1:1In the beginning was the Word, and
the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 1:2The same was
in the beginning with God. 1:3All things were made through him.
Without him was not anything made that has been made. 1:4In him was
life, and the life was the light of men. 1:5The light
shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn't overcome
it. 1:6There came a man, sent from God,
whose name was John. 1:7The same came as a witness, that
he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him. 1:8He was not the light, but was sent
that he might testify about the light. 1:9The true
light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.
1:10He was in the world, and the
world was made through him, and the world didn't recognize him. 1:11He came to his own, and those who
were his own didn't receive him. 1:12But as many
as received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to
those who believe in his name: 1:13who were born not of blood, nor
of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 1:14The Word became flesh, and lived
among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the
Father, full of grace and truth. 1:15John
testified about him. He cried out, saying, "This was he of whom I
said, 'He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before
me.'" 1:16From his fullness we all received
grace upon grace. 1:17For the law was given through
Moses. Grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 1:18No one has
seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the
Father, he has declared him. 1:19This is John's testimony, when
the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are
you?"
1:20He confessed, and didn't deny,
but he confessed, "I am not the Christ."
1:21They asked him, "What then?
Are you Elijah?"
He said, "I am not."
"Are you the Prophet?"
He answered, "No."
1:22They said therefore to him,
"Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us.
What do you say about yourself?"
1:23He said, "I am the voice of
one crying in the wilderness, 'Make straight the way of the Lord,' as
Isaiah the prophet said."
1:24The ones who had been sent were
from the Pharisees. 1:25They asked him, "Why then do
you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"
1:26John answered them, "I
baptize in water, but among you stands one whom you don't know. 1:27He is the one who comes after me,
who is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I'm not worthy to
loosen." 1:28These things were done in Bethany
beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
1:29The next day, he saw Jesus coming
to him, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of
the world! 1:30This is he of whom I said, 'After
me comes a man who is preferred before me, for he was before me.' 1:31I didn't know him, but for this
reason I came baptizing in water: that he would be revealed to
Israel." 1:32John testified, saying, "I
have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained
on him. 1:33I didn't recognize him, but he
who sent me to baptize in water, he said to me, 'On whomever you will see
the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he who baptizes
in the Holy Spirit.' 1:34I have seen, and have testified
that this is the Son of God."
1:35Again, the next day, John was
standing with two of his disciples, 1:36and he
looked at Jesus as he walked, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of
God!" 1:37The two disciples heard him
speak, and they followed Jesus. 1:38Jesus
turned, and saw them following, and said to them, "What are you looking for?"
They said to him, "Rabbi" (which is to say, being
interpreted, Teacher), "where are you staying?"
1:39He said to them, "Come, and see."
They came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that
day. It was about the tenth hour. 1:40One of the
two who heard John, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.
1:41He first found his own brother,
Simon, and said to him, "We have found the Messiah!" (which is,
being interpreted, Christ). 1:42He brought
him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said, "You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called
Cephas" (which is by interpretation, Peter). 1:43On the next day, he was
determined to go out into Galilee, and he found Philip. Jesus said to him,
"Follow me." 1:44Now Philip
was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter. 1:45Philip
found Nathanael, and said to him, "We have found him, of whom Moses
in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of
Joseph."
1:46Nathanael said to him, "Can
any good thing come out of Nazareth?"
Philip said to him, "Come and see."
1:47Jesus saw Nathanael coming to
him, and said about him, "Behold, an Israelite
indeed, in whom is no deceit!"
1:48Nathanael said to him, "How
do you know me?"
Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called
you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you."
1:49Nathanael answered him,
"Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!"
1:50Jesus answered him, "Because I told you, 'I saw you underneath the fig
tree,' do you believe? You will see greater things than
these!" 1:51He said to him, "Most assuredly, I tell you, hereafter you will see
heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son
of Man."
2:1The third day, there was a
marriage in Cana of Galilee. Jesus' mother was there. 2:2Jesus also
was invited, with his disciples, to the marriage. 2:3When the
wine ran out, Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no wine."
2:4Jesus said to her, "Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My
hour has not yet come."
2:5His mother said to the servants,
"Whatever he says to you, do it." 2:6Now there
were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews' manner of
purifying, containing two or three metretes apiece. 2:7Jesus said to them, "Fill the water pots with water." They
filled them up to the brim. 2:8He said to them, "Now draw some out, and take it to the ruler of the
feast." So they took it. 2:9When the
ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and didn't know where
it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the ruler of
the feast called the bridegroom, 2:10and said to
him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have
drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have kept the good wine until
now!" 2:11This beginning of his signs Jesus
did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed
in him.
2:12After this, he went down to
Capernaum, he, and his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they
stayed there a few days. 2:13The Passover of the Jews was at
hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2:14He found in
the temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, and the changers of
money sitting. 2:15He made a whip of cords, and
threw all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured
out the changers' money, and overthrew their tables. 2:16To those
who sold the doves, he said, "Take these things
out of here! Don't make my Father's house a marketplace!" 2:17His disciples remembered that it
was written, "Zeal for your house will eat me up."
2:18The Jews therefore answered him,
"What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?"
2:19Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise
it up."
2:20The Jews therefore said,
"Forty-six years was this temple in building, and will you raise it
up in three days?" 2:21But he spoke of the temple of his
body. 2:22When therefore he was raised from
the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed
the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
2:23Now when he was in Jerusalem at
the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his
signs which he did. 2:24But Jesus didn't trust himself to
them, because he knew everyone, 2:25and because
he didn't need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew
what was in man.
3:1Now there was a man of the
Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 3:2The same
came to him by night, and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a
teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless
God is with him."
3:3Jesus answered him, "Most assuredly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can't see the Kingdom of God."
3:4Nicodemus said to him, "How
can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his
mother's womb, and be born?"
3:5Jesus answered, "Most assuredly I tell you, unless one is born of
water and spirit, he can't enter into the Kingdom of God! 3:6That which
is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
3:7Don't marvel
that I said to you, 'You must be born anew.' 3:8The wind blows where it wants to, and
you hear its sound, but don't know where it comes from and where it is
going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit."
3:9Nicodemus answered him, "How
can these things be?"
