
The Good News According to John

   {1:1} In the beginning was the [1>]Word,[<1] and the Word was with
God, and the Word was God. {1:2} He was in the beginning with God.
{1:3} Everything was made through Him, and without Him nothing was made
that was made. {1:4} In Him was life, and that life was the light of
mankind. {1:5} The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness
hasn't [2>]overcome[<2] it.

   {1:6} There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. {1:7} This
man came as a witness, to testify about the light, that all through him
might believe. {1:8} He wasn't that light, but was sent as a witness of
that light. {1:9} The true light that enlightens everyone was coming
into the world.

   {1:10} The Word was in the world, and though the world was made
through Him, 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, and we saw His
glory, the glory as of the only Son of the Father, full of grace and
truth. {1:15} John testified about Him. He cried out, saying, "This was
He who I told you about when I said, 'He who comes after me has
surpassed me because He was before me.'" {1:16} From His fullness we
have all received grace upon grace. {1:17} The Law was given through
Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. {1:18} No one has
ever seen God, but God's only born Son, who is near to the heart of His
Father, has made Him known.

   {1:19} Now this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests
and [3>]Levites[<3] from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?" {1:20} He
confessed, and didn't deny, but confessed, "I'm not the Christ." {1:21}
They asked him, "Then who are you? Are you Elijah?"

   He said, "I am not."

   "Are you the Prophet?"

   He answered, "No."

   {1:22} Then they asked him, "Who are you? Give us an answer to take
back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?" {1:23} John
replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet, [4>]"I am the voice of one
calling in the desert, 'Make straight the way for the Lord.'"[<4]
{1:24} Now those who were sent were [5>]Pharisees.[<5] {1:25} They
asked him, saying, "Why then do you baptize if you aren't the Christ,
nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"

   {1:26} John answered them, saying, "I baptize with water, but One
stands among you that you don't know. {1:27} It is He who, coming after
me, is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I'm not worthy to
untie." {1:28} This all happened at Bethany on the other side of the
Jordan, where John was baptizing.

   {1:29} The next day, John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said,
"Look! God's Lamb who takes away the sin of the world! {1:30} This is
the One I meant when I said, 'A man who comes after me is preferred
before me because He existed before me.' {1:31} I didn't know Him, but
the reason I came baptizing with water was that He might be revealed to
Israel." {1:32} John testified, saying, "I saw the Spirit descending
from Heaven like a dove, and He remained upon Him. {1:33} I wouldn't
have known Him, but He who sent me to baptize with water told me,
'Whoever you see the Spirit descending upon, and remaining on Him, this
is He who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.' {1:34} I have seen and I
testify that this is God's Son."

   {1:35} The next day, John again stood with two of His disciples.
{1:36} When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, "Look, God's Lamb!"
{1:37} The two disciples heard him say this, and they followed Jesus.
{1:38} Jesus turned, and seeing them following, asked them, "What are
you looking for?" They said to Him, "Rabbi" (which, when translated,
means Teacher), "Where are You staying?"

   {1:39} He told them, "Come and see." They came and saw where He was
staying, and spent that day with Him. It was about the [6>]tenth
hour.[<6] {1:40} Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, was one of the two who
heard what John had said and who had followed Jesus. {1:41} The first
thing Andrew did was to find his brother, Simon, and tell him, "We have
found the Messiah" ([7>]that is, translated, the Christ[<7]).

   {1:42} Andrew brought Simon to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said,
"You are Simon the son of Jonah. You will be called Cephas" (which is
translated [8>]Peter[<8]).

   {1:43} The next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. Finding
Philip, he told him, "Follow me." {1:44} Philip was from Bethsaida, the
city of Andrew and Peter. {1:45} Philip found Nathanael and told him,
"We have found Him who Moses in the Law, and also the prophets, wrote
about -- Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."

   {1:46} Nathanael asked Philip, "Can anything good come out of
Nazareth?"

   Philip told Nathanael, "Come and see."

   {1:47} Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him, and said of Nathanael,
"Look! An Israelite indeed, who has no deceit in him!"

   {1:48} Nathanael asked Him, "How do You know me?"

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

   {1:49} Nathanael answered, "[9>]Rabbi,[<9] You are God's Son. You
are the King of Israel."

   {1:50} Jesus said to him, "Because I told you that I saw you under
the fig tree, do you believe? You will see greater things than these."
{1:51} And He told him, "Most assuredly, I tell you, you will see
Heaven opened, and God's angels ascending and descending on the Son of
Man."

   {2:1} On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and
Jesus' mother was there. {2:2} Now both Jesus and His disciples were
invited to the wedding. {2:3} When they ran out of wine, Jesus' mother
told Him, "They have no wine."

   {2:4} Jesus said to her, "Woman, what does that have to do with you
and me? My time has not yet come." {2:5} His mother told the servants,
"Do whatever He tells you." {2:6} Nearby stood six stone water jars,
the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding [10>]two
to three metretes.[<10] {2:7} Jesus told the servants, "Fill the jars
with water," so they filled them to the brim. {2:8} Then He told them,
"Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet." They did
so, {2:9} and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been
turned into wine. He didn't realize where it had come from, though the
servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom
aside {2:10} and said, "Everyone brings out the choice wine first, and
then the cheaper wine after the guests have drunk freely, but you have
saved the best till now!" {2:11} Jesus did this beginning of signs in
Cana of Galilee. He revealed His glory, and His disciples believed in
Him.

   {2:12} After this, He went down to Capernaum with His mother, His
brothers, and His disciples, and they stayed there only a few days.

   {2:13} The time for the [11>]Passover[<11] of the Jews was near, and
Jesus went up to Jerusalem. {2:14} He found in the temple those who
sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers doing business.
{2:15} When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the
temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers' money
and overturned the tables. {2:16} He told those who sold doves, "Take
these things away! Don't make my Father's house a market place!" {2:17}
Then His disciples remembered that it was written, [12>]"Zeal for Your
house will consume me."[<12] {2:18} So the Jews answered and asked Him,
"What sign do You show to us, since You do these things?" {2:19} Jesus
answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it
up." {2:20} Then the Jews said, "It has taken forty-six years to build
this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?" {2:21} But the
temple He had spoken of was His body. {2:22} After He was raised from
the dead, His disciples recalled what He had said. Then they believed
the Scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.

   {2:23} Now while He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many
people saw the miraculous signs He was doing and believed in His name.
{2:24} But Jesus didn't commit Himself to them, because He knew all
people, {2:25} and had no need for anyone to testify about people, for
He knew what was in people.

   {3:1} There was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus, a ruler of the
Jews. {3:2} This man came to Jesus by night, and said to Him, "Rabbi,
we know that You have come from God as a teacher, for no one can do
these signs that You do unless God is with him."

   {3:3} Jesus answered and told him, "Most assuredly, I tell you,
unless one is born again, that person can't see the kingdom of God."

   {3:4} Nicodemus asked Him, "How can a man be born when he is old? He
can't go back into his mother's womb and be born, can he?"

   {3:5} Jesus answered, "Most assuredly, I tell you, unless one is
born of water and the Spirit, that one can't enter the Kingdom of God.
{3:6} That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born
of the Spirit is spirit. {3:7} Don't marvel that I told you, 'You must
be born again.' {3:8} The [13>]wind[<13] blows where it wants to, and
you hear its sound, but can't tell where it comes from and where it
goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit."

   {3:9} Nicodemus asked Him, "How can these things be?"

   {3:10} "Are you Israel's teacher," asked Jesus, "and yet you don't
understand these things? {3:11} Most assuredly, I tell you, we speak
what we know and testify what we have seen, and you don't receive our
witness. {3:12} If I have told you earthly things and you don't
believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? {3:13} No
one has ever gone up into Heaven except the one who came from Heaven --
the Son of Man. {3:14} Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the
desert,[14] so the Son of Man must be lifted up, {3:15} that everyone
who believes in Him should not die, but have eternal life. {3:16} For
God so sincerely loved[15] the world that He gave His only born Son,
that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting
life. {3:17} For God didn't send His Son into the world to condemn the
world, but to save the world through Him. {3:18} Whoever believes in
Him is not condemned, but whoever doesn't believe is condemned already
because that person has not believed in the name of God's only Son.
{3:19} This is the condemnation, that light has come into the world,
but people sincerely loved darkness rather than light, because their
deeds were evil. {3:20} Everyone who practices evil hates the light,
and doesn't come to the light, for fear that their deeds will be
exposed. {3:21} Whoever practices the truth comes to the light to show
clearly that their deeds have been done with God."

   {3:22} After this, Jesus and His disciples went out into the
countryside of Judea, where He remained with them, and baptized. {3:23}
John was also baptizing at Aenon, near Salim, because there was plenty
of water there, and people kept coming to be baptized. {3:24} John had
not yet been thrown into prison. {3:25} There were some questions
between some of John's disciples and the Jews about purification.
{3:26} They came to John and told him, "Rabbi, He who was with you
beyond the Jordan, that you have testified about -- look, He is
baptizing, and everyone is flocking to Him!" {3:27} John replied, "A
man can receive nothing, unless it's given to him from Heaven. {3:28}
You yourselves can testify that I said, 'I'm not the Christ, but I have
been sent ahead of Him.' {3:29} The bride belongs to the bridegroom.
The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and
rejoices when he hears the bridegroom's voice. This joy of mine is now
made complete. {3:30} He must increase, but I must decrease.

   {3:31} "He who comes from above is above all. He who is of the Earth
belongs to the Earth and speaks of the Earth. He who comes from Heaven
is above all. {3:32} He testifies about what He has seen and heard, but
no one accepts His testimony. {3:33} The man who has accepted His
testimony has certified that God is truthful. {3:34} The one that God
has sent speaks God's words, for God gives the Spirit without measure.
{3:35} The Father sincerely loves the Son, and has given everything
into His hand. {3:36} Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but
whoever rejects the Son won't see life, for God's wrath remains on that
person."

   {4:1} Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that
Jesus was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John {4:2}
(although Jesus Himself wasn't baptizing, but His disciples were),
{4:3} He left Judea, and went back towards Galilee. {4:4}  He had to go
through Samaria. {4:5} He came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar,
near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph, {4:6}  and
Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from His journey,
sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.[16] {4:7} A
Samaritan woman came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Please give me
a drink." {4:8} His disciples had gone into the town to buy food. {4:9}
The Samaritan woman therefore asked Him, "How is it that You, being a
Jew, ask me for a drink, since I'm a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews have
nothing to do with Samaritans.) {4:10} Jesus answered her, "If you knew
God's gift, and who it is who says to you, 'Please give me a drink,'
you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water."

