1:12 But to all who have received him – those who believe in his name ¹  – he has given the right to become God’s children 1:13 – children not born ²  by human parents ³  or by human desire ⁴  or a husband’s ⁵  decision, ⁶  but by God.

1:14 Now ⁷  the Word became flesh ⁸  and took up residence ⁹  among us. We ¹⁰  saw his glory – the glory of the one and only, ¹¹  full of grace and truth, who came from the Father. 1:15 John ¹²  testified ¹³  about him and shouted out, ¹⁴  “This one was the one about whom I said, ‘He who comes after me is greater than I am, ¹⁵  because he existed before me.’” 1:16 For we have all received from his fullness one gracious gift after another. ¹⁶  1:17 For the law was given through Moses, but ¹⁷  grace and truth came about through Jesus Christ. 1:18 No one has ever seen God. The only one, ¹⁸  himself God, who is in closest fellowship with ¹⁹  the Father, has made God ²⁰  known. ²¹ 

1:19 Now ²²  this was ²³  John’s ²⁴  testimony ²⁵  when the Jewish leaders ²⁶  sent ²⁷  priests and Levites from Jerusalem ²⁸  to ask him, “Who are you?” ²⁹  1:20 He confessed – he did not deny but confessed – “I am not the Christ!” ³⁰  1:21 So they asked him, “Then who are you? ³¹  Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not!” ³²  “Are you the Prophet?” ³³  He answered, “No!” 1:22 Then they said to him, “Who are you? Tell us ³⁴  so that we can give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”

1:23 John ³⁵  said, “I am the voice of one shouting in the wilderness, ‘Make straight ³⁶  the way for the Lord,’ ³⁷  as Isaiah the prophet said.” 1:24 (Now they had been sent from the Pharisees. ³⁸ ) ³⁹  1:25 So they asked John, ⁴⁰  “Why then are you baptizing if you are not the Christ, ⁴¹  nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”

1:26 John answered them, ⁴²  “I baptize with water. Among you stands one whom you do not recognize, ⁴³  1:27 who is coming after me. I am not worthy ⁴⁴  to untie the strap ⁴⁵  of his sandal!” 1:28 These things happened in Bethany ⁴⁶  across the Jordan River ⁴⁷  where John was baptizing.

1:29 On the next day John ⁴⁸  saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God ⁴⁹  who takes away the sin of the world! 1:30 This is the one about whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who is greater than I am, ⁵⁰  because he existed before me.’ 1:31 I did not recognize ⁵¹  him, but I came baptizing with water so that he could be revealed to Israel.” ⁵² 

1:32 Then ⁵³  John testified, ⁵⁴  “I saw the Spirit descending like a dove ⁵⁵  from heaven, ⁵⁶  and it remained on him. ⁵⁷  1:33 And I did not recognize him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘The one on whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining – this is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’ 1:34 I have both seen and testified that this man is the Chosen One of God.” ⁵⁸ 

1:35 Again the next day John ⁵⁹  was standing there ⁶⁰  with two of his disciples. 1:36 Gazing at Jesus as he walked by, he said, “Look, the Lamb of God!” ⁶¹  1:37 When John’s ⁶²  two disciples heard him say this, ⁶³  they followed Jesus. ⁶⁴  1:38 Jesus turned around and saw them following and said to them, “What do you want?” ⁶⁵  So they said to him, “Rabbi” (which is translated Teacher), ⁶⁶  “where are you staying?” 1:39 Jesus ⁶⁷  answered, ⁶⁸  “Come and you will see.” So they came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. Now it was about four o’clock in the afternoon. ⁶⁹ 

1:40 Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two disciples who heard what John said ⁷⁰  and followed Jesus. ⁷¹  1:41 He first ⁷²  found his own brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah!” ⁷³  (which is translated Christ). ⁷⁴  1:42 Andrew brought Simon ⁷⁵  to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon, the son of John. ⁷⁶  You will be called Cephas” (which is translated Peter). ⁷⁷ 

1:43 On the next day Jesus ⁷⁸  wanted to set out for Galilee. ⁷⁹  He ⁸⁰  found Philip and said ⁸¹  to him, “Follow me.” 1:44 (Now Philip was from Bethsaida, ⁸²  the town of ⁸³  Andrew and Peter.) 1:45 Philip found Nathanael ⁸⁴  and told him, “We have found the one Moses wrote about in the law, and the prophets also ⁸⁵  wrote about – Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.” 1:46 Nathanael ⁸⁶  replied, ⁸⁷  “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” ⁸⁸  Philip replied, ⁸⁹  “Come and see.”

1:47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and exclaimed, ⁹⁰  “Look, a true Israelite in whom there is no deceit!” ⁹¹  1:48 Nathanael asked him, “How do you know me?” Jesus replied, ⁹²  “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, ⁹³  I saw you.” 1:49 Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the king ⁹⁴  of Israel!” ⁹⁵  1:50 Jesus said to him, ⁹⁶  “Because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You will see greater things than these.” ⁹⁷  1:51 He continued, ⁹⁸  “I tell all of you the solemn truth ⁹⁹  – you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.” ¹⁰⁰ 

2:1 Now on the third day there was a wedding at Cana ¹⁰¹  in Galilee. ¹⁰²  Jesus’ mother ¹⁰³  was there, 2:2 and Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding. ¹⁰⁴  2:3 When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no wine left.” ¹⁰⁵  2:4 Jesus replied, ¹⁰⁶  “Woman, ¹⁰⁷  why are you saying this to me? ¹⁰⁸  My time ¹⁰⁹  has not yet come.” 2:5 His mother told the servants, “Whatever he tells you, do it.” ¹¹⁰ 

2:6 Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washing, ¹¹¹  each holding twenty or thirty gallons. ¹¹²  2:7 Jesus told the servants, ¹¹³  “Fill the water jars with water.” So they filled them up to the very top. 2:8 Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the head steward,” ¹¹⁴  and they did. 2:9 When ¹¹⁵  the head steward tasted the water that had been turned to wine, not knowing where it came from ¹¹⁶  (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), he ¹¹⁷  called the bridegroom 2:10 and said to him, “Everyone ¹¹⁸  serves the good wine first, and then the cheaper ¹¹⁹  wine when the guests ¹²⁰  are drunk. You have kept the good wine until now!” 2:11 Jesus did this as the first of his miraculous signs, ¹²¹  in Cana ¹²²  of Galilee. In this way he revealed ¹²³  his glory, and his disciples believed in him. ¹²⁴ 

2:12 After this he went down to Capernaum ¹²⁵  with his mother and brothers ¹²⁶  and his disciples, and they stayed there a few days. 2:13 Now the Jewish feast of Passover ¹²⁷  was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ¹²⁸ 

2:14 ¹²⁹ 

He found in the temple courts ¹³⁰  those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers sitting at tables. ¹³¹  2:15 So he made a whip of cords ¹³²  and drove them all out of the temple courts, ¹³³  with the sheep and the oxen. He scattered the coins of the money changers ¹³⁴  and overturned their tables. 2:16 To those who sold the doves he said, “Take these things away from here! Do not make ¹³⁵  my Father’s house a marketplace!” ¹³⁶  2:17 His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal ¹³⁷  for your house will devour me.” ¹³⁸ 

2:18 So then the Jewish leaders ¹³⁹  responded, ¹⁴⁰  “What sign can you show us, since you are doing these things?” ¹⁴¹  2:19 Jesus replied, ¹⁴²  “Destroy ¹⁴³  this temple and in three days I will raise it up again.” 2:20 Then the Jewish leaders ¹⁴⁴  said to him, “This temple has been under construction ¹⁴⁵  for forty-six years, ¹⁴⁶  and are you going to raise it up in three days?” 2:21 But Jesus ¹⁴⁷  was speaking about the temple of his body. ¹⁴⁸  2:22 So after he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture ¹⁴⁹  and the saying ¹⁵⁰  that Jesus had spoken.

2:23 Now while Jesus ¹⁵¹  was in Jerusalem ¹⁵²  at the feast of the Passover, many people believed in his name because they saw the miraculous signs he was doing. ¹⁵³  2:24 But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people. ¹⁵⁴  2:25 He did not need anyone to testify about man, ¹⁵⁵  for he knew what was in man. ¹⁵⁶ 

3:1 Now a certain man, a Pharisee ¹⁵⁷  named Nicodemus, who was a member of the Jewish ruling council, ¹⁵⁸  3:2 came to Jesus ¹⁵⁹  at night ¹⁶⁰  and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs ¹⁶¹  that you do unless God is with him.” 3:3 Jesus replied, ¹⁶²  “I tell you the solemn truth, ¹⁶³  unless a person is born from above, ¹⁶⁴  he cannot see the kingdom of God.” ¹⁶⁵  3:4 Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter his mother’s womb and be born a second time, can he?” ¹⁶⁶ 

3:5 Jesus answered, “I tell you the solemn truth, ¹⁶⁷  unless a person is born of water and spirit, ¹⁶⁸  he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 3:6 What is born of the flesh is flesh, ¹⁶⁹  and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. 3:7 Do not be amazed that I said to you, ‘You must all ¹⁷⁰  be born from above.’ ¹⁷¹  3:8 The wind ¹⁷²  blows wherever it will, and you hear the sound it makes, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.” ¹⁷³ 

3:9 Nicodemus replied, ¹⁷⁴  “How can these things be?” ¹⁷⁵  3:10 Jesus answered, ¹⁷⁶  “Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you don’t understand these things? ¹⁷⁷  3:11 I tell you the solemn truth, ¹⁷⁸  we speak about what we know and testify about what we have seen, but ¹⁷⁹  you people ¹⁸⁰  do not accept our testimony. ¹⁸¹  3:12 If I have told you people ¹⁸²  about earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things? ¹⁸³  3:13 No one ¹⁸⁴  has ascended ¹⁸⁵  into heaven except the one who descended from heaven – the Son of Man. ¹⁸⁶  3:14 Just as ¹⁸⁷  Moses lifted up the serpent ¹⁸⁸  in the wilderness, ¹⁸⁹  so must the Son of Man be lifted up, ¹⁹⁰  3:15 so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.” ¹⁹¹ 

