Then Jesus said to those Jews who had believed him, "If you continue in my word you are truly my disciples,

Jesus replied to them, "Truly, truly I say to you, that everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.

But now you are seeking to kill me, a man who spoke to you the truth which I heard from God. This Abraham did not do.

Who among you convicts me concerning sin? If I am telling the truth, {why} do you not believe me?

The one who is from God listens to the words of God. Because of this you do not listen--because you are not of God."

But I do not seek my [own] glory. There is one who seeks and judges!

You are not greater than our father Abraham who died, [are you]? And the prophets died! Who do you make yourself [to be]?"

Jesus replied, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. The one who glorifies me is my Father, [about] whom you say, 'He is our God.'

And his disciples asked him, saying, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?"

It is necessary [for] us to do the deeds of the one who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work!

Then the neighbors and those who saw him previously (because he was a beggar) began to say, "Is this man not the one who used to sit and beg?"

He replied, "The man who is called Jesus made clay and smeared [it] on my eyes and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash!' So I went, and I washed, [and] I received sight."

So some of the Pharisees were saying, "This man is not from God, because he does not observe the Sabbath!" Others were saying, "How can a man [who is] a sinner perform such signs?" And there was a division among them.

So the Jews did not believe concerning him that he had been blind and received sight, until they summoned the parents of the one who received sight.

And they asked them, saying, "Is this man your son, whom you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?"

But how he now sees we do not know, or who opened his eyes we do not know. Ask him! {He is a mature adult}; he will speak for himself!"

So they summoned the man who had been blind for the second time and said to him, "Give glory to God! We know that this man is a sinner!"

He answered and said, "And who is [he], sir, that I may believe in him?"

Jesus said to him, "You have both seen him, and he is the one who is speaking with you." [[

And Jesus said,]] "For judgment I have come into this world, so that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind!"

[Some] of the Pharisees who were with him heard these [things] and said to him, "We are not also blind, [are we]?"

"Truly, truly I say to you, the one who does not enter through the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up at some other place--that one is a thief and a robber.

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

All those who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep do not listen to them.

The hired hand, who is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf approaching and abandons the sheep and runs away--and the wolf seizes them and scatters [them]--

Others were saying, "These are not the words of one who is possessed by a demon! A demon is not able to open the eyes of the blind, [is it]?"

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

If he called them 'gods' to whom the word of God came--and the scripture cannot be broken--

do you say about [he] whom the Father set apart and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?

(Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)

So the sisters sent [word] to him, saying, "Lord, behold, [the one] whom you love is sick."

Then Thomas (the one who is called Didymus) said to his fellow disciples, "Let us go also, so that we may die with him."

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me, even if he dies, will live,

and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die {forever}. Do you believe this?"

She said to him, "Yes, Lord, I have believed that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who comes into the world."

So the Jews who were with her in the house and were consoling her, [when they] saw Mary--that she stood up quickly and went out--followed her, [because they] thought that she was going to the tomb in order to weep there.

Then Jesus, when he saw her weeping and the Jews who came with her weeping, was deeply moved in spirit and was troubled within himself.

But some of them said, "Was not this man who opened the eyes of the blind able to do [something] so that this man also would not have died?"

Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the one who had died, said to him, "Lord, he is stinking already, because it has been four days."

The one who had died came out, his feet and his hands bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped with a facecloth. Jesus said to them, "Untie him and let him go."

Then many of the Jews who had come with Mary and saw [the things] which he did believed in him.

But a certain one of them, Caiaphas (who was high priest in that year), said to them, "You do not know anything at all!

and not for the nation only, but also that the children of God who are scattered would be gathered into one.)

Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.

But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who was going to betray him) said,

Now a large crowd of Jews found out that he was there, and they came, not only because of Jesus, but so that they could see Lazarus also, whom he raised from the dead.

On the next day the large crowd who had come to the feast, [when they] heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

took the branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, and began crying out, "Hosanna! Blessed [is] the one who comes in the name of the Lord, even the king of Israel!"

So the crowd who was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead were continuing to testify.

Now some Greeks were among those who had gone up in order to worship at the feast.

So these approached Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and began asking him saying, "Sir, we want to see Jesus."

The one who loves his life loses it, and the one who hates his life in this world preserves it for eternal life.

