1 In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God.
2 This word was with God in the beginning.
3 Everything came into being through it, and not one thing that has come into being came into being apart from it.
4 In it was life, and the life was the light of men,
5 and the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overpowered it.
6 There was a man sent from God, and his name was John.
7 He came with a view to a testimony, in order to testify about the light, in order that everyone should believe through him.
8 That man was not the light, but he came in order to testify about the light.
9 It was the true light, which lights up every man who comes into the world.
10 He was in the world, and the world came into existence through him, but the world did not know him.
11 He came to his own property, but his own people did not receive him.
12 But as for those who did receive him, he gave them authority to become children of God, that is, to those who believe in his name,
13 who were begotten not by blood, nor by the will of the flesh, nor by the will of man, but by God.
14 And the word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only-begotten from the father, full of grace and truth.
15 John testified concerning him, and cried out, saying, “This is he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me had existence before me, because he was prior to me.’ ”
16 And we have all received some of his fulness, and grace for grace.
17 For the law was given through Moses, then grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
18 No-one has seen God at any time. It is the only-begotten son, who is in the bosom of the father, who has expounded him.
19 And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”
20 And he confessed and did not deny who he really was, and confessed, “I am not the Christ.”
21 Then they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” And he said, “No, I am not.” – “Are you the prophet?” And he answered, “No.”
22 So they said to him, “Who are you? Tell us, so that we can give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”
23 He said, “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as Isaiah the prophet said.”
24 Now those who had been sent were from the Pharisees,
25 and they questioned him, and asked him, “So why do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?”
26 John replied to them and said, “I baptize with water. But in your midst stands he whom you do not know.
27 He is the one who comes after me, who had existence before me, the strap of whose sandal I am not worthy to loosen.”
28 These things took place in Bethania beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
29 The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and he said, “Behold the lamb of God, which takes away the sin of the world.
30 This is he about whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who had existence before me, because he was prior to me.’
31 And I did not know him, except that he should be manifested to Israel – that is why I came baptizing with water.”
32 And John testified, saying, “I have seen the spirit descending like a dove from heaven, and it remained on him.
33 And I did not know him, except that he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘On whom you see the spirit descending and remaining, that is the one who baptizes with holy spirit.’
34 And I have seen it, and I have testified that this is the son of God.”
35 On the next day, John was again standing, as were two of his disciples,
36 and looking at Jesus walking around, he said, “Behold the lamb of God.”
37 And the two disciples heard him speaking, and followed Jesus.
38 Jesus then turned round and saw them following, and said to them, “What are you looking for?” And they said to him, “Rabbi,” – which, translated, is “teacher” – “where are you staying?”
39 He said to them, “Come and see.” So they went and saw where he was staying, and remained with him that day. Now it was about the tenth hour.
40 Andrew the brother of Simon Peter was one of the two who heard from John and followed him.
41 He found his own brother Simon first, and said to him, “We have found the Messiah” – which, translated, is the “Christ” –
42 and he brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said, “You are Simon the son of Jonah. You will be called Cephas, which translated, is ‘Peter.’ ”
43 The next day, he wished to set out for Galilee, and he found Philip, and Jesus said to him, “Follow me.”
44 Now Philip was from Bethsaida, from the city of Andrew and Peter.
45 Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote, namely Jesus, the son of Joseph, who is from Nazareth.”
46 And Nathanael said to him, “Can there be anything good from Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”
47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and said concerning him, “Look, an Israelite, truly, in whom there is no guile.”
48 Nathanael said to him, “From where do you know me?” Jesus answered and said to him, “Before Philip called you, I saw you under the fig tree.”
49 Nathanael replied and said to him, “Rabbi, you are the son of God. You are the king of Israel.”
50 Jesus replied and said to him, “Do you believe because I said to you, ‘I saw you under the fig tree’? You will see greater things than these.”
51 And he said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you people, from now on you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the son of man.”
1 Then on the third day a wedding took place in Cana in Galilee, and Jesus's mother was there.
2 And both Jesus and his disciples were invited to the wedding.
3 Then when the wine ran out, Jesus's mother said to him, “They have not got any more wine.”
4 Jesus said to her, “Madam, what does that matter to me or you? My hour has not yet come.”
5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he says to you.”
6 Now there were six stone water-jars there, standing according to the cleansing of the Jews, each holding two or three metrets.
7 Jesus said to them, “Fill the water-jars with water.” So they filled them up to the brim.
8 Then he said to them, “Draw some off now and bring it to the catering steward.” So they brought it.
9 But when the catering steward had tasted the water, which had become wine – and he did not know where it was from, but the servants who had drawn off the water knew – the catering steward called the bridegroom,
10 and he said to him, “Every man first puts out the good wine, and when they have become drunk, then the inferior. But you have kept the good wine until now.”
11 Jesus performed this first of the signs in Cana in Galilee and manifested his glory, and his disciples believed in him.
12 After this, he went down to Capernaum, he and his mother and his brothers and his disciples, and they remained there for a few days.
13 And the Jews' Passover was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
14 And he found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money-changers sitting down,
15 and he made a whip from cords, and drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep and the oxen, and he poured out the small change of the money-changers, and turned the tables upside down.
16 And he said to those who were selling doves, “Take these things away from here. Do not make my father's house a house of commerce.”
17 His disciples then remembered that it stands written, “The zeal of your house will consume me.”
18 So the Jews responded and said to him, “What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?”
19 Jesus answered and said to them, “Break up this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
20 So the Jews said, “This temple was built in forty-six years, and will you raise it up in three days?”
21 But he was speaking about the temple of his body.
22 So when he had risen from the dead, his disciples remembered him saying this, and they believed the scripture and the words which Jesus had spoken.
23 Then when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, at the festival, many believed in his name, when they saw his signs, which he performed.
24 But Jesus himself did not entrust himself to them, because he knew everyone,
25 and because he did not need anyone to testify about man, for he knew what was in man.
1 Now there was a man of the Pharisees, whose name was Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews.
2 This man came to him by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you have come from God as a teacher, for no-one can do these signs which you do unless God is with him.”
3 Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a person is begotten from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
4 Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Surely he cannot go into his mother's womb a second time and be born again?”
5 Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a person is begotten from water and from spirit, he cannot go into the kingdom of God.
6 That which is begotten from flesh is flesh, and that which is begotten from spirit is spirit.
7 Do not be amazed because I said to you, ‘You must be begotten from above.’
8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from, or where it is going. So is everyone who has been begotten from the spirit.”
