He continued, "You are from below; I am from above. You belong to this present world; I do not belong to this present world.

They did not understand that He was speaking to them about the Father.

Yes, He who sent me is ever with me; I am not alone, because I always practice what pleases Him."

Now a slave does not live permanently in a household, but a son does.

You are practicing what your real father does." They said to Him, "We are not illegitimate children; we have one Father, even God."

Then Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and now am here. No, indeed, I have not come on my own authority, but He has sent me.

You sprang from the devil, your real father, and you want to practice your father's wishes. He was a murderer from the very start, and he does not stand by the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks out of his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

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

Who of you can prove me guilty of sin? But if I do tell you the truth, why do you not believe me?

Whoever is sprung from God listens to what God says. This is why you do not listen to me: you are not sprung from God."

Then the Jews answered Him, "Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and are under the power of a demon?"

Jesus answered: "I am not under the power of a demon; on the other hand, I am honoring my Father, but you are dishonoring me.

However, I am not seeking honor for myself; there is One who is seeking it for me, and He is judge.

You are not greater than our forefather Abraham, are you? He is dead and the prophets are dead. Who do you claim to be?"

And yet you have not learned to know Him; but I know Him, and if I say I do not know Him, I will be a liar like you. On the other hand, I do know Him and I do follow His teaching.

The Jews then said to Him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?"

We must continue to do the works of Him who sent me while it is daylight. Night is coming when no one can do any work.

Now his neighbors and those who saw that he was formerly blind, kept saying, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"

Then they asked him, "Where is He?" He answered, "I do not know."

Then some of the Pharisees said, "This man does not come from God, for He does not keep the Sabbath." Others said, "How can a sinful man perform such wonder- works?" So there was a difference of opinion among them.

But the Jews did not believe that he had really been blind and that he had come to see again, until they called the parents of the man who saw again,

But we do not know how it is that he now can see, or who it was that made his eyes to see. Ask him; he is of age; he can speak for himself."

Then he answered, "I do not know whether He is a sinner. I do know one thing, that once I was blind but now I can see."

He answered them, "I have already told you and you would not listen to me. Why do you want to hear it again? You do not want to become His disciples, do you?"

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

The man answered them, "Well, there is something strange about this! You do not know where He comes from! And yet He has made my eyes to see!

We know that God does not listen to sinful men, but He does listen to anyone who worships God and lives to do His will.

If this man had not come from God, He could not have done anything like this."

Then Jesus said, "I have come into this world to judge people, so that those who do not see may see, and those who do see may become blind."

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

Jesus answered them, "If you were blind, you would not be guilty, but now you keep on claiming, 'We can see'; so your sin remains."

"I most solemnly say to you, whoever does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs over at some other place is a thief and a robber.

But they will never come on behind a stranger, but will run away from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."

Jesus told them this allegory, but they did not understand what He meant by it.

All who came as such before me are thieves and robbers, but the true sheep would not listen to them.

A thief does not come for any purpose but to steal and kill and destroy; I have come for people to have life and have it till it overflows.

The hired man, who is not a shepherd and does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away, and the wolf carries off some of the sheep and scatters the flock.

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

I have other sheep too that do not belong to this fold. I must lead them too, and they will listen to my voice, and all my sheep will become one flock with one shepherd.

Others said, "These are not the words of a man who is under the power of a demon. A demon cannot make the eyes of the blind see, can he?"

Jesus answered them, "I have already told you so, but you do not believe me. The works which I am doing on my Father's authority are my credentials,

but still you do not believe in me, for you do not belong to my sheep.

The Jews retorted, "It is not for a good deed but for blasphemy we are going to stone you; namely, because you, although a mere man, claim to be God."

Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your law, 'I said, "You are gods"'?

If I am not doing the things that my Father is doing, do not believe me.

But if I am doing so, even if you will not believe me, believe the deeds, that you may come to know and continue to know that the Father is in union with me and I am in union with the Father."

And many people came to Him and kept on saying, "John did not perform any wonder-works, but everything he ever said about this man was true."

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

Jesus answered, "Does not the day have twelve hours? If a man travels in the daytime, he does not stumble, for he can see the light of this world;

and I am glad for your sake that I was not there so that you may come to have real faith in me. But let us go to him."

Then Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.

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

When Mary came where Jesus was and saw Him, she threw herself at His feet, and said, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."

