So Jesus said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.

You go up to the feast. I am not going up to this feast, because my time is not yet completed.

But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not openly, but (as it were) in secret.

Then the Jews were astonished, saying, "How does this man {possess knowledge}, [because he] has not been taught?"

So Jesus answered them and said, "My teaching is not mine, but [is] from the one who sent me.

Has not Moses given you the law, and none of you carries out the law? Why do you seek to kill me?"

Because of this Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.

If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses would not be broken, are you angry with me because I made a whole man well on the Sabbath?

Do not judge according to outward appearance, but judge according to righteous judgment!"

Then some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem began to say, "Is this not [the one] whom they are seeking to kill?

Then Jesus cried out in the temple [courts], teaching and saying, "You both know me and you know where I am from! And I have not come from myself, but the one who sent me is true, whom you do not know.

So they were seeking to seize him, and no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

But from the crowd many believed in him and were saying, "Whenever the Christ comes, he will not perform more signs than this man has done, [will he]?"

You will seek me and will not find [me], and where I am, you cannot come."

So the Jews said to one another, "Where [is] this one going to go, that we will not find him? He is not going to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, [is he]?

What is this saying that he said, 'You will seek me and will not find [me], and where I am, you cannot come'?"

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

Others were saying, "This man is the Christ!" But others were saying, "No, for the Christ does not come from Galilee, [does he]?

Has not the scripture said that the Christ comes from the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"

So the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees. And they said to them, "{Why} did you not bring him?"

Then the Pharisees replied to them, "You have not also been deceived, [have you]?

But this crowd who does not know the law is accursed!"

"Our law does not condemn a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing, [does it]?"

They answered and said to him, "You are not also from Galilee, [are you]? Investigate and see that a prophet does not arise from Galilee!" [[

So the Pharisees said to him, "You testify concerning yourself! Your testimony is not true."

Jesus answered and said to them, "Even if I testify concerning myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I have come from and where I am going. But you do not know where I have come from or where I am going.

You judge according to externals; I do not judge anyone.

But even if I judge, my judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent me.

He spoke these words by the treasury [while] teaching in the temple [courts], and no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come.

And he said to them, "You are from below; I am from above. You are from this world; I am not from this world.

Thus I said to you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I am [he], you will die in your sins."

(They did not know that he was speaking to them about the Father.)

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

They replied to him, "We are descendants of Abraham and have not been enslaved to anyone at any time. How do you say, 'You will become free'?"

And the slave does not remain in the household {forever}; the son remains {forever}.

But now you are seeking to kill me, a man who spoke to you the truth which I heard from God. This Abraham did not do.

You are doing the deeds of your father!" They said to him, "We were not born from sexual immorality! We have one father, God!"

Jesus said to them, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I have come forth from God and have come. For I have not come from myself, but that one sent me.

{Why} do you not understand my way of speaking? Because you are not able to listen to my message.

You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father! That one was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand firm in the truth, because truth is not in him. Whenever he speaks the lie, he speaks from his own [nature], because he is a liar and the father {of lies}.

But because I am telling the truth, you do not believe me.

Who among you convicts me concerning sin? If I am telling the truth, {why} do you not believe me?

The one who is from God listens to the words of God. Because of this you do not listen--because you are not of God."

The Jews answered and said to him, "Do we not correctly say that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?"

Jesus replied, "I do not have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me!

But I do not seek my [own] glory. There is one who seeks and judges!

You are not greater than our father Abraham who died, [are you]? And the prophets died! Who do you make yourself [to be]?"

And you have not known him, but I know him. And if I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you! But I know him and I keep his word.

So the Jews said to him, "{You are} not yet fifty years [old], and have you seen Abraham?"

It is necessary [for] us to do the deeds of the one who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work!

Then the neighbors and those who saw him previously (because he was a beggar) began to say, "Is this man not the one who used to sit and beg?"

And they said to him, "Where is that man?" He said, "I do not know."

So some of the Pharisees were saying, "This man is not from God, because he does not observe the Sabbath!" Others were saying, "How can a man [who is] a sinner perform such signs?" And there was a division among them.

So the Jews did not believe concerning him that he had been blind and received sight, until they summoned the parents of the one who received sight.

But how he now sees we do not know, or who opened his eyes we do not know. Ask him! {He is a mature adult}; he will speak for himself!"

Then that man replied, "Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One [thing] I know--that [although I] was blind, now I see!"

He replied to them, "I told you already and you did not listen! Why do you want to hear [it] again? You do not want to become his disciples also, [do you]?"

We know that God has spoken to Moses, but we do not know where this man is from."

The man answered and said to them, "For the remarkable thing is this, that you do not know where he is from, and he opened my eyes!

We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if someone is devout and does his will, he listens to this one.

From {time immemorial} it has not been heard that someone opened the eyes of one born blind.

If this man were not from God, he would not be able to do anything!"

And Jesus said,]] "For judgment I have come into this world, so that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind!"

[Some] of the Pharisees who were with him heard these [things] and said to him, "We are not also blind, [are we]?"

Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would not have sin. But now you say, 'We see,' your sin remains.

"Truly, truly I say to you, the one who does not enter through the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up at some other place--that one is a thief and a robber.

And they will never follow a stranger, but will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."

Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what it was that he was saying to them.

All those who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep do not listen to them.

The hired hand, who is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf approaching and abandons the sheep and runs away--and the wolf seizes them and scatters [them]--

because he is a hired hand and {he is not concerned} about the sheep.

And I have other sheep which are not from this fold. I must bring these also, and they will hear my voice, and they will become one flock--one shepherd.

Others were saying, "These are not the words of one who is possessed by a demon! A demon is not able to open the eyes of the blind, [is it]?"

Jesus answered them, "I told you and you do not believe! The deeds that I do in the name of my Father, these testify about me.

But you do not believe, because you are not of my sheep!

The Jews answered him, "We are not going to stone you concerning a good deed, but concerning blasphemy, and because you, [although you] are a man, make yourself [to be] God!"

Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your law, 'I said, "You are gods" '?

If I do not do the deeds of my Father, do not believe me.

But if I am doing [them], even if you do not believe me, believe the deeds, so that you may know and understand that the Father [is] in me and I [am] in the Father."

And [when he] heard [it], Jesus said, "This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, in order that the Son of God may be glorified through it."

Jesus replied, Are [there] not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks around in the daylight, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

But if anyone walks around in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in 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 Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.

(Now Jesus has not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha went to meet him.)

Then Mary, when she came where Jesus was [and] saw him, fell at his feet, saying to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."

But some of them said, "Was not this man who opened the eyes of the blind able to do [something] so that this man also would not have died?"

Jesus said to her, "Did I not say to you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?"

But a certain one of them, Caiaphas (who was high priest in that year), said to them, "You do not know anything at all!

Nor do you consider that it is profitable for you that one man should die for the people, and the whole nation not perish."

(Now he did not say this from himself, but being high priest in that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation,

and not for the nation only, but also that the children of God who are scattered would be gathered into one.)

So they were looking for Jesus, and were speaking with one another [while] standing in the temple [courts], "What do you think? That he will not come to the feast?"

"{Why} was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?"

(Now he said this not because {he was concerned} about the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, he used to steal what was put into [it].)

For you have the poor with you always, but you do not always have me."

Now a large crowd of Jews found out that he was there, and they came, not only because of Jesus, but so that they could see Lazarus also, whom he raised from the dead.

"Do not be afraid, daughter of Zion! Behold, your king is coming, seated on the foal of a donkey!"

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

Jesus answered and said, "This voice has not happened for my sake, but [for] your sake.