John 8:59-17:26 Then they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the Temple.

MNT⁽ⁱ⁾ 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." ¹⁷ ¹ When he had thus spoken, Jesus raised his eyes to heaven and said: "Father, the hour is come. Glorify the Son, that thy Son may glorify thee; ² since thou hast given him authority over all mankind, to give eternal life to all whom thou hast given him. ³ And this is eternal life, to know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. ⁴ I have glorified thee on the earth; I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. ⁵ And now, O Father, glorify thou me with own self, with the glory I had with thee before the world began. ⁶ "I have made known thy name to the men whom thou gavest me out of the world. Thine they were, and thou gavest them to me, and they have kept thy word. ⁷ They know now that whatever thou hast given me was from thee; ⁸ for I have given them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and they have believed that thou didst send me. ⁹ "I am praying for them; I am not praying for the world, but for those whom thou hast given me; for they are thine, ¹⁰ and all thine are mine, and mine are thine; and I am glorified in them. ¹¹ 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 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 "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 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 I am not asking that thou wilt take them out of the world, but that thou wilt protect them from the Evil One. ¹⁶ They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. ¹⁷ Dedicate them in thy truth; thy word is truth. ¹⁸ As thou hast sent me into the world, even so I also have sent them into the world. ¹⁹ And for their sakes I dedicate myself, that they also may be thoroughly dedicated in the truth. ²⁰ "Nor do I pray for them alone, but for those also who believe in me through their word, ²¹ that they may all be one, even as thou, Father, art in me and I in thee; that they also may be in us; in order that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. ²² And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one even as we are one, ²³ I in them and thou in me; that they may be made perfectly one, so that the world may recognize that thou didst send me, and hast loved them as thou hast loved me. ²⁴ "Father, it is my will that wherever I am these also, thy gift to me, may be with me, that they may see the glory, my glory which thou hast given me, because thou didst love me before the foundations of the world. ²⁵ O righteous Father, though the world knew thee not, I have known thee, and these have known that though didst send me. ²⁶ And I have declared—and will declare—thy name unto them, that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them, and that I may be in them."