At certain times an angel of the Lord would go down into the pool and stir up the water, and whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease he had.

One particular man was there who had been ill for 38 years.

The man immediately became well, and he picked up his mat and started walking. Now that day was a Sabbath.

But the one who had been healed did not know who it was, because Jesus had slipped away from the crowd in that place.

The man went off and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well.

So the Jewish leaders were trying all the harder to kill him, because he was not only breaking the Sabbath but was also calling God his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God.

That man John was a lamp that burns and brightly shines, and for a while you were willing to rejoice in his light.

A large crowd kept following him because they had seen the signs that he was performing by healing the sick.

Now the Passover, the festival of the Jews, was near.

When Jesus looked up and saw that a large crowd was coming toward him, he asked Philip, "Where can we buy bread for these people to eat?"

Jesus said this to test him, because he himself knew what he was going to do.

One of his disciples, Andrew, who was Simon Peter's brother, told him,

Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." Now there was plenty of grass in that area, so they sat down, numbering about 5,000 men.

When the people saw the sign that he had done, they kept saying, "Truly this is the Prophet who was to come into the world!"

A strong wind was blowing, and the sea was getting rough.

Jesus told them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.

What if you saw the Son of Man going up to the place where he was before?

Now he was speaking about Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, because this man was going to betray him, even though he was one of the Twelve.

Now the Jewish Festival of Tents was approaching.

And there was a great deal of discussion about him among the crowds. Some were saying, "He is a good man," while others were saying, "No, he is deceiving the crowds!"

Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who were believing in him were to receive, because the Spirit was not yet present and Jesus had not yet been glorified.

So there was a division in the crowd because of him.

When they heard this, they went away one by one, beginning with the oldest, and he was left alone with the woman standing there.

Jesus replied, "You don't know me or my Father. If you had known me, you would've known my Father, too." He spoke these words in the treasury, while he was teaching in the Temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

They didn't realize that he was talking to them about the Father.

While he was saying these things, many believed in him.

You belong to your father the Devil, and you want to carry out the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and has never stood for truth, since there is no truth in him. Whenever he tells a lie, he speaks in character, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day, and he saw it and was glad."

Jesus told them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, before there was an Abraham, I AM!"

As he was walking along, he observed a man who had been blind from birth.

and told him, "Go and wash in the pool of Siloam" (which is translated "Sent One"). So he went off, washed, and came back seeing.

He said, "The man named Jesus made some mud, spread it on my eyes, and told me, "Go to Siloam and wash.' So off I went and washed, and I received my sight."

Now it was a Sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and healed his eyes.

Some of the Pharisees began to remark, "This man is not from God because he does not keep the Sabbath." But others were saying, "How can a sinful man perform such signs?" And there was a division among them.

So they asked the formerly blind man again, "What do you say about him, since it was your eyes he healed?" He said, "He is a prophet."

and asked them, "Is this your son, the one you say was born blind? How does he now see?"

His parents replied, "We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.

His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders, since the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah would be thrown out of the synagogue.

Ever since creation it has never been heard that anyone healed the eyes of a man who was born blind.

Jesus used this illustration with them, but they didn't understand what he was saying to them.

Once again there was a division among the Jews because of what Jesus had been saying.

Now Hanukkah was taking place in Jerusalem. It was winter,

and Jesus was walking around in the Temple inside the open porch of Solomon.

Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

Mary was the woman who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair. Her brother Lazarus was the one who was ill.

Yet, when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed where he was for two more days.

Jesus, however, had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was speaking about resting or sleeping.

For your sake I'm glad that I wasn't there, so that you may believe. But let's go to him."

Then Thomas, who was called the Twin, told his fellow disciples, "Let's go, too, so that we may die with him!"

Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia away,

As soon as Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, while Mary stayed at home.

"Yes, Lord," she told him. "I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one who was to come into the world."

Now Jesus had not yet arrived at the village but was still at the place where Martha had met him.

As soon as Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at his feet and told him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother wouldn't have died."

When Jesus saw her crying, and the Jews who had come with her crying, he was greatly troubled in spirit and deeply moved.

Groaning deeply again, Jesus came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying in front of it.