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

Jesus said to her, "Did I not promise you that if you would believe in me, you should see the glory of God?"

you do not take into account that it is for your own welfare that one man should die for the people, and not that the whole nation should be destroyed."

Now he did not say this on his own authority, but because he was high priest that year he uttered this prophecy from God, that Jesus was to die for the nation,

and not only for the nation, but also to unite the scattered children of God.

So they kept looking for Jesus and saying to one another, as they stood in the temple, "What do you think? Do you think He will not come to the feast at all?"

"Why was this perfume not sold for sixty dollars and the money given to the poor?"

He said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and as the carrier of the purse for the Twelve he was in the habit of taking what was put into it.

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

A goodly number of the Jews learned that He was at Bethany, and so they came there, not only to see Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead.

His disciples at the time did not understand this, but after Jesus was glorified, they remembered that this had been written about Him and that they had fulfilled it in His case.

Jesus answered, "This voice did not come for my sake, but for yours.

Jesus said to them, "Only a little while longer you will have the light. Keep on living by it while you have the light, so that darkness may not overtake you, for whoever walks about in the dark does not know where he is going.

Although He had performed so many wonder-works right before their eyes, they did not believe in Him,

So they could not believe, for Isaiah again has said:

And yet in spite of all this, even among the leading men many came to believe in Him, but because of the Pharisees they did not own it, for fear of being turned out of the synagogue,

But Jesus cried aloud, "Whoever believes in me believes not merely in me but in Him who has sent me;

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

This is because I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who has sent me has given me orders Himself what to say and what to tell.

Jesus answered him, "You do not now understand what I am doing, but by-and-by you will learn."

Simon Peter said to Him, "Lord, do not stop with my feet, then, but wash my hands and face too!"

Jesus said to him, "Anyone who has taken a bath has no need of washing anything but his feet, but he is clean all over. And you are now clean, though not all of you are."

For He knew who was going to betray Him; this is why He said, "You are not all clean."

I do not mean all of you. I know whom I have chosen, but I know that the Scriptures must be fulfilled: 'The man who is eating my bread has lifted his heel against me.'

for some of them were thinking, as Judas had the purse, that Jesus meant to say to him, "Buy what we need for the feast," or to give something to the poor.

So as soon as he took the piece of bread, he left the room. It was then night.

Peter said to Him, "Lord, why can I not follow you right now? I will lay down my life for you."

In my Father's house there are many dwelling places; if there were not, I would have told you, for I am going away to make ready a place for you.

Thomas said to Him, "Lord, we do not know where you are going, and so how can we know the way?"

Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you disciples so long, and yet you, Philip, have not recognized me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Let us see the Father'?

Do you not believe that I am in union with the Father and that the Father is in union with me? I am not saying these things on my own authority, but the Father who always remains in union with me is doing these things Himself.

even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it does not see Him or recognize Him, because He is going to remain with you, and will be within you.

I will not leave you helpless orphans. I am coming back to you.

In just a little while the world will not see me any more, but you will be seeing me. Because I am to live on, you too will live on.

Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said to Him, "Why is it, Lord, that you are going to make yourself real to us and not to the world?"

Whoever does not really love me does not observe my teaching; and yet the teaching which you are listening to is not mine but comes from the Father who has sent me.

I now leave you the blessing of peace, I give you the blessing of my own peace. I myself do not give it in the way the world gives it. Stop letting your hearts be troubled or timid.

"I shall not talk much more with you, for the evil ruler of this world is coming and he has nothing in common with me,

If anyone does not remain in union with me, he is thrown away as a mere branch and is dried up; then it is picked up and thrown into the fire and burned up.

I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not know what his master is doing; I now call you friends, because I have told you everything that I have learned from my Father.

You have not chosen me; I have chosen you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit, that your fruit may remain too, so that the Father may grant you, as bearers of my name, whatever you ask Him for.

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

They will do all this to you on account of me, because they do not know Him who has sent me.

"If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. But now the fact is, they have no excuse for their sin.

If I had not done things among them that no one else has ever done, they would not be guilty of sin. But now the fact is, they have seen and even hated both my Father and me.

But I have told you these things that when the time does come, you may remember that I told you. I did not tell you these things at the start, because I was with you.

But now I am going away to Him who has sent me, and not one of you is asking me where I am going,