
The Good News According to John

   {1:1} In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and
the Word was God. {1:2} The same was in the beginning with God. {1:3}
All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made
that has been made. {1:4} In him was life, and the life was the light
of men. {1:5} The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn't
[1>]overcome[<1] it. {1:6} There came a man, sent from God, whose name
was John. {1:7} The same came as a witness, that he might testify about
the light, that all might believe through him. {1:8} He was not the
light, but was sent that he might testify about the light. {1:9} The
true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.

   {1:10} He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and
the world didn't recognize him. {1:11} He came to his own, and those
who were his own didn't receive him. {1:12} But as many as received
him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who
believe in his name: {1:13} who were born not of blood, nor of the will
of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. {1:14} The Word
became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of
the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth. {1:15}
John testified about him. He cried out, saying, "This was he of whom I
said, 'He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.'"
{1:16} From his fullness we all received grace upon grace. {1:17} For
the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through
Jesus Christ. {1:18} No one has seen God at any time. The one and only
[2>]Son,[<2] who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.

   {1:19} This is John's testimony, when the Jews sent priests and
Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"

   {1:20} He declared, and didn't deny, but he declared, "I am not the
Christ."

   {1:21} They asked him, "What then? Are you Elijah?"

   He said, "I am not."

   "Are you the prophet?"

   He answered, "No."

   {1:22} They said therefore to him, "Who are you? Give us an answer
to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"

   {1:23} He said, "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness,
'Make straight the way of the Lord,'[3] as Isaiah the prophet said."

   {1:24} The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees. {1:25}
They asked him, "Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ,
nor Elijah, nor the prophet?"

   {1:26} John answered them, "I baptize in water, but among you stands
one whom you don't know. {1:27} He is the one who comes after me, who
is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I'm not worthy to loosen."
{1:28} These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John
was baptizing.

   {1:29} The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, "Behold,
the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! {1:30} This is he
of whom I said, 'After me comes a man who is preferred before me, for
he was before me.' {1:31} I didn't know him, but for this reason I came
baptizing in water: that he would be revealed to Israel." {1:32} John
testified, saying, "I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out
of heaven, and it remained on him. {1:33} I didn't recognize him, but
he who sent me to baptize in water, he said to me, 'On whomever you
will see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he
who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.' {1:34} I have seen, and have
testified that this is the Son of God."

   {1:35} Again, the next day, John was standing with two of his
disciples, {1:36} and he looked at Jesus as he walked, and said,
"Behold, the Lamb of God!" {1:37} The two disciples heard him speak,
and they followed Jesus. {1:38} Jesus turned, and saw them following,
and said to them, "What are you looking for?"

   They said to him, "Rabbi" (which is to say, being interpreted,
Teacher), "where are you staying?"

   {1:39} He said to them, "Come, and see."

   They came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him
that day. It was about [4>]the tenth hour.[<4] {1:40} One of the two
who heard John, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.
{1:41} He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, "We have
found the Messiah!" (which is, being interpreted, [5>]Christ[<5]).
{1:42} He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said, "You are
Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas" (which is by
interpretation, Peter). {1:43} On the next day, he was determined to go
out into Galilee, and he found Philip. Jesus said to him, "Follow me."
{1:44} Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter.
{1:45} Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, "We have found him, of
whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the
son of Joseph."

   {1:46} Nathanael said to him, "Can any good thing come out of
Nazareth?"

   Philip said to him, "Come and see."

   {1:47} Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him,
"Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!"

   {1:48} Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?"

   Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under
the fig tree, I saw you."

   {1:49} Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You
are King of Israel!"

   {1:50} Jesus answered him, "Because I told you, 'I saw you
underneath the fig tree,' do you believe? You will see greater things
than these!" {1:51} He said to him, "Most certainly, I tell you,
hereafter you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending
and descending on the Son of Man."

   {2:1} The third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee. Jesus'
mother was there. {2:2} Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to
the marriage. {2:3} When the wine ran out, Jesus' mother said to him,
"They have no wine."

   {2:4} Jesus said to her, "Woman, what does that have to do with you
and me? My hour has not yet come."

   {2:5} His mother said to the servants, "Whatever he says to you, do
it." {2:6} Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the
Jews' way of purifying, containing [6>]two or three metretes[<6]
apiece. {2:7} Jesus said to them, "Fill the water pots with water."
They filled them up to the brim. {2:8} He said to them, "Now draw some
out, and take it to the ruler of the feast." So they took it. {2:9}
When the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and
didn't know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the
water knew), the ruler of the feast called the bridegroom, {2:10} and
said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests
have drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have kept the good
wine until now!" {2:11} This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana
of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

   {2:12} After this, he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother,
his brothers, and his disciples; and they stayed there a few days.
{2:13} The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to
Jerusalem. {2:14} He found in the temple those who sold oxen, sheep,
and doves, and the changers of money sitting. {2:15} He made a whip of
cords, and threw all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen;
and he poured out the changers' money, and overthrew their tables.
{2:16} To those who sold the doves, he said, "Take these things out of
here! Don't make my Father's house a marketplace!" {2:17} His disciples
remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will eat me up."[7]

   {2:18} The Jews therefore answered him, "What sign do you show us,
seeing that you do these things?"

   {2:19} Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days
I will raise it up."

   {2:20} The Jews therefore said, "It took forty-six years to build
this temple! Will you raise it up in three days?" {2:21} But he spoke
of the temple of his body. {2:22} When therefore he was raised from the
dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the
Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.

   {2:23} Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the
feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.
{2:24} But Jesus didn't trust himself to them, because he knew
everyone, {2:25} and because he didn't need for anyone to testify
concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.

   {3:1} Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler
of the Jews. {3:2} The same came to him by night, and said to him,
"Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do
these signs that you do, unless God is with him."

   {3:3} Jesus answered him, "Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is
born [8>]anew,[<8] he can't see the Kingdom of God."

   {3:4} Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old?
Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb, and be born?"

   {3:5} Jesus answered, "Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born
of water and spirit, he can't enter into the Kingdom of God! {3:6} That
which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit
is spirit. {3:7} Don't marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born
anew.' {3:8} The [9>]wind[<9] blows where it wants to, and you hear its
sound, but don't know where it comes from and where it is going. So is
everyone who is born of the Spirit."

   {3:9} Nicodemus answered him, "How can these things be?"

   {3:10} Jesus answered him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and don't
understand these things? {3:11} Most certainly I tell you, we speak
that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you
don't receive our witness. {3:12} If I told you earthly things and you
don't believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
{3:13} No one has ascended into heaven, but he who descended out of
heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven. {3:14} As Moses lifted up the
serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
{3:15} that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal
life. {3:16} For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only
Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal
life. {3:17} For God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the
world, but that the world should be saved through him. {3:18} He who
believes in him is not judged. He who doesn't believe has been judged
already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only
Son of God. {3:19} This is the judgment, that the light has come into
the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their
works were evil. {3:20} For everyone who does evil hates the light, and
doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed. {3:21} But
he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be
revealed, that they have been done in God."

   {3:22} After these things, Jesus came with his disciples into the
land of Judea. He stayed there with them, and baptized. {3:23} John
also was baptizing in Enon near Salim, because there was much water
there. They came, and were baptized. {3:24} For John was not yet thrown
into prison. {3:25} There arose therefore a questioning on the part of
John's disciples with some Jews about purification. {3:26} They came to
John, and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan,
to whom you have testified, behold, the same baptizes, and everyone is
coming to him."

   {3:27} John answered, "A man can receive nothing, unless it has been
given him from heaven. {3:28} You yourselves testify that I said, 'I am
not the Christ,' but, 'I have been sent before him.' {3:29} He who has
the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who
stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's
voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full. {3:30} He must increase,
but I must decrease. {3:31} He who comes from above is above all. He
who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks of the earth. He
who comes from heaven is above all. {3:32} What he has seen and heard,
of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness. {3:33} He who
has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true.
{3:34} For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives
the Spirit without measure. {3:35} The Father loves the Son, and has
given all things into his hand. {3:36} One who believes in the Son has
eternal life, but one who [10>]disobeys[<10] the Son won't see life,
but the wrath of God remains on him."

   {4:1} Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that
Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John {4:2} (although
Jesus himself didn't baptize, but his disciples), {4:3} he left Judea,
and departed into Galilee. {4:4} He needed to pass through Samaria.
{4:5} So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel
of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph. {4:6} Jacob's well was
there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the
well. It was about [11>]the sixth hour[<11]. {4:7} A woman of Samaria
came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink." {4:8} For his
disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

   {4:9} The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, "How is it that
you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" (For
Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

   {4:10} Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it
is who says to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he
would have given you living water."

   {4:11} The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw with,
and the well is deep. From where then have you that living water?
{4:12} Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well,
and drank of it himself, as did his children, and his livestock?"

   {4:13} Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will
thirst again, {4:14} but whoever drinks of the water that I will give
him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will
become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life."

   {4:15} The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I
don't get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw."

   {4:16} Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here."

   {4:17} The woman answered, "I have no husband."