9 Nicodemus replied and said to him, “How can these things be?”
10 Jesus replied and said to him, “Are you a teacher of Israel, and you don't know these things?
11 Truly, truly, I say to you, that we speak what we know, and we testify what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony.
12 If I told you of earthly things, and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you of upper-heavenly things?
13 And no-one has ascended to heaven except him who came down from heaven, the son of man who is in heaven.
14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the son of man be lifted up,
15 so that everyone who believes in him should not be lost, but have age-abiding life.
16 For God loved the world so much, that he gave his only-begotten son, so that everyone who believes in him should not be lost, but have age-abiding life.
17 For God did not send his son into the world to judge the world, but so that the world might be saved through him.
18 He who believes in him is not judged, but he who does not believe has already been judged, because he has not believed in the name of the only-begotten son of God.
19 And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, but men loved darkness more than the light, for their works were evil.
20 For everyone who does base things hates the light, and does not come to the light, so that his works are not shown up.
21 But he who works the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be made manifest, for they have been carried out in God.”
22 After these things, Jesus and his disciples went to the Judaean region, and he spent time there with them, and had some baptizing done.
23 Now John was also baptizing in the Ainon near Salem, because there was a lot of water there, and people would come and be baptized.
24 For John had not yet been thrown in prison.
25 Then a dispute arose between some of John's disciples and a Jew concerning cleansing.
26 And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you on the other side of the Jordan – of whom you have testified – see how he is baptizing, and all are coming to him.”
27 John answered and said, “Man cannot accept anything unless it has been given him from heaven.
28 You yourselves testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but said, ‘I have been sent ahead of him.’
29 He who has the bride is the bridegroom, but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly on account of the bridegroom's voice. So this joy of mine has been fulfilled.
30 He must increase, but I must decrease.
31 He who comes from above is above all. He who is of the earth is of the earth and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.
32 And what he has seen and heard, that is what he testifies of, but no-one accepts his testimony.
33 He who has accepted his testimony has attested that God is true.
34 For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God. For God does not give the spirit by measure to him.
35 The father loves the son and has put everything in his hand.
36 He who believes in the son has age-abiding life, but he who does not believe in the son will not see life, but God's anger remains on him.”
1 So when the Lord came to know that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making more disciples, and having them baptized, than John
2 – and yet Jesus himself did not baptize, but his disciples did –
3 he left Judaea and went off to Galilee,
4 and he had to cross through Samaria,
5 so he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the parcel of land which Jacob gave to Joseph his son.
6 Now Jacob's well was there. So Jesus, being tired from the journey, was just sitting at the well. It was about the sixth hour.
7 A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.”
8 After all, his disciples had gone off into the town to buy food.
9 So the Samaritan woman said to him, “How come you, being a Jew, are asking me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink?” For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.
10 Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it was saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
11 The woman said to her, “Sir, you do not have a bucket and the well is deep. Where do you get the water of life from then?
12 Surely you are not greater than our father Jacob who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as did his sons, and his cattle.”
13 Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again.
14 Whoever drinks the water which I give him will certainly never thirst, but the water which I give him will become a well of water in him, springing up to age-abiding life.”
15 The woman said to him, “Sir give me this water, so that I don't thirst or have to come here to draw water.”
16 Jesus said to her, “Go and call your husband, and come back here.”
17 The woman answered and said, “I do not have a husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I do not have a husband.’
18 For you have had five husbands, and he whom you now have is not your husband. You have spoken the truth about this.”
19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I see that you are a prophet.
20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain, and you say that the place where one should worship is in Jerusalem.”
21 Jesus said to her, “Madam, believe me, the hour is coming when you will worship the father neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
22 You worship that which you do not know, but we worship that which we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
23 But the hour is coming, and is now, when true worshippers will worship the father in spirit and truth. For indeed the father seeks such people to worship him.”
24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.
25 The woman said to him, “I know that the Messiah is coming, who is called Christ. When he comes, he will clarify everything for us.”
26 Jesus said to her, “I am the one, I who am speaking to you.”
27 Then at this point his disciples came, and were amazed that he was speaking with a woman. However, no-one said, “What are you looking for?” or, “Why are you speaking with her?”
28 The woman then left her water-jar and went away to the town, and said to the men,
29 “Come and see a man who has told me everything I have done. Could this be the Christ?”
30 They left the town and came to him.
31 Meanwhile, the disciples prevailed on him, saying, “Rabbi, eat something.”
32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat which you do not know of.”
33 Then the disciples said to each other, “No-one has brought him anything to eat, have they?”
34 Jesus said to them, “My food is that I should do the will of him who sent me, and complete his work.
35 You say, do you not, ‘It is still four months for the harvest to come’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the farmlands – they are already white, ready for the harvest.
36 And the reaper receives wages and gathers fruit for age-abiding life, so that the sower and the reaper rejoice together.
37 For in this matter the saying is true, that the sower is one and the reaper another.
38 I have sent you to reap that which you did not toil over. Others have toiled, but you have entered into their toil.”
39 Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him, on account of the words of the woman who gave this testimony: “He told me everything I have done.”
40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he remained there for two days,
41 and many more believed on account of his words.
42 And they said to the woman, “It is no longer on account of your story that we believe, for we have heard him ourselves, and we know that this is truly the saviour of the world, the Christ.”
43 Two days later, he went away from there and departed for Galilee.
44 For Jesus himself testified that a prophet does not have honour in his own native land.
45 So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen everything that he had done in Jerusalem at the festival, for they also went to the festival.
46 Then Jesus went to Cana in Galilee again, where he had turned the water into wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son was ill in Capernaum.
47 When he heard that Jesus had come from Judaea to Galilee, he went off to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, for he was on the point of dying.
48 Then Jesus said to him, “Unless you see signs and miracles, you don't believe at all.”
49 The royal official said to him, “Lord, come down before my child dies.”
50 Jesus said to him, “Go your way – your son will live.” And the man believed the words which Jesus had said to him, and he went his way.
51 And while he was still going down, his servants met him and gave him a report and said, “Your child is alive.”
52 So he enquired from them the hour when he became better. And they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him”.
53 So the father knew that it was at the very hour at which Jesus said to him, “Your son will live,” and he and his whole house believed.
54 Jesus performed this second sign as he departed from Judaea for Galilee.
1 After these things, it was the Jews' festival, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2 Now there is a pool in Jerusalem at the Sheep Gate, which is called in Hebraic Bethesda, and it has five colonnades.
