Day 72 of 90

¹Now the feast of unleavened bread, which is called the Passover, drew near.

²The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put him to death, for they feared the people.

³Satan entered into Judas, who was called Iscariot, who was numbered with the twelve.

⁴He went away, and talked with the chief priests and captains about how he might deliver him to them.

⁵They were glad, and agreed to give him money.

⁶He consented, and sought an opportunity to deliver him to them in the absence of the multitude.

⁷The day of unleavened bread came, on which the Passover must be sacrificed.

⁸He sent Peter and John, saying, "Go and prepare the Passover for us, that we may eat."

⁹They said to him, "Where do you want us to prepare?"

¹⁰He said to them, "Behold, when you have entered into the city, a man carrying a pitcher of water will meet you. Follow him into the house which he enters.

¹¹Tell the master of the house, 'The Teacher says to you, "Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?"'

¹²He will show you a large, furnished upper room. Make preparations there."

¹³They went, found things as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover.

¹⁴When the hour had come, he sat down with the twelve.

¹⁵He said to them, "I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer,

¹⁶for I tell you, I will no longer by any means eat of it until it is fulfilled in the Kingdom of God."

¹⁷He received a cup, and when he had given thanks, he said, "Take this, and share it among yourselves,

¹⁸for I tell you, I will not drink at all again from the fruit of the vine, until the Kingdom of God comes."

¹⁹He took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and gave to them, saying, "This is my body which is given for you. Do this in memory of me."

²⁰Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the New Covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.

²¹But behold, the hand of him who betrays me is with me on the table.

²²The Son of Man indeed goes, as it has been determined, but woe to that man through whom he is betrayed!"

²³They began to question among themselves, which of them it was who would do this thing.

²⁴There arose also a contention among them, which of them was considered to be greatest.

²⁵He said to them, "The kings of the nations lord it over them, and those who have authority over them are called 'benefactors.'

²⁶But not so with you. But one who is the greater among you, let him become as the younger, and one who is governing, as one who serves.

²⁷For who is greater, one who sits at the table, or one who serves? Is not it he who sits at the table? But I am in the midst of you as one who serves.

²⁸But you are those who have continued with me in my trials.

²⁹I confer on you a kingdom, even as my Father conferred on me,

³⁰that you may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom. You will sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel."

³¹"Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat,

³²but I prayed for you, that your faith would not fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers."

³³He said to him, "Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death!"

³⁴He said, "I tell you, Peter, the rooster will by no means crow today until you deny that you know me three times."

³⁵He said to them, "When I sent you out without purse, and wallet, and shoes, did you lack anything?" They said, "Nothing."

³⁶Then he said to them, "But now, whoever has a purse must take it, and likewise a wallet. Whoever has none, must sell his cloak, and buy a sword.

³⁷For I tell you that this which is written must still be fulfilled in me: 'He was counted with the lawless.' For that which concerns me has an end."

³⁸They said, "Lord, behold, here are two swords." He said to them, "That is enough."

³⁹He came out, and went, as his custom was, to the Mount of Olives. His disciples also followed him.

⁴⁰When he was at the place, he said to them, "Pray that you do not enter into temptation."

⁴¹He was withdrawn from them about a stone's throw, and he knelt down and prayed,

⁴²saying, "Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done."

⁴³An angel from heaven appeared to him, strengthening him.

⁴⁴Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.

⁴⁵When he rose up from his prayer, he came to the disciples, and found them sleeping because of grief,

⁴⁶and said to them, "Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation."

⁴⁷While he was still speaking, behold, a multitude, and he who was called Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He came near to Jesus to kiss him.

⁴⁸But Jesus said to him, "Judas, do you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?"

⁴⁹When those who were around him saw what was about to happen, they said to him, "Lord, shall we strike with the sword?"

⁵⁰A certain one of them struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear.

⁵¹But Jesus answered, "Let me at least do this"-and he touched his ear, and healed him.

⁵²Jesus said to the chief priests, captains of the temple, and elders, who had come against him, "Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs?

⁵³When I was with you in the temple daily, you did not stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness."

⁵⁴They seized him, and led him away, and brought him into the high priest's house. But Peter followed from a distance.

⁵⁵When they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard, and had sat down together, Peter sat among them.

⁵⁶A certain servant girl saw him as he sat in the light, and looking intently at him, said, "This man also was with him."

⁵⁷He denied Jesus, saying, "Woman, I do not know him."

