And this was the answer of Jesus: I have not an evil spirit; but I give honour to my Father and you do not give honour to me.

upon this said the Jews to him, now we plainly perceive you are mad. Abraham is dead, and the prophets too; and yet you say, if a man observes your doctrine, he shall never die.

Your father Abraham exulted for joy that he should see this day of mine: and saw it, and rejoiced.

At this, they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the Temple.

And his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this man, or his parents, that he should be born blind?

Jesus answered, Neither did this man sin, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.

While I am in the world, I am the light of the world. Having said this,

Having said this, he spat on the ground and made some mud with the saliva. He smeared the mud on the blind man's eyes

The neighbors therefore, and they that saw him aforetime, that he was a beggar, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?

Some said, This is he; others said, No, but he is like him; he said, I am he.

They took him before the Pharisees--this man who had been blind.

Some therefore of the Pharisees said, This man is not from God, because he keepeth not the sabbath. But others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such signs? And there was division among them.

The Jews did not believe this about him—that he was blind and received sight—until they summoned the parents of the one who had received his sight.

and asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? How then doth he now see?

His parents answered and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind:

They said this because of their fear of the Jews: for the Jews had come to an agreement that if any man said that Jesus was the Christ he would be put out of the Synagogue.

Because of this his parents said, "{He is a mature adult}; ask him.")

So they called a second time the man that was blind, and said unto him, Give glory to God: we know that this man is a sinner.

Then answered he and said, Whether this man be a sinner, I know not: one thing I do know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.

At this, they turned on him in fury and said, "You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses!

We know that God hath spoken unto Moses: but as for this man, we know not whence he is.

The man answered, and said unto them, Why this is something strange, that ye know not whence He is, and yet He hath opened mine eyes.

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

It has never been heard of in this world that anyone ever made the eyes of a man who was born blind to see.

If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.

Jesus heard that they had done this. So having found him, He asked him, "Do you believe in the Son of God?"

And Jesus said, For judgment came I into this world, that they that see not may see; and that they that see may become blind.

Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this and asked, "We are not blind, are we?"

But the One [i.e., Jesus is referring to Himself] who enters [it] through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep [Note: "Sheep" in this section refers to Jesus' followers].

For this one the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.

This is because he is a hired man and does not care a straw for the sheep.

And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice: and they shall become one flock, one shepherd.

'Because of this doth the Father love me, because I lay down my life, that again I may take it;

no one doth take it from me, but I lay it down of myself; authority I have to lay it down, and authority I have again to take it; this command I received from my Father.'

There was another schism therefore among the Jews, occasion'd by this discourse.

Many of them said, "This man is dominated by an evil spirit; he is crazy, why listen to him?"

others said, this is not the language of one possess'd: can a demon give sight to the blind?

At that time the Feast of Dedication took place at Jerusalem.

Jesus was walking in the Temple [area] in "Solomon's Portico" [Note: This was a large covered area, with rows of columns, on the outside of the Temple enclosure].

And seeing this, Jesus said: "I have done before your eyes many good actions, inspired by the Father; for which of them would you stone me?"

This was their answer: We are not stoning you for a good work but for evil words; because being a man you make yourself God.

But if I am doing them and you don’t believe Me, believe the works. This way you will know and understand that the Father is in Me and I in the Father.”

Upon this the Jews again sought to arrest him; but he escaped their hands.

and many came unto him, and said -- 'John, indeed, did no sign, and all things, as many as John said about this one were true;'

It was the Mary who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.

his two sisters therefore sent this message to Jesus; he, Lord, whom you love, is sick.

and Jesus having heard, said, 'This ailment is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.'

then after this, he saith to the disciples, 'We may go to Judea again;'

Jesus answered, 'Are there not twelve hours in the day? if any one may walk in the day, he doth not stumble, because the light of this world he doth see;

These things he said, and after this he saith to them, 'Lazarus our friend hath fallen asleep, but I go on that I may awake him;'

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

and no one who lives and believes in me shall ever die; do you believe this?

believest thou this?' she saith to him, 'Yes, sir, I have believed that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming to the world.'

