After this, Jesus went about in Galilee, for he would not do so in Judea, because the Jews were eager to put him to death.

"My time," answered Jesus, "is not come yet, but your time is always here.

The world cannot hate you, but it does hate me, because I testify that its ways are evil.

But, when his brothers had gone up to the Festival, Jesus also went up--not publicly, but privately.

The man who speaks on his own authority seeks honor for himself; but the man who seeks the honor of him that sent him is sincere, and there is nothing false in him.

Was not it Moses who gave you the Law? Yet not one of you obeys it! Why are you seeking to put me to death?"

"You must be possessed by a demon!" the people exclaimed. "Who is seeking to put you to death?"

But that is why Moses has instituted circumcision among you- -not, indeed, that it began with him, but with our ancestors--and that is why you circumcise even on a Sabbath.

At this some of the people of Jerusalem exclaimed: "Is not this the man that they are seeking to put to death?

Yet we know where this man is from; but, when the Christ comes, no one will be able to tell where he is from."

Therefore, Jesus, as he was teaching in the Temple Courts, raised his voice and said: "Yes; you know me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on my own authority, but he who sent me may be trusted; and him you do not know.

So they sought to arrest him; but no one touched him, for his time was not come yet.

On which Jesus said: "I shall be with you but a little longer, and then I am going to him who sent me.

"This is certainly 'the Prophet'!"; others said: "This is the Christ!"; but some asked: "What! does the Christ come from Galilee?

But one of their number, Nicodemus, who before this had been to see Jesus, said to them:

Jesus again addressed the people. "I am the Light of the World," he said. "He who follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the Light of Life."

"Even if I bear testimony to myself," answered Jesus, "my testimony is trustworthy; for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you do not know where I come from, nor where I am going.

Yet, even if I were to judge, my judgment would be trustworthy; because I am not alone, but the Father who sent me is with me.

Jesus again spoke to the people. "I am going away," he said, "and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin; you cannot come where I am going."

So Jesus added: "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will understand that I am what I am, and that I do nothing of myself, but that I say just what the Father has taught me.

And a slave does not remain in the home always; but a son remains always.

I know that you are descendants of Abraham; yet you are seeking to put me to death, because my Message finds no place in your hearts.

But, as it is, you are seeking to put me to death--a man who has told you the Truth as he heard it from God. Abraham did not act in that way.

"If God were your Father," Jesus replied, "you would have loved me, for I came out from God, and now am here; and I have not come of myself, but he sent me as his Messenger.

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

"I am not possessed by a demon," Jesus answered, "but I am showing reverence for my Father; and yet you have no reverence for me.

And yet you have not learned to know him; but I know him; and, if I were to say that I do not know him, I should be a liar like you; but I do know him, and I lay his Message to heart.

At this they took up stones to throw at him; but Jesus hid himself, and left the Temple Courts.

"Neither the man nor the parents," replied Jesus; "but he was born blind that the work of God should be made plain in him.

Saying this, Jesus spat on the ground, made clay with the saliva, and put it on the man's eyes.

"Yes," some said, "it is"; while others said: "No, but he is like him." The man himself said: "I am he."

So the Pharisees also questioned the man as to how he had gained his sight. "He put clay on my eyes," he answered, "and I washed them, and I can see."

"The man cannot be from God," said some of the Pharisees, "for he does not keep the Sabbath." "How is it possible," retorted others, "for a bad man to give signs like this?"

But how it is that he can see now we do not know; nor do we know who it was that gave him his sight. Ask him--he is old enough- -he will tell you about himself."

So the Jews again called the man who had been blind, and said to him: "Give God the praise; we know that this is a bad man."

"I know nothing about his being a bad man," he replied; "one thing I do know, that although I was blind, now I can see."

"You are his disciple," they retorted scornfully; "but we are disciples of Moses.

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

We know that God never listens to bad men, but, when a man is god-fearing and does God's will, God listens to him.

Jesus heard of their having put him out; and, when he had found the man, he asked: "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"

"Not only have you seen him," said Jesus; "but it is he who is now speaking to you."

And Jesus added: "It was to put men to the test that I came into this world, in order that those that cannot see should see, and that those that can see should become blind."

"If you had been blind," replied Jesus, "you would have had no sin to answer for; but, as it is, you say 'We can see,' and so your sin remains.

In truth I tell you, whoever does not go into the sheepfold through the door, but climbs up at some other place, that man is a thief and a robber;

But the man who goes in through the door is shepherd to the sheep.

They will not follow a stranger, but will run away from him; because they do not know a stranger's voice."

This was the allegory that Jesus told them, but they did not understand of what he was speaking.