⁵⁸After a little while someone else saw him, and said, "You also are one of them!" But Peter answered, "Man, I am not!"

⁵⁹After about one hour passed, another confidently affirmed, saying, "Truly this man also was with him, for he is a Galilean!"

⁶⁰But Peter said, "Man, I do not know what you are talking about!" Immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.

⁶¹The Lord turned, and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the Lord's word, how he said to him, "Before the rooster crows today you will deny me three times."

⁶²And he went out, and wept bitterly.

⁶³The men who held Jesus mocked him and beat him.

⁶⁴Having blindfolded him, they struck him on the face and asked him, "Prophesy! Who is the one who struck you?"

⁶⁵They spoke many other things against him, insulting him.

⁶⁶As soon as it was day, the council of the elders of the people was gathered together, both chief priests and scribes, and they led him away into their council, saying,

⁶⁷"If you are the Messiah, tell us." But he said to them, "If I tell you, you won't believe,

⁶⁸and if I ask, you will in no way answer me.

⁶⁹From now on, the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God."

⁷⁰They all said, "Are you then the Son of God?" He said to them, "You say it, because I am."

⁷¹They said, "Why do we need any more witness? For we ourselves have heard from his own mouth!"

¹The whole company of them rose up and brought him before Pilate.

²They began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man perverting our nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is the Messiah, a king."

³Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" He answered him, "So you say."

⁴Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, "I find no basis for a charge against this man."

⁵But they insisted, saying, "He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place."

⁶But when Pilate heard it, he asked if the man was a Galilean.

⁷When he found out that he was in Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem during those days.

⁸Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly glad, for he had wanted to see him for a long time, because he had heard concerning him. He hoped to see some miracle done by him.

⁹He questioned him with many words, but he gave no answers.

¹⁰The chief priests and the scribes stood, vehemently accusing him.

¹¹Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate.

¹²Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day, for before that they were enemies with each other.

¹³Pilate called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,

¹⁴and said to them, "You brought this man to me as one that perverts the people, and see, I have examined him before you, and found no basis for a charge against this man concerning those things of which you accuse him.

¹⁵Neither has Herod, for he sent him back to us, and see, nothing worthy of death has been done by him.

¹⁶I will therefore chastise him and release him."

¹⁷No text for this verse number in this edition.

¹⁸But they all shouted out together, saying, "Away with this man! Release to us Barabbas!"-

¹⁹one who was thrown into prison for a certain revolt in the city, and for murder.

²⁰Then Pilate spoke to them again, wanting to release Jesus,

²¹but they shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify him!"

²²He said to them the third time, "Why? What evil has this man done? I have found no capital crime in him. I will therefore chastise him and release him."

²³But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. And their voices prevailed.

²⁴Pilate decreed that what they asked for should be done.

²⁵He released him who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus up to their will.

²⁶When they led him away, they grabbed one Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, and placed on him the cross, to carry it after Jesus.

²⁷A great multitude of the people followed him, including women who also mourned and lamented him.

²⁸But Jesus, turning to them, said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

²⁹For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.'

³⁰Then they will begin to tell the mountains, 'Fall on us!' and tell the hills, 'Cover us.'

³¹For if they do these things in the green tree, what will be done in the dry?"

³²There were also others, two criminals, led with him to be put to death.

³³When they came to the place that is called The Skull, they crucified him there with the criminals, one on the right and the other on the left.

³⁴Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.

³⁵The people stood watching. The rulers also scoffed at him, saying, "He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Messiah of God, his chosen one!"

³⁶The soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him vinegar,

³⁷and saying, "If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!"

³⁸An inscription was also written above him: "THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS."

³⁹One of the criminals who was hanged insulted him, saying, "Are you not the Messiah? Save yourself and us!"

⁴⁰But the other answered, and rebuking him said, "Do you not even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation?

⁴¹And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong."

⁴²And he said, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your Kingdom."

⁴³And he said to him, "Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise."

⁴⁴It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.

⁴⁵The sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two.

⁴⁶Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!" Having said this, he breathed his last.

⁴⁷When the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, "Certainly this was a righteous man."

⁴⁸All the multitudes that came together to see this, when they saw the things that were done, returned home beating their breasts.

⁴⁹All his acquaintances, and the women who followed with him from Galilee, stood at a distance, watching these things.