   Jesus said to her, "You said well, 'I have no husband,' {4:18} for
you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your
husband. This you have said truly."

   {4:19} The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a
prophet. {4:20} Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews
say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship."

   {4:21} Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when
neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the
Father. {4:22} You worship that which you don't know. We worship that
which we know; for salvation is from the Jews. {4:23} But the hour
comes, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in
spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshippers.
{4:24} God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit
and truth."

   {4:25} The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah comes," (he who
is called Christ). "When he has come, he will declare to us all things."

   {4:26} Jesus said to her, "I am he, the one who speaks to you."
{4:27} At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking
with a woman; yet no one said, "What are you looking for?" or, "Why do
you speak with her?" {4:28} So the woman left her water pot, and went
away into the city, and said to the people, {4:29} "Come, see a man who
told me everything that I did. Can this be the Christ?"

   {4:30} They went out of the city, and were coming to him. {4:31} In
the meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, "Rabbi, eat."

   {4:32} But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you don't know
about."

   {4:33} The disciples therefore said one to another, "Has anyone
brought him something to eat?"

   {4:34} Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who
sent me, and to accomplish his work. {4:35} Don't you say, 'There are
yet four months until the harvest?' Behold, I tell you, lift up your
eyes, and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.
{4:36} He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life;
that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. {4:37} For
in this the saying is true, 'One sows, and another reaps.' {4:38} I
sent you to reap that for which you haven't labored. Others have
labored, and you have entered into their labor."

   {4:39} From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because
of the word of the woman, who testified, "He told me everything that I
did." {4:40} So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to
stay with them. He stayed there two days. {4:41} Many more believed
because of his word. {4:42} They said to the woman, "Now we believe,
not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know
that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world."

   {4:43} After the two days he went out from there and went into
Galilee. {4:44} For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor
in his own country. {4:45} So when he came into Galilee, the Galileans
received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at
the feast, for they also went to the feast. {4:46} Jesus came therefore
again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water into wine. There was
a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum. {4:47} When he
heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him,
and begged him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was at
the point of death. {4:48} Jesus therefore said to him, "Unless you see
signs and wonders, you will in no way believe."

   {4:49} The nobleman said to him, "Sir, come down before my child
dies." {4:50} Jesus said to him, "Go your way. Your son lives." The man
believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way. {4:51}
As he was now going down, his servants met him and reported, saying
"Your child lives!" {4:52} So he inquired of them the hour when he
began to get better. They said therefore to him, "Yesterday at the
[12>]seventh hour,[<12] the fever left him." {4:53} So the father knew
that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, "Your son lives."
He believed, as did his whole house. {4:54} This is again the second
sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judea into Galilee.

   {5:1} After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus
went up to Jerusalem. {5:2} Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, there
is a pool, which is called in Hebrew, "Bethesda," having five porches.
{5:3} In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind,
lame, or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water; {5:4} for an
angel went down at certain times into the pool, and stirred up the
water. Whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was
made whole of whatever disease he had. {5:5} A certain man was there,
who had been sick for thirty-eight years. {5:6} When Jesus saw him
lying there, and knew that he had been sick for a long time, he asked
him, "Do you want to be made well?"

   {5:7} The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into
the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I'm coming, another
steps down before me."

   {5:8} Jesus said to him, "Arise, take up your mat, and walk."

   {5:9} Immediately, the man was made well, and took up his mat and
walked.

   Now it was the Sabbath on that day. {5:10} So the Jews said to him
who was cured, "It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry
the mat."

   {5:11} He answered them, "He who made me well, the same said to me,
'Take up your mat, and walk.'"

   {5:12} Then they asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Take
up your mat, and walk'?"

   {5:13} But he who was healed didn't know who it was, for Jesus had
withdrawn, a crowd being in the place.

   {5:14} Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him,
"Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens
to you."

   {5:15} The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who
had made him well. {5:16} For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and
sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath. {5:17}
But Jesus answered them, "My Father is still working, so I am working,
too." {5:18} For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to
kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God
his own Father, making himself equal with God. {5:19} Jesus therefore
answered them, "Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of
himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he
does, these the Son also does likewise. {5:20} For the Father has
affection for the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does.
He will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel. {5:21}
For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son
also gives life to whom he desires. {5:22} For the Father judges no
one, but he has given all judgment to the Son, {5:23} that all may
honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn't honor the
Son doesn't honor the Father who sent him.

   {5:24} "Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and
believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn't come into
judgment, but has passed out of death into life. {5:25} Most certainly,
I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son
of God's voice; and those who hear will live. {5:26} For as the Father
has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in
himself. {5:27} He also gave him authority to execute judgment, because
he is a son of man. {5:28} Don't marvel at this, for the hour comes, in
which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice, {5:29} and will
come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and
those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment. {5:30} I can
of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous;
because I don't seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.

   {5:31} "If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid. {5:32}
It is another who testifies about me. I know that the testimony which
he testifies about me is true. {5:33} You have sent to John, and he has
testified to the truth. {5:34} But the testimony which I receive is not
from man. However, I say these things that you may be saved. {5:35} He
was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a
while in his light. {5:36} But the testimony which I have is greater
than that of John, for the works which the Father gave me to
accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father
has sent me. {5:37} The Father himself, who sent me, has testified
about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his
form. {5:38} You don't have his word living in you; because you don't
believe him whom he sent.

   {5:39} "You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them
you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.
{5:40} Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life. {5:41} I
don't receive glory from men. {5:42} But I know you, that you don't
have God's love in yourselves. {5:43} I have come in my Father's name,
and you don't receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will
receive him. {5:44} How can you believe, who receive glory from one
another, and you don't seek the glory that comes from the only God?

   {5:45} "Don't think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is
one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope. {5:46}
For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.
{5:47} But if you don't believe his writings, how will you believe my
words?"

   {6:1} After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the
sea of Galilee, which is also called the Sea of Tiberias. {6:2} A great
multitude followed him, because they saw his signs which he did on
those who were sick. {6:3} Jesus went up into the mountain, and he sat
there with his disciples. {6:4} Now the Passover, the feast of the
Jews, was at hand. {6:5} Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes, and
seeing that a great multitude was coming to him, said to Philip, "Where
are we to buy bread, that these may eat?" {6:6} This he said to test
him, for he himself knew what he would do.

   {6:7} Philip answered him, "Two hundred denarii worth of bread is
not sufficient for them, that everyone of them may receive a little."

   {6:8} One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to
him, {6:9} "There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two
fish, but what are these among so many?"

   {6:10} Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." Now there was much
grass in that place. So the men sat down, in number about five
thousand. {6:11} Jesus took the loaves; and having given thanks, he
distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to those who were
sitting down; likewise also of the fish as much as they desired. {6:12}
When they were filled, he said to his disciples, "Gather up the broken
pieces which are left over, that nothing be lost." {6:13} So they
gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the
five barley loaves, which were left over by those who had eaten. {6:14}
When therefore the people saw the sign which Jesus did, they said,
"This is truly the prophet who comes into the world." {6:15} Jesus
therefore, perceiving that they were about to come and take him by
force, to make him king, withdrew again to the mountain by himself.

   {6:16} When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea, {6:17}
and they entered into the boat, and were going over the sea to
Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not come to them. {6:18} The
sea was tossed by a great wind blowing. {6:19} When therefore they had
rowed about [13>]twenty-five or thirty stadia,[<13] they saw Jesus
walking on the sea,[14] and drawing near to the boat; and they were
afraid. {6:20} But he said to them, "[15>]It is I[<15]. Don't be
afraid." {6:21} They were willing therefore to receive him into the
boat. Immediately the boat was at the land where they were going.

   {6:22} On the next day, the multitude that stood on the other side
of the sea saw that there was no other boat there, except the one in
which his disciples had embarked, and that Jesus hadn't entered with
his disciples into the boat, but his disciples had gone away alone.
{6:23} However boats from Tiberias came near to the place where they
ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks. {6:24} When the
multitude therefore saw that Jesus wasn't there, nor his disciples,
they themselves got into the boats, and came to Capernaum, seeking
Jesus. {6:25} When they found him on the other side of the sea, they
asked him, "Rabbi, when did you come here?"

   {6:26} Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, you seek me,
not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were
filled. {6:27} Don't work for the food which perishes, but for the food
which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you.
For God the Father has sealed him."

   {6:28} They said therefore to him, "What must we do, that we may
work the works of God?"

   {6:29} Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you
believe in him whom he has sent."

   {6:30} They said therefore to him, "What then do you do for a sign,
that we may see, and believe you? What work do you do? {6:31} Our
fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, 'He gave
them bread out of [16>]heaven[<16] to eat.'"[17]

   {6:32} Jesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly, I tell you, it
wasn't Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives
you the true bread out of heaven. {6:33} For the bread of God is that
which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world."

   {6:34} They said therefore to him, "Lord, always give us this bread."