3 In these a very large number of people who were ill were lying down: the blind, the lame, the wizened, awaiting the movement of the water,
4 for an angel would come down into the pool at a certain time and disturb the water. Then the first to go in after the disturbance of the water would be cured of whatever disease he was suffering from.
5 There was a certain man there, who had been in an infirm condition for thirty-eight years.
6 When Jesus saw him lying down, knowing that he had been like that for a long time now, he said to him, “Do you want to be cured?”
7 The infirm man replied to him, “Sir, I do not have anyone to put me in the pool, when the water is disturbed. By the time I go, someone else goes down in before me.”
8 Jesus said to him, “Get up, pick up your stretcher, and walk.”
9 And immediately the man was cured, and picked up his stretcher, and walked. However, it was the Sabbath on that day.
10 So the Jews said to him who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath. It is not permitted for you to pick up the stretcher.”
11 He replied to them, “He who restored my health – he said to me, ‘Pick up your stretcher and walk.’ ”
12 So they asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your stretcher and walk’?”
13 But he who had been cured did not know who it was, for Jesus had moved aside, as there was a crowd in the place.
14 After these things, Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “Look, you have been cured. Don't sin any more, in case something worse happens to you.”
15 The man departed and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had restored his health.
16 And for this reason the Jews kept persecuting Jesus and looking for an opportunity to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.
17 But Jesus answered them, “My father has been working up to now, and I have been working as well.”
18 Then on account of this, the Jews looked all the more for an opportunity to kill him, because not only would he break the Sabbath, but he would also say that God was his own father, making himself equal to God.
19 So Jesus answered and said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the son can do nothing on his own initiative – only if he sees the father doing something. For whatever he does, so the son does in the same manner.
20 For the father loves the son and shows him everything that he himself does, and he will show him works greater than these, so that you may be amazed.
21 For as the father raises up the dead and makes them alive, so the son for his part makes alive those whom he wishes to,
22 because the father does not even judge anyone, but has given all judgment to the son,
23 in order that everyone should honour the son, as they honour the father. He who does not honour the son does not honour the father who sent him.
24 Truly, truly, I say to you, that he who hears my word and believes in him who sent me has age-abiding life, and will not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
25 Truly, truly, I say to you, that the hour is coming, and is now, when the dead will hear the voice of the son of God, and those who hear it will live.
26 For as the father has life in himself, so he has also granted that the son may have life in himself,
27 and he has given him authority also to execute judgment, because he is the son of man.
28 Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming when all those in tombs will hear his voice,
29 and those who have done good things will go out into the resurrection of life, but those who have done base things to the resurrection of judgment.
30 I cannot do anything on my own initiative. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous, for I do not seek my will, but the will of the father who sent me.
31 If I testify concerning myself, my testimony is not true.
32 There is another who testifies concerning me, and I know that the testimony which he testifies concerning me is true.
33 You have sent inquirers to John, and he has testified to the truth.
34 Now I do not accept testimony from men, but I say these things so that you may be saved.
35 He was the lamp burning and shining, and you were pleased to rejoice in his light for a while.
36 But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John. For the works which the father gave me to complete, those very works which I do witness concerning me that the father has sent me.
37 And the father who sent me has himself testified concerning me. You have never heard his voice nor seen his appearance,
38 and you did not have his word remaining in you, for you don't believe in him whom he sent.
39 You examine the scriptures because you think you have age-abiding life in them. Now they are what testify concerning me,
40 yet you are not willing to come to me to have life.
41 I do not accept glory from men,
42 but I know you – I know that you do not have the love of God in yourselves.
43 I have come in the name of my father and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
44 How can you believe, receiving glory from one another, while you do not seek the glory which is from the only God?
45 Do not think that I will accuse you to the father. Moses is the one who is accusing you, in whom you have put your hope.
46 For if you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me.
47 But if you do not believe his writings, how can you believe my words?”
1 After these things, Jesus went away across the sea of Galilee, of Tiberias,
2 and a large crowd followed him, because they had seen his signs which he performed on the infirm.
3 Then Jesus went up into the mountain, and sat there with his disciples.
4 Incidentally, the Passover was near, the Jews' festival.
5 Then Jesus lifted up his eyes and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, and he said to Philip, “From where can we buy loaves of bread so that these may eat?”
6 But he said this to test him, for he himself knew what he was going to do.
7 Philip answered him, “Two hundred denaries' worth of bread would not suffice for them, so that each of them could take a little.”
8 One of his disciples, Andrew the brother of Simon Peter, said to him,
9 “There is one little boy here who has five barley loaves and two cooked fish, but what is that for so many?”
10 But Jesus said, “Have the men recline.” Now there was a lot of grass in the place. So the men reclined, about five thousand in number.
11 And Jesus took the loaves and gave thanks, and distributed them to the disciples, and the disciples distributed them to those reclining. And they did the same with the cooked fish – as much as they wanted.
12 And when they were full, he said to his disciples, “Gather the pieces which are left over so that nothing goes to waste.”
13 So they gathered them and filled twelve baskets of pieces from the five barley loaves which those who had eaten had left over.
14 Then when the men had seen the sign which Jesus had performed, they said, “This is truly the prophet who was to come into the world.”
15 So Jesus, who knew they would come and seize him to make him king, withdrew into the mountain alone.
16 Then when evening had come, his disciples went down to the sea,
17 and went on board a boat and were going across the sea to Capernaum. Now dark had already fallen, and Jesus had not come to them,
18 and the sea was being stirred up, with a strong wind blowing.
19 Then when they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty stades, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near to the boat, and they were afraid.
20 But he said to them, “I am; do not be afraid.”
21 Then they wanted to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat came to the place which they were heading for.
22 The next day, the crowd who were standing on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there, except the one which his disciples had boarded, and that Jesus had not gone with his disciples into the boat, but that his disciples had departed alone,
23 but that boats had come from Tiberias near to the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.
24 So when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves went into the boats and went to Capernaum, looking for Jesus.
25 And when they had found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you arrive here?”
26 Jesus replied to them and said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate the bread and had your fill.
27 Work not for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures, leading to age-abiding life, which the son of man will give you. For the father, God, has sealed him.”
28 Then they said to him, “What should we do to do the works of God?”
29 Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you should believe in him whom he has sent.”
