3:1 Now a certain man, a Pharisee ¹  named Nicodemus, who was a member of the Jewish ruling council, ²  3:2 came to Jesus ³  at night ⁴  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 ⁵  that you do unless God is with him.” 3:3 Jesus replied, ⁶  “I tell you the solemn truth, ⁷  unless a person is born from above, ⁸  he cannot see the kingdom of God.” ⁹  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?” ¹⁰ 

3:5 Jesus answered, “I tell you the solemn truth, ¹¹  unless a person is born of water and spirit, ¹²  he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 3:6 What is born of the flesh is flesh, ¹³  and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. 3:7 Do not be amazed that I said to you, ‘You must all ¹⁴  be born from above.’ ¹⁵  3:8 The wind ¹⁶  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.” ¹⁷ 

3:9 Nicodemus replied, ¹⁸  “How can these things be?” ¹⁹  3:10 Jesus answered, ²⁰  “Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you don’t understand these things? ²¹  3:11 I tell you the solemn truth, ²²  we speak about what we know and testify about what we have seen, but ²³  you people ²⁴  do not accept our testimony. ²⁵  3:12 If I have told you people ²⁶  about earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things? ²⁷  3:13 No one ²⁸  has ascended ²⁹  into heaven except the one who descended from heaven – the Son of Man. ³⁰  3:14 Just as ³¹  Moses lifted up the serpent ³²  in the wilderness, ³³  so must the Son of Man be lifted up, ³⁴  3:15 so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.” ³⁵ 

3:16 For this is the way ³⁶  God loved the world: He gave his one and only ³⁷  Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish ³⁸  but have eternal life. ³⁹  3:17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, ⁴⁰  but that the world should be saved through him. 3:18 The one who believes in him is not condemned. ⁴¹  The one who does not believe has been condemned ⁴²  already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only ⁴³  Son of God. 3:19 Now this is the basis for judging: ⁴⁴  that the light has come into the world and people ⁴⁵  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. ⁴⁶ 

3:22 After this, ⁴⁷  Jesus and his disciples came into Judean territory, and there he spent time with them and was baptizing. 3:23 John ⁴⁸  was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, ⁴⁹  because water was plentiful there, and people were coming ⁵⁰  to him ⁵¹  and being baptized. 3:24 (For John had not yet been thrown into prison.) ⁵² 

3:25 Now a dispute came about between some of John’s disciples and a certain Jew ⁵³  concerning ceremonial washing. ⁵⁴  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, ⁵⁵  about whom you testified – see, he is baptizing, and everyone is flocking to him!”

3:27 John replied, ⁵⁶  “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,’ ⁵⁷  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 ⁵⁸  when he hears the bridegroom’s voice. This then is my joy, and it is complete. ⁵⁹  3:30 He must become more important while I become less important.” ⁶⁰ 

3:31 The one who comes from above is superior to all. ⁶¹  The one who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks about earthly things. ⁶²  The one who comes from heaven ⁶³  is superior to all. ⁶⁴  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. ⁶⁵  3:34 For the one whom God has sent ⁶⁶  speaks the words of God, for he does not give the Spirit sparingly. ⁶⁷  3:35 The Father loves the Son and has placed all things under his authority. ⁶⁸  3:36 The one who believes in the Son has eternal life. The one who rejects ⁶⁹  the Son will not see life, but God’s wrath ⁷⁰  remains ⁷¹  on him.

4:1 Now when Jesus ⁷²  knew that the Pharisees ⁷³  had heard that he ⁷⁴  was winning ⁷⁵  and baptizing more disciples than John 4:2 (although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples were), ⁷⁶  4:3 he left Judea and set out once more for Galilee. ⁷⁷ 

4:4 But he had ⁷⁸  to pass through Samaria. ⁷⁹  4:5 Now he came to a Samaritan town ⁸⁰  called Sychar, ⁸¹  near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. ⁸²  4:6 Jacob’s well was there, so Jesus, since he was tired from the journey, sat right down beside ⁸³  the well. It was about noon. ⁸⁴ 

4:7 A Samaritan woman ⁸⁵  came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me some water ⁸⁶  to drink.” 4:8 (For his disciples had gone off into the town to buy supplies. ⁸⁷ ) ⁸⁸  4:9 So the Samaritan woman said to him, “How can you – a Jew ⁸⁹  – ask me, a Samaritan woman, for water ⁹⁰  to drink?” (For Jews use nothing in common ⁹¹  with Samaritans.) ⁹² 

4:10 Jesus answered ⁹³  her, “If you had known ⁹⁴  the gift of God and who it is who said to you, ‘Give me some water ⁹⁵  to drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” ⁹⁶  4:11 “Sir,” ⁹⁷  the woman ⁹⁸  said to him, “you have no bucket and the well ⁹⁹  is deep; where then do you get this ¹⁰⁰  living water? ¹⁰¹  4:12 Surely you’re not greater than our ancestor ¹⁰²  Jacob, are you? For he gave us this well and drank from it himself, along with his sons and his livestock.” ¹⁰³ 

4:13 Jesus replied, ¹⁰⁴  “Everyone who drinks some of this water will be thirsty ¹⁰⁵  again. 4:14 But whoever drinks some of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again, ¹⁰⁶  but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain ¹⁰⁷  of water springing up ¹⁰⁸  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 ¹⁰⁹  water.” ¹¹⁰  4:16 He ¹¹¹  said to her, “Go call your husband and come back here.” ¹¹²  4:17 The woman replied, ¹¹³  “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “Right you are when you said, ¹¹⁴  ‘I have no husband,’ ¹¹⁵  4:18 for you have had five husbands, and the man you are living with ¹¹⁶  now is not your husband. This you said truthfully!”

