but I know him, because I have come from him and he sent me."

So then they tried to seize Jesus, but no one laid a hand on him, because his time had not yet come.

Yet many of the crowd believed in him and said, "Whenever the Christ comes, he won't perform more miraculous signs than this man did, will he?"

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

Then the Jewish leaders said to one another, "Where is he going to go that we cannot find him? He is not going to go to the Jewish people dispersed among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he?

On the last day of the feast, the greatest day, Jesus stood up and shouted out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and

let the one who believes in me drink. Just as the scripture says, 'From within him will flow rivers of living water.'"

(Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were going to receive, for the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.)

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

Then the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, "Why didn't you bring him back with you?"

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

"Our law doesn't condemn a man unless it first hears from him and learns what he is doing, does it?"

Early in the morning he came to the temple courts again. All the people came to him, and he sat down and began to teach them.

(Now they were asking this in an attempt to trap him, so that they could bring charges against him.) Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

When they persisted in asking him, he stood up straight and replied, "Whoever among you is guiltless may be the first to throw a stone at her."

Now when they heard this, they began to drift away one at a time, starting with the older ones, until Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.

Then they began asking him, "Who is your father?" Jesus answered, "You do not know either me or my Father. If you knew me you would know my Father too."

(Jesus spoke these words near the offering box while he was teaching in the temple courts. No one seized him because his time had not yet come.)

So they said to him, "Who are you?" Jesus replied, "What I have told you from the beginning.

I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the Father who sent me is truthful, and the things I have heard from him I speak to the world."

And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do those things that please him."

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

Then Jesus said to those Judeans who had believed him, "If you continue to follow my teaching, you are really my disciples

They answered him, "Abraham is our father!" Jesus replied, "If you are Abraham's children, you would be doing the deeds of Abraham.

You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

Yet you do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I obey his teaching.

Then they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out from the temple area.

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

Jesus answered, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but he was born blind so that the acts of God may be revealed through what happens to him.

and said to him, "Go wash in the pool of Siloam" (which is translated "sent"). So the blind man went away and washed, and came back seeing.

Then the neighbors and the people who had seen him previously as a beggar began saying, "Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?"

Some people said, "This is the man!" while others said, "No, but he looks like him." The man himself kept insisting, "I am the one!"

So they asked him, "How then were you made to see?"

They said to him, "Where is that man?" He replied, "I don't know."

(Now the day on which Jesus made the mud and caused him to see was a Sabbath.)

So the Pharisees asked him again how he had gained his sight. He replied, "He put mud on my eyes and I washed, and now I am able to see."

So again they asked the man who used to be blind, "What do you say about him, since he caused you to see?" "He is a prophet," the man replied.

But we do not know how he is now able to see, nor do we know who caused him to see. Ask him, he is a mature adult. He will speak for himself."

For this reason his parents said, "He is a mature adult, ask him.")

Then they summoned the man who used to be blind a second time and said to him, "Promise before God to tell the truth. We know that this man is a sinner."

Then they said to him, "What did he do to you? How did he cause you to see?"

They heaped insults on him, saying, "You are his disciple! We are disciples of Moses!

We know that God doesn't listen to sinners, but if anyone is devout and does his will, God listens to him.

They replied, "You were born completely in sinfulness, and yet you presume to teach us?" So they threw him out.

Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, so he found the man and said to him, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"

The man replied, "And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?"

Jesus told him, "You have seen him; he is the one speaking with you."

[He said, "Lord, I believe," and he worshiped him.

Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this and asked him, "We are not blind too, are we?"

The doorkeeper opens the door for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

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

They will never follow a stranger, but will run away from him, because they do not recognize the stranger's voice."

Many of them were saying, "He is possessed by a demon and has lost his mind! Why do you listen to him?"

The Jewish leaders surrounded him and asked, "How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."

The Jewish leaders picked up rocks again to stone him to death.

Then they attempted again to seize him, but he escaped their clutches.

Many came to him and began to say, "John performed no miraculous sign, but everything John said about this man was true!"

But if anyone walks around at night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him."

After he said this, he added, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep. But I am going there to awaken him."

and I am glad for your sake that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him."

So Thomas (called Didymus) said to his fellow disciples, "Let us go too, so that we may die with him."

So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary was sitting in the house.

So when Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him.

(Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still in the place where Martha had come out to meet him.)

Now when Mary came to the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."

He asked, "Where have you laid him?" They replied, "Lord, come and see."

Thus the people who had come to mourn said, "Look how much he loved him!"

The one who had died came out, his feet and hands tied up with strips of cloth, and a cloth wrapped around his face. Jesus said to them, "Unwrap him and let him go."

Then many of the people, who had come with Mary and had seen the things Jesus did, believed in him.

If we allow him to go on in this way, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away our sanctuary and our nation."

So from that day they planned together to kill him.

(Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where Jesus was should report it, so that they could arrest him.)

So they prepared a dinner for Jesus there. Martha was serving, and Lazarus was among those present at the table with him.

But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who was going to betray him) said,

Now a large crowd of Judeans learned that Jesus was there, and so they came not only because of him but also to see Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead.

for on account of him many of the Jewish people from Jerusalem were going away and believing in Jesus.

So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him. They began to shout, "Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the king of Israel!"

(His disciples did not understand these things when they first happened, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him and that these things had happened to him.)

So the crowd who had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead were continuing to testify about it.

Because they had heard that Jesus had performed this miraculous sign, the crowd went out to meet him.

Thus the Pharisees said to one another, "You see that you can do nothing. Look, the world has run off after him!"

If anyone wants to serve me, he must follow me, and where I am, my servant will be too. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

The crowd that stood there and heard the voice said that it had thundered. Others said that an angel had spoken to him.

Although Jesus had performed so many miraculous signs before them, they still refused to believe in him,

Isaiah said these things because he saw Christ's glory, and spoke about him.

Nevertheless, even among the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they would not confess Jesus to be the Christ, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue.

If anyone hears my words and does not obey them, I do not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

The one who rejects me and does not accept my words has a judge; the word I have spoken will judge him at the last day.

Because Jesus knew that the Father had handed all things over to him, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,

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

Peter said to him, "You will never wash my feet!" Jesus replied, "If I do not wash you, you have no share with me."

Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, wash not only my feet, but also my hands and my head!"

(For Jesus knew the one who was going to betray him. For this reason he said, "Not every one of you is clean.")

I tell you the solemn truth, the slave is not greater than his master, nor is the one who is sent as a messenger greater than the one who sent him.

Then the disciple whom Jesus loved leaned back against Jesus' chest and asked him, "Lord, who is it?"

And after Judas took the piece of bread, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him, "What you are about to do, do quickly."

Some thought that, because Judas had the money box, Jesus was telling him to buy whatever they needed for the feast, or to give something to the poor.)

When Judas had gone out, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in him.

If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him right away.

Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus replied, "Where I am going, you cannot follow me now, but you will follow later."