3:10Jesus answered him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and don't understand
these things? 3:11Most
assuredly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that
which we have seen, and you don't receive our witness. 3:12If I told
you earthly things and you don't believe, how will you believe if I tell
you heavenly things? 3:13No one has
ascended into heaven, but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man,
who is in heaven. 3:14As Moses
lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be
lifted up, 3:15that
whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
3:16For God so
loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes
in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 3:17For God
didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world
should be saved through him. 3:18He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn't
believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name
of the one and only Son of God. 3:19This is the judgment, that the light has come into the
world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works
were evil. 3:20For
everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light,
lest his works would be exposed. 3:21But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his
works may be revealed, that they have been done in God."
3:22After these things, Jesus came
with his disciples into the land of Judea. He stayed there with them, and
baptized. 3:23John also was baptizing in Enon
near Salim, because there was much water there. They came, and were
baptized. 3:24For John was not yet thrown into
prison. 3:25There arose therefore a
questioning on the part of John's disciples with some Jews about
purification. 3:26They came to John, and said to
him, "Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have
testified, behold, the same baptizes, and everyone is coming to him."
3:27John answered, "A man can
receive nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven. 3:28You yourselves testify that I
said, 'I am not the Christ,' but, 'I have been sent before him.' 3:29He who has the bride is the
bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him,
rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. This, my joy,
therefore is made full. 3:30He must increase, but I must
decrease. 3:31He who comes from above is above
all. He who is from the Earth belongs to the Earth, and speaks of the
Earth. He who comes from heaven is above all. 3:32What he has
seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness. 3:33He who has received his witness
has set his seal to this, that God is true. 3:34For he whom
God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without
measure. 3:35The Father loves the Son, and has
given all things into his hand. 3:36One who
believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won't see life, but the wrath of God
remains on him."
4:1Therefore when the Lord knew that
the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples
than John 4:2(although Jesus himself didn't
baptize, but his disciples), 4:3he left Judea, and departed into
Galilee. 4:4He needed to pass through Samaria.
4:5So he came to a city of Samaria,
called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son,
Joseph. 4:6Jacob's well was there. Jesus
therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was
about the sixth hour. 4:7A woman of
Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink." 4:8For his
disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
4:9The Samaritan woman therefore said
to him, "How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a
Samaritan woman?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
4:10Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says
to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have
given you living water."
4:11The woman said to him, "Sir,
you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. From where then have
you that living water? 4:12Are you greater than our father,
Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, as did his children,
and his cattle?"
4:13Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again,
4:14but whoever
drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the
water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up
to eternal life."
4:15The woman said to him, "Sir,
give me this water, so that I don't get thirsty, neither come all the way
here to draw."
4:16Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here."
4:17The woman answered, "I have
no husband."
Jesus said to her, "You said well, 'I have
no husband,' 4:18for you
have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This
you have said truly."
4:19The woman said to him, "Sir,
I perceive that you are a prophet. 4:20Our fathers
worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the
place where people ought to worship."
4:21Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in
this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father. 4:22You worship
that which you don't know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is
from the Jews. 4:23But the
hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father
in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshippers.
4:24God is
spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and
truth."
4:25The woman said to him, "I
know that Messiah comes," (he who is called Christ). "When he
has come, he will declare to us all things."
4:26Jesus said to her, "I am he, the one who speaks to you." 4:27At this, his disciples came. They
marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, "What
are you looking for?" or, "Why do you speak with her?" 4:28So the woman left her water pot,
and went away into the city, and said to the people, 4:29"Come,
see a man who told me everything that I did. Can this be the Christ?"
4:30They went out of the city, and
were coming to him. 4:31In the meanwhile, the disciples
urged him, saying, "Rabbi, eat."
4:32But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you don't know
about."
4:33The disciples therefore said one
to another, "Has anyone brought him something to eat?"
4:34Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to
accomplish his work. 4:35Don't you
say, 'There are yet four months until the harvest?' Behold, I tell you,
lift up your eyes, and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest
already. 4:36He who
reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who
sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. 4:37For in this the saying is true, 'One sows, and another
reaps.' 4:38I sent you
to reap that for which you haven't labored. Others have labored, and you
have entered into their labor."
4:39From that city many of the
Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who
testified, "He told me everything that I did." 4:40So when the Samaritans came to
him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days. 4:41Many more believed because of his
word. 4:42They said to the woman, "Now
we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves,
and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world."
4:43After the two days he went out
from there and went into Galilee. 4:44For Jesus
himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. 4:45So when he came into Galilee, the
Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did in
Jerusalem at the feast, for they also went to the feast. 4:46Jesus came therefore again to
Cana of Galilee, where he made the water into wine. There was a certain
nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum. 4:47When he
heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and
begged him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was at the
point of death. 4:48Jesus therefore said to him,
"Unless you see signs and wonders, you will in
no way believe."
4:49The nobleman said to him,
"Sir, come down before my child dies." 4:50Jesus said
to him, "Go your way. Your son
lives." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and
he went his way. 4:51As he was now going down, his
servants met him and reported, saying "Your child lives!" 4:52So he inquired of them the hour
when he began to get better. They said therefore to him, "Yesterday
at the seventh hour, the fever left him." 4:53So the father knew that it was at
that hour in which Jesus said to him, "Your son
lives." He believed, as did his whole house. 4:54This is again the second sign
that Jesus did, having come out of Judea into Galilee.
5:1After these things, there was a
feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 5:2Now in
Jerusalem by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew,
"Bethesda," having five porches. 5:3In these lay
a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed,
waiting for the moving of the water; 5:4for an angel
of the Lord went down at certain times into the pool, and stirred up the
water. Whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was made
whole of whatever disease he had. 5:5A certain
man was there, who had been sick for thirty-eight years. 5:6When Jesus saw him lying there,
and knew that he had been sick for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to be made well?"
5:7The sick man answered him,
"Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred
up, but while I'm coming, another steps down before me."
5:8Jesus said to him, "Arise, take up your mat, and walk."
5:9Immediately, the man was made
well, and took up his mat and walked.
Now it was the Sabbath on that day. 5:10So the Jews
said to him who was cured, "It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for
you to carry the mat."
5:11He answered them, "He who
made me well, the same said to me, 'Take up your
mat, and walk.'"
