But He said to them, "It is I; stop being afraid!"

Then they were willing to take Him on board, and at once the boat came to the shore it was making for.

Next day the people who had stayed on the other side of the sea saw that there was only one boat there, and that Jesus had not gotten into it with His disciples, but that His disciples had gone away by themselves.

Jesus answered them, "I most solemnly say to you, you are looking for me, not because of the wonder-works you saw, but because you ate the loaves and had plenty.

Stop toiling for the food that perishes, but toil for the food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, for God the Father has given Him authority to do so."

Then Jesus said to them, "I most solemnly say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the real bread out of heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the real bread out of heaven,

But I have told you that, although you have seen me, yet you do not believe in me.

because I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of Him who sent me.

Now the will of Him who sent me is this, that I should lose none of all that He has given me, but should raise them to life on the last day.

But here is the bread that comes down out of heaven, so that anyone may eat it and never die.

But the Jews kept on wrangling with one another and saying, "How can He give us His flesh to eat?"

But as Jesus naturally knew that His disciples were grumbling about this, He said to them, "Is this shocking to you?

But there are some of you who do not trust in me." For Jesus knew from the start who they were that did not trust in Him, and who it was that was going to betray Him.

Then Jesus said to them, "It is not yet time for me to do so, but anytime is suitable for you.

But after His brothers had gone up to the feast, then He went up too, not publicly but, as it were, privately.

And there was a great deal of grumbling about Him among the crowds, some saying that He was a good man, and others that He was not, but was misleading the masses.

Jesus answered them, "My teaching is not my own, but it comes from Him who sent me.

Whoever utters merely his own ideas is seeking his own honor, but whoever seeks the honor of him who sent him is sincere, and there is no dishonesty in him.

Then Moses gave you the rite of circumcision -- not that it had its origin with Moses but with your earlier forefathers -- and you circumcise a male child even on the Sabbath.

But we know where this man is from; when the Christ comes, however, no one will know where He is from."

So Jesus, as He was teaching in the temple, cried out, "Yes, you do know me and you do know where I come from, and I have not come on my own authority, but the One who has sent me exists as the Real One, whom you do not know.

But many of the crowd believed in Him, and said, "When the Christ comes, He will not perform greater wonder-works than He did, will He?"

You will then look for me, but you will not find me, and you cannot come where I am going."

Others said, "This is the Christ." But still others said, "The Christ does not come from Galilee, does He?

and some of them wanted to arrest Him, but no one ventured to lay a hand upon Him.

But this mob, which knows nothing about the law, is bound to be accursed!"

But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

They were asking this to trap him so that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped and began to write in the dirt with his finger.

Then Jesus again addressed them and said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever continues to follow me need never walk in darkness, but he will enjoy the light that means life."

Jesus answered them, "Even if I do testify to 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 come from or where I am going.

You are judging in accordance with external standards, but I judge nobody.

Even if I should judge, my decision is fair, because I am not alone, but there are two of us, I and the Father who has sent me.

Then Jesus again said to them, "I am going away, and you will look for me, but you will die under the curse of your sins; for where I am going you can never come."

I have much to say about you and much to condemn in you, but He who sent me is truthful, and I am telling the world only what I have learned from Him."

So Jesus said to them, "When you lift the Son of Man (on the cross), you will know that I am the Christ, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but that I say exactly what my Father has instructed me to say.

Now a slave does not live permanently in a household, but a son does.

But right now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that He has learned from God. Abraham never did that.

Then Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and now am here. No, indeed, I have not come on my own authority, but He has sent me.

But because I tell you the truth, you do not believe me.

Who of you can prove me guilty of sin? But if I do tell you the truth, why do you not believe me?

Jesus answered: "I am not under the power of a demon; on the other hand, I am honoring my Father, but you are dishonoring me.

And yet you have not learned to know Him; but I know Him, and if I say I do not know Him, I will be a liar like you. On the other hand, I do know Him and I do follow His teaching.

At this the Jews took up stones to stone Him, but Jesus made His way out of the temple unperceived.

Jesus answered, "It was neither for his own sin nor for that of his parents, but to show what God could do in his case.

On saying this He spit on the ground and made clay with the saliva, and put it on the man's eyes,

Some said, "Yes, it is he." Others said, "No, but it surely does look like him." He himself said, "I am the man."

So the Pharisees again asked him how he had come to see. He answered them: "He put some clay on my eyes, and I washed them, and so now I can see."

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,

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."

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."

Then they jeered him, and said, "You are a disciple of His yourself, but we are disciples of Moses.

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.

Jesus answered them, "If you were blind, you would not be guilty, but now you keep on claiming, 'We can see'; so your sin remains."

"I most solemnly say to you, whoever does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs over at some other place is a thief and a robber.

But the one who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

But they will never come on behind a stranger, but will run away from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."

Jesus told them this allegory, but they did not understand what He meant by it.

All who came as such before me are thieves and robbers, but the true sheep would not listen to them.

A thief does not come for any purpose but to steal and kill and destroy; I have come for people to have life and have it till it overflows.

No one has taken it from me, but I am giving it as a free gift. I have the right to give it and I have the right to take it back. I have gotten this order from my Father."

Jesus answered them, "I have already told you so, but you do not believe me. The works which I am doing on my Father's authority are my credentials,

but still you do not believe in me, for you do not belong to my sheep.

The Jews retorted, "It is not for a good deed but for blasphemy we are going to stone you; namely, because you, although a mere man, claim to be God."

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."

Once more they were trying to arrest Him, but He escaped from their hands.

And many people came to Him and kept on saying, "John did not perform any wonder-works, but everything he ever said about this man was true."

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.

but if he travels in the nighttime, he does stumble, because he has no light."

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 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."

for He had not yet come into the village, but He was still at the place where Martha had met Him.

But some of them said, "Could not this man, who made that blind man see, have kept Lazarus from dying?"

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 some of them went back to the Pharisees and told them what He had done.

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

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,

and not only for the nation, but also to unite the scattered children of God.

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.

So they gave a dinner there in honor of Jesus, and Martha was waiting on them, but Lazarus was one of the guests with Jesus.

But Judas Iscariot, one of His disciples, who was going to betray Him, said,

He said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and as the carrier of the purse for the Twelve he was in the habit of taking what was put into it.

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

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.

But the high priests planned to kill Lazarus,

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.

I most solemnly say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains a single grain. But if it does die, it yields a great harvest.

Whoever loves his lower life will lose the higher, but whoever hates his lower life in this world preserves the higher for eternal life.

Jesus answered, "This voice did not come for my sake, but for yours.

And yet in spite of all this, even among the leading men many came to believe in Him, but because of the Pharisees they did not own it, for fear of being turned out of the synagogue,

But Jesus cried aloud, "Whoever believes in me believes not merely in me but in Him who has sent me;

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.

This is because I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who has sent me has given me orders Himself what to say and what to tell.

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,

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

Simon Peter said to Him, "Lord, do not stop with my feet, then, but wash my hands and face too!"