30 Then they said to him, “What sign will you perform then for us to see and believe you? What will you perform?
31 Our fathers ate manna in the desert, as it stands written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’ ”
32 Then Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it is not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is my father who gives you the true bread from heaven.
33 For the bread of God is he who descends from heaven and gives life to the world.”
34 Then they said to him, “Lord, always give us this bread.”
35 And Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not hunger at all, and he who believes in me will not ever thirst at all.
36 But I said to you, ‘Although you have seen me, you still don't believe.’
37 Everything that the father gives me will come to me, and I will certainly not cast out him who comes to me.
38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my will, but the will of him who sent me.
39 And this is the will of the father who sent me, that I should not lose any part of anything that he has given me, but that I should raise it up on the last day.
40 And this is the will of him who sent me, that everyone who sees the son and believes in him should have age-abiding life, and that I should raise him up on the last day.”
41 Then the Jews murmured about him, because he had said, “I am the bread which has come down from heaven.”
42 And they said, “Is not this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How come, then, he says, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”
43 So Jesus answered and said to them, “Do not murmur among yourselves.
44 No-one can come to me, unless the father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up on the last day.
45 It stands written in the prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ So everyone who hears from the father and has learnt comes to me.
46 Not that anyone has seen the father, except him who is with God – he has seen the father.
47 Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in me has age-abiding life.
48 I am the bread of life.
49 Your fathers ate manna in the desert and died.
50 This is the bread which comes down from heaven, so that a person should eat it and not die.
51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If a person eats this bread, he will live throughout the Age. And moreover, the bread which I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”
52 Then the Jews contended with each other, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
53 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, if you do not eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood, you do not have life in you.
54 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has age-abiding life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
55 For my flesh is truly food, and my blood is truly drink.
56 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him.
57 As the living father sent me, so I live because of the father. As for him who eats me, he will also live because of me.
58 This is the bread which has come down from heaven, not comparable to how your fathers ate the manna and died. He who eats this bread will live throughout the Age.”
59 He said these things in the synagogue while teaching in Capernaum.
60 Then many of his disciples who had heard him said, “This speech is hard. Who can listen to it?”
61 But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were murmuring about this, said to them, “Does this offend you?
62 What, then, if you should see the son of man ascending to where he was before?
63 It is the spirit which makes alive; the flesh is of no benefit. The words which I am speaking to you are spirit and are life.
64 But there are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe and who it was who would betray him.
65 And he said, “This is why I have said to you that no-one can come to me, unless it has been granted to him by my father.”
66 At this many of his disciples went back and no longer walked with him.
67 Then Jesus said to the twelve, “You don't also wish to go away, do you?”
68 Then Simon Peter replied to him, “Lord, to whom could we go. You have the words of age-abiding life,
69 and we have believed, and know, that you are the Christ, the son of the living God.”
70 Jesus replied to them, “Did I not choose you twelve? Yet one of you is a devil.”
71 He was speaking here of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon. For this man was going to betray him, being one of the twelve.
1 And after that Jesus walked around in Galilee, for he did not wish to walk around in Judaea, because the Jews were looking for a way to kill him.
2 Now the festival of the Jews, Tabernacles, was near.
3 Then his brothers said to him, “Move on from here and go to Judaea, so that your disciples may see your works which you do,
4 for no-one does a thing in secret when he is trying to be known in public himself. If you are doing these things, manifest yourself to the world.”
5 For not even his brothers believed in him.
6 So Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come. But your time is always at hand.
7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it that its works are evil.
8 You go up to this festival. I am not yet going up to this festival, for my time has not yet been fulfilled.”
9 Then when he had said these things to them, he remained in Galilee.
10 But when his brothers went up, then he went up to the festival as well – not openly, but as it were in secret.
11 Then the Jews looked for him at the festival and said, “Where is that man?”
12 And there was a lot of murmuring about him among the crowds. Some said, “He is good.” Others said, “No. Rather, he is misleading the crowd.”
13 However, no-one spoke freely concerning him for fear of the Jews.
14 Then when the festival was already half way through, Jesus went up to the temple and gave some teaching.
15 And the Jews were amazed, and said, “How come this man knows literature, not having studied it?”
16 So Jesus replied to them and said, “My teaching is not mine, but of him who sent me.
17 If anyone wishes to do his will, he will know about the teaching – whether it is from God or whether I speak on my own initiative.
18 He who speaks on his own initiative seeks his own glory, but it is he who seeks the glory of him who sent him who is true, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
19 Did not Moses give you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law. Why are you looking for a way to kill me?”
20 The crowd answered and said, “You are possessed by a demon. Who is looking for a way to kill you?”
21 Jesus answered and said to them, “I have performed one work, and you are all amazed.
22 For this reason Moses gave you circumcision – not that it was from Moses' time, but from the fathers' time – and you circumcise a man on a Sabbath.
23 If a man receives circumcision on a Sabbath, in order that the law of Moses should not be broken, why are you angry at me because I cured a man in his entirety on the Sabbath?
24 Do not judge by appearance, but judge with a just judgment.”
25 Then some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem said, “Isn't this the one whom they are trying to kill?
26 And look, he is speaking openly, and they aren't saying anything to him. The leaders really have not established, have they, that this really is the Christ?
27 But we know where this man is from. However, when the Christ comes, no-one will know where he is from.”
28 So Jesus shouted out, while teaching in the temple, and said, “You both know me and you know where I am from. And yet I have not come on my own initiative, but he who sent me is true, whom you do not know.
29 I know him, because I am from him and he sent me.”
30 Then they looked for a way to seize him, yet no-one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
31 But many of the crowd believed in him and said, “When the Christ comes, surely he will not do more signs than these which this man has done?”
32 The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about him, and the Pharisees and senior priests sent officers to seize him.
33 Then Jesus said, “I will only be a little while with you still, and then I will go away to him who sent me.
34 You will look for me, but not find me. And where I am, you cannot go.”
35 Then the Jews said to themselves, “Where is he going to go, such that we won't find him? Is he going to go to the Diaspora among the Greeks, and then teach the Greeks?
36 What does this remark which he said mean, ‘You will look for me, but you will not find me,’ and ‘Where I am, you cannot go’?”
37 Now on the last great day of the festival, Jesus, stood up and shouted, saying, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.
38 As regards him who believes in me, as the scripture says, ‘Rivers of living water will flow from his inside.’ ”
39 He said this referring to the spirit which those who believed in him were about to receive, for there was not yet any holy spirit, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.
