they made a short stay there.

The Dedication Festival came on in Jerusalem. It was winter,

Now standing close to the cross of Jesus were His mother and His mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala.

For just as the Father awakens the dead and gives them life, so the Son also gives life to whom He wills.

though Jesus Himself did not baptize them, but His disciples did--

This also is John's testimony, when the Jews sent to him a deputation of Priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him who he was.

He who sets me at naught and does not receive my teachings is not left without a judge: the Message which I have spoken will judge him on the last day.

Again the next day John was standing with two of his disciples,

Thomas, one of the twelve--surnamed 'the Twin' --was not among them when Jesus came.

So they pressed the question. "Who are you?" they said--"that we may take an answer to those who sent us. What account do you give of yourself?"

After this, Jesus, knowing that everything was now brought to an end, said--that the Scripture might be fulfilled, "I am thirsty."

He left Judaea and returned to Galilee.

He must grow greater, but I must grow less.

Again they questioned him. "Why then do you baptize," they said, "if you are neither the Christ nor Elijah nor the Prophet?"

For every wrongdoer hates the light, and does not come to the light, for fear his actions should be exposed and condemned.

"In most solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "that every one who commits sin is the slave of sin.

"I am the Good Shepherd. And I know my sheep and my sheep know me,

After offering this prayer Jesus went out with His disciples to a place on the further side of the Ravine of the Cedars, where there was a garden which He entered--Himself and His disciples.

Jesus saw him lying there, and knowing that he had been a long time in that condition, He asked him, "Do you wish to have health and strength?"

If any one is willing to do His will, he shall know about the teaching, whether it is from God or originates with me.

If you obey my commands, you will continue in my love, as I have obeyed my Father's commands and continue in His love.

"Make the people sit down," said Jesus. The ground was covered with thick grass; so they sat down, the adult men numbering about 5,000.

Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, called in Hebrew 'Bethesda.' It has five arcades.

Now when He was in Jerusalem, at the Festival of the Passover, many became believers in Him through watching the miracles He performed.

"My food," said Jesus, "is to be obedient to Him who sent me, and fully to accomplish His work.

Do not form superficial judgements, but form the judgements that are just."

Jesus wept.

"I have revealed Thy perfections to the men whom Thou gavest me out of the world. Thine they were, and Thou gavest them to me, and they have obeyed Thy message.

Now some of those who used to come up to worship at the Festival were Greeks.

I do not ask that Thou wilt remove them out of the world, but that Thou wilt protect them from the Evil one.

"So then *you* are a king!" rejoined Pilate. "Yes," said Jesus, "you say truly that I am a king. For this purpose I was born, and for this purpose I have come into the world--to give testimony for the truth. Every one who is a friend of the truth listens to my voice."

"I baptize in water only," John answered, "but in your midst stands One whom you do not know--

Jacob's Well was there: and accordingly Jesus, tired out with His journey, sat down by the well to rest. It was about six o'clock in the evening.

"Does it not stand written in your Law," replied Jesus, "'I said, you are gods'?

When however they persisted with their question, He raised His head and said to them, "Let the sinless man among you be the first to throw a stone at her."

and so He came to Sychar, a town in Samaria near the piece of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

"This," replied Jesus, "is above all the thing that God requires--that you should be believers in Him whom He has sent."

They were Pharisees who had been sent.

This recalled to His disciples the words of Scripture, "My zeal for Thy House will consume me."

In most solemn truth I tell you that we speak what we know, and give testimony of that of which we were eye-witnesses, and yet you all reject our testimony.

The next day a great crowd of those who had come to the Festival, hearing that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

You will put no questions to me then. "In most solemn truth I tell you that whatever you ask the Father for in my name He will give you.

"In most solemn truth I tell you that a time is coming--nay, has already come--when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear it will live.

So Jesus, seeing His mother, and seeing the disciple whom He loved standing near, said to His mother, "Behold, your son!"

So when he was gone out, Jesus said, "Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in Him.

And this is the will of Him who sent me, that of all that He has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it to life on the last day.

By this is God glorified--by your bearing abundant fruit and thus being true disciples of mine.

Do you not say, 'It wants four months yet to the harvest'? But look round, I tell you, and observe these plains-- they are already ripe for the sickle.

For this is my Father's will, that every one who fixes his gaze on the Son of God and believes in Him should have the Life of the Ages, and I will raise him to life on the last day."

Do you not believe that I am in the Father and that the Father is in me? The things that I tell you all I do not speak on my own authority: but the Father dwelling within me carries on His own work.

Again therefore Jesus said to them, "In most solemn truth I tell you that I am the Door of the sheep.