5:12Then they asked him, "Who is
the man who said to you, 'Take up your mat, and
walk'?"
5:13But he who was healed didn't know
who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, a crowd being in the place.
5:14Afterward Jesus found him in the
temple, and said to him, "Behold, you are made
well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you."
5:15The man went away, and told the
Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. 5:16For this
cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did
these things on the Sabbath. 5:17But Jesus answered them, "My Father is still working, so I am working,
too." 5:18For this cause therefore the Jews
sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath,
but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God. 5:19Jesus therefore answered them,
"Most assuredly, I tell you, the Son can do
nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things
he does, these the Son also does likewise. 5:20For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him
all things that he himself does. He will show him greater works than
these, that you may marvel. 5:21For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life,
even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires. 5:22For the
Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son, 5:23that all
may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn't honor the
Son doesn't honor the Father who sent him.
5:24"Most
assuredly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me,
has eternal life, and doesn't come into judgment, but has passed out of
death into life. 5:25Most
assuredly, I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear
the Son of God's voice; and those who hear will live. 5:26For as the
Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life
in himself. 5:27He also
gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man.
5:28Don't
marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs
will hear his voice, 5:29and will
come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those
who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment. 5:30I can of
myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous;
because I don't seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.
5:31"If I
testify about myself, my witness is not valid. 5:32It is
another who testifies about me. I know that the testimony which he
testifies about me is true. 5:33You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.
5:34But the
testimony which I receive is not from man. However, I say these things
that you may be saved. 5:35He was the
burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in
his light. 5:36But the
testimony which I have is greater than that of John, for the works which
the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about
me, that the Father has sent me. 5:37The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me.
You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form. 5:38You don't
have his word living in you; because you don't believe him whom he sent.
5:39"You
search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal
life; and these are they which testify about me. 5:40Yet you
will not come to me, that you may have life. 5:41I don't receive glory from men. 5:42But I know
you, that you don't have God's love in yourselves. 5:43I have come
in my Father's name, and you don't receive me. If another comes in his own
name, you will receive him. 5:44How can you believe, who receive glory from one another,
and you don't seek the glory that comes from the only God?
5:45"Don't
think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you,
even Moses, on whom you have set your hope. 5:46For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he
wrote about me. 5:47But if you
don't believe his writings, how will you believe my words?"
6:1After these things, Jesus went
away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is also called the Sea
of Tiberias. 6:2A great multitude followed him,
because they saw his signs which he did on those who were sick. 6:3Jesus went up into the mountain,
and he sat there with his disciples. 6:4Now the
Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand. 6:5Jesus
therefore lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a great multitude was
coming to him, said to Philip, "Where are we to
buy bread, that these may eat?" 6:6This he said
to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.
6:7Philip answered him, "Two
hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that everyone
of them may receive a little."
6:8One of his disciples, Andrew,
Simon Peter's brother, said to him, 6:9"There
is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these
among so many?"
6:10Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." Now there was
much grass in that place. So the men sat down, in number about five
thousand. 6:11Jesus took the loaves; and having
given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to those
who were sitting down; likewise also of the fish as much as they desired.
6:12When they were filled, he said to
his disciples, "Gather up the broken pieces
which are left over, that nothing be lost." 6:13So they gathered them up, and
filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves,
which were left over by those who had eaten. 6:14When
therefore the people saw the sign which Jesus did, they said, "This
is truly the prophet who comes into the world." 6:15Jesus
therefore, perceiving that they were about to come and take him by force,
to make him king, withdrew again to the mountain by himself.
6:16When evening came, his disciples
went down to the sea, 6:17and they entered into the boat,
and were going over the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had
not come to them. 6:18The sea was tossed by a great
wind blowing. 6:19When therefore they had rowed
about twenty-five or thirty stadia, they saw Jesus
walking on the sea, and drawing near to the boat; and they were afraid. 6:20But he said to them, "I AM. Don't be afraid." 6:21They were willing therefore to
receive him into the boat. Immediately the boat was at the land where they
were going.
6:22On the next day, the multitude
that stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat
there, except the one in which his disciples had embarked, and that Jesus
hadn't entered with his disciples into the boat, but his disciples had
gone away alone. 6:23However boats from Tiberias came
near to the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given
thanks. 6:24When the multitude therefore saw
that Jesus wasn't there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the
boats, and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus. 6:25When they
found him on the other side of the sea, they asked him, "Rabbi, when
did you come here?"
6:26Jesus answered them, "Most assuredly I tell you, you seek me, not because
you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled.
6:27Don't work
for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal
life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed
him."
6:28They said therefore to him,
"What must we do, that we may work the works of God?"
6:29Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in him
whom he has sent."
6:30They said therefore to him,
"What then do you do for a sign, that we may see, and believe you?
What work do you do? 6:31Our fathers ate the manna in the
wilderness. As it is written, 'He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.'"
6:32Jesus therefore said to them,
"Most assuredly, I tell you, it wasn't Moses
who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the true
bread out of heaven. 6:33For the
bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the
world."
6:34They said therefore to him,
"Lord, always give us this bread."
6:35Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not
be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty. 6:36But I told
you that you have seen me, and yet you don't believe. 6:37All those
who the Father gives me will come to me. Him who comes to me I will in no
way throw out. 6:38For I have
come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent
me. 6:39This is the
will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should
lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day. 6:40This is the
will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes
in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last
day."
6:41The Jews therefore murmured
concerning him, because he said, "I am the
bread which came down out of heaven." 6:42They said,
"Isn't this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we
know? How then does he say, 'I have come down out of
heaven?'"
6:43Therefore Jesus answered them,
"Don't murmur among yourselves. 6:44No one can
come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him
up in the last day. 6:45It is
written in the prophets, 'They will all be taught by God.' Therefore
everyone who hears from the Father, and has learned, comes to me.
6:46Not that
anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God. He has seen the
Father. 6:47Most
assuredly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life. 6:48I am the
bread of life. 6:49Your
fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 6:50This is the
bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not
die. 6:51I am the
living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread,
he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the
world is my flesh."
