but now ye seek to kill me, a man who has spoken the truth to you, which I have heard from God: this did not Abraham.

You are doing the works of your father. They said to him, We are true sons of Abraham; we have one Father, who is God.

you, who have the devil for your father, will execute the designs of your father: he was a murderer from the beginning, and deserted the truth, since he has no love for the truth: when he lyes, he speaks like himself: for he is a lyar, and the father of a lyar.

Who of you doth convict me of sin? and if I speak truth, wherefore do ye not believe me?

he who is of God, the sayings of God he doth hear; because of this ye do not hear, because of God ye are not.'

and I do not seek my own glory; there is who is seeking and is judging;

The Jews therefore said unto Him, Now we are sure that thou art possessed by a demon. Abraham is dead, and the prophets too; and thou sayest, If any one keep my word, he shall never taste of death: art thou greater than our father Abraham, who is dead?

Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself?

Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God:

As He passed by, He saw a man who had been blind from his birth.

And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?

it behoveth me to be working the works of Him who sent me while it is day; night doth come, when no one is able to work: --

and said to him, "Go and wash them in the Pool of Siloam"?? name which means One who has been sent. So he went and washed them, and went home able to see.

The neighbours therefore, and those who used to see him before, that he was a beggar, said, Is not this he that was sitting and begging?

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."

They bring him who was before blind to the Pharisees.

Then some of the Pharisees said, “This Man [Jesus] is not from God, because He does not keep the Sabbath.” But others said, “How can a man who is a sinner (a non-observant Jew) do such signs and miracles?” So there was a difference of opinion among them.

So again they asked the man who used to be blind, "What do you say about him, since he caused you to see?" "He is a prophet," the man replied.

and he said -- 'He is a prophet.' The Jews, therefore, did not believe concerning him that he was blind and did receive sight, till that they called the parents of him who received sight,

And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see?

But by what means he now seeth, we know not; or who hath opened his eyes, we know not: he is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself.

His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders, since the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah would be thrown out of the synagogue.

They called therefore a second time the man who had been blind, and said to him, Give glory to God: we know that this man is sinful.

He answered, and said, Whether He be a sinner, I know not: but one thing I know, that I who was blind, do now see.

we know that God commission'd Moses: as for this fellow, we don't know who sent him.

the man replied, that's very strange that he should make me see, and you should not know who sent him.

We know that God doesn't listen to sinners, but he does listen to anyone who worships him and does his will.

from the age it was not heard, that any one did open eyes of one who hath been born blind;

He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him?

And Jesus said to him, 'Thou hast both seen him, and he who is speaking with thee is he;'

Then Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment [to separate those who believe in Me from those who reject Me—to declare judgment on those who choose to be separated from God], so that the sightless would see, and those who see would become blind.”

Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said unto him, Are we also blind?

'Verily, verily, I say to you, He who is not entering through the door to the fold of the sheep, but is going up from another side, that one is a thief and a robber;

and he who is entering through the door is shepherd of the sheep;

They will not go after another who is not their keeper, but will go from him in flight, because his voice is strange to them.

All who came before Me [as false messiahs and self-appointed leaders] are thieves and robbers, but the [true] sheep did not hear them.

I am the Door; anyone who enters through Me will be saved [and will live forever], and will go in and out [freely], and find pasture (spiritual security).

but he who serves for wages, and who is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf seizes them and scatters the sheep.

Now he who serves for wages flees because he serves for wages, and is not himself concerned about the sheep.

I am the Good Shepherd, and I know those that are Mine, and I am known by those who are Mine.

And I have other sheep who are not of this fold. I must also lead those, and they shall hear My voice, and there shall be one flock, one Shepherd.

The Jews who heard these words became divided again [i.e., over their meaning].

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 hath given them unto me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.

"For no good deed," the Jews replied, "are we going to stone you, but for blasphemy, and because you, who are only a man, are making yourself out to be God."

If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;

Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?

Many who came to him said, "John did not perform any signs, but everything he said about this man was true."

And many who were there believed on him.

Now a man named Lazarus was ill. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha??2 it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill.

