From this time many of his disciples went back and no longer walked with him.

Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.

He spoke of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, for it was he who was to betray him, though one of the twelve.

After this Jesus went about in Galilee; he would not go about in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.

So his brothers said to him, "Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples may see the works you are doing.

For even his brothers did not believe in him.

The Jews were looking for him at the feast, and saying, "Where is he?"

And there was much complaining among the people about him. Some said, "He is a good man"; others said, "No, on the contrary, he deceives the people."

However, no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.

He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but he who seeks the glory of the One who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.

Here he is, speaking publicly, and they say nothing to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that he is the Christ?

Then Jesus cried out, as he taught in the temple, "You know me, and you know where I am from; and I have not come on my own, but he who sent me is true, and him you do not know.

But I know him, for I am from him, and he sent me."

Then they sought to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

And many of the people believed in him, and they said, "When the Christ comes, will he do more signs than this man has done?"

The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about him, and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to arrest him.

Then Jesus said to them, "I shall be with you a little while longer, and then I go to him who sent me.

The Jews said to one another, "Where does this man intend to go that we shall not find him? Does he intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks?

On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.

Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive; for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

So there was a division among the people because of him.

Some of them wanted to seize him, but no one laid hands on him.

The officers then went back to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, "Why did you not bring him?"

Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed in him?

"Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he is doing?"

Early in the morning he came again to the temple; all the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them.

Then the scribes and the Pharisees brought to him a woman caught in adultery. And when they had set her in the midst,

they said to him, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.

They said this to test him, that they might have something of which to accuse him. But Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

And when they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, "Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her."

Then those who heard it went away one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last, and Jesus was left alone, with the woman standing before him.

The Pharisees then said to him, "You are bearing witness of yourself; your testimony is not true."

Then they said to him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither me nor my Father; if you knew me, you would know my Father also."

These words he spoke in the treasury, as he taught in the temple; but no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

They said to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning.

I have much to say about you and much to judge; but he who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him."

And he who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what is pleasing to him."

As he spoke these words, many believed in him.

Jesus then said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples.

They answered him, "We are Abraham's descendants, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How can you say, 'You will be made free'?"

They answered him, "Abraham is our father." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would do the things Abraham did,

You do the deeds of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of fornication; we have one Father God."

You are of your father the devil, and you want to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

The Jews answered him, "Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?"

The Jews said to him, "Now we know that you have a demon! Abraham died, as did the prophets; and you say, 'If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.'

But you have not known him; I know him. If I said, I do not know him, I would be a liar like you; but I do know him and keep his word.

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

So they took up stones to throw at him; but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple.

And his disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"

Jesus answered, "Neither this man sinned nor his parents sinned. But that the works of God might be revealed in him,

we must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. Night is coming, when no one can work.

And he said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which means, Sent). So he went and washed, and came back seeing.

The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar, said, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"

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

They said to him, "Then how were your eyes opened?"

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

Then the Pharisees also asked him again how he had received his sight. He said to them, "He put clay on my eyes, and I washed, and I see."

So they again said to the blind man, "What do you say about him, since he has opened your eyes?" He said, "He is a prophet."

but how he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him. He is of age; he will speak for himself."

Therefore his parents said, "He is of age; ask him."

So for the second time they called the man who had been blind, and said to him, "Give God the glory; we know that this man is a sinner."

Then they said to him, "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?"

Then they reviled him and said, "You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.

We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if any one is a worshiper of God and does his will, he listens to him.

They answered him, "You were born in utter sin, and are you teaching us?" And they cast him out.

Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and when he found him, he said, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"

He answered, "Who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?"

Jesus said to him, "You have seen him, and it is he who speaks with you."

Then he said, "Lord, I believe!" And he worshiped him.

Then some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this, and said to him, "Are we blind also?"

To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

When he has brought out all his own, he goes on before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers."

Many of them said, "He has a demon, and is mad. Why listen to him?"

So the Jews gathered round him and said to him, "How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."

The Jews took up stones again to stone him.

The Jews answered him, "For a good work we do not stone you, but for blasphemy, and because you, being a man, make yourself God."

do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?

Again they tried to seize him, but he escaped from their hands.

And many came to him and they said, "John performed no sign, but all that John said about this man was true."

And many believed in him there.

So the sisters sent to him, saying, "Lord, he whom you love is sick."

The disciples said to him, "Rabbi, the Jews were just now seeking to stone you, and are you going there again?"

But if one walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him."

These things he said, and after that he said to them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go to wake him up."

and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him."

Then Thomas, who is called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, "Let us also go, that we may die with him."

When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary sat in the house.

Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day."

She said to him, "Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is to come into the world."

When she heard it, she rose quickly and went to him.

Now Jesus had not yet come to the village, but was still in the place where Martha had met him.

Then Mary, when she came where Jesus was and saw him, fell at his feet, saying to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."

And he said, "Where have you laid him?" They said to him, "Lord, come and see."

Then the Jews said, "See how he loved him!"

Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, "Lord, by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been dead four days."

The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with grave clothes, and his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Unbind him, and let him go."

Many of the Jews therefore, who had come to Mary and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him.

If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation."

So from that day on they plotted to put him to death.