Then the Jewish leaders asked one another, "Where does this man intend to go that we won't be able to find him? Surely he's not going to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he?

But some were saying, "The Messiah doesn't come from Galilee, does he? Doesn't the Scripture say that the Messiah is from David's family and from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?"

So there was a division in the crowd because of him.

They answered him, "You aren't from Galilee, too, are you? Search and see that no prophet comes from Galilee."

At daybreak he appeared again in the Temple, and all the people came to him. So he sat down and began to teach them.

Now in the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women to death. What do you say?"

They said this to test him, so that they might have a charge against him. But Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with his finger.

So the Jewish leaders were asking, "He isn't going to kill himself, is he? Is that why he said, "You cannot come where I'm going'?"

Jesus told them, "What have I been telling you all along? I have much to say about you and to condemn you for. But the one who sent me is truthful, and what I've heard from him I declare to the world."

So Jesus told them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I AM, and that I do nothing on my own authority. Instead, I speak only what the Father has taught me.

So Jesus told those Jews who had believed in him, "If you continue in my word, you are really my disciples.

They replied to him, "We are Abraham's descendants and have never been slaves to anybody. So how can you say, "You will be set free'?"

So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed!"

"I know that you are Abraham's descendants. Yet you are trying to kill me because you've not received what I've told you.

I declare what I've seen in my Father's presence, and you're doing what you've heard from your father."

Jesus told them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing what Abraham did. But now you're trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham would'nt have done that.

You are doing your father's actions." They told him, "We're not illegitimate children. We have one Father, God himself."

Why don't you understand what I've said? It's because you can't listen to my words.

Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death."

Then the Jewish leaders told him, "Now we really know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and so did the prophets, but you say, "If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.'

Jesus answered, "If I were trying to glorify myself, my glory would mean nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, "He is our God.'

You don't know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I don't know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him and keep his word.

Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day, and he saw it and was glad."

Jesus answered, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned. This happened so that God's work might be revealed in him.

After saying this, he spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he spread the mud on the man's eyes

and told him, "Go and wash in the pool of Siloam" (which is translated "Sent One"). So he went off, washed, and came back seeing.

Some were saying, "It's him," while others were saying, "No, but it's someone like him." But he himself kept saying, "It's me!"

So they asked him, "How, then, did you gain your eyesight?"

He said, "The man named Jesus made some mud, spread it on my eyes, and told me, "Go to Siloam and wash.' So off I went and washed, and I received my sight."

So they brought to the Pharisees the man who had once been blind.

So the Pharisees also began to ask him how he had gained his sight. He told them, "He put mud on my eyes, then I washed, and now I can see."

So they asked the formerly blind man again, "What do you say about him, since it was your eyes he healed?" He said, "He is a prophet."

and asked them, "Is this your son, the one you say was born blind? How does he now see?"

That's why his parents said, "He is of age. Ask him."

But he responded, "I don't know whether he is a sinner or not. The one thing I do know is that I used to be blind and now I can see!"

Jesus heard that they had thrown him out. So when he found him, he asked him, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"

He answered, "And who is he, sir? Tell me, so that I may believe in him."

Then Jesus said, "I have come into this world to judge it, so that those who are blind may see and so that those who see may become blind."

Jesus told them, "If you were blind, you would not have any sin. But now that you insist, "We see,' your sin still exists."

It's to him the gatekeeper opens the gate, and it's his voice the sheep hear. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

So again Jesus said, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, I'm the gate for the sheep.

The hired worker, who isn't the shepherd and doesn't own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, deserts the sheep, and runs away. So the wolf snatches them and scatters them,

because he's a hired worker, and the sheep don't matter to him.

I have other sheep that don't belong to this fold. I must lead these also, and they'll listen to my voice. So there will be one flock and one shepherd.

So the Jewish leaders surrounded him and quizzed him, "How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you're the Messiah, tell us so plainly."

Jesus answered them, "I have told you, but you don't believe it. The actions that I do in my Father's name testify on my behalf,

What my Father has given me is more important than anything, and no one can snatch it from the Father's hand.

how can you say to the one whom the Father has consecrated and sent into the world, "You're blaspheming,' because I said, "I'm the Son of God'?

