The man whose words come from himself is looking for glory for himself, but he who is looking for the glory of him who sent him--that man is true and there is no evil in him.

You will be looking for me, and you will not see me: and where I am you may not come.

What is this saying of his, You will be looking for me and will not see me, and where I am you may not come?

Then he said to them again, I am going away and you will be looking for me, but death will overtake you in your sins. It is not possible for you to come where I am going.

So the Jews said, Will he take his life? Is that why he says, Where I go it is not possible for you to come?

For this reason I said to you that death will overtake you in your sins: for if you have not faith that I am he, death will come to you while you are in your sins.

And you will have knowledge of what is true, and that will make you free.

They said to him in answer, We are Abraham's seed and have never been any man's servant: why do you say, You will become free?

Now the servant does not go on living in the house for ever, but the son does.

If then the son makes you free, you will be truly free.

Jesus said to them, If God was your Father you would have love for me, because it was from God I came and am here. I did not come of myself, but he sent me.

You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.

I, however, am not in search of glory for myself: there is One who is searching for it and he is judge.

Jesus said in answer, If I take glory for myself, my glory is nothing: it is my Father who gives me glory, of whom you say that he is your God.

Then the neighbours and others who had seen him before in the street, with his hand out for money, said, Is not this the man who got money from people?

Then some of the Pharisees said, That man has not come from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath. Others said, How is it possible for a sinner to do such signs? So there was a division among them.

Again they said to the blind man, What have you to say about him for opening your eyes? And he said, He is a prophet.

Now the Jews had no belief in the statement that he had been blind and was now able to see, till they sent for the father and mother of the man whose eyes had been made open,

But how it is he is now able to see, or who made his eyes open, we are not able to say: put the question to him; he is old enough to give an answer for himself.

They said this because of their fear of the Jews: for the Jews had come to an agreement that if any man said that Jesus was the Christ he would be put out of the Synagogue.

So they sent a second time for the man who had been blind and they said to him, Give glory to God: it is clear to us that this man is a sinner.

We are certain that God gave his word to Moses: but as for this man, we have no knowledge where he comes from.

When he has got them all out, he goes before them, and the sheep go after him, for they have knowledge of his voice.

The thief comes only to take the sheep and to put them to death: he comes for their destruction: I have come so that they may have life and have it in greater measure.

I am the good keeper of sheep: the good keeper gives his life for the sheep.

Even as the Father has knowledge of me and I of the Father; and I am giving my life for the sheep.

For this reason am I loved by the Father, because I give up my life so that I may take it again.

Others said, These are not the words of one who has an evil spirit. Is it possible for an evil spirit to make blind people see?

Jesus said to them in answer, I have let you see a number of good works from the Father; for which of those works are you stoning me?

This was their answer: We are not stoning you for a good work but for evil words; because being a man you make yourself God.

And he went again to the other side of the Jordan, to the place where John first gave baptism; and he was there for a time.

Now Jesus had love in his heart for Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

So when the news came to him that Lazarus was ill, he did not go from the place where he was for two days.

Now when Jesus came, he made the discovery that Lazarus had been put into the earth four days before.

And having said this, she went away and said secretly to her sister Mary, The Master is here and has sent for you.

Jesus said, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said, Lord, by this time the body will be smelling, for he has been dead four days.

So they took away the stone. And Jesus, looking up to heaven, said, Father, I give praise to you for hearing me.

And he who was dead came out, with linen bands folded tightly about his hands and feet, and a cloth about his face. Jesus said to them, Make him free and let him go.

You do not see that it is in your interest for one man to be put to death for the people, so that all the nation may not come to destruction.

He did not say this of himself, but being the high priest that year he said, as a prophet, that Jesus would be put to death for the nation;

And not for that nation only, but for the purpose of uniting in one body the children of God all over the world.

So Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but went from there into the country near to the waste land, to a town named Ephraim, where he was for some time with the disciples.

They were looking for Jesus and saying to one another while they were in the Temple, What is your opinion? Will he not come to the feast?

Why was not this perfume traded for three hundred pence, and the money given to the poor?

(He said this, not because he had any love for the poor; but because he was a thief, and, having the money-bag, took for himself what was put into it.)

Then Jesus said, Let her be. Let her keep what she has for the day of my death.

The poor you have ever with you, but me you have not for ever.

For because of him a great number of the Jews went away and had belief in Jesus.

The day after, a great number of people who were there for the feast, when they had the news that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

Have no fear, daughter of Zion: see your King is coming, seated on a young ass.

He who is in love with life will have it taken from him; and he who has no care for his life in this world will keep it for ever and ever.

