"What then?" they inquired; "are you Elijah?" "I am not," he said. "Are you the Prophet?" "No," he answered.

So they pressed the question. "Who are you?" they said--"that we may take an answer to those who sent us. What account do you give of yourself?"

Again they questioned him. "Why then do you baptize," they said, "if you are neither the Christ nor Elijah nor the Prophet?"

Then Jesus turned round, and seeing them following He asked them, "What is your wish?" "Rabbi," they replied--'Rabbi' means 'Teacher' --"where are you staying?"

He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, "You are Simon, son of John: you shall be called Cephas" --that is to say, Peter (or 'Rock')

"Rabbi," cried Nathanael, "you are the Son of God, you are Israel's King!"

He came to Jesus by night and said, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher from God; for no one can do these miracles which you are doing, unless God is with him.

"Are you," replied Jesus, "'the Teacher of Israel,' and yet do you not understand these things?

And this is the test by which men are judged--the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness more than they loved the Light, because their deeds were wicked.

they came to John and reported to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you on the other side of the Jordan and to whom you bore testimony is now baptizing, and great numbers of people are resorting to him."

Are you greater than our forefather Jacob, who gave us the well, and himself drank from it, as did also his sons and his cattle?"

"Sir," replied the woman, "I see that you are a Prophet.

Just then His disciples came, and were surprised to find Him talking with a woman. Yet not one of them asked Him, "What is your wish?" or "Why are you talking with her?"

Do you not say, 'It wants four months yet to the harvest'? But look round, I tell you, and observe these plains-- they are already ripe for the sickle.

I sent you to reap a harvest which is not the result of your own labours. Others have laboured, and you are getting benefit from their labours."

Afterwards Jesus found him in the Temple and said to him, "You are now restored to health. Do not sin any more, or a worse thing may befall you."

Wonder not at this. For a time is coming when all who are in the graves will hear His voice and will come forth--

and yet you are unwilling to come to me that you may have Life.

But if you disbelieve his writings, how are you to believe my words?"

"In most solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "that you are searching for me not because you have seen miracles, but because you ate the loaves and had a hearty meal.

"What are we to do," they asked, "in order to carry out the things that God requires?"

It is the spirit which gives Life. The flesh confers no benefit whatever. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and are Life.

But there are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were that did not believe, and who it was that would betray Him.

And we have come to believe and know that *you* are indeed the Holy One of God."

For no one acts in secret, desiring all the while to be himself known publicly. Since you are doing these things, show yourself openly to the world."

"You are possessed by a demon," replied the crowd; "no one wants to kill you."

"One deed I have done," replied Jesus, "and you are all full of wonder.

If a child is circumcised even on a Sabbath day, are you bitter against me because I have restored a man to perfect health on a Sabbath day?

Do not form superficial judgements, but form the judgements that are just."

Some however of the people of Jerusalem said, "Is not this the man they are wanting to kill?

"Are *you* deluded too?" replied the Pharisees;

But this rabble who understand nothing about the Law are accursed!"

Then, raising His head, Jesus said to her, "Where are they? Has no one condemned you?"

"You are giving testimony about yourself," said the Pharisees; "your testimony is not true."

"You," He continued, "are from below, I am from above: you are of this present world, I am not of this present world.

"You--who are you?" they asked. "How is it that I am speaking to you at all?" replied Jesus.

"Many things I have to speak and to judge concerning you. But He who sent me is true, and the things which I have heard from Him are those which I have come into the world to speak."

Jesus therefore said to those of the Jews who had now believed in Him, "As for you, if you hold fast to my teaching, then you are truly my disciples;

"We are descendants of Abraham," they answered, "and have never at any time been in slavery to any one. What do those words of yours mean, 'You shall become free'?"

You are descendants of Abraham, I know; but you want to kill me, because my teaching gains no ground within you.

The words I speak are those I have learnt in the presence of the Father. Therefore you also should do what you have heard from your father."

But, in fact, you are longing to kill me, a man who has spoken to you the truth which I have heard from God. Abraham did not do that.

You are doing the deeds of your father." "We," they replied, "are not illegitimate children. We have one Father, namely God."

The father whose sons you are is the Devil; and you desire to do what gives him pleasure. *He* was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand firm in the truth--for there is no truth in him. Whenever he utters his lie, he utters it out of his own store; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

He who is a child of God listens to God's words. You do not listen to them: and why? It is because you are not God's children."

"Are we not right," answered the Jews, "in saying that you are a Samaritan and are possessed by a demon?"

"Now," exclaimed the Jews, "we know that you are possessed by a demon. Abraham died, and so did the Prophets, and yet *you* say, 'If any one shall have obeyed my teaching, he shall in no case ever taste death.'

Are you really greater than our forefather Abraham? For he died. And the prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?"

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

Then they railed at him, and said, "You are that man's disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.

These words were heard by those of the Pharisees who were present, and they asked Him, "Are *we* also blind?"