If I'm not doing my Father's actions, don't believe me.

But if I'm doing them, even though you don't believe me, believe the actions, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father."

So the sisters sent word to Jesus and told him, "Lord, the one whom you love is ill."

But when Jesus heard it, he said, "This illness isn't meant to end in death. It's for God's glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it."

After this, he told the disciples, "Let's go back to Judea."

So the disciples told him, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will get well."

For your sake I'm glad that I wasn't there, so that you may believe. But let's go to him."

Then Thomas, who was called the Twin, told his fellow disciples, "Let's go, too, so that we may die with him!"

When the Jews who had been with her, consoling her in the house, saw Mary get up quickly and go out, they followed her, thinking that she had gone to the tomb to cry there.

As soon as Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at his feet and told him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother wouldn't have died."

When Jesus saw her crying, and the Jews who had come with her crying, he was greatly troubled in spirit and deeply moved.

He asked, "Where have you put him?" They told him, "Lord, come and see."

So the Jews said, "See how much he loved him!"

Jesus said, "Remove the stone." Martha, the dead man's sister, told him, "Lord, there must be a stench by now, because he's been dead for four days."

Jesus told her, "I told you that if you believed you would see God's glory, didn't I?"

So they removed the stone.

Then Jesus looked upward and said, "Father, I thank you for hearing me. I know that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so that they may believe that you sent me."

So the high priests and the Pharisees assembled the Council and said, "What are we going to do? This man is performing many signs.

Now he did not say this on his own initiative. As high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,

So from that day on they resolved to put him to death.

Now the high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that whoever knew where he was should tell them so that they could arrest him.

Then Jesus said, "Leave her alone so she can observe the day of my burial,

When the large crowd of Jews realized that he was there, they came not only because of Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

So the high priests planned to kill Lazarus, too,

since he was the reason why so many of the Jews were leaving to believe in Jesus.

So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, shouting, "Hosanna! How blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel!"

"Stop being afraid, people of Zion. Look, your king is coming, sitting upon a donkey's colt!"

So the crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to testify to what they had seen.

Then the Pharisees told one another, "You see, there is nothing you can do. Look, the world has gone after him!"

They went to Philip (who was from Bethsaida in Galilee) and told him, "Sir, we would like to see Jesus."

"Now my soul is in turmoil, and what should I say "Father, save me from this hour'? No! It was for this very reason that I came to this hour.

Then the crowd answered him, "We have learned from the Law that the Messiah remains forever. So how can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?"

Jesus replied to the crowd, "The light is among you only for a short time. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. The person who walks in the darkness is in the darkness and does not know where he is going.

As long as you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become children of light." After Jesus had said this, he went away and hid from them.

so that what the prophet Isaiah spoke might be fulfilled when he said: "Lord, who has believed our message, and to whom has the Lord's power been revealed?"

"He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they might not perceive with their eyes, and understand with their mind and turn, and I would heal them."

Isaiah said this when he saw his glory and spoke about him.

Yet many people, even some of the authorities, believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not admit it so they would not be thrown out of the synagogue.

I've come into the world as light, so that everyone who believes in me won't remain in the darkness.

because I haven't spoken on my own authority. Instead, the Father who sent me has himself commanded me what to say and how to speak.

For he knew who was going to betray him. That's why he said, "Not all of you are clean."

So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you must also wash one another's feet.

I've set an example for you, so that you may do as I have done to you.

I'm telling you this now, before it happens, so that when it does happen, you may believe that I AM.

So Simon Peter motioned to this man to ask Jesus about whom he was speaking.

So Judas took the piece of bread, immediately went outside"and it was night.

If God has been glorified by him, God himself also will glorify the Son of Man, and he will do so quickly.

There are many rooms in my Father's house. If there weren't, I wouldn't have told you that I am going away to prepare a place for you, would I?

And since I'm going away to prepare a place for you, I'll come back again and welcome you into my presence, so that you may be where I am.

Thomas asked him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going, so how can we know the way?"

"Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know me?" Jesus asked him. "The person who has seen me has seen the Father. So how can you say, "Show us the Father'?

You believe, don't you, that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I don't speak on my own. It is the Father who dwells in me and who carries out his work.