John 6:31-16:33 Our ancestors ate manna in the desert: as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat."

Moffatt⁽ⁱ⁾ ³¹ Our ancestors ate manna in the desert: as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat." ³² Then said Jesus, "What Moses gave you was not the bread from heaven; it is my Father who gives you the real bread from heaven — ³³ for the bread of God is what comes down from heaven and gives life to the world." ³⁴ "Ah, sir," they said to him, "give us that bread always." ³⁵ Jesus said, "I am the bread of life; he who comes to me will never be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty again. ³⁶ But, as I told you, though you have seen me, you do not believe. ³⁷ All those will come to me who are the Father's gift to me, and never will I reject one of them; ³⁸ for I have come down from heaven not to carry out my own will but the will of him who sent me, ³⁹ and the will of him who sent me is that I lose none of those who are his gift to me, but that I raise them all up on the last day. ⁴⁰ It is the will of my Father that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him should possess eternal life, and that I should raise him up on the last day." ⁴¹ Now the Jews murmured at him for saying, "I am the bread which has come down from heaven." ⁴² They said, "Is this not Jesus the son of Joseph? We know his father and mother. How can he claim now, 'I have come down from heaven'?" ⁴³ Jesus replied to them, "Stop murmuring to yourselves. ⁴⁴ No one is able to come to me unless he is drawn by the Father who sent me (and I will raise him up on the last day). ⁴⁵ In the prophets it is written, and they will be all instructed by God; everyone who has listened to the Father and learned from him, comes to me. ⁴⁶ Not that anyone has seen the Father — he only, who is from God, he has seen the Father. ⁴⁷ Truly, truly I tell you, the believer has eternal life. ⁴⁸ I am the bread of life. ⁴⁹ Your ancestors ate manna in the desert, but they died; ⁵⁰ the bread that comes down from heaven is such that one eats of it and never dies. ⁵¹ I am the living bread which has come down from heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and more, the bread I will give is my flesh, given for the life of the world." ⁵² The Jews then wrangled with one another, saying, "How can he give us his flesh to eat?" ⁵³ So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life within you. ⁵⁴ He who feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood possesses eternal life (and I will raise him up on the last day), ⁵⁵ for my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. ⁵⁶ He who feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood remains within me, as I remain within him. ⁵⁷ Just as the living Father sent me and I live by the Father, so he who feeds on me will also live by me. ⁵⁸ Such is the bread which has come down from heaven: your ancestors ate their bread and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live for ever." ⁵⁹ This he said as he taught in the synagogue at Capharnahum. ⁶⁰ Now many of his disciples, on hearing it, said, "This is hard to take in! Who can listen to talk like this?" ⁶¹ Jesus, inwardly conscious that his disciples were murmuring at it, said to them, "So this upsets you? ⁶² Then what if you were to see the Son of man ascending to where he formerly existed? ⁶³ What gives life is the Spirit: flesh is of no avail at all. The words I have uttered to you are spirit and life. ⁶⁴ And yet there are some of you who do not believe" (for Jesus knew from the very first who the unbelieving were, and who was to betray him; ⁶⁵ that was why he said 'I tell you that no one is able to come to me unless he is allowed by the Father'). ⁶⁶ After that, many of his disciples drew back and would not associate with him any longer. ⁶⁷ So Jesus said to the twelve, "You do not want to go, too?" ⁶⁸ Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, who are we to go to? You have got words of eternal life, ⁶⁹ and we believe, we are certain, that you are the holy One of God." ⁷⁰ Jesus answered them, "Did I not choose you, the twelve? And yet one of you is a devil!" ⁷¹ (He meant Judas the son of Simon Iscariot; for Judas was to betray him — and he was one of the twelve.) ⁷ ¹ After this Jesus moved about in Galilee; he would not move in Judaea, because the Jews were trying to kill him. ² Now the Jewish festival of booths was near, ³ so his brothers said to him, "Leave this and go across into Judaea, to let your disciples witness what you can do; ⁴ for nobody who aims at public recognition ever keeps his actions secret. Since you can do these deeds, display yourself to the world" ⁵ (for even his brothers did not believe in him). ⁶ Jesus said to them, "My time has not come yet, but your time is always at hand; ⁷ the world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that its deeds are evil. ⁸ Go up to the festival yourselves; I am not going up to this festival, for my time has not arrived yet." ⁹ So saying, he stayed on in Galilee. ¹⁰ But after his brothers had gone up to the festival, he went up too, not publicly but as it were privately. ¹¹ At the festival the Jews were in quest of him, saying, "Where is he?" ¹² And the crowd disputed about him hotly; some said, "He is a good man," but others said, "No, he is misleading the people." ¹³ For fear of the Jews, however, nobody spoke of him in public. ¹⁴ When the festival was half over, Jesus went up to the temple and began to teach. ¹⁵ [vss 15 to 24 placed after 5:47] The Jews were amazed, saying, "How can this uneducated fellow manage to read?" ¹⁶ Jesus told them in reply, "My teaching is not my own but his who sent me; ¹⁷ anyone who chooses to do his will, shall understand whether my teaching comes from God or whether I am talking on my own authority. ¹⁸ He who talks on his own authority aims at his own credit, but he who aims at the credit of the person who sent him, he is sincere, and there is no dishonesty in him. ¹⁹ Did not Moses give you the Law? — and yet none of you honestly obeys the Law. Else, why do you want to kill me?" ²⁰ The crowd replied, "You are mad. Who wants to kill you?" ²¹ Jesus answered them, "I have only performed one deed, and yet you are all amazed at it. ²² Moses gave you the