40 Then many of the crowd who heard the statement said, “This man is truly the prophet.”
41 Others said, “This is the Christ”. Yet others said, “No, for surely the Christ does not come from Galilee?
42 Does not the scripture say that the Christ comes from the seed of David, from the village of Bethlehem, where David was?”
43 So a division arose in the crowd on account of him.
44 And some of them wanted to seize him, but no-one laid hands on him.
45 Then the officers went to the senior priests and Pharisees, and those said to them, “Why did you not bring him here?”
46 The officers replied, “Never did a man speak in such a way as this man did.”
47 Then the Pharisees answered them, “You haven't gone astray too, have you?
48 None of the rulers or of the Pharisees have believed him, have they?
49 But this crowd who do not know the law are strongly cursed.”
50 Nicodemus, who had come to him by night, who was one of them, said to them,
51 “Surely our law does not judge a man if it has not first heard from him and knows what he is doing?”
52 They answered and said to him, “You aren't from Galilee too, are you? Investigate and see: no prophet has arisen from Galilee.”
53 Then each went to his house.
1 But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
2 Then at dawn he presented himself at the temple again. And all the people came, and he sat down and was teaching them,
3 when the scribes and Pharisees brought to him a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placed her at the focus of attention,
4 and said to him, testing him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of committing adultery,
5 and in the law, Moses, commanded us that such people are to be stoned. So what do you say?”
6 But they said this testing him, so that they might have something to accuse him with. But Jesus stooped and wrote on the ground with his finger, not acting in pretence.
7 And when they persisted in asking him, he looked up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you cast a stone at her first.”
8 Then stooping again, he wrote on the ground.
9 And having heard it, and being convicted by their conscience they went out one by one, beginning with the elders; then Jesus was left there alone with the woman at the focal point.
10 Jesus straightened himself up and not seeing anyone except the woman, said to her, “Where are those accusers of yours? Didn't anyone condemn you?”
11 And she said, “No-one, Lord.” Jesus then said, “Neither do I judge you. Go and do not sin any more.”
12 Then Jesus spoke to them again, and said, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will certainly not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
13 Then the Pharisees said to him, “You are testifying about yourself; your testimony is not true.”
14 Jesus answered and said to them, “Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you do not know where I come from or where I am going.
15 You judge according to the flesh, but I do not judge anyone.
16 And if I do judge, my judgment is true, because I am not alone, but it is a case of me and the father who sent me.
17 And in your law it stands written that the testimony of two men is true.
18 I am the one testifying about myself, and the father who sent me testifies about me too.”
19 Then they said to him, “Where is your father?” Jesus answered, “You neither know me nor my father. If you knew me, you would know my father too.”
20 Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, while teaching in the temple, but no-one seized him because his hour had not yet come.
21 Then Jesus said to them again, “I am going away, and you will seek me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot go.”
22 Then the Jews said, “Is he going to kill himself, in that he said, ‘Where I am going, you cannot go’?”
23 And he said to them, “You are of the things below, but I am of the things above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.
24 So I said to you, ‘You will die in your sins.’ For if you do not believe that I am, you will die in your sins.”
25 Then they said to him, “Who are you?” And Jesus said to them, “I tell you: the beginning, which I have been telling you all along.
26 I have many things concerning you to say and to judge, but he who sent me is true, and what I hear from him, that I say to the world.”
27 They did not know that he was speaking to them of the father.
28 So Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the son of man, then you will know that I am, and that on my own initiative I do not do anything, but as my father has taught me, so I speak.
29 And he who sent me is with me. The father has not left me alone, because I always do the things which are pleasing to him.”
30 As he said these things many believed in him.
31 Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, you are truly my disciples,
32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
33 They replied to him, “We are the seed of Abraham, and we have never been slaves to anyone. How come you say, ‘You will be free’?”
34 Jesus replied to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, that everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin.
35 But the slave does not remain in the house forever. The son remains throughout the Age.
36 So if the son makes you free, you will be free indeed.
37 I know that you are the seed of Abraham, but you are looking for a way to kill me, because my word does not find room in you.
38 I speak of what I have seen with my father. And you consequently do what you have seen with your father.”
39 They answered and said to him, “Our father is Abraham.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing Abraham's works.
40 But now, you are looking for a way to kill me, a man who has spoken to you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham did not do this.
41 You do the works of your father.” Then they said to him, “We were not born from fornication. We have one father: God.”
42 Then Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, since I came out from God, and have come here, for I did not come on my own initiative, but he sent me.
43 Why do you not understand my discourse? Because you are not able to hear my words.
44 You stem from your father the devil, and you have a will to carry out the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and he does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks the lie, he speaks from his own mind, because he is a liar and is the father of it.
45 But because I speak the truth, you do not believe me.
46 Who among you can convict me of sin? But if I speak the truth, why do you not believe me?
47 He who is from God hears the words of God. That is why you do not hear them, because you are not from God.”
48 Then the Jews replied and said to him, “Were we not right in saying, ‘You are a Samaritan and you are possessed by a demon’?”
49 Jesus replied, “I am not possessed by a demon, but I honour my father, whereas you dishonour me.
50 And I do not seek my glory. There is the one who seeks and judges.
51 Truly, truly, I say to you, if a person keeps my word, he will by no means see death throughout the Age.”
52 The Jews said to him, “Now we know you are possessed by a demon. Abraham and the prophets died, but you say, ‘If a person keeps my word, he will by no means taste death throughout the Age.’
53 Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? The prophets also died. Whom do you make yourself out to be?”
54 Jesus replied, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my father who glorifies me, whom you say is our God.
55 But you have not known him. But I know him. And if I were to say that I do not know him, I would be like you – a liar. But I do know him, and I keep his word.
56 Abraham your father was glad to see my day, and saw it, and rejoiced.”
57 Then the Jews said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?”
58 Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you: before Abraham came into being, I am.”
59 Then they took up stones to cast at him. But Jesus hid himself, and he went out of the temple, and crossed through the thick of them, and so passed them by.
1 And as he passed by, he saw a man who had been blind from his birth.
2 And the disciples questioned him, and asked, “Rabbi, who sinned, he or his parents, that he should be born blind?”
3 Jesus replied, “Neither he nor his parents sinned, but it happened in order that the works of God should be manifested in him.
4 I must carry out the works of him who sent me while it is day. Night is coming, when no-one can do any work.
5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
6 When he had said these things, he spat on the ground and made clay from the spittle and smeared the clay on the eyes of the blind man,
7 and he said to him, “Go and wash yourself in the Pool of Siloam,” which, translated, is “Sent.” So he went away and washed himself, and came back sighted.
