Now he who serves for wages flees because he serves for wages, and is not himself concerned about the sheep.

I am the Good Shepherd, and I know those that are Mine, and I am known by those who are Mine.

And I have other sheep who are not of this fold. I must also lead those, and they shall hear My voice, and there shall be one flock, one Shepherd.

The Jews who heard these words became divided again [i.e., over their meaning].

Others were saying, "These are not the words of one who is possessed by a demon! A demon is not able to open the eyes of the blind, [is it]?"

my father who gave them me, is greater than all: so that no one is able to force them out of my father's hand.

The Jews answered him, Not for a good work do we stone thee, but for blasphemy, and because thou, who art a man, makest thyself God.

if the law stiles them Gods, who received the orders of God, and if the scripture is of any authortiy,

how can you say that I blaspheme, I whom the father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, because I said I am the son of God?

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

And many who were there believed on him.

Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, who was of Bethany, the town of Mary, and of Martha her sister.

(it was that Mary who perfum'd the Lord with ointment, after having wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)

his two sisters therefore sent this message to Jesus; he, Lord, whom you love, is sick.

Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours [of light] in the day? Anyone who walks in the daytime does not stumble, because he sees [by] the light of this world.

Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said unto his fellow-disciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him.

and many of the Jews had come with the women who were about Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in Me, even if he dies, will live.

Everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die—ever. Do you believe this?”

do you believe this? yes, Lord, said Martha, I believe that thou art the Messiah the son of God, who was to come into the world.

the Jews then who were with Mary in the house to comfort her, when they saw that she rose in such haste, and went out, followed her, saying, she is going to the grave to weep there.

when Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping who came with her, he sighed from his heart, and was troubled,

Thus the people who had come to mourn said, "Look how much he loved him!"

but some of them said, this man who has given sight to the blind, could not he have prevented Lazarus's death?

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."

So they took away the stone where the man who died was laying. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou heard me.

but I knew that thou always hearest me; but on account of the crowd who stand around I have said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.

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."

many therefore of the Jews who came to see Mary, and had seen what Jesus had done, believed on him.

One of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all!

and not for the nation only, but also that the children of God who are scattered would be gathered into one.)

(Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where Jesus was should report it, so that they could arrest him.)

Six days before the passover Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, and raised to life again.

So they made him a meal there, and he was waited on by Martha, and Lazarus was among those who were seated with him at table.

whereupon one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, who was to betray him,

a great multitude of Jews knowing that Jesus was there, went thither, not for his sake only, but likewise to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

On the next day the large crowd who had come to the feast, [when they] heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

they took palm branches and went out to meet Him. They kept shouting: “Hosanna! He who comes in the name of the Lord is the blessed One—the King of Israel!”

So the crowd who was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead were continuing to testify.

Now some Greeks were among those who went up to worship at the festival.

there were certain Greeks, who address'd themselves to Philip, who was of Bethsaida in Galilee, saying, sir, we would fain see Jesus.

The one who loves his life will lose it, and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

the people therefore present who heard the noise, said it was thunder: others said, an angel spake to him.

Upon which the people said to him, we have learnt from the law, that the Messiah is to live for ever: why do you say then, the son of man must be lift up? who is this son of man?

Jesus answered, “The light will be with you only a little longer. Walk while you have the light so that darkness doesn’t overtake you. The one who walks in darkness doesn’t know where he’s going.

Now for all the Signs he had performed before them, they did not believe in him ??38 that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: Lord, who has believed what they heard from us, And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

so that the passage of Esaias the prophet was fulfilled, where he says, "Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?

nevertheless there were many even among the chief rulers, who believed on him; but they did not own it publickly for fear the Pharisees should excommunicate them.

Then Jesus cried out, “The one who believes in Me believes not in Me, but in Him who sent Me.

And the one who sees Me sees Him who sent Me.

I have come as a light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me would not remain in darkness.

If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, it is not I who judge him; for I have not come to judge the world but to save the world.

The one who rejects Me and doesn’t accept My sayings has this as his judge: The word I have spoken will judge him on the last day.

for I have not spoken for my self; but the father who sent me, he commission'd me, what I should teach, and what I should speak.

Before the Passover Festival, Jesus knew that His hour had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.

Jesus, who knew that the Father had given Him complete authority, [also] knew that He had come from God and was [about] to return to God.

