Do not suppose that I will accuse you to the Father. Moses is your accuser??oses, on whom you have fixed your hopes!

For if you really believed Moses, you would believe me, for it was about me that he wrote.

So Jesus, raising his eyes and seeing that a great crowd was coming up to him, said to Philip, "Where can we buy food for these people to eat?"

"There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and a couple of fish, but what is that among so many people?"

When they were satisfied, he said to his disciples, "Pick up the pieces that are left, so that nothing may be wasted."

So they picked them up, and they filled twelve baskets with pieces of the five barley loaves that were left after the people had eaten.

When the people saw the signs that he showed, they said, "This is really the Prophet who was to come into the world!"

So Jesus, seeing that they meant to come and carry him off to make him king, retired again to the hill by himself.

Next day the people who had stayed on the other side of the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not embarked in it with his disciples, but that the disciples had gone away by themselves.

So when the people saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were any longer there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum in search of him.

Jesus answered, "I tell you, it is not because of the signs you have seen that you have come in search of me, but because you ate that bread and had all you wanted of it.

You must not work for the food that perishes, but for that which lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, for God the Father has authorized him to do so."

Jesus answered them, "The work God has for you is to believe in the messenger that he has sent to you."

for it is God's bread that comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world."

Then they said to him, "Give us that bread always, sir!"

Jesus said to them, "I am the bread that gives life. No one who comes to me will ever be hungry, and no one who believes in me will ever be thirsty.

All that my Father gives to me will come to me, and I will never refuse anyone who comes to 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.

For it is the purpose of my Father that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and that I shall raise him to life on the Last Day."

The Jews complained of him for saying, "I am the bread that has come out of heaven,"

Not that anyone has ever seen the Father, except him who is from God; he has seen the Father.

I am the bread that gives life.

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

I am this living bread that has come down out of heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever, and the bread that I will give for the world's life is my own flesh!"

This is the bread that has come down out of heaven??ot like that which your forefathers ate and yet died. Whoever lives on this bread will live forever."

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

The Spirit is what gives life; flesh is of no use at all. The things that I have said to you are spirit and they are life.

and we believe and are satisfied that you are the Holy One of God."

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

That was what he told them, and he stayed on in Galilee.

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.

This astonished the Jews. "How is it that this man can read?" they said, "when he has never gone to school?"

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.

And here he is speaking publicly, and they say nothing to him! Can the authorities really have found that he is the Christ?

Then the Jews said to one another, "Where is he going, that we shall not find him? Is he going to our people scattered among the Greeks, and will he teach the Greeks?

Do not the Scriptures say that the Christ is to spring from the descendants of David and to come from the village of Bethlehem where David lived?"

They answered, "Are you from Galilee too? Study and you will find that no prophet is to appear from Galilee."

Why, in your own Law it is stated that the testimony of two persons is valid.

So the Jews said, "Is he going to kill himself, and is that why he says, 'You cannot come where I am going'?"

That is why I said to you that you would die in the midst of your sins, for unless you believe that I am what I say, you will die in the midst of your sins."

"Why do I even talk to you at all? I have a great deal to say about you and to condemn in you, yet he who sent me is truthful, and the things that I say to the world are things that I have learned from him."

They did not understand that he was speaking to them of the Father.

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.

I know that you are descended from Abraham, yet you want to kill me, because there is no room in your hearts for my teaching.

It is what I have seen in the presence of my Father that I tell, and it is what you have heard from your father that you do."

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.

Why is it that you do not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to listen to my message.

Whoever is sprung from God listens to God's words. The reason you refuse to listen is that you are not sprung from God."

The Jews answered, "Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and are possessed?"

The Jews said to him, "Now we are sure that you are possessed! Abraham is dead and so are the prophets, and yet you say, 'If anyone observes my teaching, he will never know what death is!'

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

His disciples asked him, "Master, for whose sin was this man born blind? For his own, or for that of his parents?"

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.

So they said to him, "Then how does it happen that you can see?"

Now it was on the Sabbath that Jesus had made the clay and made him able to see.

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,

and asked them, "Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How is it that he can see now?"

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

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."

His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already made an agreement that if anyone acknowledged Jesus as the Christ, he should be excluded from the synagogues.

That was why his parents said, "He is grown up; you must ask him."

He answered, "I do not know about his being a sinful man. All I know is that I was blind before and now I can see."

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.

It was never heard of in this world that anyone made a man born blind able to see.

Jesus learned that they had excluded him, and he found the man and said to him, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"

The man answered, "Who is he, sir? Tell me, so that I may believe in him."

And Jesus said, "I have come into this world to judge men, that those who cannot see may see, and that those who can see may become blind."

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

That was the time of the Rededication Festival at Jerusalem. It was winter time

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."

And many became believers in him in that place.

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."

So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed on for two days in the place where he was,

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 Jesus arrived he found that Lazarus had been buried for four days.

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

Even now I know that anything you ask God for, he will give you."

Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise at the resurrection, on the Last Day."

and no one who is alive and believes in me will ever die. Do you believe that?"

She said to him, "Yes, Master, I do indeed believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world."

The Jews who were sitting with her in the house, condoling with her, when they saw Mary spring up and go out, supposed that she was going to weep at the tomb, and followed her.

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

Jesus said to her, "Have I not promised you that if you will believe in me you will see the glory of God?"

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."

So it came about that many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary and saw what Jesus did, came to believe in him,

Then the high priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the council, and they said, "What are we to do about the fact that this man is showing so many signs?

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

"You know nothing about it. You do not realize that it is to your interest that one man should die for the people, instead of the whole nation being destroyed."

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.

So from that day they planned to kill Jesus.

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.

For the high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who found out where he was should let them know, so that they might arrest him.

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.

On the following day the crowds that had come up to the festival, hearing that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

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.

The crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead was telling about it.

That was why the crowd went out to meet him, because they heard that he had showed that sign.