⁵⁰Behold, a man named Joseph, who was a member of the council, a good and righteous man

⁵¹(he had not consented to their counsel and deed), from Arimathaea, a city of the Judeans, who was also waiting for the Kingdom of God:

⁵²this man went to Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus.

⁵³He took it down, and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and placed him in a tomb that was cut in stone, where no one had ever been placed.

⁵⁴It was the day of the Preparation, and the Sabbath was drawing near.

⁵⁵The women, who had come with him out of Galilee, followed after, and saw the tomb, and how his body was placed.

⁵⁶They returned, and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

¹But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared.

²They found the stone rolled away from the tomb.

³They entered in, and did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

⁴It happened, while they were greatly perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling clothing.

⁵Becoming terrified, they bowed their faces down to the earth. They said to them, "Why do you seek the living among the dead?

⁶He is not here, but is risen. Remember what he told you when he was still in Galilee,

⁷saying that the Son of Man must be delivered up into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again?"

⁸They remembered his words,

⁹returned from the tomb, and told all these things to the Eleven, and to all the rest.

¹⁰Now they were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of Jacob. The other women with them told these things to the apostles.

¹¹These words seemed to them to be nonsense, and they did not believe them.

¹²But Peter got up and ran to the tomb. Stooping and looking in, he saw the strips of linen by themselves, and he departed to his home, wondering what had happened.

¹³Behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus, which was sixty stadia from Jerusalem.

¹⁴They talked with each other about all of these things which had happened.

¹⁵It happened, while they talked and questioned together, that Jesus himself came near, and went with them.

¹⁶But their eyes were kept from recognizing him.

¹⁷He said to them, "What are you talking about as you walk?" They stood still, looking sad.

¹⁸One of them, named Cleopas, answered him, "Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem who does not know the things which have happened there in these days?"

¹⁹He said to them, "What things?" They said to him, "The things concerning Jesus, the Nazarene, a man who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people;

²⁰and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him.

²¹But we were hoping that it was he who would redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened.

²²Also, certain women of our company amazed us, having arrived early at the tomb;

²³and when they did not find his body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive.

²⁴Some of us went to the tomb, and found it just like the women had said, but they did not see him."

²⁵Then he said to them, "O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

²⁶Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?"

²⁷Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

²⁸They drew near to the village, where they were going, and he acted like he would go further.

²⁹They urged him, saying, "Stay with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost over." He went in to stay with them.

³⁰It happened, that when he had sat down at the table with them, he took the bread and gave thanks. Breaking it, he gave to them.

³¹Their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he vanished out of their sight.

³²They said one to another, "Weren't our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?"

³³They rose up that very hour, returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and those who were with them,

³⁴saying, "The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!"

³⁵They related the things that happened along the way, and how he was recognized by them in the breaking of the bread.

³⁶As they said these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, "Peace be to you."

³⁷But they were terrified and filled with fear, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.

³⁸He said to them, "Why are you troubled? Why do doubts arise in your hearts?

³⁹See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones, as you see that I have."

⁴⁰When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.

⁴¹While they still did not believe for joy, and wondered, he said to them, "Do you have anything here to eat?"

⁴²They gave him a piece of a broiled fish.

⁴³He took it and ate in front of them.

⁴⁴He said to them, "This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled."

⁴⁵Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.

⁴⁶He said to them, "Thus it is written, for the Messiah to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,

⁴⁷and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

⁴⁸You are witnesses of these things.

⁴⁹Behold, I send forth the promise of my Father on you. But wait in the city until you are clothed with power from on high."

⁵⁰He led them out as far as Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.

⁵¹It happened, while he blessed them, that he withdrew from them, and was carried up into heaven.

⁵²They worshiped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy,

⁵³and were continually in the temple, blessing God.

¹In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

²The same was in the beginning with God.

³All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made.

⁴In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

⁵The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn't overcome it.

⁶There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John.

⁷The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him.

⁸He was not the light, but was sent that he might testify about the light.

⁹The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.

¹⁰He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world did not recognize him.

¹¹He came to his own, and those who were his own did not receive him.

¹²But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who believe in his name:

¹³who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

¹⁴The 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.

¹⁵John testified about him. He shouted out, saying, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.'"

¹⁶For of his fullness we all received, and grace upon grace.

¹⁷For the Law was given through Moses, grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

¹⁸No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.

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

²⁰He confessed, and did not deny, but he confessed, "I am not the Messiah."