3:16 For this is the way ¹⁹²  God loved the world: He gave his one and only ¹⁹³  Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish ¹⁹⁴  but have eternal life. ¹⁹⁵  3:17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, ¹⁹⁶  but that the world should be saved through him. 3:18 The one who believes in him is not condemned. ¹⁹⁷  The one who does not believe has been condemned ¹⁹⁸  already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only ¹⁹⁹  Son of God. 3:19 Now this is the basis for judging: ²⁰⁰  that the light has come into the world and people ²⁰¹  loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil. 3:20 For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed. 3:21 But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, so that it may be plainly evident that his deeds have been done in God. ²⁰² 

3:22 After this, ²⁰³  Jesus and his disciples came into Judean territory, and there he spent time with them and was baptizing. 3:23 John ²⁰⁴  was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, ²⁰⁵  because water was plentiful there, and people were coming ²⁰⁶  to him ²⁰⁷  and being baptized. 3:24 (For John had not yet been thrown into prison.) ²⁰⁸ 

3:25 Now a dispute came about between some of John’s disciples and a certain Jew ²⁰⁹  concerning ceremonial washing. ²¹⁰  3:26 So they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, the one who was with you on the other side of the Jordan River, ²¹¹  about whom you testified – see, he is baptizing, and everyone is flocking to him!”

3:27 John replied, ²¹²  “No one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven. 3:28 You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ ²¹³  but rather, ‘I have been sent before him.’ 3:29 The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands by and listens for him, rejoices greatly ²¹⁴  when he hears the bridegroom’s voice. This then is my joy, and it is complete. ²¹⁵  3:30 He must become more important while I become less important.” ²¹⁶ 

3:31 The one who comes from above is superior to all. ²¹⁷  The one who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks about earthly things. ²¹⁸  The one who comes from heaven ²¹⁹  is superior to all. ²²⁰  3:32 He testifies about what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony. 3:33 The one who has accepted his testimony has confirmed clearly that God is truthful. ²²¹  3:34 For the one whom God has sent ²²²  speaks the words of God, for he does not give the Spirit sparingly. ²²³  3:35 The Father loves the Son and has placed all things under his authority. ²²⁴  3:36 The one who believes in the Son has eternal life. The one who rejects ²²⁵  the Son will not see life, but God’s wrath ²²⁶  remains ²²⁷  on him.

4:1 Now when Jesus ²²⁸  knew that the Pharisees ²²⁹  had heard that he ²³⁰  was winning ²³¹  and baptizing more disciples than John 4:2 (although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples were), ²³²  4:3 he left Judea and set out once more for Galilee. ²³³ 

4:4 But he had ²³⁴  to pass through Samaria. ²³⁵  4:5 Now he came to a Samaritan town ²³⁶  called Sychar, ²³⁷  near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. ²³⁸  4:6 Jacob’s well was there, so Jesus, since he was tired from the journey, sat right down beside ²³⁹  the well. It was about noon. ²⁴⁰ 

4:7 A Samaritan woman ²⁴¹  came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me some water ²⁴²  to drink.” 4:8 (For his disciples had gone off into the town to buy supplies. ²⁴³ ) ²⁴⁴  4:9 So the Samaritan woman said to him, “How can you – a Jew ²⁴⁵  – ask me, a Samaritan woman, for water ²⁴⁶  to drink?” (For Jews use nothing in common ²⁴⁷  with Samaritans.) ²⁴⁸ 

4:10 Jesus answered ²⁴⁹  her, “If you had known ²⁵⁰  the gift of God and who it is who said to you, ‘Give me some water ²⁵¹  to drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” ²⁵²  4:11 “Sir,” ²⁵³  the woman ²⁵⁴  said to him, “you have no bucket and the well ²⁵⁵  is deep; where then do you get this ²⁵⁶  living water? ²⁵⁷  4:12 Surely you’re not greater than our ancestor ²⁵⁸  Jacob, are you? For he gave us this well and drank from it himself, along with his sons and his livestock.” ²⁵⁹ 

4:13 Jesus replied, ²⁶⁰  “Everyone who drinks some of this water will be thirsty ²⁶¹  again. 4:14 But whoever drinks some of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again, ²⁶²  but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain ²⁶³  of water springing up ²⁶⁴  to eternal life.” 4:15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw ²⁶⁵  water.” ²⁶⁶  4:16 He ²⁶⁷  said to her, “Go call your husband and come back here.” ²⁶⁸  4:17 The woman replied, ²⁶⁹  “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “Right you are when you said, ²⁷⁰  ‘I have no husband,’ ²⁷¹  4:18 for you have had five husbands, and the man you are living with ²⁷²  now is not your husband. This you said truthfully!”

4:19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I see ²⁷³  that you are a prophet. 4:20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, ²⁷⁴  and you people ²⁷⁵  say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.” ²⁷⁶  4:21 Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, ²⁷⁷  a time ²⁷⁸  is coming when you will worship ²⁷⁹  the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 4:22 You people ²⁸⁰  worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews. ²⁸¹  4:23 But a time ²⁸²  is coming – and now is here ²⁸³  – when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks ²⁸⁴  such people to be ²⁸⁵  his worshipers. ²⁸⁶  4:24 God is spirit, ²⁸⁷  and the people who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” 4:25 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (the one called Christ); ²⁸⁸  “whenever he ²⁸⁹  comes, he will tell ²⁹⁰  us everything.” ²⁹¹  4:26 Jesus said to her, “I, the one speaking to you, am he.”

4:27 Now at that very moment his disciples came back. ²⁹²  They were shocked ²⁹³  because he was speaking ²⁹⁴  with a woman. However, no one said, “What do you want?” ²⁹⁵  or “Why are you speaking with her?” 4:28 Then the woman left her water jar, went off into the town and said to the people, ²⁹⁶  4:29 “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Surely he can’t be the Messiah, ²⁹⁷  can he?” ²⁹⁸  4:30 So ²⁹⁹  they left the town and began coming ³⁰⁰  to him.

4:31 Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, ³⁰¹  “Rabbi, eat something.” ³⁰²  4:32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.” 4:33 So the disciples began to say ³⁰³  to one another, “No one brought him anything ³⁰⁴  to eat, did they?” ³⁰⁵  4:34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me ³⁰⁶  and to complete ³⁰⁷  his work. ³⁰⁸  4:35 Don’t you say, ³⁰⁹  ‘There are four more months and then comes the harvest?’ I tell you, look up ³¹⁰  and see that the fields are already white ³¹¹  for harvest! 4:36 The one who reaps receives pay ³¹²  and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together. 4:37 For in this instance the saying is true, ³¹³  ‘One sows and another reaps.’ 4:38 I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have labored and you have entered into their labor.”

4:39 Now many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the report of the woman who testified, ³¹⁴  “He told me everything I ever did.” 4:40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they began asking ³¹⁵  him to stay with them. ³¹⁶  He stayed there two days, 4:41 and because of his word many more ³¹⁷  believed. 4:42 They said to the woman, “No longer do we believe because of your words, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this one ³¹⁸  really is the Savior of the world.” ³¹⁹ 

4:43 After the two days he departed from there to Galilee. 4:44 (For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.) ³²⁰  4:45 So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen all the things he had done in Jerusalem ³²¹  at the feast ³²²  (for they themselves had gone to the feast). ³²³ 

4:46 Now he came again to Cana ³²⁴  in Galilee where he had made the water wine. ³²⁵  In ³²⁶  Capernaum ³²⁷  there was a certain royal official ³²⁸  whose son was sick. 4:47 When he heard that Jesus had come back from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and begged him ³²⁹  to come down and heal his son, who was about to die. 4:48 So Jesus said to him, “Unless you people ³³⁰  see signs and wonders you will never believe!” ³³¹  4:49 “Sir,” the official said to him, “come down before my child dies.” 4:50 Jesus told him, “Go home; ³³²  your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and set off for home. ³³³ 

4:51 While he was on his way down, ³³⁴  his slaves ³³⁵  met him and told him that his son was going to live. 4:52 So he asked them the time ³³⁶  when his condition began to improve, ³³⁷  and ³³⁸  they told him, “Yesterday at one o’clock in the afternoon ³³⁹  the fever left him.” 4:53 Then the father realized that it was the very time ³⁴⁰  Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live,” and he himself believed along with his entire household. 4:54 Jesus did this as his second miraculous sign ³⁴¹  when he returned from Judea to Galilee.

5:1 After this ³⁴²  there was a Jewish feast, ³⁴³  and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ³⁴⁴  5:2 Now there is ³⁴⁵  in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate ³⁴⁶  a pool called Bethzatha ³⁴⁷  in Aramaic, ³⁴⁸  which has five covered walkways. ³⁴⁹  5:3 A great number of sick, blind, lame, and paralyzed people were lying in these walkways. 5:4 [[EMPTY]] ³⁵⁰  5:5 Now a man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years. ³⁵¹  5:6 When Jesus saw him lying there and when he realized ³⁵²  that the man ³⁵³  had been disabled a long time already, he said to him, “Do you want to become well?” 5:7 The sick man answered him, “Sir, ³⁵⁴  I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I am trying to get into the water, ³⁵⁵  someone else ³⁵⁶  goes down there ³⁵⁷  before me.” 5:8 Jesus said to him, “Stand up! Pick up your mat ³⁵⁸  and walk.” 5:9 Immediately the man was healed, ³⁵⁹  and he picked up his mat ³⁶⁰  and started walking. (Now that day was a Sabbath.) ³⁶¹ 

5:10 So the Jewish leaders ³⁶²  said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and you are not permitted to carry your mat.” ³⁶³  5:11 But he answered them, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat ³⁶⁴  and walk.’” 5:12 They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your mat ³⁶⁵  and walk’?” ³⁶⁶  5:13 But the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped out, since there was a crowd in that place.