But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, told them, "You don't know anything!

Now the Jewish Passover was approaching, and before the Passover many people from the countryside went up to Jerusalem to purify themselves.

Now the high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that whoever knew where he was should tell them so that they could arrest him.

There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at the table with him.

But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, who was going to betray him, asked,

"Why wasn't this perfume sold for 300 denarii and the money given to the destitute?"

He said this, not because he cared about the destitute, but because he was a thief. He was in charge of the moneybag and would steal what was put into it.

When the large crowd of Jews realized that he was there, they came not only because of Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

since he was the reason why so many of the Jews were leaving to believe in Jesus.

The next day, the large crowd that had come to the festival heard that Jesus was coming into Jerusalem.

The crowd was going out to meet Jesus because they had heard that he had performed this sign.

They went to Philip (who was from Bethsaida in Galilee) and told him, "Sir, we would like to see Jesus."

"Now my soul is in turmoil, and what should I say "Father, save me from this hour'? No! It was for this very reason that I came to this hour.

Then a voice came from heaven, "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again!" The crowd standing there heard this and said that it was thunder. Others were saying, "An angel has spoken to him."

He said this to indicate the kind of death he was about to die.

Because Jesus knew that the Father had given everything into his control, that he had come from God, and that he was returning to God,

Then he poured some water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to dry them with the towel that was tied around his waist.

Then he came to Simon Peter, who asked him, "Lord, are you going to wash my feet?"

Peter told him, "You must never wash my feet!" Jesus answered him, "Unless I wash you, you cannot be involved with me."

Jesus told him, "Whoever has bathed is entirely clean. He doesn't need to wash himself further, except for his feet. And you men are clean, though not all of you."

For he knew who was going to betray him. That's why he said, "Not all of you are clean."

So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you must also wash one another's feet.

After saying this, Jesus was deeply troubled in spirit and declared solemnly, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, one of you is going to betray me!"

The disciples began looking at one another, completely mystified about whom he was speaking.

So Simon Peter motioned to this man to ask Jesus about whom he was speaking.

Some thought that, since Judas had the moneybag, Jesus was telling him to buy what they needed for the festival or to give something to the destitute.

So Judas took the piece of bread, immediately went outside"and it was night.

But I've told you this, so that when the time comes you'll remember that I told you about them. I didn't tell you this in the beginning, because I was still with you."

While I was with them, I protected them by the authority that you gave me. I guarded them, and not one of them became lost except the one who was destined for destruction, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

After Jesus had said all of this, he went with his disciples across the Kidron valley to a place where there was a garden, which he and his disciples entered.

Then Jesus, knowing everything that was going to happen, went forward and asked them, "Who are you looking for?"

They answered him, "Jesus from Nazareth." Jesus told them, "I AM." Judas, the man who betrayed him, was standing with them.

This was to fulfill what he had said, "I did not lose a single one of those you gave me."

Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's servant, cutting off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus.

First they brought him to Annas, because he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the high priest that year.

Caiaphas was the person who had advised the Jews that it was better to have one man die for the people.

Simon Peter and another disciple were following Jesus. Since the other disciple was known to the high priest, he accompanied Jesus into the courtyard of the high priest.

Peter, however, stood outside the gate. So this other disciple who was known to the high priest went out and spoke to the gatekeeper and brought Peter inside.

Meanwhile, the servants and officers were standing around a charcoal fire they had built and were warming themselves because it was cold. Peter was also standing with them, keeping himself warm.

Jesus answered him, "If I have said anything wrong, tell me what it was. But if I have told the truth, why do you hit me?"

Meanwhile, Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. Some people asked him, "You aren't one of his disciples, too, are you?" He denied it by saying, "I am not!"

Then Jesus was led from Caiaphas to the governor's headquarters early in the morning. The Jews did not go into the headquarters, to avoid becoming unclean and unable to eat the Passover meal.

The Jewish leaders told him, "It is not legal for us to put anyone to death." This was to fulfill what Jesus had said when he indicated the kind of death he was to die.

Pilate asked him, "So you are a king?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. I was born for this, and I came into the world for this: to testify to the truth. Everyone who is committed to the truth listens to my voice."