rite of circumcision (not that it came from Moses, it came from your ancestors), and you will circumcise a man upon the sabbath. ²³ Well, if a man gets circumcised upon the sabbath, to avoid breaking the Law of Moses, are you enraged at me for curing, not cutting, the entire body of a man upon the sabbath? ²⁴ Give over judging by appearances; be just." ²⁵ Then said some of the Jerusalemites, "Is this not the man they want to kill? ²⁶ Yet here he is, opening his lips in public, and they say nothing to him! Can the authorities have really discovered that he is the Christ? ²⁷ No, we know where this man comes from; but when the Christ does come, no one will know where he comes from." ²⁸ So Jesus cried aloud, as he was teaching in the temple, "You know me? you know where I come from? But I have not come on my own initiative; I am sent, and sent by Him who is real. You do not know Him, ²⁹ but I know Him, because I have come from Him and He sent me." ³⁰ So they tried to arrest him; but no one laid hands on him, because his time had not come yet. ³¹ Indeed many of the people believed in him, saying, "When the Christ does come, will he perform more Signs than this man?" ³² The Pharisees heard the people discussing Jesus in this way, so the high priests and the Pharisees despatched attendants to arrest him. ³³ Then said Jesus, "I will be with you a little longer, then I go to Him who sent me; ³⁴ you will search for me but you will not find me, and where I go, you cannot come." ³⁵ The Jews said to themselves, "Where is he going, that we will not find him? Is he off to the Dispersion among the Greeks, to teach the Greeks? ³⁶ What does he mean by saying, 'You will search for me but you will not find me, and where I go, you cannot come'?" ³⁷ Now on the last day, the great day, of the festival, Jesus stood and cried aloud, "If anyone is athirst, let him come to me and drink; ³⁸ he who believes in me — out of his body, as scripture says, streams of living water will flow" ³⁹ (he meant by this the Spirit which those who believed in him were to receive: — as yet there was no Spirit, because Jesus had not been glorified yet). ⁴⁰ On hearing this some of the people said, "This really is the Prophet"; ⁴¹ others said, "He is the Christ"; but others said, "No, surely the Christ does not come from Galilee? ⁴² Does not scripture say it is from the offspring of David, from David's village of Bethlehem, that the Christ is to come?" ⁴³ So the people were divided over him; ⁴⁴ some wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him. ⁴⁵ Then the attendants went back to the high priests and Pharisees, who asked them, "Why have you not brought him with you?" ⁴⁶ The attendants replied, "No man ever spoke as he does." ⁴⁷ The Pharisees retorted, "Are you misled as well? ⁴⁸ Have any of the authorities or of the Pharisees believed in him? ⁴⁹ As for this mob, with its ignorance of the Law — it is accursed!" ⁵⁰ Nicodemus, one of their number (the same who had come to him before), said to them, ⁵¹ "But surely our Law does not condemn the accused before hearing what he has to say and ascertaining his offence?" ⁵² They answered him, "And are you from Galilee, too? Search and you will see that no prophet ever springs from Galilee." ⁵³ [And everyone of them went home, ⁸ ¹ but Jesus went to the Hill of Olives. ² Early in the morning he returned to the temple, the people all came to him, and he sat down and taught them. ³ The scribes and Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in the act of committing adultery, and making her stand forward ⁴ they said to him, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery. ⁵ Now Moses has commanded us in the Law to stone such creatures; but what do you say?" ⁶ (They said this to test him, in order to get a charge against him.) Jesus stooped down, and began to write with his finger on the ground; ⁷ but as they persisted with their question, he raised himself and said to them, "Let the innocent among you throw the first stone at her"; ⁸ then he stooped down again and wrote on the ground. ⁹ And on hearing what he said, they went away one by one, beginning with the older men, till Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. ¹⁰ Looking up, Jesus said to her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?" ¹¹ She said, "No one, sir." Jesus said, "Neither do I; be off, and never sin again."] ¹² Then Jesus again addressed them, saying, "I am the light of the world: he who follows me will not walk in darkness, he will enjoy the light of life." ¹³ So the Pharisees said to him, "You are testifying to yourself; your evidence is not valid." ¹⁴ Jesus replied to them, "Though I do testify to myself, my evidence is valid, because I know where I have come from and where I am going to — whereas you do not know where I have come from or where I am going to. ¹⁵ You judge by the outside. I judge no one; ¹⁶ and though I do judge, my judgment is true, because I am not by myself — there is myself and the Father who sent me. ¹⁷ Why, it is written in your own Law that the evidence of two persons is valid: ¹⁸ I testify to myself, and the Father who sent me also testifies to me." ¹⁹ "Where is your Father?" they said. Jesus replied, "You know neither me nor my Father; if you had known me you would have known my Father also." ²⁰ These words he spoke in the treasury, as he was teaching in the temple, but no one arrested him, because his time had not come yet. ²¹ Then he said to them again, "I go away, and you will search for me, but you will die in your sin; where I go, you cannot come." ²² So the Jews said, "Will he kill himself? Is that why he says, 'Where I go, you cannot come'?" ²³ He said to them, "You are from the world below, I am from the world above: you belong to this world, I do not belong to this world. ²⁴ So I told you, you would die in your sins; for unless you believe who I am, you will die in your sins." ²⁵ They said, "Who are you?" Jesus replied, "Why should I talk to you at all? ²⁶ I have a great deal to say about you and many a judgment to pass upon you; but he who sent me is true, and so I tell the world what I have learned from him." ²⁷ They did not understand he was speaking to them about the Father; ²⁸ so Jesus said, "When you have lifted up the Son of man, you