²¹They asked him, "What then? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the prophet?" He answered, "No."

²²They 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?"

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

²⁴The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees.

²⁵They asked him, "Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?"

²⁶John answered them, "I baptize in water, but among you stands one whom you do not know.

²⁷He is the one who comes after me, whose sandal strap I'm not worthy to loosen."

²⁸These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

²⁹The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

³⁰This is he of whom I said, 'After me comes a man who is preferred before me, for he was before me.'

³¹I did not know him, but for this reason I came baptizing in water: that he would be revealed to Israel."

³²John testified, saying, "I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him.

³³I did not 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.'

³⁴I have seen, and have testified that this is the Son of God. "

³⁵Again, the next day, John was standing with two of his disciples,

³⁶and he looked at Jesus as he walked, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God!"

³⁷The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.

³⁸Jesus 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?"

³⁹He said to them, "Come, and you will see." They came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.

⁴⁰One of the two who heard John, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.

⁴¹He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, "We have found the Messiah!" (which is, being interpreted, Christ).

⁴²He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said, "You are Simon the son of John. You shall be called Cephas" (which is by interpretation, Peter).

⁴³On the next day, he was determined to go out into Galilee, and he found Philip. Jesus said to him, "Follow me."

⁴⁴Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter.

⁴⁵Philip 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."

⁴⁶Nathanael said to him, "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see."

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

⁴⁸Nathanael 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."

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

⁵⁰Jesus answered him, "Because I told you, 'I saw you underneath the fig tree,' do you believe? You will see greater things than these!"

⁵¹He said to him, "Truly, truly, I tell you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man."

¹The third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee. Jesus' mother was there.

²Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to the marriage.

³When the wine ran out, Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no wine."

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

⁵His mother said to the servants, "Whatever he says to you, do it."

⁶Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jewish manner of purifying, containing two or three metretes apiece.

⁷Jesus said to them, "Fill the water pots with water." They filled them up to the brim.

⁸He said to them, "Now draw some out, and take it to the ruler of the feast." So they took it.

⁹When the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast called the bridegroom,

¹⁰and 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!"

¹¹This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

¹²After this, he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they stayed there a few days.

¹³The Jewish Passover was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

¹⁴He found in the temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, and the changers of money sitting.

¹⁵He 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.

¹⁶To those who sold the doves, he said, "Take these things out of here! Do not make my Father's house a marketplace!"

¹⁷His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will eat me up."

¹⁸The Jewish leaders therefore answered him, "What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?"

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

²⁰The Jewish leaders therefore said, "Forty-six years was this temple in building, and will you raise it up in three days?"

²¹But he spoke of the temple of his body.

²²When 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.

²³Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.

²⁴But Jesus did not trust himself to them, because he knew everyone,

²⁵and because he did not need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.

¹Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jewish people.

²The 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."

³Jesus answered him, "Truly, truly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he cannot see the Kingdom of God."

⁴Nicodemus 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?"

⁵Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God!

⁶That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

⁷Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born anew.'

⁸The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit."

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

¹⁰Jesus answered him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not understand these things?

¹¹Truly, truly, I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you do not receive our witness.

¹²If I told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?

¹³No one has ascended into heaven, but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man.

¹⁴As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

¹⁵that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.

¹⁶For 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.

¹⁷For God did not send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

¹⁸He who believes in him is not judged. He who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

¹⁹This 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.

²⁰For everyone who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

²¹But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God."

²²After these things, Jesus came with his disciples into the land of Judea. He stayed there with them, and baptized.

²³John also was baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there was much water there. They came, and were baptized.

²⁴For John was not yet thrown into prison.

²⁵There arose therefore a questioning on the part of John's disciples with a Jew about purification.

²⁶They 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."

²⁷John answered, "A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven.

²⁸You yourselves bear me witness that I said, 'I am not the Messiah,' but, 'I have been sent before him.'

²⁹He 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.

³⁰He must increase, but I must decrease.

³¹He 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.

³²What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness.

³³He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true.

³⁴For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for he gives the Spirit without measure.

³⁵The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.

³⁶One 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."

¹Therefore when Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John

²(although Jesus himself did not baptize, but his disciples),

³he left Judea, and departed again into Galilee.

⁴He needed to pass through Samaria.

⁵So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph.

⁶Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

⁷A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink."

⁸For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

⁹The 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.)

¹⁰Jesus 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."