I did not yet know Him; but that He may be openly shown to Israel is the reason why I have come baptizing in water."

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

Bestow your pains not on the food which perishes, but on the food that remains unto the Life of the Ages--that food which will be the Son of Man's gift to you; for on Him the Father, God, has set His seal."

One of the soldiers, however, made a thrust at His side with a lance, and immediately blood and water flowed out.

This, the first of His miracles, Jesus performed at Cana in Galilee, and thus displayed His glorious power; and His disciples believed in Him.

This conversation took place at Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

"Because you have seen me," replied Jesus, "you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."

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

"No one, Sir," she replied. "And *I* do not condemn you either," said Jesus; "go, and from this time do not sin any more."

For He whom God has sent speaks God's words; for God does not give the Spirit with limitations."

Are you greater than our forefather Jacob, who gave us the well, and himself drank from it, as did also his sons and his cattle?"

For I have left Heaven and have come down to earth not to seek my own pleasure, but to do the will of Him who sent me.

For this reason my Father loves me, because I am laying down my life in order to receive it back again.

"Master," said Philip, "cause us to see the Father: that is all we need."

Meanwhile Mary remained standing near the tomb, weeping aloud. She did not enter the tomb, but as she wept she stooped and looked in,

"He whose name is Jesus," he answered, "made clay and smeared my eyes with it, and then told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed and obtained sight."

You worship One of whom you know nothing. We worship One whom we know; for salvation comes from the Jews.

Then He said to Thomas, "Bring your finger here and feel my hands; bring you hand and put it into my side; and do not be ready to disbelieve but to believe."

For He it is from whose fulness we have all received, and grace upon grace.

"Father, those whom Thou hast given me--I desire that where I am they also may be with me, that they may see the glory--my glory--my gift from Thee, which Thou hast given me because Thou didst love me before the creation of the world.

After this Jesus moved from place to place in Galilee. He would not go about in Judaea, because the Jews were seeking an opportunity to kill Him.

But there are also many other things which Jesus did--so vast a number indeed that if they were all described in detail, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would have to be written.

The next day, having decided to leave Bethany and go into Galilee, Jesus found Philip, and invited him to follow Him.

So they went away to their several homes;

"These things I have spoken to you in order that I may have joy in you, and that your joy may become perfect.

When however His brothers had gone up to the Festival, then He also went up, not openly, but as it were privately.

That day was a Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, "It is the Sabbath: you must not carry your mat."

I will not leave you bereaved: I am coming to you.

We must do the works of Him who sent me while there is daylight. Night is coming on, when no one can work.

Meanwhile the Jews, because it was the day of Preparation for the Passover, and in order that the bodies might not remain on the crosses during the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was one of special solemnity)

He said this, and afterwards He added, "Our friend Lazarus is sleeping, but I will go and wake him."

You are my friends, if you do what I command you.

When all were fully satisfied, He said to His disciples, "Gather up the broken portions that remain over, so that nothing be lost."

What my Father has given me is more precious than all besides; and no one is able to wrest anything from my Father's hand.

Abraham your forefather exulted in the hope of seeing my day: and he saw it, and was glad."

If I have told you earthly things and none of you believe me, how will you believe me if I tell you of things in Heaven?

I in them and Thou in me; that they may stand perfected in one; that the world may come to understand that Thou didst send me and hast loved them with the same love as that with which Thou hast loved me.

But he who does what is honest and right comes to the light, in order that his actions may be plainly shown to have been done in God.

and He went out carrying His own cross, to the place called Skull-place--or, in Hebrew, Golgotha--

I have glorified Thee on earth, having done perfectly the work which by Thine appointment has been mine to do.

they who have done what is right to the resurrection of Life, and they whose actions have been evil to the resurrection of judgement.

Then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him.

In future I shall not talk much with you, for the Prince of this world is coming. And yet in me he has nothing;

If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own property. But because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world--for that reason the world hates you.

"Sir," she said, "you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep; so where can you get the living water from?

"I have no husband," she replied. "You rightly say that you have no husband," said Jesus;

"What are we to do," they asked, "in order to carry out the things that God requires?"

If you remit the sins of any persons, they remain remitted to them. If you bind fast the sins of any, they remain bound."

If you--all of you--knew me, you would fully know my Father also. From this time forward you know Him and have seen Him."

I did not yet know Him, but He who sent me to baptize in water said to me, "'The One on whom you see the Spirit coming down, and remaining, He it is who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.'

You will be excluded from the synagogues; nay more, the time is coming when any one who has murdered one of you will suppose he is offering service to God.

He who is to come after me, and whose sandal-strap I am not worthy to unfasten."

