Yet how can you believe in me, when you accept honor from one another, instead of seeking the honor that comes from the one God?

For if you really believed Moses, you would believe me, for it was about me that he wrote.

But if you refuse to believe what he wrote, how are you ever to believe what I say?"

because they could see the signs he showed in what he did for the sick.

So Jesus, raising his eyes and seeing that a great crowd was coming up to him, said to Philip, "Where can we buy food for these people to eat?"

Now he said this to test him, for he knew what he meant to do.

"There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and a couple of fish, but what is that among so many people?"

and got into a boat and started across the sea for Capernaum. By this time it was dark, and Jesus had not yet joined them;

But he said to them, "It is I; do not be afraid!"

Then as soon as they consented to take him into the boat, the boat was at the shore they had been trying to reach.

Next day the people who had stayed on the other side of the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not embarked in it with his disciples, but that the disciples had gone away by themselves.

But some boats from Tiberias landed near the place where they had eaten the bread after Jesus had given thanks for it.

Jesus answered, "I tell you, it is not because of the signs you have seen that you have come in search of me, but because you ate that bread and had all you wanted of it.

Then they said to him, "What must we do to carry out God's work?"

Then they said to him, "Then what sign do you show for us to see and so come to believe you? What work are you doing?

Our forefathers in the desert had manna to eat; as the Scripture says, 'He gave them bread out of heaven to eat!'"

Jesus said to them, "I tell you, Moses did not give you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the bread out of heaven,

for it is God's bread that comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world."

for I have come down from heaven not to do what I please but what pleases him who has sent me.

For it is the purpose of my Father that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and that I shall raise him to life on the Last Day."

The Jews complained of him for saying, "I am the bread that has come out of heaven,"

and they said, "Is he not Joseph's son, Jesus, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, 'I have come down out of heaven'?"

In the prophets it is written, 'And all men will be taught by God!' Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him will come to me.

Your forefathers in the desert ate the manna and yet they died.

But here is bread that comes down out of heaven, and no one who eats it will ever die.

I am this living bread that has come down out of heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever, and the bread that I will give for the world's life is my own flesh!"

This led the Jews to dispute with one another. They said, "How can he give us his flesh to eat?"

Then Jesus said to them, "I tell you, if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no self-existent life.

This is the bread that has come down out of heaven??ot like that which your forefathers ate and yet died. Whoever lives on this bread will live forever."

Jesus said all this while he was teaching in the synagogue at Capernaum.

Many of his disciples on hearing it said, "This is a harsh teaching! Who can listen to it?"

Then what if you see the Son of Man go up where he was before?

The Spirit is what gives life; flesh is of no use at all. The things that I have said to you are spirit and they are life.

Yet there are some of you who will not believe." For Jesus knew from the first who would not believe, and who was going to betray him.

Then Jesus said to them, "It is not yet time for me to act, but any time is suitable for you.

It is impossible for the world to hate you, but it does hate me for testifying that its ways are wrong.

As for you, go up to the festival; I am not going up to this festival as yet, for it is not quite time for me to go."

That was what he told them, and he stayed on in Galilee.

Now the Jews were looking for him at the festival and asking where he was,

This astonished the Jews. "How is it that this man can read?" they said, "when he has never gone to school?"

So Jesus answered, "My teaching is not my own; it comes from him who has sent me.

Was it not Moses who gave you the Law? Yet not one of you obeys the Law. Why are you trying to kill me?"

Jesus answered, "I have done just one deed, and you are all astonished at it.

Yet Moses gave you the rite of circumcision??ot that it began with Moses but with your forefathers??nd you practice it even on the Sabbath.

But if a person undergoes circumcision on a Sabbath, to avoid breaking the Law of Moses, are you angry at me for making a man perfectly well on a Sabbath?

So Jesus, as he was teaching in the Temple, cried out, "You do know me and you do know where I come from, and I have not come of my own accord but someone who is very real, whom you do not know, has sent me.