4:19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I see ¹¹⁷  that you are a prophet. 4:20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, ¹¹⁸  and you people ¹¹⁹  say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.” ¹²⁰  4:21 Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, ¹²¹  a time ¹²²  is coming when you will worship ¹²³  the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 4:22 You people ¹²⁴  worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews. ¹²⁵  4:23 But a time ¹²⁶  is coming – and now is here ¹²⁷  – when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks ¹²⁸  such people to be ¹²⁹  his worshipers. ¹³⁰  4:24 God is spirit, ¹³¹  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); ¹³²  “whenever he ¹³³  comes, he will tell ¹³⁴  us everything.” ¹³⁵  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. ¹³⁶  They were shocked ¹³⁷  because he was speaking ¹³⁸  with a woman. However, no one said, “What do you want?” ¹³⁹  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, ¹⁴⁰  4:29 “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Surely he can’t be the Messiah, ¹⁴¹  can he?” ¹⁴²  4:30 So ¹⁴³  they left the town and began coming ¹⁴⁴  to him.

4:31 Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, ¹⁴⁵  “Rabbi, eat something.” ¹⁴⁶  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 ¹⁴⁷  to one another, “No one brought him anything ¹⁴⁸  to eat, did they?” ¹⁴⁹  4:34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me ¹⁵⁰  and to complete ¹⁵¹  his work. ¹⁵²  4:35 Don’t you say, ¹⁵³  ‘There are four more months and then comes the harvest?’ I tell you, look up ¹⁵⁴  and see that the fields are already white ¹⁵⁵  for harvest! 4:36 The one who reaps receives pay ¹⁵⁶  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, ¹⁵⁷  ‘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, ¹⁵⁸  “He told me everything I ever did.” 4:40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they began asking ¹⁵⁹  him to stay with them. ¹⁶⁰  He stayed there two days, 4:41 and because of his word many more ¹⁶¹  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 ¹⁶²  really is the Savior of the world.” ¹⁶³ 

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.) ¹⁶⁴  4:45 So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen all the things he had done in Jerusalem ¹⁶⁵  at the feast ¹⁶⁶  (for they themselves had gone to the feast). ¹⁶⁷ 

4:46 Now he came again to Cana ¹⁶⁸  in Galilee where he had made the water wine. ¹⁶⁹  In ¹⁷⁰  Capernaum ¹⁷¹  there was a certain royal official ¹⁷²  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 ¹⁷³  to come down and heal his son, who was about to die. 4:48 So Jesus said to him, “Unless you people ¹⁷⁴  see signs and wonders you will never believe!” ¹⁷⁵  4:49 “Sir,” the official said to him, “come down before my child dies.” 4:50 Jesus told him, “Go home; ¹⁷⁶  your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and set off for home. ¹⁷⁷ 

4:51 While he was on his way down, ¹⁷⁸  his slaves ¹⁷⁹  met him and told him that his son was going to live. 4:52 So he asked them the time ¹⁸⁰  when his condition began to improve, ¹⁸¹  and ¹⁸²  they told him, “Yesterday at one o’clock in the afternoon ¹⁸³  the fever left him.” 4:53 Then the father realized that it was the very time ¹⁸⁴  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 ¹⁸⁵  when he returned from Judea to Galilee.

5:1 After this ¹⁸⁶  there was a Jewish feast, ¹⁸⁷  and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ¹⁸⁸  5:2 Now there is ¹⁸⁹  in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate ¹⁹⁰  a pool called Bethzatha ¹⁹¹  in Aramaic, ¹⁹²  which has five covered walkways. ¹⁹³  5:3 A great number of sick, blind, lame, and paralyzed people were lying in these walkways. 5:4 [[EMPTY]] ¹⁹⁴  5:5 Now a man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years. ¹⁹⁵  5:6 When Jesus saw him lying there and when he realized ¹⁹⁶  that the man ¹⁹⁷  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, ¹⁹⁸  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, ¹⁹⁹  someone else ²⁰⁰  goes down there ²⁰¹  before me.” 5:8 Jesus said to him, “Stand up! Pick up your mat ²⁰²  and walk.” 5:9 Immediately the man was healed, ²⁰³  and he picked up his mat ²⁰⁴  and started walking. (Now that day was a Sabbath.) ²⁰⁵ 

5:10 So the Jewish leaders ²⁰⁶  said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and you are not permitted to carry your mat.” ²⁰⁷  5:11 But he answered them, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat ²⁰⁸  and walk.’” 5:12 They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your mat ²⁰⁹  and walk’?” ²¹⁰  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, ²¹¹  lest anything worse happen to you.” 5:15 The man went away and informed the Jewish leaders ²¹²  that Jesus was the one who had made him well.

5:16 Now because Jesus was doing these things ²¹³  on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders ²¹⁴  began persecuting ²¹⁵  him. 5:17 So he ²¹⁶  told ²¹⁷  them, “My Father is working until now, and I too am working.” ²¹⁸  5:18 For this reason the Jewish leaders ²¹⁹  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, ²²⁰  “I tell you the solemn truth, ²²¹  the Son can do nothing on his own initiative, ²²²  but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father ²²³  does, the Son does likewise. ²²⁴  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, ²²⁵  so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes. ²²⁶  5:22 Furthermore, the Father does not judge ²²⁷  anyone, but has assigned ²²⁸  all judgment to the Son, 5:23 so that all people ²²⁹  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, ²³⁰  the one who hears ²³¹  my message ²³²  and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, ²³³  but has crossed over from death to life. 5:25 I tell you the solemn truth, ²³⁴  a time ²³⁵  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 ²³⁶  authority to execute judgment, ²³⁷  because he is the Son of Man.

5:28 “Do not be amazed at this, because a time ²³⁸  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. ²³⁹  5:30 I can do nothing on my own initiative. ²⁴⁰  Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, ²⁴¹  because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me. ²⁴² 

5:31 “If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true. 5:32 There is another ²⁴³  who testifies about me, and I know the testimony he testifies about me is true. 5:33 You have sent to John, ²⁴⁴  and he has testified to the truth. 5:34 (I do not accept ²⁴⁵  human testimony, but I say this so that you may be saved.) 5:35 He was a lamp that was burning and shining, ²⁴⁶  and you wanted to rejoice greatly for a short time ²⁴⁷  in his light.

