Then what if you see the Son of Man go up where he was before?

The Spirit is what gives life; flesh is of no use at all. The things that I have said to you are spirit and they are life.

Yet there are some of you who will not believe." For Jesus knew from the first who would not believe, and who was going to betray him.

Then Jesus said to them, "It is not yet time for me to act, but any time is suitable for you.

It is impossible for the world to hate you, but it does hate me for testifying that its ways are wrong.

As for you, go up to the festival; I am not going up to this festival as yet, for it is not quite time for me to go."

That was what he told them, and he stayed on in Galilee.

Now the Jews were looking for him at the festival and asking where he was,

This astonished the Jews. "How is it that this man can read?" they said, "when he has never gone to school?"

So Jesus answered, "My teaching is not my own; it comes from him who has sent me.

Was it not Moses who gave you the Law? Yet not one of you obeys the Law. Why are you trying to kill me?"

Jesus answered, "I have done just one deed, and you are all astonished at it.

Yet Moses gave you the rite of circumcision??ot that it began with Moses but with your forefathers??nd you practice it even on the Sabbath.

But if a person undergoes circumcision on a Sabbath, to avoid breaking the Law of Moses, are you angry at me for making a man perfectly well on a Sabbath?

So Jesus, as he was teaching in the Temple, cried out, "You do know me and you do know where I come from, and I have not come of my own accord but someone who is very real, whom you do not know, has sent me.

Then they tried to arrest him, and yet no one laid hands on him, because he was not yet ready.

What does he mean by saying 'You will look for me and you will not find me, and you will not be able to go where I shall be'?"

Now on the last day, the great day of the festival, Jesus stood up and cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.

He meant by this the Spirit which those who believed in him were to receive??or the Spirit had not yet come, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

Others said, "This is the Christ!" But they rejoined, "What! Is the Christ to come from Galilee?

and some of them wanted to arrest him, yet no one laid hands on him.

"Does our Law condemn the accused without first hearing what he has to say, and finding out what he has done?"

Why, in your own Law it is stated that the testimony of two persons is valid.

He said these things in the treasury, as he was teaching in the Temple, and no one arrested him, because he was not yet ready.

That is why I said to you that you would die in the midst of your sins, for unless you believe that I am what I say, you will die in the midst of your sins."

"Why do I even talk to you at all? I have a great deal to say about you and to condemn in you, yet he who sent me is truthful, and the things that I say to the world are things that I have learned from him."

So Jesus said, "When you lift the Son of Man up in the air, then you will know that I am what I say, and that I do nothing of my own accord, but speak as the Father has instructed me.

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

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you abide by what I teach, you are really disciples of mine,

I know that you are descended from Abraham, yet you want to kill me, because there is no room in your hearts for my teaching.

It is what I have seen in the presence of my Father that I tell, and it is what you have heard from your father that you do."

They answered, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus said to them, "If you are Abraham's children, then do what Abraham did.

Why is it that you do not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to listen to my message.

The devil is the father you are sprung from, and you want to carry out your father's wishes. He was a murderer from the first, and he has nothing to do with the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks in his true character, for he is a liar and the father of them.

But I do not seek honor for myself; there is someone who seeks it for me, and is the judge of it.

The Jews said to him, "Now we are sure that you are possessed! Abraham is dead and so are the prophets, and yet you say, 'If anyone observes my teaching, he will never know what death is!'

Are you a greater man than our forefather Abraham? Yet he is dead and the prophets are dead. What do you claim to be?"

Jesus answered, "If I show special honor to myself, such honor counts for nothing. It is my Father who shows me honor. You say he is your God,

yet you have never come to know him. But I know him. If I say I do not know him, I will be a liar like yourselves. No! I do know him, and I am faithful to his message.

Your forefather Abraham exulted at the thought of seeing my coming. He has seen it, and it has made him glad."

At that, the Jews picked up stones to throw at him, but he disappeared and made his way out of the Temple.

Jesus answered, "It was neither for his own sin nor for that of his parents, but to let what God can do be illustrated in his case.

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

So they said to him, "Then how does it happen that you can see?"

He answered, "The man they call Jesus made some clay and rubbed it on my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash them.' So I went and when I had washed them I could see."

Now it was on the Sabbath that Jesus had made the clay and made him able to see.