   {6:35} Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to
me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.
{6:36} But I told you that you have seen me, and yet you don't believe.
{6:37} All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes
to me I will in no way throw out. {6:38} For I have come down from
heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. {6:39}
This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to
me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day.
{6:40} This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees
the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will
raise him up at the last day."

   {6:41} The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said,
"I am the bread which came down out of heaven." {6:42} They said,
"Isn't this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know?
How then does he say, 'I have come down out of heaven?'"

   {6:43} Therefore Jesus answered them, "Don't murmur among
yourselves. {6:44} No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me
draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day. {6:45} It is
written in the prophets, 'They will all be taught by God.'[18]
Therefore everyone who hears from the Father, and has learned, comes to
me. {6:46} Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from
God. He has seen the Father. {6:47} Most certainly, I tell you, he who
believes in me has eternal life. {6:48} I am the bread of life. {6:49}
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. {6:50}
This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat
of it and not die. {6:51} I am the living bread which came down out of
heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the
bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."

   {6:52} The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, "How
can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

   {6:53} Jesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly I tell you,
unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you
don't have life in yourselves. {6:54} He who eats my flesh and drinks
my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
{6:55} For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
{6:56} He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in
him. {6:57} As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the
Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me. {6:58}
This is the bread which came down out of heaven--not as our fathers ate
the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever." {6:59}
He said these things in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.

   {6:60} Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said,
"This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?"

   {6:61} But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at
this, said to them, "Does this cause you to stumble? {6:62} Then what
if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?
{6:63} It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The
words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life. {6:64} But there
are some of you who don't believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning
who they were who didn't believe, and who it was who would betray him.
{6:65} He said, "For this cause have I said to you that no one can come
to me, unless it is given to him by my Father."

   {6:66} At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more
with him. {6:67} Jesus said therefore to the twelve, "You don't also
want to go away, do you?"

   {6:68} Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom would we go? You
have the words of eternal life. {6:69} We have come to believe and know
that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God."

   {6:70} Jesus answered them, "Didn't I choose you, the twelve, and
one of you is a devil?" {6:71} Now he spoke of Judas, the son of Simon
Iscariot, for it was he who would betray him, being one of the twelve.

   {7:1} After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he
wouldn't walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. {7:2} Now
the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand. {7:3} His
brothers therefore said to him, "Depart from here, and go into Judea,
that your disciples also may see your works which you do. {7:4} For no
one does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be known openly. If
you do these things, reveal yourself to the world." {7:5} For even his
brothers didn't believe in him.

   {7:6} Jesus therefore said to them, "My time has not yet come, but
your time is always ready. {7:7} The world can't hate you, but it hates
me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil. {7:8} You go
up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time
is not yet fulfilled."

   {7:9} Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee. {7:10}
But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up,
not publicly, but as it were in secret. {7:11} The Jews therefore
sought him at the feast, and said, "Where is he?" {7:12} There was much
murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said, "He is a good
man." Others said, "Not so, but he leads the multitude astray." {7:13}
Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews. {7:14} But when it
was now the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and
taught. {7:15} The Jews therefore marveled, saying, "How does this man
know letters, having never been educated?"

   {7:16} Jesus therefore answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but
his who sent me. {7:17} If anyone desires to do his will, he will know
about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from
myself. {7:18} He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he
who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness
is in him. {7:19} Didn't Moses give you the law, and yet none of you
keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?"

   {7:20} The multitude answered, "You have a demon! Who seeks to kill
you?"

   {7:21} Jesus answered them, "I did one work, and you all marvel
because of it. {7:22} Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is
of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy.
{7:23} If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of
Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I made a man
completely healthy on the Sabbath? {7:24} Don't judge according to
appearance, but judge righteous judgment."

   {7:25} Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, "Isn't this he whom
they seek to kill? {7:26} Behold, he speaks openly, and they say
nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is
truly the Christ? {7:27} However we know where this man comes from, but
when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from."

   {7:28} Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying,
"You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself,
but he who sent me is true, whom you don't know. {7:29} I know him,
because I am from him, and he sent me."

   {7:30} They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on
him, because his hour had not yet come. {7:31} But of the multitude,
many believed in him. They said, "When the Christ comes, he won't do
more signs than those which this man has done, will he?" {7:32} The
Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him,
and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.

   {7:33} Then Jesus said, "I will be with you a little while longer,
then I go to him who sent me. {7:34} You will seek me, and won't find
me; and where I am, you can't come."

   {7:35} The Jews therefore said among themselves, "Where will this
man go that we won't find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the
Greeks, and teach the Greeks? {7:36} What is this word that he said,
'You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come'?"

   {7:37} Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood
and cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!
{7:38} He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within
him will flow rivers of living water." {7:39} But he said this about
the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy
Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn't yet glorified.

   {7:40} Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words,
said, "This is truly the prophet." {7:41} Others said, "This is the
Christ." But some said, "What, does the Christ come out of Galilee?
{7:42} Hasn't the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of
David,[19] and from Bethlehem,[20] the village where David was?" {7:43}
So there arose a division in the multitude because of him. {7:44} Some
of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him. {7:45}
The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and
they said to them, "Why didn't you bring him?"

   {7:46} The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man!"

   {7:47} The Pharisees therefore answered them, "You aren't also led
astray, are you? {7:48} Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of
the Pharisees? {7:49} But this multitude that doesn't know the law is
accursed."

   {7:50} Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them)
said to them, {7:51} "Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears
from him personally and knows what he does?"

   {7:52} They answered him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search, and
see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.[21]"

   {7:53} Everyone went to his own house, {8:1} but Jesus went to the
Mount of Olives. {8:2} Now very early in the morning, he came again
into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down, and
taught them. {8:3} The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken
in adultery. Having set her in the midst, {8:4} they told him,
"Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act. {8:5} Now
in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such.[22] What then do you say
about her?" {8:6} They said this testing him, that they might have
something to accuse him of.

   But Jesus stooped down, and wrote on the ground with his finger.
{8:7} But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to
them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone
at her." {8:8} Again he stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the
ground.

   {8:9} They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience,
went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus
was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle. {8:10}
Jesus, standing up, saw her and said, "Woman, where are your accusers?
Did no one condemn you?"

   {8:11} She said, "No one, Lord."

   Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin
no more."

   {8:12} Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the
light of the world.[23] He who follows me will not walk in the
darkness, but will have the light of life."

   {8:13} The Pharisees therefore said to him, "You testify about
yourself. Your testimony is not valid."

   {8:14} Jesus answered them, "Even if I testify about myself, my
testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going;
but you don't know where I came from, or where I am going. {8:15} You
judge according to the flesh. I judge no one. {8:16} Even if I do
judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I am with the
Father who sent me. {8:17} It's also written in your law that the
testimony of two people is valid.[24] {8:18} I am one who testifies
about myself, and the Father who sent me testifies about me."

   {8:19} They said therefore to him, "Where is your Father?"

   Jesus answered, "You know neither me, nor my Father. If you knew me,
you would know my Father also." {8:20} Jesus spoke these words in the
treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because
his hour had not yet come. {8:21} Jesus said therefore again to them,
"I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins.
Where I go, you can't come."

   {8:22} The Jews therefore said, "Will he kill himself, that he says,
'Where I am going, you can't come?'"

   {8:23} He said to them, "You are from beneath. I am from above. You
are of this world. I am not of this world. {8:24} I said therefore to
you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that [25>]I
am[<25] he, you will die in your sins."

   {8:25} They said therefore to him, "Who are you?"

   Jesus said to them, "Just what I have been saying to you from the
beginning. {8:26} I have many things to speak and to judge concerning
you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from
him, these I say to the world."

   {8:27} They didn't understand that he spoke to them about the
Father. {8:28} Jesus therefore said to them, "When you have lifted up
the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of
myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things. {8:29} He who
sent me is with me. The Father hasn't left me alone, for I always do
the things that are pleasing to him."

   {8:30} As he spoke these things, many believed in him. {8:31} Jesus
therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, "If you remain in my
word, then you are truly my disciples. {8:32} You will know the truth,
and the truth will make you free."[26]

   {8:33} They answered him, "We are Abraham's seed, and have never
been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, 'You will be made free?'"

   {8:34} Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, everyone who
commits sin is the bondservant of sin. {8:35} A bondservant doesn't
live in the house forever. A son remains forever. {8:36} If therefore
the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. {8:37} I know that you
are Abraham's seed, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no
place in you. {8:38} I say the things which I have seen with my Father;
and you also do the things which you have seen with your father."

   {8:39} They answered him, "Our father is Abraham."

   Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would do
the works of Abraham. {8:40} But now you seek to kill me, a man who has
told you the truth, which I heard from God. Abraham didn't do this.
{8:41} You do the works of your father."

   They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have
one Father, God."

   {8:42} Therefore Jesus said to them, "If God were your father, you
would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven't
come of myself, but he sent me. {8:43} Why don't you understand my
speech? Because you can't hear my word. {8:44} You are of your father,
the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a
murderer from the beginning, and doesn't stand in the truth, because
there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own;
for he is a liar, and its father. {8:45} But because I tell the truth,
you don't believe me. {8:46} Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell
the truth, why do you not believe me? {8:47} He who is of God hears the
words of God. For this cause you don't hear, because you are not of
God."