will know then who I am, and that I do nothing of my own accord, but speak as the Father has taught me. ²⁹ He who sent me is at my side; he has not left me alone; for I always do what pleases him." ³⁰ As he said this, a number believed in him. ³¹ So Jesus addressed the Jews who had believed him, saying, "If you abide by what I say, you are really disciples of mine: ³² you will understand the truth, and the truth will set you free." ³³ "We are Abraham's offspring," they retorted, "we have never been slaves to anybody. What do you mean by saying, 'You will be free'?" ³⁴ Jesus replied, "Truly, truly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave. ³⁵ Now the slave does not remain in the household for all time; the son of the house does. ³⁶ So, if the Son sets you free, you will be really free. ³⁷ I know you are Abraham's offspring! Yet you want to kill me, since my word makes no headway among you! ³⁸ I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you act as you have learned from your father." ³⁹ They answered him, "Abraham is our father." "If you are Abraham's children," said Jesus, "then do as Abraham did; ⁴⁰ but now you want to kill me — to kill a man who has told you the truth, the truth I have learned from God. Abraham did not do that. ⁴¹ You do the deeds of your father." They said to him, "We are no bastards: we have one father, even God." ⁴² Said Jesus, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I came here from God; I did not come of my own accord, I was sent by him. ⁴³ Why do you not understand my speech? Because you are unable to listen to what I am saying. ⁴⁴ You belong to your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires; he was a slayer of men from the very beginning, and he has no place in the truth because there is no truth in him: when he tells a lie, he is expressing his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies. ⁴⁵ It is because I tell the truth, that you do not believe me. ⁴⁶ Which of you can convict me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? ⁴⁷ He who belongs to God listens to the words of God; you do not listen to them, because you do not belong to God." ⁴⁸ The Jews retorted, "Are we not right in saying you are a Samaritan, you are mad?" ⁴⁹ Jesus replied, "I am not mad: I honour my Father and you dishonour me. ⁵⁰ However, I do not aim at my own credit; there is One who cares for my credit, and he is judge. ⁵¹ Truly, truly I tell you, if anyone holds to what I say, he will never see death." ⁵² The Jews said to him, "Now we are sure you are mad. Abraham is dead, and so are all the prophets; and you declare, 'If anyone holds to what I say, he will never taste death'! ⁵³ Are you greater than our father Abraham? He is dead, and the prophets are dead. Who do you claim to be?" ⁵⁴ Jesus replied, "Were I to glorify myself, my glory would be nothing; it is my Father who glorifies me; you say 'He is our God,' ⁵⁵ but you do not understand him. I know him. Were I to say, 'I do not know him,' I would be a liar like yourselves; but I do know him and I hold to his word. ⁵⁶ Your father Abraham exulted that he was to see my Day: he did see it and he rejoiced." ⁵⁷ Then said the Jews to him, "You are not fifty years old, and Abraham has seen you?" ⁵⁸ "Truly, truly I tell you," said Jesus, "I have existed before Abraham was born." ⁵⁹ At this they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus concealed himself and made his way out of the temple. ⁹ ¹ As he passed along he saw a man who had been blind from his birth; ² and his disciples asked him, "Rabbi, for whose sin — for his own or for his parents' — was he born blind?" ³ Jesus replied, "Neither for his own sin nor for his parents' — it was to let the work of God be illustrated in him. ⁴ While daylight lasts, we must be busy with the work of God: night comes, when no one can do any work. ⁵ When I am in the world, I am light for the world." ⁶ With these words he spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva, which he smeared on the man's eyes, ⁷ saying, "Go and wash them in the pool of Siloam" (Siloam meaning 'sent'). So off he went and washed them, and went home seeing. ⁸ Whereupon the neighbours and those to whom he had been a familiar sight as a beggar, said, "Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?" ⁹ Some said, "It is"; others said, "No, but it is like him." He said, "I am the man." ¹⁰ So they asked him, "How were your eyes opened?" ¹¹ He replied, "The man they call Jesus made some clay and smeared my eyes with it and told me, 'Go and wash them in Siloam'; so I went and washed them, and I got my sight." ¹² "Where is he?" they asked; he answered, "I do not know." ¹³ They brought him before the Pharisees, this man who had once been blind. ¹⁴ Now it was on the sabbath day that Jesus had made clay and opened his eyes. ¹⁵ So the Pharisees asked him again how he had regained his sight, and he told them, "He smeared some clay on my eyes, and I washed them, and now I can see." ¹⁶ Then said some of the Pharisees, "This man is not from God, for he does not keep the sabbath"; others said, "How can a sinner perform such Signs?" They were divided on this. ¹⁷ So they asked the blind man once more, "What have you to say about him, for opening your eyes?" The man replied, "I say he is a prophet." ¹⁸ Now the Jews would not believe he had been born blind and had regained his sight, till they summoned the parents of the man who had regained his sight ¹⁹ and asked them, "Is this your son, the son you declare was born blind? How is it that he can see now?" ²⁰ His parents answered, "This is our son, and he was born blind; we know that. ²¹ But how he can see to-day, we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask himself; he is of age, he can speak for himself." ²² (His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that anyone who confessed him to be Christ should be excommunicated. ²³ That was why the man's parents said, "He is of age, ask himself.") ²⁴ So the man born blind was summoned a second time, and told, "Now give God the praise; this man, we know quite well, is only a sinner." ²⁵ To which he replied, "I do not know whether he is a sinner; one thing I do know, that once I was blind and now I can see." ²⁶ "What did he do to you?" they