So they collected them and filled 12 baskets with the pieces from the five barley loaves that were left over by those who had eaten.

Some boats from Tiberias came near the place where they ate the bread after the Lord gave thanks.

Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat.”

Jesus said to them, “I assure you: Moses didn’t give you the bread from heaven, but My Father gives you the real bread from heaven.

For the bread of God is the One who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

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

Therefore the Jews started complaining about Him because He said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”

They were saying, “Isn’t this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can He now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”

It is written in the Prophets: And they will all be taught by God. Everyone who has listened to and learned from the Father comes to Me—

not that anyone has seen the Father except the One who is from God. He has seen the Father.

This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that anyone may eat of it and not die.

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.”

This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the manna your fathers ate—and they died. The one who eats this bread will live forever.”

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.)

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

Jesus answered them, “My teaching isn’t Mine but is from the One who sent Me.

If anyone wants to do His will, he will understand whether the teaching is from God or if I am speaking on My own.

“Consider this: Moses has given you circumcision—not that it comes from Moses but from the fathers—and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.

But we know where this man is from. When the Messiah comes, nobody will know where He is from.”

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.”

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

When some from the crowd heard these words, they said, “This really is the Prophet!”

Others said, “This is the Messiah!” But some said, “Surely the Messiah doesn’t come from Galilee, does He?

Doesn’t the Scripture say that the Messiah comes from David’s offspring and from the town of Bethlehem, where David once lived?”

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

“You aren’t from Galilee too, are you?” they replied. “Investigate and you will see that no prophet arises from Galilee.”

“No one, Lord,” she answered.

“Neither do I condemn you,” said Jesus. “Go, and from now on do not sin anymore.”]

“Even if I testify about Myself,” Jesus replied, “My testimony is valid, because I know where I came from and where I’m going. But you don’t know where I come from or where I’m going.

“You are from below,” He told them, “I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.

“Who are You?” they questioned.

“Precisely what I’ve been telling you from the very beginning,” Jesus told them.

“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.”

I speak what I have seen in the presence of the Father; therefore, you do what you have heard from your father.”

But now you are trying to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, because I came from God and I am here. For I didn’t come on My own, but He sent Me.

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 one who is from God listens to God’s words. This is why you don’t listen, because you are not from God.”

As He was passing by, He saw a man blind from birth.

After He said these things He spit on the ground, made some mud from the saliva, and spread the mud on his eyes.

Therefore some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for He doesn’t keep the Sabbath!” But others were saying, “How can a sinful man perform such signs?” And there was a division among them.

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.

We know that God has spoken to Moses. But this man—we don’t know where He’s from!”

“This is an amazing thing,” the man told them. “You don’t know where He is from, yet He opened my eyes!

If this man were not from God, He wouldn’t be able to do anything.”

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

No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down on My own. I have the right to lay it down, and I have the right to take it up again. I have received this command from My Father.”

Jesus replied, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. Which of these works are you stoning Me for?”

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

Yet even now I know that whatever You ask from God, God will give You.”

But some of them said, “Couldn’t He who opened the blind man’s eyes also have kept this man from dying?”

So from that day on they plotted to kill Him.

Therefore Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews but departed from there to the countryside near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim. And He stayed there with the disciples.

The Jewish Passover was near, and many went up to Jerusalem from the country to purify themselves before the Passover.

Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus was, the one Jesus had raised from the dead.

Then a large crowd of the Jews learned He was there. They came not only because of Jesus, but also to see Lazarus the one He had raised from the dead.

Meanwhile, the crowd, which had been with Him when He called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead, continued to testify.

So they came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and requested of him, “Sir, we want to see Jesus.”

“Now My soul is troubled. What should I say—Father, save Me from this hour? But that is why I came to this hour.

Father, glorify Your name!”

Then a voice came from heaven: “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again!”

As for Me, if I am lifted up from the earth I will draw all people to Myself.”

Then the crowd replied to Him, “We have heard from the scripture that the Messiah will remain forever. So how can You say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this Son of Man?”

While you have the light, believe in the light so that you may become sons of light.” Jesus said this, then went away and hid from them.

Nevertheless, many did believe in Him even among the rulers, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, so they would not be banned from the synagogue.

For they loved praise from men more than praise from God.

Before the Passover Festival, Jesus knew that His hour had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.

Jesus knew that the Father had given everything into His hands, that He had come from God, and that He was going back to God.

So He got up from supper, laid aside His robe, took a towel, and tied it around Himself.

“If you know Me, you will also know My Father. From now on you do know Him and have seen Him.”

The one who doesn’t love Me will not keep My words. The word that you hear is not Mine but is from the Father who sent Me.

I do not call you slaves anymore, because a slave doesn’t know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard from My Father.

“When the Counselor comes, the One I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father—He will testify about Me.

You also will testify, because you have been with Me from the beginning.

“I have told you these things to keep you from stumbling.

They will ban you from the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering service to God.

But I have told you these things so that when their time comes you may remember I told them to you. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

He will glorify Me, because He will take from what is Mine and declare it to you.

Everything the Father has is Mine. This is why I told you that He takes from what is Mine and will declare it to you.

For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came from God.

I came from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”

Now we know that You know everything and don’t need anyone to question You. By this we believe that You came from God.”

I have revealed Your name
to the men You gave Me from the world.
They were Yours, You gave them to Me,
and they have kept Your word.

Now they know that all things
You have given to Me are from You,

because the words that You gave Me,
I have given them.
They have received them
and have known for certain
that I came from You.
They have believed that You sent Me.

I am not praying
that You take them out of the world
but that You protect them from the evil one.

So Judas took a company of soldiers and some temple police from the chief priests and the Pharisees and came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.

Then they took Jesus from Caiaphas to the governor’s headquarters. It was early morning. They did not enter the headquarters themselves; otherwise they would be defiled and unable to eat the Passover.

He went back into the headquarters and asked Jesus, “Where are You from?” But Jesus did not give him an answer.

“You would have no authority over Me at all,” Jesus answered him, “if it hadn’t been given you from above. This is why the one who handed Me over to you has the greater sin.”

From that moment Pilate made every effort to release Him. But the Jews shouted, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend. Anyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar!”

When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took His clothes and divided them into four parts, a part for each soldier. They also took the tunic, which was seamless, woven in one piece from the top.

Then He said to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.

On the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark. She saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb.

For they still did not understand the Scripture that He must rise from the dead.

Simon Peter, Thomas (called “Twin”), Nathanael from Cana of Galilee, Zebedee’s sons, and two others of His disciples were together.

But since they were not far from land (about 100 yards away), the other disciples came in the boat, dragging the net full of fish.

This was now the third time Jesus appeared to the disciples after He was raised from the dead.

While He was together with them, He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for the Father’s promise. “This,” He said, “is what you heard from Me;

for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”

They said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up into heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come in the same way that you have seen Him going into heaven.”