   {8:48} Then the Jews answered him, "Don't we say well that you are a
Samaritan, and have a demon?"

   {8:49} Jesus answered, "I don't have a demon, but I honor my Father,
and you dishonor me. {8:50} But I don't seek my own glory. There is one
who seeks and judges. {8:51} Most certainly, I tell you, if a person
keeps my word, he will never see death."

   {8:52} Then the Jews said to him, "Now we know that you have a
demon. Abraham died, and the prophets; and you say, 'If a man keeps my
word, he will never taste of death.' {8:53} Are you greater than our
father, Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself
out to be?"

   {8:54} Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It
is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God.
{8:55} You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, 'I don't know
him,' I would be like you, a liar. But I know him, and keep his word.
{8:56} Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, and was
glad."

   {8:57} The Jews therefore said to him, "You are not yet fifty years
old, and have you seen Abraham?"

   {8:58} Jesus said to them, "Most certainly, I tell you, before
Abraham came into existence, [27>]I AM.[<27]"

   {8:59} Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was
hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through their midst,
and so passed by.

   {9:1} As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. {9:2} His
disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that
he was born blind?"

   {9:3} Jesus answered, "Neither did this man sin, nor his parents;
but, that the works of God might be revealed in him. {9:4} I must work
the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming,
when no one can work. {9:5} While I am in the world, I am the light of
the world." {9:6} When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made
mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man's eyes with the mud, {9:7}
and said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which means "Sent").
So he went away, washed, and came back seeing. {9:8} The neighbors
therefore, and those who saw that he was blind before, said, "Isn't
this he who sat and begged?" {9:9} Others were saying, "It is he."
Still others were saying, "He looks like him."

   He said, "I am he." {9:10} They therefore were asking him, "How were
your eyes opened?"

   {9:11} He answered, "A man called Jesus made mud, anointed my eyes,
and said to me, 'Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash.' So I went away
and washed, and I received sight."

   {9:12} Then they asked him, "Where is he?"

   He said, "I don't know."

   {9:13} They brought him who had been blind to the Pharisees. {9:14}
It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. {9:15}
Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight.
He said to them, "He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see."

   {9:16} Some therefore of the Pharisees said, "This man is not from
God, because he doesn't keep the Sabbath." Others said, "How can a man
who is a sinner do such signs?" There was division among them. {9:17}
Therefore they asked the blind man again, "What do you say about him,
because he opened your eyes?"

   He said, "He is a prophet."

   {9:18} The Jews therefore did not believe concerning him, that he
had been blind, and had received his sight, until they called the
parents of him who had received his sight, {9:19} and asked them, "Is
this your son, whom you say was born blind? How then does he now see?"

   {9:20} His parents answered them, "We know that this is our son, and
that he was born blind; {9:21} but how he now sees, we don't know; or
who opened his eyes, we don't know. He is of age. Ask him. He will
speak for himself." {9:22} His parents said these things because they
feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would
confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue. {9:23}
Therefore his parents said, "He is of age. Ask him."

   {9:24} So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said
to him, "Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner."

   {9:25} He therefore answered, "I don't know if he is a sinner. One
thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see."

   {9:26} They said to him again, "What did he do to you? How did he
open your eyes?"

   {9:27} He answered them, "I told you already, and you didn't listen.
Why do you want to hear it again? You don't also want to become his
disciples, do you?"

   {9:28} They insulted him and said, "You are his disciple, but we are
disciples of Moses. {9:29} We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as
for this man, we don't know where he comes from."

   {9:30} The man answered them, "How amazing! You don't know where he
comes from, yet he opened my eyes. {9:31} We know that God doesn't
listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshipper of God, and does his
will, he listens to him.[28] {9:32} Since the world began it has never
been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of someone born blind. {9:33}
If this man were not from God, he could do nothing."

   {9:34} They answered him, "You were altogether born in sins, and do
you teach us?" They threw him out.

   {9:35} Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he
said, "Do you believe in the Son of God?"

   {9:36} He answered, "Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?"

   {9:37} Jesus said to him, "You have both seen him, and it is he who
speaks with you."

   {9:38} He said, "Lord, I believe!" and he worshiped him.

   {9:39} Jesus said, "I came into this world for judgment, that those
who don't see may see; and that those who see may become blind."

   {9:40} Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things,
and said to him, "Are we also blind?"

   {9:41} Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no
sin; but now you say, 'We see.' Therefore your sin remains.

   {10:1} "Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn't enter by the
door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a
thief and a robber. {10:2} But one who enters in by the door is the
shepherd of the sheep. {10:3} The gatekeeper opens the gate for him,
and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and
leads them out. {10:4} Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes
before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. {10:5}
They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for
they don't know the voice of strangers." {10:6} Jesus spoke this
parable to them, but they didn't understand what he was telling them.

   {10:7} Jesus therefore said to them again, "Most certainly, I tell
you, I am the sheep's door. {10:8} All who came before me are thieves
and robbers, but the sheep didn't listen to them. {10:9} I am the door.
If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out,
and will find pasture. {10:10} The thief only comes to steal, kill, and
destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
{10:11} I am the good shepherd.[29] The good shepherd lays down his
life for the sheep. {10:12} He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd,
who doesn't own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and
flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them. {10:13} The
hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn't care for the
sheep. {10:14} I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I'm known by
my own; {10:15} even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I
lay down my life for the sheep. {10:16} I have other sheep, which are
not of this fold.[30] I must bring them also, and they will hear my
voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd. {10:17} Therefore
the Father loves me, because I lay down my life,[31] that I may take it
again. {10:18} No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by
myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.
I received this commandment from my Father."

   {10:19} Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because of
these words. {10:20} Many of them said, "He has a demon, and is insane!
Why do you listen to him?" {10:21} Others said, "These are not the
sayings of one possessed by a demon. It isn't possible for a demon to
open the eyes of the blind, is it?"[32]

   {10:22} It was the [33>]Feast of the Dedication[<33] at Jerusalem.
{10:23} It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in
Solomon's porch. {10:24} The Jews therefore came around him and said to
him, "How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ,
tell us plainly."

   {10:25} Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you don't believe. The
works that I do in my Father's name, these testify about me. {10:26}
But you don't believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you.
{10:27} My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
{10:28} I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one
will snatch them out of my hand. {10:29} My Father, who has given them
to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my
Father's hand. {10:30} I and the Father are one."

   {10:31} Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him. {10:32}
Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from my Father.
For which of those works do you stone me?"

   {10:33} The Jews answered him, "We don't stone you for a good work,
but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God."

   {10:34} Jesus answered them, "Isn't it written in your law, 'I said,
you are gods?'[34] {10:35} If he called them gods, to whom the word of
God came (and the Scripture can't be broken), {10:36} do you say of him
whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You blaspheme,'
because I said, 'I am the Son of God?' {10:37} If I don't do the works
of my Father, don't believe me. {10:38} But if I do them, though you
don't believe me, believe the works; that you may know and believe that
the Father is in me, and I in the Father."

   {10:39} They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their
hand. {10:40} He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where
John was baptizing at first, and there he stayed. {10:41} Many came to
him. They said, "John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said
about this man is true." {10:42} Many believed in him there.

   {11:1} Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the
village of Mary and her sister, Martha. {11:2} It was that Mary who had
anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair,
whose brother, Lazarus, was sick. {11:3} The sisters therefore sent to
him, saying, "Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is
sick." {11:4} But when Jesus heard it, he said, "This sickness is not
to death, but for the glory of God, that God's Son may be glorified by
it." {11:5} Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. {11:6}
When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the
place where he was. {11:7} Then after this he said to the disciples,
"Let's go into Judea again."

   {11:8} The disciples told him, "Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to
stone you, and are you going there again?"

   {11:9} Jesus answered, "Aren't there twelve hours of daylight? If a
man walks in the day, he doesn't stumble, because he sees the light of
this world. {11:10} But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles,
because the light isn't in him." {11:11} He said these things, and
after that, he said to them, "Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep,
but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep."

   {11:12} The disciples therefore said, "Lord, if he has fallen
asleep, he will recover."

   {11:13} Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he
spoke of taking rest in sleep. {11:14} So Jesus said to them plainly
then, "Lazarus is dead. {11:15} I am glad for your sakes that I was not
there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let's go to him."

   {11:16} Thomas therefore, who is called [35>]Didymus,[<35] said to
his fellow disciples, "Let's go also, that we may die with him."

   {11:17} So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb
four days already. {11:18} Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about
[36>]fifteen stadia[<36] away. {11:19} Many of the Jews had joined the
women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.
{11:20} Then when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met
him, but Mary stayed in the house. {11:21} Therefore Martha said to
Jesus, "Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn't have
died. {11:22} Even now I know that, whatever you ask of God, God will
give you." {11:23} Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again."

   {11:24} Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the
resurrection at the last day."