So they asked the blind man again, "What have you to say about him, because he has made you able to see?" He said, "He is a prophet!"

and asked them, "Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How is it that he can see now?"

But we do not know how it is that he can see now, or who has made him able to see. You must ask him. He is grown up. Let him tell you about himself."

They said to him, "What did he do to you? How did he make you able to see?"

He answered, "I have already told you and you would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you want to become disciples of his too?"

Then they sneered at him, and said, "You are a disciple of his yourself, but we are disciples of Moses.

The man answered, "There is something very strange about this! You do not know where he came from, and yet he has made me able to see!

It was never heard of in this world that anyone made a man born blind able to see.

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

Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would be guilty of no sin, but as it is, you say 'We can see'; so your sin continues.

"I tell you, any man who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs over at some other place, is a thief and robber.

The watchman opens the door to him, and the sheep obey his voice, and he calls to his own sheep and leads them out.

When he gets his own flock all out, he goes in front of them, and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.

This was the figure Jesus used in speaking to them, but they did not understand what he meant by it.

I am the door. Whoever enters through me will be saved, and will pass in and out and find pasture.

A thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come to let them have life, and to let them have it in abundance.

This is why the Father loves me, because I am giving my life, but giving it to take it back again.

No one has taken it from me, but I am giving it of my own accord. I have power to give it, and I have power to take it back again. These are the orders I have received from my Father."

That was the time of the Rededication Festival at Jerusalem. It was winter time

Jesus answered, "I have told you so, and you will not believe it. The things I have been doing by my Father's authority are my credentials,

but you do not believe it because you do not belong to my sheep.

and I give them eternal life, and they shall never be lost, and no one shall tear them out of my hands.

What my Father has intrusted to me is of more importance than everything else, and no one can tear anything out of the Father's hands.

The Jews answered, "We are not stoning you for doing anything good, but for your impious talk, and because you, a mere man, make yourself out to be God."

Jesus answered, "Is it not declared in your Law, 'I said, "You are gods" '?

In consequence of this they again tried to arrest him, and he withdrew out of their reach.

He went across the Jordan again to the place where John used to baptize at first, and there he stayed.

It was the Mary who poured perfume upon the Master and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.

When Jesus received it he said, "This sickness is not to end in death, but is for the honor of God, that through it the Son of God may be honored."

but if he travels at night he will stumble because he has no light."

and a number of Jews had come out to see Mary and Martha, to condole with them about their brother.

When Martha heard that Jesus was coming she went out to meet him, but Mary remained at home.

Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise at the resurrection, on the Last Day."

When she heard it she sprang up and went to him,

for Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him.

The Jews who were sitting with her in the house, condoling with her, when they saw Mary spring up and go out, supposed that she was going to weep at the tomb, and followed her.

When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet, and said, "Master, if you had been here, my brother would not have died!"

When Jesus saw her weep and the Jews who had come with her weeping too, repressing a groan, and yet showing great agitation,

Again repressing a groan, Jesus went to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid against the mouth of it.

After saying this he called out in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"

The dead man came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and with his face muffled with a handkerchief. Jesus said to them, "Unbind him and let him move."

So it came about that many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary and saw what Jesus did, came to believe in him,

but some of them went back to the Pharisees and told them what he had done.

Then the high priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the council, and they said, "What are we to do about the fact that this man is showing so many signs?

"You know nothing about it. You do not realize that it is to your interest that one man should die for the people, instead of the whole nation being destroyed."

So they were looking for Jesus there, and asking one another as they stood in the Temple, "What do you think? Do you think he will not come to the festival at all?"

For the high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who found out where he was should let them know, so that they might arrest him.

They gave a dinner for him there, and Martha waited on them, while Lazarus was at the table with him.

And Mary took a pound of choice perfume, very costly, and poured it on Jesus' feet, and then wiped his feet with her hair, and the whole house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

But he did not say this because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief and when he had charge of the purse he used to take what was put in it.

Jesus said, "Let her alone; let her keep it for the day of my funeral,

A great many of the Jews found out that he was there, and they came to Bethany not only to see Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

got palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting, "God bless him! God bless him who comes in the Lord's name! Blessings on the king of Israel!"

And Jesus found a young ass and mounted it, in accordance with the Scripture,