When many of his disciples heard this, they said, "This is a difficult statement. Who can accept it?"

It's the Spirit who gives life; the flesh accomplishes nothing. The words that I've spoken to you are spirit and life.

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.

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

Jesus replied to them, "My teaching is not mine but comes from the one who sent me.

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.

The crowd answered, "You have a demon! Who is trying to kill you?"

At this point Jesus, still teaching in the Temple, shouted, "So you know me and know where I've come from? I haven't come on my own accord. But the one who sent me is true, and he's the one you don't know.

Then Jesus said, "I'll be with you only a little while longer, and then I'm going back to the one who sent me.

The one who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, will have rivers of living water flowing from his heart."

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.

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

One of their own, Nicodemus (the man who had previously met with Jesus), asked them,

But the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery. After setting her before them,

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."

Later on, Jesus spoke to them again, saying, "I am the light of the world. The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

Yet even if I should judge, my judgment would be valid, because it is not I alone who judges, but I and the one who sent me.

I'm testifying about myself, and the Father who sent me is testifying about me."

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."

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

Jesus answered them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, that everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.

Jesus told them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing what Abraham did. But now you're trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham would'nt have done that.

The one who belongs to God listens to the words of God. The reason you don't listen is because you don't belong to God."

I don't seek my own glory. There is one who seeks it, and he is the Judge.

You aren't greater than our father Abraham, who died, are you? The prophets also died. Who are you making yourself out to be?"

Jesus answered, "If I were trying to glorify myself, my glory would mean nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, "He is our God.'

As he was walking along, he observed a man who had been blind from birth.

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

I must do the work of the one who sent me while it is day. Night is approaching, when no one can work.

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?"

So they brought to the Pharisees the man who had once been blind.

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."

His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders, since the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah would be thrown out of the synagogue.

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."

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

Ever since creation it has never been heard that anyone healed the eyes of a man who was born blind.

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."

Then Jesus said, "I have come into this world to judge it, so that those who are blind may see and so that those who see may become blind."

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

"Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the person who doesn't enter the sheepfold through the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a bandit.

The one who enters through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.

All who came before me are thieves and bandits, but the sheep didn't listen to them.

The hired worker, who isn't the shepherd and doesn't own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, deserts the sheep, and runs away. So the wolf snatches them and scatters them,

Others were saying, "These are not the words of a man who is demon-possessed. A demon cannot open the eyes of the blind, can it?"

If he called those to whom a message from God came "gods' (and the Scripture cannot be disregarded),

how can you say to the one whom the Father has consecrated and sent into the world, "You're blaspheming,' because I said, "I'm the Son of God'?

Mary was the woman who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair. Her brother Lazarus was the one who was ill.

So the sisters sent word to Jesus and told him, "Lord, the one whom you love is ill."

Then Thomas, who was called the Twin, told his fellow disciples, "Let's go, too, so that we may die with him!"

Jesus told her, "I am the resurrection and the life. The person who believes in me, even though he dies, will live.

Indeed, everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe that?"

"Yes, Lord," she told him. "I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one who was to come into the world."

When the Jews who had been with her, consoling her in the house, saw Mary get up quickly and go out, they followed her, thinking that she had gone to the tomb to cry there.

When Jesus saw her crying, and the Jews who had come with her crying, he was greatly troubled in spirit and deeply moved.

But some of them said, "Surely the one who opened the eyes of the blind man could have kept this man from dying, couldn't he?"

The man who had died came out, his hands and feet tied with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a handkerchief. Jesus told them, "Untie him, and let him go."

Many of the Jews who had come with Mary and who had observed what Jesus did believed in him.

But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, told them, "You don't know anything!

and not only for the nation, but that he would also gather into one the children of God who were scattered abroad.

Six days before the Passover, Jesus arrived in Bethany, where Lazarus lived, the man whom Jesus had raised from the dead.

But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, who was going to betray him, asked,

When the large crowd of Jews realized that he was there, they came not only because of Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, shouting, "Hosanna! How blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel!"

Now some Greeks were among those who had come up to worship at the festival.

They went to Philip (who was from Bethsaida in Galilee) and told him, "Sir, we would like to see Jesus."

The one who loves his life will destroy it, and the one who hates his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life.

Then the crowd answered him, "We have learned from the Law that the Messiah remains forever. So how can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?"

Jesus replied to the crowd, "The light is among you only for a short time. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. The person who walks in the darkness is in the darkness and does not know where he is going.

so that what the prophet Isaiah spoke might be fulfilled when he said: "Lord, who has believed our message, and to whom has the Lord's power been revealed?"

Then Jesus said loudly, "The one who believes in me does not believe in me only, but also in the one who sent me.

The one who sees me sees the one who sent me.

I've come into the world as light, so that everyone who believes in me won't remain in the darkness.

The one who rejects me and doesn't receive my words has something to judge him: The word that I've spoken will judge him on the last day,

because I haven't spoken on my own authority. Instead, the Father who sent me has himself commanded me what to say and how to speak.

Now before the Passover Festival, Jesus realized that his hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

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

For he knew who was going to betray him. That's why he said, "Not all of you are clean."

Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, a servant isn't greater than his master, and a messenger isn't greater than the one who sent him.

I'm not talking about all of you. I know the ones I have chosen. But the Scripture must be fulfilled: "The one who ate bread with me has turned against me.'

Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the one who receives whomever I send receives me, and the one who receives me receives the one who sent me."

The disciples began looking at one another, completely mystified about whom he was speaking.

One of his disciples, the one whom Jesus kept loving, had been sitting very close to him.

So Simon Peter motioned to this man to ask Jesus about whom he was speaking.

Leaning forward on Jesus' chest, he asked him, "Lord, who is it?"

Jesus answered, "He is the one to whom I will give this piece of bread after I have dipped it in the dish."

"Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know me?" Jesus asked him. "The person who has seen me has seen the Father. So how can you say, "Show us the Father'?

You believe, don't you, that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I don't speak on my own. It is the Father who dwells in me and who carries out his work.

Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the one who believes in me will also do what I'm doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I'm going to the Father.

He is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor recognizes him. But you recognize him, because he lives with you and will be in you.

The person who has my commandments and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I, too, will love him and reveal myself to him."

The one who doesn't love me doesn't keep my words. The words that you're hearing me say are not mine, but come from the Father who sent me.

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and remind you of everything that I have told you.

I am the vine, you are the branches. The one who abides in me while I abide in him produces much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing.

They will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.

The person who hates me also hates my Father.

"When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father the Spirit of Truth, who comes from the Father he will testify on my behalf.

You'll be thrown out of the synagogues. Yes, a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he's serving God.