For this reason the Jews continued to seek the more eagerly to put him to death, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was actually speaking of God as his own Father, thus making himself of God's equal.

"The Father indeed does not judge any one, but has given all judgment to the Son,

"I tell you solemnly that he who listens to my messages and believes Him who sent me, has eternal life. He will not come under condemnation, but has passed out of death into life.

"I can of my own self do nothing. As I listen, I judge, and my own judgment is just, because I am not seeking my own will, but the will of Him who sent me.

"But I have testimony greater than that of John; for the work which the Father has given me to bring to completion??he work which I am doing??ears testimony concerning me, that the Father has sent me.

"I am not receiving honor from men, but I know you,

"There is a lad who has five barley loaves and a couple of fish; but what is that among so many?"

There they got in a boat, and started across the sea for Capernaum. The darkness had already fallen,

After they had rowed three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking upon the sea, and drawing near to the boat, and they were terrified;

but he said to them, "It is I, be not afraid."

Then they were willing to take him on board, and immediately the boat reached the shore they were making for.

The crowd that remained on the other side of the sea had seen that there was only one small boat there, and that Jesus had not gone aboard with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away by themselves.

Jesus answered. "In solemn truth I tell you that you are looking for me, not because you saw miracles signs, but because you ate of the bread and were filled.

"Labor not for food which perishes, but for the food that endures eternal life??hat which the Son of man will give you; for on the Father??od??as set his seal."

"In solemn truth I tell you," said Jesus in reply, "Moses did not give you the bread out of heaven, but my Father does give you the true bread out of heaven;

"But as I told you, you have seen me, and yet you do not believe.

"For I am come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

"And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should not lose one of all those whom he has given me, but should raise them up at the last day.

"My time is not yet come," said Jesus, "but your time is always at hand.

"The world cannot hate you, but me it does hate, because I am bearing testimony against it, that its ways are wicked.

After saying this, he remained in Galilee; but after his brothers had gone up to feast,

then he went too??ot openly, but as it were a secret.

The Jews meanwhile kept looking for him at feast, and saying, "Where is he?" "I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own Name these whom thou hast given me, that they may be one as we are one.

No one, however, was speaking openly about him, for fear of the Jews. "But now I am coming to thee, and I am speaking these things while I am in the world, so that they may have my joy in all its fulness in themselves.

But when it was already the middle of the feast, Jesus went up to the Temple and began to teach. "I have given them thy word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

The Jews were amazed. They said, "How does this fellow know the sacred writings when he has never learned them?" "I am not asking that thou wilt take them out of the world, but that thou wilt protect them from the Evil One.

In reply Jesus said to them; "My teaching is not mine, but is his who sent me. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world."

"The man who speaks on his own authority is always seeking his own glory. But one who is eager for the glory of Him who sent him, he is true, and therefore is nothing false about him.

"Consider, therefore, Moses has given you circumcision??ot that Moses originated it, but the fathers??nd you are accustomed to circumcise a child even on the Sabbath.

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

So Jesus cried aloud as he was teaching in the Temple, and said: "You both know me and you know where I am from; and I am not come on my own authority, but he who sent me is trustworthy, and him you do not know.

"But I now him, because I am from him and he sent me."

Then they kept seeking to arrest him, but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.

But many of the crowd believed on him and began to say, "The Christ, when he comes, will he do more signs than this man has done?"

Other said, "He is the Christ." But others were saying. "Surely the Christ is not to come out of Galilee, is he?

So a division arose in the crowd concerning him. Some of them wished to apprehend him, but no one laid hands on him.

"Now Moses, in the Law, has commanded us to stone such creatures. But you, what do you say?"

But Jesus stooped down, and began to write on the ground with his finger. When they continued to question him, he raised himself and said to them, "Let the innocent man among you be the first to throw the stone at her."

Once more Jesus addressed them. "I am the light of the world," he said; "He who follows me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the Light of life."

In reply Jesus said to them. "Even if I do bear testimony to concerning myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I have come from and where I am going. But you do not know where I have come from, or where I am going.

"Though even if I do judge, my judgment is trustworthy, because I am not alone, but the Father who sent me is with me.

"I have many things to say and to judge concerning you. But he who sent me is true, and I speak to the world only those things which I have heard from him."

so Jesus added. "When you lifted up the Son of man, then you will know that I am He; and that I do nothing on my own authority, but that I speak just as the Father has taught me,

"Now the slave does not remain permanently in the household, but the son does remain.

