A large crowd kept following him because they had seen the signs that he was performing by healing the sick.

When Jesus looked up and saw that a large crowd was coming toward him, he asked Philip, "Where can we buy bread for these people to eat?"

Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." Now there was plenty of grass in that area, so they sat down, numbering about 5,000 men.

When they were completely satisfied, Jesus told his disciples, "Collect the pieces that are left over so that nothing is wasted."

When the people saw the sign that he had done, they kept saying, "Truly this is the Prophet who was to come into the world!"

Then Jesus, realizing that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, withdrew again to the hillside by himself.

The next day, the crowd that had remained on the other side of the sea noticed that only one boat had been there, and no other, and that Jesus had not gotten into that boat with his disciples. Instead, his disciples had gone away by themselves.

When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into these boats and went to Capernaum to look for Jesus.

Do not work for food that perishes but for food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set his seal on him."

So they asked him, "What sign are you going to do so that we may see it and believe in you? What actions are you performing?

I told you that you have seen me, yet you don't believe.

And this is the will of the one who sent me, that I should not lose anything that he has given me, but should raise it to life on the last day.

This is my Father's will: That everyone who sees the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him to life on the last day."

Then the Jewish leaders began grumbling about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven."

Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who comes from God. This one has seen the Father.

This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that a person may eat it and not die.

I'm the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats this bread, he'll live forever. And the bread I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."

This is the bread that came down from heaven, not the kind that your ancestors ate. They died, but the one who eats this bread will live forever."

But Jesus, knowing within himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, asked them, "Does this offend you?

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

So he said, "That's why I told you that no one can come to me unless it be granted him by the Father."

Besides, we have believed and remain convinced that you are the Holy One of God."

So his brothers told him, "You should leave this place and go to Judea, so that your disciples can see the actions that you're doing,

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify against it that its actions are evil.

The Jewish leaders kept looking for him at the festival, asking, "Where is that man?"

Moses gave you circumcision not that it is from Moses, but from the Patriarchs and so you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.

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

And look, he is speaking in public, and they are not saying anything to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Messiah?

Then the Jewish leaders asked one another, "Where does this man intend to go that we won't be able to find him? Surely he's not going to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he?

What does this statement mean that he said, "You'll look for me but won't find me,' and, "Where I am, you cannot come'?"

But some were saying, "The Messiah doesn't come from Galilee, does he? Doesn't the Scripture say that the Messiah is from David's family and from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?"

The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like that!"

But this mob that does not know the Law they're under a curse!"

They answered him, "You aren't from Galilee, too, are you? Search and see that no prophet comes from Galilee."

They said this to test him, so that they might have a charge against him. But Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with his finger.

In your own Law it is written that the testimony of two people is valid.

So the Jewish leaders were asking, "He isn't going to kill himself, is he? Is that why he said, "You cannot come where I'm going'?"

That is why I told you that you will die in your sins, for unless you believe that I AM, you'll die in your sins."

They didn't realize that he was talking to them about the Father.

So Jesus told them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I AM, and that I do nothing on my own authority. Instead, I speak only what the Father has taught me.

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

"I know that you are Abraham's descendants. Yet you are trying to kill me because you've not received what I've told you.

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.

But it is because I speak the truth that you don't believe me.

The Jewish leaders replied to him, "Surely we're right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon, aren't we?"

Then the Jewish leaders told him, "Now we really know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and so did the prophets, but you say, "If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.'

You don't know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I don't know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him and keep his word.

Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day, and he saw it and was glad."

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

Jesus answered, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned. This happened so that God's work might be revealed in him.

They asked him, "Where is that man?" He said, "I don't know!"

The Jewish leaders did not believe that the man had been blind and had gained sight until they summoned his parents

His parents replied, "We know that this is our son and that he was born 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.

That's why his parents said, "He is of age. Ask him."

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."

But he responded, "I don't know whether he is a sinner or not. The one thing I do know is that I used to be blind and now I can see!"

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

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.

If this man were not from God, he couldn't do anything like that."

Jesus heard that they had thrown him out. So when he found him, he asked him, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"

He answered, "And who is he, sir? Tell me, so that I may believe in him."

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."

Jesus told them, "If you were blind, you would not have any sin. But now that you insist, "We see,' your sin still exists."

The thief comes only to steal, slaughter, and destroy. I've come that they may have life, and have it abundantly.

I have other sheep that don't belong to this fold. I must lead these also, and they'll listen to my voice. So there will be one flock and one shepherd.

Jesus answered them, "I have told you, but you don't believe it. The actions that I do in my Father's name testify on my behalf,

But if I'm doing them, even though you don't believe me, believe the actions, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father."

Many people came to him and kept saying, "John never performed a sign, but everything that John said about this man is true!"

But when Jesus heard it, he said, "This illness isn't meant to end in death. It's for God's glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it."

Yet, when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed where he was for two more days.

Jesus, however, had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was speaking about resting or sleeping.

For your sake I'm glad that I wasn't there, so that you may believe. But let's go to him."

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

When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days.

As soon as Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, while Mary stayed at home.

But even now I know that whatever you ask of God, he will give it to you."

Martha told him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day."

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.

Jesus told her, "I told you that if you believed you would see God's glory, didn't I?"

Then Jesus looked upward and said, "Father, I thank you for hearing me. I know that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so that they may believe that you sent me."

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

You don't realize that it is better for you to have one man die for the people than to have the whole nation destroyed."

Now he did not say this on his own initiative. As high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,

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

So from that day on they resolved to put him to death.

Now the high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that whoever knew where he was should tell them so that they could arrest him.

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.

The next day, the large crowd that had come to the festival heard that Jesus was coming into Jerusalem.

At first, his disciples didn't understand these things. However, when Jesus had been glorified, they remembered that these things had been written about him and that people had done these things to him.

So the crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to testify to what they had seen.

The crowd was going out to meet Jesus because they had heard that he had performed this sign.

"Now my soul is in turmoil, and what should I say "Father, save me from this hour'? No! It was for this very reason that I came to this hour.

Then a voice came from heaven, "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again!" The crowd standing there heard this and said that it was thunder. Others were saying, "An angel has spoken to him."

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.