6:52The Jews therefore contended with
one another, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"
6:53Jesus therefore said to them,
"Most assuredly I tell you, unless you eat the
flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in
yourselves. 6:54He who eats
my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at
the last day. 6:55For my
flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. 6:56He who eats
my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him. 6:57As the
living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds
on me, he will also live because of me. 6:58This is the bread which came down out of heaven-- not as
our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live
forever." 6:59These things he said in the
synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.
6:60Therefore many of his disciples,
when they heard this, said, "This is a hard saying! Who can listen to
it?"
6:61But Jesus knowing in himself that
his disciples murmured at this, said to them, "Does this cause you to stumble? 6:62Then what
if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?
6:63It is the
spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak
to you are spirit, and are life. 6:64But there are some of you who don't believe."
For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who didn't believe, and
who it was who would betray him. 6:65He said,
"For this cause have I said to you that no one
can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father."
6:66At this, many of his disciples
went back, and walked no more with him. 6:67Jesus said
therefore to the twelve, "You don't also want
to go away, do you?"
6:68Simon Peter answered him,
"Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life. 6:69We have come to believe and know
that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
6:70Jesus answered them, "Didn't I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a
devil?" 6:71Now he spoke of Judas, the son of
Simon Iscariot, for it was he who would betray him, being one of the
twelve.
7:1After these things, Jesus was
walking in Galilee, for he wouldn't walk in Judea, because the Jews sought
to kill him. 7:2Now the feast of the Jews, the
Feast of Booths, was at hand. 7:3His brothers therefore said to
him, "Depart from here, and go into Judea, that your disciples also
may see your works which you do. 7:4For no one
does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be known openly. If you do
these things, reveal yourself to the world." 7:5For even his
brothers didn't believe in him.
7:6Jesus therefore said to them,
"My time has not yet come, but your time is
always ready. 7:7The world
can't hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its
works are evil. 7:8You go up to
the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet
fulfilled."
7:9Having said these things to them,
he stayed in Galilee. 7:10But when his brothers had gone up
to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in
secret. 7:11The Jews therefore sought him at
the feast, and said, "Where is he?" 7:12There was
much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said, "He is
a good man." Others said, "Not so, but he leads the multitude
astray." 7:13Yet no one spoke openly of him
for fear of the Jews. 7:14But when it was now the midst of
the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught. 7:15The Jews
therefore marveled, saying, "How does this man know letters, having
never been educated?"
7:16Jesus therefore answered them,
"My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.
7:17If anyone
desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is
from God, or if I am speaking from myself. 7:18He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who
seeks the glory of him who sent him, the same is true, and no
unrighteousness is in him. 7:19Didn't Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps
the law? Why do you seek to kill me?"
7:20The multitude answered, "You
have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?"
7:21Jesus answered them, "I did one work, and you all marvel because of it.
7:22Moses has
given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and
on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy. 7:23If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the
law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I made a
man every bit whole on the Sabbath? 7:24Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous
judgment."
7:25Therefore some of them of
Jerusalem said, "Isn't this he whom they seek to kill? 7:26Behold, he speaks openly, and
they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this
is truly the Christ? 7:27However we know where this man
comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes
from."
7:28Jesus therefore cried out in the
temple, teaching and saying, "You both know me,
and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is
true, whom you don't know. 7:29I know him, because I am from him, and he sent
me."
7:30They sought therefore to take
him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come. 7:31But of the multitude, many
believed in him. They said, "When the Christ comes, he won't do more
signs than those which this man has done, will he?" 7:32The Pharisees heard the multitude
murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the
Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.
7:33Then Jesus said, "I will be with you a little while longer, then I go
to him who sent me. 7:34You will
seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come."
7:35The Jews therefore said among
themselves, "Where will this man go that we won't find him? Will he
go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks? 7:36What is this word that he said,
'You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I
am, you can't come?'"
7:37Now on the last and greatest day
of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, "If
anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink! 7:38He who
believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow
rivers of living water." 7:39But he said
this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For
the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn't yet glorified.
7:40Many of the multitude therefore,
when they heard these words, said, "This is truly the prophet."
7:41Others said, "This is the
Christ." But some said, "What, does the Christ come out of
Galilee? 7:42Hasn't the Scripture said that
the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village
where David was?" 7:43So there arose a division in the
multitude because of him. 7:44Some of them would have arrested
him, but no one laid hands on him. 7:45The
officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said
to them, "Why didn't you bring him?"
7:46The officers answered, "No
man ever spoke like this man!"
7:47The Pharisees therefore answered
them, "You aren't also led astray, are you? 7:48Have any of
the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees? 7:49But this
multitude that doesn't know the law is accursed."
7:50Nicodemus (he who came to him by
night, being one of them) said to them, 7:51"Does
our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows
what he does?"
7:52They answered him, "Are you
also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of
Galilee."
7:53Everyone went to his own house,
8:1but Jesus went to the Mount of
Olives. 8:2Now very early in the morning, he
came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down,
and taught them. 8:3The scribes and the Pharisees
brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the midst, 8:4they told him, "Teacher, we
found this woman in adultery, in the very act. 8:5Now in our
law, Moses commanded us to stone such. What then do you say about
her?" 8:6They said this testing him, that
they might have something to accuse him of.
But Jesus stooped down, and wrote on the ground with his finger. 8:7But when they continued asking
him, he looked up and said to them, "He who is
without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her."
8:8Again he stooped down, and with
his finger wrote on the ground.
8:9They, when they heard it, being
convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the
oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she
was, in the middle. 8:10Jesus, standing up, saw her and
said, "Woman, where are your accusers? Did no
one condemn you?"
8:11She said, "No one,
Lord."
Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go
your way. From now on, sin no more."
8:12Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to
them, saying, "I am the light of the world. He
who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of
life."
8:13The Pharisees therefore said to
him, "You testify about yourself. Your testimony is not valid."
8:14Jesus answered them, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is
true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don't
know where I came from, or where I am going. 8:15You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.
8:16Even if I
do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I am with the
Father who sent me. 8:17It's also
written in your law that the testimony of two people is valid. 8:18I am one
who testifies about myself, and the Father who sent me testifies about
me."
8:19They said therefore to him,
"Where is your Father?"
Jesus answered, "You know neither me, nor my
Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also." 8:20Jesus spoke these words in the
treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his
hour had not yet come. 8:21Jesus said therefore again to
them, "I am going away, and you will seek me,
and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can't come."