5:36 “But I have a testimony greater than that from John. For the deeds ²⁴⁸  that the Father has assigned me to complete – the deeds ²⁴⁹  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 ²⁵⁰  have never heard his voice nor seen his form at any time, ²⁵¹  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 ²⁵²  because you think in them you possess eternal life, ²⁵³  and it is these same scriptures ²⁵⁴  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 ²⁵⁵  praise ²⁵⁶  from people, ²⁵⁷  5:42 but I know you, that you do not have the love of God ²⁵⁸  within you. 5:43 I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept ²⁵⁹  me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept ²⁶⁰  him. 5:44 How can you believe, if you accept praise ²⁶¹  from one another and don’t seek the praise ²⁶²  that comes from the only God? ²⁶³ 

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. ²⁶⁴  5:46 If ²⁶⁵  you believed Moses, you would believe me, because he wrote about me. 5:47 But if you do not believe what Moses ²⁶⁶  wrote, how will you believe my words?”

6:1 After this ²⁶⁷  Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (also called the Sea of Tiberias). ²⁶⁸  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 ²⁶⁹  and sat down there with his disciples. 6:4 (Now the Jewish feast of the Passover ²⁷⁰  was near.) ²⁷¹  6:5 Then Jesus, when he looked up ²⁷²  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 ²⁷³  said this to test him, for he knew what he was going to do.) ²⁷⁴  6:7 Philip replied, ²⁷⁵  “Two hundred silver coins worth ²⁷⁶  of bread would not be enough for them, for each one to get a little.” 6:8 One of Jesus’ disciples, ²⁷⁷  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 ²⁷⁸  are these for so many people?”

6:10 Jesus said, “Have ²⁷⁹  the people sit down.” (Now there was a lot of grass in that place.) ²⁸⁰  So the men ²⁸¹  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, ²⁸²  as much as they wanted. 6:12 When they were all satisfied, Jesus ²⁸³  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 ²⁸⁴  left over by the people who had eaten.

6:14 Now when the people saw the miraculous sign that Jesus ²⁸⁵  performed, they began to say to one another, “This is certainly the Prophet ²⁸⁶  who is to come into the world.” ²⁸⁷  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. ²⁸⁸ 

6:16 Now when evening came, his disciples went down to the lake, ²⁸⁹  6:17 got into a boat, and started to cross the lake ²⁹⁰  to Capernaum. ²⁹¹  (It had already become dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.) ²⁹²  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, ²⁹³  they caught sight of Jesus walking on the lake, ²⁹⁴  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 ²⁹⁵  realized that only one small boat ²⁹⁶  had been there, and that Jesus had not boarded ²⁹⁷  it with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone. 6:23 But some boats from Tiberias ²⁹⁸  came to shore ²⁹⁹  near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks. ³⁰⁰  6:24 So when the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats ³⁰¹  and came to Capernaum ³⁰²  looking for Jesus.

6:25 When they found him on the other side of the lake, ³⁰³  they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?” ³⁰⁴  6:26 Jesus replied, ³⁰⁵  “I tell you the solemn truth, ³⁰⁶  you are looking for me not because you saw miraculous signs, but because you ate all the loaves of bread you wanted. ³⁰⁷  6:27 Do not work for the food that disappears, ³⁰⁸  but for the food that remains to eternal life – the food ³⁰⁹  which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has put his seal of approval on him.” ³¹⁰ 

6:28 So then they said to him, “What must we do to accomplish the deeds ³¹¹  God requires?” ³¹²  6:29 Jesus replied, ³¹³  “This is the deed ³¹⁴  God requires ³¹⁵  – to believe in the one whom he ³¹⁶  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 ³¹⁷  ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’” ³¹⁸ 

6:32 Then Jesus told them, “I tell you the solemn truth, ³¹⁹  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 ³²⁰  comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” 6:34 So they said to him, “Sir, ³²¹  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. ³²²  6:36 But I told you ³²³  that you have seen me ³²⁴  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. ³²⁵  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 ³²⁶  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 ³²⁷  at the last day.” ³²⁸ 

6:41 Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus ³²⁹  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, ³³⁰  “Do not complain about me to one another. ³³¹  6:44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, ³³²  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.’ ³³³  Everyone who hears and learns from the Father ³³⁴  comes to me. 6:46 (Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God – he ³³⁵  has seen the Father.) ³³⁶  6:47 I tell you the solemn truth, ³³⁷  the one who believes ³³⁸  has eternal life. ³³⁹  6:48 I am the bread of life. ³⁴⁰  6:49 Your ancestors ³⁴¹  ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 6:50 This ³⁴²  is the bread that has come down from heaven, so that a person ³⁴³  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 ³⁴⁴  that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

6:52 Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus ³⁴⁵  began to argue with one another, ³⁴⁶  “How can this man ³⁴⁷  give us his flesh to eat?” 6:53 Jesus said to them, “I tell you the solemn truth, ³⁴⁸  unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, ³⁴⁹  you have no life ³⁵⁰  in yourselves. 6:54 The one who eats ³⁵¹  my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. ³⁵²  6:55 For my flesh is true ³⁵³  food, and my blood is true ³⁵⁴  drink. 6:56 The one who eats ³⁵⁵  my flesh and drinks my blood resides in me, and I in him. ³⁵⁶  6:57 Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so the one who consumes ³⁵⁷  me will live because of me. 6:58 This ³⁵⁸  is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the bread your ancestors ³⁵⁹  ate, but then later died. ³⁶⁰  The one who eats ³⁶¹  this bread will live forever.”

