And you will know what the truth is and the truth will set you free [i.e. from bondage to sin]."

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'?"

Therefore, if the Son sets you free [from sin], you will be truly free.

I know that you are descended from Abraham, yet you want to kill me, because there is no room in your hearts for my teaching.

I speak the things which I have seen with my Father: and ye also do the things which ye heard from your father.

But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I heard from God: this did not Abraham.

You are doing the deeds of your father!" They said to him, "We were not born from sexual immorality! We have one father, God!"

Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I came forth and am come from God; for neither have I come of myself, but he sent me.

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father it is your will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and standeth not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.

The one who is from God listens to God’s words. This is why you don’t listen, because you are not from God.”

Jesus answered, “If I glorify Myself, My glory is [worth] nothing. It is My Father who glorifies Me, of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’

Jesus said to them, Truly, truly do I say to you, From before Abraham was, I have been.

Then they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out from the temple area.

And as he passed by, he saw a man blind from his birth.

And his disciples put a question to him, saying, Master, was it because of this man's sin, or the sin of his father and mother, that he has been blind from birth?

After He said these things He spit on the ground, made some mud from the saliva, and spread the mud on his eyes.

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?

Some therefore of the Pharisees said, This man is not from God, because he keepeth not the sabbath. But others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such signs? And there was division among them.

His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jews, since the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed Him as Messiah, he would be banned from the synagogue.

We know that God has spoken to Moses. But this man—we don’t know where He’s from!”

“This is an amazing thing,” the man told them. “You don’t know where He is from, yet He opened my eyes!

From {time immemorial} it has not been heard that someone opened the eyes of one born blind.

If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.

they answered, you were a vicious fellow from your very birth, and do you pretend to preach to us? and then they excommunicated him.

Verily, verily, I say unto you: - He that entereth not, through the door, into the fold of the sheep, but goeth up from another place, that man, is, a thief, and, a robber.

And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.

I am the gate; if anyone enters [the corral] through me, he will be saved [i.e., from condemnation], and will find pasture [i.e., will receive spiritual nurturing].

He who is a servant, and not the keeper or the owner of the sheep, sees the wolf coming and goes in flight, away from the sheep; and the wolf comes down on them and sends them in all directions:

And I have other sheep which are not from this fold. I must bring these also, and they will hear my voice, and they will become one flock--one shepherd.

Therefore doth my father love me: because I put my life from me, that I might take it again.

no man can take it from me, but I voluntarily lay it down: I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. this is the order I have received from my father.

But many from among them were saying - A demon, he hath, and is raving, - Why, unto him, do ye hearken?

I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my hand.

My Father, who has given [them] to me, is greater than all, and no one can seize [them] from the Father's hand.

Then the Jews again took up stones to stone him. Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father;

Jesus answered them, many good works have I shewed you from my father; for which of those works would you stone me?

If he called those to whom a message from God came "gods' (and the Scripture cannot be disregarded),

They sought therefore again to take him; and he went away from out of their hand

Now a man was sick, Lazarus, from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

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 Bethany being distant from Jerusalem but about fifteen furlongs,

and, many from among the Jews, had come unto Martha and Mary, that they might console them concerning their brother.

When Martha had the news that Jesus was on the way, she went out to him, but Mary did not go from the house.

Yet even now I know that whatever You ask from God, God will give You.”

Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again [from the dead]."

Martha said to him, I am certain that he will come to life again when all come back from the dead at the last day.

& 31] Now as Bethany is not far from Jerusalem, only about two miles away,

when Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping who came with her, he sighed from his heart, and was troubled,

Whereupon the Jews said, "See how he loved him!" ??37 though some of them asked, "Could he not have prevented him from dying, when he could open a blind man's eyes?"

But some of them said, “Couldn’t He who opened the blind man’s eyes also have kept this man from dying?”

then they took away the stone from the place where the corps was laid. and Jesus lifting up his eyes to heaven said, "father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.

Many therefore from among the Jews, who had come unto Mary, and gazed on what he did, believed on him

but, certain from among them, went away unto the Pharisees, and told them what Jesus had done.

If we let him alone as we are doing, every one will believe in him; and the Romans will come and will take from us both our City and our Nationality."

