This is the bread which came down from heaven, not as your fathers ate the manna and died. He who eats this bread will live for ever."

Many of his disciples, when they heard it, said, "This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?"

What then if you should see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before?

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit, and they are life.

And he said, "This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it has been granted to him by the Father."

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

Now the Jews' feast of Tabernacles was at hand.

Jesus said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify of it that its works are evil.

You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, for my time has not yet fully come."

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

Did not Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?"

Moses therefore gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.

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.

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

What does he mean when he said, 'You will seek me and you will not find me,' and, 'Where I am you cannot come'?"

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.

He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water."

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.

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

They replied, "Are you from Galilee, too? Search and look, and you will find that no prophet is to rise out of Galilee."

Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such. What do you say?"

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.

And yet if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me.

In your own law it is written that the testimony of two men is true.

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."

So Jesus said, "When you have lifted up the Son of man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority but speak just what the Father taught me.

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

I know that you are Abraham's descendants, yet you seek to kill me, because my word has no place in you.

I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have heard from your Father."

but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did.

Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you are not able to hear my word.

Yet I do not seek my own glory; there is One who seeks it and he will be the judge.

Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is your God.

Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day; he saw it and was glad."

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.

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

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

Now it was a Sabbath day when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes.

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."

His parents said this because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had agreed already that if anyone confessed that he was Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.

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

He answered them, "I have told you already and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you want to become his disciples, too?"

The man answered, "Why, this is a marvel! You do not know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes.

Never since the world began has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind.

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?"

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

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.

This figure Jesus used with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.

I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it abundantly.

For this reason my Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.

No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from my Father."

Then came the Feast of Dedication at Jerusalem. It was winter,

I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one shall snatch them out of my hand.

My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of my Father's hand.

Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your law, 'I said, you are gods'?

He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John was baptizing at first, and there he stayed.

It was this Mary who anointed the Lord with fragrant oil and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.

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

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

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live;

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.

The Jews who were with her in the house, and comforting her, when they saw that Mary rose up quickly and went out, followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep there.

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."

Then Jesus, deeply moved again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay against it.

When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"

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.

But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.

Then the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, "What are we to do? For this man performs many signs.

But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all!

You do not understand that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish."

Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and many went from the country up to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.

They were looking for Jesus and saying to one another as they stood in the temple, "What do you think? That he will not come to the feast?"

Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, so that they might arrest him.

There they made him a supper; and Martha served, while Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him.

This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief; and as he had the money box, he used to take what was put into it.

They took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying, "Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! The King of Israel!"

Jesus found a young donkey and sat upon it, as it is written,

His disciples did not understand this at first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him and that they had done these things to him.

The crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead bore witness.

Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the Feast.

Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much fruit.

He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

"Now is my soul troubled, and what shall I say? 'Father, save me from this hour'? No, for this purpose I came to this hour.

Father, glorify your name." Then a voice came from heaven, "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again."

The crowd standing by heard it and said that it had thundered. Others said, "An angel has spoken to him."

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

He said this to show by what death he was to die.

Though he had done so many signs before them, yet they did not believe in him;

Nevertheless even among the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue;