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,

and asked them, "Is this your son, and do you affirm that he was born blind? If so, how is it then that he now can see?"

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 now can see, or who it was that made his eyes to see. Ask him; he is of age; he can speak for himself."

His parents said this, because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone owned Jesus as the Christ, he should be shut out of the synagogues.

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."

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

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.

It has never been heard of in this world that anyone ever made the eyes of a man who was born blind to see.

Jesus heard that they had turned the man out of the synagogue; so He found him and said to him, "Do you believe in the Son of Man yourself?"

He answered, "Who is He, sir? Tell me, so that I may believe in Him."

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."

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.

At that time came the Feast of Rededication at Jerusalem. It was winter,

My father who gave them to me is stronger than all, and no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand.

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 so many of them at that place believed in Him.

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."

But when He heard that Lazarus was sick, He stayed over for two days in the place where He was.

After that He said to His disciples, "Let us go back to Judea."

He said this, and after that He added, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him."

But Jesus had spoken about his death. However, they supposed that He was referring to falling into a natural sleep.

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."

When Jesus reached there, 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 stayed at home.

But even now I know that whatever 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."

She said to Him, "Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world."

So the Jews who were with her in the house sympathizing with her, when they saw Mary jump up and go out, followed her, because they supposed that she was going to the grave to pour out her grief there.

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?"

yes, I knew that you always listen to me. But I have said this for the sake of the crowd that is standing by, that they may come to believe that you have sent me."

But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing about this;

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,

So from that day they plotted to kill Jesus.

It was for this reason that Jesus no more appeared in public among the Jews, but He left that part of the country and went to the district near the desert, to a town called Ephraim, and stayed there with His disciples.

Now the high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone should learn where He was, he should let it be known so that they might arrest Him.

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.

The next day the vast crowd that had come to the feast, on hearing that Jesus was coming into Jerusalem,

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.

The crowd that had been with Him when He called Lazarus out of the grave and raised him from the dead, kept on talking about it.

This is why the crowd went out to meet Him, because they had heard that He had performed this wonder-work.

Now my soul is troubled; what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour of agony! And yet it was for this very purpose that I came to this hour of agony.

The crowd of bystanders on hearing it said that it was thunder; others, however, said, "An angel has spoken to Him!"

The crowd answered Him, "We have learned from the law that the Christ is to remain here forever, and so how can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?"

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.

While you have the light believe in the light, that you may become sons of light." On saying this Jesus went away and hid Himself.

so that the utterance of the prophet Isaiah was fulfilled: "Lord, who has believed what they heard from us? And to whom has the mighty arm of the Lord been shown?"

"He has blinded their eyes and benumbed their hearts, so that they cannot see with their eyes and understand with their hearts, and turn to me to cure them."

I have come as light into the world, so that no one who continues to believe in me can remain in darkness.

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.

And I know that His orders mean eternal life. So whatever I speak I am speaking as the Father has told me."

Before the Passover feast started, Jesus knew that His time had come for Him to leave the world and go to the Father, and as He had loved His own in the world He loved them to the last.

So Jesus, while supper was on -- although He knew that the devil had suggested to Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray Him --

because He was sure that the Father had put everything into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going back to God,

You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right in calling me so, for that is what I am.

For I have set you an example, in order that you too may practice what I have done to you.

I most solemnly say to you, no slave is superior to his master, and no messenger is greater than the man who sends him.

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.'

From now on I will tell you things before they take place, so that when they do take place, you may believe that I am the Christ.

So Simon Peter nodded to him to ask Him which one it was that He meant.

Jesus answered, "It is that one to whom I give the piece of bread when I dip it in the dish." So He dipped it into the dish and took it and gave it to Judas, Simon Iscariot's son.

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.

By this everybody will know that you are my disciples, if you keep on showing love for one another."

And if I go and make it ready for you, I will come back and take you to be face to face with me, so that you may always be right where I am.

Philip said to Him, "Lord, let us see the Father, and that will satisfy us."

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.

You must believe me, that I am in union with the Father and that the Father is in union with me, or else you must do so because of the very things that I am doing.

I most solemnly say to you, whoever perseveres in believing in me can himself do the things that I am doing; yes, he can do even greater things than I am doing, because I am going to the Father.

And anything you ask for as bearers of my name I will do for you, so that the Father may be glorified through the Son.

At that time you will know that I am in union with my Father and you are in union with me and I am in union with you.

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?"

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send to represent me, will teach you everything Himself, and cause you to remember everything that I have told you.

You have heard me say that I am going away and coming back to you; if you really loved me, you would rejoice over my telling you that I am going to the Father, because my Father is greater than I.

And now I have told you this before it takes place, that when it does take place you may believe in me.

but he is coming that the world may know that I love the Father and am doing what the Father has ordered me to do. Get up and let us go away."

He cuts away any branch on me that stops bearing fruit, and He repeatedly prunes every branch that continues to bear fruit, to make it bear more.

You are already pruned because of the teaching that I have given you.

"I have told you these things, that the joy which I have had may remain in you and that your joy may be complete.

No one can show greater love than this, the giving of his life for his friends.

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 the world continues to hate you, remember that it has first hated me.

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.

Remember what I once told you: No slave is greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will persecute you too. If they have observed my teaching, they will observe yours too.

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 this is so that the saying written in their law may be fulfilled, 'They hated me without a cause.'

"When the Helper comes whom I will send from the Father to you, the Spirit of truth that comes from the Father, He will testify to me.

Men will turn you out of their synagogues. Yes, indeed, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think that he is rendering a religious service to God.

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.

Yet it is nothing but the truth I now tell you, that it is better for you that I should go away. For if I do not go away, the Helper will not come into close fellowship with you, but if I do go away, I will send Him to be in close fellowship with you.

about uprightness, because I go away to the Father so that you can no longer see me;

But when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into the whole truth, for He will not speak on His own authority but will tell what is told Him, and will announce to you the things that are to come.

He will glorify me, because He will take the things that belong to me and tell them to you.

Everything that the Father has is mine; this is why I have told you, 'He will take the things that are mine and tell them to you.'

Jesus knew that they wanted to ask Him a question, and so He said to them, "Are you inquiring of one another about this saying of mine, 'In just a little while you will not see me, and yet in just a little while after you will see me again'?

When a woman is in labor, she is in pain, for her time has come, but when the baby is born, she forgets her pain because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world.

At that time you will ask me no more questions. I most solemnly say to you, the Father will give you, as bearers of my name, whatever you ask Him for.