"I know you are Abraham's descendants; but you are seeking to kill me, Because my teaching has no place in you.

"But now you are seeking to kill me?? man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham did not do that.

Jesus said to them. "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I proceeded forth and am now come from God. I did not come on my own authority, but God himself sent me.

"But as for me, it is because I speak the truth to you that you do not believe me.

"I do not have a demon," said Jesus, "but I am honoring my Father, and you are dishonoring me.

"You are not acquainted with him; I know him. Were I to say, 'I do not know him,' I should be like you, a liar. But I do know him, and I obey his teaching.

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

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

so the Pharisees again began to ask him questions about how he had regained his sight; and he said to them, "He put clay on my eyes, and I washed them, and now I see."

Then some of the Pharisees began to say, "This man in not from God, because he does not keep the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?"

"but how he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who has opened his eyes. Ask him, himself. He is of age. He will speak for himself."

"We know that God spoke to Moses. But this fellow! We do not know where he comes from."

"We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if any one is God-fearing and does his will, to such he listens.

"If you were blind," Jesus answered them, "you would have no sin. But now you are declaring, 'We see'; so your sin remains.

"In solemn truth I tell you that whoever does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other way, that man is a thief and a robber;

"but he who comes in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

"But a stranger they will not follow, but flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."

Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what he was talking about; so he said to them again.

"All that came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

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

"We are not going to stone you for a good deed," answered the Jews, "but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, are making yourself God."

"But if I am doing them, then though you believe not me, believe the deeds, in order that you may come to know and keep on clearly understanding that the Father is in me and I am in the Father."

Then again they attempted to seize him, but he escaped out of their hands,

Many who came to him said, "John did not perform any signs, but everything he said about this man was true."

When Jesus heard it he said, "This illness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that through it the Son of God may be glorified."

"Rabbi," answered his disciples, "it was but just now that the Jews were trying to stone you, and are you going there again?"

but if any one walks during the night he does stumble, because the light is not in him."

This he said, then told them, "Lazarus, our friend, has fallen asleep, but I am going to wake him."

Now Jesus had been speaking concerning his death, but they thought that he was talking about natural sleep.

So when Martha learned that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him, but Mary remained sitting in the house.

but even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you."

Jesus had not yet arrived in the village, but was still at the place where Martha met him.

"See how he loved him," said the Jews. But some of them said,

"Father, I thank thee that thou hast listened to me. And I knew that thou art ever listening to me, but for the sake of the crowd who are standing about, I said it, in order that they may believe that thou hast sent me."

but some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.

But one of their number, Caiaphas by name, who was high priest that year, said to them,

now he did not say this of his own accord; but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was about to die in behalf of the nation,

and not in behalf of the nation alone, but in order that he might gather into one the widely scattered children of God.

Jesus therefore no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but went away from there into the region near the desert to a town called Ephraim,

So they gave a dinner for him there, and Martha served it; but Lazarus was one of those who reclined with him at table.

This he said not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and, carrying the purse,

used to purloin what was put in it. Then said Jesus. "Let her alone. Against the day of my burial has she kept this;

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

When the great mass of the Jews learned that Jesus was there, they came not alone because of Jesus, but to see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.

His disciples did not understand these things at first; but when Jesus had been glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written concerning him, and what they had done to him.

In solemn truth I tell you that except a kernel of wheat fall into the ground and die, it remains a single kernel; but if it die it bears a great crop.

Then the crowd who stood around and heard it, said, "It thundered!" But others said, "An angel has spoken to him."

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

With these words Jesus went away and hid himself from them. But although he had wrought such signs in their presence, still they did not believe in him.

Nevertheless, even among the rulers many believed on him, but did not confess in on account of the Pharisees, for fear lest they be put out of the Synagogue.

"He who believes in me believes not in me, but in Him who sent me; and he who sees me sees him who sent me.

And if any one hears my words and does not keep them, it is not I who judge him; for I am not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

because I have never spoken on my own authority, but the Father himself who sent me gave me commandment what to say and what words to speak.

So while supper was proceeding, and the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray him,

Jesus answered him, "What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will understand it later."

"Lord," said Simon Peter, "not my feet only, but also my hands and my head."