John 5:3-16:33

MNT^{(i) 3} It has five colonnades. In these there used to lie a great crowd of sick people—blind, lame, paralyzed. ⁴ OMITTED TEXT. ⁵ And there was one man there for thirty-eight years in his infirmity. ⁶ When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to get well?" ⁷ "Sir," answered the sick man, "I have no man to put me into the pool whenever the water is troubled; and while I am trying to come, some one else steps down before me." ⁸ "Rise," said Jesus, "take up your bed and go walking away." ⁹ Instantly the man became well, and he took up his bed and started to walk. Now it was Sabbath on that day; ¹⁰ so the Jews kept saying to the man who had been cured. "It is the Sabbath Day; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed." ¹¹ He replied, "The man who healed me told me to take up my bed and walk." ¹² "Who is it," they asked, "that said to you, 'take up your bed and go walking away'?" ¹³ But he who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had moved away, as there was a crowd in that place. ¹⁴ Afterward Jesus found him in the Temple, and said to him. "Look! You have become well. Do not go on sinning, lest a worse thing befall you." ¹⁵ The man went to and told the Jews that it was Jesus who made him well; ¹⁶ and because of this the Jews began to persecute Jesus, because he had done it on the Sabbath. ¹⁷ But he answered them, "My Father has continued working until now, and I am working too." ¹⁸ For this reason the Jews continued to seek the more eagerly to put him to death, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was actually speaking of God as his own Father, thus making himself of God's equal. ¹⁹ So Jesus answered them in these words. "In solemn truth I tell that the Son cannot do anything of himself, except what he sees the Father doing; for whatever he does, that the Son does also. ²⁰ "For the Father loves the Son, and shows him every thing that he himself is doing. And greater deeds than these will he show him, that you may wonder. ²¹ "For just as the Father raises the dead and makes them alive, even so the Son makes whom he will alive. ²² "The Father indeed does not judge any one, but has given all judgment to the Son, ²³ "in order that all may honor the Son even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor Son, does not honor the Father who sent him. ²⁴ "I tell you solemnly that he who listens to my messages and believes Him who sent me, has eternal life. He will not come under condemnation, but has passed out of death into life. ²⁵ "Solemnly I tell you that the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear shall live. ²⁶ "For as the Father has life in himself, so also has he granted to the Son to have life in himself. ²⁷ "And he has given him authority to pronounce judgment, because he is Son of man. ²⁸ "Do not wonder at this, because an hour is coming in which all who are in their graves shall hear his voice and shall come forth again; ²⁹ "those who have done good into a resurrection of life, and those who have practised evil to a resurrection of condemnation. ³⁰ "I can of my own self do nothing. As I listen, I judge, and my own judgment is just, because I am not seeking my own will, but the will of Him who sent me. ³¹ "If I bear testimony concerning myself, my testimony is not valid. ³² "Another bears testimony to me, and I know that the testimony which he bears concerning me is valid. ³³ "You yourselves sent to John, and he has been and is a witness to the truth. ³⁴ "(Though for myself I accept no witness from man; I only mention that you may be saved.) ³⁵ "That man was the Lamp-burning and shining—and you were willing for a time rejoice in his light. ³⁶ "But I have testimony greater than that of John; for the work which the Father has given me to bring to completion—the work which I am doing—bears testimony concerning me, that the Father has sent me. ³⁷ "And the Father who sent me has himself borne testimony concerning me. None of you has heard his at any time or seen him, ³⁸ nor had his word dwelling within you, because you do not believe him whom he sent. ³⁹ "You are searching the Scriptures because you suppose that in tem you have eternal life; and though these are they that bear witness concerning me, ⁴⁰ "you will not come to me that you may have life. ⁴¹ "I am not receiving honor from men, but I know you, ⁴² "that you have not the love of God in yourselves. ⁴³ "I am come in the name of my Father and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, him you will receive. ⁴⁴ "How can you believe when you receive glory from, one another, and have no desire for the glory which comes from the only God? ⁴⁵ "Do not imagine that I shall accuse you to the Father. Moses is your accuser, on whom you build your hopes. ⁴⁶ "For if you believed Moses you would believe me, for he wrote about me. ⁴⁷ And if you do not believe his writings, how will you ever believe my words?" ^{6 1} After this Jesus went away across the Sea of Galilee (that is the lake of Tiberias). ² A great crowd were following him, because they witnessed the signs which he was continually performing among those who were ill. ³ Then Jesus walked up the hills and sat down there with his disciples. Now the Jewish feast, the Passover, was at hand. ⁴ Accordingly when he looked up, and perceived a great crowd was coming unto him, ⁵ he said to Philip, "Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?" ⁶ He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he intended to do. ⁷ "Thirty-five dollars worth of bread," answered Philip, "is not enough for them, so that each can take a morsel." ⁸ One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon, said to him. ⁹ "There is a lad who has five barley loaves and a couple of fish; but what is that among so many?" ¹⁰ "Make the men sit down," said Jesus. The ground was covered with thick grass; so the men sat down, in numbers about five thousand. "of righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you will no longer see me; ¹¹ Then Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks he distributed them among those who were seated; in like manner also of the fish, as much as they wished, ¹² and when they were satisfied, he said to his disciples, "Gather up the fragments that are left, so that nothing may be wasted." ¹³ So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves—the broken pieces that were left after they had eaten. ¹⁴ So when the people saw the sign which he had performed, they said, "This is in the truth the Prophet who is to come into the world." ¹⁵ When Jesus perceived that they intended to seize him in order to make him a king, he retired again to the hill all by himself. ¹⁶ When evening came on, his disciples went down to the sea. ¹⁷ There they got in a boat, and started across the sea for Capernaum. The darkness had already fallen, ¹⁸ Jesus had not yet come to them, and the sea began to rise, because a strong wind was blowing. ¹⁹ After they had rowed three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking upon the sea, and drawing near to the boat, and they were terrified; ²⁰ but he said to them, "It is I, be not afraid." ²¹ Then they were willing to take him on board, and immediately the boat reached the shore they were making for. ²² The crowd that remained on the other side of the sea had seen that there was only one small boat there, and that Jesus had not gone aboard with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away by themselves. ²³ So, on the following day, when boats came from Tiberias near the place were they had eaten bread, after the Lord had given thanks, they got into the boats themselves, ²⁴ when they saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, and went to Capernaum to look for Jesus. ²⁵ When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, "Rabbi, when did you get here?" ²⁶ Jesus answered. "In solemn truth I tell you that you are looking for me, not because you saw miracles signs, but because you ate of the bread and were filled. ²⁷ "Labor not for food which perishes, but for the food that endures eternal life—that which the Son of man will give you; for on the Father—God—has set his seal." ²⁸ "What are we to do habitually," they asked him, "that we may keep working the words of God?" ²⁹ "This is the work of God," answered Jesus, "that you believe on him whom He has sent you." ³⁰ The they said to him. "What sign, then, are you performing, so that we may see it and believe in you? What work are you doing? ³¹ "Our fathers ate manna in the wilderness, as it is written, 'He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.'" ³² "In solemn truth I tell you," said Jesus in reply, "Moses did not give you the bread out of heaven, but my Father does give you the true bread out of heaven; ³³ "for the bread of God is what come down from heaven, and gives life to the world." ³⁴ "Ah, Sir," said they, "evermore give us this bread." ³⁵ "I myself am the bread of life," answered Jesus; "he who comes to me shall never hunger, and he that believes on me shall never thirst again. ³⁶ "But as I told you, you have seen me, and yet you do not believe. ³⁷ "Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me; and him who comes to me I will never reject. ³⁸ "For I am come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. ³⁹ "And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should not lose one of all those whom he has given me, but should raise them up at the last day. ⁴⁰ "For this is my Fathers will, that every one who beholds the Son and believes on him, shall have eternal life. and I will raise him up at the last day." ⁴¹ Then the Jews began to find fault with Jesus, because he said, "I am the bread which comes down out of heaven," and they kept asking. ⁴² "Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph? Do we not know his father and mother? How is it that he now says, 'I have come down from heaven'?" ⁴³ "Do not find fault with me among yourselves," ⁴⁴ answered Jesus; "no one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him; then I will raise him up on the last day. ⁴⁵ "It is written in the Prophets, "And they shall all of them be taught of God. Every one who has listened to the father and learns from him, comes to me. ⁴⁶ "Not that any one has seen the Father, except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father. ⁴⁷ "I tell you solemnly that he who believes has eternal life. ⁴⁸ "I am the bread of life. ⁴⁹ "Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; yet they died. ⁵⁰ "This is the bread that comes down from heaven, that one may eat thereof and never die. ⁵¹ "I myself am the living bread that has come down from heaven. Any one who eats this bread will live forever; and moreover, the bread which I will give is my flesh, given for the life of the world." ⁵² Then the Jews began to dispute among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" ⁵³ "I tell you solemnly," said Jesus, "that unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you have no life in you. ⁵⁴ "He who feeds upon my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. ⁵⁵ "For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. ⁵⁶ "He who feeds upon my flesh abides in me and I in him. ⁵⁷ "Just as the living Father has sent me, and I live by the Father, so also that man who feeds on me shall live by me. ⁵⁸ "This is the bread which came down from heaven; not such as your fathers ate and died, for he who feeds upon this bread shall live forever." ⁵⁹ He spoke these words while in the synagogue, while he was teaching in Capernaum. ⁶⁰ So many of his disciples, when they heard it, said: "This teaching is unbelievable! Who can listen to him?" ⁶¹ Jesus, conscious within himself that his disciples were finding fault with him about his teaching, said to them. ⁶² "Does this displease you? What then if you were to behold the Son of man ascending to where he was before? ⁶³ "The spirit is what gives life; the flesh is of no avail. The words which I have been speaking to you, are spirit and are life. ⁶⁴ "Yet 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 should betray him. ⁶⁵ So he added, "This is why I told you that no on can come to me unless it be given from the Father." ⁶⁶ Therefore many of his disciples drew back and no longer companied with him. ⁶⁷ So Jesus appealed to the Twelve. "You also do not wish to leave me, do you?" ⁶⁸ Simon Peter answered. "To whom shall we go Master? You have words of eternal life; ⁶⁹ "and we have learned to believe and we know that you are the holy one of God." ⁷⁰ In reply Jesus said to them. "Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? And yet even of you one is an enemy." ⁷¹ Now Jesus was speaking of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot; for Judas was to betray him, although he was one of the Twelve. ^{7 1} After these things Jesus continued to travel about in Galilee, for he did not wish to go about in Judea, because the Jews kept trying to kill him. ² When the time of the Jewish feast of Tabernacles drew near, ³ his brothers said to him. "Leave here and go into Judea, so that your disciples also may behold the works which you are doing. ⁴ "For no one ever does anything in secret if he himself seeks to be known publicly. If you are performing these signs, show yourself openly to the world." ⁵ For even his own brothers did not believe in him. ⁶ "My time is not yet come," said Jesus, "but your time is always at hand. ⁷ "The world cannot hate you, but me it does hate, because I am bearing testimony against it, that its ways are wicked. ⁸ Do you go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fully come." ⁹ After saying this, he remained in Galilee; but after his brothers had gone up to feast, ¹⁰ then he went too—not openly, but as it were a secret. ¹¹ The Jews meanwhile kept looking for him at feast, and saying, "Where is he?" "I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own Name these whom thou hast given me, that they may be one as we are one. ¹² and there was much disputing about him among the crowd. Some would say, "He is a good man." Others. "No! he is misleading the people." "While I was with them I kept them by the power of thy name which thou hast given me. I guarded them, and none of them was lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. ¹³ No one, however, was speaking openly about him, for fear of the Jews. "But now I am coming to thee, and I am speaking these things while I am in the world, so that they may have my joy in all its fulness in themselves. ¹⁴ But when it was already the middle of the feast, Jesus went up to the Temple and began to teach. "I have given them thy word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. ¹⁵ The Jews were amazed. They said, "How does this fellow know the sacred writings when he has never learned them?" "I am not asking that thou wilt take them out of the world, but that thou wilt protect them from the Evil One. ¹⁶ In reply Jesus said to them; "My teaching is not mine, but is his who sent me. