For it is my Father's will that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and that I shall raise him to life on the last day."

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

In the prophets it is written, 'And all men will be taught by God.' Everyone who ever listens to the Father and learns from Him will come to me.

Not that anyone has ever seen the Father, except Him who is from God; of course, He has seen the Father.

Whoever continues to eat my flesh and drink my blood already possesses eternal life, and I will raise him to life on the last day.

Whoever continues to eat my flesh and drink my blood continues to live in union with me and I in union with him.

But there are some of you who do not trust in me." For Jesus knew from the start who they were that did not trust in Him, and who it was that was going to betray Him.

So He continued, "This is why I told you that no one can come to me, unless it is granted to him by my Father."

As a result of this many of His disciples turned their backs on Him and stopped accompanying Him.

Simon Peter answered Him, "To whom can we go, Lord? You have the message that gives eternal life,

He was referring to Judas, Simon Iscariot's son, for he was going to betray Him, although he was one of the Twelve.

After this, Jesus went on moving about in Galilee; He would not do so in Judea, because the Jews were trying to kill Him.

So His brothers said to Him, "You must leave here and go to Judea, to let your disciples also see the works that you are doing;

For even His brothers did not believe in Him.

Now the Jews at the feast were looking for Him and kept asking, "Where is He?"

And there was a great deal of grumbling about Him among the crowds, some saying that He was a good man, and others that He was not, but was misleading the masses.

And yet, for fear of the Jews, nobody dared to speak in public about Him.

Jesus answered them, "My teaching is not my own, but it comes from Him who sent me.

Whoever utters merely his own ideas is seeking his own honor, but whoever seeks the honor of him who sent him is sincere, and there is no dishonesty in him.

Just look! He is talking in public, and yet they do not say a word to Him! It cannot be that the authorities have really learned that He is the Christ, can it?

I know Him myself, because I have come from Him, and He has sent me."

Then they kept on trying to arrest Him, and yet no one laid a hand on Him, for the time had not yet come.

But many of the crowd believed in Him, and said, "When the Christ comes, He will not perform greater wonder-works than He did, will He?"

The Pharisees heard the people whispering this about Him, and so the high priests and Pharisees sent some officers to arrest Him.

Then Jesus said to them, "Just a little while longer I am to be with you, and then I am going back to Him who has sent me.

The Jews then said to one another, "Where is He about to go that we shall not find Him? He is not going to our people scattered among the Greeks, and going to teach the Greeks, is He?

On the last day, the great day, of the feast, Jesus stood and cried aloud, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.

Whoever continues to believe in me will have, as the Scripture says, rivers of living water continuously flowing from within him."

By this He referred to the Spirit that those believing in Him were going to receive -- for the Spirit had not yet come, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

So the people were divided because of Him,

and some of them wanted to arrest Him, but no one ventured to lay a hand upon Him.

So the officers went back to the high priests and Pharisees. The latter asked the officers, "Why have you not brought Him?"

None of the authorities or of the Pharisees have believed in Him, have they?

Then they answered him, "You are not from Galilee, too, are you? Search the record and see that no prophet has ever come from Galilee."

Early the next morning, He had come into the temple again, and all the people were gathering around Him. Having sat down, He began to teach them.

they said to Him, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.

They were asking this to trap him so that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped and began to write in the dirt with his finger.

The Pharisees then said to Him, "You are testifying to yourself; your testimony is not true."

Then they began to say to Him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You do not know either me or my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father too."

He said these things in the treasury as He was teaching in the temple, and yet no one ventured to arrest Him, because the time had not yet come for Him.

Then they asked Him, "Who are you anyway?" Jesus answered them, "Why do I even talk to you at all?

I have much to say about you and much to condemn in you, but He who sent me is truthful, and I am telling the world only what I have learned from Him."

Yes, He who sent me is ever with me; I am not alone, because I always practice what pleases Him."

Even while He was saying this, many believed in Him.

So Jesus said to the Jews who believed in Him, "If you live in accordance with what I teach, you are really my disciples,

They answered Him, "We are Abraham's descendants and we never have been anybody's slaves. How can you say to us, 'You will be set free'?"

They answered Him, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus said to them, "If you are Abraham's children, you must be practicing what Abraham did.

