'One' in the Bible

He alluded to Judas, the son of Simon the Iscariot. For he it was who, though one of the Twelve, was afterwards to betray Him.

For no one acts in secret, desiring all the while to be himself known publicly. Since you are doing these things, show yourself openly to the world."

Yet for fear of the Jews no one spoke out boldly about Him.

If any one is willing to do His will, he shall know about the teaching, whether it is from God or originates with me.

"You are possessed by a demon," replied the crowd; "no one wants to kill you."

"One deed I have done," replied Jesus, "and you are all full of wonder.

And yet we know this man, and we know where he is from; but as for the Christ, when He comes, no one can tell where He is from."

Jesus therefore, while teaching in the Temple, cried aloud, and said, "Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from. And yet I have not come of my own accord; but there is One who has sent me, an Authority indeed, of whom you have no knowledge.

The Jews therefore said to one another, "Where is he about to betake himself, so that we shall not find him? Will he betake himself to the Dispersion among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles?

Some of them wanted at once to arrest Him, but no one laid hands upon Him.

"has any one of the Rulers or of the Pharisees believed in him?

Nicodemus interposed--he who had formerly gone to Jesus, being himself one of them.

They listened to Him, and then, beginning with the eldest, took their departure, one by one, till all were gone. And Jesus was left behind alone--and the woman in the centre of the court.

Then, raising His head, Jesus said to her, "Where are they? Has no one condemned you?"

"No one, Sir," she replied. "And *I* do not condemn you either," said Jesus; "go, and from this time do not sin any more."

You judge according to appearances: I am judging no one.

I am one giving testimony about myself, and the Father who sent me gives testimony about me."

These sayings He uttered in the Treasury, while teaching in the Temple; yet no one arrested Him, because His time had not yet come.

The Jews began to ask one another, "Is he going to kill himself, do you think, that he says, 'Where I am going, it is impossible for you to come'?"

"We are descendants of Abraham," they answered, "and have never at any time been in slavery to any one. What do those words of yours mean, 'You shall become free'?"

"In most solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "that every one who commits sin is the slave of sin.

You are doing the deeds of your father." "We," they replied, "are not illegitimate children. We have one Father, namely God."

I, however, am not aiming at glory for myself: there is One who aims at glory for me--and who judges.

In most solemn truth I tell you that if any one shall have obeyed my teaching he shall in no case ever see death."

"Now," exclaimed the Jews, "we know that you are possessed by a demon. Abraham died, and so did the Prophets, and yet *you* say, 'If any one shall have obeyed my teaching, he shall in no case ever taste death.'

"Were I to glorify myself," answered Jesus, "I should have no real glory. There is One who glorifies me--namely my Father, who you say is your God.

We must do the works of Him who sent me while there is daylight. Night is coming on, when no one can work.

Such was their answer, because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already settled among themselves that if any one should acknowledge Jesus as the Christ, he should be excluded from the synagogue.

"Whether he is a sinner or not, I do not know," he replied; "one thing I know--that I was once blind and that now I can see."

We know that God does not listen to bad people, but that if any one is a God-fearing man and obeys Him, to him He listens.

From the beginning of the world such a thing was never heard of as that any one should open the eyes of a man blind from his birth.

I am the Door. If any one enters by me, he will find safety, and will go in and out and find pasture.

The hired servant--one who is not a shepherd and does not own the sheep--no sooner sees the wolf coming than he leaves the sheep and runs away; and the wolf worries and scatters them.

I have also other sheep--which do not belong to this fold. Those also I must bring, and they will listen to my voice; and they shall become one flock under one Shepherd.

No one is taking it away from me, but I myself am laying it down. I am authorized to lay it down, and I am authorized to receive it back again. This is the command I received from my Father."

I give them the Life of the Ages, and they shall never, never perish, nor shall any one wrest them from my hand.

What my Father has given me is more precious than all besides; and no one is able to wrest anything from my Father's hand.

I and the Father are one."

how is it that you say to one whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am God's Son'?

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

and every one who is living and is a believer in me shall never, never die. Do you believe this?"

Therefore the High Priests and the Pharisees held a meeting of the Sanhedrin. "What steps are we taking?" they asked one another; "for this man is performing a great number of miracles.

But one of them, named Caiaphas, being High Priest that year, said, "You know nothing about it.

You do not reflect that it is to your interest that one man should die for the people rather than the whole nation perish."

and not for the nation only, but in order to unite into one body all the far-scattered children of God.

They therefore looked out for Jesus, and asked one another as they stood in the Temple, "What do you think? --will he come to the Festival at all?"

Now the High Priests and the Pharisees had issued orders that if any one knew where He was, he should give information, so that they might arrest Him.

So they gave a dinner there in honour of Jesus, at which Martha waited at table, but Lazarus was one of the guests who were with Him.

Then said Judas (the Iscariot, one of the Twelve--the one who afterwards betrayed Jesus)

I have come like light into the world, in order that no one who believes in me may remain in the dark.

And if any one hears my teachings and regards them not, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

"Any one who has lately bathed," said Jesus, "does not need to wash more than his feet, but is clean all over. And you my disciples are clean, and yet this is not true of all of you."

If I then, your Master and Rabbi, have washed your feet, it is also your duty to wash one another's feet.

After speaking thus Jesus was troubled in spirit and said with deep earnestness, "In most solemn truth I tell you that one of you will betray me."