"If God were your Father," said Jesus, "you would love me; for it is from God that I came and I am now here. I have not come of myself, but *He* sent me.

I am the bread of Life.

So they carried some to him. And no sooner had the President tasted the water now turned into wine, than--not knowing where it came from, though the attendants who had drawn the water knew--he called to the bridegroom

And the glory which Thou hast given me I have given them, that they may be one, just as we are one:

"I am making request for them: for the world I do not make any request, but for those whom Thou hast given me. Because they are Thine,

For just as the Father has life in Himself, so He has also given to the Son to have life in Himself.

So Jesus added, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He. Of myself I do nothing; but as the Father has taught me, so I speak.

I am not speaking of all of you. I know whom I have chosen, but things are as they are in order that the Scripture may be fulfilled, which says, 'He who eats my bread has lifted up his heel against me.'

This led the Jewish High Priests to remonstrate with Pilate. "You should not write 'The King of the Jews,'" they said, "but that he claimed to be King of the Jews."

I have given them Thy Message, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

After speaking thus Jesus was troubled in spirit and said with deep earnestness, "In most solemn truth I tell you that one of you will betray me."

So they brought Jesus from Caiaphas's house to the Praetorium. It was the early morning, and they would not enter the Praetorium themselves for fear of defilement, and in order that they might be able to eat the Passover.

and did not need any one's testimony concerning a man, for He of Himself knew what was in the man.

Bear in mind what I said to you, 'A servant is not superior to his master.' If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you: if they have obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also.

So the soldiers, as soon as they had crucified Jesus, took His garments, including His tunic, and divided them into four parts--one part for each soldier. The tunic was without seam, woven from the top in one piece.

"Master," replied Simon Peter, "to whom shall we go? Your teachings tell us of the Life of the Ages.

Every branch in me--if it bears no fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

If I then, your Master and Rabbi, have washed your feet, it is also your duty to wash one another's feet.

So the rest of the disciples told him, "We have seen the Master!" His reply was, "Unless I see in his hands the wound made by the nails and put my finger into the wound, and put my hand into his side, I will never believe it."

Now is my soul full of trouble; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But for this purpose I have come to this hour.

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

Many therefore of His disciples, when they heard it, said, "This is hard to accept. Who can listen to such teaching?"

that all may honour the Son even as they honour the Father. The man who withholds honour from the Son withholds honour from the Father who sent Him.

After this, Joseph of Arimathaea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but for fear of the Jews a secret disciple, asked Pilate's permission to carry away the body of Jesus; and Pilate gave him leave. So he came and removed the body.

Then Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, "We have found him about whom Moses in the Law wrote, as well as the Prophets--Jesus, the son of Joseph, a man of Nazareth."

This is He about whom I said, 'After me is to come One who has been put before me, because He was before me.'

Re-entering the Praetorium, therefore, Pilate called Jesus and asked Him, "Are *you* the King of the Jews?"

(For John was not yet in prison.)

Thereupon many of His disciples left Him and went away, and no longer associated with Him.

He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, "You are Simon, son of John: you shall be called Cephas" --that is to say, Peter (or 'Rock')

Jesus said to the attendants, "Fill the jars with water." And they filled them to the brim.

John also gave testimony by stating: "I have seen the Spirit coming down like a dove out of Heaven; and it remained upon Him.

Just as Thou didst send me into the world, I also have sent them;

If you know all this, blessed are you if you act accordingly.

A week later the disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them, when Jesus came--though the doors were locked--and stood in their midst, and said, "Peace be to you."

But for His part, Jesus did not trust Himself to them, because He knew them all,

and was teaching them when the Scribes and the Pharisees brought to Him a woman who had been found committing adultery. They made her stand in the centre of the court, and they put the case to Him.

While I was with them, I kept them true to Thy name--the name Thou hast given me to bear--and I kept watch over them, and not one of them is lost but only he who is doomed to destruction--that the Scripture may be fulfilled.

If a man wishes to be my servant, let him follow me; and where I am, there too shall my servant be. If a man wishes to be my servant, the Father will honour him.

Then He said, "Now, take some out, and carry it to the President of the feast."

And He found in the Temple the dealers in cattle and sheep and in pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there.

Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask Him, and He said, "Is this what you are questioning one another about--my saying, 'A little while and you do not see me, and again a little while and you shall see me'?

He first found his own brother Simon, and said to him, "We have found the Messiah!" --that is to say, the Anointed One.

It stands written in the Prophets, 'And they shall all of them be taught by God'. Every one who listens to the Father and learns from Him comes to me.

Again He said to them, "I am going away. Then you will try to find me, but you will die in your sins. Where I am going, it is impossible for you to come."