Then they tried to arrest him, and yet no one laid hands on him, because he was not yet ready.

What does he mean by saying 'You will look for me and you will not find me, and you will not be able to go where I shall be'?"

Now on the last day, the great day of the festival, Jesus stood up and cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.

He meant by this the Spirit which those who believed in him were to receive??or the Spirit had not yet come, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

Others said, "This is the Christ!" But they rejoined, "What! Is the Christ to come from Galilee?

and some of them wanted to arrest him, yet no one laid hands on him.

"Does our Law condemn the accused without first hearing what he has to say, and finding out what he has done?"

Why, in your own Law it is stated that the testimony of two persons is valid.

He said these things in the treasury, as he was teaching in the Temple, and no one arrested him, because he was not yet ready.

That is why I said to you that you would die in the midst of your sins, for unless you believe that I am what I say, you will die in the midst of your sins."

"Why do I even talk to you at all? I have a great deal to say about you and to condemn in you, yet he who sent me is truthful, and the things that I say to the world are things that I have learned from him."

So Jesus said, "When you lift the Son of Man up in the air, then you will know that I am what I say, and that I do nothing of my own accord, but speak as the Father has instructed me.

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

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you abide by what I teach, you are really disciples of mine,

I know that you are descended from Abraham, yet you want to kill me, because there is no room in your hearts for my teaching.

It is what I have seen in the presence of my Father that I tell, and it is what you have heard from your father that you do."

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

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

The devil is the father you are sprung from, and you want to carry out your father's wishes. He was a murderer from the first, and he has nothing to do with the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks in his true character, for he is a liar and the father of them.

But I do not seek honor for myself; there is someone who seeks it for me, and is the judge of it.

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!'

Are you a greater man than our forefather Abraham? Yet he is dead and the prophets are dead. What do you claim to be?"

Jesus answered, "If I show special honor to myself, such honor counts for nothing. It is my Father who shows me honor. You say he is your God,

yet you have never come to know him. But I know him. If I say I do not know him, I will be a liar like yourselves. No! I do know him, and I am faithful to his message.

Your forefather Abraham exulted at the thought of seeing my coming. He has seen it, and it has made him glad."

At that, the Jews picked up stones to throw at him, but he disappeared and made his way out of the Temple.

Jesus answered, "It was neither for his own sin nor for that of his parents, but to let what God can do be illustrated in his case.

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."

Now it was on the Sabbath that Jesus had made the clay and made him able to see.

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!"

and asked them, "Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How is it that he can see now?"

But we do not know how it is that he can see now, or who has made him able to see. You must ask him. He is grown up. Let him tell you about himself."

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

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

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

The man answered, "There is something very strange about this! You do not know where he came from, and yet he has made me able to see!

It was never heard of in this world that anyone made a man born blind able to see.

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

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.

"I tell you, any man who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs over at some other place, is a thief and robber.

The watchman opens the door to him, and the sheep obey his voice, and he calls to his own sheep and leads them out.

When he gets his own flock all out, he goes in front of them, and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.

This was the figure Jesus used in speaking to them, but they did not understand what he meant by it.

I am the door. Whoever enters through me will be saved, and will pass in and out and find pasture.

A thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come to let them have life, and to let them have it in abundance.

This is why the Father loves me, because I am giving my life, but giving it to take it back again.

No one has taken it from me, but I am giving it of my own accord. I have power to give it, and I have power to take it back again. These are the orders I have received from my Father."

That was the time of the Rededication Festival at Jerusalem. It was winter time

Jesus answered, "I have told you so, and you will not believe it. The things I have been doing by my Father's authority are my credentials,

but you do not believe it because you do not belong to my sheep.

and I give them eternal life, and they shall never be lost, and no one shall tear them out of my hands.

What my Father has intrusted to me is of more importance than everything else, and no one can tear anything out of the Father's hands.