8 Then the neighbours and those who had previously seen that he had been blind, said, “Is this not the one who sits and begs?”
9 Some said, “This is him.” But others said, “He is like him.” He himself said, “I am he.”
10 Then they said to him, “How were your eyes opened?”
11 He replied and said, “A man called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go off to the Pool of Siloam and wash yourself.’ So I went off and when I washed myself, I recovered my sight.”
12 Then they said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I don't know.”
13 They brought him who had been blind in the past to the Pharisees.
14 Now it was the Sabbath when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes.
15 Then the Pharisees also asked him on the same ground how he had recovered his sight. He then said to them, “He placed clay on my eyes, then I washed myself, and now I can see.”
16 Then some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, since he does not keep the Sabbath.” Others said, “How can a sinful man perform such signs?” So there was a division among them.
17 They asked the blind man again, “What have you got to say about him, in that he opened your eyes?” And he said, “He is a prophet.”
18 In fact the Jews did not believe concerning him that he had been blind and had recovered his sight until they had called the parents of him who had recovered his sight.
19 And they questioned them, and asked, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? How come that he can now see?”
20 Then his parents answered them, and said, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind.
21 But as to how he can now see, we don't know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. He is of age; ask him. He will speak for himself.”
22 His parents said these things because they feared the Jews. For the Jews had already decided that if anyone professed that that man was the Christ, he would be excommunicated from the synagogue.
23 That is why his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”
24 So they called the man who had been blind a second time, and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”
25 At which he answered and said, “Whether he is a sinner or not, I don't know. One thing I do know, that although I was blind, I can now see.”
26 Then they asked him again, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”
27 He replied to them, “I have told you already, but you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don't want to become his disciples too, do you?”
28 They reviled him, and said, “You are a disciple of his. But we are disciples of Moses.
29 We know that God spoke to Moses. But we do not know where this man is from.”
30 The man answered and said to them, “Well, in this matter it is astounding that you do not know where he is from, yet he opened my eyes.
31 Now we know that God does not hear sinners, but if anyone is godly and does his will, he hears him.
32 Never has it been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of one born blind.
33 If this man were not from God, he could not do anything.”
34 They replied and said to him, “You were wholly born in sins, and are you teaching us?” And they cast him out.
35 Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and found him, and asked him, “Do you believe in the son of God?”
36 He answered, and said, “So who is that, Lord, so that I may believe in him?”
37 Jesus then said to him, “You have seen him, and also he who is talking to you is the one.”
38 Then he said, “I believe, Lord.” And he worshipped him.
39 Then Jesus said, “I have come into this world with a view to judgment – that those who do not see should see, and those who see should become blind.”
40 Now some of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, “Surely we are not blind too?”
41 Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would not have sin. But as it is, you say, ‘We see.’ So your sin remains.”
1 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not come into the sheep-fold through the door, but climbs up from somewhere else is a thief and a robber.
2 But he who enters through the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
3 To him the door-keeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
4 And when he has brought out his own sheep, he goes in front of them, and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.
5 However they certainly will not follow a stranger, but will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.”
6 Jesus spoke this proverb to them, but they did not know what the things that he was saying to them meant.
7 Then Jesus spoke to them again and said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door for the sheep.
8 All who have gone are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.
9 I am the door. If anyone goes in through me, he will be saved, and will go in and out, and will find pasture.
10 The thief does not come except to steal and slaughter and destroy. I came in order that they might have life and have it abundantly.
11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
12 But the hired man, so who is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees. Then the wolf seizes them and scatters the sheep.
13 The hired man, then, flees, because he is a hired man, and he is not concerned about the sheep.
14 I am the good shepherd, and I know my own, and I am known by my own.
15 As the father knows me I also know the father, and I lay down my life for the sheep.
16 I have other sheep too, which are not of this fold, and I must lead those too, and they will hear my voice, and there will be this: one flock, one shepherd.
17 Here is why the father loves me: because I lay down my life, so that I may take it up again.
18 No-one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own free will. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. I received this commandment from my father.”
19 Then a division arose again among the Jews on account of these words.
20 And many of them said, “He is possessed by a demon and is mad. Why do you listen to him?”
21 Others said, “These words are not those of one possessed by a demon. A demon cannot open the eyes of the blind, can it?”
22 Now it was the festival of the Dedication in Jerusalem, and it was winter,
23 and Jesus was walking around in the temple in Solomon's Colonnade.
24 Then the Jews gathered round him and said to him, “How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”
25 Jesus replied to them, “I have told you, and you do not believe. It is the works which I do in the name of my father which testify concerning me.
26 But you do not believe, for you are not my sheep, as I told you.
27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
28 And I give them age-abiding life, and they will certainly not be lost throughout the Age, and no-one will snatch them out of my hand.
29 My father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no-one can snatch them from my father's hand.
30 I and the father are one.”
31 Then the Jews brought stones again to stone him.
32 Jesus replied to them, “I have shown you many good works from my father. On account of which of those works do you stone me?”
33 The Jews answered him, and said, “We are not stoning you for a good work, but for blasphemy, and in that you, being a man, make yourself God.”
34 Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, «You are gods» ’?
35 If he called those people to whom the word of God came ‘gods’ – and the scripture cannot be broken –
36 do you say of him whom the father sanctified, and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming’ because I said, ‘I am the son of God’?
37 If I do not do the works of my father, do not believe me,
38 but if I do do them, and if you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may know and believe that the father is in me and I in him.”
39 Then they again looked for a way to seize him, but he slipped away, out of their reach.
40 And he departed again, across the Jordan, to the place where John was first baptizing, and remained there.
41 And many came to him and said that John did not perform any sign, but that everything John had said about this man had been true.
42 And many there believed in him.
1 Now there was a certain man who was ill: Lazarus from Bethany, from the village of Mary and Martha her sister.
2 Mary, incidentally, was the one who had anointed the Lord with ointment and had wiped his feet dry with her hair, and whose brother Lazarus was ill.
3 So the sisters sent word to him, and said, “Lord, look, he whom you love is ill.”
4 Then when Jesus heard it, he said, “This illness is not with death in view, but is for the sake of the glory of God, so that the son of God may be glorified through it.”
5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister, and Lazarus,
6 so when he heard that he was ill, he then remained in the place where he was for two days.