Then the crowd replied to him, "We have heard from the law that the Christ remains {forever}! And how do you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?"

So Jesus said to them, "Yet a little time the light is with you! Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness does not overtake you! And the one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

in order that the word of the prophet Isaiah would be fulfilled, who said, "Lord, who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?"

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

and the one who sees me sees the one who sent me.

I have come [as] a light into the world, in order that everyone who believes in me will not remain in the darkness.

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

For I have not spoken from myself, but the Father himself who sent me {has commanded me} what I should say and what I should speak.

Jesus said to him, "The one who has bathed {only needs} to wash [his] feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean, but not all [of you]."

(For he knew the one who would betray him; because of this he said, "Not all [of you] are clean.")

Truly, truly I say to you, a slave is not greater than his master, nor a messenger greater than the one who sent him.

"I am not speaking about all of you. I know whom I have chosen, but in order that the scripture would be fulfilled, 'The one who eats my bread has lifted up his heel against me.'

Truly, truly I say to you, the one who receives anyone I send receives me, and the one who receives me receives the one who sent me."

The disciples began looking at one another, uncertain about whom he was speaking.

One of his disciples--the one whom Jesus loved--was reclining {close beside} Jesus.

So Simon Peter gestured for this one to inquire who it was about whom he was speaking.

He leaned back accordingly against Jesus' chest [and] said to him, "Lord, who is it?"

Jesus replied, "It is he to whom I dip the piece of bread and give [it] to him." Then [after] dipping the piece of bread, he gave [it] to Judas [son] of Simon Iscariot.

Jesus said to him, "Am I with you so long a time and you have not known me, Philip? The one who has seen me has seen the Father! How can you say, 'Show us the Father?'

Truly, truly I say to you, the one who believes in me, the works that I am doing he will do also, and he will do greater [works] than these because I am going to the Father.

the Spirit of truth, whom the world is not able to receive, because it does not see him or know [him]. You know him, because he resides with you and will be in you.

The one who has my commandments and keeps them--that one is the one who loves me. And the one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him."

The one who does not love me does not keep my words, and the word that you hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.

But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name--that one will teach you all [things], and will remind you of everything that I said to you.

"I am the vine; you [are] the branches. The one who remains in me and I in him--this one bears much fruit, for apart from me you are not able to do anything.

But they will do all these [things] to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.

The one who hates me hates my Father also.

"When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father--the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father--that one will testify about me.

{They will expel you from the synagogue}, but an hour is coming that everyone who kills you will think they are offering service to God.

But now I am going away to the one who sent me, and none of you is asking me, 'Where are you going?'

just as you have given him authority over all flesh, in order that he would give eternal life to them--everyone whom you have given him.

Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

"I have revealed your name to the men whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me, and they have kept your word.

I am asking on behalf of them. I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those whom you have given me, because they are yours,

"And I do not ask on behalf of these only, but also on behalf of those who believe in me through their word,

"Father, [those] whom you have given to me--I want that those also may be with me where I am, in order that they may see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.

(Now Judas, the one who betrayed him, also knew about the place, because Jesus often gathered there with his disciples.)

Then Jesus, [because he] knew all the things that were coming upon him, went out and said to them, "Who are you looking for?"

They replied to him, "Jesus the Nazarene." He said to them, "I am [he]." (Now Judas, the one who betrayed him, was also standing with them.)

Then he asked them again, "Who are you looking for?" And they said, "Jesus the Nazarene."

in order that the word that he had spoken would be fulfilled: "Those whom you have given to me--I have not lost anyone of them."

Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the slave of the high priest and cut off his right ear. (Now the name of the slave was Malchus.)

and brought [him] to Annas first, for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.

(Now it was Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it was better [that] one man die for the people.)

But Peter was standing by the door outside. So the other disciple [who was] known to the high priest went out and spoke to the doorkeeper and brought Peter in.

Then the female slave [who was] the doorkeeper said to Peter, "You are not also [one] of the disciples of this man, [are you]?" He said, "I am not!"

Why are you asking me? Ask those who heard what I have said to them! Behold, these [people] know what I said."

Now [when] he had said these [things], one of the officers who was standing by gave a slap in the face to Jesus, saying, "Do you reply to the high priest in this way?"