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.

The Father loves the Son and shows him everything he is doing, and he will show him even greater actions than these, so that you may be amazed.

so that everyone may honor the Son as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

and he has given him authority to judge, because he is the Son of Man.

I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me. Yet if another man comes in his own name, you will accept him.

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

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.

Philip answered him, "Two hundred denarii worth of bread isn't enough for each of them to have a little."

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

Then Jesus, realizing that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, withdrew again to the hillside by himself.

So they were glad to take him on board, and immediately the boat reached the land toward which they were going.

When they had found him on the other side of the sea, they asked him, "Rabbi, when did you get here?"

Do not work for food that perishes but for food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set his seal on him."

Then they asked him, "What must we do to perform God's works?"

So they asked him, "What sign are you going to do so that we may see it and believe in you? What actions are you performing?

Then they told him, "Sir, give us this bread all the time."

This is my Father's will: That everyone who sees the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him to life on the last day."

Then the Jewish leaders began grumbling about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven."

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him to life on the last day.

Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I'll raise him to life on the last day,

The person who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him.

But there are some among you who don't believe..." - because Jesus knew from the beginning those who weren't believing, as well as the one who would betray him.

So he said, "That's why I told you that no one can come to me unless it be granted him by the Father."

As a result, many of his disciples turned back and no longer associated with him.

Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

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.

After this, Jesus traveled throughout Galilee, because he didn't want to travel in Judea, since the Jewish leaders there were trying to kill him.

So his brothers told him, "You should leave this place and go to Judea, so that your disciples can see the actions that you're doing,

Not even his brothers believed in him.

The Jewish leaders kept looking for him at the festival, asking, "Where is that man?"

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!"

Nevertheless, no one would speak openly about him because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders.

The one who speaks on his own seeks his own praise. But the one who seeks the praise of him who sent him is genuine, and there's nothing false in him.

And look, he is speaking in public, and they are not saying anything to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Messiah?

I know him because I've come from him, and he sent me."

Then the Jewish leaders tried to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him because his hour had not yet come.

However, many in the crowd believed in him. They kept saying, "When the Messiah comes, he won't do more signs than this man has done, will he?"

The Pharisees heard the crowd debating these things about him, so the high priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest Jesus.

Then the Jewish leaders asked one another, "Where does this man intend to go that we won't be able to find him? Surely he's not going to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he?

On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and shouted, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!

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.

Some of them were wanting to seize him, but no one laid hands on him.

Then the officers returned to the high priests and Pharisees, who asked them, "Why didn't you bring him?"

None of the authorities or Pharisees has believed in him, have they?

"Surely our Law does not condemn a person without first hearing from him and finding out what he is doing, does it?"

They answered him, "You aren't from Galilee, too, are you? Search and see that no prophet comes from Galilee."

At daybreak he appeared again in the Temple, and all the people came to him. So he sat down and began to teach them.

they told him, "Teacher, this woman has been caught in the very act of adultery.

They said this to test him, so that they might have a charge against him. But Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with his finger.

When they persisted in questioning him, he straightened up and told them, "Let the person among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her."

The Pharisees told him, "You're testifying about yourself. Your testimony isn't valid."

Then they asked him, "Where is this Father of yours?"

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.

Then they asked him, "Who are you?"

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."

Moreover, the one who sent me is with me. He has never left me alone, because I always do what pleases him."

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

So Jesus told those Jews who had believed in him, "If you continue in my word, you are really my disciples.

They replied to him, "We are Abraham's descendants and have never been slaves to anybody. So how can you say, "You will be set free'?"

They replied to him, "Our father is Abraham!"

You are doing your father's actions." They told him, "We're not illegitimate children. We have one Father, God himself."

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.

The Jewish leaders replied to him, "Surely we're right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon, aren't we?"

Then the Jewish leaders told him, "Now we really know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and so did the prophets, but you say, "If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.'

You don't know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I don't know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him and keep his word.

Then the Jewish leaders asked him, "You are not even 50 years old, yet you have seen Abraham?"

At this, they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the Temple.

His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that caused him to be born blind?"

Jesus answered, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned. This happened so that God's work might be revealed in him.

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.

Then the neighbors and those who had previously seen him as a beggar said, "This is the man who used to sit and beg, isn't it?"

Some were saying, "It's him," while others were saying, "No, but it's someone like him." But he himself kept saying, "It's me!"

So they asked him, "How, then, did you gain your eyesight?"

They asked him, "Where is that man?" He said, "I don't know!"

So the Pharisees also began to ask him how he had gained his sight. He told them, "He put mud on my eyes, then I washed, and now I can see."

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."

But we don't know how it is that he now sees, and we don't know who opened his eyes. Ask him. He is of age and can speak for himself."

That's why his parents said, "He is of age. Ask him."

The Jewish leaders summoned the man who had been blind a second time and told him, "Give glory to God! We know that this man is a sinner."

Then they asked him, "What did he do to you? How did he heal your eyes?"

At this, they turned on him in fury and said, "You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses!

We know that God doesn't listen to sinners, but he does listen to anyone who worships him and does his will.

They asked him, "You were born a sinner and you are trying to instruct us?" And they threw him out.

Jesus heard that they had thrown him out. So when he found him, he asked him, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"

He answered, "And who is he, sir? Tell me, so that I may believe in him."

Jesus told him, "You have seen him. He is the person who is talking with you."

He said, "Lord, I do believe," and worshipped him.

Some of the Pharisees who were near him overheard this and asked him, "We aren't blind, too, are we?"

It's to him the gatekeeper opens the gate, and it's his voice the sheep hear. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

When he has driven out all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.

They'll never follow a stranger, but will run away from him because they don't recognize the voice of strangers."

because he's a hired worker, and the sheep don't matter to him.

Many of them were saying, "He has a demon and is insane. Why bother listening to him?"

So the Jewish leaders surrounded him and quizzed him, "How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you're the Messiah, tell us so plainly."

Again the Jewish leaders picked up stones to stone him to death.

The Jewish leaders answered him, "We are not going to stone you for a good action, but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, are making yourself God!"

Again they tried to seize him, but he slipped away from them.