repeated; "How did he open your eyes?" ²⁷ He retorted, "I have told you that already, and you would not listen to me. Why do you want to hear it over again? Do you want to be disciples of his?" ²⁸ Then they stormed at him: "You are his disciple, we are disciples of Moses! ²⁹ We know God spoke to Moses, but we do not know where this fellow comes from." ³⁰ The man replied to them, "Well, this is astonishing! You do not know where he comes from, and yet he has opened my eyes! ³¹ God, we know, does not listen to sinners; he listens to anyone who is devout and who obeys his will. ³² It is unheard of, since the world began, that anyone should open a blind man's eyes. ³³ If this man were not from God, he could do nothing." ³⁴ They retorted, "And so you would teach us — you, born in utter depravity!" Then they expelled him. ³⁵ Jesus heard that they had expelled him, and on meeting him he said, "You believe in the Son of man?" ³⁶ "Who is that, sir?" said the man, "tell me, that I may believe in him." ³⁷ "You have seen him," Jesus said, "he is talking to you." ³⁸ He said, "I do believe, Lord" — and he worshipped him. ³⁹ Then said Jesus, "It is for judgment that I have come into this world, to make the sightless see, to make the seeing blind." ⁴⁰ On hearing this the Pharisees who were beside him asked, "And are we blind?" ⁴¹ Jesus replied, "If you were blind, you would not be guilty; but, as it is, you claim to have sight — and so your sin remains." ¹⁰ ¹ Truly, truly I tell you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the gate but climbs up somewhere else, he is a thief and a robber; ² he who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. ³ The gate-keeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice; he calls his sheep by name and leads them out. ⁴ When he has brought all his sheep outside, he goes in front of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice; ⁵ they will not follow a stranger, they will run from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers." ⁶ Jesus told them this allegory, but they did not understand what he was saying to them; ⁷ so he said to them again, "Truly, truly I tell you, I am the shepherd of the sheep; ⁸ all who ever came before me have been thieves and robbers — but the sheep would not listen to them. ⁹ (I am the Gate; whoever enters by me will be saved, he will go in and out and find pasture.) ¹⁰ The thief only comes to steal, to slay, and to destroy: I have come that they may have life and have it to the full. ¹¹ I am the good shepherd; a good shepherd lays down his own life for the sheep. ¹² The hired man, who is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep, deserts them when he sees the wolf coming; he runs away, leaving the wolf to tear and scatter them, ¹³ just because he is a hired man, who has no interest in the sheep. ¹⁴ I am the good shepherd, I know my sheep and my sheep know me ¹⁵ (just as the Father knows me and I know the Father,) and I lay down my life for the sheep. ¹⁶ I have other sheep, too, which do not belong to this fold; I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice; so it will be one flock, one shepherd. ¹⁷ This is why my Father loves me, because I lay down my life to take it up again. ¹⁸ No one takes it from me, I lay it down of my own accord: I have power to lay it down and also power to take it up again; I have my Father's orders for this. ¹⁹ The Jews were again divided over these words. ²⁰ A number of them said, "He is mad. Why listen to him?" ²¹ Others said, "These are not a madman's words. Can a madman open the eyes of the blind?" ²² [vss 22-29 moved to follow 9:41] Then came the festival of Dedication at Jerusalem; it was winter, ²³ and Jesus used to walk inside the temple, in the portico of Solomon. ²⁴ So the Jews gathered round him and asked, "How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly." ²⁵ Jesus replied, "I have told you, but you do not believe; the deeds I do in the name of my Father testify to me, but you do not believe, ²⁶ because you do not belong to my sheep. ²⁷ My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them and they follow me; ²⁸ and I give them eternal life; they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. ²⁹ My Father who gave me them is stronger than all, and no one can snatch anything out of the Father's hand. ³⁰ I and my Father are one — ." ³¹ The Jews again caught up stones to stone him. ³² Jesus replied, "I have let you see many a good deed of God; for which of them do you mean to stone me?" ³³ The Jews retorted, "We mean to stone you, not for a good deed, but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, make yourself God." ³⁴ Jesus answered, "Is it not written in your Law, 'I said, you are gods'? ³⁵ If the Law said they were gods, to whom the word of God came — and scripture cannot be broken — ³⁶ do you mean to tell me, whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am God's Son'? ³⁷ If I am not doing the deeds of my Father, do not believe me; ³⁸ but if I am, then believe the deeds, though you will not believe me — that you may learn and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father." ³⁹ Once more they tried to arrest him, but he escaped their hands ⁴⁰ and went across the Jordan, back to the spot where John had baptized at first. There he stayed; ⁴¹ and many came to him, saying, "John did not perform any Sign, but all he ever said about this man was true." ⁴² And many believed in him there. ¹¹ ¹ Now there was a man ill, Lazarus of Bethany — the village of Mary and her sister Martha. ² (The Mary whose brother Lazarus was ill was the Mary who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair.) ³ so the sisters sent to him, saying, "Lord, he whom you love is ill." ⁴ When Jesus heard it, he said, "This illness is not to end in death; the end of it is the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified thereby." ⁵ [Relocated to follow vs 2] Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus; ⁶ So, when he heard of the illness, he stayed where he was for two days; then, ⁷ after that, he said to the disciples, "Let us go back to Judaea." ⁸ "Rabbi," said the disciples, "the Jews were trying to stone you only the other day; are you going back there?" ⁹ Jesus replied, "Are