No man has ever yet seen God; God the Only Son, who is ever with the Father--He has revealed him.

"What do you want with me?" answered Jesus. "My time has not come yet."

"This Temple," replied the Jews, "has been forty-six years in building, and are you going to 'raise it in three days'?"

No one has ascended to Heaven, except him who descended from Heaven--the Son of Man himself.

He who believes in him escapes condemnation, while he who does not believe in him is already condemned, because he has not believed in the only Son of God.

The ground of his condemnation is this, that though the Light has come into the world, men preferred the darkness to the Light, because their actions were wicked.

It is the bridegroom who has the bride; but the bridegroom's friend, who stands by and listens to him, is filled with joy when he hears the bridegroom's voice. This joy I have felt to the full.

He states what he has seen and what he heard, and yet no one accepts his statement.

The Father loves his Son, and has put everything in his hands.

He who believes in the Son has Immortal Life, while he who rejects the Son will not even see that Life, but remains under 'God's displeasure.'

"I know," answered the woman, "that the Messiah, who is called the Christ, is coming; when once he has come, he will tell us everything."

"Come and see someone who has told me everything that I have done. Can he be the Christ?"

Many from that town came to believe in Jesus--Samaritans though they were--on account of the woman's statement--'He has told me everything that I have done.'

The Father himself does not judge any man, but has 'entrusted the work of judging entirely to his Son,'

In truth I tell you that he who listens to my Message and believes him who sent me, has Immortal Life, and does not come under condemnation, but has already passed out of Death into Life.

For, just as the Father has inherent Life within him, so also he has granted to the Son to have inherent Life within him;

And, because he is Son of Man, he has also given him authority to act as judge.

But the testimony which I have is of greater weight than John's; for the work that the Father has given me to carry out-- the work that I am doing--is in itself proof that the Father has sent me as his Messenger.

The Father who has sent me has himself borne testimony to me. You have neither listened to his voice, not seen his form;

"Who has five barley loaves and two fishes; but what is that for so many?"

Work, not for the food that perishes, but for the food that lasts for Immortal Life, which the Son of Man will give you; for upon him the Father--God himself--has set the seal of his approval."

And his will is this--that I should not lose one of all those whom he has given me, but should raise them up at the Last Day.

"Is not this Jesus, Joseph's son," they asked, "whose father and mother we know? How is it that he now says that he has come down from Heaven?"

Not that any one has seen the Father, except him who is from God--he has seen the Father.

In truth I tell you, he who believes in me has Immortal Life.

I am the Living Bread that has come down from Heaven. If any one eats of this Bread, he will live for ever; and the Bread that I shall give is my flesh, which I will give for the Life of the world."

He who takes my flesh for his food, and drinks my blood, has Immortal Life; and I will raise him up at the Last Day.

That is the Bread which has come down from Heaven--not such as your ancestors ate, and yet died; he who takes this Bread for his food shall live for ever."

Go yourselves up to the Festival; I am not going to this Festival yet, because my time has not yet come."

The Jews were astonished. "How has this man got his learning," they asked, "when he has never studied?"

If any one has the will to do God's will, he will find out whether my teaching is from God, or whether I speak on my own authority.

But that is why Moses has instituted circumcision among you- -not, indeed, that it began with him, but with our ancestors--and that is why you circumcise even on a Sabbath.

Many of the people, however, believed in him. "When the Christ comes," they said, "will he give more signs of his mission than this man has given?"

"Does our Law pass judgment on a man without first giving him a hearing, and finding out what he has been doing?"

So Jesus added: "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will understand that I am what I am, and that I do nothing of myself, but that I say just what the Father has taught me.

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

But, as it is, you are seeking to put me to death--a man who has told you the Truth as he heard it from God. Abraham did not act in that way.

So there was a difference of opinion among them, and they again questioned the man; "What do you yourself say about him, for it is to you that he has given sight?"

"Well," the man replied, "this is very strange; you do not know where he comes from, and yet he has given me my sight!

When he has brought them all out, he walks in front of them, and his sheep follow him, because they know his voice.

What my Father has entrusted to me is more than all else; and no one can snatch anything out of the Father's hands.

Do you say of one whom the Father has consecrated and sent as his Messenger to the world 'You are blaspheming,' because I said 'I am God's Son'?

But, if he walks about at night, he stumbles, because he has not the light."

And, when he had said this, he added: "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going that I may wake him."

"If he has fallen asleep, Master, he will get well," said the disciples.

So they moved the stone away; and Jesus, with uplifted eyes, said: "Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard my prayer;

I know that thou always headrest me; but I say this for the sake of the people standing near, so that they may believe that thou has sent me as thy Messenger."

So the Pharisees said to one another: "You see that you are gaining nothing! Why, all the world has run after him!"

This was his reply-- "The time has come for the Son of Man to be exalted.

The crowd of bystanders, who heard the sound, said that it was thundering. Others said: "An angel has been speaking to him."

In fulfillment of the words of the Prophet Isaiah, where he says--'Lord, who has believed our teaching? And to whom has the might of the Lord been revealed?'

'He has blinded their eyes, and blunted their mind, so that they should not see with their eyes, and perceive with their mind, and turn--And I should heal them.'