6:59 Jesus ³⁶²  said these things while he was teaching in the synagogue ³⁶³  in Capernaum. ³⁶⁴  6:60 Then many of his disciples, when they heard these things, ³⁶⁵  said, “This is a difficult ³⁶⁶  saying! ³⁶⁷  Who can understand it?” ³⁶⁸  6:61 When Jesus was aware ³⁶⁹  that his disciples were complaining ³⁷⁰  about this, he said to them, “Does this cause you to be offended? ³⁷¹  6:62 Then what if you see the Son of Man ascending where he was before? ³⁷²  6:63 The Spirit is the one who gives life; human nature is of no help! ³⁷³  The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life. ³⁷⁴  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.) ³⁷⁵  6:65 So Jesus added, ³⁷⁶  “Because of this I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has allowed him to come.” ³⁷⁷ 

6:66 After this many of his disciples quit following him ³⁷⁸  and did not accompany him ³⁷⁹  any longer. 6:67 So Jesus said to the twelve, “You don’t want to go away too, do you?” ³⁸⁰  6:68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life. 6:69 We ³⁸¹  have come to believe and to know ³⁸²  that you are the Holy One of God!” ³⁸³  6:70 Jesus replied, ³⁸⁴  “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and yet one of you is the devil?” ³⁸⁵  6:71 (Now he said this about Judas son of Simon Iscariot, ³⁸⁶  for Judas, ³⁸⁷  one of the twelve, was going to betray him.) ³⁸⁸ 

7:1 After this ³⁸⁹  Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. ³⁹⁰  He ³⁹¹  stayed out of Judea ³⁹²  because the Jewish leaders ³⁹³  wanted ³⁹⁴  to kill him. 7:2 Now the Jewish feast of Tabernacles ³⁹⁵  was near. ³⁹⁶  7:3 So Jesus’ brothers ³⁹⁷  advised him, “Leave here and go to Judea so your disciples may see your miracles that you are performing. ³⁹⁸  7:4 For no one who seeks to make a reputation for himself ³⁹⁹  does anything in secret. ⁴⁰⁰  If you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.” 7:5 (For not even his own brothers believed in him.) ⁴⁰¹ 

7:6 So Jesus replied, ⁴⁰²  “My time ⁴⁰³  has not yet arrived, ⁴⁰⁴  but you are ready at any opportunity! ⁴⁰⁵  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 ⁴⁰⁶  to the feast yourselves. I am not going up to this feast ⁴⁰⁷  because my time ⁴⁰⁸  has not yet fully arrived.” ⁴⁰⁹  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 ⁴¹⁰  himself also went up, not openly but in secret. 7:11 So the Jewish leaders ⁴¹¹  were looking for him at the feast, asking, “Where is he?” ⁴¹²  7:12 There was ⁴¹³  a lot of grumbling ⁴¹⁴  about him among the crowds. ⁴¹⁵  Some were saying, “He is a good man,” but others, “He deceives the common people.” ⁴¹⁶  7:13 However, no one spoke openly about him for fear of the Jewish leaders. ⁴¹⁷ 

7:14 When the feast was half over, Jesus went up to the temple courts ⁴¹⁸  and began to teach. ⁴¹⁹  7:15 Then the Jewish leaders ⁴²⁰  were astonished ⁴²¹  and said, “How does this man know so much when he has never had formal instruction?” ⁴²²  7:16 So Jesus replied, ⁴²³  “My teaching is not from me, but from the one who sent me. ⁴²⁴  7:17 If anyone wants to do God’s will, ⁴²⁵  he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak from my own authority. ⁴²⁶  7:18 The person who speaks on his own authority ⁴²⁷  desires ⁴²⁸  to receive honor ⁴²⁹  for himself; the one who desires ⁴³⁰  the honor ⁴³¹  of the one who sent him is a man of integrity, ⁴³²  and there is no unrighteousness in him. 7:19 Hasn’t Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps ⁴³³  the law! Why do you want ⁴³⁴  to kill me?”

7:20 The crowd ⁴³⁵  answered, “You’re possessed by a demon! ⁴³⁶  Who is trying to kill you?” ⁴³⁷  7:21 Jesus replied, ⁴³⁸  “I performed one miracle ⁴³⁹  and you are all amazed. ⁴⁴⁰  7:22 However, because Moses gave you the practice of circumcision ⁴⁴¹  (not that it came from Moses, but from the forefathers), you circumcise a male child ⁴⁴²  on the Sabbath. 7:23 But if a male child ⁴⁴³  is circumcised ⁴⁴⁴  on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, ⁴⁴⁵  why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well ⁴⁴⁶  on the Sabbath? 7:24 Do not judge according to external appearance, ⁴⁴⁷  but judge with proper ⁴⁴⁸  judgment.”

7:25 Then some of the residents of Jerusalem ⁴⁴⁹  began to say, “Isn’t this the man ⁴⁵⁰  they are trying ⁴⁵¹  to kill? 7:26 Yet here he is, speaking publicly, ⁴⁵²  and they are saying nothing to him. ⁴⁵³  Do the rulers really know that this man ⁴⁵⁴  is the Christ? ⁴⁵⁵  7:27 But we know where this man ⁴⁵⁶  comes from. ⁴⁵⁷  Whenever the Christ ⁴⁵⁸  comes, no one will know where he comes from.” ⁴⁵⁹ 

7:28 Then Jesus, while teaching in the temple courts, ⁴⁶⁰  cried out, ⁴⁶¹  “You both know me and know where I come from! ⁴⁶²  And I have not come on my own initiative, ⁴⁶³  but the one who sent me ⁴⁶⁴  is true. You do not know him, ⁴⁶⁵  7:29 but ⁴⁶⁶  I know him, because I have come from him ⁴⁶⁷  and he ⁴⁶⁸  sent me.”

7:30 So then they tried to seize Jesus, ⁴⁶⁹  but no one laid a hand on him, because his time ⁴⁷⁰  had not yet come. 7:31 Yet many of the crowd ⁴⁷¹  believed in him and said, “Whenever the Christ ⁴⁷²  comes, he won’t perform more miraculous signs than this man did, will he?” ⁴⁷³ 

7:32 The Pharisees ⁴⁷⁴  heard the crowd ⁴⁷⁵  murmuring these things about Jesus, ⁴⁷⁶  so the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers ⁴⁷⁷  to arrest him. ⁴⁷⁸  7:33 Then Jesus said, “I will be with you for only a little while longer, ⁴⁷⁹  and then ⁴⁸⁰  I am going to the one who sent me. 7:34 You will look for me ⁴⁸¹  but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come.”

