(Now he was speaking about Judas [son] of Simon Iscariot, because this one--one of the twelve--was going to betray him.)

And after these [things] Jesus was going about in Galilee. For he did not want to go about in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him.

So his brothers said to him, "Depart from here and go to Judea, so that your disciples also can see your works that you are doing.

(For not even his brothers believed in him.)

So the Jews were looking for him at the feast, and were saying, "Where is he?"

And there was a lot of grumbling concerning him among the crowds; some were saying, "He is a good [man]," but others were saying, "No, but he deceives the crowd."

However, no one was speaking openly about him for fear of the Jews.

The one who speaks from himself seeks his own glory. But the one who seeks the glory of the one who sent him--this one is true, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

And behold, he is speaking openly and they are saying nothing to him! Can it be that the rulers truly know that this man is the Christ?

I know him, because I am from him and he sent me."

So they were seeking to seize him, and no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

But from the crowd many believed in him and were saying, "Whenever the Christ comes, he will not perform more signs than this man has done, [will he]?"

The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these [things] about him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers in order {to take him into custody }.

So the Jews said to one another, "Where [is] this one going to go, that we will not find him? He is not going to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, [is he]?

Now on the last day of the feast--the great [day]--Jesus stood and cried out, saying, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and let him drink,

Now he said this concerning the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were about to receive. For the Spirit was not yet [given], because Jesus had not yet been glorified.)

So there was a division in the crowd because of him.

And some of them were wanting to seize him, but no one laid hands on him.

So the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees. And they said to them, "{Why} did you not bring him?"

{None} of the rulers or of the Pharisees have believed in him, [have they]?

Nicodemus, the one who came to him previously--who was one of them--said to them,

"Our law does not condemn a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing, [does it]?"

They answered and said to him, "You are not also from Galilee, [are you]? Investigate and see that a prophet does not arise from Galilee!" [[

Now the scribes and the Pharisees brought to him a woman caught in adultery. And standing her in [their] midst,

they said to him, testing [him], "Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery!

(Now they were saying this to test him, so that they would have [an occasion] to bring charges against him.) But Jesus, bending down, began to write with [his] finger on the ground, taking no notice.

And when they persisted in asking him, straightening up he said to them, "The [one] of you without sin, let him throw the first stone at her!"

So the Pharisees said to him, "You testify concerning yourself! Your testimony is not true."

So they were saying to him, "Where is your father?" Jesus replied, "You know neither me nor my Father! If you had known me, you would have known my Father also."

He spoke these words by the treasury [while] teaching in the temple [courts], and no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come.

So they began to say to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "{What} I have been saying to you [from] the beginning.

I have many [things] to say and to judge concerning you, but the one who sent me is true, and [the things] which I heard from him, these [things] I say to the world."

And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do the things that are pleasing to him."

[While] he was saying these [things], many believed in him.

Then Jesus said to those Jews who had believed him, "If you continue in my word you are truly my disciples,

They replied to him, "We are descendants of Abraham and have not been enslaved to anyone at any time. How do you say, 'You will become free'?"

They answered and said to him, "Abraham is our father!" Jesus said to them, "If you are children of Abraham, do the deeds of Abraham!

You are doing the deeds of your father!" They said to him, "We were not born from sexual immorality! We have one father, God!"

You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father! That one was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand firm in the truth, because truth is not in him. Whenever he speaks the lie, he speaks from his own [nature], because he is a liar and the father {of lies}.

The Jews answered and said to him, "Do we not correctly say that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?"

The Jews said to him, "Now we know that you have a demon! Abraham and the prophets died, and you say, 'If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death {forever}.'

And you have not known him, but I know him. And if I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you! But I know him and I keep his word.

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

Then they picked up stones in order to throw [them] at him. But Jesus was hidden and went out of the temple [courts].

And his disciples asked him, saying, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?"

Jesus replied, "Neither this man sinned nor his parents, but [it happened] so that the works of God could be revealed in him.

And he said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which is translated "sent"). So he went and washed and came back seeing.

Then the neighbors and those who saw him previously (because he was a beggar) began to say, "Is this man not the one who used to sit and beg?"

Others were saying, "It is this man"; others were saying, "No, but he is like him." That one was saying, "I am [he]!"

So they began to say to him, "How were your eyes opened?"

And they said to him, "Where is that man?" He said, "I do not know."

They brought him--the one formerly blind--to the Pharisees.

So the Pharisees also were asking him again how he received sight. And he said to them, "He put clay on my eyes, and I washed, and I see."

So they said to the blind man again, "What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?" And he said, "He is a prophet."

So the Jews did not believe concerning him that he had been blind and received sight, until they summoned the parents of the one who received sight.

But how he now sees we do not know, or who opened his eyes we do not know. Ask him! {He is a mature adult}; he will speak for himself!"

(His parents said these [things] because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already decided that if anyone should confess him [to be] Christ, he would be expelled from the synagogue.

Because of this his parents said, "{He is a mature adult}; ask him.")

So they summoned the man who had been blind for the second time and said to him, "Give glory to God! We know that this man is a sinner!"

So they said to him, "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?"

They reviled him and said, "You are his disciple! But we are disciples of Moses!

They answered and said to him, "You were born completely in sin, and are you attempting to teach us?" And they threw him out.

Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"

He answered and said, "And who is [he], sir, that I may believe in him?"

Jesus said to him, "You have both seen him, and he is the one who is speaking with you." [[

And he said, "I believe, Lord!" and he worshiped him.

[Some] of the Pharisees who were with him heard these [things] and said to him, "We are not also blind, [are we]?"

Whenever he sends out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.

And they will never follow a stranger, but will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."

And many of them were saying, "He has a demon and is out of his mind! Why do you listen to him?"

So the Jews surrounded him and began to say to him, "{How long will you keep us in suspense}? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly!"

Then the Jews picked up stones again so that they could stone him.

The Jews answered him, "We are not going to stone you concerning a good deed, but concerning blasphemy, and because you, [although you] are a man, make yourself [to be] God!"

So they were seeking again to seize him, and he departed out of their hand.

And many came to him and began to say, "John performed no sign, but everything John said about this man was true!"

And many believed in him there.

So the sisters sent [word] to him, saying, "Lord, behold, [the one] whom you love is sick."

The disciples said to him, "Rabbi, the Jews were seeking just now to stone you, and are you going there again?"

But if anyone walks around in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.

He said these [things], and after this he said to them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I can awaken him."

So the disciples said to him, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will get well."

and I am glad {for your sake} that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him."

Then Thomas (the one who is called Didymus) said to his fellow disciples, "Let us go also, so that we may die with him."

Now Martha, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went to meet him, but Mary was sitting in the house.

Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day."

She said to him, "Yes, Lord, I have believed that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who comes into the world."

So that one, when she heard [it], got up quickly and went to him.

(Now Jesus has not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha went to meet him.)

Then Mary, when she came where Jesus was [and] saw him, fell at his feet, saying to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."

And he said, "Where have you laid him?" They said to him, "Lord, come and see."

So the Jews were saying, "See how he loved him!"

Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the one who had died, said to him, "Lord, he is stinking already, because it has been four days."

The one who had died came out, his feet and his hands bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped with a facecloth. Jesus said to them, "Untie him and let him go."

Then many of the Jews who had come with Mary and saw [the things] which he did believed in him.

If we allow him [to go on] in this way, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation."

So from that day they resolved that they should kill him.

(Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, they should report [it], in order that they could arrest him.)

So they made him a dinner there, and Martha was serving, but Lazarus was one of the ones reclining at table with him.

But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who was going to betray him) said,

because on account of him many of the Jews were going and believing in Jesus.