7 Then after that he said to the disciples, “Let us go to Judaea again.”
8 The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, the Jews were only recently looking for a way to stone you, yet are you going there again?”
9 Jesus replied, “Are there not twelve hours in a day? If a person goes around in the daytime, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
10 But if a person goes around at night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”
11 He said these things, and after this he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep. But I am going along to awaken him.”
12 Then the disciples said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”
13 However, Jesus had spoken about his death, but they thought he was speaking about falling asleep in the sense of natural sleep.
14 So Jesus then spoke to them plainly, “Lazarus is dead.
15 And I rejoice on your account, so that you may believe, because I was not there. But let us go to him.”
16 Then Thomas, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us go too, so that we may die with him.”
17 Then when Jesus had arrived, he found that he had already been in the tomb for four days.
18 Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stades away.
19 And many of the Jews had gone to the women connected with Martha and Mary to console them about their brother.
20 Then when she heard that Jesus was coming, Martha went to meet him. But Mary was sitting down in the house.
21 Then Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
22 But even now I know that whatever you ask God for, God will give you it.”
23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”
24 Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise in the resurrection on the last day.”
25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, even if he dies, he will live.
26 And everyone who lives and believes in me will certainly not die throughout the Age. Do you believe this?”
27 She said to him, “Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the son of God, who should come into the world.”
28 And when she had said these things, she went away and called Mary her sister in secret, and said, “The teacher is present and is calling for you.”
29 When she heard that, she got up quickly and went to him.
30 However, Jesus had not yet come to the village, but was in the place where Martha had met him.
31 So when the Jews who were with her in the house comforting her saw that Mary had quickly got up and gone out, they followed her, and said, “She is going off to the tomb to weep there.”
32 Then when Mary came to where Jesus was, when she saw him she fell down at his feet, and said to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”
33 Then when he saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her weeping, Jesus was exasperated in spirit, and was disquieted,
34 and said, “Where have you put him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.”
35 Jesus wept.
36 Then the Jews said, “See how he loved him.”
37 But some of them said, “Could not this man, who opened the eyes of the blind man, have also acted so that this man should not die?”
38 Then, again inwardly exasperated, Jesus went to the tomb. There was a cave, and a stone lay on it.
39 Jesus said, “Remove the stone.” Martha, the sister of the deceased man, said to him, “Lord, by now he will stink, for he has been dead for four days.”
40 Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you believed you would see the glory of God.”
41 So they removed the stone where the deceased was lying. Jesus lifted his eyes upwards and said, “Father, I give thanks to you because you have heard me.
42 But I knew that you would always hear me. But on account of the crowd standing round, I spoke, so that they might believe that you sent me.”
43 And when he had said these things, he called out in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out.”
44 And he who had died came out, bound at the legs and the hands with swathing, and his face was wrapped with a sweat-band. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him and let him go.”
45 Then many of the Jews who had come to Mary and had seen what Jesus had done believed in him.
46 But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
47 Then the senior priests and the Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin council and said, “What are we doing, seeing that this man is performing many signs?
48 If we leave him like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”
49 But one of them, Caiaphas, who was the high priest in that year, said to them, “You do not know anything.
50 Nor do you consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people so that the whole nation should not perish.”
51 Now he did not say this on his own initiative, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation,
52 and not only for the nation, but also so that he should gather the children of God who are scattered into one.
53 Then from that day, they deliberated on how to kill him.
54 So Jesus no longer went around openly among the Jews, but went away from there to a region near the desert, to a town called Ephraim, and spent time there with his disciples.
55 Now the Jews' Passover was near, and many went up to Jerusalem from the region before the Passover to sanctify themselves.
56 Then they looked for Jesus and spoke with each other as they stood in the temple, and said, “What do you think? Will he definitely not come to the festival?”
57 The senior priests and Pharisees on this score had issued a commandment that if anyone knew where he was, he must inform them so that they might seize him.
1 So six days before the Passover, Jesus went to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had died, whom he had raised from the dead.
2 Then they made a meal for him there, and Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining at table with him.
3 Then Mary took a litra of very costly genuine ointment of spikenard, and anointed Jesus's feet and wiped his feet dry with her hair. And the house was filled with the scent of the ointment.
4 Then one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, who was going to betray him, said,
5 “Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denaries and given to the poor?”
6 But he said this, not because he was concerned for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the money-bag, and kept the funds.
7 Then Jesus said, “Leave her alone. She has kept this with a view to the day of my embalming.
8 After all, you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.”
9 Then a large crowd of the Jews found out that he was there, and they came not on account of Jesus only, but also to see Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead.
10 But the senior priests had resolved to kill Lazarus as well,
11 because many of the Jews were withdrawing on account of him, and were believing in Jesus.
12 The next day, a large crowd who had come to the festival heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
13 and they took branches of palm trees, and went out to meet him, and shouted, “Hosanna; blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, the king of Israel.”
14 Jesus then found a donkey, and sat on it, as it stands written,
15 “Do not fear, daughter of Zion; behold, your king is coming, sitting on the foal of a donkey.”
16 But his disciples did not know these things at first, but when Jesus had been glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him, and that they had done these things for him.
17 Then the crowd who were with him when he called Lazarus from the tomb and raised him from the dead, gave a testimony,
18 which is why the former crowd also went to meet him, because they had heard that he had performed this sign.
19 Then the Pharisees said to each other, “You see that it has not availed in any way. Look, the world has gone after him.”
20 Now there were some Greeks among those going up to worship at the festival.
21 These then went to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and appealed to him, and said, “Sir, we want to see Jesus.”
22 Philip came and told Andrew, and Andrew and Philip in turn told Jesus.
23 But Jesus answered them, and said, “The hour has come for the son of man to be glorified.
24 Truly, truly, I say to you, unless the grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, only it remains. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.
25 He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it, saved up for age-abiding life.
26 If anyone serves me, let him follow me, and where I am, there my servant will be; and if anyone serves me, the father will honour him.
27 My soul is troubled now. Well what should I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? But it is for this that I came, for this hour.
28 Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven, and said, “I both have glorified it and will glorify it again.”
29 Then the crowd who were standing by and had heard it said that it had thundered. Others said, “An angel has spoken to him.”
30 Jesus answered and said, “This voice did not come on my account, but on your account.
31 Now the judgment of this world is here. Now the ruler of this world will be cast out.
32 And as for me, when I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men to myself.”
33 Now he said this indicating what kind of death he was going to die.
34 The crowd replied to him, “We have heard from the law that Christ remains throughout the Age, so how can you say ‘The son of man must be lifted up?’ Who is this son of man?”