   {4:11} The woman said, "Sir, you have nothing to draw with and the
well is deep. Where could you get this living water from? {4:12} Are
You greater than our forefather Jacob, who gave us this well and who
used to drink from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and
herds?"

   {4:13} Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will
get thirsty again, {4:14} but whoever drinks the water that I will give
will never, ever get thirsty. The water that I will give will become in
that person a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life."

   {4:15} The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water so that I
won't get thirsty and have to keep coming all the way here to draw
water."

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

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

   Jesus told her, "You are right in saying, 'I have no husband,'
{4:18} for you have had five husbands, and the one you have now isn't
your husband. What you have said is quite true."

   {4:19} The woman said to Him, "Sir, I perceive that You are a
prophet. {4:20} Our ancestors worshipped on this mountain, but you Jews
say that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem."

   {4:21} Jesus told her, "Woman, believe me, a time is coming when you
will worship the Father neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem.
{4:22} You Samaritans worship what you don't know. We worship what we
know, for salvation is from the Jews. {4:23} A time is coming, and has
now come, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit
and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers that the Father seeks.
{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 the Messiah (who is
called Christ) is coming. When He comes, He will explain everything to
us."

   {4:26} Jesus told her, "I who speak to you am He."

   {4:27} Just then Jesus' disciples returned. They were surprised to
find him talking with a woman, but no one asked, "What do you want?" or
"Why are you talking with her?" {4:28} Then, leaving her water jar, the
woman went back to the town and began telling the people, {4:29} "Come,
see a man who told me everything that I ever did. Could this be the
Christ?" {4:30} They went out of the city, and started to go to Him.

   {4:31} Meanwhile, the disciples urged Him, saying "Rabbi, eat
something."

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

   {4:33} So the disciples asked one another, "Nobody brought Him
anything to eat, did they?"

   {4:34} Jesus told them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent
me, and to accomplish His work. {4:35} Don't you say, 'It's still four
months until the harvest'? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and
look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. {4:36} He who harvests
is already receiving wages, and is gathering fruit for eternal life, so
that he who plants and he who harvests may rejoice together. {4:37}
Thus the saying 'One plants and another harvests' is true. {4:38} I
sent you to harvest that for which you didn't labor. Others have
labored, and you have entered into their labor."

   {4:39} Many Samaritans from that town believed in Jesus because of
the woman's testimony, "He told me everything that I ever did." {4:40}
So when the Samaritans arrived, they asked Him to stay with them, and
He stayed there two days. {4:41} Many more believed because of His
words. {4:42} They told the woman, "It's no longer just because of what
you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know
that this is truly the Savior of the world, the Christ."

   {4:43} After the two days, He departed from there and went to
Galilee, {4:44} for Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honor
in his own country. {4:45} When He arrived in Galilee, the Galileans
welcomed Him. They had seen all that He had done in Jerusalem at the
Passover Feast, for they had been there, too.

   {4:46} Therefore He came back to Cana of Galilee, where He had made
the water wine. There was a certain royal official, 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 to come down and heal his
son, who was at the point of death.

   {4:48} Jesus told him, "Unless you people see signs and wonders, you
will never believe."

   {4:49} The royal official said to Him, "Sir, come down before my
child dies!"

   {4:50} Jesus told him, "Go in peace. Your son lives." So the man
believed the words that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way. {4:51}
As he was still going down the road, his servants met him, saying that
his son was living. {4:52} So he asked them the hour when he began to
recover, and they told him, "Yesterday at the [17>]seventh hour,[<17]
the fever left him." {4:53} The father realized that it was at that
hour that Jesus told him, "Your son lives," and he himself believed,
along with his whole household. {4:54} This was the second sign that
Jesus did, when He had come from out of Judea to Galilee.

   {5:1} After this, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up
to Jerusalem. {5:2} Near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem, there is a pool,
which is called Bethesda in Hebrew. It's surrounded by five covered
colonnades. {5:3} In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind,
lame, or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water, {5:4} for an
angel went down from time to time into the pool and stirred up the
water. Whoever stepped in first, after the stirring of the water, was
made well of whatever disease that person had. {5:5} A certain man was
there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years. {5:6} When Jesus saw him
lying there, and knew that he had already been sick for a long time, He
asked him, "Do you want to be made well?"

   {5:7} The sick man answered, "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 told him, "Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk." {5:9}
Immediately, the man was made well, took up his mat, and walked.

   That was on the [18>]Sabbath day.[<18] {5:10} Therefore the Jews
were telling him who was cured, "It's the Sabbath, and it isn't legal
for you to carry your mat."

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

   {5:12} Then they asked him, "Who told you to 'Take up your mat and
walk'?" {5:13} The man who had been healed didn't know who it was,
because Jesus had disappeared into the crowd.

   {5:14} Later, Jesus found him in the temple and told him, "See, you
have been made well! Don't sin any 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 reason, the Jews persecuted
Jesus, and sought to kill Him, because He was doing these things on the
Sabbath. {5:17} Jesus answered them, "My Father is still working, so I
am working, too." {5:18} Because of this, the Jews tried all the harder
to kill Him. Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even
calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God. {5:19} Then
Jesus answered, "Most assuredly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of
Himself, unless He sees the Father do it, for whatever He does, the Son
does likewise. {5:20} The Father loves the Son, and shows Him
everything that He Himself does. He will show Him even greater works
than these, that you may marvel. {5:21} As the Father raises the dead
and gives life to them, even so the Son gives life to whoever He
wishes. {5:22} The Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment
to the Son, {5:23} that all may honor the Son just as they honor the
Father. He who doesn't honor the Son doesn't honor the Father who sent
Him.

   {5:24} "Most assuredly, I tell you, the person who hears my words
and believes in Him who sent me has everlasting life, and won't come
into judgment, but has passed from death into life. {5:25} Most
assuredly, I tell you, the time is coming, and now is, when the dead
will hear the voice of God's Son, and those who hear will live. {5:26}
For just as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son
to have life in Himself, {5:27} and has given Him authority to execute
judgment, because He is the Son of Man. {5:28} Don't marvel at this,
for the time is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His
voice {5:29} and come out -- those who have done good, to the
resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection
of condemnation. {5:30} I can do nothing by myself. As I hear, I judge,
and my judgment is righteous, because I don't seek my own will, but the
will of the Father who sent me.

   {5:31} "If I testify about myself, my testimony isn't valid. {5:32}
There is another who testifies on my behalf, and I know that his
testimony about me is valid. {5:33} You have sent to John, and he has
testified to the truth. {5:34} Not that I accept human testimony, but I
tell you this so that you may be saved. {5:35} John was the burning and
shining lamp, and you were willing for a time to rejoice in his light.
{5:36} I have a greater testimony than John's. The works that the
Father has given me to finish -- 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 words dwelling
in you, because you don't believe the One who He sent. {5:39} You
search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life, and
these testify about me. {5:40} Yet you refuse to come to me to have
life.

   {5:41} "I don't accept glory from men, {5:42} but I know you. I know
that you don't have God's sincere love in you. {5:43} I have come in my
Father's name, and you don't accept me, but if someone else comes in
his own name, you will accept him. {5:44} How can you believe when you
accept glory from one another, and don't seek the glory that comes from
the only God?

   {5:45} "Don't think that I will accuse you before the Father. Your
accuser is Moses, who you have set your hope on. {5:46} If you believed
Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me. {5:47} If you don't
believe what he wrote, how will you believe what I say?"

   {6:1} After this, Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of
Galilee, also called the Sea of Tiberias. {6:2} A great multitude was
following Him, because they were seeing the signs that He was
performing on those who were sick. {6:3} Jesus went up on a mountain
side, and sat down with His disciples. {6:4} The Jewish Passover Feast
was near. {6:5} Jesus looked up, and saw that a great multitude was
coming to Him, so He asked Philip, "Where can we buy bread, so that
these may eat?" {6:6} He said this to test him, for He knew what He
would do.

   {6:7} Philip answered, "[19>]Two hundred denarii[<19] worth of bread
wouldn't even be enough for everyone to receive a little!" {6:8} One of
Jesus' 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
is that among so many people?"

   {6:10} Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." There was plenty of
grass there, so the men sat down, in number about five thousand. {6:11}
Jesus took the loaves, and when He had given thanks, He distributed
them to the disciples, and the disciples to those sitting down. He did
likewise with the fish, as much as they wanted. {6:12} When they were
filled, He told His disciples, "Gather up the leftover pieces, so that
nothing may be wasted." {6:13} Therefore they gathered them up, and
filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves, which
were left over by those who had eaten.

   {6:14} When the people saw the sign which He had performed, they
said, "This is truly the Prophet who is to come into the world." {6:15}
When Jesus perceived that they meant to come and take Him by force to
make Him king, He withdrew again to the mountain by Himself.

   {6:16} When evening came, Jesus' disciples went down to the sea,
{6:17} got into the boat, and went over the sea toward Capernaum. It
was already dark, and Jesus had not come to them. {6:18} The sea arose
because a great wind was blowing. {6:19} When they had rowed about
[20>]twenty-five or thirty stadia,[<20] they saw Jesus walking on the
sea and drawing near the boat. They were terrified, {6:20} but He told
them, "It's me. Don't be afraid." {6:21} Then they willingly took Him
into the boat, and immediately the boat was at the land where they were
going.

   {6:22} The next day, the crowd that had stayed on the other side of
the sea saw that there had been only one boat there. They also saw that
Jesus had not gone in the boat with His disciples, but that His
disciples had gone away alone. {6:23} Then some other boats from
Tiberias landed near the place where the people had eaten the bread
after the Lord had given thanks. {6:24} When the crowd saw that neither
Jesus nor His disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to
Capernaum looking for 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, "Most assuredly, I tell you, you are looking
for me, not because you saw the signs, but because you ate the loaves
and were filled. {6:27} Don't labor for perishable food, but for the
food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give
you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him."

   {6:28} Then they asked Him, "What must we do to do God's works?"

   {6:29} Jesus answered them, "This is God's work, that you believe in
Him who He has sent."

   {6:30} Therefore they asked Him, "What sign will You perform then,
that we may see it and believe You? What work will You do? {6:31} Our
ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness. As it's written, [21>]'He
gave them bread from Heaven to eat.'"[<21]

   {6:32} Jesus told them, "Most assuredly, I tell you, Moses didn't
give you the bread from Heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread
from Heaven. {6:33} For God's bread is He who comes down from Heaven
and gives life to the world."

   {6:34} Then they said to Him, "Lord, give us this bread forever."

   {6:35} Jesus told them, "I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me
will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.
{6:36} As I told you, you have seen me, and yet you still don't
believe. {6:37} All that the Father gives me will come to me, and
whoever comes to me I will never drive away. {6:38} 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 the Father who sent me, that of all He has
given me I should lose none, but should raise them up at the last day.
{6:40} This is also the will of Him who sent me, that everyone who sees
the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise
them up at the last day."