7:35 Then the Jewish leaders ⁴⁸²  said to one another, “Where is he ⁴⁸³  going to go that we cannot find him? ⁴⁸⁴  He is not going to go to the Jewish people dispersed ⁴⁸⁵  among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he? ⁴⁸⁶  7:36 What did he mean by saying, ⁴⁸⁷  ‘You will look for me ⁴⁸⁸  but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come’?”

7:37 On the last day of the feast, the greatest day, ⁴⁸⁹  Jesus stood up and shouted out, ⁴⁹⁰  “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and 7:38 let the one who believes in me drink. ⁴⁹¹  Just as the scripture says, ‘From within him ⁴⁹²  will flow rivers of living water.’” ⁴⁹³  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, ⁴⁹⁴  because Jesus was not yet glorified.) ⁴⁹⁵ 

7:40 When they heard these words, some of the crowd ⁴⁹⁶  began to say, “This really ⁴⁹⁷  is the Prophet!” ⁴⁹⁸  7:41 Others said, “This is the Christ!” ⁴⁹⁹  But still others said, “No, ⁵⁰⁰  for the Christ doesn’t come from Galilee, does he? ⁵⁰¹  7:42 Don’t the scriptures say that the Christ is a descendant ⁵⁰²  of David ⁵⁰³  and comes from Bethlehem, ⁵⁰⁴  the village where David lived?” ⁵⁰⁵  7:43 So there was a division in the crowd ⁵⁰⁶  because of Jesus. ⁵⁰⁷  7:44 Some of them were wanting to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him. ⁵⁰⁸ 

7:45 Then the officers ⁵⁰⁹  returned ⁵¹⁰  to the chief priests and Pharisees, ⁵¹¹  who said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him back with you?” ⁵¹²  7:46 The officers replied, “No one ever spoke like this man!” 7:47 Then the Pharisees answered, ⁵¹³  “You haven’t been deceived too, have you? ⁵¹⁴  7:48 None of the rulers ⁵¹⁵  or the Pharisees have believed in him, have they? ⁵¹⁶  7:49 But this rabble ⁵¹⁷  who do not know the law are accursed!”

7:50 Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus ⁵¹⁸  before and who was one of the rulers, ⁵¹⁹  said, ⁵²⁰  7:51 “Our law doesn’t condemn ⁵²¹  a man unless it first hears from him and learns ⁵²²  what he is doing, does it?” ⁵²³  7:52 They replied, ⁵²⁴  “You aren’t from Galilee too, are you? ⁵²⁵  Investigate carefully and you will see that no prophet ⁵²⁶  comes from Galilee!”

7:53 ⁵²⁷ 

[[And each one departed to his own house. 8:1 But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. ⁵²⁸  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 ⁵²⁹  them. 8:3 The experts in the law ⁵³⁰  and the Pharisees ⁵³¹  brought a woman who had been caught committing adultery. They made her stand in front of them 8:4 and said to Jesus, ⁵³²  “Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of adultery. 8:5 In the law Moses commanded us to stone to death ⁵³³  such women. ⁵³⁴  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 ⁵³⁵  him.) ⁵³⁶  Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger. ⁵³⁷  8:7 When they persisted in asking him, he stood up straight ⁵³⁸  and replied, ⁵³⁹  “Whoever among you is guiltless ⁵⁴⁰  may be the first to throw a stone at her.” 8:8 Then ⁵⁴¹  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, ⁵⁴²  until Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. 8:10 Jesus stood up straight ⁵⁴³  and said to her, “Woman, ⁵⁴⁴  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.”]] ⁵⁴⁵ 

8:12 Then Jesus spoke out again, ⁵⁴⁶  “I am the light of the world. ⁵⁴⁷  The one who follows me will never ⁵⁴⁸  walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” 8:13 So the Pharisees ⁵⁴⁹  objected, ⁵⁵⁰  “You testify about yourself; your testimony is not true!” ⁵⁵¹  8:14 Jesus answered, ⁵⁵²  “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 ⁵⁵³  do not know where I came from or where I am going. ⁵⁵⁴  8:15 You people ⁵⁵⁵  judge by outward appearances; ⁵⁵⁶  I do not judge anyone. ⁵⁵⁷  8:16 But if I judge, my evaluation is accurate, ⁵⁵⁸  because I am not alone when I judge, ⁵⁵⁹  but I and the Father who sent me do so together. ⁵⁶⁰  8:17 It is written in your law that the testimony of two men is true. ⁵⁶¹  8:18 I testify about myself ⁵⁶²  and the Father who sent me testifies about me.”

8:19 Then they began asking ⁵⁶³  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.” ⁵⁶⁴  8:20 (Jesus ⁵⁶⁵  spoke these words near the offering box ⁵⁶⁶  while he was teaching in the temple courts. ⁵⁶⁷  No one seized him because his time ⁵⁶⁸  had not yet come.) ⁵⁶⁹ 

8:21 Then Jesus ⁵⁷⁰  said to them again, ⁵⁷¹  “I am going away, and you will look for me ⁵⁷²  but will die in your sin. ⁵⁷³  Where I am going you cannot come.” 8:22 So the Jewish leaders ⁵⁷⁴  began to say, ⁵⁷⁵  “Perhaps he is going to kill himself, because he says, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’” 8:23 Jesus replied, ⁵⁷⁶  “You people ⁵⁷⁷  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 ⁵⁷⁸  that you will die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am he, ⁵⁷⁹  you will die in your sins.”

