"There was one thing I did," replied Jesus, "at which you are all still wondering.

Therefore, Jesus, as he was teaching in the Temple Courts, raised his voice and said: "Yes; you know me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on my own authority, but he who sent me may be trusted; and him you do not know.

So they sought to arrest him; but no one touched him, for his time was not come yet.

On the last and greatest day of the Festival, Jesus, who was standing by, exclaimed: "If any one thirsts, let him come to me, and drink.

So there was a sharp division among the people on account of Jesus.

While he was speaking in this way, many came to believe in him.

"We are descendants of Abraham," was their answer, "and have never yet been in slavery to any one. What do you mean by saying 'you will be set free'?"

"Our father is Abraham," was their answer. "If you are Abraham's children," replied Jesus, "do what Abraham did.

As for you, you are children of your Father the Devil, and you are determined to do what your father loves to do. He was a murderer from the first, and did not stand by the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he does what is natural to him; because he is a liar, and the father of lying.

Your ancestor Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day; and he did see it, and was glad."

"In truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "before Abraham existed I was."

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

"Neither the man nor the parents," replied Jesus; "but he was born blind that the work of God should be made plain in him.

"Go," he said, "and wash your eyes in the Bath of Siloam" (a word which means 'Messenger'). So the man went and washed his eyes, and returned able to see.

"The man whom they call Jesus," he answered, "made clay, and anointed my eyes, and said to me 'Go to Siloam and wash your eyes.' So I went and washed my eyes, and gained my sight."

Now it was a Sabbath when Jesus made the clay and gave him his sight.

So there was a difference of opinion among them, and they again questioned the man; "What do you yourself say about him, for it is to you that he has given sight?"

"Is this your son," they asked, "who you say was born blind? If so, how is it that he can see now?"

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

But how it is that he can see now we do not know; nor do we know who it was that gave him his sight. Ask him--he is old enough- -he will tell you about himself."

This was why his parents said 'He is old enough; ask him.'

"I know nothing about his being a bad man," he replied; "one thing I do know, that although I was blind, now I can see."

Since the world began, such a thing was never heard of as any one's giving sight to a person born blind.

And Jesus added: "It was to put men to the test that I came into this world, in order that those that cannot see should see, and that those that can see should become blind."

This was the allegory that Jesus told them, but they did not understand of what he was speaking.

Soon after this the Festival of the Re-dedication was held at Jerusalem.

It was winter; and Jesus was walking in the Temple Courts, in the Colonnade of Solomon,

"John gave no sign of his mission," they said; "but everything that he said about this man was true."

Now a man named Lazarus, of Bethany, was lying ill; he belonged to the same village as Mary and her sister Martha.

This Mary, whose brother Lazarus was ill, was the Mary who anointed the Master with perfume, and wiped his feet with her hair.

Yet, when he heard of the illness of Lazarus, he still stayed two days in the place where he was.

But Jesus meant that he was dead; they, however, supposed that he was speaking of natural sleep.

And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may learn to believe in me. But let us go to him."

At this, Thomas, who was called 'The Twin,' said to his fellow-disciples: "Let us go too, so that we may die with him."

When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him; but Mary sat quietly at home.

"Yes Master," she answered; "I have learned to believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, 'who was to come' into the world."

Jesus had not then come into the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him.

So the Jews, who were in the house with Mary, condoling with her, when they saw her get up quickly and go out, followed her, thinking that she was going to the tomb to weep there.

When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she threw herself at his feet. "Master," she exclaimed, "if you had been here, my brother would not have died!"

When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her weeping also, he groaned deeply, and was greatly distressed.

Again groaning inwardly, Jesus came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay against the mouth of it.

One of them, however, Caiaphas, who was High Priest that year, said to them:

Now he did not say this of his own accord; but, as High Priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was to die for the nation--

But the Jewish Festival of the Passover was near; and many people had gone up from the country to Jerusalem, for their 'purification,' before the Festival began.

The Chief Priests and the Pharisees had already issued orders that, if any one learned where Jesus was, he should give information, 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.

There a supper was given in honor at which Martha waited, while Lazarus was one of those present at the table.

So Mary took a pound of choice spikenard perfume of great value, and anointed the feet of Jesus with it, and then wiped them with her hair. The whole house was filled with the scent of the perfume.

One of the disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was about to betray Jesus, asked:

"Why was not this perfume sold for thirty pounds, and the money given to poor people?"

He said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and, being in charge of the purse, used to take what was put in it.

Now great numbers of the Jews found out that Jesus was at Bethany; and they came there, not solely on his account, but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

Because it was owing to him that many of the Jews had left them, and were becoming believers in Jesus.

On the following day great numbers of people who had come to the Festival, hearing that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem, took palm-branches,

This, indeed, was why the crowd met him--because people had heard that he had given this sign of his mission.