5:14 After this Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “Look, you have become well. Don’t sin any more, ³⁶⁷  lest anything worse happen to you.” 5:15 The man went away and informed the Jewish leaders ³⁶⁸  that Jesus was the one who had made him well.

5:16 Now because Jesus was doing these things ³⁶⁹  on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders ³⁷⁰  began persecuting ³⁷¹  him. 5:17 So he ³⁷²  told ³⁷³  them, “My Father is working until now, and I too am working.” ³⁷⁴  5:18 For this reason the Jewish leaders ³⁷⁵  were trying even harder to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was also calling God his own Father, thus making himself equal with God.

5:19 So Jesus answered them, ³⁷⁶  “I tell you the solemn truth, ³⁷⁷  the Son can do nothing on his own initiative, ³⁷⁸  but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father ³⁷⁹  does, the Son does likewise. ³⁸⁰  5:20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he does, and will show him greater deeds than these, so that you will be amazed. 5:21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, ³⁸¹  so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes. ³⁸²  5:22 Furthermore, the Father does not judge ³⁸³  anyone, but has assigned ³⁸⁴  all judgment to the Son, 5:23 so that all people ³⁸⁵  will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

5:24 “I tell you the solemn truth, ³⁸⁶  the one who hears ³⁸⁷  my message ³⁸⁸  and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, ³⁸⁹  but has crossed over from death to life. 5:25 I tell you the solemn truth, ³⁹⁰  a time ³⁹¹  is coming – and is now here – when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. 5:26 For just as the Father has life in himself, thus he has granted the Son to have life in himself, 5:27 and he has granted the Son ³⁹²  authority to execute judgment, ³⁹³  because he is the Son of Man.

5:28 “Do not be amazed at this, because a time ³⁹⁴  is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice 5:29 and will come out – the ones who have done what is good to the resurrection resulting in life, and the ones who have done what is evil to the resurrection resulting in condemnation. ³⁹⁵  5:30 I can do nothing on my own initiative. ³⁹⁶  Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, ³⁹⁷  because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me. ³⁹⁸ 

5:31 “If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true. 5:32 There is another ³⁹⁹  who testifies about me, and I know the testimony he testifies about me is true. 5:33 You have sent to John, ⁴⁰⁰  and he has testified to the truth. 5:34 (I do not accept ⁴⁰¹  human testimony, but I say this so that you may be saved.) 5:35 He was a lamp that was burning and shining, ⁴⁰²  and you wanted to rejoice greatly for a short time ⁴⁰³  in his light.

5:36 “But I have a testimony greater than that from John. For the deeds ⁴⁰⁴  that the Father has assigned me to complete – the deeds ⁴⁰⁵  I am now doing – testify about me that the Father has sent me. 5:37 And the Father who sent me has himself testified about me. You people ⁴⁰⁶  have never heard his voice nor seen his form at any time, ⁴⁰⁷  5:38 nor do you have his word residing in you, because you do not believe the one whom he sent. 5:39 You study the scriptures thoroughly ⁴⁰⁸  because you think in them you possess eternal life, ⁴⁰⁹  and it is these same scriptures ⁴¹⁰  that testify about me, 5:40 but you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life.

5:41 “I do not accept ⁴¹¹  praise ⁴¹²  from people, ⁴¹³  5:42 but I know you, that you do not have the love of God ⁴¹⁴  within you. 5:43 I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept ⁴¹⁵  me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept ⁴¹⁶  him. 5:44 How can you believe, if you accept praise ⁴¹⁷  from one another and don’t seek the praise ⁴¹⁸  that comes from the only God? ⁴¹⁹ 

5:45 “Do not suppose that I will accuse you before the Father. The one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope. ⁴²⁰  5:46 If ⁴²¹  you believed Moses, you would believe me, because he wrote about me. 5:47 But if you do not believe what Moses ⁴²²  wrote, how will you believe my words?”

6:1 After this ⁴²³  Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (also called the Sea of Tiberias). ⁴²⁴  6:2 A large crowd was following him because they were observing the miraculous signs he was performing on the sick. 6:3 So Jesus went on up the mountainside ⁴²⁵  and sat down there with his disciples. 6:4 (Now the Jewish feast of the Passover ⁴²⁶  was near.) ⁴²⁷  6:5 Then Jesus, when he looked up ⁴²⁸  and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, said to Philip, “Where can we buy bread so that these people may eat?” 6:6 (Now Jesus ⁴²⁹  said this to test him, for he knew what he was going to do.) ⁴³⁰  6:7 Philip replied, ⁴³¹  “Two hundred silver coins worth ⁴³²  of bread would not be enough for them, for each one to get a little.” 6:8 One of Jesus’ disciples, ⁴³³  Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him, 6:9 “Here is a boy who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what good ⁴³⁴  are these for so many people?”

6:10 Jesus said, “Have ⁴³⁵  the people sit down.” (Now there was a lot of grass in that place.) ⁴³⁶  So the men ⁴³⁷  sat down, about five thousand in number. 6:11 Then Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed the bread to those who were seated. He then did the same with the fish, ⁴³⁸  as much as they wanted. 6:12 When they were all satisfied, Jesus ⁴³⁹  said to his disciples, “Gather up the broken pieces that are left over, so that nothing is wasted.” 6:13 So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves ⁴⁴⁰  left over by the people who had eaten.

6:14 Now when the people saw the miraculous sign that Jesus ⁴⁴¹  performed, they began to say to one another, “This is certainly the Prophet ⁴⁴²  who is to come into the world.” ⁴⁴³  6:15 Then Jesus, because he knew they were going to come and seize him by force to make him king, withdrew again up the mountainside alone. ⁴⁴⁴ 

6:16 Now when evening came, his disciples went down to the lake, ⁴⁴⁵  6:17 got into a boat, and started to cross the lake ⁴⁴⁶  to Capernaum. ⁴⁴⁷  (It had already become dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.) ⁴⁴⁸  6:18 By now a strong wind was blowing and the sea was getting rough. 6:19 Then, when they had rowed about three or four miles, ⁴⁴⁹  they caught sight of Jesus walking on the lake, ⁴⁵⁰  approaching the boat, and they were frightened. 6:20 But he said to them, “It is I. Do not be afraid.” 6:21 Then they wanted to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat came to the land where they had been heading.

6:22 The next day the crowd that remained on the other side of the lake ⁴⁵¹  realized that only one small boat ⁴⁵²  had been there, and that Jesus had not boarded ⁴⁵³  it with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone. 6:23 But some boats from Tiberias ⁴⁵⁴  came to shore ⁴⁵⁵  near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks. ⁴⁵⁶  6:24 So when the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats ⁴⁵⁷  and came to Capernaum ⁴⁵⁸  looking for Jesus.

6:25 When they found him on the other side of the lake, ⁴⁵⁹  they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?” ⁴⁶⁰  6:26 Jesus replied, ⁴⁶¹  “I tell you the solemn truth, ⁴⁶²  you are looking for me not because you saw miraculous signs, but because you ate all the loaves of bread you wanted. ⁴⁶³  6:27 Do not work for the food that disappears, ⁴⁶⁴  but for the food that remains to eternal life – the food ⁴⁶⁵  which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has put his seal of approval on him.” ⁴⁶⁶ 

6:28 So then they said to him, “What must we do to accomplish the deeds ⁴⁶⁷  God requires?” ⁴⁶⁸  6:29 Jesus replied, ⁴⁶⁹  “This is the deed ⁴⁷⁰  God requires ⁴⁷¹  – to believe in the one whom he ⁴⁷²  sent.” 6:30 So they said to him, “Then what miraculous sign will you perform, so that we may see it and believe you? What will you do? 6:31 Our ancestors ⁴⁷³  ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’” ⁴⁷⁴ 

6:32 Then Jesus told them, “I tell you the solemn truth, ⁴⁷⁵  it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but my Father is giving you the true bread from heaven. 6:33 For the bread of God is the one who ⁴⁷⁶  comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” 6:34 So they said to him, “Sir, ⁴⁷⁷  give us this bread all the time!”