   {11:25} Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He
who believes in me will still live, even if he dies. {11:26} Whoever
lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"

   {11:27} She said to him, "Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you
are the Christ, God's Son, he who comes into the world."

   {11:28} When she had said this, she went away, and called Mary, her
sister, secretly, saying, "The Teacher is here, and is calling you."

   {11:29} When she heard this, she arose quickly, and went to him.
{11:30} Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the
place where Martha met him. {11:31} Then the Jews 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, saying, "She is going to the tomb
to weep there." {11:32} Therefore when Mary came to where Jesus was,
and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him, "Lord, if you
would have been here, my brother wouldn't have died."

   {11:33} When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping
who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, {11:34}
and said, "Where have you laid him?"

   They told him, "Lord, come and see."

   {11:35} Jesus wept.

   {11:36} The Jews therefore said, "See how much affection he had for
him!" {11:37} Some of them said, "Couldn't this man, who opened the
eyes of him who was blind, have also kept this man from dying?"

   {11:38} Jesus therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the
tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it. {11:39} Jesus
said, "Take away the stone."

   Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, "Lord, by this
time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days."

   {11:40} Jesus said to her, "Didn't I tell you that if you believed,
you would see God's glory?"

   {11:41} So they took away the stone [37>]from the place where the
dead man was lying.[<37] Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, "Father, I
thank you that you listened to me. {11:42} I know that you always
listen to me, but because of the multitude that stands around I said
this, that they may believe that you sent me." {11:43} When he had said
this, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"

   {11:44} He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with
wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth.

   Jesus said to them, "Free him, and let him go."

   {11:45} Therefore many of the Jews, who came to Mary and saw what
Jesus did, believed in him. {11:46} But some of them went away to the
Pharisees, and told them the things which Jesus had done. {11:47} The
chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said,
"What are we doing? For this man does many signs. {11:48} If we leave
him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will
come and take away both our place and our nation."

   {11:49} But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that
year, said to them, "You know nothing at all, {11:50} nor do you
consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the
people, and that the whole nation not perish." {11:51} Now he didn't
say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied
that Jesus would die for the nation, {11:52} and not for the nation
only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of
God who are scattered abroad. {11:53} So from that day forward they
took counsel that they might put him to death. {11:54} Jesus therefore
walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed from there into the
country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there
with his disciples.

   {11:55} Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went up from
the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.
{11:56} Then they sought for Jesus and spoke one with another, as they
stood in the temple, "What do you think--that he isn't coming to the
feast at all?" {11:57} Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had
commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that
they might seize him.

   {12:1} Then six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany,
where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
{12:2} So they made him a supper there. Martha served, but Lazarus was
one of those who sat at the table with him. {12:3} Mary, therefore,
took a [38>]pound[<38] of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and
anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair. The house
was filled with the fragrance of the ointment. {12:4} Then Judas
Iscariot, Simon's son, one of his disciples, who would betray him,
said, {12:5} "Why wasn't this ointment sold for [39>]three hundred
denarii,[<39] and given to the poor?" {12:6} Now he said this, not
because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having
the money box, used to steal what was put into it. {12:7} But Jesus
said, "Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial.
{12:8} For you always have the poor with you, but you don't always have
me."

   {12:9} A large crowd therefore of the Jews learned 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. {12:10} But the chief
priests conspired to put Lazarus to death also, {12:11} because on
account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus.

   {12:12} On the next day a great multitude had come to the feast.
When they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, {12:13} they took
the branches of the palm trees, and went out to meet him, and cried
out, "[40>]Hosanna[<40]! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the
Lord,[41] the King of Israel!"

   {12:14} Jesus, having found a young donkey, sat on it. As it is
written, {12:15} "Don't be afraid, daughter of Zion. Behold, your King
comes, sitting on a donkey's colt."[42] {12:16} His disciples didn't
understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then
they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they
had done these things to him. {12:17} The multitude therefore that was
with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from
the dead, was testifying about it. {12:18} For this cause also the
multitude went and met him, because they heard that he had done this
sign. {12:19} The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, "See how
you accomplish nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him."

   {12:20} Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to
worship at the feast. {12:21} These, therefore, came to Philip, who was
from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, "Sir, we want to see
Jesus." {12:22} Philip came and told Andrew, and in turn, Andrew came
with Philip, and they told Jesus. {12:23} Jesus answered them, "The
time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. {12:24} Most
certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and
dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.
{12:25} He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in
this world will keep it to eternal life. {12:26} If anyone serves me,
let him follow me. Where I am, there will my servant also be. If anyone
serves me, the Father will honor him.

   {12:27} "Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? 'Father, save me
from this time?' But for this cause I came to this time. {12:28}
Father, glorify your name!"

   Then there came a voice out of the sky, saying, "I have both
glorified it, and will glorify it again."

   {12:29} The multitude therefore, who stood by and heard it, said
that it had thundered. Others said, "An angel has spoken to him."

   {12:30} Jesus answered, "This voice hasn't come for my sake, but for
your sakes. {12:31} Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince
of this world will be cast out. {12:32} And I, if I am lifted up from
the earth, will draw all people to myself." {12:33} But he said this,
signifying by what kind of death he should die. {12:34} The multitude
answered him, "We have heard out of the law that the Christ remains
forever.[43] How do you say, 'The Son of Man must be lifted up?' Who is
this Son of Man?"

   {12:35} Jesus therefore said to them, "Yet a little while the light
is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn't
overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn't know where he is
going. {12:36} While you have the light, believe in the light, that you
may become children of light." Jesus said these things, and he departed
and hid himself from them. {12:37} But though he had done so many signs
before them, yet they didn't believe in him, {12:38} that the word of
Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke,
"Lord, who has believed our report?
   To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?"[44]

   {12:39} For this cause they couldn't believe, for Isaiah said again,
{12:40} "He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart,
   lest they should see with their eyes,
   and perceive with their heart,
   and would turn,
   and I would heal them."[45]

   {12:41} Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke of
him.[46] {12:42} Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed in him,
but because of the Pharisees they didn't confess it, so that they
wouldn't be put out of the synagogue, {12:43} for they loved men's
praise more than God's praise.

   {12:44} Jesus cried out and said, "Whoever believes in me, believes
not in me, but in him who sent me. {12:45} He who sees me sees him who
sent me. {12:46} I have come as a light into the world, that whoever
believes in me may not remain in the darkness. {12:47} If anyone
listens to my sayings, and doesn't believe, I don't judge him. For I
came not to judge the world, but to save the world. {12:48} He who
rejects me, and doesn't receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The
word that I spoke, the same will judge him in the last day. {12:49} For
I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a
commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. {12:50} I know
that his commandment is eternal life. The things therefore which I
speak, even as the Father has said to me, so I speak."

   {13:1} Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his
time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father,
having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
{13:2} During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of
Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him, {13:3} Jesus, knowing that
the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came forth
from God, and was going to God, {13:4} arose from supper, and laid
aside his outer garments. He took a towel, and wrapped a towel around
his waist. {13:5} Then he poured water into the basin, and began to
wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel that was
wrapped around him. {13:6} Then he came to Simon Peter. He said to him,
"Lord, do you wash my feet?"

   {13:7} Jesus answered him, "You don't know what I am doing now, but
you will understand later."

   {13:8} Peter said to him, "You will never wash my feet!"

   Jesus answered him, "If I don't wash you, you have no part with me."

   {13:9} Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, not my feet only, but also my
hands and my head!"

   {13:10} Jesus said to him, "Someone who has bathed only needs to
have his feet washed, but is completely clean. You are clean, but not
all of you." {13:11} For he knew him who would betray him, therefore he
said, "You are not all clean." {13:12} So when he had washed their
feet, put his outer garment back on, and sat down again, he said to
them, "Do you know what I have done to you? {13:13} You call me,
'Teacher' and 'Lord.' You say so correctly, for so I am. {13:14} If I
then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought
to wash one another's feet. {13:15} For I have given you an example,
that you also should do as I have done to you. {13:16} Most certainly I
tell you, a servant is not greater than his lord, neither one who is
sent greater than he who sent him. {13:17} If you know these things,
blessed are you if you do them. {13:18} I don't speak concerning all of
you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be
fulfilled, 'He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against
me.'[47] {13:19} From now on, I tell you before it happens, that when
it happens, you may believe that I am he. {13:20} Most certainly I tell
you, he who receives whomever I send, receives me; and he who receives
me, receives him who sent me."

   {13:21} When Jesus had said this, he was troubled in spirit, and
testified, "Most certainly I tell you that one of you will betray me."

   {13:22} The disciples looked at one another, perplexed about whom he
spoke. {13:23} One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was at the
table, leaning against Jesus' breast. {13:24} Simon Peter therefore
beckoned to him, and said to him, "Tell us who it is of whom he speaks."

   {13:25} He, leaning back, as he was, on Jesus' breast, asked him,
"Lord, who is it?"

   {13:26} Jesus therefore answered, "It is he to whom I will give this
piece of bread when I have dipped it." So when he had dipped the piece
of bread, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. {13:27} After
the piece of bread, then Satan entered into him.