8:25 So they said to him, “Who are you?” Jesus replied, ⁵⁸⁰  “What I have told you from the beginning. 8:26 I have many things to say and to judge ⁵⁸¹  about you, but the Father ⁵⁸²  who sent me is truthful, ⁵⁸³  and the things I have heard from him I speak to the world.” ⁵⁸⁴  8:27 (They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father.) ⁵⁸⁵ 

8:28 Then Jesus said, ⁵⁸⁶  “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, ⁵⁸⁷  and I do nothing on my own initiative, ⁵⁸⁸  but I speak just what the Father taught me. ⁵⁸⁹  8:29 And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, ⁵⁹⁰  because I always do those things that please him.” 8:30 While he was saying these things, many people ⁵⁹¹  believed in him.

8:31 Then Jesus said to those Judeans ⁵⁹²  who had believed him, “If you continue to follow my teaching, ⁵⁹³  you are really ⁵⁹⁴  my disciples 8:32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” ⁵⁹⁵  8:33 “We are descendants ⁵⁹⁶  of Abraham,” they replied, ⁵⁹⁷  “and have never been anyone’s slaves! How can you say, ⁵⁹⁸  ‘You will become free’?” 8:34 Jesus answered them, “I tell you the solemn truth, ⁵⁹⁹  everyone who practices ⁶⁰⁰  sin is a slave ⁶⁰¹  of sin. 8:35 The slave does not remain in the family ⁶⁰²  forever, but the son remains forever. ⁶⁰³  8:36 So if the son ⁶⁰⁴  sets you free, you will be really free. 8:37 I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. ⁶⁰⁵  But you want ⁶⁰⁶  to kill me, because my teaching ⁶⁰⁷  makes no progress among you. ⁶⁰⁸  8:38 I am telling you the things I have seen while with the ⁶⁰⁹  Father; ⁶¹⁰  as for you, ⁶¹¹  practice the things you have heard from the ⁶¹²  Father!”

8:39 They answered him, ⁶¹³  “Abraham is our father!” ⁶¹⁴  Jesus replied, ⁶¹⁵  “If you are ⁶¹⁶  Abraham’s children, you would be doing ⁶¹⁷  the deeds of Abraham. 8:40 But now you are trying ⁶¹⁸  to kill me, a man who has told you ⁶¹⁹  the truth I heard from God. Abraham did not do this! ⁶²⁰  8:41 You people ⁶²¹  are doing the deeds of your father.”

Then ⁶²²  they said to Jesus, ⁶²³  “We were not born as a result of immorality! ⁶²⁴  We have only one Father, God himself.” 8:42 Jesus replied, ⁶²⁵  “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. ⁶²⁶  I ⁶²⁷  have not come on my own initiative, ⁶²⁸  but he ⁶²⁹  sent me. 8:43 Why don’t you understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot accept ⁶³⁰  my teaching. ⁶³¹  8:44 You people ⁶³²  are from ⁶³³  your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. ⁶³⁴  He ⁶³⁵  was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, ⁶³⁶  because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, ⁶³⁷  he speaks according to his own nature, ⁶³⁸  because he is a liar and the father of lies. ⁶³⁹  8:45 But because I am telling you ⁶⁴⁰  the truth, you do not believe me. 8:46 Who among you can prove me guilty ⁶⁴¹  of any sin? ⁶⁴²  If I am telling you ⁶⁴³  the truth, why don’t you believe me? 8:47 The one who belongs to ⁶⁴⁴  God listens and responds ⁶⁴⁵  to God’s words. You don’t listen and respond, ⁶⁴⁶  because you don’t belong to God.” ⁶⁴⁷ 

8:48 The Judeans ⁶⁴⁸  replied, ⁶⁴⁹  “Aren’t we correct in saying ⁶⁵⁰  that you are a Samaritan and are possessed by a demon?” ⁶⁵¹  8:49 Jesus answered, “I am not possessed by a demon, ⁶⁵²  but I honor my Father – and yet ⁶⁵³  you dishonor me. 8:50 I am not trying to get ⁶⁵⁴  praise for myself. ⁶⁵⁵  There is one who demands ⁶⁵⁶  it, and he also judges. ⁶⁵⁷  8:51 I tell you the solemn truth, ⁶⁵⁸  if anyone obeys ⁶⁵⁹  my teaching, ⁶⁶⁰  he will never see death.” ⁶⁶¹ 

8:52 Then ⁶⁶²  the Judeans ⁶⁶³  responded, ⁶⁶⁴  “Now we know you’re possessed by a demon! ⁶⁶⁵  Both Abraham and the prophets died, and yet ⁶⁶⁶  you say, ‘If anyone obeys ⁶⁶⁷  my teaching, ⁶⁶⁸  he will never experience ⁶⁶⁹  death.’ ⁶⁷⁰  8:53 You aren’t greater than our father Abraham who died, are you? ⁶⁷¹  And the prophets died too! Who do you claim to be?” 8:54 Jesus replied, ⁶⁷²  “If I glorify myself, my glory is worthless. ⁶⁷³  The one who glorifies me is my Father, about whom you people ⁶⁷⁴  say, ‘He is our God.’ 8:55 Yet ⁶⁷⁵  you do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, ⁶⁷⁶  I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I obey ⁶⁷⁷  his teaching. ⁶⁷⁸  8:56 Your father Abraham was overjoyed ⁶⁷⁹  to see my day, and he saw it and was glad.” ⁶⁸⁰ 

8:57 Then the Judeans ⁶⁸¹  replied, ⁶⁸²  “You are not yet fifty years old! ⁶⁸³  Have ⁶⁸⁴  you seen Abraham?” 8:58 Jesus said to them, “I tell you the solemn truth, ⁶⁸⁵  before Abraham came into existence, ⁶⁸⁶  I am!” ⁶⁸⁷  8:59 Then they picked up ⁶⁸⁸  stones to throw at him, ⁶⁸⁹  but Jesus hid himself and went out from the temple area. ⁶⁹⁰ 

9:1 Now as Jesus was passing by, ⁶⁹¹  he saw a man who had been blind from birth. 9:2 His disciples asked him, ⁶⁹²  “Rabbi, who committed the sin that caused him to be born blind, this man ⁶⁹³  or his parents?” ⁶⁹⁴  9:3 Jesus answered, “Neither this man ⁶⁹⁵  nor his parents sinned, but he was born blind so that ⁶⁹⁶  the acts ⁶⁹⁷  of God may be revealed ⁶⁹⁸  through what happens to him. ⁶⁹⁹  9:4 We must perform the deeds ⁷⁰⁰  of the one who sent me ⁷⁰¹  as long as ⁷⁰²  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.” ⁷⁰³  9:6 Having said this, ⁷⁰⁴  he spat on the ground and made some mud ⁷⁰⁵  with the saliva. He ⁷⁰⁶  smeared the mud on the blind man’s ⁷⁰⁷  eyes 9:7 and said to him, “Go wash in the pool of Siloam” ⁷⁰⁸  (which is translated “sent”). ⁷⁰⁹  So the blind man ⁷¹⁰  went away and washed, and came back seeing.

