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

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.

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

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.

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

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

"That is why I said that you would die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins."

They did not understand that he meant the Father,

"and he who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, for I do always the things that please him."

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

"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.

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

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.

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

"You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a man-slayer from the very beginning; and he has no standing place in the truth, because truth is not in him. Whenever he utters a lie, he speaks from his nature, for he is a liar and the father of lying.

"But as for me, it is because I speak the truth to you that you do not believe me.

"Which one of you convicts me of sin? Why then, if I am speaking the truth, do you not believe me?

"He who is from God listens to God's words. For this reason you do not listen, because you are not from God."

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

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

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

"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?"

"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.

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

"I must work the works of him that sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no man can work.

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?"

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

Then some of the Pharisees began to say, "This man in not from God, because he does not keep the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?"

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,

"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."

"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."

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?"

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

"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.

"We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if any one is God-fearing and does his will, to such he listens.

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

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

"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;

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

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

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

"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.

"I have other sheep also, which do not belong to this fold. I must bring them too, and they will listen to my voice, and they will become one flock, one shepherd.

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

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.

"But you do not believe, because you are not of my sheep.

"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."

"If I am not doing the deeds of my Father, do not believe me.

"But if I am doing them, then though you believe not me, believe the deeds, in order that you may come to know and keep on clearly understanding that the Father is in me and I am in the Father."

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

When Jesus heard it he said, "This illness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that through it the Son of God may be glorified."

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;

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

"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."

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

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

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."

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

Jesus answered her, "Did I not tell you that if you would believe you should see the glory of God?"

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,

and not in behalf of the nation alone, but in order that he might gather into one the widely scattered children of God.

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?"

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

This he said not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and, carrying the purse,

for the poor you have with you always, but me you have not always."

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.

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

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.

He who loves his life loses it; and he who regards not his life in this world shall keep it for eternal life.

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

"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.

With these words Jesus went away and hid himself from them. But although he had wrought such signs in their presence, still they did not believe in him.

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

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.

"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.

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.

He who rejects me, and does not receive my words, has indeed a judge. The message which I have spoken, that shall judge him in the Last Day,

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

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

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

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."

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

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.

I do not speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen, but it is that the Scripture may be fulfilled, which says. "He who eats my bread has lifted up his heel against me.

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.

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

"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."

"Let not your hearts be troubled. You trust in God, trust in me also.

In my Father's house there are many rooms If it were not so, would I have told you that I went to prepare a place for you?

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

"Have I been so long among you, and yet you, Philip, have you not recognized me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Cause us to see the Father'?

"Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father in me? The words that I speak to you I speak not of myself; but the Father, who ever dwells in me, is doing his own work.

"The world cannot receive him because it does not see him nor know him, but you know him, for he is ever with you and within you.

"I will not leave you comfortless; I will come to you.

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

"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.

"Peace I leave with you. My own peace I give to you. It is not the world's 'Peace' I give you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

"I shall not talk with you much more, for the Prince of this world is coming.

"If any one does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers. Such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire and burned.

"I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have learned from my Father.