there not twelve hours in the day? If one walks during the day he does not stumble, for he sees the light of this world: ¹⁰ but if one walks during the night he does stumble, for the light is not in him." ¹¹ This he said, then added, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; I am going to waken him." ¹² "Lord," said the disciples, "if he has fallen asleep, he will get better." ¹³ Jesus, however, had been speaking of his death; but as they imagined he meant natural sleep, ¹⁴ he then told them plainly, "Lazarus is dead; ¹⁵ and for your sakes I am glad I was not there, that you may believe. Come now, let us go to him." ¹⁶ Whereupon Thomas (called 'the Twin') said to his fellow-disciples, "Let us go too, let us die along with him!" ¹⁷ Now when Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had been buried for four days. ¹⁸ [vss 18 & 19 placed between vss 30 & 31] Now as Bethany is not far from Jerusalem, only about two miles away, ¹⁹ a number of Jews had gone to condole with Martha and Mary about their brother; ²⁰ Then Martha, hearing of the arrival of Jesus, went out to meet him, while Mary sat at home. ²¹ Said Martha to Jesus, "Had you been here, Lord, my brother would not have died. ²² But now — well, I know whatever you ask God for, he will grant you." ²³ Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again." ²⁴ "I know," said Martha, "he will rise at the resurrection, on the last day." ²⁵ Jesus said to her, "I am myself resurrection and life: he who believes in me will live, even if he dies, ²⁶ and no one who lives and believes in me will ever die. You believe that?" ²⁷ "Yes, Lord," she said, "I do believe you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world" — ²⁸ and with these words she went off to call her sister Mary, telling her secretly, "The Teacher is here, and he is calling for you." ²⁹ So, on hearing this, Mary rose hurriedly and went to him. ³⁰ Jesus had not entered the village yet, he was still at the spot where Martha had met him. ³¹ and when the Jews who were condoling with her inside the house noticed her rise hurriedly and go out, they followed her, as they imagined she was going to wail at the tomb. ³² But when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she dropped at his feet, crying, "Had you been here, Lord, my brother would not have died." ³³ Now when Jesus saw her wailing and saw the Jews who accompanied her wailing, he chafed in spirit and was disquieted. ³⁴ "Where have you laid him?" he asked. They answered, "Come and see, sir." ³⁵ Jesus burst into tears. ³⁶ Whereupon the Jews said, "See how he loved him!" — ³⁷ though some of them asked, "Could he not have prevented him from dying, when he could open a blind man's eyes?" ³⁸ This made Jesus chafe afresh, so he went to the tomb; it was a cave with a boulder to close it. ³⁹ Jesus said, "Remove the boulder." "Lord," said Martha, the dead man's sister, "he will be stinking by this time; he has been dead four days." ⁴⁰ "Did I not tell you," said Jesus, "if you will only believe, you shall see the glory of God?" ⁴¹ Then they removed the boulder, and Jesus, lifting his eyes to heaven, said, "Father, I thank thee for listening to me. ⁴² (I knew thou wouldst always listen to me, but I spoke on account of the crowd around, that they might believe thou hast sent me.)" ⁴³ So saying, he exclaimed with a loud cry, "Lazarus, come out!" ⁴⁴ Out came the dead man, his feet and hands swathed in bandages, and his face tied up with a towel. Jesus said, "Untie him, and let him move." ⁴⁵ Now a number of the Jews who had come to visit Mary and who witnessed what he had done, believed in him. ⁴⁶ But some of them went off to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done; ⁴⁷ whereupon the high priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin. "Whatever is to be done?" they said. "The fellow is performing a number of Signs. ⁴⁸ If we let him alone, like this, everybody will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and suppress our holy Place and our nation." ⁴⁹ But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said, "You know nothing about it — ⁵⁰ you do not understand it is in your own interests that one man should die for the People, instead of the whole nation being destroyed." ⁵¹ (He did not say this simply of his own accord; he was high priest that year, and his words were a prophecy that Jesus was to die for the nation, ⁵² and not merely for the nation but to gather into one the scattered children of God.) ⁵³ So from that day their plan was to kill him. ⁵⁴ Accordingly Jesus no longer appeared in public among the Jews, but withdrew to the country adjoining the desert, to a town called Ephraim; there he stayed with the disciples. ⁵⁵ Now the passover of the Jews was near, and many people went up from the country to Jerusalem, to purify themselves before the passover. ⁵⁶ They looked out for Jesus, and as they stood in the temple they said to one another, "What do you think? Do you think he will not come up to the festival?" ⁵⁷ (The high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that they were to be informed, if anyone found out where he was, so that they might arrest him.) ¹² ¹ Six days before the festival, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus stayed (whom Jesus had raised from the dead). ² They gave a supper for him there; Martha waited on him, and Lazarus was among those who reclined at table beside him. ³ Then Mary, taking a pound of expensive perfume, real nard, anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair, till the house was filled with the scent of the perfume. ⁴ One of his disciples, Judas Iscariot (who was to betray him), said, ⁵ "Why was not this perfume sold for ten pounds, and the money given to the poor?" ⁶ (Not that he cared for the poor; he said this because he was a thief, and because he carried the money-box and pilfered what was put in.) ⁷ Then said Jesus, "Let her alone, let her keep what she has for the day of my burial. ⁸ You have always the poor beside you, but you have not always me." ⁹ Now the great mass of the Jews learned he was there, and they came not only on account of Jesus but to see Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead. ¹⁰ So the high priests planned to kill Lazarus as