He came to Simon Peter, who asked Him, “Lord, are You going to wash my feet?”

“One who has bathed,” Jesus told him, “doesn’t need to wash anything except his feet, but he is completely clean. You are clean, but not all of you.”

for he knew who would betray him; therefore, said he, you are not every one of you clean.

You call me 'Teacher,' and 'Lord,' and you are right in doing so because that is who I am.

Well, if I have washed your feet, I who am your Lord and Teacher, you are bound to wash one another's feet;

“I assure you: A slave is not greater than his master, and a messenger is not greater than the one who sent him.

I say not this of you all; for I know whom I have chosen: and that passage of the scripture must be fulfilled, "He that eateth bread with me, hath lift up his heel against me."

I am telling you this now, before it occurs, so that when it has occurred you may believe who I am.

I assure you: Whoever receives anyone I send receives Me, and the one who receives Me receives Him who sent Me.”

After saying this, Jesus was much troubled, and said solemnly: "In truth I tell you that it is one of you who will betray me."

then the disciples looked one on another, being in pain to know who he meant.

There was at the table reclining in Jesus bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved.

Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, to ask who it was he meant.

then accordingly bending his head to Jesus's ear, he whisper'd, Lord, who is it?

Jesus answered, he it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have made it. and when he had made the sop, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.

But no man who was sitting knew why he said this to him.

Jesus said to him, “Have I been among you all this time without your knowing Me, Philip? The one who has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

don't you believe that I am in the father, and the father in me? the words that I speak unto you, I speak indeed, tho' not from my self; but as to the works, the father, who dwells in me, he is the agent.

“I assure you: The one who believes in Me will also do the works that I do. And he will do even greater works than these, because I am going to the Father.

"And I will ask the Father and He will give you another Helper [i.e., besides me], who will be with you forever.

even the spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees nor knows him: but ye shall know him, for he shall dwell with you, and shall be in you.

The one who has My commands and keeps them is the one who loves Me. And the one who loves Me will be loved by My Father. I also will love him and will reveal Myself to him.”

Jesus answered, "Anyone who loves me will observe my teaching, and my Father will love him and we will come to him and live with him.

he does not love me, who does not observe my precepts: for the doctrine which you have heard, is not mine, but the father's who sent me.

and the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and remind you of all things that I said to you.

He will cut off [See verse 6] every branch [i.e., follower of Christ] who is in [fellowship with] me that does not bear fruit. And He will prune every branch that does bear fruit, so it will bear more fruit.

'I am the vine, ye the branches; he who is remaining in me, and I in him, this one doth bear much fruit, because apart from me ye are not able to do anything;

Anyone who does not remain united to me is thrown away like a branch and withers up, and they gather them and throw them into the fire and burn them.

there cannot be greater love than that of a man, who lays down his life for his friends.

It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you, and I appointed you to go and bear fruit--fruit that should remain, so that the Father might grant you whatever you ask in my Name.

but all these things will they do to you, because of my name, because they have not known Him who sent me;

They would not be guilty, if I had not come and spoken to them; but, as it is, they have no excuse for their sin ??23 he who hates me hates my Father also.

'He who is hating me, doth hate also my Father;

And when the Comforter may come, whom I will send to you from the Father -- the Spirit of truth, who from the Father doth come forth, he will testify of me;

out of the synagogues they will put you; but an hour doth come, that every one who hath killed you, may think to offer service unto God;

And they will do these things because they have failed to recognize the Father and to discover who I am.

and now I go away to Him who sent me, and none of you doth ask me, Whither dost thou go?

even as thou gavest him authority over all flesh, that to all whom thou hast given him, he should give eternal life.

and this is the life age-during, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and him whom Thou didst send -- Jesus Christ;

I did manifest Thy name to the men whom Thou hast given to me out of the world; Thine they were, and to me Thou hast given them, and Thy word they have kept;

'I ask in regard to them; not in regard to the world do I ask, but in regard to those whom Thou hast given to me, because Thine they are,

and no more am I in the world, and these are in the world, and I come unto Thee. Holy Father, keep them in Thy name, whom Thou hast given to me, that they may be one as we;

when I was with them in the world, I was keeping them in Thy name; those whom Thou hast given to me I did guard, and none of them was destroyed, except the son of the destruction, that the Writing may be fulfilled.

'And not in regard to these alone do I ask, but also in regard to those who shall be believing, through their word, in me;