It is the will of my Father that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him should possess eternal life, and that I should raise him up on the last day."

They said, "Who are you?" Jesus replied, "Why should I talk to you at all?

(His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that anyone who confessed him to be Christ should be excommunicated.

It is unheard of, since the world began, that anyone should open a blind man's eyes.

But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said, "You know nothing about it ??50 you do not understand it is in your own interests that one man should die for the People, instead of the whole nation being destroyed."

for I have been setting you an example, that you should do what I have done to you.

and brought him first of all to Annas (for Annas was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year ??14 the Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it was for their interests that one man should die for the people).

But it is your custom that I should release a prisoner for you at the passover. Is it your will that I release you the king of the Jews?"

Jesus replied, "If I choose that he should survive till I come back, what does that matter to you? Follow me yourself."

This started the report among the brotherhood that the said disciple was not to die. Jesus, however, did not say he was not to die; what he said was, "If I choose that he should survive till I come back, what does that matter to you?"