6:35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. The one who comes to me will never go hungry, and the one who believes in me will never be thirsty. ⁴⁷⁸  6:36 But I told you ⁴⁷⁹  that you have seen me ⁴⁸⁰  and still do not believe. 6:37 Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never send away. ⁴⁸¹  6:38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me. 6:39 Now this is the will of the one who sent me – that I should not lose one person of every one he has given me, but raise them all up ⁴⁸²  at the last day. 6:40 For this is the will of my Father – for everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him to have eternal life, and I will raise him up ⁴⁸³  at the last day.” ⁴⁸⁴ 

6:41 Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus ⁴⁸⁵  began complaining about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven,” 6:42 and they said, “Isn’t this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?” 6:43 Jesus replied, ⁴⁸⁶  “Do not complain about me to one another. ⁴⁸⁷  6:44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, ⁴⁸⁸  and I will raise him up at the last day. 6:45 It is written in the prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ ⁴⁸⁹  Everyone who hears and learns from the Father ⁴⁹⁰  comes to me. 6:46 (Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God – he ⁴⁹¹  has seen the Father.) ⁴⁹²  6:47 I tell you the solemn truth, ⁴⁹³  the one who believes ⁴⁹⁴  has eternal life. ⁴⁹⁵  6:48 I am the bread of life. ⁴⁹⁶  6:49 Your ancestors ⁴⁹⁷  ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 6:50 This ⁴⁹⁸  is the bread that has come down from heaven, so that a person ⁴⁹⁹  may eat from it and not die. 6:51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats from this bread he will live forever. The bread ⁵⁰⁰  that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

6:52 Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus ⁵⁰¹  began to argue with one another, ⁵⁰²  “How can this man ⁵⁰³  give us his flesh to eat?” 6:53 Jesus said to them, “I tell you the solemn truth, ⁵⁰⁴  unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, ⁵⁰⁵  you have no life ⁵⁰⁶  in yourselves. 6:54 The one who eats ⁵⁰⁷  my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. ⁵⁰⁸  6:55 For my flesh is true ⁵⁰⁹  food, and my blood is true ⁵¹⁰  drink. 6:56 The one who eats ⁵¹¹  my flesh and drinks my blood resides in me, and I in him. ⁵¹²  6:57 Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so the one who consumes ⁵¹³  me will live because of me. 6:58 This ⁵¹⁴  is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the bread your ancestors ⁵¹⁵  ate, but then later died. ⁵¹⁶  The one who eats ⁵¹⁷  this bread will live forever.”

6:59 Jesus ⁵¹⁸  said these things while he was teaching in the synagogue ⁵¹⁹  in Capernaum. ⁵²⁰  6:60 Then many of his disciples, when they heard these things, ⁵²¹  said, “This is a difficult ⁵²²  saying! ⁵²³  Who can understand it?” ⁵²⁴  6:61 When Jesus was aware ⁵²⁵  that his disciples were complaining ⁵²⁶  about this, he said to them, “Does this cause you to be offended? ⁵²⁷  6:62 Then what if you see the Son of Man ascending where he was before? ⁵²⁸  6:63 The Spirit is the one who gives life; human nature is of no help! ⁵²⁹  The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life. ⁵³⁰  6:64 But there are some of you who do not believe.” (For Jesus had already known from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.) ⁵³¹  6:65 So Jesus added, ⁵³²  “Because of this I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has allowed him to come.” ⁵³³ 

6:66 After this many of his disciples quit following him ⁵³⁴  and did not accompany him ⁵³⁵  any longer. 6:67 So Jesus said to the twelve, “You don’t want to go away too, do you?” ⁵³⁶  6:68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life. 6:69 We ⁵³⁷  have come to believe and to know ⁵³⁸  that you are the Holy One of God!” ⁵³⁹  6:70 Jesus replied, ⁵⁴⁰  “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and yet one of you is the devil?” ⁵⁴¹  6:71 (Now he said this about Judas son of Simon Iscariot, ⁵⁴²  for Judas, ⁵⁴³  one of the twelve, was going to betray him.) ⁵⁴⁴ 

7:1 After this ⁵⁴⁵  Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. ⁵⁴⁶  He ⁵⁴⁷  stayed out of Judea ⁵⁴⁸  because the Jewish leaders ⁵⁴⁹  wanted ⁵⁵⁰  to kill him. 7:2 Now the Jewish feast of Tabernacles ⁵⁵¹  was near. ⁵⁵²  7:3 So Jesus’ brothers ⁵⁵³  advised him, “Leave here and go to Judea so your disciples may see your miracles that you are performing. ⁵⁵⁴  7:4 For no one who seeks to make a reputation for himself ⁵⁵⁵  does anything in secret. ⁵⁵⁶  If you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.” 7:5 (For not even his own brothers believed in him.) ⁵⁵⁷ 

7:6 So Jesus replied, ⁵⁵⁸  “My time ⁵⁵⁹  has not yet arrived, ⁵⁶⁰  but you are ready at any opportunity! ⁵⁶¹  7:7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil. 7:8 You go up ⁵⁶²  to the feast yourselves. I am not going up to this feast ⁵⁶³  because my time ⁵⁶⁴  has not yet fully arrived.” ⁵⁶⁵  7:9 When he had said this, he remained in Galilee.

7:10 But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then Jesus ⁵⁶⁶  himself also went up, not openly but in secret. 7:11 So the Jewish leaders ⁵⁶⁷  were looking for him at the feast, asking, “Where is he?” ⁵⁶⁸  7:12 There was ⁵⁶⁹  a lot of grumbling ⁵⁷⁰  about him among the crowds. ⁵⁷¹  Some were saying, “He is a good man,” but others, “He deceives the common people.” ⁵⁷²  7:13 However, no one spoke openly about him for fear of the Jewish leaders. ⁵⁷³ 

7:14 When the feast was half over, Jesus went up to the temple courts ⁵⁷⁴  and began to teach. ⁵⁷⁵  7:15 Then the Jewish leaders ⁵⁷⁶  were astonished ⁵⁷⁷  and said, “How does this man know so much when he has never had formal instruction?” ⁵⁷⁸  7:16 So Jesus replied, ⁵⁷⁹  “My teaching is not from me, but from the one who sent me. ⁵⁸⁰  7:17 If anyone wants to do God’s will, ⁵⁸¹  he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak from my own authority. ⁵⁸²  7:18 The person who speaks on his own authority ⁵⁸³  desires ⁵⁸⁴  to receive honor ⁵⁸⁵  for himself; the one who desires ⁵⁸⁶  the honor ⁵⁸⁷  of the one who sent him is a man of integrity, ⁵⁸⁸  and there is no unrighteousness in him. 7:19 Hasn’t Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps ⁵⁸⁹  the law! Why do you want ⁵⁹⁰  to kill me?”

7:20 The crowd ⁵⁹¹  answered, “You’re possessed by a demon! ⁵⁹²  Who is trying to kill you?” ⁵⁹³  7:21 Jesus replied, ⁵⁹⁴  “I performed one miracle ⁵⁹⁵  and you are all amazed. ⁵⁹⁶  7:22 However, because Moses gave you the practice of circumcision ⁵⁹⁷  (not that it came from Moses, but from the forefathers), you circumcise a male child ⁵⁹⁸  on the Sabbath. 7:23 But if a male child ⁵⁹⁹  is circumcised ⁶⁰⁰  on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, ⁶⁰¹  why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well ⁶⁰²  on the Sabbath? 7:24 Do not judge according to external appearance, ⁶⁰³  but judge with proper ⁶⁰⁴  judgment.”

7:25 Then some of the residents of Jerusalem ⁶⁰⁵  began to say, “Isn’t this the man ⁶⁰⁶  they are trying ⁶⁰⁷  to kill? 7:26 Yet here he is, speaking publicly, ⁶⁰⁸  and they are saying nothing to him. ⁶⁰⁹  Do the rulers really know that this man ⁶¹⁰  is the Christ? ⁶¹¹  7:27 But we know where this man ⁶¹²  comes from. ⁶¹³  Whenever the Christ ⁶¹⁴  comes, no one will know where he comes from.” ⁶¹⁵ 

7:28 Then Jesus, while teaching in the temple courts, ⁶¹⁶  cried out, ⁶¹⁷  “You both know me and know where I come from! ⁶¹⁸  And I have not come on my own initiative, ⁶¹⁹  but the one who sent me ⁶²⁰  is true. You do not know him, ⁶²¹  7:29 but ⁶²²  I know him, because I have come from him ⁶²³  and he ⁶²⁴  sent me.”

7:30 So then they tried to seize Jesus, ⁶²⁵  but no one laid a hand on him, because his time ⁶²⁶  had not yet come. 7:31 Yet many of the crowd ⁶²⁷  believed in him and said, “Whenever the Christ ⁶²⁸  comes, he won’t perform more miraculous signs than this man did, will he?” ⁶²⁹ 

7:32 The Pharisees ⁶³⁰  heard the crowd ⁶³¹  murmuring these things about Jesus, ⁶³²  so the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers ⁶³³  to arrest him. ⁶³⁴  7:33 Then Jesus said, “I will be with you for only a little while longer, ⁶³⁵  and then ⁶³⁶  I am going to the one who sent me. 7:34 You will look for me ⁶³⁷  but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come.”

7:35 Then the Jewish leaders ⁶³⁸  said to one another, “Where is he ⁶³⁹  going to go that we cannot find him? ⁶⁴⁰  He is not going to go to the Jewish people dispersed ⁶⁴¹  among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he? ⁶⁴²  7:36 What did he mean by saying, ⁶⁴³  ‘You will look for me ⁶⁴⁴  but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come’?”

7:37 On the last day of the feast, the greatest day, ⁶⁴⁵  Jesus stood up and shouted out, ⁶⁴⁶  “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and 7:38 let the one who believes in me drink. ⁶⁴⁷  Just as the scripture says, ‘From within him ⁶⁴⁸  will flow rivers of living water.’” ⁶⁴⁹  7:39 (Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were going to receive, for the Spirit had not yet been given, ⁶⁵⁰  because Jesus was not yet glorified.) ⁶⁵¹ 

7:40 When they heard these words, some of the crowd ⁶⁵²  began to say, “This really ⁶⁵³  is the Prophet!” ⁶⁵⁴  7:41 Others said, “This is the Christ!” ⁶⁵⁵  But still others said, “No, ⁶⁵⁶  for the Christ doesn’t come from Galilee, does he? ⁶⁵⁷  7:42 Don’t the scriptures say that the Christ is a descendant ⁶⁵⁸  of David ⁶⁵⁹  and comes from Bethlehem, ⁶⁶⁰  the village where David lived?” ⁶⁶¹  7:43 So there was a division in the crowd ⁶⁶²  because of Jesus. ⁶⁶³  7:44 Some of them were wanting to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him. ⁶⁶⁴ 

7:45 Then the officers ⁶⁶⁵  returned ⁶⁶⁶  to the chief priests and Pharisees, ⁶⁶⁷  who said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him back with you?” ⁶⁶⁸  7:46 The officers replied, “No one ever spoke like this man!” 7:47 Then the Pharisees answered, ⁶⁶⁹  “You haven’t been deceived too, have you? ⁶⁷⁰  7:48 None of the rulers ⁶⁷¹  or the Pharisees have believed in him, have they? ⁶⁷²  7:49 But this rabble ⁶⁷³  who do not know the law are accursed!”

