This conversation took place at Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

This is He about whom I said, 'After me is to come One who has been put before me, because He was before me.'

Again the next day John was standing with two of his disciples,

"Come and you shall see," He said. So they went and saw where He was staying, and they remained and spent that day with Him. It was then about ten o'clock in the morning.

Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, was one of the two who heard John's exclamation and followed Jesus.

Two days later there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there,

and Jesus also was invited and His disciples.

But the Jewish Passover was approaching, and for this Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

But He was speaking of the Sanctuary of His body.

Now when He was in Jerusalem, at the Festival of the Passover, many became believers in Him through watching the miracles He performed.

and did not need any one's testimony concerning a man, for He of Himself knew what was in the man.

Now there was one of the Pharisees whose name was Nicodemus--a ruler among the Jews.

And John too was baptizing at Aenon, near Salim, because there were many pools of water there; and people came and received baptism.

(For John was not yet in prison.)

they came to John and reported to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you on the other side of the Jordan and to whom you bore testimony is now baptizing, and great numbers of people are resorting to him."

Now as soon as the Master was aware that the Pharisees had heard it said, "Jesus is gaining and baptizing more disciples than John"--

Jacob's Well was there: and accordingly Jesus, tired out with His journey, sat down by the well to rest. It was about six o'clock in the evening.

So He came once more to Cana in Galilee, where He had made the water into wine. Now there was a certain officer of the King's court whose son was ill at Capernaum.

Having heard that Jesus had come from Judaea to Galilee, he came to Him and begged Him to go down and cure his son; for he was at the point of death.

and he was already on his way down when his servants met him and told him that his son was alive and well.

Then the father recollected that that was the time at which Jesus had said to him, "Your son has recovered," and he and his whole household became believers.

After this there was a Festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

And there was one man there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

Instantly the man was restored to perfect health, and he took up his mat and began to walk.

That day was a Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, "It is the Sabbath: you must not carry your mat."

But the man who had been cured did not know who it was; for Jesus had passed out unnoticed, there being a crowd in the place.

The man went and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had restored him to health;

His reply to their accusation was, "My Father works unceasingly, and so do I."

"You sent to John, and he both was and still is a witness to the truth.

He was the lamp that burned and shone, and for a time you were willing to be gladdened by his light.

A vast multitude followed Him, because they witnessed the miracles on the sick which He was constantly performing.

The Jewish Festival, the Passover, was at hand.

He said this to put Philip to the test, for He Himself knew what He was going to do.

"Make the people sit down," said Jesus. The ground was covered with thick grass; so they sat down, the adult men numbering about 5,000.

Thereupon the people, having seen the miracle He had performed, said, "This is indeed the Prophet who was to come into the world."

The Lake also was getting rough, because a strong wind was blowing.

"Does this seem incredible to you? What then if you were to see the Son of Man ascending again where He was before?

But there are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were that did not believe, and who it was that would betray Him.

He alluded to Judas, the son of Simon the Iscariot. For he it was who, though one of the Twelve, was afterwards to betray Him.

But the Jewish Festival of the Tent-Pitching was approaching.

Such was His answer, and He remained in Galilee.

Among the mass of the people there was much muttered debate about Him. Some said, "He is a good man." Others said, "Not so: he is imposing on the people."

But when the Festival was already half over, Jesus went up to the Temple and commenced teaching.

On hearing this they wanted to arrest Him; yet not a hand was laid on Him, because His time had not yet come.

He referred to the Spirit which those who believed in Him were to receive; for the Spirit was not bestowed as yet, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

So there was a violent dissension among the people on His account.

and was teaching them when the Scribes and the Pharisees brought to Him a woman who had been found committing adultery. They made her stand in the centre of the court, and they put the case to Him.

They listened to Him, and then, beginning with the eldest, took their departure, one by one, till all were gone. And Jesus was left behind alone--and the woman in the centre of the court.

They did not perceive that He was speaking to them of the Father.

The father whose sons you are is the Devil; and you desire to do what gives him pleasure. *He* was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand firm in the truth--for there is no truth in him. Whenever he utters his lie, he utters it out of his own store; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

Abraham your forefather exulted in the hope of seeing my day: and he saw it, and was glad."

So His disciples asked Him, "Rabbi, who sinned--this man or his parents--that he was born blind?"

"Neither he nor his parents sinned," answered Jesus, "but he was born blind in order that God's mercy might be openly shown in him.

