For not to natural conception, nor to human instincts, nor to will of man did they owe the new Life, but to God.

"What then?" they asked. "Are you Elijah?" "No," he said, "I am not." "Are you 'the Prophet'?" He answered, "No."

"Who then are you?" they continued; "tell us, that we may have some answer to give to those who have sent us. What do you say about yourself?"

But Jesus turned round, and saw them following. "What are you looking for?" he asked. "Rabbi," they answered (or, as we should say, "Teacher"), "where are you staying?"

"Come, and you shall see," he replied. So they went, and saw where he was staying, and spent that day with him. It was then about four in the afternoon.

And, when the wine ran short, his mother said to him: "They have no wine left."

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.

After this, Jesus went down to Capernaum--he, his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; but they stayed there only a few days.

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.

While Jesus was in Jerusalem, during the Passover Festival, many came to trust in him, when they saw the signs of his mission that he was giving.

They who did accept his statement attested the fact that God is true.

Many from that town came to believe in Jesus--Samaritans though they were--on account of the woman's statement--'He has told me everything that I have done.'

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

And they said to the woman: "It is no longer because of what you say that we believe in him, for we have heard him ourselves and know that he really is the Savior of the world."

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 he asked them at what time the boy began to get better. "It was yesterday, about one o'clock," they said, "that the fever left him."

"Who was it," they asked, "that said to you 'Take up your mat and walk about'?"

So that all men may honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son fails to honor the Father who sent him.

A great crowd of people, however, followed him, because they saw the signs of his mission in his work among those who were afflicted.

And then Jesus took the loaves, and, after saying the thanksgiving, distributed them to those who were sitting down; and the same with the fish, giving the people as much as they wanted.

When they were satisfied, Jesus said to his disciples: "Collect the broken pieces that are left, so that nothing may be wasted."

When the people saw the signs which Jesus gave, they said: "This is certainly 'the Prophet who was to come' into the world."

But Jesus, having discovered that they were intending to come and carry him off to make him King, retired again up the hill, quite alone.

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.

So, on the next day, when the people saw that Jesus was not there, or his disciples either, they themselves got into the boats, and went to Capernaum to look for him.

And, when they found him on the other side of the Sea, they said: "When did you get here, Rabbi?"

"How," they asked, "are we to do the work that God would have us do?"

"What sign, then," they asked, "are you giving, which we may see, and so believe you? What is the work that you are doing?

"Master," they exclaimed, "give us that Bread always!"

"Is not this Jesus, Joseph's son," they asked, "whose father and mother we know? How is it that he now says that he has come down from Heaven?"

It is said in the Prophets--'And they shall all be taught by God.' Every one who is taught by the Father and learns from him comes to me.

Yet there are some of you who do not believe in me." For Jesus knew from the first who they were that did not believe in him, and who it was that would betray him;

The Jews were astonished. "How has this man got his learning," they asked, "when he has never studied?"

At this some of the people of Jerusalem exclaimed: "Is not this the man that they are seeking to put to death?

Yet here he is, speaking out boldly, and they say nothing to him! Is it possible that our leading men have really discovered that he is the Christ?

So they sought to arrest him; but no one touched him, for his time was not come yet.

Many of the people, however, believed in him. "When the Christ comes," they said, "will he give more signs of his mission than this man has given?"

Some of the people, when they heard these words, said:

When the officers returned to the Chief Priests and Pharisees, they were asked: "Why have you not brought him?"

"No man ever spoke as he speaks!" they answered.

As for these people who do not know the Law--they are cursed!"

"Are you also from Galilee?" they retorted. "Search, and you will find that no Prophet is to arise in Galilee!"

"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."

"Who are you?" they asked. "Why ask exactly what I have been telling you?" said Jesus.

They did not understand that he meant the Father.

You are doing what your own father does." "We are not bastards," they said, "we have one Father--God himself."

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

"How did you get your sight, then?" they asked.

"The man whom they call Jesus," he answered, "made clay, and anointed my eyes, and said to me 'Go to Siloam and wash your eyes.' So I went and washed my eyes, and gained my sight."

"Where is he?" they asked. I do not know," he answered.

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

So there was a difference of opinion among them, and they again questioned the man; "What do you yourself say about him, for it is to you that he has given sight?"

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.

"Is this your son," they asked, "who you say was born blind? If so, how is it that he can see now?"

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.

"What did he do to you?" they asked. "How did he give you your sight?"

"You are his disciple," they retorted scornfully; "but we are disciples of Moses.

"You," they retorted, "were born totally depraved; and are you trying to teach us?" So they expelled him.

When he has brought them all out, he walks in front of them, and his sheep follow him, because they know his voice.

They will not follow a stranger, but will run away from him; because they do not know a stranger's voice."

This was the allegory that Jesus told them, but they did not understand of what he was speaking.

The thief comes only to steal, to kill, and to destroy; I have come that they may have Life, and may have it in greater fullness.

I have other sheep besides, which do not belong to this fold; I must lead them also, and they will listen to my voice; and they shall become one flock under 'one Shepherd.'

My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me;

And I give them Immortal Life, and they shall not be lost; nor shall any one snatch them out of my hands.

"John gave no sign of his mission," they said; "but everything that he said about this man was true."

"Rabbi," they replied, "the Jews were but just now seeking to stone you; and are you going there again?"

But Jesus meant that he was dead; they, however, supposed that he was speaking of natural sleep.

So the Jews, who were in the house with Mary, condoling with her, when they saw her get up quickly and go out, followed her, thinking that she was going to the tomb to weep there.

"Where have you buried him?" he asked. "Come and see, Master," they answered.

So they moved the stone away; and Jesus, with uplifted eyes, said: "Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard my prayer;

I know that thou always headrest me; but I say this for the sake of the people standing near, so that they may believe that thou has sent me as thy Messenger."

So from that day they plotted to put Jesus to death.

So they looked for Jesus there, and said to one another, as they stood in the Temple Courts: "What do you think? Do you think he will come to the Festival?"

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.

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.

And went out to meet him, shouting as they went: "'God save Him! Blessed is He who Comes in the name of the Lord'--The King of Israel!"

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.

Philip went and told Andrew, and then together they went and told Jesus.

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

The reason why they were unable to believe is given by Isaiah elsewhere, in these words--

'He has blinded their eyes, and blunted their mind, so that they should not see with their eyes, and perceive with their mind, and turn--And I should heal them.'

Yet for all this, even among the leading men there were many who came to believe in Jesus; but, on account of the Pharisees, they did not acknowledge it, for fear that they should be expelled from their Synagogues;

For they valued honor from men more than honor from God.

For the future I shall tell you of things before they take place, so that, when they take place, you may believe that I am what I am.

Remember what I said to you--'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have laid my Message to heart, they will lay yours to heart also.

But they will do all this to you, because you believe in my Name, for they do not know him who sent me.

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 so is fulfilled what is said in their Law--'They hated me without cause.'

They will expel you from their Synagogues; indeed the time is coming when any one who kills you will think that he is making an offering to God.

They will do this, because they have not learned to know the Father, or even me.

What does he mean by 'In a little while'?" they said; "we do not know what he is speaking about."

Jesus saw that they were wanting to ask him a question, and said: "Are you trying to find out from one another what I meant by saying 'In a little while you will not see me; and then in a little while you will see me indeed'?

I have revealed thee to those whom thou gavest me from the world; they were thy own, and thou gavest them to me; and they have laid thy Message to heart.

They recognize now that everything that thou gavest me was from thee;