Jesus said to them, "I tell you, Moses did not give you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the bread out of heaven,

But as I have told you, although you have seen me, you will not believe.

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.

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

But Jesus, knowing that his disciples were complaining about this, said to them, "Does this stagger you?

But the Jewish camping festival was coming.

Then Jesus said to them, "It is not yet time for me to act, but any time is suitable for you.

It is impossible for the world to hate you, but it does hate me for testifying that its ways are wrong.

But after his brothers had gone up to the festival, then Jesus went up also, not publicly, but as though he did not wish to be observed.

and there was a great deal of muttering about him among the crowds, some saying that he was a good man, and others that he was not, but was imposing on the people.

But no one spoke of him in public, for fear of the Jews.

But when the festival was half over, Jesus went up to the Temple and began to teach.

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.

Yet Moses gave you the rite of circumcision??ot that it began with Moses but with your forefathers??nd you practice it even on the Sabbath.

But if a person undergoes circumcision on a Sabbath, to avoid breaking the Law of Moses, are you angry at me for making a man perfectly well on a Sabbath?

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

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.

But many of the people believed in him, and said, "Will the Christ show more signs when he comes than this man has shown?"

Others said, "This is the Christ!" But they rejoined, "What! Is the Christ to come from Galilee?

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

Then Jesus spoke to them again and said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not have to walk in darkness but will have the light of life."

Jesus answered, "Even if I am testifying to myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I have come from and where I am going; but you do not know where I come from or where I am going.

You judge by material standards, but I am judging nobody.

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.

Then he said to them again, "I am going away, and you will look for me, but you will die in the midst of your sin. You cannot come where I am going."

So Jesus said, "When you lift the Son of Man up in the air, then you will know that I am what I say, and that I do nothing of my own accord, but speak as the Father has instructed me.

Now a slave does not belong to a household permanently; but a son does.

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.

Jesus said to them, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I have come from God. I have not come of my own accord, but he has sent me.

But because I tell the truth you will not believe me.

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

Jesus answered, "I am not possessed, but I have respect for my Father, and you have no respect for me.

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

yet you have never come to know him. But I know him. If I say I do not know him, I will be a liar like yourselves. No! I do know him, and I am faithful to his message.

At that, the Jews picked up stones to throw at him, but he disappeared and made his way out of the Temple.

Jesus answered, "It was neither for his own sin nor for that of his parents, but to let what God can do be illustrated in his case.

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

Then some of the Pharisees said, "This man does not come from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a sinful man show such signs as this?" And there was a division of opinion among them.

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,

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."

Then they sneered at him, and said, "You are a disciple of his yourself, but we are disciples of Moses.

We know that God spoke to Moses, but we do not know where this man came from."

We know that God does not listen to sinful people, but if a man is devout and obeys God, God will listen to him.

Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would be guilty of no sin, but as it is, you say 'We can see'; so your sin continues.

"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.

But they will never follow a stranger but will run away from him, because they do not know the voices of strangers."

This was the figure Jesus used in speaking to them, but they did not understand what he meant by it.

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

This is why the Father loves me, because I am giving my life, but giving it to take it back again.

No one has taken it from me, but I am giving it of my own accord. I have power to give it, and I have power to take it back again. These are the orders I have received from my Father."

but you do not believe it because you do not belong to my sheep.

The Jews answered, "We are not stoning you for doing anything good, but for your impious talk, and because you, a mere man, make yourself out to be God."

But if I am doing them, then even if you will not believe me, believe the things I do, in order that you may realize and learn that the Father is in union with me, and I am in union with the Father."

And people came to him in great numbers, and they said of him, "John did not show any sign in proof of his mission, but all that he said about this man was true."

When Jesus received it he said, "This sickness is not to end in death, but is for the honor of God, that through it the Son of God may be honored."

but if he travels at night he will stumble because he has no light."

He told them this, and then he added, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him."

Now Jesus had referred to his death. But they supposed that he meant a natural falling asleep.

"Lazarus is dead, and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may learn to believe in me. But let us go to him."

When Martha heard that Jesus was coming she went out to meet him, but Mary remained at home.

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

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

though I knew that you always listen to me. But I have said this for the sake of the people that are standing around me that they may believe that you have made me your messenger."

but some of them went back to the Pharisees and told them what he had done.

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

Now he was not self-moved in saying this, but as high priest for that year he was inspired to say that Jesus was to die for the nation??52 and not only for the nation but also for the purpose of uniting the scattered children of God.

In consequence of this, Jesus did not appear in public among the Jews any longer, but he left that neighborhood and went to the district near the desert, to a town called Ephraim, and stayed there with his disciples.

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

But he did not say this because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief and when he had charge of the purse he used to take what was put in it.

for you always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me."

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.

But the high priests planned to kill Lazarus also,

His disciples did not understand this at the time but after Jesus was glorified they remembered that this was said of him in Scripture and that it had happened to him.

I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls on the ground and dies, it remains just one grain. But if it dies, it yields a great harvest.

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

But for all the signs he had shown among them, they refused to believe in him,

Yet for all that, even among the leading men, many came to believe in him, but on account of the Pharisees they would not acknowledge it, for fear of being excluded from the synagogues,

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

If anyone hears my words and disregards them, it is not I that judge him, for I have not come to judge the world but to save the world.

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 answered, "You cannot understand now what I am doing, but you will learn by and by."

Simon Peter said to him, "Master, wash not only my feet but my hands and my face too!"

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.'

But no one else at the table knew what he meant by telling him this,

My children, I am to be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, but, as I said to the Jews, where I am going you cannot follow,

Simon Peter said to him, "Master, where are you going?" Jesus answered, "I am going where you cannot follow me now, but you will follow me later."

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.

In a little while the world will not see me any more, but you will still see me, because I shall live on, and you will live on too.

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.

but the Helper, the holy Spirit which the Father will send in my place, will teach you everything and remind you of everything that I have told you.

but he is coming that the world may know that I love the Father and am doing what he has commanded me to do. Come, let us go away.

I do not call you slaves any longer, for a slave does not know what his master is doing, but now I call you friends, for I have made known to you everything that I have learned from my Father.

If you belonged to the world, the world would love what was its own. But it is because you do not belong to the world, but I have selected you from the world, that the world hates you.

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

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but as it is, they have no excuse for their sin.

If I had not done things before them that no one else ever did they would not be guilty of sin. But as it is, they have seen both me and my Father, and they have hated us both.

But the saying of their Law, 'They hated me without cause,' must be fulfilled.