   {6:41} The Jews then grumbled about Jesus, because He said, "I am
the bread which came down from Heaven." {6:42} They were saying, "Isn't
this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can
He claim, 'I have come down from Heaven'?" {6:43} Jesus answered, "Stop
grumbling among yourselves. {6:44} No one can come to me unless drawn
by the Father who sent me, and I will raise that person up on the last
day. {6:45} It's written in the prophets, [22>]'They will all be taught
by God.'[<22] Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes
to me. {6:46} Nobody has seen the Father except the one who is from
God. He has seen the Father. {6:47} Most assuredly, I tell you,
everyone who believes in me has everlasting life. {6:48} I am the bread
of life. {6:49} Your forefathers ate manna in the wilderness, but they
died. {6:50} This is the bread which comes down from Heaven, so that
one may eat of it and not die. {6:51} I am the living bread that came
down from Heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever. The
bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."

   {6:52} Therefore the Jews argued among themselves, saying, "How can
this Man give us His flesh to eat?"

   {6:53} Then Jesus told them, "Most assuredly, I tell you, unless you
eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink His blood, you have no life
in you. {6:54} Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal
life, and I will raise that person up at the last day, {6:55} for my
flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. {6:56} One who eats my
flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in that person. {6:57}
Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so
the one who feeds on me will live because of me. {6:58} This is the
bread which came down from Heaven, not like the manna your forefathers
ate, and died. A person who eats this bread will live forever." {6:59}
He said this while teaching in the [23>]synagogue[<23] at Capernaum.

   {6:60} Therefore when many of His disciples heard this, they said,
"This is a hard teaching. Who can stand to hear it?"

   {6:61} Jesus, aware that his disciples were complaining about this,
asked them, "Does this offend you? {6:62} What if you saw the Son of
Man ascend to where He was before? {6:63} The Spirit gives life. The
flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit and
life. {6:64} Yet there are some of you who don't believe." Jesus knew
from the beginning who didn't believe, and who would betray Him. {6:65}
He said, "For this reason I have told you, that no one can come to me,
unless it has been granted by the Father."

   {6:66} Because of this, many of His disciples turned back and didn't
walk with him any more. {6:67} Then Jesus asked the twelve, "Do you
want to go away, too?"

   {6:68} Simon Peter answered Him, "Lord, who will we go to? You have
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, "Didn't I choose you, the twelve, yet one of
you is a [24>]slanderer[<24]?" {6:71} He was speaking of Judas
Iscariot, Simon's son, for he, one of the twelve, was going to betray
him.

   {7:1} After these things, Jesus walked in Galilee, for He didn't
want to walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill Him. {7:2} Now
the [25>]Jews' Feast of Tabernacles[<25] was near. {7:3} Therefore His
brothers told Him, "Leave here and go to Judea, so that Your disciples
will see the works that You are doing, too. {7:4} Nobody does anything
in secret while he seeks to be known openly. If You do these things,
show Yourself to the world." {7:5} For even His brothers didn't believe
in Him.

   {7:6} Then Jesus told them, "My time hasn't yet come, but your time
is always right. {7:7} The world can't hate you, but it hates me
because I testify that its works are evil. {7:8} Go up to this feast
yourselves. I'm not going up to this feast, yet, for my time hasn't yet
fully come." {7:9} Having said these things to them, He stayed in
Galilee.

   {7:10} When His brothers had gone up to the feast, however, Jesus
also went up, not publicly, but in secret. {7:11} The Jews were looking
for Him at the feast, and saying, "Where is He?" {7:12} There was much
complaining among the people about Him. Some said, "He is good," but
others said, "No, He deceives the people." {7:13} No one spoke openly
of Him for fear of the Jews.

   {7:14} About the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple
and began to teach. {7:15} The Jews marveled, saying, "How does this
man know letters, having never been educated?"

   {7:16} Jesus answered, "My teaching isn't mine, but His who sent me.
{7:17} Anyone who wants to do His will shall know if the teaching is
from God or if I speak on my own. {7:18} The one who speaks on his own
seeks his own glory; but He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him
is true, and no unrighteousness is in Him. {7:19} Didn't Moses give you
the Law, yet none of you keeps the Law? Why are you trying to kill me?"

   {7:20} The people answered, "You have a demon. Who is trying to kill
You?"

   {7:21} Jesus answered, "I did one work, and you all marvel. {7:22}
Moses gave you circumcision (not that it's from Moses, but from the
forefathers), and you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath. {7:23} If a boy
gets circumcised on the Sabbath, so that the Law of Moses should not be
broken, are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on
the Sabbath? {7:24} Don't judge by appearance, but judge with righteous
judgment."

   {7:25} Some of the people of Jerusalem said, "Isn't this the man
they are trying to kill? {7:26} Look! He is speaking boldly, and they
say nothing to Him. The rulers haven't really concluded that this is
the Christ, have they? {7:27} Still, we know where this man is from,
but when the Christ comes, no one will know where He is from."

   {7:28} Then Jesus cried out, as He taught in the temple, "You know
me, and you know where I'm from. I haven't come of my own accord, but
He who sent me is true, who you don't know. {7:29} I know Him, because
I am from Him, and He sent me."

   {7:30} Because of this, they were seeking to seize Him, but no one
laid hands on Him, because His time had not yet come. {7:31} Many of
the people believed in Him, saying, "When the Christ comes, will He do
more signs than this man has done?"

   {7:32} The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about
Jesus, and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to seize
Him.

   {7:33} Then Jesus told them, "I will be with you a little while
longer, and then I am going to Him who sent me. {7:34} You will look
for me, and not find me, and where I am, you can't come."

   {7:35} Then the Jews said among themselves, "Where does He intend to
go that we won't be able to find Him? He doesn't intend to go to the
dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, does He? {7:36} What
does He mean by saying, 'You will look for me, and not find me, and
where I am, you can't come'?"

   {7:37} On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and
declared loudly, "If anyone is thirsty, let that person come to me and
drink. {7:38} Rivers of living water will flow from within whoever
believes in me, as the Scripture has said." {7:39} He said this about
the Spirit, who those believing in Him would receive. The Holy Spirit
wasn't yet given, because Jesus wasn't yet glorified.

   {7:40} When they heard these words, many in the crowd were saying,
"This is really the prophet." {7:41} Others were saying, "This is the
Christ," but some were saying, "Surely the Christ isn't going to come
from Galilee, is He? {7:42} Hasn't the Scripture said that the Christ
comes from the seed of David and from the town of Bethlehem, where
David was?" {7:43} So there was a division among the crowd because of
Jesus. {7:44} Some of them wanted to seize Him, but no one laid hands
on Him.

   {7:45} When the officers went back to the chief priests and
Pharisees, they asked them, "Why didn't you bring Him in?" {7:46} The
officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man!" {7:47} Then the
Pharisees answered, "You haven't been deceived, too, have you? {7:48}
Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in Him? {7:49} But this
accursed crowd doesn't know the Law."

   {7:50} Nicodemus (who came to Jesus before, being one of them) asked
them, {7:51} "Does our Law permit us to judge a man before hearing him
and finding out what he is doing?" {7:52} They answered him, "You
aren't from Galilee, too, are you? Search and you will see that no
prophet comes out of Galilee."

   {7:53} Then everyone went home, {8:1} but Jesus went to the Mount of
Olives. {8:2} At dawn, He came back into the temple. All the people
were coming to Him, and He sat down and began to teach them. {8:3} The
scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman caught in adultery, and
having set her in the midst, {8:4} they told Him, "Teacher, this woman
has been caught in adultery, in the very act. {8:5} In the Law, Moses
commanded us to stone such women. What do You say?" {8:6} They were
saying this, testing Him, so that they might have grounds to accuse
Him. Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger, as if
He didn't hear. {8:7} When they persisted in asking Him, He
straightened up, and told them, "Let whoever is without sin among you
be the first to throw a stone at her." {8:8} He stooped down, again,
and wrote on the ground.

   {8:9} When they heard this, they began to go out one by one,
beginning with the older ones. Jesus was left alone with the woman
still standing there. {8:10} Straightening up, Jesus asked her, "Woman,
where are they? Has no one condemned you?"

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

   Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go and sin no more."

   {8:12} Jesus spoke again to the people, saying, "I am the light of
the world. Anyone who follows me won't walk in the darkness, but will
have the light of life."

   {8:13} Then the Pharisees told Him, "You are testifying on your own
behalf, so your testimony isn't valid."

   {8:14} Jesus answered, "Even if I testify on my own behalf, my
testimony is valid because I know where I came from and where I am
going, but you don't know where I come from or where I am going. {8:15}
You judge by human standards, but I am not judging anyone. {8:16} Even
if I do judge, my judgment is true, because 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 men is valid. {8:18} I am one who bears witness of
myself, and my Father who sent me bears witness of me."

   {8:19} Then they asked Him, "Where is Your Father?"

   Jesus answered, "You know neither me nor my Father. If you had known
me, you would have known my Father, too."

   {8:20} Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as He taught in the
temple. Nobody laid hands on Him, for His time had not yet come.

   {8:21} Jesus told them again, "I am going away, and you will look
for me, and you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you can't come."

   {8:22} Therefore the Jews were saying, "Surely He won't kill
Himself, will He, since He says, 'Where I am going, you can't come'?"

   {8:23} Jesus was saying to them, "You are from below. I am from
above. You are of this world. I am not of this world. {8:24} Therefore
I told you that you will die in your sins, because if you don't believe
that I am He, you will die in your sins."

   {8:25} Then they asked Him, "Who are You?"

   Jesus told them, "Just what I have been saying to you from the
beginning. {8:26} I have many things to say and judge about you, but He
who sent me is true, and I speak to the world those things which I
heard from Him."

   {8:27} They didn't realize that He had been speaking to them about
the Father. {8:28} So, Jesus said, "When you lift up the Son of Man,
then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on my own, but I
speak these things as the Father taught me. {8:29} He who sent me is
with me. He hasn't left me alone, because I always do the things that
are pleasing to Him." {8:30} As Jesus spoke, many came to believe in
Him.

   {8:31} Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, "If you
continue in my words, you are truly my disciples, {8:32} and you will
know the truth, and the truth will set you free."

   {8:33} They answered Him, "We are Abraham's descendants, and have
never been slaves to anyone. How can you say that we'll be set free?"

   {8:34} Jesus answered them, "Most assuredly, I tell you, whoever
sins is a slave of sin. {8:35} A slave doesn't remain in the house
forever, but a son does belong forever. {8:36} Therefore if the Son
sets you free, you will be free indeed.