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world." ¹⁷ "If any one wills to do God's will he shall know concerning my teaching, whether it is from God, or I speak my own authority. Dedicate them in thy truth; thy word is truth." ¹⁸ "The man who speaks on his own authority is always seeking his own glory. But one who is eager for the glory of Him who sent him, he is true, and therefore is nothing false about him. ¹⁹ "Did not Moses give you the Law? Yet none of you is keeping the Law. Why are you seeking to kill me?" ²⁰ The crowd answered. "You have a demon! Who is trying kill you?" ²¹ Jesus answered them. "There was one thing I did, and you are all amazed. ²² "Consider, therefore, Moses has given you circumcision—not that Moses originated it, but the fathers—and you are accustomed to circumcise a child even on the Sabbath. ²³ "If a child receives circumcision on the Sabbath, in order that the Law of Moses may not be broken, how can you be angry with me because I made a man sound and well on the Sabbath? ²⁴ "Do not judge according to appearance. Judge justly." ²⁵ Then some of the men of Jerusalem were saying. "Is not this the man they are seeking to kill? ²⁶ "And look! he is speaking boldly and they are saying nothing to him. Can it possibly be that the rulers have really discovered that he is the Christ? ²⁷ "But we know this man and where he is from; but when the Christ comes no one will know where he comes from." ²⁸ So Jesus cried aloud as he was teaching in the Temple, and said: "You both know me and you know where I am from; and I am not come on my own authority, but he who sent me is trustworthy, and him you do not know. ²⁹ "But I now him, because I am from him and he sent me." ³⁰ Then they kept seeking to arrest him, but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come. ³¹ But many of the crowd believed on him and began to say, "The Christ, when he comes, will he do more signs than this man has done?" ³² The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about him, and the high priest and Pharisees sent officers to arrest him. ³³ Then Jesus said to them. "Still for a little longer I am with you, and then I am going my way to him who sent me. ³⁴ "You will search for me and will not find me, and where I am you cannot come." ³⁵ Then the Jews said to one another. "Where does this fellow intend to go, so that we shall not find him? He is not intending to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and to teach the Greeks, is he? ³⁶ "What does he mean saying, 'You shall seek me and you shall not find me,' and 'Where I am you cannot come'?" ³⁷ Now the last day, that the great day of the feast, Jesus stood up and cried in a loud voice. ³⁸ "If any man thirst let him come to me and drink. From the heart of him who believes in me will flow, as the Scripture said, rivers of living water." ³⁹ Now he said this concerning the Spirit whom those who believed in him should receive. For the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus had not yet been glorified. ⁴⁰ Some of the crowd who had been listening to these discourses began to say, "Without a doubt this man is a Prophet." ⁴¹ Other said, "He is the Christ." But others were saying. "Surely the Christ is not to come out of Galilee, is he? ⁴² "Does not the Scripture say that the Christ is coming of the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, David's town?" ⁴³ So a division arose in the crowd concerning him. Some of them wished to apprehend him, but no one laid hands on him. ⁴⁴ Then the officers returned to the chief priest and Pharisees, ⁴⁵ and they asked them, "Why have you not brought him?" ⁴⁶ The officers answered, "Never yet did a man speak like this man." ⁴⁷ "Surely you have not been led astray, have you? answered the Pharisees. ⁴⁸ "Has any one of the rulers believed on him, or of the Pharisees? ⁴⁹ "As for this mob who do not understand the Law, they are accursed!" ⁵⁰ Nicodemus, one of their number, he who had formerly visited Jesus, said to them, ⁵¹ "Our law does not condemn the accused, does it, before hearing his defense, and finding out what he is doing?" ⁵² In answer they said to him. "You are not from Galilee, are you? Search for yourself, and see that from Galilee arises no prophet." ⁵³ Then they departed each to his own house. ^{8 1} Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. ² At dawn, however, he came back to the Temple, where the people came to him in crowds. He had taken his seat and was teaching them, ³ when the Scribes and Pharisees had brought a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery. They made her stand in the middle of the court, and said to him. ⁴ "Rabbi, this woman has been found in the very act of adultery. ⁵ "Now Moses, in the Law, has commanded us to stone such creatures. But you, what do you say?" ⁶ (This they said to tempt him, so that they could bring a charge against him.) ⁷ But Jesus stooped down, and began to write on the ground with his finger. When they continued to question him, he raised himself and said to them, "Let the innocent man among you be the first to throw the stone at her." ⁸ Then he stooped down again, and again began to write on the ground. ⁹ When they heard that, they went out one by one, beginning with the eldest. And Jesus was left behind alone—and the woman in the middle of the court. ¹⁰ Then Jesus raised himself up and said to her. "Woman, where are they? Has no man condemn you," ¹¹ "No one, Sir," she answered. "Neither do I condemned you," said Jesus. "Go, and never sin again." ¹² Once more Jesus addressed them. "I am the light of the world," he said; "He who follows me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the Light of life." ¹³ Then said the Pharisees to him. "You are bearing testimony to yourself; your testimony is not true." ¹⁴ In reply Jesus said to them. "Even if I do bear testimony to concerning myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I have come from and where I am going. But you do not know where I have come from, or where I am going. ¹⁵ "For you are judging according to the flesh. I am judging no man. ¹⁶ "Though even if I do judge, my judgment is trustworthy, because I am not alone, but the Father who sent me is with me. ¹⁷ "And in your Law it is written that the testimony of two men is true. ¹⁸ "I am one who gives testimony concerning myself, and the Father who sent me gives testimony concerning me." ¹⁹ "Where is your Father?" they asked him. "You have neither known me nor my Father," answered Jesus. "If you had known me, you would have known my father also." ²⁰ He said these words in the Treasury, while he was teaching in the Temple; yet no one arrested him, because his hour was not yet come. ²¹ Then again he said them. "I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I am going, you cannot come." ²² Then the Jews said: "He will not kill himself, will he? Is that why he says, 'Where I am going you cannot come'?" ²³ And he said to them. "You are from below. I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world. ²⁴ "That is why I said that you would die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins." ²⁵ "Who are you?" then they asked him. "What I am telling you from the beginning," Jesus answered. ²⁶ "I have many things to say and to judge concerning you. But he who sent me is true, and I speak to the world only those things which I have heard from him." ²⁷ They did not understand that he meant the Father, ²⁸ so Jesus added. "When you lifted up the Son of man, then you will know that I am He; and that I do nothing on my own authority, but that I speak just as the Father has taught me, ²⁹ "and he who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, for I do always the things that please him." ³⁰ When he spoke in this way, many of the Jews believed in him. ³¹ So Jesus spoke to the Jews that believed him, saying. "If you abide in my teaching, you are my true disciples; ³² "and you