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1 Now a certain man, named Lazarus, of Bethany, was lying ill-- Bethany being the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
2 (It was the Mary who poured the perfume over the Lord and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill.)
3 So the sisters sent to Him to say, "Master, he whom you hold dear is ill."
4 Jesus received the message and said, "This illness is not to end in death, but is to promote the glory of God, in order that the Son of God may be glorified by it."
5 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
6 When, however, He heard that Lazarus was ill, He still remained two days in that same place.
7 Then, after that, He said to the disciples, "Let us return to Judaea."
8 "Rabbi," exclaimed the disciples, "the Jews have just been trying to stone you, and do you think of going back there again?"
9 "Are there not twelve hours in the day?" replied Jesus. "If any one walks in the daytime, he does not stumble--because he sees the light of this world.
10 But if a man walks by night, he does stumble, because the light is not in him."
11 He said this, and afterwards He added, "Our friend Lazarus is sleeping, but I will go and wake him."
12 "Master," said the disciples, "if he is asleep he will recover."
13 Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought He referred to the rest taken in ordinary 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. But let us go to him."
16 "Let us go also," Thomas, the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, "that we may die with him."
17 On His arrival Jesus found that Lazarus had already been three days in the tomb.
18 Bethany was near Jerusalem, the distance being a little less than two miles;
19 and a considerable number of the Jews were with Martha and Mary, having come to express sympathy with them on the death of their brother.
20 Martha, however, as soon as she heard the tidings, "Jesus is coming," went to meet Him; but Mary remained sitting in the house.
21 So Martha came and spoke to Jesus. "Master, if you had been here," she said, "my brother would not have died.
22 And even now I know that whatever you ask God for, God will give you."
23 "Your brother shall rise again," replied Jesus.
24 "I know," said Martha, "that he will rise again at the resurrection, on the last day."
25 "I am the Resurrection and the Life," said Jesus; "he who believes in me, even if he has died, he shall live;
26 and every one who is living and is a believer in me shall never, never die. Do you believe this?"
27 "Yes, Master," she replied; "I thoroughly believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world."
28 After saying this, she went and called her sister Mary privately, telling her, "The Rabbi is here and is asking for you."
29 So she, on hearing that, rose up quickly to go to Him.
30 Now Jesus was not yet come into the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met Him.
31 So the Jews who were with Mary in the house sympathizing with her, when they saw that she had risen hastily and had gone out, followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep aloud there.
32 Mary then, when she came to Jesus and saw Him, fell at His feet and exclaimed, "Master, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."
33 Seeing her weeping aloud, and the Jews in like manner weeping who had come with her, Jesus, curbing the strong emotion of His spirit,
34 though deeply troubled, asked them, "Where have you laid him?" "Master, come and see," was their reply.
35 Jesus wept.
36 "See how dear he held him," said the Jews.
37 But others of them asked, "Was this man who opened the blind man's eyes unable to prevent this man from dying?"
38 Jesus, however, again restraining His strong feeling, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone had been laid against the mouth of it.
39 "Take away the stone," said Jesus. Martha, the sister of the dead man, exclaimed, "Master, by this time there is a foul smell; for it is three days since he died."
40 "Did I not promise you," replied Jesus, "that if you believe, you shall see the glory of God?"
41 So they removed the stone. Then Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, "Father, I thank Thee that Thou hast heard me.
42 I know that Thou always hearest me; but for the sake of the crowd standing round I have said this--that they may believe that Thou didst send me."
43 After speaking thus, He called out in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out."
44 The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped in cloths, and his face wrapped round with a towel. "Untie him," said Jesus, "and let him go free."
45 Thereupon a considerable number of the Jews--namely those who had come to Mary and had witnessed His deeds--became believers in Him;
46 though some of them went off to the Pharisees and told them what He had done.
47 Therefore the High Priests and the Pharisees held a meeting of the Sanhedrin. "What steps are we taking?" they asked one another; "for this man is performing a great number of miracles.
48 If we leave him alone in this way, everybody will believe in him, and the Romans will come and blot out both our city and our nation."
49 But one of them, named Caiaphas, being High Priest that year, said, "You know nothing about it.
50 You do not reflect that it is to your interest that one man should die for the people rather than the whole nation perish."
51 It was not as a mere man that he thus spoke. But being High Priest that year he was inspired to declare that Jesus was to die for the nation,
52 and not for the nation only, but in order to unite into one body all the far-scattered children of God.
