For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.

He who takes my flesh for food and my blood for drink is in me and I in him.

Just as the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, even so the one who feeds on Me [believes in Me, accepts Me as Savior] will also live because of Me.

This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.

And Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmur for this, said to them, Does this offend you?

But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.

And he said, For this cause have I said unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it be given unto him of the Father.

For this [reason] many of his disciples {drew back} and were not walking with him any longer.

He spake of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon: for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve.

After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.

Now it was almost time for the Jewish Festival of Tabernacles [Note: This was also called "Festival of Shelters," and was one of three principal, annual Jewish festivals and commemorated the occasion of the Israelites living in tents or shelters during their forty year wandering in the desert].

So His brothers said to Him, “Leave here and go to Judea, so that Your disciples [there] may also see the works that You do.

For there is no man that doeth any thing in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, shew thyself to the world.

For neither did his brethren believe in him.

So Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come; but any time is right for you.

The world cannot hate you [since you are part of it], but it does hate Me because I denounce it and testify that its deeds are evil.

Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast; for my time is not yet full come.

Then after saying these things, Jesus remained in Galilee [i.e., for awhile longer. See next verse].

So the Jews kept looking for Him at the feast and asking, “Where is He?”

And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him: for some said, He is a good man: others said, Nay; but he deceiveth the people.

Howbeit no man spake openly of him for fear of the Jews.

If anyone is willing to do His will, he will know whether the teaching is of God or whether I speak on My own accord and by My own authority.

He who speaks on his own accord seeks glory and honor for himself. But He who seeks the glory and the honor of the One who sent Him, He is true, and there is no unrighteousness or deception in Him.

“Did not Moses give you the Law? And yet not one of you keeps the Law. Why do you want to kill Me [for not keeping it]?”

for what do ye attempt to kill me? the people answered, saying, you are mad: who attempts to kill you?

Jesus answered and said to them, I did one work, and ye all marvel for this.

For this cause, Moses, hath given you, circumcision, - not that, of Moses, it is, but of the fathers; - and, on Sabbath, ye circumcise a man.

If, to avoid breaking the Law of Moses, a man undergoes circumcision on the Sabbath, why are you angry with Me for making a man’s whole body well on the Sabbath?

And yet we know this man, and we know where he is from; but as for the Christ, when He comes, no one can tell where He is from."

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

So they were eager to arrest Him; but no one laid a hand on Him, because His time had not yet come.

Therefore Jesus said, “For a little while longer I am [still] with you, and then I go to Him who sent Me.

You will look for Me, and will not [be able to] find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.”

What does this statement of His mean, ‘You will look for Me, and will not [be able to] find Me; and where I am, you cannot come’?”

Now on the last and greatest day of the Festival [of Tabernacles], Jesus stood up and spoke out, "If anyone is thirsty he should come to me for a drink.

(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)

Others were saying, "This man is the Christ!" But others were saying, "No, for the Christ does not come from Galilee, [does he]?

So then the officers came unto the High-priests and Pharisees, and, they, said unto them - For what cause, have ye not brought him?

But this [ignorant, contemptible] crowd that does not know the Law is accursed and doomed!”

They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet.

They were saying this, testing Him, so that they might have grounds for accusing Him. But Jesus stooped down and with His finger wrote on the ground.

So, Jesus spoke to them again [i.e., to the Jewish authorities. See 7:45], saying, "I am the light of the world. The person who becomes my follower will never live in [spiritual] darkness, but have the light of [i.e., for his] life [i.e., followers of Jesus will not live in error and sin but in truth and righteousness]."

Jesus answered and said unto them, Though I bear record of myself, yet my record is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go; but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I go.

"For you are judging according to the flesh. I am judging no man.

And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me.

I am a witness for myself, and the Father who sent me beareth witness of me.

These words spake Jesus in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no man laid hands on him; for his hour was not yet come.

Then He said again to them, “I am going away, and you will look for Me, and you will die [unforgiven and condemned] in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.”

So the Jews were asking [among themselves], “Will He kill Himself? Is that why He says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?”

I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.

Jesus told them, "What have I been telling you all along? I have much to say about you and to condemn you for. But the one who sent me is truthful, and what I've heard from him I declare to the world."

So Jesus said, “When you lift up the Son of Man [on the cross], you will know then [without any doubt] that I am He, and that I do nothing on My own authority, but I say these things just as My Father taught Me.

And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.

Jesus therefore said to those of the Jews who had now believed in Him, "As for you, if you hold fast to my teaching, then you are truly my disciples;

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?

And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever.

If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

I know that ye are Abraham's seed: yet ye seek to kill me, because my word hath not free course in you.

I am telling you the things I have seen while with the Father; as for you, practice the things you have heard from the Father!"

Ye do the works of your father. Then said they to him, We have not been born of fornication; for we have one Father, God.

Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.

Wherefore ye know not my speech, for ye cannot hear my word.

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

But, as for me, because, the truth, I speak, ye do not believe me.

He that is of God heareth the words of God: for this cause ye hear them not, because ye are not of God.

"I am not possessed by a demon," Jesus answered, "but I am showing reverence for my Father; and yet you have no reverence for me.

However, I am not seeking glory for Myself. There is One who seeks [glory for Me] and judges [those who dishonor Me].

Are you really greater than our forefather Abraham? For he died. And the prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?"

Jesus answered, “If I glorify Myself, My glory is [worth] nothing. It is My Father who glorifies Me, of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’

Your father Abraham exulted for joy that he should see this day of mine: and saw it, and rejoiced.

and his disciples asked him, "Rabbi, for whose sin ??for his own or for his parents' ??was he born blind?"

Jesus replied, "Neither for his own sin nor for his parents' ??it was to let the work of God be illustrated in him.

It is necessary [for] us to do the deeds of the one who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work!

When I am in the world, I am light for the world."

Then the neighbours and others who had seen him before in the street, with his hand out for money, said, Is not this the man who got money from people?

For it was the Sabbath day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.

Some of the Pharisees therefore said, This man is not of God, for he does not keep the sabbath. Others said, How can a sinful man perform such signs? And there was a division among them.

And there was a division among them. So again they asked the once blind man, "What is your account of him? --for he opened your eyes." "He is a Prophet," he replied.

Now the Jews had no belief in the statement that he had been blind and was now able to see, till they sent for the father and mother of the man whose eyes had been made open,

But by what means he now seeth, we know not; or who hath opened his eyes, we know not: he is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself.

These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.

For this cause, his parents said - He is, of age, - question him.

So they summoned the man who had been blind for the second time and said to him, "Give glory to God! We know that this man is a sinner!"

They said to him again: "What did he for you? How did he open your eyes?

We know that God spake unto Moses: as for this fellow, we know not from whence he is.

The man answered and said to them, "For the remarkable thing is this, that you do not know where he is from, and he opened my eyes!

For we be sure that God heareth not sinners: But if any man be a worshipper of God, and do what his will is, him heareth he.

And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.

"If you had been blind," replied Jesus, "you would have had no sin to answer for; but, as it is, you say 'We can see,' and so your sin remains.

The doorkeeper opens [the gate] for this man, and the sheep hear his voice and pay attention to it. And [knowing that they listen] he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out [to pasture].

And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.

And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.

So Jesus said again, “I assure you and most solemnly say to you, I am the Door for the sheep [leading to life].

The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.

but he who serves for wages, and who is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf seizes them and scatters the sheep.

The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.

As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.

For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My [own] life so that I may take it back.