¹¹The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. From where then have you that living water?

¹²Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, as did his children, and his livestock?"

¹³Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again,

¹⁴but 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."

¹⁵The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I do not get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw."

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

¹⁷The woman answered and said to him "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You said well, 'I have no husband,'

¹⁸for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly."

¹⁹The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.

²⁰Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship."

²¹Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father.

²²You worship that which you do not know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.

²³But 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.

²⁴God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."

²⁵The 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."

²⁶Jesus said to her, "I am he, the one who speaks to you."

²⁷At 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?"

²⁸So the woman left her water pot, and went away into the city, and said to the people,

²⁹"Come, see a man who told me everything that I did. Can this be the Messiah?"

³⁰They went out of the city, and were coming to him.

³¹In the meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, "Rabbi, eat."

³²But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you do not know about."

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

³⁴Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

³⁵Do you not 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.

³⁶He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

³⁷For in this the saying is true, 'One sows, and another reaps.'

³⁸I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor."

³⁹From 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."

⁴⁰So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days.

⁴¹Many more believed because of his word.

⁴²They 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 Savior of the world."

⁴³After the two days he went out from there and went into Galilee.

⁴⁴For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

⁴⁵So 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.

⁴⁶Jesus 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.

⁴⁷When 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.

⁴⁸Jesus therefore said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe."

⁴⁹The nobleman said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies."

⁵⁰Jesus said to him, "Go your way. Your son lives." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.

⁵¹As he was now going down, his servants met him, saying that his son was alive.

⁵²So 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."

⁵³So 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.

⁵⁴This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judea into Galilee.

¹After these things, there was a Jewish festival, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

²Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew, "Bethesda," having five porches.

³In these lay a multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed [waiting for the moving of the water;

⁴for 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.]

⁵A certain man was there, who had been sick for thirty-eight years.

⁶When 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?"

⁷The 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."

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

⁹Immediately, the man was made well, and took up his mat and walked. Now it was the Sabbath on that day.

¹⁰So the Jewish leaders said to him who was cured, "It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry the mat."

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

¹²Then they asked him, "Who is the man who said to you to pick it up and walk?"

¹³But he who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, a crowd being in the place.

¹⁴Afterward 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."

¹⁵The man went away, and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well.

¹⁶For this cause the Jewish leaders persecuted Jesus, because he did these things on the Sabbath.

¹⁷But Jesus answered them, "My Father is still working, so I am working, too."

¹⁸For this cause therefore the Jewish leaders 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.

¹⁹Jesus therefore answered them, "Truly, truly, 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.

²⁰For 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.

²¹For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.

²²For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son,

²³that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

²⁴"Truly, truly, I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

²⁵Truly, truly, 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.

²⁶For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself.

²⁷He also gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man.

²⁸Do not marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice,

²⁹and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.

³⁰I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the One who sent me.

³¹"If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid.

³²It is another who testifies about me. I know that the testimony which he testifies about me is true.

³³You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.

³⁴But the testimony which I receive is not from man. However, I say these things that you may be saved.

³⁵He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.

³⁶But 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.

³⁷The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.

³⁸You do not have his word living in you; because you do not believe him whom he sent.

³⁹"You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

⁴⁰Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.

⁴¹I do not receive glory from men.

⁴²But I know you, that you do not have God's love in yourselves.

⁴³I have come in my Father's name, and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.

⁴⁴How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?

⁴⁵"Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope.

⁴⁶For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.

⁴⁷But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?"

¹After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is also called the Sea of Tiberias.

²A great multitude followed him, because they saw the signs which he did on those who were sick.

³Jesus went up into the mountain, and he sat there with his disciples.

⁴Now the Passover, the Jewish festival, was near.

⁵Jesus 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?"

⁶This he said to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.

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

⁸One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him,

⁹"There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these among so many?"

¹⁰Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." Now there was much grass in that place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.

¹¹Jesus took the loaves; and having given thanks, he distributed to those who were sitting down; likewise also of the fish as much as they desired.

¹²When they were filled, he said to his disciples, "Gather up the broken pieces which are left over, that nothing be lost."

¹³So 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.

¹⁴When therefore the people saw the sign which Jesus did, they said, "This is truly the Prophet who comes into the world."

¹⁵Jesus therefore, perceiving that they were about to come and take him by force, to make him king, withdrew again to the mountain by himself.