53 So from that day forward they planned and schemed in order to put Him to death.
54 Therefore Jesus no longer went about openly among the Jews, but He left that neighbourhood and went into the district near the Desert, to a town called Ephraim, and remained there with the disciples.
55 The Jewish Passover was coming near, and many from that district went up to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.
56 They therefore looked out for Jesus, and asked one another as they stood in the Temple, "What do you think? --will he come to the Festival at all?"
57 Now the High Priests and the Pharisees had issued orders that if any one knew where He was, he should give information, so that they might arrest Him.
12 1 Jesus, however, six days before the Passover, came to Bethany, where Lazarus was whom He had raised from the dead.
2 So they gave a dinner there in honour of Jesus, at which Martha waited at table, but Lazarus was one of the guests who were with Him.
3 Availing herself of the opportunity, Mary took a pound weight of pure spikenard, very costly, and poured it over His feet, and wiped His feet with her hair, so that the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
4 Then said Judas (the Iscariot, one of the Twelve--the one who afterwards betrayed Jesus),
5 "Why was not that perfume sold for 300 shillings and the money given to the poor?"
6 The reason he said this was not that he cared for the poor, but that he was a thief, and that being in charge of the money-box, he used to steal what was put into it.
7 But Jesus interposed. "Do not blame her," He said, "allow her to have kept it for the time of my preparation for burial.
8 For the poor you always have with you, but you have not me always."
9 Now it became widely known among the Jews that Jesus was there; but they came not only on His account, but also in order to see Lazarus whom He had brought back to life.
10 The High Priests, however, consulted together to put Lazarus also to death,
11 for because of him many of the Jews left them and became believers in Jesus.
12 The next day a great crowd of those who had come to the Festival, hearing that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
13 took branches of the palm trees and went out to meet Him, shouting as they went, "God save him! BLESSINGS ON HIM WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD --even on the King of Israel!"
14 And Jesus, having procured a young ass, sat upon it, just as the Scripture says,
15 "FEAR NOT, DAUGHTER OF ZION! SEE, THY KING IS COMING RIDING ON AN ASS'S COLT."
16 The meaning of this His disciples did not understand at the time; but after Jesus was glorified they recollected that this was written about Him, and that they had done this to Him.
17 The large number of people, however, who had been present when He called Lazarus out of the tomb and brought him back to life, related what they had witnessed.
18 This was also why the crowd came to meet Him, because they had heard of His having performed that miracle.
19 The result was that the Pharisees said among themselves, "Observe how idle all your efforts are! The world is gone after him!"
20 Now some of those who used to come up to worship at the Festival were Greeks.
21 They came to Philip, of Bethsaida in Galilee, with the request, "Sir, we wish to see Jesus."
22 Philip came and told Andrew: Andrew and Philip told Jesus.
23 His answer was, "The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
24 In most solemn truth I tell you that unless the grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains what it was--a single grain; but that if it dies, it yields a rich harvest.
25 He who holds his life dear, is destroying it; and he who makes his life of no account in this world shall keep it to the Life of the Ages.
26 If a man wishes to be my servant, let him follow me; and where I am, there too shall my servant be. If a man wishes to be my servant, the Father will honour him.
27 Now is my soul full of trouble; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But for this purpose I have come to this hour.
28 Father, glorify Thy name." Thereupon there came a voice from the sky, "I have glorified it and will also glorify it again."
29 The crowd that stood by and heard it, said that there had been thunder. Others said, "An angel spoke to him."
30 "It is not for my sake," said Jesus, "that that voice came, but for your sakes.
31 Now is a judgement of this world: now will the Prince of this world be driven out.
32 And I-- if I am lifted up from the earth--will draw all men to me."
33 He said this to indicate the kind of death He would die.
34 The crowd answered Him, "We have heard out of the Law that the Christ remains for ever. In what sense do you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is that Son of Man?"
35 "Yet a little while," He replied, "the light is among you. Be faithful to the light that you have, for fear darkness should overtake you; for a man who walks in the dark does not know where he is going.
36 In the degree that you have light, believe in the Light, so that you may become sons of Light." Jesus said this, and went away and hid Himself from them.
37 But though He had performed such great miracles in their presence, they did not believe in Him--
38 in order that the words of Isaiah the Prophet might be fulfilled, "LORD, WHO HAS BELIEVED OUR PREACHING? AND THE ARM OF THE LORD--TO WHOM HAS IT BEEN UNVEILED?"
