"In most solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "that you are searching for me not because you have seen miracles, but because you ate the loaves and had a hearty meal.

Bestow your pains not on the food which perishes, but on the food that remains unto the Life of the Ages--that food which will be the Son of Man's gift to you; for on Him the Father, God, has set His seal."

"In most solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "that Moses did not give you the bread out of Heaven, but my Father is giving you the bread--the true bread--out of Heaven.

But it is as I have said to you: you have seen me and yet you do not believe.

For I have left Heaven and have come down to earth not to seek my own pleasure, but to do the will of Him who sent me.

And this is the will of Him who sent me, that of all that He has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it to life on the last day.

But, knowing in Himself that His disciples were dissatisfied about it, Jesus asked them,

But there are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were that did not believe, and who it was that would betray Him.

But the Jewish Festival of the Tent-Pitching was approaching.

So His brothers said to Him, "Leave these parts and go into Judaea, that not only we but your disciples also may witness the miracles which you perform.

"My time," replied Jesus, "has not yet come, but for you any time is suitable.

It is impossible for the world to hate you; but me it does hate, because I give testimony concerning it that its conduct is evil.

When however His brothers had gone up to the Festival, then He also went up, not openly, but as it were privately.

But when the Festival was already half over, Jesus went up to the Temple and commenced teaching.

Jesus answered their question by saying, "My teaching does not belong to me, but comes from Him who sent me.

Consider therefore. Moses gave you the rite of circumcision (not that it began with Moses, but with your earlier forefathers)

Do not form superficial judgements, but form the judgements that are just."

But here he is, speaking openly and boldly, and they say nothing to him! Can the Rulers really have ascertained that this man is the Christ?

And yet we know this man, and we know where he is from; but as for the Christ, when He comes, no one can tell where He is from."

Jesus therefore, while teaching in the Temple, cried aloud, and said, "Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from. And yet I have not come of my own accord; but there is One who has sent me, an Authority indeed, of whom you have no knowledge.

But from among the crowd a large number believed in Him. "When the Christ comes," they said, "will He perform more miracles than this teacher has performed?"

What do those words of his mean, 'You will look for me, but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come'?"

Others said, "He is the Christ." But others again, "Not so, for is the Christ to come from Galilee?

Some of them wanted at once to arrest Him, but no one laid hands upon Him.

But this rabble who understand nothing about the Law are accursed!"

but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

Now, in the Law, Moses has ordered us to stone such women to death. But what do you say?"

They asked this in order to put Him to the test, so that they might have some charge to bring against Him. But Jesus leant forward and began to write with His finger on the ground.

Once more Jesus addressed them. "I am the Light of the world," He said; "the man who follows me shall certainly not walk in the dark, but shall have the light of Life."

"Even if I am giving testimony about myself," replied Jesus, "my testimony is true; for I know where I came from and where I am going, but you know neither of these two things.

And even if I do judge, my judgement is just; for I am not alone, but the Father who sent me is with me.

Again He said to them, "I am going away. Then you will try to find me, but you will die in your sins. Where I am going, it is impossible for you to come."

"Many things I have to speak and to judge concerning you. But He who sent me is true, and the things which I have heard from Him are those which I have come into the world to speak."

So Jesus added, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He. Of myself I do nothing; but as the Father has taught me, so I speak.

Now a slave does not remain permanently in his master's house, but a son does.

You are descendants of Abraham, I know; but you want to kill me, because my teaching gains no ground within you.

But, in fact, you are longing to kill me, a man who has spoken to you the truth which I have heard from God. Abraham did not do that.

"If God were your Father," said Jesus, "you would love me; for it is from God that I came and I am now here. I have not come of myself, but *He* sent me.

But because I speak the truth, you do not believe me.

You do not know Him, but I know Him perfectly; and were I to deny my knowledge of Him, I should resemble you, and be a liar. On the contrary I do know Him, and I obey His commands.

Thereupon they took up stones with which to stone Him, but He hid Himself and went away out of the Temple.

"Neither he nor his parents sinned," answered Jesus, "but he was born blind in order that God's mercy might be openly shown in him.

"Yes it is," replied some of them. "No it is not," said others, "but he is like him." His own statement was, "I am the man."

"Where is he?" they inquired, but the man did not know.

but how it is that he can now see or who has opened his eyes we do not know. Ask him himself; he is of full age; he himself will give his own account of it."

Then they railed at him, and said, "You are that man's disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.

We know that God spoke to Moses; but as for this fellow we do not know where he comes from."

We know that God does not listen to bad people, but that if any one is a God-fearing man and obeys Him, to him He listens.

"If you were blind," answered Jesus, "you would have no sin; but as a matter of fact you boast that you see. So your sin remains!"