9:8 Then the neighbors and the people who had seen him previously ⁷¹¹  as a beggar began saying, ⁷¹²  “Is this not the man ⁷¹³  who used to sit and beg?” 9:9 Some people said, ⁷¹⁴  “This is the man!” ⁷¹⁵  while others said, “No, but he looks like him.” ⁷¹⁶  The man himself ⁷¹⁷  kept insisting, “I am the one!” ⁷¹⁸  9:10 So they asked him, ⁷¹⁹  “How then were you made to see?” ⁷²⁰  9:11 He replied, ⁷²¹  “The man called Jesus made mud, ⁷²²  smeared it ⁷²³  on my eyes and told me, ⁷²⁴  ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed, and was able to see.” ⁷²⁵  9:12 They said ⁷²⁶  to him, “Where is that man?” ⁷²⁷  He replied, ⁷²⁸  “I don’t know.”

9:13 They brought the man who used to be blind ⁷²⁹  to the Pharisees. ⁷³⁰  9:14 (Now the day on which Jesus made the mud ⁷³¹  and caused him to see ⁷³²  was a Sabbath.) ⁷³³  9:15 So the Pharisees asked him again how he had gained his sight. ⁷³⁴  He replied, ⁷³⁵  “He put mud ⁷³⁶  on my eyes and I washed, and now ⁷³⁷  I am able to see.”

9:16 Then some of the Pharisees began to say, ⁷³⁸  “This man is not from God, because he does not observe ⁷³⁹  the Sabbath.” ⁷⁴⁰  But others said, “How can a man who is a sinner perform ⁷⁴¹  such miraculous signs?” Thus there was a division ⁷⁴²  among them. 9:17 So again they asked the man who used to be blind, ⁷⁴³  “What do you say about him, since he caused you to see?” ⁷⁴⁴  “He is a prophet,” the man replied. ⁷⁴⁵ 

9:18 Now the Jewish religious leaders ⁷⁴⁶  refused to believe ⁷⁴⁷  that he had really been blind and had gained his sight until at last they summoned ⁷⁴⁸  the parents of the man who had become able to see. ⁷⁴⁹  9:19 They asked the parents, ⁷⁵⁰  “Is this your son, whom you say ⁷⁵¹  was born blind? Then how does he now see?” 9:20 So his parents replied, ⁷⁵²  “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. ⁷⁵³  Ask him, he is a mature adult. ⁷⁵⁴  He will speak for himself.” 9:22 (His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jewish religious leaders. ⁷⁵⁵  For the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus ⁷⁵⁶  to be the Christ ⁷⁵⁷  would be put out ⁷⁵⁸  of the synagogue. ⁷⁵⁹  9:23 For this reason his parents said, “He is a mature adult, ⁷⁶⁰  ask him.”) ⁷⁶¹ 

9:24 Then they summoned ⁷⁶²  the man who used to be blind ⁷⁶³  a second time and said to him, “Promise before God to tell the truth. ⁷⁶⁴  We know that this man ⁷⁶⁵  is a sinner.” 9:25 He replied, ⁷⁶⁶  “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?” ⁷⁶⁷  9:27 He answered, ⁷⁶⁸  “I told you already and you didn’t listen. ⁷⁶⁹  Why do you want to hear it ⁷⁷⁰  again? You people ⁷⁷¹  don’t want to become his disciples too, do you?”

9:28 They ⁷⁷²  heaped insults ⁷⁷³  on him, saying, ⁷⁷⁴  “You are his disciple! ⁷⁷⁵  We are disciples of Moses! 9:29 We know that God has spoken to Moses! We do not know where this man ⁷⁷⁶  comes from!” 9:30 The man replied, ⁷⁷⁷  “This is a remarkable thing, ⁷⁷⁸  that you don’t know where he comes from, and yet he caused me to see! ⁷⁷⁹  9:31 We know that God doesn’t listen to ⁷⁸⁰  sinners, but if anyone is devout ⁷⁸¹  and does his will, God ⁷⁸²  listens to ⁷⁸³  him. ⁷⁸⁴  9:32 Never before ⁷⁸⁵  has anyone heard of someone causing a man born blind to see. ⁷⁸⁶  9:33 If this man ⁷⁸⁷  were not from God, he could do nothing.” 9:34 They replied, ⁷⁸⁸  “You were born completely in sinfulness, ⁷⁸⁹  and yet you presume to teach us?” ⁷⁹⁰  So they threw him out.

9:35 Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, so he found the man ⁷⁹¹  and said to him, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?” ⁷⁹²  9:36 The man ⁷⁹³  replied, ⁷⁹⁴  “And who is he, sir, that ⁷⁹⁵  I may believe in him?” 9:37 Jesus told him, “You have seen him; he ⁷⁹⁶  is the one speaking with you.” ⁷⁹⁷  9:38 [He said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him. ⁷⁹⁸  9:39 Jesus ⁷⁹⁹  said,] ⁸⁰⁰  “For judgment I have come into this world, so that those who do not see may gain their sight, ⁸⁰¹  and the ones who see may become blind.”