7:50 Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus ⁶⁷⁴  before and who was one of the rulers, ⁶⁷⁵  said, ⁶⁷⁶  7:51 “Our law doesn’t condemn ⁶⁷⁷  a man unless it first hears from him and learns ⁶⁷⁸  what he is doing, does it?” ⁶⁷⁹  7:52 They replied, ⁶⁸⁰  “You aren’t from Galilee too, are you? ⁶⁸¹  Investigate carefully and you will see that no prophet ⁶⁸²  comes from Galilee!”

7:53 ⁶⁸³ 

[[And each one departed to his own house. 8:1 But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. ⁶⁸⁴  8:2 Early in the morning he came to the temple courts again. All the people came to him, and he sat down and began to teach ⁶⁸⁵  them. 8:3 The experts in the law ⁶⁸⁶  and the Pharisees ⁶⁸⁷  brought a woman who had been caught committing adultery. They made her stand in front of them 8:4 and said to Jesus, ⁶⁸⁸  “Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of adultery. 8:5 In the law Moses commanded us to stone to death ⁶⁸⁹  such women. ⁶⁹⁰  What then do you say?” 8:6 (Now they were asking this in an attempt to trap him, so that they could bring charges against ⁶⁹¹  him.) ⁶⁹²  Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger. ⁶⁹³  8:7 When they persisted in asking him, he stood up straight ⁶⁹⁴  and replied, ⁶⁹⁵  “Whoever among you is guiltless ⁶⁹⁶  may be the first to throw a stone at her.” 8:8 Then ⁶⁹⁷  he bent over again and wrote on the ground.

8:9 Now when they heard this, they began to drift away one at a time, starting with the older ones, ⁶⁹⁸  until Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. 8:10 Jesus stood up straight ⁶⁹⁹  and said to her, “Woman, ⁷⁰⁰  where are they? Did no one condemn you?” 8:11 She replied, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “I do not condemn you either. Go, and from now on do not sin any more.”]] ⁷⁰¹ 

8:12 Then Jesus spoke out again, ⁷⁰²  “I am the light of the world. ⁷⁰³  The one who follows me will never ⁷⁰⁴  walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” 8:13 So the Pharisees ⁷⁰⁵  objected, ⁷⁰⁶  “You testify about yourself; your testimony is not true!” ⁷⁰⁷  8:14 Jesus answered, ⁷⁰⁸  “Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you people ⁷⁰⁹  do not know where I came from or where I am going. ⁷¹⁰  8:15 You people ⁷¹¹  judge by outward appearances; ⁷¹²  I do not judge anyone. ⁷¹³  8:16 But if I judge, my evaluation is accurate, ⁷¹⁴  because I am not alone when I judge, ⁷¹⁵  but I and the Father who sent me do so together. ⁷¹⁶  8:17 It is written in your law that the testimony of two men is true. ⁷¹⁷  8:18 I testify about myself ⁷¹⁸  and the Father who sent me testifies about me.”

8:19 Then they began asking ⁷¹⁹  him, “Who is your father?” Jesus answered, “You do not know either me or my Father. If you knew me you would know my Father too.” ⁷²⁰  8:20 (Jesus ⁷²¹  spoke these words near the offering box ⁷²²  while he was teaching in the temple courts. ⁷²³  No one seized him because his time ⁷²⁴  had not yet come.) ⁷²⁵ 

8:21 Then Jesus ⁷²⁶  said to them again, ⁷²⁷  “I am going away, and you will look for me ⁷²⁸  but will die in your sin. ⁷²⁹  Where I am going you cannot come.” 8:22 So the Jewish leaders ⁷³⁰  began to say, ⁷³¹  “Perhaps he is going to kill himself, because he says, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’” 8:23 Jesus replied, ⁷³²  “You people ⁷³³  are from below; I am from above. You people are from this world; I am not from this world. 8:24 Thus I told you ⁷³⁴  that you will die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am he, ⁷³⁵  you will die in your sins.”

8:25 So they said to him, “Who are you?” Jesus replied, ⁷³⁶  “What I have told you from the beginning. 8:26 I have many things to say and to judge ⁷³⁷  about you, but the Father ⁷³⁸  who sent me is truthful, ⁷³⁹  and the things I have heard from him I speak to the world.” ⁷⁴⁰  8:27 (They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father.) ⁷⁴¹ 

8:28 Then Jesus said, ⁷⁴²  “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, ⁷⁴³  and I do nothing on my own initiative, ⁷⁴⁴  but I speak just what the Father taught me. ⁷⁴⁵  8:29 And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, ⁷⁴⁶  because I always do those things that please him.” 8:30 While he was saying these things, many people ⁷⁴⁷  believed in him.

8:31 Then Jesus said to those Judeans ⁷⁴⁸  who had believed him, “If you continue to follow my teaching, ⁷⁴⁹  you are really ⁷⁵⁰  my disciples 8:32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” ⁷⁵¹  8:33 “We are descendants ⁷⁵²  of Abraham,” they replied, ⁷⁵³  “and have never been anyone’s slaves! How can you say, ⁷⁵⁴  ‘You will become free’?” 8:34 Jesus answered them, “I tell you the solemn truth, ⁷⁵⁵  everyone who practices ⁷⁵⁶  sin is a slave ⁷⁵⁷  of sin. 8:35 The slave does not remain in the family ⁷⁵⁸  forever, but the son remains forever. ⁷⁵⁹  8:36 So if the son ⁷⁶⁰  sets you free, you will be really free. 8:37 I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. ⁷⁶¹  But you want ⁷⁶²  to kill me, because my teaching ⁷⁶³  makes no progress among you. ⁷⁶⁴  8:38 I am telling you the things I have seen while with the ⁷⁶⁵  Father; ⁷⁶⁶  as for you, ⁷⁶⁷  practice the things you have heard from the ⁷⁶⁸  Father!”

8:39 They answered him, ⁷⁶⁹  “Abraham is our father!” ⁷⁷⁰  Jesus replied, ⁷⁷¹  “If you are ⁷⁷²  Abraham’s children, you would be doing ⁷⁷³  the deeds of Abraham. 8:40 But now you are trying ⁷⁷⁴  to kill me, a man who has told you ⁷⁷⁵  the truth I heard from God. Abraham did not do this! ⁷⁷⁶  8:41 You people ⁷⁷⁷  are doing the deeds of your father.”

Then ⁷⁷⁸  they said to Jesus, ⁷⁷⁹  “We were not born as a result of immorality! ⁷⁸⁰  We have only one Father, God himself.” 8:42 Jesus replied, ⁷⁸¹  “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. ⁷⁸²  I ⁷⁸³  have not come on my own initiative, ⁷⁸⁴  but he ⁷⁸⁵  sent me. 8:43 Why don’t you understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot accept ⁷⁸⁶  my teaching. ⁷⁸⁷  8:44 You people ⁷⁸⁸  are from ⁷⁸⁹  your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. ⁷⁹⁰  He ⁷⁹¹  was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, ⁷⁹²  because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, ⁷⁹³  he speaks according to his own nature, ⁷⁹⁴  because he is a liar and the father of lies. ⁷⁹⁵  8:45 But because I am telling you ⁷⁹⁶  the truth, you do not believe me. 8:46 Who among you can prove me guilty ⁷⁹⁷  of any sin? ⁷⁹⁸  If I am telling you ⁷⁹⁹  the truth, why don’t you believe me? 8:47 The one who belongs to ⁸⁰⁰  God listens and responds ⁸⁰¹  to God’s words. You don’t listen and respond, ⁸⁰²  because you don’t belong to God.” ⁸⁰³ 

8:48 The Judeans ⁸⁰⁴  replied, ⁸⁰⁵  “Aren’t we correct in saying ⁸⁰⁶  that you are a Samaritan and are possessed by a demon?” ⁸⁰⁷  8:49 Jesus answered, “I am not possessed by a demon, ⁸⁰⁸  but I honor my Father – and yet ⁸⁰⁹  you dishonor me. 8:50 I am not trying to get ⁸¹⁰  praise for myself. ⁸¹¹  There is one who demands ⁸¹²  it, and he also judges. ⁸¹³  8:51 I tell you the solemn truth, ⁸¹⁴  if anyone obeys ⁸¹⁵  my teaching, ⁸¹⁶  he will never see death.” ⁸¹⁷ 

8:52 Then ⁸¹⁸  the Judeans ⁸¹⁹  responded, ⁸²⁰  “Now we know you’re possessed by a demon! ⁸²¹  Both Abraham and the prophets died, and yet ⁸²²  you say, ‘If anyone obeys ⁸²³  my teaching, ⁸²⁴  he will never experience ⁸²⁵  death.’ ⁸²⁶  8:53 You aren’t greater than our father Abraham who died, are you? ⁸²⁷  And the prophets died too! Who do you claim to be?” 8:54 Jesus replied, ⁸²⁸  “If I glorify myself, my glory is worthless. ⁸²⁹  The one who glorifies me is my Father, about whom you people ⁸³⁰  say, ‘He is our God.’ 8:55 Yet ⁸³¹  you do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, ⁸³²  I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I obey ⁸³³  his teaching. ⁸³⁴  8:56 Your father Abraham was overjoyed ⁸³⁵  to see my day, and he saw it and was glad.” ⁸³⁶ 