And it was that Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.

Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.

Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours [of light] in the day? Anyone who walks in the daytime does not stumble, because he sees [by] the light of this world.

Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said unto his fellow-disciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him.

and many of the Jews had come with the women who were about Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.

Jesus said to her, 'I am the rising again, and the life; he who is believing in me, even if he may die, shall live;

and every one who lives and believes on me shall never die. Believest thou this?

She says to him, Yea, Lord; I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, who should come into the world.

The Jews then who were with her in the house, and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, supposing that she was going unto the tomb to weep there.

When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,

Thus the people who had come to mourn said, "Look how much he loved him!"

But some of them said, Could not this man, who opened the eyes of him that was blind, have caused that this man also should not die?

Jesus saith, 'Take ye away the stone;' the sister of him who hath died -- Martha -- saith to him, 'Sir, already he stinketh, for he is four days dead;'

So they took away the stone where the man who died was laying. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou heard me.

but I knew that thou always hearest me; but on account of the crowd who stand around I have said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.

and he who died came forth, being bound feet and hands with grave-clothes, and his visage with a napkin was bound about; Jesus saith to them, 'Loose him, and suffer to go.'

Many therefore of the Jews, who came to Mary and beheld that which he did, believed on him.

But one of them, Caiaphas, who was the high priest that year [the year of Christ’s crucifixion], said to them, “You know nothing at all!

and not for the nation only, but that he should also gather together into one the children of God who were scattered abroad.

(Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where Jesus was should report it, so that they could arrest him.)

Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.

So they made him a supper there. Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him.

One of his disciples therefore, Judas son of Simon, Iscariote, who was about to deliver him up, says,

Much people of the Jews therefore knew that he was there: and they came not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.

On the morrow a great crowd who came to the feast, having heard that Jesus is coming into Jerusalem,

took the branches of the palms, and went forth to meet him, and were crying, 'Hosanna, blessed is he who is coming in the name of the Lord -- the king of Israel;'

The multitude, therefore, who are with him, were testifying that he called Lazarus out of the tomb, and did raise him out of the dead;

And there were certain Greeks among those who came up that they might worship in the feast;

these therefore came to Philip, who was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus.

he who is loving his life shall lose it, and he who is hating his life in this world -- to life age-during shall keep it;

The multitude therefore, who stood by and heard it, said that it had thundered. Others said, "An angel has spoken to him."

The people answered him, We have heard out of the law that Christ abideth for ever: and how sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man?

Jesus therefore said to them, Yet a little while is the light amongst you. Walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you. And he who walks in the darkness does not know where he goes.

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?

That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?

Yet for all this, even among the leading men there were many who came to believe in Jesus; but, on account of the Pharisees, they did not acknowledge it, for fear that they should be expelled from their Synagogues;

And Jesus cried and said, 'He who is believing in me, doth not believe in me, but in Him who sent me;

and he who is beholding me, doth behold Him who sent me;

I a light to the world have come, that every one who is believing in me -- in the darkness may not remain;

If anyone hears My words and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge and condemn the world [that is, to initiate the final judgment of the world], but to save the world.

He that rejects me and does not receive my words, has him who judges him: the word which I have spoken, that shall judge him in the last day.

For I have not spoken from myself, but the Father who sent me has himself given me commandment what I should say and what I should speak;

Now before the feast of the passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour had come that he should depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, loved them to the end.

Jesus, who knew that the Father had given Him complete authority, [also] knew that He had come from God and was [about] to return to God.

He came to Simon Peter, who asked Him, “Lord, are You going to wash my feet?”

Jesus saith to him, 'He who hath been bathed hath no need save to wash his feet, but he is clean altogether; and ye are clean, but not all;'

For he knew who should betray him; therefore said he, Ye are not all clean.

You call me 'Teacher,' and 'Lord,' and you are right in doing so because that is who I am.

Well, if I have washed your feet, I who am your Lord and Teacher, you are bound to wash one another's feet;

Verily, verily, I say to you, The bondman is not greater than his lord, nor the sent greater than he who has sent him.