   {8:37} "I know that you are Abraham's descendants, but you seek to
kill me, because my word has no place in you. {8:38} I talk about what
I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have heard from your
father."

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

   Jesus told 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 deeds of your father."

   Then they said to Him, "We weren't born of fornication. We have one
Father -- God."

   {8:42} Jesus said, "If God were your Father, you would sincerely
love me, for I came from God, and now am here. I haven't come of my own
initiative, but He sent me. {8:43} Why don't you understand what I say?
It's because you can't accept my words. {8:44} You are of your father,
the [26>]Devil,[<26] 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. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks
from his own nature, because he is a liar, and the father of lies.
{8:45} 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 don't you believe me?
{8:47} Whoever is from God hears God's words. The reason you don't hear
them is that you aren't from God."

   {8:48} The Jews answered and asked Him, "Aren't we right in saying
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} I don't seek glory for myself, but there is
One who seeks it, and He is the judge. {8:51} Most assuredly, I tell
you, anyone who keeps my word will never see death."

   {8:52} Then the Jews answered Him, "Now we know that You have a
demon! Abraham is dead, and the prophets, and You say, 'Anyone who
keeps my word will never taste death.' {8:53} Surely You aren't greater
than our forefather Abraham, who died? The prophets died too. Who do
You claim to be?"

   {8:54} Jesus answered, "If I honor myself, my honor is nothing. It's
my Father, who you say is your God, who honors me. {8:55} Yet you
haven't come to know Him, but I know Him. If I said, 'I don't know
Him,' I would be a liar like you, but I do know Him and keep His word.
{8:56} Your forefather Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day, and
he saw it and was glad."

   {8:57} Then the Jews said to Him, "You aren't yet fifty years old,
and You have seen Abraham?"

   {8:58} Jesus told them, "Most assuredly, I tell you, before Abraham
was, [27>]I AM."[<27]

   {8:59} Then they took up stones to throw at Him, but Jesus hid
Himself and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them,
and so passed by.

   {9:1} Passing by, Jesus saw a man who was 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 this man nor his parents sinned, but
this happened so that God's works might be revealed in this man. {9:4}
We must work the works of Him who sent me, as long as it's day. Night
is coming, when nobody can work. {9:5} As long as I am in the world, I
am the world's light."

   {9:6} After Jesus said this, He spat on the ground and made mud with
the saliva, put it on the blind man's eyes, {9:7} and told him, "Go,
wash in the pool of Siloam" (which means Sent). So he went away and
washed, and came back seeing. {9:8} Then the neighbors and those who
used to see him as a beggar began to ask, "Isn't this the man who used
to sit and beg?" {9:9} Some were saying, "Yes, it is he," others were
saying, "No, but he is like him." He kept saying, "I'm the one." {9:10}
So they asked him, "How were your eyes opened?"

   {9:11} He answered, "The man called Jesus made mud, put it on my
eyes, and told me, 'Go to Siloam, and wash'; so I went and washed, and
I received sight."

   {9:12} "Where is this man?" they asked him.

   "I don't know," he said.

   {9:13} They brought the man who used to be blind to the Pharisees.
{9:14} Now it was a sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened the
man's eyes. {9:15} So the Pharisees were also asking him how he
received his sight. He told them, "He applied mud to my eyes, I washed,
and I see."

   {9:16} Therefore some of the Pharisees said, "This Man isn't from
God, because He doesn't keep the Sabbath." Others said, "How can a
sinner do such signs?" So there was a division among them. {9:17} So
they turned again to the blind man and asked, "What do you say about
him? It was your eyes he opened."

   He said, "He is a prophet."

   {9:18} The Jews didn't believe that he had been blind, and had
received sight, until they called the parents of the one who had
received his sight, {9:19} and questioned them, saying, "Is this your
son, who you say was born blind? Then how 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. Who
opened his eyes, we don't know. Ask him. He is of age. He will speak
for himself." {9:22} His parents said this because they were afraid of
the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone would confess
that Jesus was the Christ, they would be put out of the synagogue.
{9:23} For this reason, his parents said, "Ask him. He is of age."

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

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

   {9:26} Then they asked him again, "What did He do to you? How did He
open your eyes?"

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

   {9:28} Then they became abusive towards him and said, "You are that
man's disciple, but we are Moses' disciples. {9:29} We know that God
spoke to Moses, but as for this man, we don't know where He is from."

   {9:30} The man answered, "How amazing! You don't know where He comes
from, yet He opened my eyes. {9:31} We know that God doesn't hear
sinners, but if anyone is God-fearing, and does His will, He hears him.
{9:32} Since the beginning of time it has never been heard of that
anyone opened the eyes of a person born blind. {9:33} If this man
weren't from God, He could do nothing."

   {9:34} To this they replied, "Who are you to teach us? You were born
entirely in sin!" Then 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 Man?"

   {9:36} He answered, "Who is He, sir, that I may believe in Him?"

   {9:37} Jesus told him, "You have seen Him, and it is He who is
talking with you."

   {9:38} Then he said, "Lord, I believe!" and he worshipped Jesus.

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

   {9:40} Some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these things,
and asked Him, "We aren't blind too, are we?"

   {9:41} Jesus told them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin,
but since you say, 'We see,' your sin remains. {10:1} Most assuredly, I
tell you, whoever doesn't enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs
in some other way, is a thief and a robber. {10:2} The one who enters
by the gate is the sheep's shepherd. {10:3} The gatekeeper opens the
gate for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by
name and leads them out. {10:4} When he brings out his own sheep, he
goes before them, and the sheep follow him, because they know his
voice. {10:5} There is no way that they will follow a stranger, but
will run away from the stranger, because they don't know the voice of
strangers." {10:6} Jesus used this illustration, but the Pharisees
didn't understand what He was telling them.

   {10:7} Then Jesus told them again, "Most assuredly, I tell you, I am
the sheep's door. {10:8} All who ever came before me are thieves and
robbers, but the sheep didn't listen to them. {10:9} I am the door.
Anyone who enters by me will be saved, and will go in and out and find
pasture. {10:10} The thief comes only to steal, and kill, and destroy.
I came that they might have life, and that they might have it in all
its fullness. {10:11} I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays
down His life for the sheep. {10:12} The hired hand, who isn't the
shepherd and doesn't own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the
sheep and runs away. So, the wolf snatches them and scatters them.
{10:13} The hired hand is concerned about the wages, and not the sheep,
so the hired hand runs away. {10:14} I am the good shepherd. I know my
own and my own know me, {10:15} just as the Father knows me and I know
the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep. {10:16} I have other
sheep that don't belong to this fold. I must bring them also, and they
will listen to my voice. So, there will be one flock, with one
shepherd. {10:17} For this reason the Father sincerely loves me,
because I lay down my life, so that I may take it up again. {10:18} No
one takes it away from me, but I lay it down of my own free will. I
have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it
up again. I received this commandment from my Father."

   {10:19} The Jews were divided again, because of these words. {10:20}
Many of them were saying, "He has a demon and is insane. Why do you
listen to Him?" {10:21} Others were saying, "These aren't the sayings
of a demon-possessed person. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?"

   {10:22} At that time the [28>]Feast of Dedication[<28] took place in
Jerusalem. It was winter, {10:23} and Jesus was walking in the temple,
in Solomon's porch. {10:24} Then the Jews gathered around Him, and
asked Him, "How long will You keep us in suspense? If You are the
Christ, tell us plainly." {10:25} Jesus answered, "I told you, but you
don't believe. The works that I do in my Father's name testify about
me, {10:26} but you don't believe, because you aren't of my sheep.
{10:27} My sheep listen to my voice. I know them, and they follow me.
{10:28} I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one is
able to snatch them out of my hand. {10:29} My Father, who has given
them to me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out
of my Father's hand. {10:30} I and my Father are one."

   {10:31} Therefore the Jews took up stones again to stone Him.
{10:32} Jesus answered, "I showed you many good works from the Father.
For which of them are you stoning me?"

   {10:33} The Jews answered Him, "We aren't stoning you for a good
work, but for blasphemy, because You, being a man, claim to be God."

   {10:34} Jesus answered, "Isn't it written in your Law, [29>]'I said,
"You are gods"'?[<29] {10:35} If he, who God's word came to, called
them gods, (and the Scripture can't be broken), {10:36} do you say of
Him who the Father set apart and sent into the world, 'You are
blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am God's Son'? {10:37} If I don't do
my Father's works, then don't believe me. {10:38} But if I do them,
even if you don't believe me, believe the works, so that you may know
and understand that the Father is in me, and I am in the Father."
{10:39} Therefore they were trying again to seize Him, and He escaped
from their grasp.

   {10:40} Jesus went away again across the Jordan to the place where
John was first baptizing, and He was staying there. {10:41} Many came
to Him and were saying, "John performed no miraculous sign, but
everything that John said about this man was true." {10:42} Many
believed in Jesus there.

   {11:1} Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, the village
of Mary and her sister Martha. {11:2} It was the Mary who anointed the
Lord with ointment, and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother
Lazarus was sick. {11:3} These sisters therefore sent to Him, saying,
"Lord, one You love is sick!"

   {11:4} When Jesus heard this, He said, "This sickness won't end in
death, but for God's glory, so that God's Son may be glorified by it."
{11:5} Now Jesus sincerely loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
{11:6} Yet, when He heard that Lazarus was sick, Jesus stayed where He
was for two more days.

   {11:7} After this, He said to the disciples, "Let's go back to
Judea."

   {11:8} The disciples said to Him, "Rabbi, the Jews were just
recently trying to stone You! Are You really going back there?"

   {11:9} Jesus answered, "Aren't there twelve hours of daylight?
Anyone who walks by day doesn't stumble, because he sees the light of
this world. {11:10} But anyone who walks by night stumbles, because the
light isn't in him." {11:11} After He had said this, He told them, "Our
friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him up."

   {11:12} The disciples therefore said to Him, "Lord, if he is
sleeping, he will recover." {11:13} Now Jesus had spoken of his death,
but they thought that He was talking about literal sleep.

   {11:14} So Jesus told them plainly, "Lazarus is dead, {11:15} and I
am glad for your sakes that I wasn't there, so that you may believe --
but let's go to him."

   {11:16} Therefore Thomas, who is called the [30>]Twin,[<30] said to
his fellow disciples, "Let's go, too, that we may die with Him."

   {11:17} When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been
in the tomb four days. {11:18} Bethany was near Jerusalem, about
[31>]fifteen stadia[<31] away, {11:19} and many of the Jews had come to
Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother. {11:20} When
Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary
stayed home. {11:21} Then Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if You had been
here, my brother wouldn't have died. {11:22} Even now I know that God
will give you whatever You ask of Him."