This was his reply-- "The time has come for the Son of Man to be exalted.

Now I am distressed at heart and what can I say? Father, bring me safe through this hour--yet it was for this very reason that I came to this hour--

The crowd of bystanders, who heard the sound, said that it was thundering. Others said: "An angel has been speaking to him."

"It was not for my sake that the voice came," said Jesus, "but for yours.

By these words he indicated what death he was destined to die.

Isaiah said this, because he saw Christ's glory; and it was of him that he spoke.

And at supper, Jesus--although knowing that the Father had put everything into his hands, and that he had come from God, and was to return to God--

He then poured some water into the basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel which was tied round him.

When he came to Simon Peter, Peter said: "You, Master! Are you going to wash my feet?"

"You shall never wash my feet!" exclaimed Peter. "Unless I wash you," answered Jesus, "you have nothing in common with me."

"He who has bathed," replied Jesus, "has no need to wash, unless it be his feet, but is altogether clean; and you," he said to the disciples, "are clean, yet not all of you."

For he knew who was going to betray him, and that was why he said 'You are not all clean.'

If I, then--'the Master' and 'the Teacher'--have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet;

After saying this, Jesus was much troubled, and said solemnly: "In truth I tell you that it is one of you who will betray me."

Next to Jesus, in the place on his right hand, was one of his disciples, whom he loved.

And it was then, after he had received it, that Satan took possession of him. So Jesus said to him: "Do at once what you are going to do."

Some thought that, as Judas kept the purse, Jesus meant that he was to buy some things needed for the Festival, or to give something to the poor.

After taking the piece of bread, Judas went out immediately; and it was night.

You heard me say that I was going away and would return to you. Had you loved me, you would have been glad that I was going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I.

It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you, and I appointed you to go and bear fruit--fruit that should remain, so that the Father might grant you whatever you ask in my Name.

I did not tell you all this at first, because I was with you. But now I am to return to him who sent me; and yet not one of you asks me--'Where are you going?'

They recognize now that everything that thou gavest me was from thee;

Whilst I was with them, I kept them by that revelation, and I have guarded them; and not one of them has been lost, except that lost soul--in fulfillment of Scripture.

When Jesus had said this, he went out with his disciples and crossed the brook Kedron to a place where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples went.

The place was well known to Judas, the betrayer, for Jesus and his disciples had often met there.

Jesus, aware of all that was coming upon him, went to meet them, and said to them: "For whom are you looking?"

"Jesus of Nazareth," was their answer. "I am he," said Jesus. (Judas, the betrayer, was also standing with them.)

This was in fulfillment of his words-- 'Of those whom thou hast given me I have not lost one.'

At this, Simon Peter, who had a sword with him, drew it, and struck the High Priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus.

And took him first of all to Annas. Annas was the father-in- law of Caiaphas, who was High Priest that year.

It was Caiaphas who had counseled the Jews, that it was best that one man should die for the people.

The servants and police-officers were standing round a char- coal fire (which they had made because it was cold), and were warming themselves. Peter, too, was with them, standing and warming himself.

When Jesus said this, one of the police-officers, who was standing near, gave him a blow with his hand. "Do you answer the High Priest like that?" he exclaimed.

Meanwhile Simon Peter was standing there, warming himself; so they said to him: "Are not you also one of his disciples?" Peter denied it. "No, I am not," he said.

From Caiaphas they took Jesus to the Government House. It was early in the morning. But they did not enter the Government House themselves, lest they should become 'defiled,' and so be unable to eat the Passover.

In fulfillment of what Jesus had said when indicating the death that he was destined to die.

"Do you take me for a Jew?" was Pilate's answer. "It is your own nation and the Chief Priests who have given you up to me. What have you done?"

"So you are a King after all!" exclaimed Pilate. "Yes, it is true I am a King," answered Jesus. "I was born for this, I have come into the world for this--to bear testimony to the Truth. Every one who is on the side of Truth listens to my voice."

"No, not this man," they shouted again, "but Barabbas!" This Barabbas was a robber.

It was the Passover Preparation Day, and about noon. Then he said to the Jews: "Here is your King!"

These words were read by many of the Jews, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and they were written in Hebrew, Latin and Greek.

So they said to one another: "Do not let us tear it, but let us cast lots for it, to see who shall have it." This was in fulfillment of the words of Scripture--'They shared my clothes among them, And over my clothing they cast lots.' That was what the soldiers did.

Afterwards, knowing that everything was now finished, Jesus said, in fulfillment of the words of Scripture: "I am thirsty."

There was a bowl standing there full of common wine; so they put a sponge soaked in the wine on the end of a hyssop-stalk, and held it up to his mouth.

It was the Preparation Day, and so, to prevent the bodies from remaining on the crosses during the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a great day), the Jews asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies removed.