He who rejects me, and disregards my teaching, has a judge already--the very Message which I have delivered will itself be his judge at the Last Day.

For I have not delivered it on my own authority; but the Father, who sent me, has himself given me his command as to what I should say, and what message I should deliver.

And I know that Immortal Life lies in keeping his command. Therefore, whatever I say, I say only what the Father has taught me."

"He who has bathed," replied Jesus, "has no need to wash, unless it be his feet, but is altogether clean; and you," he said to the disciples, "are clean, yet not all of you."

I am not speaking about all of you. I know whom I have chosen; but this is in fulfillment of the words of Scripture--'He that is eating my bread has lifted his heel against me.'

When Judas had gone out, Jesus said: "Now the Son of Man has been exalted, and God has been exalted through him;

"Have I been all this time among you," said Jesus, "and yet you, Philip, have not recognized me? He who has seen me has seen the Father, how can you say, then, 'Show us the Father'?

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

"What has happened, Master," said Judas (not Judas Iscariot), "that you are going to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?"

I shall not talk with you much more, for the Spirit that is ruling the world is coming. He has nothing in common with me;

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; remain in my love.

If the world hates you, you know that it has first hated me.

As to Judgment, for the Spirit that is ruling this world has been condemned.

Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said that he takes of what is mine, and will tell it to you.

A woman in labor is in pain because her time has come; but no sooner is the child born, than she forgets her trouble in her joy that a man has been born into the world.

"Listen! a time is coming--indeed it has already come--when you are to be scattered, each going his own way, and to leave me alone; and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

After saying this, Jesus raised his eyes heaven-wards, and said: "Father, the hour has come; honor thy Son, that thy Son may honor thee;

Even as thou gavest him power over all mankind, that he should give Immortal Life to all those whom thou has given him.

And the Immortal Life is this--to know thee the one true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou has sent as thy Messenger.

I have honored thee on earth by completing the work which thou has given me to do;

For I have given them the teaching which thou gavest me, and they received it, and clearly understood that I came from thee, and they believed that thou has sent me as thy Messenger.

I intercede for them; I am not interceding for the world, but for those whom thou has given me, for they are thy own--

Now I am to be in this world no longer, but they are still to be in the world, and I am to come to thee. Holy Father, keep them by that revelation of thy Name which thou has given me, that they may be one, as we are.

Whilst I was with them, I kept them by that revelation, and I have guarded them; and not one of them has been lost, except that lost soul--in fulfillment of Scripture.

Just as thou has sent me as thy Messenger to the world, so I send them as my Messengers to the world.

That they all may be one--that as thou, Father, art in union with us--and so the world may believe that thou hast sent me as thy Messenger.

I have given them the honor which thou has given me, that they may be one as we are one--

I in union with them and thou with me--that so they may be perfected in their union, and thus the world may know that thou hast sent me as thy Messenger, and that thou has loved them as thou hast loved me.

Father, my desire for all those whom thou has given me is that they may be with me where I am, so that they may see the honor which thou has given me; for thou didst love me before the beginning of the world.

O righteous Father, though the world did not know thee, I knew thee; and these men knew that thou has sent me as thy Messenger.

I have made thee known to them, and will do so still; that the love that thou has had for me may be in their hearts, and that I may be in them also."

This was in fulfillment of his words-- 'Of those whom thou hast given me I have not lost one.'

But Jesus said to Peter: "Sheathe your sword. Shall I not drink the cup which the Father has given me?"

Again Jesus said to them: "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me as his Messenger, so I am sending you."

"If it is my will that he should wait till I come," answered Jesus, "what has that to do with you? Follow me yourself."

So the report spread among the Brethren that that disciple was not to die; yet Jesus did not say that he was not to die, but said "If it is my will that he should wait till I come, what has that to do with you?"

His answer was: "It is not for you to know times or hours, for the Father has reserved these for his own decision;

And said: "Men of Galilee, why are you standing here looking up into the heavens? This very Jesus, who has been taken from you into the heavens, will come in the very way in which you have seen him go into the heavens."

To take the place in this apostolic work, which Judas has abandoned, to go to his proper place."

Either Jews by birth or converts, and some are Cretans and Arabians--yet we all alike hear them speaking in our own tongues of the great things that God has done."

And now that he has been exalted to the right hand of God, and has received from the Father the promised gift of the Holy Spirit, he has begun to pour out that gift, as you yourselves now see and hear.

So let the whole nation of Israel know beyond all doubt, that God has made him both Lord and Christ--this very Jesus whom you crucified."

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our ancestors, has done honor to his Servant Jesus--him whom you gave up and disowned before Pilate, when he had decided to set him free.

And it is by faith in the Name of Jesus, that this man, whom you all see and know, has--by his Name--been made strong. Yes, it is the faith inspired by Jesus that has made this complete cure of the man, before the eyes of you all.

But Heaven must be his home, until the days of the Universal Restoration, of which God has spoken by the lips of his holy Prophets from the very first.

Since we are on our trial to-day for a kind act done to a helpless man, and are asked in what way the man here before you has been cured,

Jesus is 'the stone which, scorned by you the builders, has yet become the corner stone.'

"What are we to do to these men?" they asked one another. "That a remarkable sign has been given through them is obvious to every one living in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.