(Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God -- he has seen the Father.)

This is the bread that has come down from heaven, so that a person may eat from it and not die.

This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the bread your ancestors ate, but then later died. The one who eats this bread will live forever."

But there are some of you who do not believe." (For Jesus had already known from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)

After this many of his disciples quit following him and did not accompany him any longer.

(For not even his own brothers believed in him.)

So Jesus replied, "My time has not yet arrived, but you are ready at any opportunity!

You go up to the feast yourselves. I am not going up to this feast because my time has not yet fully arrived."

But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then Jesus himself also went up, not openly but in secret.

So Jesus replied, "My teaching is not from me, but from the one who sent me.

Hasn't Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law! Why do you want to kill me?"

However, because Moses gave you the practice of circumcision (not that it came from Moses, but from the forefathers), you circumcise a male child on the Sabbath.

But if a male child is circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?

Do not judge according to external appearance, but judge with proper judgment."

Then Jesus, while teaching in the temple courts, cried out, "You both know me and know where I come from! And I have not come on my own initiative, but the one who sent me is true. You do not know him,

So then they tried to seize Jesus, but no one laid a hand on him, because his time had not yet come.

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

Then the Jewish leaders said to one another, "Where is he going to go that we cannot find him? He is not going to go to the Jewish people dispersed among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he?

What did he mean by saying, 'You will look for me but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come'?"

(Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were going to receive, for the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.)

But this rabble who do not know the law are accursed!"

She replied, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said, "I do not condemn you either. Go, and from now on do not sin any more."]]

So the Pharisees objected, "You testify about yourself; your testimony is not true!"

Jesus answered, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you people do not know where I came from or where I am going.

You people judge by outward appearances; I do not judge anyone.

But if I judge, my evaluation is accurate, because I am not alone when I judge, but I and the Father who sent me do so together.

Then they began asking him, "Who is your father?" Jesus answered, "You do not know either me or my Father. If you knew me you would know my Father too."

(Jesus spoke these words near the offering box while he was teaching in the temple courts. No one seized him because his time had not yet come.)

Jesus replied, "You people are from below; I am from above. You people are from this world; I am not from this world.

(They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father.)

And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do those things that please him."

The slave does not remain in the family forever, but the son remains forever.

But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!

You people are doing the deeds of your father." Then they said to Jesus, "We were not born as a result of immorality! We have only one Father, God himself."

Jesus replied, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. I have not come on my own initiative, but he sent me.

You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

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

Jesus answered, "I am not possessed by a demon, but I honor my Father -- and yet you dishonor me.

I am not trying to get praise for myself. There is one who demands it, and he also judges.

Yet you do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I obey his teaching.

Then the Judeans replied, "You are not yet fifty years old! Have you seen Abraham?"

We must perform the deeds of the one who sent me as long as it is daytime. Night is coming when no one can work.

Then the neighbors and the people who had seen him previously as a beggar began saying, "Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?"

Then some of the Pharisees began to say, "This man is not from God, because he does not observe the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner perform such miraculous signs?" Thus there was a division among them.

But we do not know how he is now able to see, nor do we know who caused him to see. Ask him, he is a mature adult. He will speak for himself."

He replied, "I do not know whether he is a sinner. I do know one thing -- that although I was blind, now I can see."

We know that God has spoken to Moses! We do not know where this man comes from!"

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

Jesus said,] "For judgment I have come into this world, so that those who do not see may gain their sight, and the ones who see may become blind."

Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this and asked him, "We are not blind too, are we?"

Jesus replied, "If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin, but now because you claim that you can see, your guilt remains."

"I tell you the solemn truth, the one who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.

They will never follow a stranger, but will run away from him, because they do not recognize the stranger's voice."

Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.

All who came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

The hired hand, who is not a shepherd and does not own sheep, sees the wolf coming and abandons the sheep and runs away. So the wolf attacks the sheep and scatters them.

Because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep, he runs away.

I have other sheep that do not come from this sheepfold. I must bring them too, and they will listen to my voice, so that there will be one flock and one shepherd.

Others said, "These are not the words of someone possessed by a demon. A demon cannot cause the blind to see, can it?"

Jesus replied, "I told you and you do not believe. The deeds I do in my Father's name testify about me.

But you refuse to believe because you are not my sheep.

The Jewish leaders replied, "We are not going to stone you for a good deed but for blasphemy, because you, a man, are claiming to be God."

Jesus answered, "Is it not written in your law, 'I said, you are gods'?

If I do not perform the deeds of my Father, do not believe me.

But if I do them, even if you do not believe me, believe the deeds, so that you may come to know and understand that I am in the Father and the Father is in me."

When Jesus heard this, he said, "This sickness will not lead to death, but to God's glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it."

Jesus replied, "Are there not twelve hours in a day? If anyone walks around in the daytime, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

But if anyone walks around at night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him."

and I am glad for your sake that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him."

Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.

(Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still in the place where Martha had come out to meet him.)

Now when Mary came to the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."

You do not realize that it is more to your advantage to have one man die for the people than for the whole nation to perish."

(Now he did not say this on his own, but because he was high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the Jewish nation,

and not for the Jewish nation only, but to gather together into one the children of God who are scattered.)

(Now Judas said this not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief. As keeper of the money box, he used to steal what was put into it.)

For you will always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me!"

Now a large crowd of Judeans learned that Jesus was there, and so they came not only because of him but also to see Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead.

"Do not be afraid, people of Zion; look, your king is coming, seated on a donkey's colt!"

(His disciples did not understand these things when they first happened, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him and that these things had happened to him.)

Jesus said, "This voice has not come for my benefit but for yours.

Jesus replied, "The light is with you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

For this reason they could not believe, because again Isaiah said,

"He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they would not see with their eyes and understand with their heart, and turn to me, and I would heal them."

Nevertheless, even among the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they would not confess Jesus to be the Christ, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue.

But Jesus shouted out, "The one who believes in me does not believe in me, but in the one who sent me,

I have come as a light into the world, so that everyone who believes in me should not remain in darkness.

If anyone hears my words and does not obey them, I do not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

The one who rejects me and does not accept my words has a judge; the word I have spoken will judge him at the last day.

For I have not spoken from my own authority, but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me what I should say and what I should speak.

Jesus replied, "You do not understand what I am doing now, but you will understand after these things."

Peter said to him, "You will never wash my feet!" Jesus replied, "If I do not wash you, you have no share with me."

Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, wash not only my feet, but also my hands and my head!"

Jesus replied, "The one who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean. And you disciples are clean, but not every one of you."

(For Jesus knew the one who was going to betray him. For this reason he said, "Not every one of you is clean.")

I tell you the solemn truth, the slave is not greater than his master, nor is the one who is sent as a messenger greater than the one who sent him.

"What I am saying does not refer to all of you. I know the ones I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the scripture, 'The one who eats my bread has turned against me.'

Judas took the piece of bread and went out immediately. (Now it was night.)

Jesus answered, "Will you lay down your life for me? I tell you the solemn truth, the rooster will not crow until you have denied me three times!

"Do not let your hearts be distressed. You believe in God; believe also in me.