8:57 Then the Judeans ⁸³⁷  replied, ⁸³⁸  “You are not yet fifty years old! ⁸³⁹  Have ⁸⁴⁰  you seen Abraham?” 8:58 Jesus said to them, “I tell you the solemn truth, ⁸⁴¹  before Abraham came into existence, ⁸⁴²  I am!” ⁸⁴³  8:59 Then they picked up ⁸⁴⁴  stones to throw at him, ⁸⁴⁵  but Jesus hid himself and went out from the temple area. ⁸⁴⁶ 

9:1 Now as Jesus was passing by, ⁸⁴⁷  he saw a man who had been blind from birth. 9:2 His disciples asked him, ⁸⁴⁸  “Rabbi, who committed the sin that caused him to be born blind, this man ⁸⁴⁹  or his parents?” ⁸⁵⁰  9:3 Jesus answered, “Neither this man ⁸⁵¹  nor his parents sinned, but he was born blind so that ⁸⁵²  the acts ⁸⁵³  of God may be revealed ⁸⁵⁴  through what happens to him. ⁸⁵⁵  9:4 We must perform the deeds ⁸⁵⁶  of the one who sent me ⁸⁵⁷  as long as ⁸⁵⁸  it is daytime. Night is coming when no one can work. 9:5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” ⁸⁵⁹  9:6 Having said this, ⁸⁶⁰  he spat on the ground and made some mud ⁸⁶¹  with the saliva. He ⁸⁶²  smeared the mud on the blind man’s ⁸⁶³  eyes 9:7 and said to him, “Go wash in the pool of Siloam” ⁸⁶⁴  (which is translated “sent”). ⁸⁶⁵  So the blind man ⁸⁶⁶  went away and washed, and came back seeing.

9:8 Then the neighbors and the people who had seen him previously ⁸⁶⁷  as a beggar began saying, ⁸⁶⁸  “Is this not the man ⁸⁶⁹  who used to sit and beg?” 9:9 Some people said, ⁸⁷⁰  “This is the man!” ⁸⁷¹  while others said, “No, but he looks like him.” ⁸⁷²  The man himself ⁸⁷³  kept insisting, “I am the one!” ⁸⁷⁴  9:10 So they asked him, ⁸⁷⁵  “How then were you made to see?” ⁸⁷⁶  9:11 He replied, ⁸⁷⁷  “The man called Jesus made mud, ⁸⁷⁸  smeared it ⁸⁷⁹  on my eyes and told me, ⁸⁸⁰  ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed, and was able to see.” ⁸⁸¹  9:12 They said ⁸⁸²  to him, “Where is that man?” ⁸⁸³  He replied, ⁸⁸⁴  “I don’t know.”

9:13 They brought the man who used to be blind ⁸⁸⁵  to the Pharisees. ⁸⁸⁶  9:14 (Now the day on which Jesus made the mud ⁸⁸⁷  and caused him to see ⁸⁸⁸  was a Sabbath.) ⁸⁸⁹  9:15 So the Pharisees asked him again how he had gained his sight. ⁸⁹⁰  He replied, ⁸⁹¹  “He put mud ⁸⁹²  on my eyes and I washed, and now ⁸⁹³  I am able to see.”

9:16 Then some of the Pharisees began to say, ⁸⁹⁴  “This man is not from God, because he does not observe ⁸⁹⁵  the Sabbath.” ⁸⁹⁶  But others said, “How can a man who is a sinner perform ⁸⁹⁷  such miraculous signs?” Thus there was a division ⁸⁹⁸  among them. 9:17 So again they asked the man who used to be blind, ⁸⁹⁹  “What do you say about him, since he caused you to see?” ⁹⁰⁰  “He is a prophet,” the man replied. ⁹⁰¹ 

9:18 Now the Jewish religious leaders ⁹⁰²  refused to believe ⁹⁰³  that he had really been blind and had gained his sight until at last they summoned ⁹⁰⁴  the parents of the man who had become able to see. ⁹⁰⁵  9:19 They asked the parents, ⁹⁰⁶  “Is this your son, whom you say ⁹⁰⁷  was born blind? Then how does he now see?” 9:20 So his parents replied, ⁹⁰⁸  “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind. 9:21 But we do not know how he is now able to see, nor do we know who caused him to see. ⁹⁰⁹  Ask him, he is a mature adult. ⁹¹⁰  He will speak for himself.” 9:22 (His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jewish religious leaders. ⁹¹¹  For the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus ⁹¹²  to be the Christ ⁹¹³  would be put out ⁹¹⁴  of the synagogue. ⁹¹⁵  9:23 For this reason his parents said, “He is a mature adult, ⁹¹⁶  ask him.”) ⁹¹⁷ 

9:24 Then they summoned ⁹¹⁸  the man who used to be blind ⁹¹⁹  a second time and said to him, “Promise before God to tell the truth. ⁹²⁰  We know that this man ⁹²¹  is a sinner.” 9:25 He replied, ⁹²²  “I do not know whether he is a sinner. I do know one thing – that although I was blind, now I can see.” 9:26 Then they said to him, “What did he do to you? How did he cause you to see?” ⁹²³  9:27 He answered, ⁹²⁴  “I told you already and you didn’t listen. ⁹²⁵  Why do you want to hear it ⁹²⁶  again? You people ⁹²⁷  don’t want to become his disciples too, do you?”

9:28 They ⁹²⁸  heaped insults ⁹²⁹  on him, saying, ⁹³⁰  “You are his disciple! ⁹³¹  We are disciples of Moses! 9:29 We know that God has spoken to Moses! We do not know where this man ⁹³²  comes from!” 9:30 The man replied, ⁹³³  “This is a remarkable thing, ⁹³⁴  that you don’t know where he comes from, and yet he caused me to see! ⁹³⁵  9:31 We know that God doesn’t listen to ⁹³⁶  sinners, but if anyone is devout ⁹³⁷  and does his will, God ⁹³⁸  listens to ⁹³⁹  him. ⁹⁴⁰  9:32 Never before ⁹⁴¹  has anyone heard of someone causing a man born blind to see. ⁹⁴²  9:33 If this man ⁹⁴³  were not from God, he could do nothing.” 9:34 They replied, ⁹⁴⁴  “You were born completely in sinfulness, ⁹⁴⁵  and yet you presume to teach us?” ⁹⁴⁶  So they threw him out.

9:35 Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, so he found the man ⁹⁴⁷  and said to him, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?” ⁹⁴⁸  9:36 The man ⁹⁴⁹  replied, ⁹⁵⁰  “And who is he, sir, that ⁹⁵¹  I may believe in him?” 9:37 Jesus told him, “You have seen him; he ⁹⁵²  is the one speaking with you.” ⁹⁵³  9:38 [He said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him. ⁹⁵⁴  9:39 Jesus ⁹⁵⁵  said,] ⁹⁵⁶  “For judgment I have come into this world, so that those who do not see may gain their sight, ⁹⁵⁷  and the ones who see may become blind.”

9:40 Some of the Pharisees ⁹⁵⁸  who were with him heard this ⁹⁵⁹  and asked him, ⁹⁶⁰  “We are not blind too, are we?” ⁹⁶¹  9:41 Jesus replied, ⁹⁶²  “If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin, ⁹⁶³  but now because you claim that you can see, ⁹⁶⁴  your guilt ⁹⁶⁵  remains.” ⁹⁶⁶ 

10:1 “I tell you the solemn truth, ⁹⁶⁷  the one who does not enter the sheepfold ⁹⁶⁸  by the door, ⁹⁶⁹  but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber. 10:2 The one who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 10:3 The doorkeeper ⁹⁷⁰  opens the door ⁹⁷¹  for him, ⁹⁷²  and the sheep hear his voice. He ⁹⁷³  calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. ⁹⁷⁴  10:4 When he has brought all his own sheep ⁹⁷⁵  out, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they recognize ⁹⁷⁶  his voice. 10:5 They will never follow a stranger, ⁹⁷⁷  but will run away from him, because they do not recognize ⁹⁷⁸  the stranger’s voice.” ⁹⁷⁹  10:6 Jesus told them this parable, ⁹⁸⁰  but they ⁹⁸¹  did not understand ⁹⁸²  what he was saying to them.

10:7 So Jesus said to them again, “I tell you the solemn truth, ⁹⁸³  I am the door for the sheep. ⁹⁸⁴  10:8 All who came before me were ⁹⁸⁵  thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. ⁹⁸⁶  10:9 I am the door. If anyone enters through me, he will be saved, and will come in and go out, ⁹⁸⁷  and find pasture. ⁹⁸⁸  10:10 The thief comes only to steal and kill ⁹⁸⁹  and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and may have it abundantly. ⁹⁹⁰ 

10:11 “I am the good ⁹⁹¹  shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life ⁹⁹²  for the sheep. 10:12 The hired hand, ⁹⁹³  who is not a shepherd and does not own sheep, sees the wolf coming and abandons ⁹⁹⁴  the sheep and runs away. ⁹⁹⁵  So the wolf attacks ⁹⁹⁶  the sheep and scatters them. 10:13 Because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep, ⁹⁹⁷  he runs away. ⁹⁹⁸ 

10:14 “I am the good shepherd. I ⁹⁹⁹  know my own ¹⁰⁰⁰  and my own know me – 10:15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father – and I lay down my life ¹⁰⁰¹  for ¹⁰⁰²  the sheep. 10:16 I have ¹⁰⁰³  other sheep that do not come from ¹⁰⁰⁴  this sheepfold. ¹⁰⁰⁵  I must bring them too, and they will listen to my voice, ¹⁰⁰⁶  so that ¹⁰⁰⁷  there will be one flock and ¹⁰⁰⁸  one shepherd. 10:17 This is why the Father loves me ¹⁰⁰⁹  – because I lay down my life, ¹⁰¹⁰  so that I may take it back again. 10:18 No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down ¹⁰¹¹  of my own free will. ¹⁰¹²  I have the authority ¹⁰¹³  to lay it down, and I have the authority ¹⁰¹⁴  to take it back again. This commandment ¹⁰¹⁵  I received from my Father.”