39 For this reason they were unable to believe--because Isaiah said again,
40 "HE HAS BLINDED THEIR EYES AND MADE THEIR MINDS CALLOUS, LEST THEY SHOULD SEE WITH THEIR EYES AND 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 from among the Rulers many believed in Him. But because of the Pharisees they did not avow their belief, for fear they should be shut out from the synagogue.
43 For they loved the glory that comes from men rather than the glory that comes from God.
44 But Jesus cried aloud, "He who believes in me, believes not so much in me, as in Him who sent me;
45 and he who sees me sees Him who sent me.
46 I have come like light into the world, in order that no one who believes in me may remain in the dark.
47 And if any one hears my teachings and regards them not, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.
48 He who sets me at naught and does not receive my teachings is not left without a judge: the Message which I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
49 Because I have not spoken on my own authority; but the Father who sent me, Himself gave me a command what to say and in what words to speak.
50 And I know that His command is the Life of the Ages. What therefore I speak, I speak just as the Father has bidden me."
13 1 Now just before the Feast of the Passover this incident took place. Jesus knew that the time had come for Him to leave this world and go to the Father; and having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.
2 While supper was proceeding, the Devil having by this time suggested to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, the thought of betraying Him, Jesus,
3 although He knew that the Father had put everything into His hands, and that He had come forth from God and was now going to God,
4 rose from the table, threw off His upper garments, and took a towel and tied it round Him.
5 Then He poured water into a basin, and proceeded to wash the feet of the disciples and to wipe them with the towel which He had put round Him.
6 When He came to Simon Peter, Peter objected. "Master," he said, "are *you* going to wash my feet?"
7 "What I am doing," answered Jesus, "for the present you do not know, but afterwards you shall know."
8 "Never, while the world lasts," said Peter, "shall you wash my feet." "If I do not wash you," replied Jesus, "you have no share with me."
9 "Master," said Peter, "wash not only my feet, but also my hands and my head."
10 "Any one who has lately bathed," said Jesus, "does not need to wash more than his feet, but is clean all over. And you my disciples are clean, and yet this is not true of all of you."
11 For He knew who was betraying Him, and that was why He said, "You are not all of you clean."
12 So after He had washed their feet, put on His garments again, and returned to the table, He said to them, "Do you understand what I have done to you?
13 You call me 'The Rabbi' and 'The Master,' and rightly so, for such I am.
14 If I then, your Master and Rabbi, have washed your feet, it is also your duty to wash one another's feet.
15 For I have set you an example in order that you may do what I have done to you.
16 In most solemn truth I tell you that a servant is not superior to his master, nor is a messenger superior to him who sent him.
17 If you know all this, blessed are you if you act accordingly.
18 I am not speaking of all of you. I know whom I have chosen, but things are as they are in order 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 things before they happen, in order that when they do happen you may believe that I am He.
20 In most solemn truth I tell you that he who receives whoever I send receives me, and that he who receives me receives Him who sent me."
21 After speaking thus Jesus was troubled in spirit and said with deep earnestness, "In most solemn truth I tell you that one of you will betray me."
22 The disciples began looking at one another, at a loss to know to which of them He was referring.
23 There was at table one of His disciples--the one Jesus loved-- reclining with his head on Jesus's bosom.
24 Making a sign therefore to him, Simon Peter said, "Tell us to whom he is referring."
25 So he, having his head on Jesus's bosom, leaned back and asked, "Master, who is it?"
26 "It is the one," answered Jesus, "for whom I shall dip this piece of bread and to whom I shall give it." Accordingly He dipped the piece of bread, and took it and gave it to Judas, the son of the Iscariot Simon.
27 Then, after Judas had received the piece of bread, Satan entered into him. "Lose no time about it," said Jesus to him.
28 But why He said this no one else at the table understood.
29 Some, however, supposed that because Judas had the money-box Jesus meant, "Buy what we require for the Festival," or that he should give something to the poor.
30 So Judas took the piece of bread and immediately went out. And it was night.
31 So when he was gone out, Jesus said, "Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in Him.
32 Moreover God will glorify Him in Himself, and will glorify Him without delay.
33 Dear children, I am still with you a little longer. You will seek me, but, as I said to the Jews, 'Where I am going you cannot come,' so for the present I say to you.