"Go and wash in the pool of Siloam" --the name means 'Sent.' So he went and washed his eyes, and returned able to see.

His neighbours, therefore, and the other people to whom he had been a familiar object because he was a beggar, began asking, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"

"Yes it is," replied some of them. "No it is not," said others, "but he is like him." His own statement was, "I am the man."

"He whose name is Jesus," he answered, "made clay and smeared my eyes with it, and then told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed and obtained sight."

Now the day on which Jesus made the clay and opened the man's eyes was the Sabbath.

And there was a division among them. So again they asked the once blind man, "What is your account of him? --for he opened your eyes." "He is a Prophet," he replied.

"Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How is it then that he can now see?"

"We know," replied the parents, "that this is our son and that he was born blind;

Such was their answer, because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already settled among themselves that if any one should acknowledge Jesus as the Christ, he should be excluded from the synagogue.

That was why his parents said, "He is of full age: ask him himself."

"Whether he is a sinner or not, I do not know," he replied; "one thing I know--that I was once blind and that now I can see."

From the beginning of the world such a thing was never heard of as that any one should open the eyes of a man blind from his birth.

The Dedication Festival came on in Jerusalem. It was winter,

and Jesus was walking in the Temple in Solomon's Portico,

If those to whom God's word was addressed are called gods (and the Scripture cannot be annulled)

Large numbers of people also came to Him. Their report was, "John did not work any miracle, but all that John said about this Teacher was true."

Now a certain man, named Lazarus, of Bethany, was lying ill-- Bethany being the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

(It was the Mary who poured the perfume over the Lord and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill.)

When, however, He heard that Lazarus was ill, He still remained two days in that same place.

"Lazarus is dead; and for your sakes I am glad I was not there, in order that you may believe. But let us go to him."

Bethany was near Jerusalem, the distance being a little less than two miles;

"Yes, Master," she replied; "I thoroughly believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world."

Now Jesus was not yet come into the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met Him.

So the Jews who were with Mary in the house sympathizing with her, when they saw that she had risen hastily and had gone out, followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep aloud there.

though deeply troubled, asked them, "Where have you laid him?" "Master, come and see," was their reply.

But others of them asked, "Was this man who opened the blind man's eyes unable to prevent this man from dying?"

Jesus, however, again restraining His strong feeling, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone had been laid against the mouth of it.

It was not as a mere man that he thus spoke. But being High Priest that year he was inspired to declare that Jesus was to die for the nation,

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

Now the High Priests and the Pharisees had issued orders that if any one knew where He was, he should give information, so that they might arrest Him.

Jesus, however, six days before the Passover, came to Bethany, where Lazarus was whom He had raised from the dead.

So they gave a dinner there in honour of Jesus, at which Martha waited at table, but Lazarus was one of the guests who were with Him.

Availing herself of the opportunity, Mary took a pound weight of pure spikenard, very costly, and poured it over His feet, and wiped His feet with her hair, so that the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

"Why was not that perfume sold for 300 shillings and the money given to the poor?"

The reason he said this was not that he cared for the poor, but that he was a thief, and that being in charge of the money-box, he used to steal what was put into it.

Now it became widely known among the Jews that Jesus was there; but they came not only on His account, but also in order to see Lazarus whom He had brought back to life.

The next day a great crowd of those who had come to the Festival, hearing that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

The meaning of this His disciples did not understand at the time; but after Jesus was glorified they recollected that this was written about Him, and that they had done this to Him.

This was also why the crowd came to meet Him, because they had heard of His having performed that miracle.

The result was that the Pharisees said among themselves, "Observe how idle all your efforts are! The world is gone after him!"

His answer was, "The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

In most solemn truth I tell you that unless the grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains what it was--a single grain; but that if it dies, it yields a rich harvest.

While supper was proceeding, the Devil having by this time suggested to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, the thought of betraying Him, Jesus,

although He knew that the Father had put everything into His hands, and that He had come forth from God and was now going to God,

Then He poured water into a basin, and proceeded to wash the feet of the disciples and to wipe them with the towel which He had put round Him.

When He came to Simon Peter, Peter objected. "Master," he said, "are *you* going to wash my feet?"

"Never, while the world lasts," said Peter, "shall you wash my feet." "If I do not wash you," replied Jesus, "you have no share with me."