8:22The Jews therefore said,
"Will he kill himself, that he says, 'Where I
am going, you can't come?'"
8:23He said to them, "You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of
this world. I am not of this world. 8:24I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins;
for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your
sins."
8:25They said therefore to him,
"Who are you?"
Jesus said to them, "Just what I have been
saying to you from the beginning. 8:26I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you.
However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him,
these I say to the world."
8:27They didn't understand that he
spoke to them about the Father. 8:28Jesus
therefore said to them, "When you have lifted
up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of
myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things. 8:29He who sent
me is with me. The Father hasn't left me alone, for I always do the things
that are pleasing to him."
8:30As he spoke these things, many
believed in him. 8:31Jesus therefore said to those
Jews who had believed him, "If you remain in my
word, then you are truly my disciples. 8:32You will know the truth, and the truth will make you
free."
8:33They answered him, "We are
Abraham's seed, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say,
'You will be made free?'"
8:34Jesus answered them, "Most assuredly I tell you, everyone who commits sin
is the bondservant of sin. 8:35A bondservant doesn't live in the house forever. A son
remains forever. 8:36If
therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. 8:37I know that
you are Abraham's seed, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no
place in you. 8:38I say the
things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which
you have seen with your father."
8:39They answered him, "Our
father is Abraham."
Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham's
children, you would do the works of Abraham. 8:40But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the
truth, which I heard from God. Abraham didn't do this. 8:41You do the
works of your father."
They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have
one Father, God."
8:42Therefore Jesus said to them,
"If God were your Father, you would love me,
for I came out and have come from God. For I haven't come of myself, but
he sent me. 8:43Why don't
you understand my speech? Because you can't hear my word. 8:44You are of
your Father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He
was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn't stand in the truth, because
there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for
he is a liar, and the father of it. 8:45But because I tell the truth, you don't believe me.
8:46Which of
you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?
8:47He who is
of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don't hear, because you
are not of God."
8:48Then the Jews answered him,
"Don't we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?"
8:49Jesus answered, "I don't have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you
dishonor me. 8:50But I don't
seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges. 8:51Most
assuredly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see
death."
8:52Then the Jews said to him,
"Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets;
and you say, 'If a man keeps my word, he will never
taste of death.' 8:53Are you greater than our father,
Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to
be?"
8:54Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my
Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God. 8:55You have
not known him, but I know him. If I said, 'I don't know him,' I would be
like you, a liar. But I know him, and keep his word. 8:56Your father
Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, and was glad."
8:57The Jews therefore said to him,
"You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?"
8:58Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly, I tell you, before Abraham came into
existence, I AM."
8:59Therefore they took up stones to
throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having
gone through the midst of them, and so passed by.
9:1As he passed by, he saw a man
blind from birth. 9:2His disciples asked him,
"Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born
blind?"
9:3Jesus answered, "Neither did this man sin, nor his parents; but, that
the works of God might be revealed in him. 9:4I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day.
The night is coming, when no one can work. 9:5While I am in the world, I am the light of the
world." 9:6When he had said this, he spat on
the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man's eyes with
the mud, 9:7and said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which
means "Sent"). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing. 9:8The neighbors therefore, and those
who saw that he was blind before, said, "Isn't this he who sat and
begged?" 9:9Others were saying, "It is
he." Still others were saying, "He looks like him."
He said, "I am he." 9:10They
therefore were asking him, "How were your eyes opened?"
9:11He answered, "A man called
Jesus made mud, anointed my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash.' So I went
away and washed, and I received sight."
9:12Then they asked him, "Where
is he?"
He said, "I don't know."
9:13They brought him who had been
blind to the Pharisees. 9:14It was a Sabbath when Jesus made
the mud and opened his eyes. 9:15Again therefore the Pharisees
also asked him how he received his sight. He said to them, "He put
mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see."
9:16Some therefore of the Pharisees
said, "This man is not from God, because he doesn't keep the
Sabbath." Others said, "How can a man who is a sinner do such
signs?" There was division among them. 9:17Therefore
they asked the blind man again, "What do you say about him, because
he opened your eyes?"
He said, "He is a prophet."
9:18The Jews therefore did not
believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and had received his
sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight, 9:19and asked them, "Is this
your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?"
9:20His parents answered them,
"We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind; 9:21but how he now sees, we don't
know; or who opened his eyes, we don't know. He is of age. Ask him. He
will speak for himself." 9:22His parents said these things
because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any
man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue. 9:23Therefore his parents said,
"He is of age. Ask him."
9:24So they called the man who was
blind a second time, and said to him, "Give glory to God. We know
that this man is a sinner."
9:25He therefore answered, "I
don't know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: that though I was
blind, now I see."
9:26They said to him again,
"What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?"
9:27He answered them, "I told
you already, and you didn't listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You
don't also want to become his disciples, do you?"
9:28They insulted him and said,
"You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses. 9:29We know that God has spoken to
Moses. But as for this man, we don't know where he comes from."
9:30The man answered them, "How
amazing! You don't know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes. 9:31We know that God doesn't listen
to sinners, but if anyone is a worshipper of God, and does his will, he
listens to him. 9:32Since the world began it has
never been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of someone born blind. 9:33If this man were not from God, he
could do nothing."
9:34They answered him, "You were
altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?" They threw him out.
9:35Jesus heard that they had thrown
him out, and finding him, he said, "Do you
believe in the Son of God?"
9:36He answered, "Who is he,
Lord, that I may believe in him?"
9:37Jesus said to him, "You have both seen him, and it is he who speaks with
you."
9:38He said, "Lord, I
believe!" and he worshiped him.
9:39Jesus said, "I came into this world for judgment, that those who
don't see may see; and that those who see may become blind."
9:40Those of the Pharisees who were
with him heard these things, and said to him, "Are we also
blind?"
9:41Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now
you say, 'We see.' Therefore your sin remains.
10:1"Most
assuredly, I tell you, one who doesn't enter by the door into the sheep
fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
10:2But one who
enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 10:3The
gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He
calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out. 10:4Whenever he
brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him,
for they know his voice. 10:5They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee
from him; for they don't know the voice of strangers." 10:6Jesus spoke this parable to them,
but they didn't understand what he was telling them.