34 A new commandment I give you, to love one another; that as I have loved you, you also may love one another.
35 It is by this that every one will know that you are my disciples--if you love one another."
36 "Master," inquired Simon Peter, "where are you going?" "Where I am going," replied Jesus, "you cannot be my follower now, but you shall be later."
37 "Master," asked Peter again, "why cannot I follow you now? I will lay down my life on your behalf.
38 "You say you will lay down your life on my behalf!" said Jesus; "in most solemn truth I tell you that the cock will not crow before you have three times disowned me."
14 1 "Let not your hearts be troubled. Trust in God: trust in me also.
2 In my Father's house there are many resting-places. Were it otherwise, I would have told you; for I am going to make ready a place for you.
3 And if I go and make ready a place for you, I will return and take you to be with me, that where I am you also may be.
4 And where I am going, you all know the way."
5 "Master," said Thomas, "we do not know where you are going. In what sense do we know the way?"
6 "I am the Way," replied Jesus, "and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
7 If you--all of you--knew me, you would fully know my Father also. From this time forward you know Him and have seen Him."
8 "Master," said Philip, "cause us to see the Father: that is all we need."
9 "Have I been so long among you," Jesus answered, "and yet you, Philip, do not know me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How can *you* ask me, 'Cause us to see the Father'?
10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and that the Father is in me? The things that I tell you all I do not speak on my own authority: but the Father dwelling within me carries on His own work.
11 Believe me, all of you, that I am in the Father and that the Father is in me; or at any rate, believe me because of what I do.
12 In most solemn truth I tell you that he who trusts in me--the things which I do he shall do also; and greater things than these he shall do, because I am going to the Father.
13 And whatever any of you ask in my name, I will do, in order that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14 If you make any request of me in my name, I will do it.
15 "If you love me, you will obey my commandments.
16 And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be for ever with you--the Spirit of truth.
17 That Spirit the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him. You know Him, because He remains by your side and is in you.
18 I will not leave you bereaved: I am coming to you.
19 Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me: because I live, you also shall live.
20 At that time you will know that I am in my Father, and that you are in me, and that I am in you.
21 He who has my commandments and obeys them--he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will clearly reveal myself to him."
22 Judas (not the Iscariot) asked, "Master, how is it that you will reveal yourself clearly to us and not to the world?"
23 "If any one loves me," replied Jesus, "he will obey my teaching; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
24 He who has no love for me does not obey my teaching; and yet the teaching to which you are listening is not mine, but is the teaching of the Father who sent me.
25 "All this I have spoken to you while still with you.
26 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send at my request, will teach you everything, and will bring to your memories all that I have said to you.
27 Peace I leave with you: my own peace I give to you. It is not as the world gives its greetings that I give you peace. Let not your hearts be troubled or dismayed.
28 "You heard me say to you, 'I am going away, and yet I am coming to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced because I am going to the Father; for the Father is greater than I am.
29 I have now told you before it comes to pass, that when it has come to pass you may believe.
30 In future I shall not talk much with you, for the Prince of this world is coming. And yet in me he has nothing;
31 but it is in order that the world may know that I love the Father, and that it is in obedience to the command which the Father gave me that I thus act. Rise, let us be going."
15 1 "I am the Vine--the True Vine, and my Father is the vine-dresser.
2 Every branch in me--if it bears no fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
3 Already you are cleansed--through the teaching which I have given you.
4 Continue in me, and let me continue in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself--that is, if it does not continue in the vine--so neither can you if you do not continue in me.
5 I am the Vine, you are the branches. He who continues in me and in whom I continue bears abundant fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
6 If any one does not continue in me, he is like the unfruitful branch which is at once thrown away and then withers up. Such branches they gather up and throw into the fire and they are burned.
7 "If you continue in me and my sayings continue in you, ask what you will and it shall be done for you.
8 By this is God glorified--by your bearing abundant fruit and thus being true disciples of mine.
9 As the Father has loved me, I have also loved you: continue in my love.
10 If you obey my commands, you will continue in my love, as I have obeyed my Father's commands and continue in His love.
11 "These things I have spoken to you in order that I may have joy in you, and that your joy may become perfect.
12 This is my commandment to you, to love one another as I have loved you.
13 No one has greater love than this--a man laying down his life for his friends.
14 You are my friends, if you do what I command you.
15 No longer do I call you servants, because a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because all that I have heard from the Father I have made known to you.
