"The man who speaks on his own authority is always seeking his own glory. But one who is eager for the glory of Him who sent him, he is true, and therefore is nothing false about him.

"If a child receives circumcision on the Sabbath, in order that the Law of Moses may not be broken, how can you be angry with me because I made a man sound and well on the Sabbath?

Then some of the men of Jerusalem were saying. "Is not this the man they are seeking to kill?

"But we know this man and where he is from; but when the Christ comes no one will know where he comes from."

Then they kept seeking to arrest him, but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.

But many of the crowd believed on him and began to say, "The Christ, when he comes, will he do more signs than this man has done?"

"What does he mean saying, 'You shall seek me and you shall not find me,' and 'Where I am you cannot come'?"

"If any man thirst let him come to me and drink. From the heart of him who believes in me will flow, as the Scripture said, rivers of living water."

Some of the crowd who had been listening to these discourses began to say, "Without a doubt this man is a Prophet."

The officers answered, "Never yet did a man speak like this man."

But Jesus stooped down, and began to write on the ground with his finger. When they continued to question him, he raised himself and said to them, "Let the innocent man among you be the first to throw the stone at her."

Then Jesus raised himself up and said to her. "Woman, where are they? Has no man condemn you,"

"For you are judging according to the flesh. I am judging no man.

"And in your Law it is written that the testimony of two men is true.

so Jesus added. "When you lifted up the Son of man, then you will know that I am He; and that I do nothing on my own authority, but that I speak just as the Father has taught me,

"We are descendants of Abraham," they replied, "and have never been in slavery to any man. What do you mean by saying, 'You shall become free'?"

"But now you are seeking to kill me?? man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham did not do that.

"You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a man-slayer from the very beginning; and he has no standing place in the truth, because truth is not in him. Whenever he utters a lie, he speaks from his nature, for he is a liar and the father of lying.

"Now we know that you have a demon," exclaimed the Jews. Abraham died, and so did the prophets; and yet you say, 'If any man obeys my teaching he shall never taste death.'

Now as he was passing along he saw a man, blind from birth.

"Rabbi," his disciples asked him, "who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"

"I must work the works of him that sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no man can work.

When he had thus spoken he spat on the ground, and made clay with the spittle, and smeared the clay on the man's eyes.

Then he said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (a word which means "sent"). So the man went and washed his eyes, and came back seeing.

Upon this the neighbors and those who used to know him by sight as a beggar, began asking, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"

Some said, "It is he." Others said, "No, but he looks like him." "I am the man," he said.

He answered. "The man who is called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash'; so I went and washed and received my sight."

"Where is he?" they asked. "I do not know," answered the man.

Then they brought the man who had been blind to the Pharisees.

Then some of the Pharisees began to say, "This man in not from God, because he does not keep the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?"

So there was a difference of opinion among them. Accordingly they said to the blind man, "What have you to say about him, now that he has opened your eyes?" "He is a prophet," he answered.

The Jews, however, did not believe about him that he was blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man whose sight had been restored,

So the Jews a second time summoned the man who had been blind, and said to him.

"Give glory to God! we know that this man is a sinner." Upon this the blind man answered. "I do not know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know, that once I was blind, and know I can see."

"This is truly astonishing," said the man in reply, "that you do not know where he is from, and yet he has opened my eyes.

"If this man had not come of God he could have done nothing."

Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said, "Do you believe in the Son of man?"

"I do believe, Sir," said the man, and he prostrated himself at his feet. And Jesus said,

"In solemn truth I tell you that whoever does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other way, that man is a thief and a robber;

"No man is taking it away from me. I am laying it down on my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father."

"We are not going to stone you for a good deed," answered the Jews, "but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, are making yourself God."

do you mean to tell me, whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?

Many who came to him said, "John did not perform any signs, but everything he said about this man was true."

Now a man named Lazarus was ill. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha??2 it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill.

"Could not this man, who has opened the eyes of the blind man, have prevented this man also from dying?"

"Roll away the stone," said Jesus. "Master," said Martha, the sister of the dead man "he is offensive by this time, for he has been four days in the tomb."

Out came the dead man, wrapped hand and foot with grave-clothes, and his face bound up in a napkin. Jesus said to them, "Untie him, and let him go."

"What are we going to do?" they said, "now that this man is performing many signs?" If we leave him alone, this way, every one will believe on him, and the Romans will come and rob us of both our sacred place and of our people."

"You know nothing at all, nor do you consider that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, rather than the whole nation be destroyed."

"The hour is come that the Son of man should be glorified.

If any one is ready to serve me, let him follow me; and where I am there shall my servant be also. If any man is ready to serve me, him will my Father honor.

"AND I, IF I BE LIFTED UP FROM THE EARTH, WILL DRAW ALL MEN UNTO MYSELF."