10:7Jesus therefore said to them
again, "Most assuredly, I tell you, I am the
sheep's door. 10:8All who
came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn't listen to
them. 10:9I am the
door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go
out, and will find pasture. 10:10The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came
that they may have life, and may have it abundantly. 10:11I am the
good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
10:12He who is
a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn't own the sheep, sees the wolf
coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and
scatters them. 10:13The hired
hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn't care for the sheep.
10:14I am the
good shepherd. I know my own, and I'm known by my own; 10:15even as
the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the
sheep. 10:16I have
other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they
will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.
10:17Therefore
the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.
10:18No one
takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it
down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from
my Father."
10:19Therefore a division arose again
among the Jews because of these words. 10:20Many of
them said, "He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to
him?" 10:21Others said, "These are not
the sayings of one possessed by a demon. It isn't possible for a demon to
open the eyes of the blind, is it?"
10:22It was the Feast
of the Dedication at Jerusalem. 10:23It was
winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon's porch. 10:24The Jews therefore came around
him and said to him, "How long will you hold us in suspense? If you
are the Christ, tell us plainly."
10:25Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you don't believe. The works that I
do in my Father's name, these testify about me. 10:26But you
don't believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you. 10:27My sheep
hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 10:28I give
eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them
out of my hand. 10:29My Father,
who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch
them out of my Father's hand. 10:30I and the Father are one."
10:31Therefore Jews took up stones
again to stone him. 10:32Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from my Father. For
which of those works do you stone me?"
10:33The Jews answered him, "We
don't stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a
man, make yourself God."
10:34Jesus answered them, "Isn't it written in your law, 'I said, you are
gods?' 10:35If he
called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can't be
broken), 10:36Do you say
of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You
blaspheme,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God?' 10:37If I don't
do the works of my Father, don't believe me. 10:38But if I do them, though you don't believe me, believe the
works; that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in
the Father."
10:39They sought again to seize him,
and he went out of their hand. 10:40He went
away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing at
first, and there he stayed. 10:41Many came to him. They said,
"John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said about this
man is true." 10:42Many believed in him there.
11:1Now a certain man was sick,
Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha. 11:2It was that Mary who had anointed
the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother,
Lazarus, was sick. 11:3The sisters therefore sent to
him, saying, "Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is
sick." 11:4But when Jesus heard it, he said,
"This sickness is not to death, but for the
glory of God, that God's Son may be glorified by it." 11:5Now Jesus loved Martha, and her
sister, and Lazarus. 11:6When therefore he heard that he
was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was. 11:7Then after this he said to the
disciples, "Let's go into Judea
again."
11:8The disciples told him,
"Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you, and are you going
there again?"
11:9Jesus answered, "Aren't there twelve hours of daylight? If a man
walks in the day, he doesn't stumble, because he sees the light of this
world. 11:10But if a
man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn't in
him." 11:11He said these things, and after
that, he said to them, "Our friend, Lazarus,
has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of
sleep."
11:12The disciples therefore said,
"Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover."
11:13Now Jesus had spoken of his
death, but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep. 11:14So Jesus said to them plainly
then, "Lazarus is dead. 11:15I am glad
for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe.
Nevertheless, let's go to him."
11:16Thomas therefore, who is called
Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, "Let's go
also, that we may die with him."
11:17So when Jesus came, he found
that he had been in the tomb four days already. 11:18Now
Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia away.
11:19Many of the Jews had joined the
women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother. 11:20Then when Martha heard that
Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary stayed in the house. 11:21Therefore Martha said to Jesus,
"Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn't have died. 11:22Even now I know that, whatever
you ask of God, God will give you." 11:23Jesus said
to her, "Your brother will rise
again."
11:24Martha said to him, "I know
that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day."
11:25Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes
in me, though he die, yet will he live. 11:26Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you
believe this?"
11:27She said to him, "Yes,
Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, God's Son, he who
comes into the world."
11:28When she had said this, she went
away, and called Mary, her sister, secretly, saying, "The Teacher is
here, and is calling you."
11:29When she heard this, she arose
quickly, and went to him. 11:30Now Jesus had not yet come into
the village, but was in the place where Martha met him. 11:31Then the Jews who were with her
in the house, and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up
quickly and went out, followed her, saying, "She is going to the tomb
to weep there." 11:32Therefore when Mary came to
where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him,
"Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn't have
died."
11:33When Jesus therefore saw her
weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit,
and was troubled, 11:34and said, "Where have you laid him?"
They told him, "Lord, come and see."
11:35Jesus wept.
11:36The Jews therefore said,
"See how much affection he had for him!" 11:37Some of
them said, "Couldn't this man, who opened the eyes of him who was
blind, have also kept this man from dying?"
11:38Jesus therefore, again groaning
in himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against
it. 11:39Jesus said, "Take away the stone."
Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, "Lord, by
this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days."
11:40Jesus said to her, "Didn't I tell you that if you believed, you would
see God's glory?"
11:41So they took away the stone from
the place where the dead man was lying. Jesus lifted up his eyes, and
said, "Father, I thank you that you listened to
me. 11:42I know
that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude that stands
around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me."
11:43When he had said this, he cried
with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come
out!"
11:44He who was dead came out, bound
hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth.
Jesus said to them, "Free him, and let him
go."
11:45Therefore many of the Jews, who
came to Mary and saw what Jesus did, believed in him. 11:46But some of them went away to
the Pharisees, and told them the things which Jesus had done. 11:47The chief priests therefore and
the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, "What are we doing? For
this man does many signs. 11:48If we leave him alone like this,
everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both
our place and our nation."
11:49But a certain one of them,
Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, "You know
nothing at all, 11:50nor do you consider that it is
advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the
whole nation not perish." 11:51Now he
didn't say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied
that Jesus would die for the nation, 11:52and not
for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the
children of God who are scattered abroad. 11:53So from
that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death. 11:54Jesus therefore walked no more
openly among the Jews, but departed from there into the country near the
wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples.
11:55Now the Passover of the Jews was
at hand. Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover,
to purify themselves. 11:56Then they sought for Jesus and
spoke one with another, as they stood in the temple, "What do you
think--that he isn't coming to the feast at all?" 11:57Now the chief priests and the
Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report
it, that they might seize him.