   {11:23} Jesus told her, "Your brother will rise again."

   {11:24} Martha replied, "I know that he will rise again in the
resurrection on the last day."

   {11:25} Jesus told her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever
believes in me will live even if they die, {11:26} and everyone who
lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"

   {11:27} "Yes, Lord," she answered, "I have believed that You are the
Christ, God's Son, who was to come into the world." {11:28} When she
had said this, she went back and called Mary, her sister, saying
secretly, "The Teacher is here, and is asking for you." {11:29} When
she heard this, she arose quickly, and went to Him.

   {11:30} Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the
place where Martha met Him. {11:31} The Jews who were with her in the
house, consoling her, saw Mary get up quickly and go out. They followed
her, saying, "She is going to the tomb to weep there." {11:32} When
Mary came to where Jesus was, she saw Him, and fell at His feet, saying
to Him, "Lord, if You had been here, my brother wouldn't have died."
{11:33} When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her
weeping, He groaned in the spirit and was troubled. {11:34} He asked,
"Where have you laid him?"

   They replied, "Lord, come and see."

   {11:35} Jesus wept.

   {11:36} So the Jews were saying, "See how He loved him!" {11:37} But
some of them said, "Couldn't this man, who opened the eyes of the blind
man, have kept this man from dying?"

   {11:38} Then Jesus, again groaning in Himself, came to the tomb. It
was a cave, and a boulder was placed against the entrance.

   {11:39} Jesus said, "Take away the boulder."

   Martha, the dead man's sister, said to Him, "Lord, by this time
there is a stench, because he has been dead four days."

   {11:40} Jesus told her, "Didn't I tell you that if you would believe
you would see God's glory?" {11:41} Then they took the boulder away
from the place where the dead man was lying. Jesus lifted up His eyes
and said, "Father, I thank You that You have heard me. {11:42} I know
that You always hear me, but because of the people who are standing
here I said this, that they may believe that You sent me." {11:43} Now
when He had said these things, He called loudly, "Lazarus, come out!"
{11:44} He who had died came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings,
and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus told them, "Unbind
him, and let him go."

   {11:45} Then many of the Jews who had come to Mary, and had seen the
things Jesus did, believed in Him. {11:46} But some of them went away
to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus did.

   {11:47} Then the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council
and said, "What are we doing? For this Man performs many signs. {11:48}
If we let Him go on like this, everyone will believe in Him, and the
Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation." {11:49}
Then a certain one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year,
told them, "You don't know anything, {11:50} nor do you take into
account that it's better for you that one man should die for the
people, than for the whole nation to perish." {11:51} He didn't say
this on his own initiative; but being high priest that year, he
prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation, {11:52} and not
for the nation only, but that Jesus might also gather together into one
God's children who are scattered abroad. {11:53} So from that day on,
they planned together to kill Jesus.

   {11:54} Therefore Jesus stopped walking publicly among the Jews, but
went away from there to the region near the wilderness, into a city
called Ephraim, and there He stayed with the disciples. {11:55} Now the
Passover of the Jews was near, and many went from the country up to
Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves. {11:56} Then they
were looking for Jesus, and spoke among themselves as they stood in the
temple, "What do you think? Isn't He coming to the feast at all?"
{11:57} Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a command,
that anyone who knew where Jesus was should report it, that they might
arrest Him.

   {12:1} Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where
Lazarus was who had been dead, who He had raised from the dead. {12:2}
There they made Him a supper, and Martha served, but Lazarus was one of
those reclining at the table with Him. {12:3} Then Mary took a pound of
very costly perfume of pure [32>]nard,[<32] and anointed the feet of
Jesus, and wiped His feet with her hair. The house was filled with the
fragrance of the perfume. {12:4} Then one of Jesus' disciples, Judas
Iscariot, Simon's son, who was about to betray Him, said, {12:5} "Why
wasn't this fragrant oil sold for [33>]three hundred denarii[<33] and
given to the poor?" {12:6} Now he said this, not because he was
concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief, and since he had
the money box, he used to steal from what was put into it.

   {12:7} Jesus therefore said, "Leave her alone. She has kept this for
the day of my burial. {12:8} You will always have the poor among you,
but you won't always have me."

   {12:9} Then a great multitude of the Jews learned that He was there;
and they came, not just for Jesus' sake, but also so that they could
see Lazarus, who He had raised from the dead. {12:10} So the chief
priests plotted to kill Lazarus too, {12:11} because on account of him
many of the Jews were going away, and were believing in Jesus.

   {12:12} The next day, when a great multitude that had come to the
feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, {12:13} they took
branches of palm trees and went out to meet Him, and shouted:
"[34>]Hosanna![<34]
   'Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!'
   The King of Israel!"


   {12:14} Then Jesus, finding a young donkey, sat on it, as it is
written:
{12:15} [35>]"Don't be afraid, Daughter of Zion;
   look, your king is coming,
   sitting on a donkey's colt."[<35]


   {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}
So the crowd that had been with Him when He called Lazarus out of the
tomb and raised him from the dead continued to testify. {12:18} The
crowd also met Him because they heard that He had done this sign.
{12:19} Then the Pharisees said among themselves, "You see that you are
accomplishing nothing. Look, the whole world has gone after Him!"

   {12:20} Now there were certain Greeks among those who came up to
worship at the feast. {12:21} Then they came to Philip, who was from
Bethsaida of Galilee, and told him, "Sir, we would like to see Jesus."
{12:22} Philip came and told Andrew, then Andrew and Philip came and
told Jesus.

   {12:23} Jesus answered them, saying, "The time has come for the Son
of Man to be glorified. {12:24} Most assuredly, I tell you, unless a
grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone, but if
it dies, it produces many grains. {12:25} Anyone who loves their life
will lose it, and anyone who hates their life in this world will keep
it for eternal life. {12:26} If anyone serves me, let them follow me;
and where I am, there my servant will be also. If anyone serves me, my
Father will honor them.

   {12:27}  "Now my soul has become troubled; and what will I say?
'Father, save me from this time'? No, for this purpose I came to this
time. {12:28} Father, glorify Your name."

   Then a voice came from Heaven, saying, "I have both glorified it and
will glorify it again."

   {12:29} Therefore the people 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 judgment is upon this world. Now the ruler of
this world will be cast out. {12:32} And I, if I am lifted up from the
Earth, will draw everyone to myself." {12:33} He was saying this to
indicate the kind of death He was about to die.

   {12:34} Therefore the crowd answered Him, "We have heard from the
Law that the Christ is to remain forever, so how can You say, 'The Son
of Man must be lifted up'? Who is this Son of Man?"

   {12:35} Jesus told them, "The light is with you for a little longer.
Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake
you. If you walk in the darkness, you don't know where you are going.
{12:36} Believe in the light while you have the light, so that you may
become children of light." After Jesus had said this, he departed and
hid from them.

   {12:37} Although He had performed so many signs in front of them,
they still didn't believe in Him, {12:38} so that the word of Isaiah
the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke:
[36>]"Lord, who has believed our report?
   And who has the arm of the LORD been revealed to?"[<36]


   {12:39} Therefore they couldn't believe, because Isaiah said again:
{12:40} [37>]"He has blinded their eyes
   and hardened their hearts,
   lest they see with their eyes,
   and understand with their hearts and turn --
   and I would heal them."[<37]


   {12:41} Isaiah said this because he saw Jesus' glory and spoke about
Him.

   {12:42} Nevertheless, even many of the rulers believed in Him, but
because of the Pharisees they weren't confessing Him, for fear that
they might be put out of the synagogue; {12:43} because they sincerely
loved men's approval more than God's approval.

   {12:44} Jesus cried out and said, "Whoever believes in me doesn't
just believe in me, but in Him who sent me. {12:45} Whoever sees me
sees Him who sent me. {12:46} I have come into the world as light, that
everyone who believes in me should not stay in darkness. {12:47} If
anyone hears the words I speak, and doesn't keep them, I don't judge
them; because I didn't come to judge the world, but to save the world.
{12:48} Whoever rejects me, and doesn't receive my sayings, has one who
judges them. The words that I spoke are what will judge him at the last
day. {12:49} For I haven't spoken on my own initiative, but the Father
Himself who sent me has given me commandment, what to say, and what to
speak. {12:50} I know that His commandment is eternal life, so the
things I speak, I speak just as the Father has told me."

   {13:1} Before the Feast of the Passover, Jesus knew that His time
had come that He should depart out of this world to the Father. Having
sincerely loved His own who were in the world, He sincerely loved them
to the end.

   {13:2} Supper was finished, and the Devil had already put it into
the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray Jesus. {13:3}
Jesus, knowing that the Father had given everything into His hands, and
that He had come from God and was going to God, {13:4} got up from
supper, laid aside His outer garment, and wrapped a towel around His
waist. {13:5} Then He poured water into a 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, and Peter asked Him, "Lord, are
You washing my feet?"

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

   {13:8} Peter told Him, "You will never wash my feet!"

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

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

   {13:10} Jesus said to him, "Someone who has bathed only needs to
wash their feet, but is completely clean; and most of you are clean,
but not all of you." {13:11} For He knew who would betray Him,
therefore He said, "You aren't all clean."

   {13:12} When He had washed their feet, He put on His outer garment
and sat down again. He asked them, "Do you know what I have done to
you? {13:13} You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right in saying
so, for so I am. {13:14} If I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your
feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. {13:15} I have given
you an example, that you should also do as I have done to you. {13:16}
Most assuredly, I tell you, a servant isn't greater than his master,
nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him. {13:17} If you know
these things, you are blessed if you do them. {13:18} I'm not talking
about all of you. I know who I have chosen; but this is to fulfill the
Scripture, [38>]'He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel
against me.'[<38] {13:19} Now I tell you before it happens, that when
it does happen, you may believe that [39>]I AM.[<39] {13:20} Most
assuredly, I tell you, whoever receives anyone I send receives me; and
he who receives me receives Him who sent me."

   {13:21} When Jesus had said these things, He was troubled in spirit,
and testified and said, "Most assuredly, I tell you, one of you will
betray me."

   {13:22} The disciples began looking at one another, perplexed about
which one of them He was talking about. {13:23} One of Jesus'
disciples, who Jesus sincerely loved, was leaning against His breast.
{13:24} Simon Peter therefore nodded to him to ask who He spoke about.
{13:25} Then, leaning back on Jesus' breast, he asked Him, "Lord, who
is it?"