   Then Jesus said to him, "What you do, do quickly."

   {13:28} Now no man at the table knew why he said this to him.
{13:29} For some thought, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus
said to him, "Buy what things we need for the feast," or that he should
give something to the poor. {13:30} Therefore having received that
morsel, he went out immediately. It was night.

   {13:31} When he had gone out, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man has
been glorified, and God has been glorified in him. {13:32} If God has
been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and he
will glorify him immediately. {13:33} Little children, I will be with
you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews,
'Where I am going, you can't come,' so now I tell you. {13:34} A new
commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have
loved you; that you also love one another. {13:35} By this everyone
will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."

   {13:36} Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?"

   Jesus answered, "Where I am going, you can't follow now, but you
will follow afterwards."

   {13:37} Peter said to him, "Lord, why can't I follow you now? I will
lay down my life for you."

   {13:38} Jesus answered him, "Will you lay down your life for me?
Most certainly I tell you, the rooster won't crow until you have denied
me three times.

   {14:1} "Don't let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe
also in me. {14:2} In my Father's house are many homes. If it weren't
so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.
{14:3} If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will
receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also. {14:4}
Where I go, you know, and you know the way."

   {14:5} Thomas said to him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going.
How can we know the way?"

   {14:6} Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No
one comes to the Father, except through me. {14:7} If you had known me,
you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him, and
have seen him."

   {14:8} Philip said to him, "Lord, show us the Father, and that will
be enough for us."

   {14:9} Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you such a long time,
and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father.
How do you say, 'Show us the Father?' {14:10} Don't you believe that I
am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I
speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.
{14:11} Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or
else believe me for the very works' sake. {14:12} Most certainly I tell
you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and
he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father.
{14:13} Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the
Father may be glorified in the Son. {14:14} If you will ask anything in
my name, I will do it. {14:15} If you love me, keep my commandments.
{14:16} I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another
[48>]Counselor,[<48] that he may be with you forever,--{14:17} the
Spirit of truth, whom the world can't receive; for it doesn't see him,
neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in
you. {14:18} I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you. {14:19}
Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see
me. Because I live, you will live also. {14:20} In that day you will
know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. {14:21} One
who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves
me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him,
and will reveal myself to him."

   {14:22} Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Lord, what has happened
that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?"

   {14:23} Jesus answered him, "If a man loves me, he will keep my
word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our
home with him. {14:24} He who doesn't love me doesn't keep my words.
The word which you hear isn't mine, but the Father's who sent me.
{14:25} I have said these things to you, while still living with you.
{14:26} But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send
in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all
that I said to you. {14:27} Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to
you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don't let your heart be
troubled, neither let it be fearful. {14:28} You heard how I told you,
'I go away, and I come to you.' If you loved me, you would have
rejoiced, because I said 'I am going to my Father;' for the Father is
greater than I. {14:29} Now I have told you before it happens so that,
when it happens, you may believe. {14:30} I will no more speak much
with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.
{14:31} But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the
Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let us go from here.

   {15:1} "I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. {15:2}
Every branch in me that doesn't bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch
that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. {15:3} You
are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to
you. {15:4} Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can't bear fruit
by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless
you remain in me. {15:5} I am the vine. You are the branches. He who
remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from
me you can do nothing. {15:6} If a man doesn't remain in me, he is
thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw
them into the fire, and they are burned. {15:7} If you remain in me,
and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it
will be done for you.

   {15:8} "In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit;
and so you will be my disciples. {15:9} Even as the Father has loved
me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love. {15:10} If you keep my
commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my
Father's commandments, and remain in his love. {15:11} I have spoken
these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy
may be made full.

   {15:12} "This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as
I have loved you. {15:13} Greater love has no one than this, that
someone lay down his life for his friends. {15:14} You are my friends,
if you do whatever I command you. {15:15} No longer do I call you
servants, for the servant doesn't know what his lord does. But I have
called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have
made known to you. {15:16} You didn't choose me, but I chose you, and
appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit
should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he
may give it to you.

   {15:17} "I command these things to you, that you may love one
another. {15:18} If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me
before it hated you. {15:19} If you were of the world, the world would
love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you
out of the world, therefore the world hates you. {15:20} Remember the
word that I said to you: 'A servant is not greater than his lord.'[49]
If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my
word, they will keep yours also. {15:21} But all these things will they
do to you for my name's sake, because they don't know him who sent me.
{15:22} If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had
sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. {15:23} He who hates
me, hates my Father also. {15:24} If I hadn't done among them the works
which no one else did, they wouldn't have had sin. But now have they
seen and also hated both me and my Father. {15:25} But this happened so
that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, 'They
hated me without a cause.'[50]

   {15:26} "When the [51>]Counselor[<51] has come, whom I will send to
you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father,
he will testify about me. {15:27} You will also testify, because you
have been with me from the beginning.

   {16:1} "These things have I spoken to you, so that you wouldn't be
caused to stumble. {16:2} They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes,
the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service
to God. {16:3} They will do these things[52] because they have not
known the Father, nor me. {16:4} But I have told you these things, so
that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them.
I didn't tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with
you. {16:5} But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks
me, 'Where are you going?' {16:6} But because I have told you these
things, sorrow has filled your heart. {16:7} Nevertheless I tell you
the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don't go
away, the Counselor won't come to you. But if I go, I will send him to
you. {16:8} When he has come, he will convict the world about sin,
about righteousness, and about judgment; {16:9} about sin, because they
don't believe in me; {16:10} about righteousness, because I am going to
my Father, and you won't see me any more; {16:11} about judgment,
because the prince of this world has been judged.

   {16:12} "I have yet many things to tell you, but you can't bear them
now. {16:13} However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will
guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but
whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that
are coming. {16:14} He will glorify me, for he will take from what is
mine, and will declare it to you. {16:15} All things whatever the
Father has are mine; therefore I said that he [53>]takes[<53] of mine,
and will declare it to you. {16:16} A little while, and you will not
see me. Again a little while, and you will see me."

   {16:17} Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, "What
is this that he says to us, 'A little while, and you won't see me, and
again a little while, and you will see me;' and, 'Because I go to the
Father?'" {16:18} They said therefore, "What is this that he says, 'A
little while?' We don't know what he is saying."

   {16:19} Therefore Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and
he said to them, "Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this, that
I said, 'A little while, and you won't see me, and again a little
while, and you will see me?' {16:20} Most certainly I tell you, that
you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be
sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy. {16:21} A woman,
when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when
she has delivered the child, she doesn't remember the anguish any more,
for the joy that a human being is born into the world. {16:22}
Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart
will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

   {16:23} "In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly I
tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give
it to you. {16:24} Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask,
and you will receive, that your joy may be made full. {16:25} I have
spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming
when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell
you plainly about the Father. {16:26} In that day you will ask in my
name; and I don't say to you, that I will pray to the Father for you,
{16:27} for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me,
and have believed that I came forth from God. {16:28} I came out from
the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and
go to the Father."

   {16:29} His disciples said to him, "Behold, now you speak plainly,
and speak no figures of speech. {16:30} Now we know that you know all
things, and don't need for anyone to question you. By this we believe
that you came forth from God."

   {16:31} Jesus answered them, "Do you now believe? {16:32} Behold,
the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered,
everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not
alone, because the Father is with me. {16:33} I have told you these
things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have
oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world."

   {17:1} Jesus said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven,
he said, "Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son
may also glorify you; {17:2} even as you gave him authority over all
flesh, he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him. {17:3}
This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and
him whom you sent, Jesus Christ. {17:4} I glorified you on the earth. I
have accomplished the work which you have given me to do. {17:5} Now,
Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with
you before the world existed. {17:6} I revealed your name to the people
whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have
given them to me. They have kept your word. {17:7} Now they have known
that all things whatever you have given me are from you, {17:8} for the
words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received
them, and knew for sure that I came forth from you, and they have
believed that you sent me. {17:9} I pray for them. I don't pray for the
world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.
{17:10} All things that are mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I
am glorified in them. {17:11} I am no more in the world, but these are
in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through
your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we
are. {17:12} While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your
name. Those whom you have given me I have kept. None of them is lost,
except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
{17:13} But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world,
that they may have my joy made full in themselves. {17:14} I have given
them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the
world, even as I am not of the world. {17:15} I pray not that you would
take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil
one. {17:16} They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.
{17:17} Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.[54] {17:18} As
you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world.
{17:19} For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also
may be sanctified in truth. {17:20} Not for these only do I pray, but
for those also who believe in me through their word, {17:21} that they
may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they
also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.
{17:22} The glory which you have given me, I have given to them; that
they may be one, even as we are one; {17:23} I in them, and you in me,
that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you
sent me, and loved them, even as you loved me. {17:24} Father, I desire
that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they
may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the
foundation of the world. {17:25} Righteous Father, the world hasn't
known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me. {17:26} I
made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love
with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them."