¹⁶When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea,

¹⁷and they entered into the boat, and were going over the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not come to them.

¹⁸The sea was tossed by a great wind blowing.

¹⁹When 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.

²⁰But he said to them, "It is I. Do not be afraid."

²¹They were willing therefore to receive him into the boat. Immediately the boat was at the land where they were going.

²²On the next day, the multitude that stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there, except one, and that Jesus had not entered with his disciples into the boat, but his disciples had gone away alone.

²³However boats from Tiberias came near to the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks.

²⁴When the multitude therefore saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats, and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.

²⁵When they found him on the other side of the sea, they asked him, "Rabbi, when did you come here?"

²⁶Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly, I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled.

²⁷Do not 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."

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

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

³⁰They said therefore to him, "What then do you do for a sign, that we may see, and believe you? What work do you do?

³¹Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, 'He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.'"

³²Jesus therefore said to them, "Truly, truly, I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven.

³³For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world."

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

³⁵Jesus 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.

³⁶But I told you that you have seen me, and yet you do not believe.

³⁷All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. Him who comes to me I will in no way throw out.

³⁸For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

³⁹This is the will of him who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day.

⁴⁰This is the will of my Father 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."

⁴¹The Jewish people therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, "I am the bread which came down out of heaven."

⁴²They said, "Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then does he say, 'I have come down out of heaven?'"

⁴³Therefore Jesus answered them, "Do not murmur among yourselves.

⁴⁴No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

⁴⁵It 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.

⁴⁶Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God. He has seen the Father.

⁴⁷Truly, truly, I tell you, he who believes has eternal life.

⁴⁸I am the bread of life.

⁴⁹Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

⁵⁰This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die.

⁵¹I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."

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

⁵³Jesus therefore said to them, "Truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life in yourselves.

⁵⁴He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

⁵⁵For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.

⁵⁶He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.

⁵⁷As 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.

⁵⁸This is the bread which came down out of heaven-not as the fathers ate, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever."

⁵⁹He said these things in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.

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

⁶¹But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, "Does this cause you to stumble?

⁶²Then what if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?

⁶³It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

⁶⁴But there are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.

⁶⁵He said, "For this cause have I said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by the Father."

⁶⁶At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

⁶⁷Jesus said therefore to the twelve, "You do not also want to go away, do you?"

⁶⁸Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

⁶⁹We have come to believe and know that you are the Holy One of God."

⁷⁰Jesus answered them, "Did not I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?"

⁷¹Now he spoke of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, for it was he who would betray him, being one of the twelve.

¹After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he would not walk in Judea, because the Jewish leaders sought to kill him.

²Now the Jewish festival, the Feast of Tabernacles, was near.

³His brothers therefore said to him, "Depart from here, and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do.

⁴For no one does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world."

⁵For even his brothers did not believe in him.

⁶Jesus therefore said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.

⁷The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

⁸You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled."

⁹Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee.

¹⁰But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.

¹¹The Jewish leaders therefore sought him at the feast, and said, "Where is he?"

¹²There 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."

¹³Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jewish leaders.

¹⁴But when it was now the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught.

¹⁵The Jewish leaders therefore marveled, saying, "How does this man know letters, having never been educated?"

¹⁶Jesus therefore answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.

¹⁷If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.

¹⁸He 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.

¹⁹Did not Moses give you the Law, and yet none of you keeps the Law? Why do you seek to kill me?"

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

²¹Jesus answered them, "I did one work, and you all marvel because of it.

²²Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy.

²³If 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?

²⁴Do not judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."

²⁵Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, "Is not this he whom they seek to kill?

²⁶Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is the Messiah?

²⁷However we know where this man comes from, but when the Messiah comes, no one will know where he comes from."

²⁸Jesus therefore called 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 do not know.

²⁹I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me."

³⁰They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

³¹But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, "When the Messiah comes, he won't do more signs than those which this man has done, will he?"

³²The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.

³³Then Jesus said, "I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me.

³⁴You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you cannot come."

³⁵The Jewish leaders therefore said among themselves, "Where will this man go that we won't find him? Will he go to the Diaspora among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?

³⁶What is this word that he said, 'You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you cannot come'?"

³⁷Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!

³⁸He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water."

³⁹But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

⁴⁰Some of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, "This is truly the Prophet."

⁴¹Others said, "This is the Messiah." But some said, "What, does the Messiah come out of Galilee?

