These men had been sent from the Pharisees;

And, when they had filled them to the brim, he added: "Now take some out, and carry it to the Master of the Feast." The servants did so.

And, when the Master of the Feast had tasted the water which had now become wine, not knowing where it had come from--although the servants who had taken out the water knew--

Afterwards, when he had risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this; and they believed the passage of Scripture, and the words which Jesus had spoken.

(For John had not yet been imprisoned).

Now, when the Master heard that the Pharisees had been told that he was making and baptizing more disciples than John

He had to pass through Samaria,

For his disciples had gone into the town to buy food.

"For you have had five husbands, and the man with whom you are now living is not your husband; in saying that, you have spoken the truth."

And, when these Samaritans had come to Jesus, they begged him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days.

When he entered Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, for they had seen all that he did at Jerusalem during the Festival, at which they also had been present.

So Jesus came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. Now there was one of the King's officers whose son was lying ill at Capernaum.

When this man heard that Jesus had returned from Judea to Galilee, he went to him, and begged him to come down and cure his son; for he was at the point of death.

By this the father knew that it was at the very time when Jesus had said to him 'Your son is living'; and he himself, with all his household, believed in Jesus.

One man who was there had been afflicted for thirty-eight years.

Jesus saw the man lying there, and, finding that he had been in this state a long time, said to him: "Do you wish to be cured?"

Now it was the Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been cured: "This is the Sabbath; you must not carry your mat."

But the man who had been restored did not know who it was; for Jesus had moved away, because there was a crowd there.

The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had cured him.

For, had you believed Moses, you would have believed me, for it was of me that Moses wrote;

The disciples did so, and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves, which were left after all had eaten.

And, getting into a boat, began to cross to Capernaum. By this time darkness had set in, and Jesus had not yet come back to them;

When they had rowed three or four miles, they caught sight of him walking on the water and approaching the boat, and they were frightened.

And after this they were glad to take him into the boat; and the boat at once arrived off the shore, for which they had been making.

The people who remained on the further side of the Sea had seen that only one boat had been there, and that Jesus had not gone into it with his disciples, but that they had left without him.

Some boats, however, had come from Tiberias, from near the spot where they had eaten the bread after the Master had said the thanksgiving.

"In truth I tell you," answered Jesus, "it is not on account of the signs which you saw that you are looking for me, but because you had the bread to eat and were satisfied.

Our ancestors had the manna to eat in the desert; as Scripture says--'He gave them bread from Heaven to eat.'"

The world cannot hate you, but it does hate me, because I testify that its ways are evil.

But, when his brothers had gone up to the Festival, Jesus also went up--not publicly, but privately.

(By this he meant the Spirit, which those who had believed in him were to receive; for the Spirit had not yet come, because Jesus had not yet been exalted.)

But one of their number, Nicodemus, who before this had been to see Jesus, said to them:

"Where is your father, then?" they asked. "You know neither me nor my Father," replied Jesus. "If you had known me, you would have also known my Father."

These statements Jesus made in the Treasury, while teaching in the Temple Courts. Yet no one arrested him, for his time had not then come.

So Jesus went on to say to those Jews who had believed him: "If you remain constant to my Message, you are truly my disciples;

At this they took up stones to throw at him; but Jesus hid himself, and left the Temple Courts.

As Jesus passed by, he saw a man who had been blind from his birth.

Upon this his neighbors, and those who had formerly known him by sight as a beggar, exclaimed: "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"

They took the man, who had been blind, to the Pharisees.

So the Pharisees also questioned the man as to how he had gained his sight. "He put clay on my eyes," he answered, "and I washed them, and I can see."

The Jews, however, refused to believe that he had been blind and had gained his sight, until they had called his parents and questioned them.

His parents spoke in this way because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that, if any one should acknowledge Jesus as the Christ, he should be expelled from their synagogues.

So the Jews again called the man who had been blind, and said to him: "Give God the praise; we know that this is a bad man."

If this man had not been from God, he could not have done anything at all."

Jesus heard of their having put him out; and, when he had found the man, he asked: "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"

"If you had been blind," replied Jesus, "you would have had no sin to answer for; but, as it is, you say 'We can see,' and so your sin remains.

And, when he had said this, he added: "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going that I may wake him."

When Jesus reached the place, he found that Lazarus had been four days in the tomb already.

A number of the Jews had come there to condole with Martha and Mary on their brother's death.

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

Jesus had not then come into the village, but 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. "Master," she exclaimed, "if you had been here, my brother would not have died!"

When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her weeping also, he groaned deeply, and was greatly distressed.