   {18:1} When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his
disciples over the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, into which
he and his disciples entered. {18:2} Now Judas, who betrayed him, also
knew the place, for Jesus often met there with his disciples. {18:3}
Judas then, having taken a detachment of soldiers and officers from the
chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches, and
weapons. {18:4} Jesus therefore, knowing all the things that were
happening to him, went forth, and said to them, "Who are you looking
for?"

   {18:5} They answered him, "Jesus of Nazareth."

   Jesus said to them, "I am he."

   Judas also, who betrayed him, was standing with them. {18:6} When
therefore he said to them, "I am he," they went backward, and fell to
the ground.

   {18:7} Again therefore he asked them, "Who are you looking for?"

   They said, "Jesus of Nazareth."

   {18:8} Jesus answered, "I told you that I am he. If therefore you
seek me, let these go their way," {18:9} that the word might be
fulfilled which he spoke, "Of those whom you have given me, I have lost
none."[55]

   {18:10} Simon Peter therefore, having a sword, drew it, and struck
the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant's
name was Malchus. {18:11} Jesus therefore said to Peter, "Put the sword
into its sheath. The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not
surely drink it?"

   {18:12} So the detachment, the commanding officer, and the officers
of the Jews, seized Jesus and bound him, {18:13} and led him to Annas
first, for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was high priest that
year. {18:14} Now it was Caiaphas who advised the Jews that it was
expedient that one man should perish for the people. {18:15} Simon
Peter followed Jesus, as did another disciple. Now that disciple was
known to the high priest, and entered in with Jesus into the court of
the high priest; {18:16} but Peter was standing at the door outside. So
the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and
spoke to her who kept the door, and brought in Peter. {18:17} Then the
maid who kept the door said to Peter, "Are you also one of this man's
disciples?"

   He said, "I am not."

   {18:18} Now the servants and the officers were standing there,
having made a fire of coals, for it was cold. They were warming
themselves. Peter was with them, standing and warming himself. {18:19}
The high priest therefore asked Jesus about his disciples, and about
his teaching. {18:20} Jesus answered him, "I spoke openly to the world.
I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews always
meet. I said nothing in secret. {18:21} Why do you ask me? Ask those
who have heard me what I said to them. Behold, these know the things
which I said."

   {18:22} When he had said this, one of the officers standing by
slapped Jesus with his hand, saying, "Do you answer the high priest
like that?"

   {18:23} Jesus answered him, "If I have spoken evil, testify of the
evil; but if well, why do you beat me?"

   {18:24} Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas, the high priest. {18:25}
Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said therefore
to him, "You aren't also one of his disciples, are you?"

   He denied it, and said, "I am not."

   {18:26} One of the servants of the high priest, being a relative of
him whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Didn't I see you in the garden
with him?"

   {18:27} Peter therefore denied it again, and immediately the rooster
crowed.

   {18:28} They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium.
It was early, and they themselves didn't enter into the Praetorium,
that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover. {18:29}
Pilate therefore went out to them, and said, "What accusation do you
bring against this man?"

   {18:30} They answered him, "If this man weren't an evildoer, we
wouldn't have delivered him up to you."

   {18:31} Pilate therefore said to them, "Take him yourselves, and
judge him according to your law."

   Therefore the Jews said to him, "It is not lawful for us to put
anyone to death," {18:32} that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled,
which he spoke, signifying by what kind of death he should die.

   {18:33} Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, called
Jesus, and said to him, "Are you the King of the Jews?"

   {18:34} Jesus answered him, "Do you say this by yourself, or did
others tell you about me?"

   {18:35} Pilate answered, "I'm not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and
the chief priests delivered you to me. What have you done?"

   {18:36} Jesus answered, "My Kingdom is not of this world. If my
Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I
wouldn't be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here."

   {18:37} Pilate therefore said to him, "Are you a king then?"

   Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. For this reason I have
been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I
should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my
voice."

   {18:38} Pilate said to him, "What is truth?"

   When he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to
them, "I find no basis for a charge against him. {18:39} But you have a
custom, that I should release someone to you at the Passover. Therefore
do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"

   {18:40} Then they all shouted again, saying, "Not this man, but
Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a robber.

   {19:1} So Pilate then took Jesus, and flogged him. {19:2} The
soldiers twisted thorns into a crown, and put it on his head, and
dressed him in a purple garment. {19:3} They kept saying, "Hail, King
of the Jews!" and they kept slapping him.

   {19:4} Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, "Behold, I
bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a
charge against him."

   {19:5} Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the
purple garment. Pilate said to them, "Behold, the man!"

   {19:6} When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him,
they shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify!"

   Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I
find no basis for a charge against him."

   {19:7} The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by our law he
ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God."

   {19:8} When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid.
{19:9} He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, "Where
are you from?" But Jesus gave him no answer. {19:10} Pilate therefore
said to him, "Aren't you speaking to me? Don't you know that I have
power to release you, and have power to crucify you?"

   {19:11} Jesus answered, "You would have no power at all against me,
unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me
to you has greater sin."

   {19:12} At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews
cried out, saying, "If you release this man, you aren't Caesar's
friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!"

   {19:13} When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus
out, and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called "The
Pavement," but in Hebrew, "Gabbatha." {19:14} Now it was the
Preparation Day of the Passover, at about [56>]the sixth hour.[<56] He
said to the Jews, "Behold, your King!"

   {19:15} They cried out, "Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!"

   Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your King?"

   The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar!"

   {19:16} So then he delivered him to them to be crucified. So they
took Jesus and led him away. {19:17} He went out, bearing his cross, to
the place called "The Place of a Skull," which is called in Hebrew,
"Golgotha," {19:18} where they crucified him, and with him two others,
on either side one, and Jesus in the middle. {19:19} Pilate wrote a
title also, and put it on the cross. There was written, "JESUS OF
NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS." {19:20} Therefore many of the Jews
read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the
city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek. {19:21} The
chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, "Don't write, 'The
King of the Jews,' but, 'he said, I am King of the Jews.'"

   {19:22} Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written."

   {19:23} Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his
garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the
coat. Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.
{19:24} Then they said to one another, "Let's not tear it, but cast
lots for it to decide whose it will be," that the Scripture might be
fulfilled, which says,
"They parted my garments among them.
   For my cloak they cast lots."[57]

   Therefore the soldiers did these things. {19:25} But there were
standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister,
Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. {19:26} Therefore when
Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he
said to his mother, "Woman, behold your son!" {19:27} Then he said to
the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" From that hour, the disciple took
her to his own home.

   {19:28} After this, Jesus, [58>]seeing[<58] that all things were now
finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, "I am thirsty."
{19:29} Now a vessel full of vinegar was set there; so they put a
sponge full of the vinegar on hyssop, and held it at his mouth. {19:30}
When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, "It is
finished." He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.

   {19:31} Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation Day, so
that the bodies wouldn't remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that
Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be
broken, and that they might be taken away. {19:32} Therefore the
soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who
was crucified with him; {19:33} but when they came to Jesus, and saw
that he was already dead, they didn't break his legs. {19:34} However
one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately
blood and water came out. {19:35} He who has seen has testified, and
his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, that you may
believe. {19:36} For these things happened, that the Scripture might be
fulfilled, "A bone of him will not be broken."[59] {19:37} Again
another Scripture says, "They will look on him whom they pierced."[60]

   {19:38} After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple
of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he
might take away Jesus' body. Pilate gave him permission. He came
therefore and took away his body. {19:39} Nicodemus, who at first came
to Jesus by night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes,
about [61>]a hundred Roman pounds.[<61] {19:40} So they took Jesus'
body, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of
the Jews is to bury. {19:41} Now in the place where he was crucified
there was a garden. In the garden was a new tomb in which no man had
ever yet been laid. {19:42} Then because of the Jews' Preparation Day
(for the tomb was near at hand) they laid Jesus there.

   {20:1} Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early,
while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from
the tomb. {20:2} Therefore she ran and came to Simon Peter, and to the
other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, "They have taken
away the Lord out of the tomb, and we don't know where they have laid
him!"

   {20:3} Therefore Peter and the other disciple went out, and they
went toward the tomb. {20:4} They both ran together. The other disciple
outran Peter, and came to the tomb first. {20:5} Stooping and looking
in, he saw the linen cloths lying, yet he didn't enter in. {20:6} Then
Simon Peter came, following him, and entered into the tomb. He saw the
linen cloths lying, {20:7} and the cloth that had been on his head, not
lying with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by itself. {20:8}
So then the other disciple who came first to the tomb also entered in,
and he saw and believed. {20:9} For as yet they didn't know the
Scripture, that he must rise from the dead. {20:10} So the disciples
went away again to their own homes.

   {20:11} But Mary was standing outside at the tomb weeping. So, as
she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb, {20:12} and she saw two
angels in white sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where
the body of Jesus had lain. {20:13} They told her, "Woman, why are you
weeping?"

   She said to them, "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I don't
know where they have laid him." {20:14} When she had said this, she
turned around and saw Jesus standing, and didn't know that it was Jesus.

   {20:15} Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you
looking for?"

   She, supposing him to be the gardener, said to him, "Sir, if you
have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take
him away."