well, ¹¹ since it was owing to him that a number of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus. ¹² Next day the great mass of people who had come up for the festival heard that Jesus was entering Jerusalem, ¹³ and taking palm-branches they went out to meet him, shouting, "Hosanna! Blessed be he who comes in the Lord's name, the king of Israel!" ¹⁴ And Jesus came across a young ass and seated himself on it; as it is written, ¹⁵ Fear not, daughter of Sion; here is your king coming, seated on an ass's colt. ¹⁶ (His disciples did not understand this at first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered this had been written of him and had happened to him.) ¹⁷ Now the people who were with him when he called Lazarus from the tomb and raised him from the dead, testified to it; ¹⁸ and that was why the crowd went out to meet him, because they heard he had performed this Sign. ¹⁹ Then said the Pharisees to one another, "You see, you can do nothing! Look, the world has gone after him." ²⁰ Now there were some Greeks among those who had come up to worship at the festival; ²¹ they came to Philip of Bethsaida in Galilee and appealed to him, saying, "Sir, we want to see Jesus." ²² Philip went and told Andrew; Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. ²³ And Jesus answered, "The hour has come for the Son of man to be glorified. ²⁴ Truly, truly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains a single grain; but if it dies, it bears rich fruit. ²⁵ He who loves his life loses it, and he who cares not for his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life. ²⁶ If anyone serves me, let him follow me, and where I am, there shall my servant be also: if anyone serves me, my Father will honour him. ²⁷ My soul is now disquieted. What am I to say? 'Father, save me from this hour'? Nay, it is something else that has brought me to this hour: ²⁸ I will say, 'Father, glorify thy name.'" Then came a voice from heaven, "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again." ²⁹ When they heard the sound, the people standing by said it had thundered; others said, "An angel spoke to him." ³⁰ Jesus answered, "This voice did not come for my sake but for yours. ³¹ Now is this world to be judged; now the Prince of this world will be expelled. ³² But I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself." ³³ (By this he indicated the kind of death he was to die.) ³⁴ So the people answered, "We have learned from the Law that the Christ is to remain for ever; what do you mean by saying that the Son of man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of man?" ³⁵ Then Jesus said to them, "The Light will shine among you for a little longer yet; walk while you have the Light, that the darkness may not overtake you. He who walks in the dark does not know where he is going. ³⁶ While you have the Light, believe in the Light, that you may be sons of the Light." [vss 36b to 43 are relocated after vs 50] With these words Jesus went away and hid from them. ³⁷ Now for all the Signs he had performed before them, they did not believe in him — ³⁸ that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: Lord, who has believed what they heard from us, And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? ³⁹ This was why they could not believe; for Isaiah again said, ⁴⁰ He has blinded their eyes and made their hearts insensible, to prevent them seeing with their eyes and understanding with their hearts and turning for me to cure them. ⁴¹ (Isaiah said this because he saw his glory and spoke of him.) ⁴² Still, a number even of the authorities believed in him, though they would not confess it on account of the Pharisees, in case of being excommunicated; ⁴³ they preferred the approval of men to the approval of God. ⁴⁴ And Jesus cried aloud, "He who believes in me believes not in me but in him who sent me, ⁴⁵ and he who beholds me beholds him who sent me. ⁴⁶ I have come as light into the world, that no one who believes in me may remain in the dark. ⁴⁷ If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, it is not I who judge him; for I have not come to judge the world but to save the world. ⁴⁸ He who rejects me and will not receive my words has indeed a judge: the word I have spoken will judge him on the last day, ⁴⁹ for I have not spoken of my own accord — the Father who sent me, he it was who ordered me what to say and what to speak. ⁵⁰ And I know his orders mean eternal life. Therefore when I speak, I speak as the Father has told me." ¹³ ¹ Now before the passover festival Jesus knew the time had come for him to pass from this world to the Father. He had loved his own in this world and he loved them to the end; ² so at supper, knowing that though the devil had suggested to Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him, ³ the Father had put everything into his hands — knowing that he had come from God and was going to God, ⁴ he rose from table, laid aside his robe, and tied a towel round him, ⁵ then poured water into a basin, and began to wash the feet of the disciples, wiping them with the towel he had tied round him. ⁶ He came to Simon Peter. "Lord," said he, "you to wash my feet!" ⁷ Jesus answered him, "You do not understand just now what I am doing, but you will understand it later on." ⁸ Said Peter, "You will never wash my feet, never!" "Unless I wash you," Jesus replied, "you will not share my lot." ⁹ "Lord," said Simon Peter, "then wash not only my feet but my hands and head." ¹⁰ Jesus said, "He who has bathed only needs to have his feet washed; he is clean all over. And you are clean — but not all of you" ¹¹ (he knew the traitor; that was why he said, "You are not all clean"). ¹² Then, after washing their feet and putting on his robe, he lay down again. "Do you know," he said to them, "what I have been doing to you? ¹³ You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right: that is what I am. ¹⁴ Well, if I have washed your feet, I who am your Lord and Teacher, you are bound to wash one another's feet; ¹⁵ for I have been setting you an example, that you should do what I have done to you. ¹⁶ Truly, truly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than he who sent him. ¹⁷ If you know all this, blessed are you if you really do it. ¹⁸ When