“I assure you: Anyone who hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment but has passed from death to life.

And He has granted Him the right to pass judgment, because He is the Son of Man.

“I can do nothing on My own. I judge only as I hear, and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

I have come in My Father’s name, yet you don’t accept Me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.

And a huge crowd was following Him because they saw the signs that He was performing by healing the sick.

Therefore, when Jesus looked up and noticed a huge crowd coming toward Him, He asked Philip, “Where will we buy bread so these people can eat?”

He asked this to test him, for He Himself knew what He was going to do.

One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to Him,

Therefore, when Jesus knew that they were about to come and take Him by force to make Him king, He withdrew again to the mountain by Himself.

Then they were willing to take Him on board, and at once the boat was at the shore where they were heading.

When they found Him on the other side of the sea, they said to Him, “Rabbi, when did You get here?”

Don’t work for the food that perishes but for the food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal of approval on Him.”

For I have come down from heaven, not to do My will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

This is the will of Him who sent Me: that I should lose none of those He has given Me but should raise them up on the last day.

For this is the will of My Father: that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

Therefore the Jews started complaining 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 up on the last day.

Anyone who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day,

The one who eats My flesh and drinks My blood lives in Me, and I in him.

But there are some among you who don’t believe.” (For Jesus knew from the beginning those who would not believe and the one who would betray Him.)

He said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to Me unless it is granted to him by the Father.”

From that moment many of His disciples turned back and no longer accompanied Him.

He was referring to Judas, Simon Iscariot’s son, one of the Twelve, because he was going to betray Him.

After this, Jesus traveled in Galilee, since He did not want to travel in Judea because the Jews were trying to kill Him.

so His brothers said to Him, “Leave here and go to Judea so Your disciples can see Your works that You are doing.

(For not even His brothers believed in Him.)

The Jews were looking for Him at the festival and saying, “Where is He?”

And there was a lot of discussion about Him among the crowds. Some were saying, “He’s a good man.” Others were saying, “No, on the contrary, He’s deceiving the people.”

Still, nobody was talking publicly about Him because they feared the Jews.

The one who speaks for himself seeks his own glory. But He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him is true, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.

Yet, look! He’s speaking publicly and they’re saying nothing to Him. Can it be true that the authorities know He is the Messiah?

As He was teaching in the temple complex, Jesus cried out, “You know Me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on My own, but the One who sent Me is true. You don’t know Him;

I know Him because I am from Him, and He sent Me.”

Then they tried to seize Him. Yet no one laid a hand on Him because His hour had not yet come.

However, many from the crowd believed in Him and said, “When the Messiah comes, He won’t perform more signs than this man has done, will He?”

The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about Him, so the chief priests and the Pharisees sent temple police to arrest Him.

Then the Jews said to one another, “Where does He intend to go so we won’t find Him? He doesn’t intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, does He?

The one who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, will have streams of living water flow from deep within him.”

He said this about the Spirit. Those who believed in Jesus were going to receive the Spirit, for the Spirit had not yet been received because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

So a division occurred among the crowd because of Him.

Some of them wanted to seize Him, but no one laid hands on Him.

Then the temple police came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why haven’t you brought Him?”

Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in Him?

Nicodemus—the one who came to Him previously, being one of them—said to them,

“Our law doesn’t judge a man before it hears from him and knows what he’s doing, does it?”

At dawn He went to the temple complex again, and all the people were coming to Him. He sat down and began to teach them.

“Teacher,” they said to Him, “this woman was caught in the act of committing adultery.

They asked this to trap Him, in order that they might have evidence to accuse Him.

Jesus stooped down and started writing on the ground with His finger.

When they persisted in questioning Him, He stood up and said to them, “The one without sin among you should be the first to throw a stone at her.”

So the Pharisees said to Him, “You are testifying about Yourself. Your testimony is not valid.”

Then they asked Him, “Where is Your Father?”

“You know neither Me nor My Father,” Jesus answered. “If you knew Me, you would also know My Father.”

He spoke these words by the treasury, while teaching in the temple complex. But no one seized Him, because His hour had not come.

“I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the One who sent Me is true, and what I have heard from Him—these things I tell the world.”

The One who sent Me is with Me. He has not left Me alone, because I always do what pleases Him.”

As He was saying these things, many believed in Him.

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you really are My disciples.

“We are descendants of Abraham,” they answered Him, “and we have never been enslaved to anyone. How can You say, ‘You will become free’?”

You are of your father the Devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of liars.

The Jews responded to Him, “Aren’t we right in saying that You’re a Samaritan and have a demon?”

“If I glorify Myself,” Jesus answered, “My glory is nothing. My Father—you say about Him, ‘He is our God’—He is the One who glorifies Me.

You’ve never known Him, but I know Him. If I were to say I don’t know Him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know Him, and I keep His word.

At that, they picked up stones to throw at Him. But Jesus was hidden and went out of the temple complex.

His disciples questioned Him: “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

“Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” Jesus answered. “This came about so that God’s works might be displayed in him.

We must do the works of Him who sent Me while it is day. Night is coming when no one can work.

“Go,” He told him, “wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So he left, washed, and came back seeing.

His neighbors and those who formerly had seen him as a beggar said, “Isn’t this the man who sat begging?”

Some said, “He’s the one.” “No,” others were saying, “but he looks like him.”

He kept saying, “I’m the one!”

Therefore they asked him, “Then how were your eyes opened?”

So again the Pharisees asked him how he received his sight.

“He put mud on my eyes,” he told them. “I washed and I can see.”

Again they asked the blind man, “What do you say about Him, since He opened your eyes?”

“He’s a prophet,” he said.

The Jews did not believe this about him—that he was blind and received sight—until they summoned the parents of the one who had received his sight.

“But we don’t know how he now sees, and we don’t know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he’s of age. He will speak for himself.”

His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jews, since the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed Him as Messiah, he would be banned from the synagogue.

This is why his parents said, “He’s of age; ask him.”

So a second time they summoned the man who had been blind 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 open your eyes?”

They ridiculed him: “You’re that man’s disciple, but we’re Moses’ disciples.

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will, He listens to him.

“You were born entirely in sin,” they replied, “and are you trying to teach us?” Then they threw him out.

When Jesus heard that they had thrown the man out, He found him and asked, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

“Who is He, Sir, that I may believe in Him?” he asked.

Jesus answered, “You have seen Him; in fact, He is the One speaking with you.”

“I believe, Lord!” he said, and he worshiped Him.

Some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these things and asked Him, “We aren’t blind too, are we?”

The doorkeeper opens it 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 outside, he goes ahead of them. The sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.

They will never follow a stranger; instead they will run away from him, because they don’t recognize the voice of strangers.”

Many of them were saying, “He has a demon and He’s crazy! Why do you listen to Him?”

Then the Jews surrounded Him and asked, “How long are You going to keep us in suspense? If You are the Messiah, tell us plainly.”

Again the Jews picked up rocks to stone Him.

Then they were trying again to seize Him, yet He eluded their grasp.

Many came to Him and said, “John never did a sign, but everything John said about this man was true.”

And many believed in Him there.

So the sisters sent a message to Him: “Lord, the one You love is sick.”

“Rabbi,” the disciples told Him, “just now the Jews tried to stone You, and You’re going there again?”

If anyone walks during the night, he does stumble, because the light is not in him.”

He said this, and then He told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I’m on My way to wake him up.”

Then the disciples said to Him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will get well.”

I’m glad for you that I wasn’t there so that you may believe. But let’s go to him.”