The dead man came out, wrapped hand and foot in a winding- sheet; his face, too, had been wrapped in a cloth. "Set him free," said Jesus, "and let him go."

In consequence of this, many of the Jews, who had come to visit Mary and had seen what Jesus did, learned to believe in him.

Some of them, however, went to the Pharisees, and told them what he had done.

But the Jewish Festival of the Passover was near; and many people had gone up from the country to Jerusalem, for their 'purification,' before the Festival began.

The Chief Priests and the Pharisees had already issued orders that, if any one learned where Jesus was, he should give information, so that they might arrest him.

Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead, was living.

Now great numbers of the Jews found out that Jesus was at Bethany; and they came there, not solely on his account, but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

Because it was owing to him that many of the Jews had left them, and were becoming believers in Jesus.

On the following day great numbers of people who had come to the Festival, hearing that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem, took palm-branches,

His disciples did not understand all this at first; but, when Jesus had been exalted, then they remembered that these things had been said of him in Scripture, and that they had done these things for him.

Meanwhile the people who were with him, when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead, were telling what they had seen.

This, indeed, was why the crowd met him--because people had heard that he had given this sign of his mission.

While you still have the Light, believe in the Light, that you may be 'Sons of Light.'" After he had said this, Jesus went away, and hid himself from them.

But, though Jesus had given so many signs of his mission before their eyes, they still did not believe in him,

But Jesus had proclaimed: "He who believes in me believes, not in me, but in him who sent me;

When any one hears my teaching and pays no heed to it, I am not his judge; for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

Before the Passover Festival began, Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave the world and go to the Father. He had loved those who were his own in the world, and he loved them to the last.

The Devil had already put the thought of betraying Jesus into the mind of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon;

And at supper, Jesus--although knowing that the Father had put everything into his hands, and that he had come from God, and was to return to God--

"Then, Master, not my feet only," exclaimed Simon Peter, "but also my hands and my head."

When he had washed their feet, and had put on his upper garments and taken his place, he spoke to them again. "Do you understand what I have been doing to you?" he asked.

"It is the one," answered Jesus, "to whom I shall give a piece of bread after dipping it in the dish." And, when Jesus had dipped the bread, he took it and gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot;

And it was then, after he had received it, that Satan took possession of him. So Jesus said to him: "Do at once what you are going to do."

When Judas had gone out, Jesus said: "Now the Son of Man has been exalted, and God has been exalted through him;

In my Father's Home there are many dwellings. If it had not been so, I should have told you, for I am going to prepare a place for you.

If you had recognized me, you would have known my Father also; for the future you will recognize him, indeed you have already seen him."

You heard me say that I was going away and would return to you. Had you loved me, you would have been glad that I was going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have had no sin to answer for; but as it is, they have no excuse for their sin.

If I had not done among them such work as no one else ever did, they would have had no sin to answer for; but, as it is, they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

And now do thou honor me, Father, at thy own side, with the honor which I had at thy side before the world began.

I have made thee known to them, and will do so still; that the love that thou has had for me may be in their hearts, and that I may be in them also."

When Jesus had said this, he went out with his disciples and crossed the brook Kedron to a place where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples went.

The place was well known to Judas, the betrayer, for Jesus and his disciples had often met there.

So Judas, who had obtained the soldiers of the Roman garrison, and some police-officers from the Chief Priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.

At this, Simon Peter, who had a sword with him, drew it, and struck the High Priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus.

It was Caiaphas who had counseled the Jews, that it was best that one man should die for the people.

The servants and police-officers were standing round a char- coal fire (which they had made because it was cold), and were warming themselves. Peter, too, was with them, standing and warming himself.

One of the High Priest's servants, a relation of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, exclaimed: "Did not I myself see you with him in the garden?"

"If he had not been a criminal, we should not have given him up to you," they answered.

In fulfillment of what Jesus had said when indicating the death that he was destined to die.

"My kingly power," replied Jesus, "is not due to this world. If it had been so, my servants would be doing their utmost to prevent my being given up to the Jews; but my kingly power is not from the world."

After that, Pilate had Jesus scourged.

The soldiers made a crown with some thorns and put it on his head and threw a purple robe round him.

"You would have no power over me at all," answered Jesus, "if it had not been given you from above; and, therefore, the man who betrayed me to you is guilty of the greater sin."

Pilate also had these words written and put up over the cross--'JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.'

When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four shares--a share for each soldier--and they took the coat also. The coat had no seam, being woven in one piece from top to bottom.

When Jesus had received the wine, he exclaimed: "All is finished!" Then, bowing his head, he resigned his spirit to God.