10:19 Another sharp division took place among the Jewish people ¹⁰¹⁶  because of these words. 10:20 Many of them were saying, “He is possessed by a demon and has lost his mind! ¹⁰¹⁷  Why do you listen to him?” 10:21 Others said, “These are not the words ¹⁰¹⁸  of someone possessed by a demon. A demon cannot cause the blind to see, ¹⁰¹⁹  can it?” ¹⁰²⁰ 

10:22 Then came the feast of the Dedication ¹⁰²¹  in Jerusalem. ¹⁰²²  10:23 It was winter, ¹⁰²³  and Jesus was walking in the temple area ¹⁰²⁴  in Solomon’s Portico. ¹⁰²⁵  10:24 The Jewish leaders ¹⁰²⁶  surrounded him and asked, ¹⁰²⁷  “How long will you keep us in suspense? ¹⁰²⁸  If you are the Christ, ¹⁰²⁹  tell us plainly.” ¹⁰³⁰  10:25 Jesus replied, ¹⁰³¹  “I told you and you do not believe. The deeds ¹⁰³²  I do in my Father’s name testify about me. 10:26 But you refuse to believe because you are not my sheep. 10:27 My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 10:28 I give ¹⁰³³  them eternal life, and they will never perish; ¹⁰³⁴  no one will snatch ¹⁰³⁵  them from my hand. 10:29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, ¹⁰³⁶  and no one can snatch ¹⁰³⁷  them from my Father’s hand. 10:30 The Father and I ¹⁰³⁸  are one.” ¹⁰³⁹ 

10:31 The Jewish leaders ¹⁰⁴⁰  picked up rocks again to stone him to death. 10:32 Jesus said to them, ¹⁰⁴¹  “I have shown you many good deeds ¹⁰⁴²  from the Father. For which one of them are you going to stone me?” 10:33 The Jewish leaders ¹⁰⁴³  replied, ¹⁰⁴⁴  “We are not going to stone you for a good deed ¹⁰⁴⁵  but for blasphemy, ¹⁰⁴⁶  because ¹⁰⁴⁷  you, a man, are claiming to be God.” ¹⁰⁴⁸ 

10:34 Jesus answered, ¹⁰⁴⁹  “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods’? ¹⁰⁵⁰  10:35 If those people to whom the word of God came were called ‘gods’ (and the scripture cannot be broken), ¹⁰⁵¹  10:36 do you say about the one whom the Father set apart ¹⁰⁵²  and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? 10:37 If I do not perform ¹⁰⁵³  the deeds ¹⁰⁵⁴  of my Father, do not believe me. 10:38 But if I do them, even if you do not believe me, believe the deeds, ¹⁰⁵⁵  so that you may come to know ¹⁰⁵⁶  and understand that I am in the Father and the Father is in me.” 10:39 Then ¹⁰⁵⁷  they attempted ¹⁰⁵⁸  again to seize him, but he escaped their clutches. ¹⁰⁵⁹ 

10:40 Jesus ¹⁰⁶⁰  went back across the Jordan River ¹⁰⁶¹  again to the place where John ¹⁰⁶²  had been baptizing at an earlier time, ¹⁰⁶³  and he stayed there. 10:41 Many ¹⁰⁶⁴  came to him and began to say, “John ¹⁰⁶⁵  performed ¹⁰⁶⁶  no miraculous sign, but everything John said about this man ¹⁰⁶⁷  was true!” 10:42 And many believed in Jesus ¹⁰⁶⁸  there.

11:1 Now a certain man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village where Mary and her sister Martha lived. ¹⁰⁶⁹  11:2 (Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil ¹⁰⁷⁰  and wiped his feet dry with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) ¹⁰⁷¹  11:3 So the sisters sent a message ¹⁰⁷²  to Jesus, ¹⁰⁷³  “Lord, look, the one you love is sick.” 11:4 When Jesus heard this, he said, “This sickness will not lead to death, ¹⁰⁷⁴  but to God’s glory, ¹⁰⁷⁵  so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” ¹⁰⁷⁶  11:5 (Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.) ¹⁰⁷⁷ 

11:6 So when he heard that Lazarus ¹⁰⁷⁸  was sick, he remained in the place where he was for two more days. 11:7 Then after this, he said to his disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.” ¹⁰⁷⁹  11:8 The disciples replied, ¹⁰⁸⁰  “Rabbi, the Jewish leaders ¹⁰⁸¹  were just now trying ¹⁰⁸²  to stone you to death! Are ¹⁰⁸³  you going there again?” 11:9 Jesus replied, ¹⁰⁸⁴  “Are there not twelve hours in a day? If anyone walks around in the daytime, he does not stumble, ¹⁰⁸⁵  because he sees the light of this world. ¹⁰⁸⁶  11:10 But if anyone walks around at night, ¹⁰⁸⁷  he stumbles, ¹⁰⁸⁸  because the light is not in him.”

11:11 After he said this, he added, ¹⁰⁸⁹  “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep. ¹⁰⁹⁰  But I am going there to awaken him.” 11:12 Then the disciples replied, ¹⁰⁹¹  “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.” 11:13 (Now Jesus had been talking about ¹⁰⁹²  his death, but they ¹⁰⁹³  thought he had been talking about real sleep.) ¹⁰⁹⁴ 

11:14 Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus has died, 11:15 and I am glad ¹⁰⁹⁵  for your sake that I was not there, so that you may believe. ¹⁰⁹⁶  But let us go to him.” 11:16 So Thomas (called Didymus ¹⁰⁹⁷ ) ¹⁰⁹⁸  said to his fellow disciples, “Let us go too, so that we may die with him.” ¹⁰⁹⁹ 

11:17 When ¹¹⁰⁰  Jesus arrived, ¹¹⁰¹  he found that Lazarus ¹¹⁰²  had been in the tomb four days already. ¹¹⁰³  11:18 (Now Bethany was less than two miles ¹¹⁰⁴  from Jerusalem, ¹¹⁰⁵  11:19 so many of the Jewish people of the region ¹¹⁰⁶  had come to Martha and Mary to console them ¹¹⁰⁷  over the loss of their brother.) ¹¹⁰⁸  11:20 So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary was sitting in the house. ¹¹⁰⁹  11:21 Martha ¹¹¹⁰  said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. 11:22 But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will grant ¹¹¹¹  you.” ¹¹¹² 

11:23 Jesus replied, ¹¹¹³  “Your brother will come back to life again.” ¹¹¹⁴  11:24 Martha said, ¹¹¹⁵  “I know that he will come back to life again ¹¹¹⁶  in the resurrection at the last day.” 11:25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live ¹¹¹⁷  even if he dies, 11:26 and the one who lives and believes in me will never die. ¹¹¹⁸  Do you believe this?” 11:27 She replied, ¹¹¹⁹  “Yes, Lord, I believe ¹¹²⁰  that you are the Christ, ¹¹²¹  the Son of God who comes into the world.” ¹¹²² 

11:28 And when she had said this, Martha ¹¹²³  went and called her sister Mary, saying privately, ¹¹²⁴  “The Teacher is here and is asking for you.” ¹¹²⁵  11:29 So when Mary ¹¹²⁶  heard this, she got up quickly and went to him. 11:30 (Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still in the place where Martha had come out to meet him.) 11:31 Then the people ¹¹²⁷  who were with Mary ¹¹²⁸  in the house consoling her saw her ¹¹²⁹  get up quickly and go out. They followed her, because they thought she was going to the tomb to weep ¹¹³⁰  there.

11:32 Now when Mary came to the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” 11:33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the people ¹¹³¹  who had come with her weeping, he was intensely moved ¹¹³²  in spirit and greatly distressed. ¹¹³³  11:34 He asked, ¹¹³⁴  “Where have you laid him?” ¹¹³⁵  They replied, ¹¹³⁶  “Lord, come and see.” 11:35 Jesus wept. ¹¹³⁷  11:36 Thus the people who had come to mourn ¹¹³⁸  said, “Look how much he loved him!” 11:37 But some of them said, “This is the man who caused the blind man to see! ¹¹³⁹  Couldn’t he have done something to keep Lazarus ¹¹⁴⁰  from dying?”

11:38 Jesus, intensely moved ¹¹⁴¹  again, came to the tomb. (Now it was a cave, and a stone was placed across it.) ¹¹⁴²  11:39 Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” ¹¹⁴³  Martha, the sister of the deceased, ¹¹⁴⁴  replied, “Lord, by this time the body will have a bad smell, ¹¹⁴⁵  because he has been buried ¹¹⁴⁶  four days.” ¹¹⁴⁷  11:40 Jesus responded, ¹¹⁴⁸  “Didn’t I tell you that if you believe, you would see the glory of God?” 11:41 So they took away ¹¹⁴⁹  the stone. Jesus looked upward ¹¹⁵⁰  and said, “Father, I thank you that you have listened to me. ¹¹⁵¹  11:42 I knew that you always listen to me, ¹¹⁵²  but I said this ¹¹⁵³  for the sake of the crowd standing around here, that they may believe that you sent me.” 11:43 When ¹¹⁵⁴  he had said this, he shouted in a loud voice, ¹¹⁵⁵  “Lazarus, come out!” 11:44 The one who had died came out, his feet and hands tied up with strips of cloth, ¹¹⁵⁶  and a cloth wrapped around his face. ¹¹⁵⁷  Jesus said to them, “Unwrap him ¹¹⁵⁸  and let him go.”