shall know the truth, and the truth will make you free." ³³ "We are descendants of Abraham," they replied, "and have never been in slavery to any man. What do you mean by saying, 'You shall become free'?" ³⁴ "In solemn truth I tell you," Jesus replied, "every one who commits sin is a slave ³⁵ "Now the slave does not remain permanently in the household, but the son does remain. ³⁶ "So then, if the Son shall set you free, you will be free indeed. ³⁷ "I know you are Abraham's descendants; but you are seeking to kill me, Because my teaching has no place in you. ³⁸ "I am declaring what I have seen with the Father, and you are acting as you have learned from your father." ³⁹ "Abraham is our father," they answered. "If you are indeed Abraham's children," said Jesus "do the deeds of Abraham. ⁴⁰ "But now you are seeking to kill me—a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham did not do that. ⁴¹ "You are doing the deeds of your father." "We were not born of adultery," they said; "we have one Father, God." ⁴² Jesus said to them. "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I proceeded forth and am now come from God. I did not come on my own authority, but God himself sent me. ⁴³ "How is it that you do not understand what I say? It is because you cannot listen to my message. ⁴⁴ "You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a man-slayer from the very beginning; and he has no standing place in the truth, because truth is not in him. Whenever he utters a lie, he speaks from his nature, for he is a liar and the father of lying. ⁴⁵ "But as for me, it is because I speak the truth to you that you do not believe me. ⁴⁶ "Which one of you convicts me of sin? Why then, if I am speaking the truth, do you not believe me? ⁴⁷ "He who is from God listens to God's words. For this reason you do not listen, because you are not from God." ⁴⁸ In reply the Jews said to him, "Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan, and you also have a demon?" ⁴⁹ "I do not have a demon," said Jesus, "but I am honoring my Father, and you are dishonoring me. ⁵⁰ "Yet I am not seeking my own honor. There is One who is seeking it, and He is judge. ⁵¹ "In solemn truth I tell you that if any one obeys my teaching he shall never behold death." ⁵² "Now we know that you have a demon," exclaimed the Jews. Abraham died, and so did the prophets; and yet you say, 'If any man obeys my teaching he shall never taste death.' ⁵³ "You are not greater than our father Abraham, are you? And he died, and the prophets died. Who are you making yourself out to be?" ⁵⁴ "If I glorify myself." said Jesus, "my glory is nothing. It is my Father that glorifies me, and you say, 'He is our God.' ⁵⁵ "You are not acquainted with him; I know him. Were I to say, 'I do not know him,' I should be like you, a liar. But I do know him, and I obey his teaching. ⁵⁶ "Your father Abraham rejoiced that he should see my day; and he saw it and was glad." ⁵⁷ "You are not yet fifty years old," said the Jews to him, "and you have seen Abraham?" ⁵⁸ "In solemn truth I tell you," answered Jesus, "that before Abraham came into existence, I am." ⁵⁹ Then they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the Temple. ^{9 1} Now as he was passing along he saw a man, blind from birth. ² "Rabbi," his disciples asked him, "who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" ³ "Neither he nor his parents sinned." replied Jesus; "it happened that the works of God might be made manifest in him. ⁴ "I must work the works of him that sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no man can work. ⁵ "While I am in the world, I am the Light of the world." ⁶ When he had thus spoken he spat on the ground, and made clay with the spittle, and smeared the clay on the man's eyes. ⁷ Then he said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (a word which means "sent"). So the man went and washed his eyes, and came back seeing. ⁸ Upon this the neighbors and those who used to know him by sight as a beggar, began asking, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?" ⁹ Some said, "It is he." Others said, "No, but he looks like him." "I am the man," he said. ¹⁰ So they asked him, "How then were your eyes opened?" ¹¹ He answered. "The man who is called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash'; so I went and washed and received my sight." ¹² "Where is he?" they asked. "I do not know," answered the man. ¹³ Then they brought the man who had been blind to the Pharisees. ¹⁴ Now it was on the Sabbath that Jesus had made clay and opened his eyes; ¹⁵ so the Pharisees again began to ask him questions about how he had regained his sight; and he said to them, "He put clay on my eyes, and I washed them, and now I see." ¹⁶ Then some of the Pharisees began to say, "This man in not from God, because he does not keep the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?" ¹⁷ So there was a difference of opinion among them. Accordingly they said to the blind man, "What have you to say about him, now that he has opened your eyes?" "He is a prophet," he answered. ¹⁸ The Jews, however, did not believe about him that he was blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man whose sight had been restored, ¹⁹ and questioned them. "Is this your son," they said, "who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?" ²⁰ Then in reply his parents said: "We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind; ²¹ "but how he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who has opened his eyes. Ask him, himself. He is of age. He will speak for himself." ²² This his parents said because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if any one should confess that he was the Christ, he should be expelled from the synagogue. ²³ It was because this that his parents said: "He is of age. Ask him, himself." ²⁴ So the Jews a second time summoned the man who had been blind, and said to him. ²⁵ "Give glory to God! we know that this man is a sinner." Upon this the blind man answered. "I do not know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know, that once I was blind, and know I can see." ²⁶ "What was it he did to you?" they asked him; "How did he open your eyes?" ²⁷ He answered. "I have told you already, and you did not listen. Why do you wish to hear it again? Can it be that you, too, wish to become his disciples?" ²⁸ Then they stormed at him. "You are his disciple. We are Moses' disciples. ²⁹ "We know that God spoke to Moses. But this fellow! We do not know where he comes from." ³⁰ "This is truly astonishing," said the man in reply, "that you do not know where he is from, and yet he has opened my eyes. ³¹ "We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if any one is God-fearing and does his will, to such he listens. ³² "Since the beginning of the world such a thing as opening the eyes of one who was born blind was never heard of. ³³ "If this man had not come of God he could have done nothing." ³⁴ They answered, "You were wholly born in sins, and do you teach us?" Then they cast him out. ³⁵ Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said, "Do you believe in the Son of man?" ³⁶ "Who is he, Sir," he replied, "that I may believe on him." ³⁷ "You have already seen him," Jesus answered, "and it is he who now speaks to you." ³⁸ "I do believe, Sir," said the man, and he prostrated himself at his feet. And Jesus said, ³⁹ "For judgment am I come into the world, to make the sightless see, and to make the seeing blind." ⁴⁰ Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this and asked, "We are not blind, are we?" ⁴¹ "If you were blind," Jesus answered them, "you would