   {13:26} Jesus answered, "It is he who I will give a morsel to when I
have dipped it." Having dipped the morsel, He gave it to Judas
Iscariot, Simon's son. {13:27} After the morsel, [40>]Satan[<40]
entered into him. Jesus therefore told him, "What you do, do quickly."
{13:28} None of those reclining at the table knew why He had said this
to him. {13:29} Some were supposing, because Judas had the money box,
that Jesus was saying to him, "Buy the things we need for the feast";
or else, that he should give something to the poor. {13:30} Having
received the morsel, he went out immediately. It was night.

   {13:31} When he had gone out, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man is
glorified, and God is glorified in Him. {13:32} If God is glorified in
Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself, and will glorify Him
immediately. {13:33} Little children, I am with you a little while
longer. You will look for me, and as I told the Jews, I now tell you,
also, [41>]'Where I am going, you can't come.'[<41] {13:34} I give to
you a new commandment, that you sincerely love one another, even as I
have sincerely loved you, so you should also sincerely love one
another. {13:35} By this everyone will know that you are my disciples,
if you have sincere love for one another."

   {13:36} Simon Peter asked Him, "Lord, where are You going?"

   Jesus answered, "Where I go, you aren't able to follow me now, but
you will follow later."

   {13:37} Peter asked Him, "Lord, why can't I follow You right now? I
will lay down my life for You."

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

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

   {14:5} Thomas asked Him, "Lord, we don't know where You are going,
so how can we know the way?"

   {14:6} Jesus told 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 too. From now on you know Him and have
seen Him."

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

   {14:9} Jesus answered, "Have I been with you so long, and yet you
haven't known me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father, so
how can 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 speak to you
aren't my own, but from the Father who lives in me. He does the works.
{14:11} Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father in
me, or else believe me for the sake of the works themselves.

   {14:12} "Most assuredly, I tell you, whoever believes in me will
also do the works that I do, and even greater works than these, because
I am going to my Father. {14:13} I will do whatever you ask in my name,
that the Father may be glorified in the Son. {14:14} If you ask
anything in my name, I will do it. {14:15} If you sincerely love me,
you will keep my commandments. {14:16} I will then ask the Father, and
He will give you another [42>]Counselor,[<42] that He may be with you
forever -- {14:17} the Spirit of truth, whom the world can't receive,
because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. You know Him, though,
because He lives with you and will be in you. {14:18} I won't leave you
orphans. I will come to you. {14:19} After a little while the world
won't see me, but you will see me. Because I live, you will also live.
{14:20} In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in
me, and I in you. {14:21} Whoever has my commandments and keeps them,
sincerely loves me. Whoever sincerely loves me will be sincerely loved
by my Father, and I'll sincerely love them and reveal myself to them."

   {14:22}  Judas (not Iscariot) asked Him, "Lord, how is it that You
will reveal Yourself to us, and not to the world?"

   {14:23}  Jesus answered him, "If anyone sincerely loves me, that
person will keep my words; and my Father will sincerely love that
person, and we will come and make our home with that person. {14:24}
Whoever doesn't sincerely 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've told you these things while living with you, {14:26}
but the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, who the Father will send in my
name, will teach you everything, and bring to your remembrance all that
I told you. {14:27} I leave peace with you. I give you my peace. I
don't give to you as the world gives. Don't let your heart be troubled,
neither let it be afraid. {14:28} You have heard me tell you, 'I am
going away and coming back to you.' If you sincerely loved me, you
would rejoice because I said, 'I am going to the Father,' for my Father
is greater than I. {14:29} Now I have told you before it happens, that
when it does happen, you may believe. {14:30} I won't talk much longer
with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over
me, {14:31} but the world must learn that I sincerely love the Father
and that I do exactly what my Father has commanded me.

   "Come on. Let's go.

   {15:1} "I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. {15:2} He
takes away every branch in me that doesn't bear fruit, and He prunes
every branch that bears fruit, so that it may bear more fruit. {15:3}
You are already pruned clean because of the words which I have spoken
to you. {15:4} Live in me, as I live in you. As the branch can't bear
fruit of itself, unless it lives in the vine, so neither can you,
unless you live in me. {15:5} I am the vine, and you are the branches.
Whoever lives in me, and I in them, bears much fruit; for apart from me
you can do nothing. {15:6} Anyone who doesn't live in me is thrown away
as a branch, and dries up. The dried up branches are gathered up,
thrown into the fire, and burned. {15:7} If you live in me, and my
words live in you, ask whatever you want, and it will be done for you.
{15:8} My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, so you
will prove to be my disciples.

   {15:9} "Just as the Father has sincerely loved me, I have also
sincerely loved you. Continue to live in my sincere love. {15:10} If
you keep my commandments, you will continue to live in my sincere love;
just as I have kept my Father's commandments, and continue to live in
His sincere love. {15:11} I have told you these things, that my joy may
be in you, and that your joy may be made full. {15:12} This is my
commandment, that you sincerely love one another, just as I have
sincerely loved you. {15:13} No one has greater sincere love than this,
than to lay down one's life for one's friends. {15:14} You are my
friends if you do whatever I command you. {15:15} I don't call you
servants any longer, because a servant doesn't know what the master is
doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you
everything that I have heard from my Father. {15:16} You didn't choose
me, but I chose you and appointed you, so that you should go and bear
fruit, and so that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the
Father in my name He may give you. {15:17} I command you this, that you
sincerely love one another.

   {15:18} "If the world hates you, know that it hated me before it
hated you. {15:19} If you belonged to the world, the world would love
its own. Because you aren't the world's, but I chose you out of the
world, therefore the world hates you. {15:20} Remember that I told you,
'A servant isn't greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they
will also persecute you. If they obeyed my teaching, they will also
obey yours. {15:21} The world will do all these things to you, however,
for My name's sake, because they don't know Him who sent me. {15:22} If
I hadn't come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they
have no excuse for their sin. {15:23} Whoever hates me also hates my
Father. {15:24} If I hadn't done the works which no one else did among
them, they would have no sin; but now they have seen and also hated
both me and my Father. {15:25} This was to fulfill the word that is
written in their Law, [43>]'They hated me without a cause.'[<43]
{15:26} When the Counselor comes, who I will send to you from the
Father, the Spirit of Truth who proceeds from the Father, He will
testify of me. {15:27} You will also testify, because you have been
with me from the beginning.

   {16:1} "I have told you these things so that you may be kept from
stumbling. {16:2} They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the
time is coming that whoever kills you will think that they are serving
God. {16:3} They will do these things to you because they haven't known
the Father nor me. {16:4} 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 at the beginning, because I was with you.

   {16:5} "Now I am going to Him who sent me, yet none of you asks me,
'Where are you going?' {16:6} Instead, because I have told you these
things, sorrow has filled your heart. {16:7} Nevertheless, I tell you
the truth: it's to your advantage that I go away; because 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 of sin, and of
righteousness, and of judgment: {16:9} of sin, because they don't
believe in me; {16:10} of righteousness, because I go to my Father and
you see me no more; {16:11} and of judgment, because the ruler of this
world is judged.

   {16:12} "I still have many things to tell you, but you can't bear
them now. {16:13} However, when the Spirit of truth has come, He will
guide you into all truth. He won't speak on His own, but whatever He
hears He will speak. He will announce things to come. {16:14} He will
glorify me, because He will take from what is mine and reveal it to
you. {16:15} Everything that the Father has is mine. That is why I said
that He will take from what is mine and reveal it to you.

   {16:16} "In a little while, you won't see me; and in a little while
longer, you will see me again, because I go to the Father."

   {16:17} Then some of Jesus' disciples said among themselves, "What
does He mean by, 'In a little while, and you won't see me; and in a
little while longer, you will see me, again;' and, 'because I go to the
Father'?" {16:18} They kept asking, "What does He mean by 'a little
while'? We don't understand what He is saying."

   {16:19} Now Jesus knew that they wanted to ask Him, and He said to
them, "Are you asking yourselves about what I said, 'In a little while,
and you won't see me; and in a little while longer, you will see me,
again'? {16:20} Most assuredly, I tell you that you will weep and
mourn, but the world will rejoice. You will be sad, but your sadness
will be turned into joy. {16:21} A woman in labor is in pain because
her time has come; but as soon as she has given birth to the baby, she
forgets the agony, for joy that a child has been born into the world.
{16:22} Therefore you have sorrow now, too, but I will see you again,
and your heart will rejoice, and nobody will take your joy away from
you.

   {16:23} "In that day you will ask me nothing. Most assuredly, I tell
you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you. {16:24}
Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive,
that your joy may be full.

   {16:25} "I've told you these things in figures of speech, but the
time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech,
but I will tell you plainly about the Father. {16:26} In that day you
will ask in my name. I don't tell you that I'll ask the Father for you,
{16:27} because the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved
me, and have believed that I came forth from God. {16:28} I came forth
from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I am leaving the
world and going to the Father."

   {16:29} His disciples said to Him, "See, now You are speaking
plainly, and not in figures of speech! {16:30} Now we are sure that You
know everything, and don't need 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} The time
is coming, and indeed, has now come, that you will be scattered, each
to his own home, and you will leave me all alone. Yet I am not alone,
because the Father is with me. {16:33} I have told you these things so
that you may have peace in me. You will have trouble in the world, but
cheer up! I have overcome the world."

   {17:1} After Jesus said these things, He looked toward Heaven, and
said: "Father, the time has come. Glorify Your Son, so that Your Son
may also glorify You, {17:2} as You have given Him authority over all
flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given
Him. {17:3} This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true
God, and Jesus Christ who You have sent. {17:4} I have glorified You on
the Earth. I have finished the work which You have given me to do.
{17:5} Now, O Father, glorify me together with Yourself, with the glory
which I had with You before the world existed.

   {17:6} "I have revealed Your name to the people You've given me out
of the world. They were Yours. You gave them to me, and they have kept
Your word. {17:7} Now they know that everything You've given me comes
from You, {17:8} for I have spoken to them the words You've given me.
They have received Your words, and have come to know for certain that I
came forth from You. They have believed that You sent me. {17:9} It is
for them I pray. I'm not praying for the world, but for those who
You've given me, because they belong to You. {17:10} All of mine are
Yours, and Yours are mine. I am glorified in them. {17:11} Now I am no
longer in the world, but these are in the world. I am coming to You.
Holy Father, keep through Your name those who You've given me, that
they may be one just as we are one. {17:12}  I kept them in Your name
while I was with them in the world. I have kept the people You gave me;
and none of them is lost except the son of perdition, so that the
[44>]Scripture might be fulfilled.[<44] {17:13} Now I am coming to You,
and I speak these things in the world, so that they may have my joy
fulfilled in themselves. {17:14} I have given them Your word. The world
has hated them because they don't belong to the world, just as I don't
belong to the world. {17:15} I don't pray that You should take them out
of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one. {17:16}
They don't belong to the world, just as I don't belong to the world.
{17:17} Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. {17:18} As You
sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. {17:19} I
sanctify myself for their sakes, so that they may also be sanctified by
the truth.

