They answered, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus said to them, "If you are Abraham's children, then do what Abraham did.

You are doing as your father does." They said to him, "We are not illegitimate children. We have one father, God himself."

Jesus said to them, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I have come from God. I have not come of my own accord, but he has sent me.

The Jews said to him, "Now we are sure that you are possessed! Abraham is dead and so are the prophets, and yet you say, 'If anyone observes my teaching, he will never know what death is!'

The Jews said to him, "You are not fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?"

Jesus said to them, "I tell you, I existed before Abraham was born!"

As he said this he spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva, and he put the clay on the man's eyes,

and said to him, "Go and wash them in the Pool of Siloam"?? name which means One who has been sent. So he went and washed them, and went home able to see.

Then his neighbors and people who had formerly seen him begging, said, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"

Some said, "Yes! It is he!" Others said, "No! but he looks like him." He himself said, "I am the man."

So they said to him, "Then how does it happen that you can see?"

He answered, "The man they call Jesus made some clay and rubbed it on my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash them.' So I went and when I had washed them I could see."

They said to him, "Where is he?" He answered, "I do not know."

So once more the Pharisees asked him how he had become able to see, and he said to them, "He put some clay on my eyes, and I washed them, and I can see."

Then some of the Pharisees said, "This man does not come from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a sinful man show such signs as this?" And there was a division of opinion among them.

So they asked the blind man again, "What have you to say about him, because he has made you able to see?" He said, "He is a prophet!"

But the Jews would not believe that he had been blind and had become able to see until they summoned the parents of the man who had been given his sight,

His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already made an agreement that if anyone acknowledged Jesus as the Christ, he should be excluded from the synagogues.

That was why his parents said, "He is grown up; you must ask him."

So they again summoned the man who had been blind, and they said to him, "Give God the praise. This man we know is a sinful man."

They said to him, "What did he do to you? How did he make you able to see?"

Then they sneered at him, and said, "You are a disciple of his yourself, but we are disciples of Moses.

Jesus learned that they had excluded him, and he found the man and said to him, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"

Jesus said to him, "You have seen him already, and it is he who is now talking to you."

And he said, "I believe, sir!" and he fell on his knees before him.

And Jesus said, "I have come into this world to judge men, that those who cannot see may see, and that those who can see may become blind."

Some Pharisees who were present heard this, and they said to him, "Then are we blind too?"

Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would be guilty of no sin, but as it is, you say 'We can see'; so your sin continues.

So Jesus said again, "I tell you, I am the door of the sheepfold.

Many of them said, "He is possessed and mad! Why do you listen to him?"

Others said, "These are not the words of a man who is possessed. Can a madman make blind men see?"

So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, "How much longer are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are really the Christ, tell us so frankly!"

Jesus answered, "Is it not declared in your Law, 'I said, "You are gods" '?

If those to whom God's message was addressed were called gods??nd the Scripture cannot be set aside??36 do you mean to say to me whom the Father has consecrated and made his messenger to the world, 'You are blasphemous,' because I said, 'I am God's Son'?

And people came to him in great numbers, and they said of him, "John did not show any sign in proof of his mission, but all that he said about this man was true."

When Jesus received it he said, "This sickness is not to end in death, but is for the honor of God, that through it the Son of God may be honored."

and then afterward said to his disciples, "Let us go back to Judea."

The disciples said to him, "Master, the Jews have just been trying to stone you, and are you going back there again?"

The disciples said to him, "Master, if he has fallen asleep he will recover."

So Thomas the Twin said to his fellow-disciples, "Let us go also, and die with him."

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

Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise."

Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise at the resurrection, on the Last Day."

Jesus said to her, "I myself am Resurrection and Life. He who believes in me will live on, even if he dies,

She said to him, "Yes, Master, I do indeed believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world."

When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet, and said, "Master, if you had been here, my brother would not have died!"

he said, "Where have you laid him?" They answered, "Come and see, Master."

So the Jews said, "See how much he loved him!"

But some of them said, "Could not this man, who opened the eyes of that blind man, have kept Lazarus from dying?"

Jesus said, "Move the stone away." The dead man's sister, Martha, said to him, "Master, by this time he is decaying, for he has been dead four days."

Jesus said to her, "Have I not promised you that if you will believe in me you will see the glory of God?"

So they moved the stone away. And Jesus looked upward and said, "Father, I thank you for listening to me,

though I knew that you always listen to me. But I have said this for the sake of the people that are standing around me that they may believe that you have made me your messenger."