have no sin. But now you are declaring, 'We see'; so your sin remains. ^{10 1} "In solemn truth I tell you that whoever does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other way, that man is a thief and a robber; ² "but he who comes in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. ³ "The porter opens the door for him; the sheep listen to his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out. ⁴ "When he has brought all his own sheep, he walks before them and the sheep follow him because they know his voice. ⁵ "But a stranger they will not follow, but flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers." ⁶ Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what he was talking about; so he said to them again. ⁷ "In solemn truth I tell you that I am the Door of the sheep. ⁸ "All that came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. ⁹ "I am the Door. Whoever enters by me shall be saved, and he shall go in and come out and find pasture. ¹⁰ "The thief never comes except to steal and kill and destroy. I am come that they may have life, and may have it in abundance. ¹¹ "I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his very life for the sheep. ¹² "The hired servant, since he is not a shepherd and does not own his sheep, leaves the sheep and flees when he sees a wolf coming—and the wolf worries them and scatters them. ¹³ "He is only a hired servant, and the sheep are no care to him. ¹⁴ "I am the good shepherd. I know my sheep, and my sheep know me; ¹⁵ just as the Father knows me, I know the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep. ¹⁶ "I have other sheep also, which do not belong to this fold. I must bring them too, and they will listen to my voice, and they will become one flock, one shepherd. ¹⁷ "The Father loves me for this, because I am laying down my life that I may take it again. ¹⁸ "No man is taking it away from me. I am laying it down on my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father." ¹⁹ The Jews were again divided over these words. ²⁰ Many of them kept saying. "He has a demon and is mad! Why do you listen to him?" ²¹ Others were saying. "These are not the words of one demon-possessed. Can a demoniac open the eyes of the blind?" ²² Then came the feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem. ²³ It was winter, and Jesus used to walk in the Temple, in Solomon's Portico. ²⁴ Then all the Jews encircled him and kept asking him. "How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly." ²⁵ Jesus answered them. "I have told you, and you do not believe. The works which I am doing in my Father's name, these bear witness concerning me. ²⁶ "But you do not believe, because you are not of my sheep. ²⁷ "My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them and they follow me. ²⁸ "I am giving them eternal life, and they shall never perish, nor shall any one snatch them out of my hand. ²⁹ "My Father who has given them to me is stronger than all, and no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand. ³⁰ "I and my Father are one." ³¹ The Jews again took stones with which to stone him. Jesus said to them. ³² "I have shown you many good deeds from my Father. For which of these are you going to stone me?" ³³ "We are not going to stone you for a good deed," answered the Jews, "but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, are making yourself God." ³⁴ "Is it written in your law," replied Jesus, "I said, You are gods? ³⁵ "If those to whom the word of God came are called gods (and the Scripture cannot be annulled), ³⁶ do you mean to tell me, whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'? ³⁷ "If I am not doing the deeds of my Father, do not believe me. ³⁸ "But if I am doing them, then though you believe not me, believe the deeds, in order that you may come to know and keep on clearly understanding that the Father is in me and I am in the Father." ³⁹ Then again they attempted to seize him, but he escaped out of their hands, ⁴⁰ and went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and there he remained. ⁴¹ Many who came to him said, "John did not perform any signs, but everything he said about this man was true." ⁴² And many believed on him there. ^{11 1} Now a man named Lazarus was ill. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha— ² it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill. ³ So the sisters sent to him, saying. "Master, see who you hold dear is ill." ⁴ When Jesus heard it he said, "This illness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that through it the Son of God may be glorified." ⁵ Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. ⁶ However, when he heard that he was ill, ⁷ he still remained where he was for two days; then after that he said to his disciples, "Let us go back again to Judea." ⁸ "Rabbi," answered his disciples, "it was but just now that the Jews were trying to stone you, and are you going there again?" ⁹ Jesus replied. "Are there not twelve hours in the daytime? If any one walks in the daytime he does not stumble, because he beholds the light of this world; ¹⁰ but if any one walks during the night he does stumble, because the light is not in him." ¹¹ This he said, then told them, "Lazarus, our friend, has fallen asleep, but I am going to wake him." ¹² "Master, if he has fallen asleep, he will get well," replied the disciples. ¹³ Now Jesus had been speaking concerning his death, but they thought that he was talking about natural sleep. ¹⁴ So then he told them plainly. ¹⁵ "Lazarus is dead; and for your sakes I am glad I was not there, in order that you may believe. Come, let us go to him." ¹⁶ Upon this Thomas, who was called "The Twin," said to his fellow disciples, "Let us go too, that we may die with him." ¹⁷ so when Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been four days in the tomb. ¹⁸ Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, only about two miles away; ¹⁹ so a number of the Jews had gone to Martha and Mary to sympathize with them concerning their brother. ²⁰ So when Martha learned that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him, but Mary remained sitting in the house. ²¹ Then Martha said to Jesus. "Master, had you been here my brother would not have died; ²² but even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you." ²³ Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again." ²⁴ Martha answered, "I know that he will rise in the resurrection, at the Last Day." ²⁵ "I am the resurrection and the life," said Jesus. "He who believes in me, even if he has died, shall live. ²⁶ And every one who is living and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?" ²⁷ "Yes, Master," she answered, "I have come to believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world." ²⁸ With these words she went away to call her sister Mary, saying privately, "The Teacher is here and is asking for you." ²⁹ So when Mary heard this, she rose quickly and went to meet him. ³⁰ Jesus had not yet arrived in the village, but was still at the place where Martha met him. ³¹ Then the Jews who were in the house trying to console her, when they saw that Mary rose quickly and went out, followed her, because they thought she was going to the tomb to weep there. ³² When Mary came to the place where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell at his feet, saying, "Master had you been here, my brother would not have died." ³³ Then when Jesus saw her sobbing, and the Jews likewise who accompanied her, sobbing, he shuddered with indignation in his spirit, and was deeply agitated. ³⁴ "Where have you laid him?" he said: "Master, come and see," they