When the people saw the signs that he showed, they said, "This is really the Prophet who was to come into the world!"

Next day the people who had stayed on the other side of the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not embarked in it with his disciples, but that the disciples had gone away by themselves.

Jesus said to them, "I am the bread that gives life. No one who comes to me will ever be hungry, and no one who believes in me will ever be thirsty.

All that my Father gives to me will come to me, and I will never refuse anyone who comes to me,

for I have come down from heaven not to do what I please but what pleases him who has sent me.

And the purpose of him who has sent me is this, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but should raise them to life on the Last Day.

For it is the purpose of my Father that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and that I shall raise him to life on the Last Day."

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him to me; then I myself will raise him to life on the Last Day.

In the prophets it is written, 'And all men will be taught by God!' Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him will come to me.

Not that anyone has ever seen the Father, except him who is from God; he has seen the Father.

But here is bread that comes down out of heaven, and no one who eats it will ever die.

Just as the living Father has sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who lives on me will live because of me.

Many of his disciples on hearing it said, "This is a harsh teaching! Who can listen to it?"

Yet there are some of you who will not believe." For Jesus knew from the first who would not believe, and who was going to betray him.

Simon Peter answered, "To whom can we go, sir? You have a message of eternal life,

So Jesus answered, "My teaching is not my own; it comes from him who has sent me.

Anyone who resolves to do his will will know whether my teaching comes from God, or originates with me.

Whoever speaks simply for himself is looking for honor for himself, but whoever looks for honor for the person who has sent him shows his sincerity; there is no dishonesty about him.

Was it not Moses who gave you the Law? Yet not one of you obeys the Law. Why are you trying to kill me?"

The crowd answered, "You must be possessed! Who is trying to kill you?"

So Jesus, as he was teaching in the Temple, cried out, "You do know me and you do know where I come from, and I have not come of my own accord but someone who is very real, whom you do not know, has sent me.

Jesus said, "I am to be with you a little while longer, and then I am going to him who has sent me.

He meant by this the Spirit which those who believed in him were to receive??or the Spirit had not yet come, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

But these common people who do not know the Law are doomed!"

One of them, Nicodemus, who had previously gone to Jesus, said to them,

But even if I do judge, my decision is just, because I am not by myself, but the Father who sent me is with me.

Here I am testifying to myself, and the Father who has sent me testifies to me."

They said to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them,

"Why do I even talk to you at all? I have a great deal to say about you and to condemn in you, yet he who sent me is truthful, and the things that I say to the world are things that I have learned from him."

And he who has sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what pleases him."

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you abide by what I teach, you are really disciples of mine,

Jesus answered, "I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin.

But instead you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth he has heard from God. Abraham would not have done that.

Who among you can prove me guilty of sin? But if I tell you the truth, why do you refuse to believe me?

But I do not seek honor for myself; there is someone who seeks it for me, and is the judge of it.

Jesus answered, "If I show special honor to myself, such honor counts for nothing. It is my Father who shows me honor. You say he is your God,

As he passed along, he saw a man who had been blind from his birth.

We must carry on the work of him who has sent me while the daylight lasts. Night is coming, when no one can do any work.

and said to him, "Go and wash them in the Pool of Siloam"?? name which means One who has been sent. So he went and washed them, and went home able to see.

Then his neighbors and people who had formerly seen him begging, said, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"

They took the man who had been blind to the Pharisees.

But the Jews would not believe that he had been blind and had become able to see until they summoned the parents of the man who had been given his sight,

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

But we do not know how it is that he can see now, or who has made him able to see. You must ask him. He is grown up. Let him tell you about himself."

So they again summoned the man who had been blind, and they said to him, "Give God the praise. This man we know is a sinful man."

The man answered, "Who is he, sir? Tell me, so that I may believe in him."

Jesus said to him, "You have seen him already, and it is he who is now talking to you."

And Jesus said, "I have come into this world to judge men, that those who cannot see may see, and that those who can see may become blind."

Some Pharisees who were present heard this, and they said to him, "Then are we blind too?"

"I tell you, any man who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs over at some other place, is a thief and robber.

But the man who enters by the door is the shepherd of the flock.

All who have come before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep would not obey them.

A hired man who is not a shepherd and does not own the sheep, when he sees a wolf coming, will leave the sheep and run away, and the wolf will carry them off and scatter the flock.

