"Does not the Scripture say that the Christ is coming of the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, David's town?"

"As for this mob who do not understand the Law, they are accursed!"

"Our law does not condemn the accused, does it, before hearing his defense, and finding out what he is doing?"

"Now Moses, in the Law, has commanded us to stone such creatures. But you, what do you say?"

Then said the Pharisees to him. "You are bearing testimony to yourself; your testimony is not true."

In reply Jesus said to them. "Even if I do bear testimony to concerning myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I have come from and where I am going. But you do not know where I have come from, or where I am going.

"Though even if I do judge, my judgment is trustworthy, because I am not alone, but the Father who sent me is with me.

"And in your Law it is written that the testimony of two men is true.

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

Then the Jews said: "He will not kill himself, will he? Is that why he says, 'Where I am going you cannot come'?"

"That is why I said that you would die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins."

"I have many things to say and to judge concerning you. But he who sent me is true, and I speak to the world only those things which I have heard from him."

so Jesus added. "When you lifted up the Son of man, then you will know that I am He; and that I do nothing on my own authority, but that I speak just as the Father has taught me,

"and he who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, for I do always the things that please him."

"In solemn truth I tell you," Jesus replied, "every one who commits sin is a slave

"I am declaring what I have seen with the Father, and you are acting as you have learned from your father."

"Abraham is our father," they answered. "If you are indeed Abraham's children," said Jesus "do the deeds of Abraham.

"How is it that you do not understand what I say? It is because you cannot listen to my message.

"You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a man-slayer from the very beginning; and he has no standing place in the truth, because truth is not in him. Whenever he utters a lie, he speaks from his nature, for he is a liar and the father of lying.

"But as for me, it is because I speak the truth to you that you do not believe me.

"He who is from God listens to God's words. For this reason you do not listen, because you are not from God."

"Yet I am not seeking my own honor. There is One who is seeking it, and He is judge.

"If I glorify myself." said Jesus, "my glory is nothing. It is my Father that glorifies me, and you say, 'He is our God.'

Now as he was passing along he saw a man, blind from birth.

"I must work the works of him that sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no man can work.

Upon this the neighbors and those who used to know him by sight as a beggar, began asking, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"

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

He answered. "The man who is called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash'; so I went and washed and received my sight."

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

Then some of the Pharisees began to say, "This man in not from God, because he does not keep the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?"

So there was a difference of opinion among them. Accordingly they said to the blind man, "What have you to say about him, now that he has opened your eyes?" "He is a prophet," he answered.

The Jews, however, did not believe about him that he was blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man whose sight had been restored,

and questioned them. "Is this your son," they said, "who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?"

Then in reply his parents said: "We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind;

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

It was because this that his parents said: "He is of age. Ask him, himself."

"Give glory to God! we know that this man is a sinner." Upon this the blind man answered. "I do not know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know, that once I was blind, and know I can see."

"This is truly astonishing," said the man in reply, "that you do not know where he is from, and yet he has opened my eyes.

"We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if any one is God-fearing and does his will, to such he listens.

"Since the beginning of the world such a thing as opening the eyes of one who was born blind was never heard of.

They answered, "You were wholly born in sins, and do you teach us?" Then they cast him out.

"Who is he, Sir," he replied, "that I may believe on him."

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

"In solemn truth I tell you that whoever does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other way, that man is a thief and a robber;

"but he who comes in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

"The hired servant, since he is not a shepherd and does not own his sheep, leaves the sheep and flees when he sees a wolf coming??nd the wolf worries them and scatters them.

"He is only a hired servant, and the sheep are no care to him.

just as the Father knows me, I know the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep.

"No man is taking it away from me. I am laying it down on my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father."

Many of them kept saying. "He has a demon and is mad! Why do you listen to him?"

Then all the Jews encircled him and kept asking him. "How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."

"My Father who has given them to me is stronger than all, and no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand.

"Is it written in your law," replied Jesus, "I said, You are gods?

"But if I am doing them, then though you believe not me, believe the deeds, in order that you may come to know and keep on clearly understanding that the Father is in me and I am in the Father."

Now a man named Lazarus was ill. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha??2 it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill.

So the sisters sent to him, saying. "Master, see who you hold dear is ill."