11:45 Then many of the people, ¹¹⁵⁹  who had come with Mary and had seen the things Jesus ¹¹⁶⁰  did, believed in him. 11:46 But some of them went to the Pharisees ¹¹⁶¹  and reported to them ¹¹⁶²  what Jesus had done. 11:47 So the chief priests and the Pharisees ¹¹⁶³  called the council ¹¹⁶⁴  together and said, “What are we doing? For this man is performing many miraculous signs. 11:48 If we allow him to go on in this way, ¹¹⁶⁵  everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away our sanctuary ¹¹⁶⁶  and our nation.”

11:49 Then one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said, ¹¹⁶⁷  “You know nothing at all! 11:50 You do not realize ¹¹⁶⁸  that it is more to your advantage to have one man ¹¹⁶⁹  die for the people than for the whole nation to perish.” ¹¹⁷⁰  11:51 (Now he did not say this on his own, ¹¹⁷¹  but because he was high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the Jewish nation, ¹¹⁷²  11:52 and not for the Jewish nation ¹¹⁷³  only, ¹¹⁷⁴  but to gather together ¹¹⁷⁵  into one the children of God who are scattered.) ¹¹⁷⁶  11:53 So from that day they planned together to kill him.

11:54 Thus Jesus no longer went ¹¹⁷⁷  around publicly ¹¹⁷⁸  among the Judeans, ¹¹⁷⁹  but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, ¹¹⁸⁰  and stayed there with his disciples. 11:55 Now the Jewish feast of Passover ¹¹⁸¹  was near, and many people went up to Jerusalem ¹¹⁸²  from the rural areas before the Passover to cleanse themselves ritually. ¹¹⁸³  11:56 Thus they were looking for Jesus, ¹¹⁸⁴  and saying to one another as they stood in the temple courts, ¹¹⁸⁵  “What do you think? That he won’t come to the feast?” 11:57 (Now the chief priests and the Pharisees ¹¹⁸⁶  had given orders that anyone who knew where Jesus ¹¹⁸⁷  was should report it, so that they could arrest ¹¹⁸⁸  him.) ¹¹⁸⁹ 

12:1 Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom he ¹¹⁹⁰  had raised from the dead. 12:2 So they prepared a dinner for Jesus ¹¹⁹¹  there. Martha ¹¹⁹²  was serving, and Lazarus was among those present at the table ¹¹⁹³  with him. 12:3 Then Mary took three quarters of a pound ¹¹⁹⁴  of expensive aromatic oil from pure nard ¹¹⁹⁵  and anointed the feet of Jesus. She ¹¹⁹⁶  then wiped his feet dry with her hair. (Now the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfumed oil.) ¹¹⁹⁷  12:4 But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who was going to betray him) ¹¹⁹⁸  said, 12:5 “Why wasn’t this oil sold for three hundred silver coins ¹¹⁹⁹  and the money ¹²⁰⁰  given to the poor?” 12:6 (Now Judas ¹²⁰¹  said this not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief. As keeper of the money box, ¹²⁰²  he used to steal what was put into it.) ¹²⁰³  12:7 So Jesus said, “Leave her alone. She has kept it for the day of my burial. ¹²⁰⁴  12:8 For you will always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me!” ¹²⁰⁵ 

12:9 Now a large crowd of Judeans ¹²⁰⁶  learned ¹²⁰⁷  that Jesus ¹²⁰⁸  was there, and so they came not only because of him ¹²⁰⁹  but also to see Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead. 12:10 So the chief priests planned to kill Lazarus too, ¹²¹⁰  12:11 for on account of him many of the Jewish people from Jerusalem ¹²¹¹  were going away and believing in Jesus.

12:12 The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. ¹²¹²  12:13 So they took branches of palm trees ¹²¹³  and went out to meet him. They began to shout, ¹²¹⁴  “Hosanna! ¹²¹⁵  Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! ¹²¹⁶  Blessed is ¹²¹⁷  the king of Israel!” 12:14 Jesus found a young donkey ¹²¹⁸  and sat on it, just as it is written, 12:15 “Do not be afraid, people of Zion; ¹²¹⁹  look, your king is coming, seated on a donkey’s colt!” ¹²²⁰  12:16 (His disciples did not understand these things when they first happened, ¹²²¹  but when Jesus was glorified, ¹²²²  then they remembered that these things were written about him and that these things had happened ¹²²³  to him.) ¹²²⁴ 

12:17 So the crowd who had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead were continuing to testify about it. ¹²²⁵  12:18 Because they had heard that Jesus ¹²²⁶  had performed this miraculous sign, the crowd went out to meet him. 12:19 Thus the Pharisees ¹²²⁷  said to one another, “You see that you can do nothing. Look, the world has run off after him!”

12:20 Now some Greeks ¹²²⁸  were among those who had gone up to worship at the feast. 12:21 So these approached Philip, ¹²²⁹  who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and requested, ¹²³⁰  “Sir, we would like to see Jesus.” 12:22 Philip went and told Andrew, and they both ¹²³¹  went and told Jesus. 12:23 Jesus replied, ¹²³²  “The time ¹²³³  has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. ¹²³⁴  12:24 I tell you the solemn truth, ¹²³⁵  unless a kernel of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains by itself alone. ¹²³⁶  But if it dies, it produces ¹²³⁷  much grain. ¹²³⁸  12:25 The one who loves his life ¹²³⁹  destroys ¹²⁴⁰  it, and the one who hates his life in this world guards ¹²⁴¹  it for eternal life. 12:26 If anyone wants to serve me, he must follow ¹²⁴²  me, and where I am, my servant will be too. ¹²⁴³  If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

12:27 “Now my soul is greatly distressed. And what should I say? ‘Father, deliver me ¹²⁴⁴  from this hour’? ¹²⁴⁵  No, but for this very reason I have come to this hour. ¹²⁴⁶  12:28 Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven, ¹²⁴⁷  “I have glorified it, ¹²⁴⁸  and I will glorify it ¹²⁴⁹  again.” 12:29 The crowd that stood there and heard the voice ¹²⁵⁰  said that it had thundered. Others said that an angel had spoken to him. ¹²⁵¹  12:30 Jesus said, ¹²⁵²  “This voice has not come for my benefit ¹²⁵³  but for yours. 12:31 Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world ¹²⁵⁴  will be driven out. ¹²⁵⁵  12:32 And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people ¹²⁵⁶  to myself.” 12:33 (Now he said this to indicate clearly what kind of death he was going to die.) ¹²⁵⁷ 

12:34 Then the crowd responded, ¹²⁵⁸  “We have heard from the law that the Christ ¹²⁵⁹  will remain forever. ¹²⁶⁰  How ¹²⁶¹  can you say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this Son of Man?” 12:35 Jesus replied, ¹²⁶²  “The light is with you for a little while longer. ¹²⁶³  Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. ¹²⁶⁴  The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going. 12:36 While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become sons of light.” ¹²⁶⁵  When Jesus had said these things, he went away and hid himself from them.

12:37 Although Jesus ¹²⁶⁶  had performed ¹²⁶⁷  so many miraculous signs before them, they still refused to believe in him, 12:38 so that the word ¹²⁶⁸  of Isaiah the prophet would be fulfilled. He said, ¹²⁶⁹  “Lord, who has believed our message, and to whom has the arm of the Lord ¹²⁷⁰  been revealed?” ¹²⁷¹  12:39 For this reason they could not believe, ¹²⁷²  because again Isaiah said,

12:40 “He has blinded their eyes

and hardened their heart, ¹²⁷³ 

so that they would not see with their eyes

and understand with their heart, ¹²⁷⁴ 

and turn to me, ¹²⁷⁵  and I would heal them.” ¹²⁷⁶ 

12:41 Isaiah said these things because he saw Christ’s ¹²⁷⁷  glory, and spoke about him.

12:42 Nevertheless, even among the rulers ¹²⁷⁸  many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees ¹²⁷⁹  they would not confess Jesus to be the Christ, ¹²⁸⁰  so that they would not be put out of ¹²⁸¹  the synagogue. ¹²⁸²  12:43 For they loved praise ¹²⁸³  from men more than praise ¹²⁸⁴  from God.

12:44 But Jesus shouted out, ¹²⁸⁵  “The one who believes in me does not believe in me, but in the one who sent me, ¹²⁸⁶  12:45 and the one who sees me sees the one who sent me. ¹²⁸⁷  12:46 I have come as a light into the world, so that everyone who believes in me should not remain in darkness. 12:47 If anyone ¹²⁸⁸  hears my words and does not obey them, ¹²⁸⁹  I do not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world. ¹²⁹⁰  12:48 The one who rejects me and does not accept ¹²⁹¹  my words has a judge; ¹²⁹²  the word ¹²⁹³  I have spoken will judge him at the last day. 12:49 For I have not spoken from my own authority, ¹²⁹⁴  but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me ¹²⁹⁵  what I should say and what I should speak. 12:50 And I know that his commandment is eternal life. ¹²⁹⁶  Thus the things I say, I say just as the Father has told me.” ¹²⁹⁷ 

13:1 Just before the Passover feast, Jesus knew that his time ¹²⁹⁸  had come to depart ¹²⁹⁹  from this world to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now loved them to the very end. ¹³⁰⁰  13:2 The evening meal ¹³⁰¹  was in progress, and the devil had already put into the heart ¹³⁰²  of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, that he should betray ¹³⁰³  Jesus. ¹³⁰⁴  13:3 Because Jesus ¹³⁰⁵  knew that the Father had handed all things over to him, ¹³⁰⁶  and that he had come from God and was going back to God,