12:1Then six days before the
Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead,
whom he raised from the dead. 12:2So they made him a supper there.
Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him.
12:3Mary, therefore, took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and
anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair. The house
was filled with the fragrance of the ointment. 12:4Then Judas
Iscariot, Simon's son, one of his disciples, who would betray him, said,
12:5"Why wasn't this ointment
sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the
poor?" 12:6Now he said this, not because he
cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box,
used to steal what was put into it. 12:7But Jesus
said, "Leave her alone. She has kept this for
the day of my burial. 12:8For you
always have the poor with you, but you don't always have me."
12:9A large crowd therefore of the
Jews learned that he was there, and they came, not for Jesus' sake only,
but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead. 12:10But the chief priests conspired
to put Lazarus to death also, 12:11because on account of him many
of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus.
12:12On the next day a great
multitude had come to the feast. When they heard that Jesus was coming to
Jerusalem, 12:13they took the branches of the
palm trees, and went out to meet him, and cried out, "Hosanna!
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel!"
12:14Jesus, having found a young
donkey, sat on it. As it is written, 12:15"Don't be afraid, daughter
of Zion. Behold, your King comes, sitting on a donkey's colt." 12:16His disciples didn't understand
these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered
that these things were written about him, and that they had done these
things to him. 12:17The multitude therefore that was
with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from the
dead, was testifying about it. 12:18For this
cause also the multitude went and met him, because they heard that he had
done this sign. 12:19The Pharisees therefore said
among themselves, "See how you accomplish nothing. Behold, the world
has gone after him."
12:20Now there were certain Greeks
among those that went up to worship at the feast. 12:21These,
therefore, came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked
him, saying, "Sir, we want to see Jesus." 12:22Philip
came and told Andrew, and in turn, Andrew came with Philip, and they told
Jesus. 12:23Jesus answered them, "The time has come for the Son of Man to be
glorified. 12:24Most
assuredly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and
dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.
12:25He who
loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep
it to eternal life. 12:26If anyone
serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there will my servant also be.
If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
12:27"Now
my soul is troubled. What shall I say? 'Father, save me from this time?'
But for this cause I came to this time. 12:28Father, glorify your name!"
Then there came a voice out of the sky, saying, "I have both
glorified it, and will glorify it again."
12:29The multitude therefore, who
stood by and heard it, said that it had thundered. Others said, "An
angel has spoken to him."
12:30Jesus answered, "This voice hasn't come for my sake, but for your
sakes. 12:31Now is the
judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.
12:32And I, if
I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to
myself." 12:33But he said this, signifying by
what kind of death he should die. 12:34The
multitude answered him, "We have heard out of the law that the Christ
remains forever. How do you say, 'The Son of Man
must be lifted up?' Who is this Son of Man?"
12:35Jesus therefore said to them,
"Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the
light, that darkness doesn't overtake you. He who walks in the darkness
doesn't know where he is going. 12:36While you
have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of
light." Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from
them. 12:37But though he had done so many
signs before them, yet they didn't believe in him, 12:38that the
word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke,
"Lord, who has believed our report?
To whom has the arm of the Lord been
revealed?"
12:39For this cause they couldn't
believe, for Isaiah said again,
12:40"He has blinded their eyes
and he hardened their heart,
Lest they should see with their eyes,
And perceive with their heart,
And would turn,
And I would heal them."
12:41Isaiah said these things when he
saw his glory, and spoke of him. 12:42Nevertheless even of the rulers
many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn't confess it,
so that they wouldn't be put out of the synagogue, 12:43for they
loved men's praise more than God's praise.
12:44Jesus cried out and said, "Whoever believes in me, believes not in me, but in
him who sent me. 12:45He who
sees me sees him who sent me. 12:46I have come as a light into the world, that whoever
believes in me may not remain in the darkness. 12:47If anyone
listens to my sayings, and doesn't believe, I don't judge him. For I came
not to judge the world, but to save the world. 12:48He who
rejects me, and doesn't receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The
word that I spoke, the same will judge him in the last day. 12:49For I
spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a
commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. 12:50I know
that his commandment is eternal life. The things therefore which I speak,
even as the Father has said to me, so I speak."
13:1Now before the feast of the
Passover, Jesus knowing that his time had come that he would depart from
this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he
loved them to the end. 13:2After supper, the devil having
already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him,
13:3Jesus, knowing that the Father
had given all things into his hands, and that he came forth from God, and
was going to God, 13:4arose from supper, and laid aside
his outer garments. He took a towel, and wrapped a towel around his waist.
13:5Then he poured water into the
basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the
towel that was wrapped around him. 13:6Then he
came to Simon Peter. He said to him, "Lord, do you wash my feet?"
13:7Jesus answered him, "You don't know what I am doing now, but you will
understand later."
13:8Peter said to him, "You will
never wash my feet!"
Jesus answered him, "If I don't wash you,
you have no part with me."
13:9Simon Peter said to him,
"Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!"
13:10Jesus said to him, "Someone who has bathed only needs to have his feet
washed, but is completely clean. You are clean, but not all of
you." 13:11For he knew him who would betray
him, therefore he said, "You are not all
clean." 13:12So when he had washed their
feet, put his outer garment back on, and sat down again, he said to them,
"Do you know what I have done to you? 13:13You call
me, 'Teacher' and 'Lord.' You say so correctly, for so I am. 13:14If I then,
the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash
one another's feet. 13:15For I have
given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.
13:16Most
assuredly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his lord, neither one
who is sent greater than he who sent him. 13:17If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
13:18I don't
speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the
Scripture may be fulfilled, 'He who eats bread with me has lifted up his
heel against me.' 13:19From now
on, I tell you before it happens, that when it happens, you may believe
that I AM. 13:20Most
assuredly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, receives me; and he
who receives me, receives him who sent me."
13:21When Jesus had said this, he was
troubled in spirit, and testified, "Most
assuredly I tell you that one of you will betray me."
13:22The disciples looked at one
another, perplexed about whom he spoke. 13:23One of his
disciples, whom Jesus loved, was at the table, leaning against Jesus'
breast. 13:24Simon Peter therefore beckoned
to him, and said to him, "Tell us who it is of whom he speaks."