All who came before me were thieves and robbers; but the sheep did not listen to them.

No one took it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to receive it again. This is the command which I received from my Father."

But you do not believe me, because you are not of my flock.

"It is not for any good action that we would stone you," answered the Jews, "but for blasphemy; and because you, who are only a man, make yourself out to be God."

Upon this the Jews again sought to arrest him; but he escaped their hands.

"John gave no sign of his mission," they said; "but everything that he said about this man was true."

And, when Jesus heard it, he said: "This illness is not to end in death, but is to redound to the honor of God, in order that the Son of God may be honored through it."

"Rabbi," they replied, "the Jews were but just now seeking to stone you; and are you going there again?"

But, if he walks about at night, he stumbles, because he has not the light."

And, when he had said this, he added: "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going that I may wake him."

But Jesus meant that he was dead; they, however, supposed that he was speaking of natural sleep.

And I am glad for your sakes 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 to meet him; but Mary sat quietly at home.

Jesus had not then 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 gave sight to the blind man, have also prevented Lazarus from dying?"

I know that thou always headrest me; but I say this for the sake of the people standing near, so that they may believe that thou has sent me as thy Messenger."

Now he did not say this of his own accord; but, as High Priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was to die for the nation--

And not for the nation only, but also that he might unite in one body the Children of God now scattered far and wide.

So from that day they plotted to put Jesus to death.

In consequence of this, Jesus did not go about publicly among the Jews any more, but left that neighborhood, and went into the country bordering on the Wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, where he stayed with his disciples.

But the Jewish Festival of the Passover was near; and many people had gone up from the country to Jerusalem, for their 'purification,' before the Festival began.

He said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and, being in charge of the purse, used to take what was put in it.

The poor you always have with you, but you will not always have me."

Now great numbers of the Jews found out that Jesus was at Bethany; and they came there, not solely on his account, but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

The Chief Priests, however, plotted to put Lazarus, as well as Jesus, to death,

His disciples did not understand all this at first; but, when Jesus had been exalted, then they remembered that these things had been said of him in Scripture, and that they had done these things for him.

In truth I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains solitary; but, if it dies, it becomes fruitful.

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

But, though Jesus had given so many signs of his mission before their eyes, they still did not believe in him,

Yet for all this, even among the leading men there were many who came to believe in Jesus; but, on account of the Pharisees, they did not acknowledge it, for fear that they should be expelled from their Synagogues;

But Jesus had proclaimed: "He who believes in me believes, not in me, but in him who sent me;

When any one hears my teaching and pays no heed to it, I am not his judge; for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

For I have not delivered it on my own authority; but the Father, who sent me, has himself given me his command as to what I should say, and what message I should deliver.

The Devil had already put the thought of betraying Jesus into the mind of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon;

And at supper, Jesus--although knowing that the Father had put everything into his hands, and that he had come from God, and was to return to God--

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

"Then, Master, not my feet only," exclaimed Simon Peter, "but also my hands and my head."

"He who has bathed," replied Jesus, "has no need to wash, unless it be his feet, but is altogether clean; and you," he said to the disciples, "are clean, yet not all of you."

When he had washed their feet, and had put on his upper garments and taken his place, he spoke to them again. "Do you understand what I have been doing to you?" he asked.

I am not speaking about all of you. I know whom I have chosen; but this is in fulfillment of the words of Scripture--'He that is eating my bread has lifted his heel against me.'

But no one at table understood why he said this to Judas.

My children, I am to be with you but a little while longer. You will look for me; and what I said to the Jews--'You cannot come where I am going'--I now say to you.

"Where are you going, Master?" asked Peter. "I am going where you cannot now follow me," answered Jesus, "but you shall follow me later."

Do not you believe that I am in union with the Father, and the Father with me? In giving you my teaching I am not speaking on my own authority; but the Father himself, always in union with me, does his own work.

The world cannot receive this Spirit, because it does not see him or recognize him, but you recognize him, because he is always with you, and is within you.

In a little while the world will see me no more, but you will still see me; because I am living, you will be living also.

He who does not love me will not lay my Message to heart; and the Message to which you are listening is not my own, but that of the Father who sent me.

But the Helper--the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my Name--he will teach you all things, and will recall to your minds all that I have said to you.

But he is coming that the world may see that I love the Father, and that I do as the Father commanded me. Come, let us be going.

I no longer call you 'servants,' because a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have given you the name of 'friends,' because I made known to you everything that I learned from my Father.

It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you, and I appointed you to go and bear fruit--fruit that should remain, so that the Father might grant you whatever you ask in my Name.

If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world--that is why the world hates you.

But they will do all this to you, because you believe in my Name, for they do not know him who sent me.