When Jesus heard it he said, "This illness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that through it the Son of God may be glorified."

he still remained where he was for two days; then after that he said to his disciples, "Let us go back again to Judea."

but if any one walks during the night he does stumble, because the light is not in him."

"Lazarus is dead; and for your sakes I am glad I was not there, in order that you may believe. Come, let us go to him."

Upon this Thomas, who was called "The Twin," said to his fellow disciples, "Let us go too, that we may die with him."

And every one who is living and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?"

With these words she went away to call her sister Mary, saying privately, "The Teacher is here and is asking for you."

"Roll away the stone," said Jesus. "Master," said Martha, the sister of the dead man "he is offensive by this time, for he has been four days in the tomb."

"What are we going to do?" they said, "now that this man is performing many signs?" If we leave him alone, this way, every one will believe on him, and the Romans will come and rob us of both our sacred place and of our people."

"You know nothing at all, nor do you consider that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, rather than the whole nation be destroyed."

now he did not say this of his own accord; but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was about to die in behalf of the nation,

So they kept looking for Jesus and saying to one another, as they stood in the Temple, "What do you think??hat he will not come to the feast at all?"

and taking branches from the palm trees went out to meet him, shouting, "Hosanna! Blessed is he who cometh in the name of the Lord. Even Israel's King!"

And Jesus found a young ass and seated himself on it, as it is written,

Fear not, daughter of Zion, Behold thy King cometh seated upon an ass's colt.

Then the Pharisees said among themselves. "You see! You can do nothing! Look! The world is gone after him!"

"The hour is come that the Son of man should be glorified.

If any one is ready to serve me, let him follow me; and where I am there shall my servant be also. If any man is ready to serve me, him will my Father honor.

Now is my soul disquieted. What shall I say? 'Father, save me from this hour'? Nay, for this very cause I am come to this hour.

"It is not for my sake," answered Jesus, "that the voice came, but for your sakes.

Now is a judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be driven out.

Then the people answered. "We have heard out of the Law that the Christ abides forever. What do you mean by 'The Son of man must be lifted up'? Who is this Son of man?"

"The Light is among you a little longer," answered Jesus. "Walk while you have the Light, lest darkness overtake you. He who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

So the words spoken by Isaiah, the prophet, were fulfilled. Lord, who hath believed our message, And to whom hath the Arm of the Lord been revealed?

This was why they could not believe, because Isaiah said again.

Isaiah uttered these words because he saw his glory, and he spoke of him.

And if any one hears my words and does not keep them, it is not I who judge him; for I am not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

And I know that his commandment is eternal life. So whatever I speak, I speak as the Father has told me."

Jesus said: "He who has bathed needs only to have his feet washed, and he is altogether clean; and you are clean, but not all of you."

In solemn truth I tell you that a slave is not greater than his master, neither is a messenger greater than the one who sends him.

I do not speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen, but it is that the Scripture may be fulfilled, which says. "He who eats my bread has lifted up his heel against me.

"From this time forward, I tell you before it comes to pass, that when it is come to pass you may believe who I am.

In solemn truth I tell you, he who receives any one that I send is receiving me; and he who receives me is receiving Him who sent me."

So Simon Peter beckoned to him, saying, "Ask who it is about whom he is speaking."

So that disciples just leaned back against Jesus' breast and said to him, "Lord, who is it?"

"It is that one," answered Jesus, " to whom I am going to give a piece of bread, after dipping it."

for some were thinking, as Judas kept the purse, that Jesus meant to tell him, "Buy the things that we need for the feast," or that he should give something to the poor.

"My little children, I am only to be with you a little longer. You will seek me; just as I said to the Jews, 'Where I go you cannot come,' so now I say to you.

And the way is known to you all, where I am going."

"Lord," said Philip, "cause us to see the Father, and we shall be satisfied."

"Have I been so long among you, and yet you, Philip, have you not recognized me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Cause us to see the Father'?

"Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father in me? The words that I speak to you I speak not of myself; but the Father, who ever dwells in me, is doing his own work.

"The world cannot receive him because it does not see him nor know him, but you know him, for he is ever with you and within you.

"It is he who has my commands and obeys them that loves me; and he who loves me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will manifest myself to him."