   {17:20} "I don't pray for these alone, but also for those who will
believe in me through their message, {17:21} that they all may be one,
as You, Father, are in me, and I in You. I pray that they also may be
one in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent me. {17:22} I
have given them the glory which You gave me, that they may be one just
as we are one: {17:23} I in them and You in me. May they be brought to
complete unity to let the world know that You sent me and have
sincerely loved them even as You have sincerely loved me. {17:24}
Father, I desire that those You gave me may also be with me where I am,
that they may see my glory which You've given me; because You sincerely
loved me before the foundation of the world. {17:25} O righteous
Father! The world hasn't known You, but I have always known You, and
these have come to know that You sent me. {17:26} I have declared to
them Your name, and will continue to declare it, so that the sincere
love with which You sincerely loved me may be in them, and I may be in
them."

   {18:1} When Jesus had said these things, He went with His disciples
across the Kidron ravine, where there was a garden, into which He and
His disciples entered. {18:2} Now Judas, who was betraying Him, also
knew the place, because Jesus had often met there with His disciples.
{18:3} Then Judas, leading a [45>]detachment[<45] of soldiers and
officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, came there with
lanterns, torches, and weapons.

   {18:4} Therefore Jesus, knowing everything that would happen to Him,
went forward and asked them, "Who are you looking for?"

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

   Jesus told them, "I AM." Judas, who betrayed Him, also stood with
them. {18:6} Now when He told them, "I AM," they drew back and fell to
the ground. {18:7} Then He asked them again, "Who are you looking for?"

   They said, "Jesus of Nazareth."

   {18:8} Jesus answered, "I told you that I AM. So, if you are looking
for me, let these go their way," {18:9} that the saying might be
fulfilled which He spoke, "I have lost none of those who You gave me."

   {18:10} Then Simon Peter, 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} So Jesus told Peter, "Put your sword into its
sheath! Shouldn't I drink the cup that my Father has given me?"

   {18:12} Then the detachment of soldiers and their commander and the
officers of the Jews arrested Jesus and tied Him up. {18:13} They led
Him away to Annas first, because he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas,
who was high priest that year. {18:14} It was Caiaphas who advised the
Jews that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.

   {18:15} Simon Peter was following Jesus, and so was another
disciple. Since the high priest knew that disciple, he entered with
Jesus into the high priest's court, {18:16} but Peter was standing just
outside the door. So the other disciple, who the high priest knew, went
out and spoke to the woman who guarded the door, and brought Peter in.

   {18:17} Then the maidservant who kept the door asked Peter, "You
aren't one of this man's disciples, too, are you?"

   He said, "I am not."

   {18:18} Because it was cold, the servants and the officers were
standing there warming themselves, having made a charcoal fire. Peter
was also with them, standing and warming himself.

   {18:19} Then the high priest asked Jesus about His disciples and His
doctrine. {18:20} Jesus answered him, "I have spoken openly to the
world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where all the
Jews come together. I said nothing in secret. {18:21} Why do you ask
me? Ask those who have heard me to tell you what I told them. They
certainly know what I said."

   {18:22} When He had said these things, one of the officers who stood
by hit Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, "Is that how you answer
the high priest?"

   {18:23} Jesus answered him, "If I have spoken evil, testify about
the evil, but if I have spoken honestly, why do you hit me?" {18:24}
Then Annas sent Him, still bound, to Caiaphas, the high priest.

   {18:25} Now Simon Peter stood and warmed himself. Therefore they
asked him, "You aren't one of His disciples, too, are you?"

   He denied it, saying, "I am not!"

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

   {18:27} Peter then denied it again, and immediately a rooster crowed.

   {18:28} Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas to the
[46>]Praetorium.[<46] It was early morning. They themselves didn't go
into the Praetorium, so that they wouldn't be defiled, and so that they
might eat the Passover supper. {18:29} So Pilate came out to them and
asked, "What charges do you bring against this man?" {18:30} They
answered, "If this man wasn't a criminal, we wouldn't have handed him
over to you."

   {18:31} Then Pilate told them, "You take Him and judge Him according
to your Law." Therefore the Jews said to him, "It's illegal for us to
put anyone to death." {18:32} This happened so that the words would be
fulfilled which Jesus had spoken indicating the kind of death he was
going to die.

   {18:33} Then Pilate went back into the Praetorium, summoned Jesus,
and asked Him, "Are You the King of the Jews?"

   {18:34} Jesus answered, "Are you speaking for yourself about this,
or did others tell you this about me?"

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

   {18:36} Jesus answered, "My kingdom doesn't belong to this world. If
my kingdom did belong to this world, then my servants would be fighting
to keep me from being delivered up to the Jews; but as it is, my
kingdom isn't from here."

   {18:37} Pilate therefore asked Him, "So You are a king?"

   Jesus answered, "You are right in saying that I am a king. For this
I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, to testify
about the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice."

   {18:38} "What is truth?" Pilate asked. After asking this, he went
out again to the Jews and said, "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 you decide: do you want me to release the
King of the Jews to you?"

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

   {19:1} Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. {19:2} The
soldiers twisted thorns into a crown and put it on His head, and they
put a purple robe on Him. {19:3} They kept coming up to Him, saying,
"Hail, King of the Jews!" and slapping Him on the face.

   {19:4} Pilate then went out again, and told the Jews, "Look, I'm
bringing Him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a
charge against Him." {19:5} Then Jesus came out, wearing the crown of
thorns and the purple robe, and Pilate said to them, "Look! Here is the
man!" {19:6} When the chief priests and officers saw Him, they shouted
"Crucify Him! Crucify Him!" Pilate told them, "You take Him and crucify
Him, because I find no basis for a charge against Him."

   {19:7} The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and according to our
law He ought to die, because He claimed to be God's Son."

   {19:8} When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid, {19:9} and
went back into the Praetorium, and asked Jesus, "Where are You from?"
But Jesus didn't answer him. {19:10} Pilate therefore asked him, "Do
you refuse to speak to me? Don't you know that I have authority to
release you, and authority to crucify you?"

   {19:11} Jesus answered, "You would have no authority at all against
me unless it had been given you from above. Therefore the one who
delivered me to you has the greater sin."

   {19:12} From then on, Pilate tried to release Him, but the Jews
shouted, "If you let this man go, you aren't Caesar's friend. Whoever
makes himself a king speaks against Caesar."

   {19:13} Therefore when Pilate 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 day of
preparation for the Passover. It was about the sixth hour.[47] Pilate
told the Jews, "Look! Here is your King!"

   {19:15} They therefore shouted, "Away with Him! Away with Him!
Crucify Him!"

   Pilate asked them, "Shall I crucify your King?"

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

   {19:16} Then Pilate delivered Jesus to them to be crucified. So they
took Jesus and led Him away. {19:17} And He, bearing His cross, went
out to a place called the Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew,
Golgotha. {19:18} There they crucified Him, and two others with Him,
one on either side, with Jesus in the center. {19:19} Now Pilate wrote
a notice, and put it on the cross. The notice said:



   "JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS."



   {19:20} Then many of the Jews read this notice, because the place
where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in
Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. {19:21} Therefore the chief priests of the
Jews told Pilate, "Don't write, 'The King of the Jews,' but, 'He said,
"I am the King of the Jews."'"

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

   {19:23} When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they split His
garments into four parts, to each soldier a part, including the tunic.
Now the tunic was without seam, woven from the top in one piece.
{19:24} Therefore they said to one another, "Let's not tear it, but
cast lots to see whose it will be," that the Scripture might be
fulfilled which says:

   [48>]"They divided my garments among them,

   And for my clothing they cast lots."[<48]

   So the soldiers did these things.

   {19:25} Now Jesus' mother, His mother's sister, Mary the wife of
Clopas, and Mary Magdalene stood by Jesus' cross. {19:26} Therefore
when Jesus saw His mother, and the disciple who He sincerely loved
standing by, He told His mother, "Woman, here is your son!" {19:27}
Then He told the disciple, "Here is your mother!" From that hour, that
disciple took her into his own home.

   {19:28} After this, Jesus, knowing that everything was now
accomplished, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, "I'm
thirsty!" {19:29} A jar full of [49>]vinegar[<49] was standing there,
so they put a sponge full of the vinegar on a hyssop stalk, and lifted
it up to His mouth. {19:30} When Jesus had received the vinegar, He
said, "It is finished!" Then, He bowed His head, and gave up His spirit.

   {19:31} Because it was the [50>]Preparation Day,[<50] the Jews asked
Pilate for the prisoners' legs to be broken, and that they might be
taken away, so that the bodies wouldn't stay on the cross on the
Sabbath (because that Sabbath was a special one). {19:32} Then the
soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man and of the other man
who was crucified with Jesus, {19:33} but when they came to Jesus and
saw that He was already dead, they didn't break His legs. {19:34}
Instead, one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and
immediately blood and water came out. {19:35} He who saw it has
testified, and his testimony is true; and he knows that he is telling
the truth, so that you may believe. {19:36} These things were done so
that the Scripture should be fulfilled, [51>]"Not one of His bones
shall be broken."[<51] {19:37} Another Scripture says, [52>]"They will
look on Him who they pierced."[<52]

   {19:38} After this, Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus,
but secretly, for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate if he could take the
body of Jesus away; and Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took
the body of Jesus. {19:39} Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by
night, also came, bringing about [53>]a hundred Roman pounds[<53] of a
mixture of [54>]myrrh[<54] and [55>]aloes.[<55] {19:40} So they took
the body of Jesus, and wrapped it in strips of linen with the spices,
as is the burial custom of the Jews. {19:41} In the place where He was
crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which
no one had yet been laid. {19:42} Because of the Jewish Preparation
Day, and because the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.

   {20:1} On the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb
early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken
away from the tomb. {20:2} Then she ran and came to Simon Peter, and to
the other disciple, who Jesus loved, and told them, "They've taken the
Lord away, out of the tomb, and we don't know where they've laid Him!"
{20:3} Then Peter and the other disciple went out, and were going to
the tomb. {20:4} They both ran together, and the other disciple outran
Peter and came to the tomb first. {20:5} Stooping down and looking in,
He saw the strips of linen lying there, but he didn't go in. {20:6}
Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw
the strips of linen lying there, {20:7} and the handkerchief that had
been around His head, not lying with the strips of linen, but folded
together in a place by itself. {20:8} Then the other disciple, who came
to the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed. {20:9} For
they still didn't know the Scripture, that Jesus must rise again from
the dead.

