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====== Ps-John: The Gospel of John ======

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

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

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

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

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

He said, "I am not."

"Are you the prophet?"

He answered, "No."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Philip said to him, "Come and see."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

3:3 Jesus answered him, "Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born
anew, he can't see the Kingdom of God."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

7:53 Everyone went to his own house, 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8:58 Jesus said to them, "Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham
came into existence, I AM."

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

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

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

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

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

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

He said, "I don't know."

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

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

He said, "He is a prophet."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11:35 Jesus wept.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12:9 A large crowd therefore of the Jews learned that he was there, and
they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus
also, whom he had raised from the dead. 12:10 But the chief priests
conspired to put Lazarus to death also, 12:11 because on account of him
many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Lord, who has believed our report? To whom has the arm of the Lord been
revealed?"* 12:39 For this cause they couldn't believe, for Isaiah said
again,

12:40 "He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they
should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would
turn, and I would heal them."* 12:41 Isaiah said these things when he
saw his glory, and spoke of him.* 12:42 Nevertheless even of the rulers
many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn't confess
it, so that they wouldn't be put out of the synagogue, 12:43 for they
loved men's praise more than God's praise.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jesus said to them, "I am he."

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

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

They said, "Jesus of Nazareth."

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

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

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

He said, "I am not."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"They parted my garments among them. For my cloak they cast lots."*
Therefore the soldiers did these things. 19:25 But there were standing
by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife
of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 19:26 Therefore when Jesus saw his
mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his
mother, "Woman, behold your son!" 19:27 Then he said to the disciple,
"Behold, your mother!" From that hour, the disciple took her to his own
home.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

She turned and said to him, "Rhabbouni!" which is to say, "Teacher!"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

20:29 Jesus said to him, "Because you have seen me,* you have believed.
Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed."

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

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

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

They answered him, "No."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

===== Notes: =====


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

[2] back to 1:18 NU reads "God"

[3] back to 1:23 Isaiah 40:3

[4] back to 1:39 4:00 PM.

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

[6] back to 2:6 2 to 3 metretes is about 20 to 30 U. S. Gallons, 16 to
25 imperial gallons, or 75 to 115 litres.

[7] back to 2:17 Psalm 69:9

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

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

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

[11] back to 4:6 noon

[12] back to 4:52 1:00 P. M.

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

[14] back to 6:19 see Job 9:8

[15] back to 6:20 or, I AM

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

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

[18] back to 6:45 Isaiah 54:13

[19] back to 7:42 2 Samuel 7:12

[20] back to 7:42 Micah 5:2

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

[22] back to 8:5 Leviticus 20:10; Deuteronomy 22:22

[23] back to 8:12 Isaiah 60:1

[24] back to 8:17 Deuteronomy 17:6; 19:15

[25] back to 8:24 or, I AM

[26] back to 8:32 Psalm 119:45

[27] back to 8:58 or, I am

[28] back to 9:31 Psalm 66:18, Proverbs 15:29; 28:9

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

[30] back to 10:16 Isaiah 56:8

[31] back to 10:17 Isaiah 53:7-8

[32] back to 10:21 Exodus 4:11

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

[34] back to 10:34 Psalm 82:6

[35] back to 11:16 "Didymus" means "Twin"

[36] back to 11:18 15 stadia is about 2.8 kilometers or 1.7 miles

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

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

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

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

[41] back to 12:13 Psalm 118:25-26

[42] back to 12:15 Zechariah 9:9

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

[44] back to 12:38 Isaiah 53:1

[45] back to 12:40 Isaiah 6:10

[46] back to 12:41 Isaiah 6:1

[47] back to 13:18 Psalm 41:9

[48] back to 14:16 Greek Parakleton: Counselor, Helper, Intercessor,
Advocate, and Comfortor.

[49] back to 15:20 John 13:16

[50] back to 15:25 Psalms 35:19; 69:4

[51] back to 15:26 Greek Parakletos: Counselor, Helper, Advocate,
Intercessor, and Comfortor.

[52] back to 16:3 TR adds "to you"

[53] back to 16:15 TR reads "will take" instead of "takes"

[54] back to 17:17 Psalm 119:142

[55] back to 18:9 John 6:39

[56] back to 19:14 noon

[57] back to 19:24 Psalm 22:18

[58] back to 19:28 NU, TR read "knowing" instead of "seeing"

[59] back to 19:36 Exodus 12:46; Numbers 9:12; Psalm 34:20

[60] back to 19:37 Zechariah 12:10

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

[62] back to 20:29 TR adds " Thomas,"

[63] back to 21:8 200 cubits is about 100 yards or about 91 meters

[64] back to 21:23 The word for "brothers" here may be also correctly
translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."