"Sir," said the woman, "give me that water, that I may never be thirsty, nor continually come all the way here to draw from the well."

He referred to the Spirit which those who believed in Him were to receive; for the Spirit was not bestowed as yet, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

He who holds his life dear, is destroying it; and he who makes his life of no account in this world shall keep it to the Life of the Ages.

No one is taking it away from me, but I myself am laying it down. I am authorized to lay it down, and I am authorized to receive it back again. This is the command I received from my Father."

I have come as my Father's representative, and you do not receive me. If some one else comes representing only himself, him you will receive.

Already you are cleansed--through the teaching which I have given you.

As yet you have not asked for anything in my name: ask, and you shall receive, that your hearts may be filled with gladness.

and yet you are unwilling to come to me that you may have Life.

But now I an returning to Him who sent me; and not one of you asks me where I am going.

"Rise," said Jesus, "take up your mat and walk."

"You are giving testimony about yourself," said the Pharisees; "your testimony is not true."

Jesus answered their question by saying, "My teaching does not belong to me, but comes from Him who sent me.

If you make any request of me in my name, I will do it.

For if you believe Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.

He will glorify me, because He will take of what is mine and will make it known to you.

Believe me, all of you, that I am in the Father and that the Father is in me; or at any rate, believe me because of what I do.

Instantly the man was restored to perfect health, and he took up his mat and began to walk.

Perceiving, however, that they were about to come and carry Him off by force to make Him a king, Jesus withdrew again up the hill alone by Himself.

And Jesus, having procured a young ass, sat upon it, just as the Scripture says,

On His arrival Jesus found that Lazarus had already been three days in the tomb.

even as Thou hast given Him authority over all mankind, so that on all whom Thou hast given Him He may bestow the Life of the Ages.

He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has the Life of the Ages, and I will raise him up on the last day.

If any one does not continue in me, he is like the unfruitful branch which is at once thrown away and then withers up. Such branches they gather up and throw into the fire and they are burned.

Jesus heard that they had done this. So having found him, He asked him, "Do you believe in the Son of God?"

A third time Jesus put the question: "Simon, son of John, am I dear to you?" It grieved Peter that Jesus asked him the third time, "Am I dear to you?" "Master," he replied, "you know everything, you can see that you are dear to me." "Then feed my much-loved sheep," said Jesus.

Among the mass of the people there was much muttered debate about Him. Some said, "He is a good man." Others said, "Not so: he is imposing on the people."

Accordingly they gathered them up; and with the fragments of the five barley loaves--the broken portions that remained over after they had done eating--they filled twelve baskets.

For I have set you an example in order that you may do what I have done to you.

At that time you will know that I am in my Father, and that you are in me, and that I am in you.

And the Father who sent me, *He* has given testimony concerning me. None of you have ever either heard His voice or seen what He is like.

And if any one hears my teachings and regards them not, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

Which of *you* convicts me of sin? If I speak the truth, why do you not believe me?

Many of them said, "He is possessed by a demon and is mad. Why do you listen to him?"

"Where is he?" they inquired, but the man did not know.

And even if I do judge, my judgement is just; for I am not alone, but the Father who sent me is with me.

You judge according to appearances: I am judging no one.

The man went and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had restored him to health;

They brought him to the Pharisees--the man who had been blind.

"What I have written I have written," was Pilate's answer.

Hence the report spread among the brethren that that disciple would never die. Yet Jesus did not say, "He is not to die," but, "If I desire him to remain till I come, what concern is that of yours?"

Why do you question me? Question those who heard what it was I said to them: these witnesses here know what I said."

The result was that the Pharisees said among themselves, "Observe how idle all your efforts are! The world is gone after him!"

But they will inflict all this suffering upon you on account of your bearing my name--because they do not know Him who sent me.

So then He told them plainly,

Yet for fear of the Jews no one spoke out boldly about Him.

Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought He referred to the rest taken in ordinary sleep.

And, righteous Father, though the world has failed to recognize Thee, I have known Thee, and these have perceived that Thou didst send me.

The meaning of this His disciples did not understand at the time; but after Jesus was glorified they recollected that this was written about Him, and that they had done this to Him.

Again there arose a division among the Jews because of these words.

I am one giving testimony about myself, and the Father who sent me gives testimony about me."

Now the day on which Jesus made the clay and opened the man's eyes was the Sabbath.

The large number of people, however, who had been present when He called Lazarus out of the tomb and brought him back to life, related what they had witnessed.

Then Jesus turned round, and seeing them following He asked them, "What is your wish?" "Rabbi," they replied--'Rabbi' means '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. But let us go to him."

"Fear not, Daughter of Zion! See, thy King is coming riding on an ass's colt."