I most solemnly say to you, whoever believes in me possesses eternal life.

But here is the bread that comes down out of heaven, so that anyone may eat it and never die.

Then Jesus said to them, "I most solemnly say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you do not have life in you.

Just as the living Father has sent me and I live because of the Father, so whoever keeps on eating me will live because of me.

So many of His disciples, when they heard it, said, "This teaching is hard to take in. Who can listen to it?"

Suppose you were to see the Son of Man going back where He was before?

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."

So Jesus said to the Twelve, "You too do not want to go back, do you?"

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;

Then Jesus said to them, "It is not yet time for me to do so, but anytime is suitable for you.

If anyone is willing to keep on doing God's will, he will know whether my teaching comes from God, or merely expresses my own ideas.

Did not Moses give you the law? And yet not one of you is keeping that law. If so, why are you trying to kill me?"

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?

So Jesus, as He was teaching in the temple, cried out, "Yes, you do know me and you do know where I come from, and I have not come on my own authority, but the One who has sent me exists as the Real One, whom you do not know.

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

So some of the people, when they heard this, said, "This is surely the prophet."

Do not the Scriptures say that the Christ is to spring from David and to come from the village of Bethlehem where David lived?"

So the people were divided because of Him,

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

"Our law does not condemn a man before it hears what he has to say and finds out what he is doing, does it?"

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."

In our law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now, what do you say?"

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.

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."

Then the Jews began to say, "He is not going to kill Himself, is He? Is that why He said, 'Where I am going you can never come'?"

So I have told you that you would die under the curse of your sins, for unless you believe that I am the Christ, you will die under the curse of your sins."

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."

So Jesus said to them, "When you lift the Son of Man (on the cross), you will know that I am the Christ, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but that I say exactly what my Father has instructed me to say.

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'?"

Jesus answered them, "I most solemnly say to you, everyone who lives in sin is a slave of sin.

So if the Son sets you free, you will be really free.

I know that you are Abraham's descendants, and yet you are trying to kill me, because there is no room in you for my teaching.

I am telling you what I have seen in my Father's presence, and you are practicing what you have learned from your father."

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

Why is it that you misunderstand what I say? It is because you cannot listen to what I teach.

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.

I most solemnly say to you, if anyone follows my teaching, he will never experience death."

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.

Then Jesus said to them, "I most solemnly say to you, I existed before Abraham was born."

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

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

On saying this He spit on the ground and made clay with the saliva, and put it on the man's eyes,

and said, "Go and wash them in the pool of Siloam" (which means One who has been sent). So he went and washed them and went home seeing.

Now his neighbors and those who saw that he was formerly blind, kept saying, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"

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

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

Now it was on the Sabbath when Jesus had made the clay and caused the man's eyes to see.

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 some of the Pharisees said, "This man does not come from God, for He does not keep the Sabbath." Others said, "How can a sinful man perform such wonder- works?" So there was a difference of opinion among them.

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 the Jews did not believe that he had really been blind and that he had come to see again, until they called the parents of the man who saw again,

and asked them, "Is this your son, and do you affirm that he was born blind? If so, how is it then that he now can see?"

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."

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."

Then he answered, "I do not know whether He is a sinner. I do know one thing, that once I was blind but now I can see."

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

The man answered them, "Well, there is something strange about this! You do not know where He comes from! And yet He has made my eyes to see!

It has never been heard of in this world that anyone ever made the eyes of a man who was born blind to see.

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."

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

Then Jesus said, "I have come into this world to judge people, so that those who do not see may see, and those who do see may become blind."

Jesus answered them, "If you were blind, you would not be guilty, but now you keep on claiming, 'We can see'; so your sin remains."

"I most solemnly say to you, whoever does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs over at some other place is a thief and a robber.

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.

So Jesus said to them again: "I most solemnly say to you, I am the door to the sheepfold myself.

Others said, "These are not the words of a man who is under the power of a demon. A demon cannot make the eyes of the blind see, can he?"

and Jesus was walking in Solomon's portico.

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."

Jesus answered them, "I have already told you so, but you do not believe me. The works which I am doing on my Father's authority are my credentials,

My father who gave them to me is stronger than all, and no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand.

If men to whom God's message came are called gods -- and the Scriptures cannot be made null and void --

do you now say to me whom my Father has set apart to it and sent into the world, 'You are a blasphemer,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?

But if I am doing so, even if you will not believe me, believe the deeds, that you may come to know and continue to know that the Father is in union with me and I am in union with the Father."

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

So the sisters sent this message to Jesus, "Lord, listen! the one you love so well is sick."

Jesus answered, "Does not the day have twelve hours? If a man travels in the daytime, he does not stumble, for he can see the light of this world;

So Jesus then told them plainly: "Lazarus is dead,

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."

and a goodly number of Jews had come out to see Martha and Mary, to sympathize with them over their brother.

So the Jews who were with her in the house sympathizing with her, when they saw Mary jump up and go out, followed her, because they supposed that she was going to the grave to pour out her grief there.

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."

So when Jesus saw her weeping and the Jews who had come with her weeping too, He sighed in sympathy and shook with emotion,

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

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

But some of them said, "Could not this man, who made that blind man see, have kept Lazarus from dying?"

Now Jesus sighed again and continued to sigh as He went to the grave. It was a cave with a stone lying over the mouth of it.

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."

Jesus said to her, "Did I not promise you that if you would believe in me, you should see the glory of God?"

So they slipped the stone aside. And Jesus looked up and said, "Father, I thank you for listening to me;

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

So the high priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the council, and began to say, "What are we to do? For this man is certainly performing many wonder-works.

Now he did not say this on his own authority, but because he was high priest that year he uttered this prophecy from God, that Jesus was to die for the nation,

So from that day they plotted to kill Jesus.

So they kept looking for Jesus and saying to one another, as they stood in the temple, "What do you think? Do you think He will not come to the feast at all?"