13:25He, leaning back, as he was, on
Jesus' breast, asked him, "Lord, who is it?"
13:26Jesus therefore answered, "It is he to whom I will give this piece of bread
when I have dipped it." So when he had dipped the piece of
bread, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. 13:27After the piece of bread, then
Satan entered into him.
Then Jesus said to him, "What you do, do
quickly."
13:28Now no man at the table knew why
he said this to him. 13:29For some thought, because Judas
had the money box, that Jesus said to him, "Buy what things we need
for the feast," or that he should give something to the poor. 13:30Therefore, having received that
morsel, he went out immediately. It was night.
13:31When he had gone out, Jesus
said, "Now the Son of Man has been glorified,
and God has been glorified in him. 13:32If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify
him in himself, and he will glorify him immediately. 13:33Little
children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and
as I said to the Jews, 'Where I am going, you can't come,' so now I tell
you. 13:34A new
commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have
loved you; that you also love one another. 13:35By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if
you have love for one another."
13:36Simon Peter said to him,
"Lord, where are you going?"
Jesus answered, "Where I am going, you can't
follow now, but you will follow afterwards."
13:37Peter said to him, "Lord,
why can't I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you."
13:38Jesus answered him, "Will you lay down your life for me? Most assuredly I
tell you, the rooster won't crow until you have denied me three times.
14:1"Don't
let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. 14:2In my
Father's house are many mansions. If it weren't so, I would have told you.
I am going to prepare a place for you. 14:3If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again,
and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.
14:4Where I go,
you know, and you know the way."
14:5Thomas says to him, "Lord,
we don't know where you are going. How can we know the way?"
14:6Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes
to the Father, except through me. 14:7If you had known me, you would have known my Father also.
From now on, you know him, and have seen him."
14:8Philip said to him, "Lord,
show us the Father, and that will be enough for us."
14:9Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you such a long time, and do you
not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you
say, 'Show us the Father?' 14:10Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father
in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father
who lives in me does his works. 14:11Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me;
or else believe me for the very works' sake. 14:12Most assuredly I tell you, he who believes in me, the
works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these will he do;
because I am going to my Father. 14:13Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the
Father may be glorified in the Son. 14:14If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it.
14:15If you
love me, keep my commandments. 14:16I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever,--14:17the Spirit
of truth, whom the world can't receive; for it doesn't see him, neither
knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.
14:18I will not
leave you orphans. I will come to you. 14:19Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but
you will see me. Because I live, you will live also. 14:20In that
day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
14:21One who
has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One
who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will
reveal myself to him."
14:22Judas (not Iscariot) said to
him, "Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself
to us, and not to the world?"
14:23Jesus answered him, "If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father
will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.
14:24He who
doesn't love me doesn't keep my words. The word which you hear isn't mine,
but the Father's who sent me. 14:25I have said these things to you, while still living with
you. 14:26But the
Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will
teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.
14:27Peace I
leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to
you. Don't let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.
14:28You heard
how I told you, 'I go away, and I come to you.' If you loved me, you would
have rejoiced, because I said 'I am going to my Father;' for the Father is
greater than I. 14:29Now I have
told you before it happens so that, when it happens, you may believe.
14:30I will no
more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has
nothing in me. 14:31But that
the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me,
even so I do. Arise, let us go from here.
15:1"I am
the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. 15:2Every branch in me that doesn't bear fruit, he takes away.
Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
15:3You are
already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
15:4Remain in
me, and I in you. As the branch can't bear fruit by itself, unless it
remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.
15:5I am the
vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same
bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. 15:6If a man
doesn't remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and
they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned. 15:7If you
remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you
desire, and it will be done for you.
15:8"In
this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be
my disciples. 15:9Even as the
Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love. 15:10If you
keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my
Father's commandments, and remain in his love. 15:11I have
spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your
joy may be made full.
15:12"This
is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
15:13Greater
love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
15:14You are my
friends, if you do whatever I command you. 15:15No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn't
know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything
that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you. 15:16You didn't
choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear
fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of
the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
15:17"I
command these things to you, that you may love one another. 15:18If the
world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
15:19If you
were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not
of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world
hates you. 15:20Remember
the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not greater than his lord.' If
they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word,
they will keep yours also. 15:21But all these things will they do to you for my name's
sake, because they don't know him who sent me. 15:22If I had
not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they
have no excuse for their sin. 15:23He who hates me, hates my Father also. 15:24If I
hadn't done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn't have
had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father.
15:25But this
happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law,
'They hated me without a cause.'
15:26"When
the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from
the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will
testify about me. 15:27You will
also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.
16:1"These
things have I spoken to you, so that you wouldn't be caused to stumble.
16:2They will
put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you
will think that he offers service to God. 16:3They will do these things*
Therefore the Jews said to him, "It is not lawful for us to put
anyone to death," 18:32that the word of Jesus might be
fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying by what kind of death he should die.
When he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them,
"I find no basis for a charge against him. 18:39But you
have a custom, that I should release someone to you at the Passover.
Therefore do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"
Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I
find no basis for a charge against him."
"They parted my garments among them.
For my cloak they cast lots."
She said to them, "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I
don't know where they have laid him." 20:14When she
had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, and didn't know
that it was Jesus.
She, supposing him to be the gardener, said to him, "Sir, if you
have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take
him away."
But he said to them, "Unless I see in his hands the print of the
nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe."
They told him, "We are also coming with you." They
immediately went out, and entered into the boat. That night, they caught
nothing. 21:4But when day had already come,
Jesus stood on the beach, yet the disciples didn't know that it was Jesus.
21:5Jesus therefore said to them,
"Children, have you anything to
eat?"
They cast it therefore, and now they weren't able to draw it in for the
multitude of fish. 21:7That disciple therefore whom
Jesus loved said to Peter, "It's the Lord!"
So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he wrapped his coat
around him (for he was naked), and threw himself into the sea. 21:8But the other disciples came in
the little boat (for they were not far from the land, but about two hundred cubits away), dragging the net full of fish.
21:9So when they got out on the land,
they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid on it, and bread. 21:10Jesus said to them, "Bring some of the fish which you have just
caught."
None of the disciples dared inquire of him, "Who are you?"
knowing that it was the Lord.