Others said, "These are not the words of a man who is possessed. Can a madman make blind men see?"

If those to whom God's message was addressed were called gods??nd the Scripture cannot be set aside??36 do you mean to say to me whom the Father has consecrated and made his messenger to the world, 'You are blasphemous,' because I said, 'I am God's Son'?

It was the Mary who poured perfume upon the Master and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.

Jesus said to her, "I myself am Resurrection and Life. He who believes in me will live on, even if he dies,

and no one who is alive and believes in me will ever die. Do you believe that?"

She said to him, "Yes, Master, I do indeed believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world."

The Jews who were sitting with her in the house, condoling with her, when they saw Mary spring up and go out, supposed that she was going to weep at the tomb, and followed her.

When Jesus saw her weep and the Jews who had come with her weeping too, repressing a groan, and yet showing great agitation,

But some of them said, "Could not this man, who opened the eyes of that blind man, have kept Lazarus from dying?"

So it came about that many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary and saw what Jesus did, came to believe in him,

But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them,

For the high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who found out where he was should let them know, so that they might arrest him.

Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead, was living.

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

A great many of the Jews found out that he was there, and they came to Bethany not only to see Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

got palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting, "God bless him! God bless him who comes in the Lord's name! Blessings on the king of Israel!"

There were some Greeks among those who had come up to worship at the festival,

and they went to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and made this request of him: "Sir, we want to see Jesus."

The crowd answered, "We have learned from the Law that the Christ is to remain here forever. So how can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?"

Jesus said to them, "You will have the light only a little while longer. Go on while you still have the light, so that darkness may not overtake you, for those who go about in the dark do not know where they are going.

in fulfilment of the saying of the prophet Isaiah, "Lord, who has believed our account? And to whom has the Lord's mighty arm been unveiled?"

But Jesus cried loudly, "Whoever believes in me, believes not in me but in him who has sent me;

and whoever sees me, sees him who has sent me.

I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me may have to remain in darkness.

for I have not spoken on my account, but the Father who has sent me has himself given me orders what to tell and what to say.

Before the Passover Festival began, Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father, but he had loved those who were his own in the world, and he loved them to the last.

Jesus said to him, "Anyone who has bathed only needs to have his feet washed to be altogether clean. And you are already clean??hough not all of you."

For he knew who was going to betray him; that was why he said, "You are not all of you clean."

I tell you, no slave is superior to his master, and no messenger is greater than the man who sends him.

I do not mean all of you; I know whom I have chosen; but let the Scripture be fulfilled: " 'He who is eating my bread Has raised his heel against me.'

I assure you, whoever welcomes any messenger of mine welcomes me and whoever welcomes me welcomes him who has sent me."

Next to Jesus, at his right at the table, was one of his disciples whom Jesus especially loved.

So Simon Peter nodded to him and said to him, "Tell us whom he means."

He leaned back from where he lay, on Jesus' breast, and said to him, "Master, who is it?"

Jesus answered, "It is the one to whom I am going to give this piece of bread when I have dipped it in the dish." So he dipped the piece of bread and took it and gave it to Judas, Simon Iscariot's son.

Do you not believe that I am in union with the Father and the Father is in union with me? I am not the source of the words that I say to you, but the Father who is united with me is doing these things himself.

It is he who has my commands and observes them that really loves me, and whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and show myself to him."

Jesus answered, "Anyone who loves me will observe my teaching, and my Father will love him and we will come to him and live with him.

No one who does not love me will observe my teaching, and yet the teaching you are listening to is not mine but is that of him who has sent me.

I am the vine, you are the branches. Anyone who remains united to me, with me united to him, will be very fruitful, for you cannot do anything apart from me.

Anyone who does not remain united to me is thrown away like a branch and withers up, and they gather them and throw them into the fire and burn them.

It was not you who chose me, it is I that have chosen you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit??ruit that shall be lasting, so that the Father may grant you whatever you ask him for as my followers.

But they will do all this to you on my account, because they do not understand him who sent me.

When the Helper comes whom I will send to you from the Father??hat Spirit of Truth that comes from the Father??e will bear testimony to me,

They will exclude you from their synagogues; why, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is doing religious service to God.

But now I am going away to him who sent me, and not one of you asks me where I am going,

just as you have done in giving him power over all mankind, so that he may give eternal life to all whom you have given him.