answered. ³⁵ Jesus burst into tears. ³⁶ "See how he loved him," said the Jews. But some of them said, ³⁷ "Could not this man, who has opened the eyes of the blind man, have prevented this man also from dying?" ³⁸ Jesus therefore, again shuddering in himself with indignation, came to the tomb, which was a cave with a stone lying upon it. ³⁹ "Roll away the stone," said Jesus. "Master," said Martha, the sister of the dead man "he is offensive by this time, for he has been four days in the tomb." ⁴⁰ Jesus answered her, "Did I not tell you that if you would believe you should see the glory of God?" ⁴¹ Then they rolled the stone away; and Jesus lifted up his eyes and said: ⁴² "Father, I thank thee that thou hast listened to me. And I knew that thou art ever listening to me, but for the sake of the crowd who are standing about, I said it, in order that they may believe that thou hast sent me." ⁴³ When he had said this he cried with a great voice, "Lazarus, come forth!" ⁴⁴ Out came the dead man, wrapped hand and foot with grave-clothes, and his face bound up in a napkin. Jesus said to them, "Untie him, and let him go." ⁴⁵ Many of the Jews, therefore, who had come with Mary, and had seen what he did, believed on him; ⁴⁶ but some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. ⁴⁷ So the chief priests and Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin. ⁴⁸ "What are we going to do?" they said, "now that this man is performing many signs?" If we leave him alone, this way, every one will believe on him, and the Romans will come and rob us of both our sacred place and of our people." ⁴⁹ But one of their number, Caiaphas by name, who was high priest that year, said to them, ⁵⁰ "You know nothing at all, nor do you consider that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, rather than the whole nation be destroyed." ⁵¹ now he did not say this of his own accord; but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was about to die in behalf of the nation, ⁵² and not in behalf of the nation alone, but in order that he might gather into one the widely scattered children of God. ⁵³ So from that day they plotted to kill him. ⁵⁴ Jesus therefore no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but went away from there into the region near the desert to a town called Ephraim, ⁵⁵ and there remained with his disciples. Now the Jewish Passover was near, and many people went up from the country to Jerusalem for purification before the Passover. ⁵⁶ So they kept looking for Jesus and saying to one another, as they stood in the Temple, "What do you think—that he will not come to the feast at all?" ⁵⁷ Now the chief priests and Pharisees had given orders that if any one knew where he was. he should give information, so that they might arrest him. ^{12 1} So then Jesus came six days before the Passover, to Bethany, where Lazarus was whom Jesus had raised from the dead. ² So they gave a dinner for him there, and Martha served it; but Lazarus was one of those who reclined with him at table. ³ Then Mary took a pound of pure spikenard, very costly, and poured it over his feet, and wiped his feet with her hair, and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. ⁴ Then said Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, who was about to betray him, ⁵ "Why was not this perfume sold for fifty dollars, and the proceeds given to the poor?" ⁶ This he said not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and, carrying the purse, ⁷ used to purloin what was put in it. Then said Jesus. "Let her alone. Against the day of my burial has she kept this; ⁸ for the poor you have with you always, but me you have not always." ⁹ When the great mass of the Jews learned that Jesus was there, they came not alone because of Jesus, but to see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead. ¹⁰ And the chief priests plotted to kill Lazarus too, ¹¹ because it was on his account that many of the Jews were leaving them, and beginning to believe on Jesus. ¹² Next day the big crowd who had come up for the Passover heard that Jesus was coming into Jerusalem, ¹³ and taking branches from the palm trees went out to meet him, shouting, "Hosanna! Blessed is he who cometh in the name of the Lord. Even Israel's King!" ¹⁴ And Jesus found a young ass and seated himself on it, as it is written, ¹⁵ Fear not, daughter of Zion, Behold thy King cometh seated upon an ass's colt. ¹⁶ His disciples did not understand these things at first; but when Jesus had been glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written concerning him, and what they had done to him. ¹⁷ Meanwhile the crowd which was with him when he summoned Lazarus from the tomb and raised him from the dead, kept witnessing. ¹⁸ For this reason, too, the crowd came to meet him, because they had heard about this sign which he had done. ¹⁹ Then the Pharisees said among themselves. "You see! You can do nothing! Look! The world is gone after him!" ²⁰ Now there were certain Greeks among those who had come up to worship during the Passover feast; ²¹ these came to Philip of Bethsaida in Galilee, with a request. "Sir," they said, "we want to see Jesus." ²² Philip went and told Andrew. Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. Jesus answered. ²³ "The hour is come that the Son of man should be glorified. ²⁴ In solemn truth I tell you that except a kernel of wheat fall into the ground and die, it remains a single kernel; but if it die it bears a great crop. ²⁵ He who loves his life loses it; and he who regards not his life in this world shall keep it for eternal life. ²⁶ If any one is ready to serve me, let him follow me; and where I am there shall my servant be also. If any man is ready to serve me, him will my Father honor. ²⁷ Now is my soul disquieted. What shall I say? 'Father, save me from this hour'? Nay, for this very cause I am come to this hour. ²⁸ Father, glorify thy name!" Whereupon there came a voice from heaven, saying, "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again." ²⁹ Then the crowd who stood around and heard it, said, "It thundered!" But others said, "An angel has spoken to him." ³⁰ "It is not for my sake," answered Jesus, "that the voice came, but for your sakes. ³¹ Now is a judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be driven out. ³² "AND I, IF I BE LIFTED UP FROM THE EARTH, WILL DRAW ALL MEN UNTO MYSELF." ³³ (In saying this he was signifying by what kind of death he was to die.) ³⁴ Then the people answered. "We have heard out of the Law that the Christ abides forever. What do you mean by 'The Son of man must be lifted up'? Who is this Son of man?" ³⁵ "The Light is among you a little longer," answered Jesus. "Walk while you have the Light, lest darkness overtake you. He who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going. ³⁶ While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so that you may become Sons of Light." ³⁷ With these words Jesus went away and hid himself from them. But although he had wrought such signs in their presence, still they did not believe in him. ³⁸ So the words spoken by Isaiah, the prophet, were fulfilled. Lord, who hath believed our message, And to whom hath the Arm of the Lord been revealed? ³⁹ This was why they could not believe, because Isaiah said again. ⁴⁰ He hath blinded their eyes and make their hearts hard, Lest they should see with their eyes, perceive with their minds, And should turn, and I should heal them. ⁴¹ Isaiah uttered these words because he saw his glory, and he spoke of him. ⁴² Nevertheless, even among the rulers many believed on him, but did not confess in on account of the Pharisees, for fear lest