⁴²Hasn't the Scripture said that the Messiah comes of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"

⁴³So there arose a division in the multitude because of him.

⁴⁴Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.

⁴⁵The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why did you not bring him?"

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

⁴⁷The Pharisees therefore answered them, "You are not also led astray, are you?

⁴⁸Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?

⁴⁹But this multitude that does not know the Law is accursed."

⁵⁰Nicodemus (he who came to him before, being one of them) said to them,

⁵¹"Does our Law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?"

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

⁵³Everyone went to his own house,

¹but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

²Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down, and taught them.

³The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the midst,

⁴they told him, "Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act.

⁵Now in the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such. What then do you say about her?"

⁶They 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.

⁷But 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."

⁸Again he stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground.

⁹They, when they heard it, 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.

¹⁰Jesus, standing up, said to her, "Woman, where are they? Did no one condemn you?"

¹¹She said, "No one, Lord." Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more."

¹²Again, 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."

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

¹⁴Jesus 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 do not know where I came from, or where I am going.

¹⁵You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.

¹⁶Even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me.

¹⁷It's also written in your Law that the testimony of two people is valid.

¹⁸I am one who testifies about myself, and the Father who sent me testifies about me."

¹⁹They 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."

²⁰Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

²¹Jesus 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 cannot come."

²²The Jewish leaders therefore said, "Will he kill himself, that he says, 'Where I am going, you cannot come?'"

²³He said to them, "You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.

²⁴I 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."

²⁵They said therefore to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning.

²⁶I 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."

²⁷They did not understand that he spoke to them about the Father.

²⁸Jesus 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 the Father taught me, I say these things.

²⁹He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn't left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him."

³⁰As he spoke these things, many believed in him.

³¹Jesus therefore said to those Judeans who had believed him, "If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.

³²You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."

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

³⁴Jesus answered them, "Truly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

³⁵A bondservant does not live in the house forever. A son remains forever.

³⁶If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

³⁷I know that you are Abraham's seed, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.

³⁸I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have heard from your father."

³⁹They answered him, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham.

⁴⁰But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God. Abraham did not do this.

⁴¹You do the works of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God."

⁴²Therefore Jesus said to them, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I have not come of myself, but he sent me.

⁴³Why do you not understand my speech? Because you cannot hear my word.

⁴⁴You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not 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.

⁴⁵But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.

⁴⁶Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?

⁴⁷He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you do not hear, because you are not of God."

⁴⁸Then the Judeans answered him, "Do not we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?"

⁴⁹Jesus answered, "I do not have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.

⁵⁰But I do not seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges.

⁵¹Truly, truly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death."

⁵²Then the Judeans 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.'

⁵³Are you greater than our father, Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?"

⁵⁴Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say 'He is our God.'

⁵⁵You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, 'I do not know him,' I would be like you, a liar. But I know him, and keep his word.

⁵⁶Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, and was glad."

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

⁵⁸Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM."

⁵⁹Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple.

¹As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.

²His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"

³Jesus answered, "Neither did this man sin, nor his parents; but, that the works of God might be revealed in him.

⁴I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

⁵While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

⁶When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man's eyes with the mud,

⁷and said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which means "Sent"). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing.

⁸The neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he was a beggar before, said, "Is not this he who sat and begged?"

⁹Some said, "It is he." Others said, "He looks like him." He said, "I am he."

¹⁰They therefore were asking him, "How were your eyes opened?"

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

¹²Then they asked him, "Where is he?" He said, "I do not know."

¹³They brought him who had been blind to the Pharisees.

¹⁴Now it was a Sabbath on the day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.

¹⁵Again 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."

¹⁶Some therefore of the Pharisees said, "This man is not from God, because he does not keep the Sabbath." Others said, "How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?" There was division among them.

¹⁷Therefore they asked the blind man again, "What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?" He said, "He is a prophet."

¹⁸The Jewish leaders 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,

¹⁹and asked them, "Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?"

²⁰His parents answered them, "We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind;

²¹but how he now sees, we do not know; or who opened his eyes, we do not know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself."

²²His parents said these things because they feared the Jewish leaders; for the Jewish leaders had already agreed that if any man would confess him as the Messiah, he would be put out of the synagogue.

²³Therefore his parents said, "He is of age. Ask him."

²⁴So 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."

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

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

²⁷He answered them, "I told you already, and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You do not also want to become his disciples, do you?"