   {20:10} Then the disciples went back to their own homes, {20:11} but
Mary stood outside by the tomb, weeping. As she wept, she stooped down
and looked into the tomb. {20:12} She saw two angels in white sitting
where the body of Jesus had been lying, one at the head and the other
at the feet. {20:13} Then they asked her, "Woman, why are you weeping?"

   She answered them, "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I
don't know where they have laid Him."

   {20:14} Now when she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus
standing there, but she didn't know that it was Jesus.

   {20:15} Jesus asked 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've laid Him, and I will take
Him away."

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

   She turned and said to him, [56>]"Rhabbouni!"[<56] (which means
Teacher).

   {20:17} Jesus said to her, "Don't touch me, because 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, and 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 told her these things.

   {20:19} Then, that same first day of the week, at evening, although
the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled (for fear of
the Jews), Jesus came and stood in their midst. He said to them, "Peace
be with you." {20:20} When He had said this, He showed them His hands
and His side. Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord.

   {20:21} So Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you! As the
Father has sent me, 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 the sins of any, they are forgiven them. If you retain the
sins of any, they are retained."

   {20:24} Now Thomas, called the [57>]Twin,[<57] one of the twelve,
wasn't with them when Jesus came. {20:25} Therefore the other disciples
were telling him, "We have seen the Lord!"

   But he told them, "Unless I see the imprint of the nails in His
hands, put my finger into the nail prints, and put my hand into His
side, I won't believe."

   {20:26} After eight days, His disciples were again inside, and
Thomas with them. Jesus came, the doors having been locked, and stood
in their midst, and said, "Peace be with you." {20:27} Then He told
Thomas, "Put your finger here, and see my hands. Reach your hand here,
and put it into my side. Don't be doubting, but believing."

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

   {20:29} Jesus told him, "Thomas, you have believed because you have
seen me. Blessed are those who haven't seen, and yet have believed."

   {20:30} Truly, Jesus also performed many other signs in the presence
of the disciples, which aren't written in this book, {20:31} but these
have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ,
God's Son; and so that believing you may have life in His name.

   {21:1} After these things, Jesus showed Himself to the disciples
again, at the Sea of Tiberias. He showed Himself in the following way.
{21:2} Simon Peter, Thomas called the [58>]Twin,[<58] Nathanael of Cana
in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two others of His disciples were
together. {21:3} Simon Peter told them, "I'm going fishing." They said
to him, "We'll go with you, too." They went out immediately and got
into the boat, and that night they caught nothing. {21:4} Now when the
morning had come, Jesus stood on the shore, but the disciples didn't
know that it was Jesus. {21:5} Therefore Jesus asked them, "Children,
you don't have any fish, do you?"

   "No," they answered Him.

   {21:6} He told them, "Cast the net on the right-hand side of the
boat, and you'll find some." So, they cast the net, and then they were
unable to haul it in because of the great number of fish. {21:7}
Therefore that disciple who Jesus sincerely loved told Peter, "It's the
Lord!" So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put his outer
garment on (for he had taken it off), and threw himself into the sea.
{21:8} The other disciples came in the little boat, for they weren't
far from land, but about [59>]two hundred cubits[<59] away, dragging
the net full of fish. {21:9} So when they came ashore, they saw a
charcoal fire already burning, with fish and bread placed on it.

   {21:10} Jesus told them, "Bring some of the fish that you just
caught." {21:11} Simon Peter went up and dragged the net to land, full
of one hundred fifty-three large fish. Although there were so many, the
net wasn't torn. {21:12} Jesus said to them, "Come and eat breakfast."
Yet none of the disciples dared ask Him, "Who are You?" They knew that
it was the Lord. {21:13} Jesus then came and took the bread and gave it
to them, and likewise the fish. {21:14} This is now the third time that
Jesus showed Himself to His disciples after He was raised from the dead.

   {21:15} When they had eaten breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter,
"Simon, son of Jonah, do you sincerely love me more than these?"

   He answered, "Yes, Lord. You know that I love You."

   "Feed my lambs," Jesus replied. {21:16} He asked him a second time,
"Simon, son of Jonah, do you sincerely love me?"

   He answered, "Yes, Lord. You know that I love You."

   "Shepherd my sheep," He replied. {21:17} He asked the third time,
"Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?"

   Peter was grieved because He asked him the third time, "Do you love
me?" He answered, "Lord, You know everything. You know that I love You."

   "Feed My sheep," Jesus replied. {21:18} "Most assuredly, I tell you,
when you were younger, 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} He
said this to indicate what kind of death he would glorify God with.
When He had said this, He told Peter, "Follow me!"

   {21:20} Then Peter, turning around, saw a disciple following. This
was the disciple who 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 therefore, seeing him, asked Jesus, "Lord, what
about this man?"

   {21:22} Jesus answered, "If I want him to remain until I come, what
is that to you? You follow me!" {21:23} Because of this answer, the
rumor spread among the brothers that this disciple wouldn't die, but
Jesus didn't tell him that he wouldn't die, but only, "If I want him to
remain until I come, what is that to you?"

   {21:24} This is the disciple who testifies about these things, and
who wrote these things. We know that his testimony is true. {21:25}
There are also many other things that Jesus did, which if they were
written one by one, I suppose that even the world itself couldn't
contain the books that would be written. Amen.





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Footnotes:
[1] {1:1}  The Greek word translated "word" (Logos) means more than
just a collection of a few letters. It means an entire message and the
thought behind it.

[2] {1:5} The Greek word translated "overcome" (katelaben) also means
overcome, comprehend, and overtake (to grasp and defeat an enemy or to
grasp and understand an idea).

[3] {1:19}  Levites are descendants of Levi, who were commissioned to
help the priests in their duties. (Numbers 18:23; Deuteronomy 18:1).

[4] {1:23}  Isaiah 40:3

[5] {1:24}  Pharisees were one of two main religious parties at this
time, the other being the Sadducees. The Pharisees emphasized strict
compliance with the Jewish Law and the traditions of the elders. Acts
23:8.

[6] {1:39}  The tenth hour since sunrise, or about 4:00 p.m.

[7] {1:41} "Messiah" (Hebrew) and "Christ" (Greek) both mean "Anointed
One."

[8] {1:42} "Cephas" (Aramaic) and "Peter" (Greek) both mean "Rock."

[9] {1:49} Rabbi is Hebrew for "teacher."

[10] {2:6} Two to three metretes equals about 20 to 30 U. S. gallons,
16 to 25 imperial gallons, or 75 to 115 liters.

[11] {2:13}  The Passover Feast is also called the Feast of Unleavened
Bread. Exodus 12:1-28; Numbers 9:1-14

[12] {2:17} Psalm 69:9

[13] {3:8} Greek uses the same word for both "wind" and "spirit"
(pneuma).

[14] {3:14}  Numbers 21:4-9

[15] {3:16} The Greek word for the strongest kind of love, agape
(pronounced ah-gah-pay), is translated "sincere love" throughout this
book.

[16] {4:6} The sixth hour from sunrise, or about noon.

[17] {4:52} The seventh hour from sunrise, or about 1:00 p.m .

[18] {5:9}  The Sabbath day is the seventh day of the week, which was
set aside by God for rest. Genesis 2:2-3; Exodus 20:8-11.

[19] {6:7} One denarius was the usual wage for one day of labor.

[20] {6:19} 25 to 30 stadia equals about 3 to 4 miles or about 5 to 6
kilometers.

[21] {6:31} Exodus 16:4; Nehemiah 9:15; Psalm 78:24-25

[22] {6:45} Isaiah 54:13

[23] {6:59} A synagogue is a Jewish congregation. "Synagogue" also
refers to the place where they gather to worship God.

[24] {6:70} Literally, a devil (diabolos) -- one prone to slander, and
accusing falsely.

[25] {7:2} Called Sukkot in Hebrew. Also called the "Feast of Booths"
or the "Feast of Ingathering." Exodus 23:16, 34:22; Leviticus 23:39-43;
Numbers 29:12-38

[26] {8:44} The meaning of the word "Devil" (Greek diabolou) is "one
prone to slander, a false accuser."

[27] {8:58} Exodus 3:14

[28] {10:22} Chanukkah -- celebration of recovery and cleansing of the
Temple by Judas Maccabeaus in 164 BC.

[29] {10:34}  Psalm 82:6

[30] {11:16} Greek: Didymus

[31] {11:18} 15 stadia is about 1.7 miles or about 2.8 kilometers.

[32] {12:3} Nard, also called spikenard, is an East Indian plant with
pleasantly scented roots.

[33] {12:5} 300 denarii was about a year's wages for a laborer.

[34] {12:13} "Hosanna" is derived from a Hebrew word for "Save us" and
is used as an expression of praise. Psalm 118:25-26.

[35] {12:15} Zechariah 9:9

[36] {12:38} Isaiah 53:1

[37] {12:40} Isaiah 6:10

[38] {13:18} Psalm 41:9

[39] {13:19} Exodus 3:14

[40] {13:27} "Satan" means "Adversary" or "Accuser."

[41] {13:33} John 7:34

[42] {14:16} The Greek word for Counselor (Paraklete) also means
Comforter, Helper, Advocate, Intercessor, and Strengthener.

[43] {15:25} Psalms 35:19; Psalms 69:4

[44] {17:12} Psalms 41:9; John 6:70-71

[45] {18:3} The Greek word used here indicates a unit size that
normally consisted of about 600 Roman soldiers.

[46] {18:28} The Praetorium was the Roman Governor's official
residence.

[47] {19:14} The sixth hour since sunrise, about noon.

[48] {19:24} Psalm 22:18

[49] {19:29} A sour wine.

[50] {19:31} The Preparation Day is the day before the Sabbath.
Preparations for meals and activities are made in advance so that no
work has to be done on the Sabbath.

[51] {19:36} Exodus 12:46; Numbers 9:12; Psalm 34:19-20

[52] {19:37} Zechariah 12:10

[53] {19:39} 100 Roman pounds equals about 72 pounds weight or about 33
Kilograms. A Roman pound is 12 ounces.

[54] {19:39} Myrrh is an aromatic resin formed from the gum that drips
from the stems and branches of a low, shrubby tree (Commiphora myrhha
and closely related trees) native to Arabian deserts and parts of
Africa.

[55] {19:39} Aloes probably refers to an aromatic derivative from
eaglewood (Aquilaria agallochum) trees found today in Malaya, East
Bengal, and China.

[56] {20:16} Rhabbouni is a Greek spelling for the Hebrew word which
means "my great one" and "teacher."

[57] {20:24} Greek: Didymus

[58] {21:2} Greek: Didymus

[59] {21:8} 200 cubits equals about 100 yards or about 91 meters