I say 'you,' I do not mean you all; I know the men of my choice, and I made my choice that this scripture might be fulfilled, he who eats my bread has lifted up his heel against me. ¹⁹ I am telling you this now, before it occurs, so that when it has occurred you may believe who I am. ²⁰ (Truly, truly I tell you, he who receives anyone I send receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.)" ²¹ On saying this, Jesus was disquieted in spirit: he testified and said, "Truly, truly I tell you, one of you will betray me." ²² The disciples looked at each other, at a loss to know which of them he meant. ²³ As one of his disciples was reclining on his breast — he was the favourite of Jesus — ²⁴ Peter nodded to him, saying, "Tell us who he means." ²⁵ The disciple just leant back on the breast of Jesus and said, "Lord, who is it?" ²⁶ Jesus answered, "The man I am going to give this piece of bread to, when I dip it in the dish." Then he took the piece of bread, dipped it, and gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot; ²⁷ and when he took the bread, at that moment Satan entered him. Then Jesus told him, "Be quick with what you have to do." ²⁸ (None of those at table understood why he said this to him; ²⁹ some of them thought that as Judas kept the money-box, Jesus told him to buy what they needed for the festival or to give something to the poor.) ³⁰ So Judas went out immediately after taking the bread. And it was night. ³¹ When he had gone out, Jesus said, Now at last the Son of man is glorified, and in him God is glorified: [if God is glorified in him,] ³² God will glorify him in Himself and glorify him at once. ³³ My dear children, I am only to be with you a little longer; then you will look for me, and, as I told the Jews I tell you now, where I go you cannot come. ³⁴ I give you a new command, to love one another — as I have loved you, you are to love one another. ³⁵ By this everyone will recognize that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another." ³⁶ "Lord," said Simon Peter, "where are you going?" Jesus replied, "I am going where you cannot follow me at present; later on you will follow me." ³⁷ "Lord," said Peter, "why cannot I follow you just now? I will lay down my life for you." ³⁸ Jesus replied, "Lay down your life for me? Truly, truly I tell you, before the cock crows, you will have disowned me thrice over. ¹⁴ ¹ Let not your hearts be disquieted; you believe — believe in God and also in me. ² In my Father's house there are many abodes; were it not so, would I have told you that I was going to prepare a place for you? ³ And when I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me, so that you may be where I am. ⁴ And you know the way to where I am going." ⁵ "Lord," said Thomas, "we do not know where you are going, and how are we to know the way?" ⁶ Jesus said to him, "I am the real and living way: no one comes to the Father except by means of me. ⁷ If you knew me, you would know my Father too. You know him now and you have seen him." ⁸ "Lord," said Philip, "let us see the Father; that is all we want." ⁹ Jesus said to him, "Philip, have I been with you all this time, and yet you do not understand me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. What do you mean by saying, 'Let us see the Father'? ¹⁰ Do you not believe I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I speak to you all I do not speak of my own accord; it is the Father who remains ever in me, who is performing his own deeds. ¹¹ Believe me, I am in the Father and the Father is in me: — or else, believe because of the deeds themselves. ¹² Truly, truly I tell you, he who believes in me will do the very deeds I do, and still greater deeds than these. For I am going to the Father, ¹³ and I will do whatever you ask in my name, that the Father may be glorified in the Son; ¹⁴ I will do whatever you ask me in my name. ¹⁵ If you love me you will keep my commands, ¹⁶ and I will ask the Father to give you another Helper to be with you for ever, ¹⁷ even the Spirit of truth: the world cannot receive him, because it neither sees nor knows him, but you know him, because he remains with you and will be within you. ¹⁸ I will not leave you forlorn; I am coming to you. ¹⁹ A little while longer and the world will see me no more; but you will see me, because I am living and you will be living too. ²⁰ You will understand, on that day, that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you. ²¹ He who possesses my commands and obeys them is he who loves me, and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and appear to him." ²² "Lord," said Judas (not Judas Iscariot), "why is it that you are to appear to us, and not to the world?" ²³ Jesus answered, "If anyone loves me he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up our abode with him. ²⁴ He who does not love me does not obey my word; and what you hear me say is not my word but the word of the Father who sent me. ²⁵ I have told you all this while I am still with you, ²⁶ but the Helper, the holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and recall to you everything I have said. ²⁷ Peace I leave to you, my peace I give to you; I give it not as the world gives its 'Peace!' Let not your hearts be disquieted or timid. ²⁸ You heard me tell you I was going away and coming back to you; if you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father — for the Father is greater than I am. ²⁹ I tell you this now, before it occurs, so that, when it does occur, you may believe. ³⁰ I will no longer talk much with you, for the Prince of this world is coming. He has no hold on me; ³¹ his coming will only serve to let the world see that I love the Father and that I am acting as the Father ordered. Rise, let us be going." ¹⁵ ¹ [Chapters 15 & 16 are placed in the middle of verse 13:31] "I am the real Vine, and my Father is the vine-dresser; ² he cuts away any branch on me which is not bearing fruit, and cleans every branch which does bear fruit, to make it bear richer fruit. ³ You are already clean, by the word I have spoken to you. ⁴ Remain in me, as I remain in you: just as a branch cannot bear fruit by itself, without remaining on the vine, neither can you, unless you remain in me. ⁵ I am the vine, you are the branches. He