9:40 Some of the Pharisees ⁸⁰²  who were with him heard this ⁸⁰³  and asked him, ⁸⁰⁴  “We are not blind too, are we?” ⁸⁰⁵  9:41 Jesus replied, ⁸⁰⁶  “If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin, ⁸⁰⁷  but now because you claim that you can see, ⁸⁰⁸  your guilt ⁸⁰⁹  remains.” ⁸¹⁰ 

10:1 “I tell you the solemn truth, ⁸¹¹  the one who does not enter the sheepfold ⁸¹²  by the door, ⁸¹³  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 ⁸¹⁴  opens the door ⁸¹⁵  for him, ⁸¹⁶  and the sheep hear his voice. He ⁸¹⁷  calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. ⁸¹⁸  10:4 When he has brought all his own sheep ⁸¹⁹  out, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they recognize ⁸²⁰  his voice. 10:5 They will never follow a stranger, ⁸²¹  but will run away from him, because they do not recognize ⁸²²  the stranger’s voice.” ⁸²³  10:6 Jesus told them this parable, ⁸²⁴  but they ⁸²⁵  did not understand ⁸²⁶  what he was saying to them.

10:7 So Jesus said to them again, “I tell you the solemn truth, ⁸²⁷  I am the door for the sheep. ⁸²⁸  10:8 All who came before me were ⁸²⁹  thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. ⁸³⁰  10:9 I am the door. If anyone enters through me, he will be saved, and will come in and go out, ⁸³¹  and find pasture. ⁸³²  10:10 The thief comes only to steal and kill ⁸³³  and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and may have it abundantly. ⁸³⁴ 

10:11 “I am the good ⁸³⁵  shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life ⁸³⁶  for the sheep. 10:12 The hired hand, ⁸³⁷  who is not a shepherd and does not own sheep, sees the wolf coming and abandons ⁸³⁸  the sheep and runs away. ⁸³⁹  So the wolf attacks ⁸⁴⁰  the sheep and scatters them. 10:13 Because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep, ⁸⁴¹  he runs away. ⁸⁴² 

10:14 “I am the good shepherd. I ⁸⁴³  know my own ⁸⁴⁴  and my own know me – 10:15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father – and I lay down my life ⁸⁴⁵  for ⁸⁴⁶  the sheep. 10:16 I have ⁸⁴⁷  other sheep that do not come from ⁸⁴⁸  this sheepfold. ⁸⁴⁹  I must bring them too, and they will listen to my voice, ⁸⁵⁰  so that ⁸⁵¹  there will be one flock and ⁸⁵²  one shepherd. 10:17 This is why the Father loves me ⁸⁵³  – because I lay down my life, ⁸⁵⁴  so that I may take it back again. 10:18 No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down ⁸⁵⁵  of my own free will. ⁸⁵⁶  I have the authority ⁸⁵⁷  to lay it down, and I have the authority ⁸⁵⁸  to take it back again. This commandment ⁸⁵⁹  I received from my Father.”

10:19 Another sharp division took place among the Jewish people ⁸⁶⁰  because of these words. 10:20 Many of them were saying, “He is possessed by a demon and has lost his mind! ⁸⁶¹  Why do you listen to him?” 10:21 Others said, “These are not the words ⁸⁶²  of someone possessed by a demon. A demon cannot cause the blind to see, ⁸⁶³  can it?” ⁸⁶⁴ 

10:22 Then came the feast of the Dedication ⁸⁶⁵  in Jerusalem. ⁸⁶⁶  10:23 It was winter, ⁸⁶⁷  and Jesus was walking in the temple area ⁸⁶⁸  in Solomon’s Portico. ⁸⁶⁹  10:24 The Jewish leaders ⁸⁷⁰  surrounded him and asked, ⁸⁷¹  “How long will you keep us in suspense? ⁸⁷²  If you are the Christ, ⁸⁷³  tell us plainly.” ⁸⁷⁴  10:25 Jesus replied, ⁸⁷⁵  “I told you and you do not believe. The deeds ⁸⁷⁶  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 ⁸⁷⁷  them eternal life, and they will never perish; ⁸⁷⁸  no one will snatch ⁸⁷⁹  them from my hand. 10:29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, ⁸⁸⁰  and no one can snatch ⁸⁸¹  them from my Father’s hand. 10:30 The Father and I ⁸⁸²  are one.” ⁸⁸³ 

10:31 The Jewish leaders ⁸⁸⁴  picked up rocks again to stone him to death. 10:32 Jesus said to them, ⁸⁸⁵  “I have shown you many good deeds ⁸⁸⁶  from the Father. For which one of them are you going to stone me?” 10:33 The Jewish leaders ⁸⁸⁷  replied, ⁸⁸⁸  “We are not going to stone you for a good deed ⁸⁸⁹  but for blasphemy, ⁸⁹⁰  because ⁸⁹¹  you, a man, are claiming to be God.” ⁸⁹² 

10:34 Jesus answered, ⁸⁹³  “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods’? ⁸⁹⁴  10:35 If those people to whom the word of God came were called ‘gods’ (and the scripture cannot be broken), ⁸⁹⁵  10:36 do you say about the one whom the Father set apart ⁸⁹⁶  and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? 10:37 If I do not perform ⁸⁹⁷  the deeds ⁸⁹⁸  of my Father, do not believe me. 10:38 But if I do them, even if you do not believe me, believe the deeds, ⁸⁹⁹  so that you may come to know ⁹⁰⁰  and understand that I am in the Father and the Father is in me.” 10:39 Then ⁹⁰¹  they attempted ⁹⁰²  again to seize him, but he escaped their clutches. ⁹⁰³ 

10:40 Jesus ⁹⁰⁴  went back across the Jordan River ⁹⁰⁵  again to the place where John ⁹⁰⁶  had been baptizing at an earlier time, ⁹⁰⁷  and he stayed there. 10:41 Many ⁹⁰⁸  came to him and began to say, “John ⁹⁰⁹  performed ⁹¹⁰  no miraculous sign, but everything John said about this man ⁹¹¹  was true!” 10:42 And many believed in Jesus ⁹¹²  there.