16 It is not you who chose me, but it is I who chose you and appointed you that you might go and be fruitful and that your fruit might remain; so that whatever petition you present to the Father in my name He may give you.
17 "Thus I command you to love one another.
18 If the world hates you, remember that it has first had me as the fixed object of its hatred.
19 If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own property. But because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world--for that reason the world hates you.
20 Bear in mind what I said to you, 'A servant is not superior to his master.' If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you: if they have obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also.
21 But they will inflict all this suffering upon you on account of your bearing my name--because they do not know Him who sent me.
22 "If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have had no sin; but as the case stands they are without excuse for their sin.
23 He who hates me hates my Father also.
24 If I had not done among them, as I have, such miracles as no one else ever did, they would have had no sin; but they have in fact seen and also hated both me and my Father.
25 But this has been so, in order that the saying may be fulfilled which stands written in their Law, 'THEY HAVE HATED ME WITHOUT ANY REASON.'
26 "When the Advocate is come whom I will send to you from the Father's presence--the Spirit of Truth who comes forth from the Father's presence--He will be a witness concerning me.
27 And you also are witnesses, because you have been with me from the first.
16 1 "These things I have spoken to you in order to clear stumbling-blocks out of your path.
2 You will be excluded from the synagogues; nay more, the time is coming when any one who has murdered one of you will suppose he is offering service to God.
3 And they will do these things because they have failed to recognize the Father and to discover who I am.
4 But I have spoken these things to you in order that when the time for their accomplishment comes you may remember them, and may recollect that I told you. I did not, however, tell you all this at first, because I was still with you.
5 But now I an returning to Him who sent me; and not one of you asks me where I am going.
6 But grief has filled your hearts because I have said all this to you.
7 "Yet it is the truth that I am telling you--it is to your advantage that I go away. For unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.
8 And He, when He comes, will convict the world in respect of sin, of righteousness, and of judgement; --
9 of sin, because they do not believe in me;
10 of righteousness, because I am going to the Father, and you will no longer see me;
11 of judgement, because the Prince of this world is under sentence.
12 "I have much more to say to you, but you are unable at present to bear the burden of it.
13 But when He has come--the Spirit of Truth--He will guide you into all the truth. For He will not speak as Himself originating what He says, but all that He hears He will speak, and He will make known the future to you.
14 He will glorify me, because He will take of what is mine and will make it known to you.
15 Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said that the Spirit of Truth takes of what is mine and will make it known to you.
16 "A little while and you see me no more, and again a little while and you shall see me."
17 Some of His disciples therefore said to one another, "What does this mean which He is telling us, 'A little while and you do not see me, and again a little while and you shall see me,' and 'Because I am going to the Father'?"
18 So they asked one another repeatedly, "What can that 'little while' mean which He speaks of? We do not understand His words."
19 Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask Him, and He said, "Is this what you are questioning one another about--my saying, 'A little while and you do not see me, and again a little while and you shall see me'?
20 In most solemn truth I tell you that you will weep aloud and lament, but the world will be glad. You will mourn, but your grief will be turned into gladness.
21 A woman, when she is in labour, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has given birth to the babe, she no longer remembers the pain, because of her joy at a child being born into the world.
22 So you also now have sorrow; but I shall see you again, and your hearts will be glad, and your gladness no one will take away from you.
23 You will put no questions to me then. "In most solemn truth I tell you that whatever you ask the Father for in my name He will give you.
24 As yet you have not asked for anything in my name: ask, and you shall receive, that your hearts may be filled with gladness.
25 "All this I have spoken to you in veiled language. The time is coming when I shall no longer speak to you in veiled language, but will tell you about the Father in plain words.
26 At that time you will make your requests in my name; and I do not promise to ask the Father on your behalf,
27 for the Father Himself holds you dear, because you have held me dear and have believed that I came from the Father's presence.
28 I came from the Father and have come into the world. Again I am leaving the world and am going to the Father."
29 "Ah, now you are using plain language," said His disciples, "and are uttering no figure of speech!
30 Now we know that you have all knowledge, and do not need to be pressed with questions. Through this we believe that you came from God."
31 "Do you at last believe?" replied Jesus.
32 "Remember that the time is coming, nay, has already come, for you all to be dispersed each to his own home and to leave me alone. And yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me.
33 "I have spoken all this to you in order that in me you may have peace. In the world you have affliction. But keep up your courage: *I* have won the victory over the world."