they be put out of the Synagogue. ⁴³ For they loved the approval of men rather than the approval of God. ⁴⁴ Now Jesus, speaking in a loud voice, had said: ⁴⁵ "He who believes in me believes not in me, but in Him who sent me; and he who sees me sees him who sent me. ⁴⁶ Like light am I come into the world, so that no one who believes in me may remain in darkness. ⁴⁷ And if any one hears my words and does not keep them, it is not I who judge him; for I am not come to judge the world, but to save the world. ⁴⁸ He who rejects me, and does not receive my words, has indeed a judge. The message which I have spoken, that shall judge him in the Last Day, ⁴⁹ because I have never spoken on my own authority, but the Father himself who sent me gave me commandment what to say and what words to speak. ⁵⁰ And I know that his commandment is eternal life. So whatever I speak, I speak as the Father has told me." ^{13 1} Now just before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour was come when he should leave this world to go to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, showed forth his love to the end. ² So while supper was proceeding, and the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray him, ³ Jesus, knowing that the Father had given everything into his hands, and that he was come from God, ⁴ and was now going to God, rose from supper, laid aside his upper garments, and took a towel and girded himself. ⁵ Then he poured water into the basin, and began to wash the feet of his disciples and to wipe them with the towel with which he had girded himself. ⁶ Then he came to Simon Peter, who said to him, "Lord, are you going to wash my feet?" ⁷ Jesus answered him, "What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will understand it later." ⁸ Peter answered, "No, never shall you wash my feet." "If I do not wash you," said Jesus, "you have no part in me." ⁹ "Lord," said Simon Peter, "not my feet only, but also my hands and my head." ¹⁰ Jesus said: "He who has bathed needs only to have his feet washed, and he is altogether clean; and you are clean, but not all of you." ¹¹ (For he knew who should betray him, for that reason he said that they were not every one of them clean.) ¹² So after he had washed their feet, and had put on his upper garments again, and taken his place, he said to them. ¹³ "Do you understand what I have been doing to you? You call me 'Teacher' and 'Master', and you say well, for such I am. ¹⁴ If then I have washed your feet, I the 'Master' and the 'Teacher', you also ought to wash one another's feet, ¹⁵ for I have given you an example, that you also should do what I have done to you. ¹⁶ In solemn truth I tell you that a slave is not greater than his master, neither is a messenger greater than the one who sends him. ¹⁷ If you know these things, happy are you if you do them. ¹⁸ I do not speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen, but it is that the Scripture may be fulfilled, which says. "He who eats my bread has lifted up his heel against me. ¹⁹ "From this time forward, I tell you before it comes to pass, that when it is come to pass you may believe who I am. ²⁰ In solemn truth I tell you, he who receives any one that I send is receiving me; and he who receives me is receiving Him who sent me." ²¹ When he had spoken thus, Jesus was deeply moved. He testified and said, "In solemn truth I tell you that one of you will betray me." ²² Then the disciples began looking at one another, wondering which one of them he meant. ²³ There was reclining upon Jesus' breast one of the disciples whom he loved. ²⁴ So Simon Peter beckoned to him, saying, "Ask who it is about whom he is speaking." ²⁵ So that disciples just leaned back against Jesus' breast and said to him, "Lord, who is it?" ²⁶ "It is that one," answered Jesus, " to whom I am going to give a piece of bread, after dipping it." ²⁷ So when he had dipped the bread, he took it and gave it to Judas Iscariot, son of Simon. And after he had received the piece of bread, Satan entered into him. "What you do, do quickly," said Jesus. ²⁸ Now no one at the table understood why he said this to him, ²⁹ for some were thinking, as Judas kept the purse, that Jesus meant to tell him, "Buy the things that we need for the feast," or that he should give something to the poor. ³⁰ When he had taken the piece of bread, Judas went out immediately; and it was night. ³¹ So when he was gone, Jesus said: "Now has the Son of man been glorified, and God has been glorified in him. ³² If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and straightway will he glorify him. ³³ "My little children, I am only to be with you a little longer. You will seek me; just as I said to the Jews, 'Where I go you cannot come,' so now I say to you. ³⁴ I give you a new commandment, Love one another! ³⁵ By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another." ³⁶ Simon Peter asked him, "Lord, where are you going?" "Where I am going," answered Jesus, "you cannot follow me now; but you shall follow me later." ³⁷ "Why cannot I follow you now, Master?" said Peter. "I will lay down my life for you." Jesus answered him. ³⁸ "Your life you will lay down for me? In solemn truth I tell you, the cock shall not crow before you have three times disowned me." ^{14 1} "Let not your hearts be troubled. You trust in God, trust in me also. ² In my Father's house there are many rooms If it were not so, would I have told you that I went to prepare a place for you? ³ I will return and will take you to be with me, so that where I am you may be also. ⁴ And the way is known to you all, where I am going." ⁵ "We do not know where you are going Lord," said Thomas, "so how can we know the way?" ⁶ Jesus answered him. "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No man ever comes to the Father but by me. ⁷ If you had known me, you would have known my Father too; from now on you know him and have seen him." ⁸ "Lord," said Philip, "cause us to see the Father, and we shall be satisfied." ⁹ "Have I been so long among you, and yet you, Philip, have you not recognized me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Cause us to see the Father'? ¹⁰ "Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father in me? The words that I speak to you I speak not of myself; but the Father, who ever dwells in me, is doing his own work. ¹¹ "Believe me, all of you, that I am in the Father and the Father in me, or else believe me for the very words' sake. ¹² "I tell you solemnly that he who trusts in me shall himself do the works that I am doing; and still greater works than these, because I am going to my Father. ¹³ "And whatever' you ask in my name I will do; that the Father may be glorified in the Son. ¹⁴ "If you ask anything in my name, I will do it. ¹⁵ "If you love me, you will obey my commandments, ¹⁶ "and I will pray the Father, and he will give you another Comforter to be with you forever, the Spirit of Truth. ¹⁷ "The world cannot receive him because it does not see him nor know him, but you know him, for he is ever with you and within you. ¹⁸ "I will not leave you comfortless; I will come to you. ¹⁹ "Yet a little while and the world shall see me no more, but you shall see me; because I live, you, too, shall live. ²⁰ "At that day you shall understand that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. ²¹ "It is he who has my commands and obeys them that loves me; and he who loves me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will manifest myself to him." ²² "How is it, Lord," said Judas (not Iscariot) "that you will manifest yourself to us and not to the world?" ²³ Jesus replied. "If any loves me