Then the people answered. "We have heard out of the Law that the Christ abides forever. What do you mean by 'The Son of man must be lifted up'? Who is this Son of man?"

For they loved the approval of men rather than the approval of God.

So when he was gone, Jesus said: "Now has the Son of man been glorified, and God has been glorified in him.

By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another."

Jesus answered him. "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No man ever comes to the Father but by me.

"He that loves me not does not obey words, and yet the words to which you are listening are not mine, but the Father's who sent me.

"Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

He will glorify me; for he will take of what is mine and will make known to you.

Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said that he will take of what is mine and make it known to you.

At this some of his disciples said among themselves. "What does he mean by telling us, 'In a little while you shall behold me no more; and again in a little while you shall see me,' and 'because I am going to the Father'?"

So they kept asking. "What does that 'little while' mean of which he speaks? We do not know what he is talking about."

So you also have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your heart will rejoice, and your joy shall no man snatch away from you.

"behold the hour approaches and is already come when you will be scattered, each man to his home, and will leave me alone; and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

"I have made known thy name to the men whom thou gavest me out of the world. Thine they were, and thou gavest them to me, and they have kept thy word.

and all thine are mine, and mine are thine; and I am glorified in them.

and led him to Annas first. (For Annas was the Father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was the high priest that year??14 the Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it was for their advantage that one man should die for the people.)

The doorkeeper (a maid servant) then said to Peter, "Are not you also one of this man's disciples?" "No I am not," he answered.

One of the slaves of the high priest, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Did not I myself see you with him in the garden."

So Pilate came outside to them and asked, "What charge do you bring against this man?"

"You are a king, then? You!" said Pilate. "You say truly that I am a king." answered Jesus, "for this purpose I was born, and to this end came I into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Every man who is of the truth listens to my voice."

"I find no crime in this man. Now it is a custom of yours that I release one prisoner to you at the time of the Passover feast. Do you wish me to release to you the King of the Jews?"

Then as Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, "BEHOLD, THE MAN!"

After that Pilate began to seek to release him, but the Jews shouted out. "If you release this man you are no friend of the Emperor. Any man who makes himself out to be king is a rebel against the Emperor."

So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man and of the other who had been crucified with him.

While they were gazing into the sky as he was going up, suddenly there were two men in white garments standing by them,

and they said: "Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing into the sky? This same Jesus who has been taken up from you into the sky will come back in just the same way as you have seen him going into the sky."

"Men and brothers, it was necessary for the Scripture to be fulfilled which the Holy Spirit uttered beforehand by the lips of David in regard to Judas who acted as guide to those who arrested Jesus.

"Now this man bought a plot of ground with the price of his treachery, and falling there headlong he burst asunder and all his bowels gushed out.

"For it is written in the Book of Psalms, Let his dwelling-place be desolate; Let no man dwell there, also, Let another take his work.

"It is necessary then that, of the men who have been associated with us during the whole time in which the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

and they prayed, saying. "Thou, O Lord, who knowest the hearts of all men, show clearly which of these two men thou hast chosen to fill the place

So when this noise was heard, the crowd gathered in bewilderment because each man heard them speaking in his own language.

we all hear these men telling in our own tongue what great things God has done."

All were astonished and bewildered and kept saying to one another, "What can this mean?"

But others were saying with jeer, "These men are full of sweet wine."

Then Peter, with the Eleven, stood up and addresses them in a loud voice. "Men of Judea and dwellers in Jerusalem, have no doubt about this matter, but listen to what I say.

"These men are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only nine o'clock in the morning.

"In the last days, God says, it shall come to pass that I will pour out my Spirit upon all mankind; "Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions, your old men shall dream dreams;

upon my slaves, both men and women, in those days, will I pour out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy.

Into darkness shall the sun be turned, And into blood the moon, Ere the day of the Lord come, that great and terrible day.

"Men of Israel, listen to these words. Jesus the Nazarene, a man accredited to you by God, through mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him among you, as you yourselves know;

him, delivered up by the settled purpose and fore-knowledge of God, you crucified and killed at the hands of lawless men;

"Men and brothers, I can speak plainly to you concerning the patriarch David, because he not only died and was buried, but his tomb is among us even to this very day.

When they heard these words they were stung to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles. "Men and brothers, what shall we do?"

when a man lame from his birth was carried along, who was wont to be laid each day near the gate of the Temple called the Beautiful Gate, to ask alms of those who were going into the Temple.

and recognized that this was the man who used to sit and beg at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple, they were filled with awe and amazement at what had happened to him.

When he saw this, Peter said to the people. "Men of Israel, why are you wondering at this? Why do you stare at us, as if by our own power or piety we had made this man to walk?

"And his name, on the ground of faith in his name, has made strong this man, whom you now see and know; yes, the faith that is through him has made this man sound and strong again, in the presence of you all.