The disciples began looking at one another, at a loss to know to which of them He was referring.

There was at table one of His disciples--the one Jesus loved-- reclining with his head on Jesus's bosom.

"It is the one," answered Jesus, "for whom I shall dip this piece of bread and to whom I shall give it." Accordingly He dipped the piece of bread, and took it and gave it to Judas, the son of the Iscariot Simon.

But why He said this no one else at the table understood.

A new commandment I give you, to love one another; that as I have loved you, you also may love one another.

It is by this that every one will know that you are my disciples--if you love one another."

"I am the Way," replied Jesus, "and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

"If any one loves me," replied Jesus, "he will obey my teaching; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

If any one does not continue in me, he is like the unfruitful branch which is at once thrown away and then withers up. Such branches they gather up and throw into the fire and they are burned.

This is my commandment to you, to love one another as I have loved you.

No one has greater love than this--a man laying down his life for his friends.

"Thus I command you to love one another.

If I had not done among them, as I have, such miracles as no one else ever did, they would have had no sin; but they have in fact seen and also hated both me and my Father.

You will be excluded from the synagogues; nay more, the time is coming when any one who has murdered one of you will suppose he is offering service to God.

But now I an returning to Him who sent me; and not one of you asks me where I am going.

Some of His disciples therefore said to one another, "What does this mean which He is telling us, 'A little while and you do not see me, and again a little while and you shall see me,' and 'Because I am going to the Father'?"

So they asked one another repeatedly, "What can that 'little while' mean which He speaks of? We do not understand His words."

Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask Him, and He said, "Is this what you are questioning one another about--my saying, 'A little while and you do not see me, and again a little while and you shall see me'?

So you also now have sorrow; but I shall see you again, and your hearts will be glad, and your gladness no one will take away from you.

I am now no longer in the world, but they are in the world and I am coming to Thee. "Holy Father, keep them true to Thy name--the name which Thou hast given me to bear--that they may be one, even as we are.

While I was with them, I kept them true to Thy name--the name Thou hast given me to bear--and I kept watch over them, and not one of them is lost but only he who is doomed to destruction--that the Scripture may be fulfilled.

I do not ask that Thou wilt remove them out of the world, but that Thou wilt protect them from the Evil one.

that they may all be one, even as Thou art in me, O Father, and I am in Thee; that they also may be in us; that the world may believe that Thou didst send me.

And the glory which Thou hast given me I have given them, that they may be one, just as we are one:

I in them and Thou in me; that they may stand perfected in one; that the world may come to understand that Thou didst send me and hast loved them with the same love as that with which Thou hast loved me.

He made this request in order that the words He had spoken might be fulfilled, "As for those whom Thou hast given me, I have not lost one."

(It was this Caiaphas who had advised the Jews, saying, "It is to your interest that one man should die for the People.")

This led the girl, the portress, to ask Peter, "Are you also one of this man's disciples?" "No, I am not," he replied.

Upon His saying this, one of the officers standing by struck Him with his open hand, asking Him as he did so, "Is that the way you answer the High Priest?"

But Simon Peter remained standing and warming himself, and this led to their asking him, "Are you also one of his disciples?" He denied it, and said, "No, I am not."

One of the High Priest's servants, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Did I not see you in the garden with him?"

"So then *you* are a king!" rejoined Pilate. "Yes," said Jesus, "you say truly that I am a king. For this purpose I was born, and for this purpose I have come into the world--to give testimony for the truth. Every one who is a friend of the truth listens to my voice."

But you have a custom that I should release one prisoner to you at the Passover. So shall I release to you the King of the Jews?"

Upon receiving this answer, Pilate was for releasing Him. But the Jews kept shouting, "If you release this man, you are no friend of Caesar's. Every one who sets himself up as king declares himself a rebel against Caesar."

where they nailed Him to a cross, and two others at the same time, one on each side and Jesus in the middle.

So the soldiers, as soon as they had crucified Jesus, took His garments, including His tunic, and divided them into four parts--one part for each soldier. The tunic was without seam, woven from the top in one piece.

So they said to one another, "Do not let us tear it. Let us draw lots for it." This happened that the Scripture might be fulfilled which says, "They shared my garments among them, and drew lots for my clothing." That was just what the soldiers did.

Meanwhile the Jews, because it was the day of Preparation for the Passover, and in order that the bodies might not remain on the crosses during the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was one of special solemnity)

One of the soldiers, however, made a thrust at His side with a lance, and immediately blood and water flowed out.

For all this took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled which declares, "Not one of His bones shall be broken."

There was a garden at the place where Jesus had been crucified, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had yet been buried.

So she ran, as fast as she could, to find Simon Peter and the other disciple--the one who was dear to Jesus--and to tell them, "They have taken the Master out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have put Him."

and saw two angels clothed in white raiment, sitting one at the head and one at the feet where the body of Jesus had been.

Thomas, one of the twelve--surnamed 'the Twin' --was not among them when Jesus came.

"Come this way and have breakfast," said Jesus. But not one of the disciples ventured to question Him as to who He was, for they felt sure that it was the Master.

"In most solemn truth I tell you that whereas, when you were young, you used to put on your girdle and walk whichever way you chose, when you have grown old you will stretch out your arms and some one else will put a girdle round you and carry you where you have no wish to go."