he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. ²⁴ "He that loves me not does not obey words, and yet the words to which you are listening are not mine, but the Father's who sent me. ²⁵ "All this I told you while still with you. ²⁶ "But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything, and bring to your remembrance everything that I have told you. ²⁷ "Peace I leave with you. My own peace I give to you. It is not the world's 'Peace' I give you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. ²⁸ "You heard me tell you, 'I am going away, and yet I am coming to you.' If you loved me you would have been glad because I said 'I am going to the Father,' for my Father is greater than I. ²⁹ "And now I tell you this before it happens, so that when it does happen you may believe. ³⁰ "I shall not talk with you much more, for the Prince of this world is coming. ³¹ "He has nothing in me, but in his coming the world may know that I love the Father, and that I do just as the Father commanded. Rise, let us be going!" ^{15 1} "I am the vine, and my Father the vine-grower. ² "He cuts back any of my branches that bear no fruit, and prunes every fruit-bearing branch, that it may bear more. ³ "Now you are clean through the word which I have spoken to you. ⁴ "Abide in me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine, no more can you, unless you abide in me. ⁵ "I am the Vine you are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him, bears abundant fruit; because apart from me you can do nothing. ⁶ "If any one does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers. Such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire and burned. ⁷ "If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask whatever your will is, and it shall be yours. ⁸ "By this is my Father glorified, by your bearing abundant fruit, and so being my disciples. ⁹ "As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love. ¹⁰ "If you obey my commands you will abide in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and abide in his love. ¹¹ "I have told you these things that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. ¹² "This is my command, Love one another as I have loved you. ¹³ "Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴ "You are my friends if you do what I command you. ¹⁵ "I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have learned from my Father. ¹⁶ "You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. ¹⁷ "This is my command. to love one another. If the worlds hates you, ¹⁸ "do not forget that it hated me first. ¹⁹ "If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, for that reason the world hates you. ²⁰ "Remember what I told you, 'A slave is not better than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you. If they have obeyed my word, they will obey yours also. ²¹ "But they will do all these things to you for my name's sake, because they know not Him who sent me. ²² "If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. ²³ "He who hates me hates my Father also. ²⁴ "If I had not done among them such works as none ever did, they would have had no sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father. ²⁵ "And so is fulfilled the word written in their Law, 'They hate me without cause.' ²⁶ "When the Comforter is come whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of Truth who comes forth from the Father, he will bear witness of me; ²⁷ "and you to shall bear witness because you have been with me from the first. ^{16 1} "I have told you all this so that you may not stumble. ² "They will excommunicate you from their synagogues; indeed the time is coming when any one who kills you will suppose that he is doing God's service. ³ "And they will do these things because they have not known my Father, nor me. ⁴ "But I have told you these things, that when the time comes you may remember that I told you about them, myself. I did not, however, speak of these things at first, because I was with you. ⁵ "But now I go my way to Him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, 'Where are you going?' ⁶ "but sorrow has filled your hearts because I have told you these things. ⁷ "Yet—I am telling you the truth—my going is for your good. For unless I go away the Comforter will not come to you; but if I depart I will send him unto you. ⁸ And he, when he comes, will convict the world of sins and of righteousness and of judgment; ⁹ of sin, because they do not believe in me; ¹⁰ of righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you will no longer see me; and of judgement, ¹¹ because the Prince of this world has been judged. ¹² "I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them just now. ¹³ But when he is come, that Spirit of Truth, he will guide you into the whole truth. For he will not speak on his own authority, but all that he hears he will speak, and will make known to you that which is to come. ¹⁴ He will glorify me; for he will take of what is mine and will make known to you. ¹⁵ Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said that he will take of what is mine and make it known to you. ¹⁶ "In a little while you shall behold me no more; and again in a little while you shall see me, because I am going to the Father." ¹⁷ At this some of his disciples said among themselves. "What does he mean by telling us, 'In a little while you shall behold me no more; and again in a little while you shall see me,' and 'because I am going to the Father'?" ¹⁸ So they kept asking. "What does that 'little while' mean of which he speaks? We do not know what he is talking about." ¹⁹ Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and said: "Are you questioning one another about my saying, 'A little while and you shall behold me no more, and again a little while you shall see me'? ²⁰ I tell you solemnly that you will be weeping and wailing while the world is rejoicing; you will be grief-stricken, but your grief shall be turned into gladness. ²¹ A woman in labor has grief because her hour is come; but when she has given birth to the babe she no longer remembers her anguish, because of joy that a child has been born into the world. ²² So you also have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your heart will rejoice, and your joy shall no man snatch away from you. ²³ And in that day you will ask me no questions. "Most solemnly I tell you that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give you. ²⁴ Hitherto you have asked nothing in my name; ask, and you shall receive, that your joy may be full. ²⁵ "I have told you these things in figures; but the time is coming when I shall no longer speak in figures, but will tell you about the Father in plain words. ²⁶ In that day you shall pray in my name; and I do not tell you that I will ask the Father on your behalf; ²⁷ for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and believed that I came forth from the God. ²⁸ I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world. again, I am leaving the world, and am going to the Father." ²⁹ "Ah," said the disciples, "now you are speaking plain language, and not using figures. ³⁰ Now we are sure that you know all things, and have no need for any one to question you; by this we believe that you came forth from God." ³¹ "Do you now believe?" said Jesus; ³² "behold the hour approaches and is already come when you will be scattered, each man to his home, and will leave me alone; and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. ³³ I have said all this to you that in me you might have peace. In the world you will have tribulation, but be courageous; I have overcome the world."