who remains in me, as I in him, bears rich fruit (because apart from me you can do nothing). ⁶ If anyone does not remain in me he is thrown aside like a branch and he withers up; then the branches are gathered and thrown into the fire to be burned. ⁷ If you remain in me and my words remain in you, then ask whatever you like and you shall have it. ⁸ As you bear rich fruit and prove yourselves my disciples, my Father is glorified. ⁹ As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; remain within my love. ¹⁰ If you keep my commands you will remain within my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and remain within his love. ¹¹ I have told you this, that my joy may be within you and your joy complete. ¹² This is my command: you are to love one another as I have loved you. ¹³ To lay life down for his friends, man has no greater love than that. ¹⁴ You are my friends — if you do what I command you; ¹⁵ I call you servants no longer, because a servant does not know what his master is doing: I call you friends, because I have imparted to you all that I have learned from my Father. ¹⁶ You have not chosen me, it is I who have chosen you, appointing you to go and bear fruit — fruit that lasts, so that the Father may grant you whatever you ask in my name. ¹⁷ This is what I command you, to love one another. ¹⁸ If the world hates you, remember it hated me first. ¹⁹ If you belonged to the world, the world would love what it owned; it is because you do not belong to the world, because I have chosen you from the world, that the world hates you. ²⁰ Remember what I told you, 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; if they hold to my word, they will hold to yours. ²¹ They will do all this to you on account of my name, because they know not him who sent me. ²² They would not be guilty, if I had not come and spoken to them; but, as it is, they have no excuse for their sin — ²³ he who hates me hates my Father also. ²⁴ They would not be guilty, if I had not done deeds among them such as no one has ever done; but, as it is, they have seen — and they have hated — both me and my Father. ²⁵ It is that the word written in their Law may be fulfilled: they hated me for no cause. ²⁶ When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth which issues from the Father, he will bear witness to me; ²⁷ and you too are witnesses, for you have been with me from the very beginning. ¹⁶ ¹ I have told you all this, to keep you from being repelled. ² They will excommunicate you; indeed the time is coming when anyone who kills you will imagine he is performing a service to God. ³ This they will do to you, because they have not known the Father nor me. ⁴ I have told you all this, so that when the time for it arrives, you may remember what I said to you. I did not tell you about this at the beginning, because I was with you then; ⁵ but now I am going to him who sent me. And yet not one of you asks, 'Where are you going?' ⁶ No, your heart is full of sorrow at what I have told you. ⁷ Yet — I am telling you the truth — my going is for your good. If I do not depart, the Helper will not come to you; whereas if I go, I will send him to you. ⁸ And when he comes, he will convict the world, convincing men of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment: ⁹ of sin, because they do not believe in me; ¹⁰ of righteousness, because I go to the Father and you see me no more; ¹¹ of judgment, because the Prince of this world has been judged. ¹² I have still much to say to you, but you cannot bear it just now. ¹³ However, when the Spirit of truth comes, he will lead you into all the truth; for he will not speak of his own accord, he will say whatever he is told, and he will disclose to you what is to come. ¹⁴ He will glorify me, for he will draw upon what is mine and disclose it to you. ¹⁵ All that the Father has is mine; that is why I say, 'he will draw upon what is mine and disclose it to you.' ¹⁶ In a little while, you will behold me no longer; then, after a little, you shall see me." ¹⁷ So some of his disciples said to one another, "What does he mean by telling us, 'In a little while, you will behold me no longer; then, after a little, you shall see me'? and, 'I go to the Father'?" ¹⁸ They said, "What is the meaning of 'In a little'? We do not understand what he is saying." ¹⁹ Jesus knew they wanted to ask him; so he said to them, "Is this what you are discussing together, why I said, 'In a little while, you will not see me: then, after a little, you shall see me'? ²⁰ Truly, truly I tell you, you will be wailing and lamenting while the world is rejoicing; you will be sorrowful, but then your sorrow will be changed into joy. ²¹ When a woman is in labour she is sorry, for her time has come; but when the child is born she remembers her anguish no longer, for joy that a human being has been born into the world: ²² So with you. Just now you are in sorrow, but I shall see you again and your heart will rejoice — with a joy that no one can take from you. ²³ And on that day you will not ask me any questions. Truly, truly I tell you, whatever you ask the Father, he will give you in my name; ²⁴ hitherto you have asked nothing in my name; ask and you will receive, that your joy may be full. ²⁵ I have told you this in figures, but the time is coming when I shall speak to you in figures no longer; I shall let you know plainly about the Father. ²⁶ On that day you will ask in my name, and I do not say to you I will ask the Father on your behalf; ²⁷ for the Father loves you himself, because you have loved me and believed that I came forth from God. ²⁸ From the Father I came and I entered the world; again, I leave the world and I go to the Father." ²⁹ His disciples said, "Now, you are talking plainly at last, not speaking in figures. ³⁰ Now we are sure you know everything, and need no one to put questions to you. This makes us believe you have come forth from God." ³¹ Jesus replied, "You believe it, at last? ³² Behold, the time is coming, it has come already, when you will be scattered to your homes, everyone of you, leaving me alone. But I am not alone, for the Father is with me. ³³ I have said all this to you that in me you may have peace; in the world you have trouble, but courage! I have conquered the world.