²⁸They insulted him and said, "You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.

²⁹We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we do not know where he comes from."

³⁰The man answered them, "How amazing! You do not know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.

³¹We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshipper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

³²Since the world began it has never been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of someone born blind.

³³If this man were not from God, he could do nothing."

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

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

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

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

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

³⁹Jesus said, "I came into this world for judgment, that those who do not see may see; and that those who see may become blind."

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

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

¹"Truly, truly, I tell you, one who does not enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.

²But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

³The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

⁴Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

⁵They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they do not know the voice of strangers."

⁶Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they did not understand what he was telling them.

⁷Jesus therefore said to them again, "Truly, truly, I tell you, I am the sheep's door.

⁸All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

⁹I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.

¹⁰The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

¹¹I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

¹²He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them.

¹³The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and does not care for the sheep.

¹⁴I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and my own know me;

¹⁵even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.

¹⁶I 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.

¹⁷Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.

¹⁸No 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."

¹⁹Therefore a division arose again among the Jewish people because of these words.

²⁰Many of them said, "He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?"

²¹Others said, "These are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon. It is not possible for a demon to open the eyes of the blind, is it?"

²²It was the Feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem.

²³It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon's porch.

²⁴The Jewish leaders therefore came around him and said to him, "How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly."

²⁵Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father's name, these testify about me.

²⁶But you do not believe, because you are not of my sheep.

²⁷My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

²⁸I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

²⁹My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.

³⁰I and the Father are one."

³¹Therefore the Jewish leaders took up stones again to stone him.

³²Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of those works do you stone me?"

³³The Jewish leaders answered him, "We do not stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God."

³⁴Jesus answered them, "Is not it written in your law, 'I said, you are gods?'

³⁵If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),

³⁶do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You blaspheme,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God?'

³⁷If I do not do the works of my Father, do not believe me.

³⁸But if I do them, though you do not believe me, believe the works; that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father."

³⁹They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.

⁴⁰He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing at first, and there he stayed.

⁴¹Many came to him. They said, "John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said about this man is true."

⁴²And many believed in him there.

¹Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha.

²It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick.

³The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, "Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick."

⁴But 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."

⁵Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

⁶When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was.

⁷Then after this he said to the disciples, "Let us go into Judea again."

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

⁹Jesus answered, "Are not there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

¹⁰But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him."

¹¹He 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."

¹²The disciples said to him, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover."

¹³Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep.

¹⁴So Jesus said to them plainly then, "Lazarus is dead.

¹⁵I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let us go to him."

¹⁶Thomas therefore, who is called The Twin, said to his fellow disciples, "Let us go also, that we may die with him."

¹⁷So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already.

¹⁸Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia away.

¹⁹Many of the Judeans had come to Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.

²⁰Then when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary stayed in the house.

²¹Therefore Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you would have been here, my brother would not have died.

²²Even now I know that, whatever you ask of God, God will give you."

²³Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again."

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

²⁵Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.

²⁶Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"

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

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

²⁹When she heard this, she arose quickly, and went to him.

³⁰Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha met him.

³¹Then the Judeans 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, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep there.

³²Therefore 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 would not have died."

³³When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Judeans weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,

³⁴and said, "Where have you put him?" They told him, "Lord, come and see."

³⁵Jesus wept.

³⁶The Judeans therefore said, "See how much affection he had for him!"

³⁷Some of them said, "Could not this man, who opened the eyes of him who was blind, have also kept this man from dying?"

³⁸Jesus therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it.

³⁹Jesus 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."

⁴⁰Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see God's glory?"

⁴¹So they took away the stone. Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, "Father, I thank you that you listened to me.

⁴²I 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."

⁴³When he had said this, he shouted with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"

⁴⁴He 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."

⁴⁵Therefore many of the Judeans, who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did, believed in him.

⁴⁶But some of them went away to the Pharisees, and told them the things which Jesus had done.

⁴⁷The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, "What are we doing? For this man does many signs.

⁴⁸If 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."

⁴⁹But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all,

⁵⁰nor do you consider that it is advantageous for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish."

⁵¹Now he did not say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,

⁵²and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

⁵³So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.

⁵⁴Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Judeans, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples.

⁵⁵Now the Jewish Passover was near, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.

⁵⁶Then they sought for Jesus and spoke one with another, as they stood in the temple, "What do you think-that he is not coming to the feast at all?"

⁵⁷Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him.