All who have come before me are thieves and robbers; but the sheep would not listen to them.

when the Jews gathered round Him and kept asking Him, "How long do you mean to keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us so plainly."

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

I and the Father are one."

Jesus remonstrated with them. "Many good deeds," He said, "have I shown you as coming from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?"

"For no good deed," the Jews replied, "are we going to stone you, but for blasphemy, and because you, who are only a man, are making yourself out to be God."

"Does it not stand written in your Law," replied Jesus, "'I said, you are gods'?

If those to whom God's word was addressed are called gods (and the Scripture cannot be annulled)

how is it that you say to one whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am God's Son'?

If the deeds I do are not my Father's deeds, do not believe me.

But if they are, then even if you do not believe me, at least believe the deeds, that you may know and see clearly that the Father is in me, and that I am in the Father."

"Are there not twelve hours in the day?" replied Jesus. "If any one walks in the daytime, he does not stumble--because he sees the light of this world.

"Yes, Master," she replied; "I thoroughly believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world."

Therefore the High Priests and the Pharisees held a meeting of the Sanhedrin. "What steps are we taking?" they asked one another; "for this man is performing a great number of miracles.

The result was that the Pharisees said among themselves, "Observe how idle all your efforts are! The world is gone after him!"

When He came to Simon Peter, Peter objected. "Master," he said, "are *you* going to wash my feet?"

"Any one who has lately bathed," said Jesus, "does not need to wash more than his feet, but is clean all over. And you my disciples are clean, and yet this is not true of all of you."

For He knew who was betraying Him, and that was why He said, "You are not all of you clean."

If you know all this, blessed are you if you act accordingly.

I am not speaking of all of you. I know whom I have chosen, but things are as they are in order that the Scripture may be fulfilled, which says, 'He who eats my bread has lifted up his heel against me.'

It is by this that every one will know that you are my disciples--if you love one another."

"Master," inquired Simon Peter, "where are you going?" "Where I am going," replied Jesus, "you cannot be my follower now, but you shall be later."

In my Father's house there are many resting-places. Were it otherwise, I would have told you; for I am going to make ready a place for you.

"Master," said Thomas, "we do not know where you are going. In what sense do we know the way?"

At that time you will know that I am in my Father, and that you are in me, and that I am in you.

He who has no love for me does not obey my teaching; and yet the teaching to which you are listening is not mine, but is the teaching of the Father who sent me.

Already you are cleansed--through the teaching which I have given you.

I am the Vine, you are the branches. He who continues in me and in whom I continue bears abundant fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

If any one does not continue in me, he is like the unfruitful branch which is at once thrown away and then withers up. Such branches they gather up and throw into the fire and they are burned.

You are my friends, if you do what I command you.

"If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have had no sin; but as the case stands they are without excuse for their sin.

And you also are witnesses, because you have been with me from the first.

"I have much more to say to you, but you are unable at present to bear the burden of it.

Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask Him, and He said, "Is this what you are questioning one another about--my saying, 'A little while and you do not see me, and again a little while and you shall see me'?

"Ah, now you are using plain language," said His disciples, "and are uttering no figure of speech!

"I am making request for them: for the world I do not make any request, but for those whom Thou hast given me. Because they are Thine,

I am now no longer in the world, but they are in the world and I am coming to Thee. "Holy Father, keep them true to Thy name--the name which Thou hast given me to bear--that they may be one, even as we are.

And the glory which Thou hast given me I have given them, that they may be one, just as we are one:

Jesus therefore, knowing all that was about to befall Him, went out to meet them. "Who are you looking for?" He asked them.

Again therefore He asked them, "Who are you looking for?" "For Jesus the Nazarene," they said.

"I have told you," replied Jesus, "that I am he. If therefore you are looking for me, let these my disciples go their way."

This led the girl, the portress, to ask Peter, "Are you also one of this man's disciples?" "No, I am not," he replied.

"As for me," replied Jesus, "I have spoken openly to the world. I have continually taught in some synagogue or in the Temple where all the Jews are wont to assemble, and I have said nothing in secret.

But Simon Peter remained standing and warming himself, and this led to their asking him, "Are you also one of his disciples?" He denied it, and said, "No, I am not."

Re-entering the Praetorium, therefore, Pilate called Jesus and asked Him, "Are *you* the King of the Jews?"

"So then *you* are a king!" rejoined Pilate. "Yes," said Jesus, "you say truly that I am a king. For this purpose I was born, and for this purpose I have come into the world--to give testimony for the truth. Every one who is a friend of the truth listens to my voice."

"You would have had no power whatever over me," replied Jesus, "had it not been granted you from above. On that account he who has delivered me up to you is more guilty than you are."

Upon receiving this answer, Pilate was for releasing Him. But the Jews kept shouting, "If you release this man, you are no friend of Caesar's. Every one who sets himself up as king declares himself a rebel against Caesar."

They spoke to her. "Why are you weeping?" they asked. "Because," she replied, "they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have put him."