And having said this she went away and called Mary her sister, privately, saying, The teacher has come and calls for you.

And Mary, hearing this, got up quickly and went to him.

Now Jesus had not at this time come into the town, but was still in the place where Martha had seen him.

When Jesus saw her and her Jewish friends, who had come with her, crying, He felt distressed in His spirit and [visibly] troubled [Note: This last word means to shake with emotion, and seems to have been caused by His deep sympathy for these grieving people],

But some of them said, "Surely the one who opened the eyes of the blind man could have kept this man from dying, couldn't he?"

This made Jesus chafe afresh, so he went to the tomb; it was a cave with a boulder to close it.

Jesus said, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of the dead, said to him, Lord, by this time he smells; for he has been dead four days.

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."

After saying this, he shouted with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"

In consequence of this, many of the Jews, who had come to visit Mary and had seen what Jesus did, learned to believe in him.

So the high priests and the Pharisees assembled the Council and said, "What are we going to do? This man is performing many signs.

If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our Temple and our nation."

But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing about this;

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

It was for this reason that Jesus no more appeared in public among the Jews, but He left that part of the country and went to the district near the desert, to a town called Ephraim, and stayed there with His disciples.

Then Mary took about a pint of expensive, aromatic perfume; [it was] genuine nard [Note: This was a sweet-smelling herb] and poured [some of] it on Jesus' feet and wiped them with her hair. The [whole] house was filled with the fragrant scent of the perfume.

"Why wasn't this perfume sold for 300 denarii and the money given to the destitute?"

He said this, not because he cared about the destitute, but because he was a thief. He was in charge of the moneybag and would steal what was put into it.

Then Jesus said, Let her alone, that she may keep this for the day of preparation for my burial;

[So], they took branches from palm trees and went out to meet Him, shouting, "Hosanna [Note: See Matt. 21:9 for the meaning of this word], may He, the King of Israel, be praised, for He comes in the name [i.e., by the authority] of the Lord!"

this passage his disciples did not understand at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, they remembred how they had mounted him, and perceiv'd that those words related to him.

The crowd of people that was with Jesus [and saw Him] when He called Lazarus out of the grave and raised him from the dead, gave testimony [about all this].

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

So, the Pharisees were saying among themselves, "Look, you men are getting nowhere [in this situation]. See, the [whole] world has gone after him."

these came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, with a request, saying, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.”

Philip went and told [this to] Andrew [his brother]; [then] Andrew and Philip told [it to] Jesus.

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

The one who loves his life will destroy it, and the one who hates his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life.

"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.

father, glorify thy name." then there came this voice from heaven, "I have glorified it, and will glorify it again."

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."

Jesus replied, "This voice is for your benefit, not for mine.

Now is the time for the judgment of this world to begin. Now the ruler of this world will be thrown out.

He said this to indicate the kind of death he was about to die.

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?"

Who is this Son of man? Then Jesus said to them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness overtake you, for he that walketh in darkness, knoweth not whither he goeth.

As long as you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become children of light." After Jesus had said this, he went away and hid from them.

This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet which he spoke: “Lord, who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”

This is why they could not believe: Isaiah also said,

Isaiah said this when he saw his glory and spoke about him.

Nevertheless, even many of the leading men believed in Him [as Savior and Messiah], but because of the Pharisees they would not confess it, for fear that [if they acknowledged Him openly] they would be put out of the synagogue (excommunicated);

The one who rejects Me and doesn’t accept My sayings has this as his judge: The word I have spoken will judge him on the last day.

For I have never spoken on My own initiative or authority, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a commandment regarding what to say and what to speak.

Now before the Passover Festival, Jesus realized that his hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

While supper was proceeding, the Devil having by this time suggested to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, the thought of betraying Him, Jesus,

"Any one who has lately bathed," said Jesus, "does not need to wash more than his feet, but is clean all over. And you my disciples are clean, and yet this is not true of all of you."