   {20:16} Jesus said to her, "Mary."

   She turned and said to him, "[62>]Rabboni[<62]!" which is to say,
"[63>]Teacher[<63]!"

   {20:17} Jesus said to her, "Don't hold me, for I haven't yet
ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers, and tell them, 'I am
ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"

   {20:18} Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen
the Lord, and that he had said these things to her. {20:19} When
therefore it was evening, on that day, the first day of the week, and
when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear
of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them,
"Peace be to you."

   {20:20} When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his
side. The disciples therefore were glad when they saw the Lord. {20:21}
Jesus therefore said to them again, "Peace be to you. As the Father has
sent me, even so I send you." {20:22} When he had said this, he
breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit! {20:23}
If you forgive anyone's sins, they have been forgiven them. If you
retain anyone's sins, they have been retained."

   {20:24} But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, wasn't with
them when Jesus came. {20:25} The other disciples therefore said to
him, "We have seen the Lord!"

   But he said to them, "Unless I see in his hands the print of the
nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe."

   {20:26} After eight days again his disciples were inside, and Thomas
was with them. Jesus came, the doors being locked, and stood in the
midst, and said, "Peace be to you." {20:27} Then he said to Thomas,
"Reach here your finger, and see my hands. Reach here your hand, and
put it into my side. Don't be unbelieving, but believing."

   {20:28} Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!"

   {20:29} Jesus said to him, "Because you have seen me,[64] you have
believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed."

   {20:30} Therefore Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his
disciples, which are not written in this book; {20:31} but these are
written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God,
and that believing you may have life in his name.

   {21:1} After these things, Jesus revealed himself again to the
disciples at the sea of Tiberias. He revealed himself this way. {21:2}
Simon Peter, Thomas called Didymus, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and
the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were together.
{21:3} Simon Peter said to them, "I'm going fishing."

   They told him, "We are also coming with you." They immediately went
out, and entered into the boat. That night, they caught nothing. {21:4}
But when day had already come, Jesus stood on the beach, yet the
disciples didn't know that it was Jesus. {21:5} Jesus therefore said to
them, "Children, have you anything to eat?"

   They answered him, "No."

   {21:6} He said to them, "Cast the net on the right side of the boat,
and you will find some."

   They cast it therefore, and now they weren't able to draw it in for
the multitude of fish. {21:7} That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved
said to Peter, "It's the Lord!"

   So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he wrapped his coat
around him (for he was naked), and threw himself into the sea. {21:8}
But the other disciples came in the little boat (for they were not far
from the land, but about [65>]two hundred cubits[<65] away), dragging
the net full of fish. {21:9} So when they got out on the land, they saw
a fire of coals there, and fish laid on it, and bread. {21:10} Jesus
said to them, "Bring some of the fish which you have just caught."

   {21:11} Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land, full of great
fish, one hundred fifty-three; and even though there were so many, the
net wasn't torn.

   {21:12} Jesus said to them, "Come and eat breakfast."

   None of the disciples dared inquire of him, "Who are you?" knowing
that it was the Lord.

   {21:13} Then Jesus came and took the bread, gave it to them, and the
fish likewise. {21:14} This is now the third time that Jesus was
revealed to his disciples, after he had risen from the dead. {21:15} So
when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon,
son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?"

   He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you."

   He said to him, "Feed my lambs." {21:16} He said to him again a
second time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?"

   He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you."

   He said to him, "Tend my sheep." {21:17} He said to him the third
time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?"

   Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, "Do you have
affection for me?" He said to him, "Lord, you know everything. You know
that I have affection for you."

   Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep. {21:18} Most certainly I tell
you, when you were young, you dressed yourself, and walked where you
wanted to. But when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and
another will dress you, and carry you where you don't want to go."

   {21:19} Now he said this, signifying by what kind of death he would
glorify God. When he had said this, he said to him, "Follow me."

   {21:20} Then Peter, turning around, saw a disciple following. This
was the disciple whom Jesus sincerely loved, the one who had also
leaned on Jesus' breast at the supper and asked, "Lord, who is going to
betray You?" {21:21} Peter seeing him, said to Jesus, "Lord, what about
this man?"

   {21:22} Jesus said to him, "If I desire that he stay until I come,
what is that to you? You follow me." {21:23} This saying therefore went
out among the [66>]brothers[<66], that this disciple wouldn't die. Yet
Jesus didn't say to him that he wouldn't die, but, "If I desire that he
stay until I come, what is that to you?" {21:24} This is the disciple
who testifies about these things, and wrote these things. We know that
his witness is true. {21:25} There are also many other things which
Jesus did, which if they would all be written, I suppose that even the
world itself wouldn't have room for the books that would be written.





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Footnotes:
[1] {1:5} The word translated "overcome" (katelaben) can also be
translated "comprehended." It refers to getting a grip on an enemy to
defeat him.

[2] {1:18} NU reads "God"

[3] {1:23} Isaiah 40:3

[4] {1:39} 4:00 PM.

[5] {1:41} "Messiah" (Hebrew) and "Christ" (Greek) both mean "Anointed
One".

[6] {2:6} 2 to 3 metretes is about 20 to 30 U. S. Gallons, or 75 to 115
litres.

[7] {2:17} Psalm 69:9

[8] {3:3} The word translated "anew" here and in John 3:7 (anothen)
also means "again" and "from above".

[9] {3:8} The same Greek word (pneuma) means wind, breath, and spirit.

[10] {3:36} The same word can be translated "disobeys" or "disbelieves"
in this context.

[11] {4:6} noon

[12] {4:52} 1:00 P. M.

[13] {6:19} 25 to 30 stadia is about 5 to 6 kilometers or about 3 to 4
miles

[14] {6:19} see Job 9:8

[15] {6:20} or, I AM

[16] {6:31} Greek and Hebrew use the same word for "heaven", "the
heavens", "the sky", and "the air".

[17] {6:31} Exodus 16:4; Nehemiah 9:15; Psalm 78:24-25

[18] {6:45} Isaiah 54:13

[19] {7:42} 2 Samuel 7:12

[20] {7:42} Micah 5:2

[21] {7:52} See Isaiah 9:1 and Matthew 4:13-16.

[22] {8:5} Leviticus 20:10; Deuteronomy 22:22

[23] {8:12} Isaiah 60:1

[24] {8:17} Deuteronomy 17:6; 19:15

[25] {8:24} or, I AM

[26] {8:32} Psalm 119:45

[27] {8:58} or, I am

[28] {9:31} Psalm 66:18, Proverbs 15:29; 28:9

[29] {10:11} Isaiah 40:11; Ezekiel 34:11-12,15,22

[30] {10:16} Isaiah 56:8

[31] {10:17} Isaiah 53:7-8

[32] {10:21} Exodus 4:11

[33] {10:22} The "Feast of the Dedication" is the Greek name for
"Hanukkah," a celebration of the rededication of the Temple.

[34] {10:34} Psalm 82:6

[35] {11:16} "Didymus" means "Twin"

[36] {11:18} 15 stadia is about 2.8 kilometers or 1.7 miles

[37] {11:41} NU omits "from the place where the dead man was lying."

[38] {12:3} a Roman pound of 12 ounces, or about 340 grams

[39] {12:5} 300 denarii was about a year's wages for an agricultural
laborer.

[40] {12:13} "Hosanna" means "save us" or "help us, we pray."

[41] {12:13} Psalm 118:25-26

[42] {12:15} Zechariah 9:9

[43] {12:34} Isaiah 9:7; Daniel 2:44 (but see also Isaiah 53:8)

[44] {12:38} Isaiah 53:1

[45] {12:40} Isaiah 6:10

[46] {12:41} Isaiah 6:1

[47] {13:18} Psalm 41:9

[48] {14:16} Greek Parakleton: Counselor, Helper, Intercessor,
Advocate, and Comforter.

[49] {15:20} John 13:16

[50] {15:25} Psalms 35:19; 69:4

[51] {15:26} Greek Parakletos: Counselor, Helper, Advocate,
Intercessor, and Comforter.

[52] {16:3} TR adds "to you"

[53] {16:15} TR reads "will take" instead of "takes"

[54] {17:17} Psalm 119:142

[55] {18:9} John 6:39

[56] {19:14} "the sixth hour" would have been 6:00 AM according to the
Roman timekeeping system, or noon for the Jewish timekeeping system in
use, then.

[57] {19:24} Psalm 22:18

[58] {19:28} NU, TR read "knowing" instead of "seeing"

[59] {19:36} Exodus 12:46; Numbers 9:12; Psalm 34:20

[60] {19:37} Zechariah 12:10

[61] {19:39} 100 Roman pounds of 12 ounces each, or about 72 pounds, or
33 Kilograms.

[62] {20:16} Rabboni is a transliteration of the Hebrew word for "great
teacher."

[63] {20:16} or, Master

[64] {20:29} TR adds " Thomas,"

[65] {21:8} 200 cubits is about 100 yards or about 91 meters

[66] {21:23} The word for "brothers" here may be also correctly
translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."