Now is my soul troubled; and what am I to say? Father, keep me from this hour. No: for this purpose have I come to this hour.

Jesus said in answer, This voice came not for me but for you.

Then the people in answer said to him, The law says that the Christ will have life without end: how say you then that it is necessary for the Son of man to be lifted up? Who is this Son of man?

Jesus said to them, For a little time longer the light will be among you; while you have the light go on walking in it, so that the dark may not overtake you: one walking in the dark has no knowledge of where he is going.

In so far as you have the light, put your faith in the light so that you may become sons of light. With these words Jesus went away and for a time was not seen again by them.

For this reason they were unable to have belief, because Isaiah said again,

He has made their eyes blind, and their hearts hard; for fear that they might see with their eyes and get knowledge with their hearts, and be changed, and I might make them well.

However, a number even of the rulers had belief in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not say so openly for fear that they might be shut out from the Synagogue:

For the praise of men was dearer to them than the approval of God.

For I have not said it on my authority, but the Father who sent me gave me orders what to say and how to say it.

Now before the feast of the Passover, it was clear to Jesus that the time had come for him to go away from this world to the Father. Having once had love for those in the world who were his, his love for them went on to the end.

If then I, the Lord and the Master, have made your feet clean, it is right for you to make one another's feet clean.

Some were of the opinion that because Judas kept the money-bag Jesus said to him, Get the things we have need of for the feast; or, that he was to give something to the poor.

My dear children, I am only to be with you a little longer. Then you will be looking for me: and as I said to the Jews, so now I say to you, Where I am going you may not come.

I give you a new law: Have love one for another; even as I have had love for you, so are you to have love one for another.

By this it will be clear to all men that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another.

Peter said to him, Why may I not come with you even now? I will give up my life for you.

Jesus said in answer, Will you give up your life for me? Truly I say to you, Before the cry of the cock you will have said three times that you are not my disciple.

In my Father's house are rooms enough; if it was not so, would I have said that I am going to make ready a place for you?

And if I go and make ready a place for you, I will come back again and will take you to be with me, so that you may be where I am.

If you have love for me, you will keep my laws.

And I will make prayer to the Father and he will give you another Helper to be with you for ever,

He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him.

Jesus said to him in answer, If anyone has love for me, he will keep my words: and he will be dear to my Father; and we will come to him and make our living-place with him.

He who has no love for me does not keep my words; and the word which you are hearing is not my word but the Father's who sent me.

May peace be with you; my peace I give to you: I give it not as the world gives. Let not your heart be troubled; let it be without fear.

Keep in mind how I said to you, I go away and come to you again. If you had love for me you would be glad, because I am going to the Father: for the Father is greater than I.

But he comes so that the world may see that I have love for the Father, and that I am doing as I am ordered by the Father. Get up, and let us go.

If a man does not keep himself in me, he becomes dead and is cut off like a dry branch; such branches are taken up and put in the fire and burned.

If you are in me at all times, and my words are in you, then anything for which you make a request will be done for you.

This is the law I give you: Have love one for another, even as I have love for you.

Greater love has no man than this, that a man gives up his life for his friends.

You did not take me for yourselves, but I took you for myself; and I gave you the work of going about and producing fruit which will be for ever; so that whatever request you make to the Father in my name he may give it to you.

So this is my law for you: Have love one for another.

If I had not come and been their teacher they would have had no sin: but now they have no reason to give for their sin.

He who has hate for me has hate for my Father.

If I had not done among them the works which no other man ever did, they would have had no sin: but now they have seen, and they have had hate in their hearts for me and my Father.

This comes about so that the writing in their law may be made true, Their hate for me was without cause.

But what I am saying is true: my going is for your good: for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.

I have still much to say to you, but you are not strong enough for it now.

However, when he, the Spirit of true knowledge, has come, he will be your guide into all true knowledge: for his words will not come from himself, but whatever has come to his hearing, that he will say: and he will make clear to you the things to come.

In that day you will make requests in my name: and I do not say that I will make prayer to the Father for you,

For the Father himself gives his love to you, because you have given your love to me and have had faith that I came from God.

Now we are certain that you have knowledge of all things and have no need for anyone to put questions to you: through this we have faith that you came from God.

My prayer is for them: my prayer is not for the world, but for those whom you have given to me, because they are yours

And for them I make myself holy, so that they may be made truly holy.

My prayer is not for them only, but for all who will have faith in me through their word;

Father, it is my desire that these whom you have given to me may be by my side where I am, so that they may see my glory which you have given to me, because you had love for me before the world came into being.

And I have given to them knowledge of your name, and will give it, so that the love which you have for me may be in them and I in them.