"In most solemn truth I tell you that the man who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs over some other way, is a thief and a robber.

But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

But a stranger they will by no means follow, but will run away from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."

Jesus spoke to them in this figurative language, but they did not understand what He meant.

All who have come before me are thieves and robbers; but the sheep would not listen to them.

No one is taking it away from me, but I myself am laying it down. I am authorized to lay it down, and I am authorized to receive it back again. This is the command I received from my Father."

But you do not believe, because you are not my sheep.

"For no good deed," the Jews replied, "are we going to stone you, but for blasphemy, and because you, who are only a man, are making yourself out to be God."

But if they are, then even if you do not believe me, at least believe the deeds, that you may know and see clearly that the Father is in me, and that I am in the Father."

This made them once more try to arrest Him, but He withdrew out of their power.

Large numbers of people also came to Him. Their report was, "John did not work any miracle, but all that John said about this Teacher was true."

Jesus received the message and said, "This illness is not to end in death, but is to promote the glory of God, in order that the Son of God may be glorified by it."

But if a man walks by night, he does stumble, because the light is not in him."

He said this, and afterwards He added, "Our friend Lazarus is sleeping, but I will go and wake him."

Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought He referred to the rest taken in ordinary sleep.

"Lazarus is dead; and for your sakes I am glad I was not there, in order that you may believe. But let us go to him."

Martha, however, as soon as she heard the tidings, "Jesus is coming," went to meet Him; but Mary remained sitting in the house.

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

But others of them asked, "Was this man who opened the blind man's eyes unable to prevent this man from dying?"

I know that Thou always hearest me; but for the sake of the crowd standing round I have said this--that they may believe that Thou didst send me."

But one of them, named Caiaphas, being High Priest that year, said, "You know nothing about it.

It was not as a mere man that he thus spoke. But being High Priest that year he was inspired to declare that Jesus was to die for the nation,

and not for the nation only, but in order to unite into one body all the far-scattered children of God.

Therefore Jesus no longer went about openly among the Jews, but He left that neighbourhood and went into the district near the Desert, to a town called Ephraim, and remained there with the disciples.

So they gave a dinner there in honour of Jesus, at which Martha waited at table, but Lazarus was one of the guests who were with Him.

The reason he said this was not that he cared for the poor, but that he was a thief, and that being in charge of the money-box, he used to steal what was put into it.

But Jesus interposed. "Do not blame her," He said, "allow her to have kept it for the time of my preparation for burial.

For the poor you always have with you, but you have not me always."

Now it became widely known among the Jews that Jesus was there; but they came not only on His account, but also in order to see Lazarus whom He had brought back to life.

The meaning of this His disciples did not understand at the time; but after Jesus was glorified they recollected that this was written about Him, and that they had done this to Him.

In most solemn truth I tell you that unless the grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains what it was--a single grain; but that if it dies, it yields a rich harvest.

Now is my soul full of trouble; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But for this purpose I have come to this hour.

"It is not for my sake," said Jesus, "that that voice came, but for your sakes.

But though He had performed such great miracles in their presence, they did not believe in Him--

Nevertheless even from among the Rulers many believed in Him. But because of the Pharisees they did not avow their belief, for fear they should be shut out from the synagogue.

But Jesus cried aloud, "He who believes in me, believes not so much in me, as in Him who sent me;

And if any one hears my teachings and regards them not, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

Because I have not spoken on my own authority; but the Father who sent me, Himself gave me a command what to say and in what words to speak.

"What I am doing," answered Jesus, "for the present you do not know, but afterwards you shall know."

"Master," said Peter, "wash not only my feet, but also my hands and my head."

"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."

I am not speaking of all of you. I know whom I have chosen, but things are as they are in order that the Scripture may be fulfilled, which says, 'He who eats my bread has lifted up his heel against me.'

But why He said this no one else at the table understood.

Dear children, I am still with you a little longer. You will seek me, but, as I said to the Jews, 'Where I am going you cannot come,' so for the present I say to you.

"Master," inquired Simon Peter, "where are you going?" "Where I am going," replied Jesus, "you cannot be my follower now, but you shall be later."

Do you not believe that I am in the Father and that the Father is in me? The things that I tell you all I do not speak on my own authority: but the Father dwelling within me carries on His own work.

Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me: because I live, you also shall live.

He who has no love for me does not obey my teaching; and yet the teaching to which you are listening is not mine, but is the teaching of the Father who sent me.

But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send at my request, will teach you everything, and will bring to your memories all that I have said to you.

but it is in order that the world may know that I love the Father, and that it is in obedience to the command which the Father gave me that I thus act. Rise, let us be going."

No longer do I call you servants, because a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because all that I have heard from the Father I have made known to you.