The dead man came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and with his face muffled with a handkerchief. Jesus said to them, "Unbind him and let him move."

Then the high priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the council, and they said, "What are we to do about the fact that this man is showing so many signs?

But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them,

But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, who was going to betray him, said,

Jesus said, "Let her alone; let her keep it for the day of my funeral,

His disciples did not understand this at the time but after Jesus was glorified they remembered that this was said of him in Scripture and that it had happened to him.

So the Pharisees said to one another, "You see, you cannot do anything! The whole world has run after him!"

The crowd of bystanders heard it and said it was thunder. Others said, "It was an angel speaking to him!"

He said this to show the kind of death he was going to die.

Jesus said to them, "You will have the light only a little while longer. Go on while you still have the light, so that darkness may not overtake you, for those who go about in the dark do not know where they are going.

Isaiah said this because he saw his glory; it was of him that he spoke.

So he came to Simon Peter. He said to him, "Master, are you going to wash my feet?"

Peter said to him, "I will never let you wash my feet!" Jesus answered, "You will have no share with me unless I wash you."

Simon Peter said to him, "Master, wash not only my feet but my hands and my face too!"

Jesus said to him, "Anyone who has bathed only needs to have his feet washed to be altogether clean. And you are already clean??hough not all of you."

For he knew who was going to betray him; that was why he said, "You are not all of you clean."

When he had washed their feet and put on his clothes and taken his place, he said to them again, "Do you understand what I have been doing to you?

For I have set you an example, in order that you may do what I have done to you.

After Jesus had said this he was greatly moved and said solemnly, "I tell you, it is one of you that will betray me!"

So Simon Peter nodded to him and said to him, "Tell us whom he means."

He leaned back from where he lay, on Jesus' breast, and said to him, "Master, who is it?"

After he took the bread, Satan took possession of him. Then Jesus said to him, "Be quick about your business."

When he was gone, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man has been honored, and God has been honored through him,

My children, I am to be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, but, as I said to the Jews, where I am going you cannot follow,

Simon Peter said to him, "Master, where are you going?" Jesus answered, "I am going where you cannot follow me now, but you will follow me later."

Peter said to him, "Master, why cannot I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you."

Thomas said to him, "Master, we do not know where you are going; how can we know the way?"

Jesus said to him, "I am Way and Truth and Life. No one can come to the Father except through me.

Philip said to him, "Master, let us see the Father, and it will satisfy us."

Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you so long, and yet you, Philip, have not recognized me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Let us see the Father'?

Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said to him, "Master, how does it happen that you are going to show yourself to us and not to the world?"

Remember what I said to you: No slave is greater than his master. If they have persecuted me they will persecute you too. If they have observed my teaching, they will observe yours too.

All that the Father has belongs to me. That is why I said that he will take what is mine and communicate it to you.

Then some of his disciples said to one another, "What does he mean when he tells us, 'In a little while you will not see me any longer, and a little while after, you will see me again,' and 'Because I am going away to the Father'?"

Jesus saw that they wanted to ask him a question, and he said to them, "Are you asking one another about my saying 'In a little while you will not see me any longer, and a little while after, you will see me again'?

"I have said all this to you in figurative language, but a time is coming when I shall not do so any longer, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

His disciples said, " Why, now you are talking plainly and not speaking figuratively at all.

When Jesus had said all this he raised his eyes to heaven and said, "Father, the time has come. Do honor to your son, that your son may do honor to you,

When Jesus had said this, he went out with his disciples to the other side of the Ravine of the Cedars where there was a garden, and he went into it with his disciples.

Then Jesus, as he knew everything that was going to happen to him, came forward and said to them, "Who is it you are looking for?"

They answered, "Jesus of Nazareth." He said to them, "I am he." Judas who betrayed him was standing among them.

When Jesus said to them, "I am he," they drew back and fell to the ground.

Then he asked them again, "Who is it you are looking for?" They said, "Jesus of Nazareth."

Then Jesus said to Peter, "Put your sword back into the sheath. Shall I not drink the cup which the Father has offered me?"

The maid at the door said to Peter, "Are you also one of this man's disciples?" He said, "No, I am not."

Jesus answered, "I have spoken openly to the world. I have always taught in synagogues or in the Temple where all the Jews meet together, and I have said nothing in secret.

Why do you question me? Ask those who have heard me what it was that I said to them. They will know what I have said."