You are practicing what your real father does." They said to Him, "We are not illegitimate children; we have one Father, even God."

You sprang from the devil, your real father, and you want to practice your father's wishes. He was a murderer from the very start, and he does not stand by the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks out of his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

Then the Jews answered Him, "Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and are under the power of a demon?"

Then the Jews said to Him, "Now we know that you are under the power of a demon. Abraham is dead; the prophets too, and yet you say, 'If anyone follows my teaching, he will never experience death.'

And yet you have not learned to know Him; but I know Him, and if I say I do not know Him, I will be a liar like you. On the other hand, I do know Him and I do follow His teaching.

The Jews then said to Him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?"

At this the Jews took up stones to stone Him, but Jesus made His way out of the temple unperceived.

So His disciples asked Him, "Teacher, for whose sin was this man born blind, his own or that of his parents?"

We must continue to do the works of Him who sent me while it is daylight. Night is coming when no one can do any work.

Some said, "Yes, it is he." Others said, "No, but it surely does look like him." He himself said, "I am the man."

So they kept on asking him, "How in the world did you come to see?"

Then they asked him, "Where is He?" He answered, "I do not know."

So the Pharisees again asked him how he had come to see. He answered them: "He put some clay on my eyes, and I washed them, and so now I can see."

Then again they asked the blind man, "What do you say about Him yourself, since He has made your eyes to see?" He answered, "He is a prophet."

But we do not know how it is that he now can see, or who it was that made his eyes to see. Ask him; he is of age; he can speak for himself."

This is why his parents said, "He is of age, ask him."

So a second time they called the man who had been blind, and said to him, "Give God the praise; we know this man is a sinner."

Again they said to him, "What did He do to you? How did He make your eyes to see again?"

Then they jeered him, and said, "You are a disciple of His yourself, but we are disciples of Moses.

Then they retorted, "You were born in total depravity, and yet you are trying to teach us!" And so they turned him out of the synagogue.

Jesus heard that they had turned the man out of the synagogue; so He found him and said to him, "Do you believe in the Son of Man yourself?"

He answered, "Who is He, sir? Tell me, so that I may believe in Him."

Jesus answered him, "You have seen Him; you are talking to Him right now!"

So he said, "Lord, I believe!" Then he worshiped Him.

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

The doorkeeper opens the door to him, and the sheep obey his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

So when he gets his sheep all out, he goes on before them, and the sheep come on behind him, because they know his voice.

But they will never come on behind a stranger, but will run away from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."

Many of them said, "He is under the power of a demon and is going crazy. Why are you listening to Him?"

So the Jews surrounded Him and kept asking Him, "How much longer are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are really the Christ, tell us so plainly."

The Jews again picked up stones to stone Him.

Once more they were trying to arrest Him, but He escaped from their hands.

And many people came to Him and kept on saying, "John did not perform any wonder-works, but everything he ever said about this man was true."

And so many of them at that place believed in Him.

The disciples said to Him, "Teacher, the Jews just now were trying to stone you, and are you going back there again?"

He said this, and after that He added, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him."

The disciples said to Him, "Lord, if he has merely fallen asleep, he will recover."

and I am glad for your sake that I was not there so that you may come to have real faith in me. But let us go to him."

Then Thomas the Twin said to his fellow-disciples, "Let us go too, and die with Him."

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

Martha said to Him, "I know that he will rise at the resurrection, on the last day."

She said to Him, "Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world."

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

When Mary came where Jesus was and saw Him, she threw herself at His feet, and said, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."

and asked, "Where have you laid him?" They answered, "Lord, come and see."

So the Jews said, "See how tenderly He loved him!"

Jesus said, "Slip the stone aside." The dead man's sister, Martha, said to Him, "Lord, by this time he is offensive, for he has been dead four days."

Then out came the dead man, his feet and hands tied with wrappings, and his face tied up with a handkerchief. Jesus said to them, "Untie him and let him go."

Thus many of the Jews, who came to see Mary and who saw what Jesus had done, believed in Him;

If we let Him go on this way, everybody will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and blot out both our city and nation."

Now the high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone should learn where He was, he should let it be known so that they might arrest Him.

But Judas Iscariot, one of His disciples, who was going to betray Him, said,

for on account of him many of the Jews were leaving them and believing in Jesus.