But, a certain one from among them, Caiaphas, being, High-priest, for that year, said unto them - Ye, know, nothing at all;

now this he did not say from his own motion: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation:

from that day therefore, they consulted together to put Jesus to death.

Therefore Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews but departed from there to the countryside near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim. And He stayed there with the disciples.

The Jewish Passover was near, and many went up to Jerusalem from the country to purify themselves before the Passover.

Jesus therefore six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus raised from the dead.

Mary, therefore, having taken a pound of ointment of spikenard, of great price, anointed the feet of Jesus and did wipe with her hair his feet, and the house was filled from the fragrance of the ointment.

Now he did not say this because he cared about poor people, but because he was in charge of the money bag, and being a thief, he used to steal from it.

a great multitude of Jews knowing that Jesus was there, went thither, not for his sake only, but likewise to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

Because on his account many of the Jews went away from them, and believed on Jesus.

[So], they took branches from palm trees and went out to meet Him, shouting, "Hosanna [Note: See Matt. 21:9 for the meaning of this word], may He, the King of Israel, be praised, for He comes in the name [i.e., by the authority] of the Lord!"

"Cease from fearing, Daughter of Zion; See, your King is coming mounted on an ass's colt!"

the people that were present testified, that he called Lazarus out of his grave, and raised him from the dead.

Now some Greeks were from those who came up so that they might worship at the feast.

So they came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and requested of him, “Sir, we want to see Jesus.”

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; what! shall I say, father, save me from this concern? but for this cause am I come, even for this very concern.

father, glorify thy name." then there came this voice from heaven, "I have glorified it, and will glorify it again."

Then a voice came from heaven, "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again!" The crowd standing there heard this and said that it was thunder. Others were saying, "An angel has spoken to him."

as for me, when I shall be lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men unto me.

Upon which the people said to him, we have learnt from the law, that the Messiah is to live for ever: why do you say then, the son of man must be lift up? who is this son of man?

while ye have the light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. after having said these things, Jesus retir'd, and conceal'd himself from them.

Now for all the Signs he had performed before them, they did not believe in him ??38 that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: Lord, who has believed what they heard from us, And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

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 hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; lest they should see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and turn from their ways, and I should heal them."

Nevertheless, many did believe in Him even among the rulers, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, so they would not be banned from the synagogue.

For they loved praise from men more than praise from God.

For I spake not from myself; but the Father that sent me, he hath given me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.

Before the Passover Festival, Jesus knew that His hour had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.

So at supper??he devil having by this time put the thought of betraying Jesus into the mind of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son??3 Jesus, fully aware that the Father had put everything into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,

though he knew that the father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and was going to God,

rose from supper, laid aside his garment, and took a towel to wrap about him.

Jesus said to him, he that comes out from bathing has occasion only to wash his feet, the rest of his body being clean: so you are clean, but not every one of you.

From henceforth I tell you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am he .

These things, having said, Jesus, was troubled in spirit, and bare witness, and said - Verily, verily, I say unto you - One from among you, will deliver me up.

He leaned back from where he lay, on Jesus' breast, and said to him, "Master, who is it?"

For some of them thought, since Judas was in charge of the [money] bag, that Jesus was telling him, "Buy whatever we need for the [Passover] meal," or that he was [being told] to give [money] to poor people [from it].

if you had known me, you would likewise have known my father: and from henceforth you shall know him, nay, you have seen him.

don't you believe that I am in the father, and the father in me? the words that I speak unto you, I speak indeed, tho' not from my self; but as to the works, the father, who dwells in me, he is the agent.

The one who doesn’t love Me will not keep My words. The word that you hear is not Mine but is from the Father who sent Me.

But so that the world may know that I love the Father, and just as the Father has commanded me, thus I am doing. Get up, let us go from here!

Remain in me, and I in you. Just as the branch is not able to bear fruit from itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither [can] you, unless you remain in me.

'I am the vine, ye the branches; he who is remaining in me, and I in him, this one doth bear much fruit, because apart from me ye are not able to do anything;

no more do I call you servants, because the servant hath not known what his lord doth, and you I have called friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I did make known to you.

If you belonged to the world, the world would love what it owned; it is because you do not belong to the world, because I have chosen you from the world, that the world hates you.

And when the Comforter may come, whom I will send to you from the Father -- the Spirit of truth, who from the Father doth come forth, he will testify of me;