and they said, "Is he not Joseph's son, Jesus, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, 'I have come down out of heaven'?"

Your forefathers in the desert ate the manna and yet they died.

This led the Jews to dispute with one another. They said, "How can he give us his flesh to eat?"

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.

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

Some of the people of Jerusalem said, "Is not this the man they want to kill?

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

Then they tried to arrest him, and yet no one laid hands on him, because he was not yet ready.

So some of the people, when they heard these words, said, "This is certainly the Prophet!"

Others said, "This is the Christ!" But they rejoined, "What! Is the Christ to come from Galilee?

The attendants went back to the high priests and Pharisees, and they said to the attendants, "Why have you not brought him?"

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

Then they said to him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You do not know either me or my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father too."

They said to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them,

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

They answered, "We are descended from Abraham, and have never been anyone's slaves. How can you say to us, 'You will be set free'?"

They answered, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus said to them, "If you are Abraham's children, then do what Abraham did.

You are doing as your father does." They said to him, "We are not illegitimate children. We have one father, God himself."

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

He answered, "The man they call Jesus made some clay and rubbed it on my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash them.' So I went and when I had washed them I could see."

They said to him, "Where is he?" He answered, "I do not know."

They took the man who had been blind to the Pharisees.

So they asked the blind man again, "What have you to say about him, because he has made you able to see?" He said, "He is a prophet!"

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,

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.

So they again summoned the man who had been blind, and they said to him, "Give God the praise. This man we know is a sinful man."

They said to him, "What did he do to you? How did he make you able to see?"

Then they sneered at him, and said, "You are a disciple of his yourself, but we are disciples of Moses.

They answered, "You were born in utter sin, and are you trying to teach us?" So they excluded him from the synagogue.

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

Some Pharisees who were present heard this, and they said to him, "Then are we blind too?"

When he gets his own flock all out, he goes in front of them, and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.

But they will never follow a stranger but will run away from him, because they do not know the voices of strangers."

This was the figure Jesus used in speaking to them, but they did not understand what he meant by it.

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.

My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them and they follow me,

and I give them eternal life, and they shall never be lost, and no one shall tear them out of my hands.

In consequence of this they again tried to arrest him, and he withdrew out of their reach.

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."

Now Jesus had referred to his death. But they supposed that he meant a natural falling asleep.

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.

he said, "Where have you laid him?" They answered, "Come and see, Master."

So they moved the stone away. And Jesus looked upward and said, "Father, I thank you for listening to me,

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."

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?

So from that day they planned to kill Jesus.

So they were looking for Jesus there, and asking one another as they stood in the Temple, "What do you think? Do you think he will not come to the festival at all?"

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.

They gave a dinner for him there, and Martha waited on them, while Lazarus was at the table with 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.

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.

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

and they went to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and made this request of him: "Sir, we want to see Jesus."

Jesus said to them, "You will have the light only a little while longer. Go on while you still have the light, so that darkness may not overtake you, for those who go about in the dark do not know where they are going.

But for all the signs he had shown among them, they refused to believe in him,

So they could not believe; for Isaiah says again,

Yet for all that, even among the leading men, many came to believe in him, but on account of the Pharisees they would not acknowledge it, for fear of being excluded from the synagogues,

for they cared more for the approval of men than for the approval of God.

From now on I will tell you things before they happen, so that when they do happen you may believe that I am what I say.

By this they will all know that you are my disciples??y your love for one another."

Anyone who does not remain united to me is thrown away like a branch and withers up, and they gather them and throw them into the fire and burn them.

Remember what I said to 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.

But they will do all this to you on my account, because they do not understand him who sent me.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but as it is, they have no excuse for their sin.

If I had not done things before them that no one else ever did they would not be guilty of sin. But as it is, they have seen both me and my Father, and they have hated us both.

But the saying of their Law, 'They hated me without cause,' must be fulfilled.

They will exclude you from their synagogues; why, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is doing religious service to God.

They will do this because they do not know the Father or me.

So they kept saying "What does he mean by 'In a little while'? We do not know what he is talking about."

Jesus saw that they wanted to ask him a question, and he said to them, "Are you asking one another about my saying 'In a little while you will not see me any longer, and a little while after, you will see me again'?

"I have revealed your real self to the men you gave me from the world. They were yours and you gave them to me, and they have obeyed your message.

Now at last they know that all that you have given me comes from you,

for I have given them the truths that you gave me, and they have accepted them and been convinced that I came from you, and they believe that you sent me.

I have a request to make for them. I make no request for the world, but only for those whom you have given me, for they are yours??10 all that is mine is yours and what is yours is mine??nd they have done me honor.

Now I am to be no longer in this world, but they are to remain in the world, while I return to you. Holy Father, keep them by your power which you gave me, so that they may be one just as we are.

But now I am coming to you, and I say this here in this world in order that they may have the happiness that I feel fully realized in their own hearts.

I have given them your message, and the world has come to hate them, for they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.

They do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.

And it is for their sake that I consecrate myself, that they also may be consecrated by truth.

I have given them the glory that you gave me, so that they may be one just as we are,

I in union with them and you with me, so that they may be perfectly unified, and the world may recognize that you sent me and that you love them just as you loved me.

They answered, "Jesus of Nazareth." He said to them, "I am he." Judas who betrayed him was standing among them.

When Jesus said to them, "I am he," they drew back and fell to the ground.

Then he asked them again, "Who is it you are looking for?" They said, "Jesus of Nazareth."

and they took him first to Annas. For he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.

Why do you question me? Ask those who have heard me what it was that I said to them. They will know what I have said."

But Simon Peter still stood warming himself. So they said to him, "Are you also one of his disciples?" He denied it and said, "No, I am not."

Then they took Jesus from Caiaphas to the governor's house. It was early in the morning, and they would not go into the governor's house themselves, to avoid being ceremonially defiled and to be able to eat the Passover supper.

They answered, "If he were not a criminal, we would not have turned him over to you."

Then they shouted back, "No! Not him, but Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a robber.

And the soldiers made a wreath out of thorns and put it on his head, and put a purple coat on him, and they marched up to him,

When the high priests and their attendants saw him, they shouted, "Have him crucified! Have him crucified!" Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves and have him crucified, for I can find nothing to charge him with."

When Pilate heard that, he had Jesus brought out and had him sit in the judge's seat in the place they call the Stone Platform, or in Hebrew, Gabbatha.

At that they shouted, "Kill him! Kill him! Have him crucified!" Pilate said to them, "Am I to crucify your king?" The high priests answered, "We have no king but the emperor!"

Then Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus,

There they crucified him, with two others, one on each side and Jesus in the middle.

When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four parts, one for each soldier, besides his shirt. Now his shirt had no seam; it was woven in one piece from top to bottom.

So they said to one another, "Let us not tear it, but let us draw for it, to see who gets it." This was to fulfil what the Scripture says: "They divided my garments among them, And for my clothing they cast lots." This was what the soldiers did.

A bowl of sour wine was standing there. So they put a sponge soaked in the wine on a pike and held it to his lips.

But when they came to Jesus they saw that he was dead already, and they did not break his legs,