35 Then Jesus said to them, “The light is with you for just a little while yet. Walk while you have the light, so that darkness does not overtake you. For he who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
36 While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become sons of the light.” Jesus said these things, then went away and was hidden from them.
37 Although he had performed so many signs in their presence, they did not believe in him,
38 so that the word of Isaiah the prophet, which he spoke, might be fulfilled: “Lord, who has believed our announcement? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
39 For this reason, they were not able to believe, because Isaiah again says,
40 “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they do not see with their eyes and understand with their heart, and become converted, and I should heal them.”
41 Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke concerning him.
42 Nevertheless, however, even many of the rulers believed in him, but did not confess it on account of the Pharisees, so as not to become excommunicated from the synagogue,
43 for they loved the glory of men more than the glory of God.
44 Then Jesus shouted out and said, “He who believes in me does not believe in me, but in him who sent me.
45 And he who sees me sees him who sent me.
46 I have come to the world as a light, so that no-one who believes in me should remain in darkness.
47 And if anyone hears my words, but does not believe, I do not judge him. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.
48 He who dismisses me and does not accept my words has one judging him: it is the word which I have spoken which will judge him on the last day.
49 For I have not spoken on my own initiative, but it is the father who sent me who gave me a commandment as to what I should say and what I should speak.
50 And I know that his commandment means age-abiding life. As for the things I say, as my father has spoken to me, so I speak.”
1 Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come for him to move out of this world to the father, after he had loved his own who were in the world. He loved them to the end.
2 And when supper had taken place, and the devil had already laid it on the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray him,
3 Jesus knew that the father had committed everything to his responsibility and that he had come out from God, and was going to God,
4 and he got up from the supper and laid aside his garments and took a linen cloth and girded himself.
5 Then he put water in the basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the linen cloth with which he was girded.
6 Then he went to Simon Peter who said to him, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet?”
7 Jesus replied and said to him, “You do not now know what I am doing, but you will know afterwards.”
8 Peter said to him, “Don't ever wash my feet at all.” Jesus replied to him, “If I don't wash you, you have no part with me.”
9 Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, wash not just my feet, but also my hands and head.”
10 Jesus said to him, “He who has washed himself does not need anything other than to wash his feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean, but not all of you.”
11 For he knew who was going to betray him. That is why he said, “You are not all clean.”
12 Then when he had washed their feet, and taken his garments, he reclined again and said to them, “Do you know what I have done for you?
13 You call me ‘the teacher’ and ‘the Lord’, and you say so correctly, for so I am.
14 So if I, the Lord and the teacher, have washed your feet, then you ought to wash each other's feet.
15 For I have given you an example, so that as I have acted for you, so you should act.
16 Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than him who sent him.
17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
18 I do not speak of all of you. I know those whom I have chosen, but let this scripture be fulfilled: ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’
19 From now on I will tell you before a thing takes place, so that when it does take place, you may believe that I am.
20 Truly, truly, I say to you, if I send someone, he who receives him receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.”
21 When Jesus had said these things, he was troubled in spirit, and testified and said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, that one of you will betray me.”
22 Then the disciples looked at each other, at a loss as to whom he was speaking about.
23 And one of his disciples, he whom Jesus loved, was reclining in the bosom of Jesus's robe.
24 Then Simon Peter made a sign to him, to enquire as to who it might be about whom he spoke.
25 Then he just sank onto Jesus's chest and said to him, “Lord, who is it?”
26 Jesus answered, “It is he to whom I will give this morsel of food when I have dipped it.” So he dipped the morsel and gave it to Judas Iscariot the son of Simon.
27 And after the incident of the morsel of food, Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said, “What you are doing, do quickly.”
28 But no-one among those reclining knew to what intent he said this to him.
29 For some thought, since Judas had the money-bag, that Jesus said to him, “Buy what we need for the festival,” or that he should give something to the poor.
30 Then he took the morsel of food and went out straightaway. It was, by the way, night.
31 When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the son of man has been glorified and God has been glorified in him.
32 If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and will immediately glorify him.
33 Little children, I will be with you for just a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you cannot go,’ so I also say to you now.
34 I give you a new commandment, to love each other – that you also love each other as I have loved you.
35 By this all will know that you are my disciples: by whether you have love among each other.”
36 Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, where are you going?” Jesus replied to him, “Where I am going, you cannot now follow me, but later you will follow me.”
37 Peter said to him, “Lord, why can I not follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.”
38 Jesus replied to him, “Will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly, I say to you, the cock will certainly not crow until you have denied me three times.
1 Do not let your heart be troubled. Believe in God, and believe in me.
2 In my father's house there are many residences. If it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you.
3 And if I go, I will prepare a place for you; I will come again and receive you to myself, so that where I am, you also might be.
4 So you know where I am going, and you know the way.”
5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don't know where you are going. So how can we know the way?”
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth and the life. No-one comes to the father except through me.
7 If you had known me, you would have known my father. But from now on, you know him and you have seen him.”
8 Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the father, and that will be sufficient for us.”
9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, yet you do not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the father. So how can you say, ‘Show us the father?’
10 Do you not believe that I am in the father, and the father is in me? The words which I say to you, I do not say on my own initiative, but it is the father who remains in me who does the works.
11 Believe me, that I am in the father and the father in me. And if not, believe me on account of the works themselves.
12 Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in me will also do the works which I do, and he will do greater ones than these, because I am going to my father.
13 And whatever you ask in my name, I will do it, so that the father is glorified in the son.
14 If you ask anything of me in my name, I will do it.
15 If you love me, keep my commandments.
16 Moreover, I will ask the father, and he will give you another comforter, so that he may remain with you throughout the Age,
17 the spirit of truth, which the world cannot receive, because it does not see it or know it. But you know it, because it remains with you and will be in you.
18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
19 Just a little while and the world will see me no longer, but you will see me, because I live and you will live.
20 On that day, you will know that I am in my father, and you in me and I in you.
21 He who has my commandments and keeps them – that's who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my father, and I will love him, and I will reveal myself to him.”
22 Judas, not Iscariot, said to him, “Lord, what has happened then, in that you are going to reveal yourself to us but not to the world?”
23 Jesus replied and said to him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my father will love him, and we will come to him, and we will make an abode with him.
24 He who does not love me does not keep my words. And the word which you hear is not mine, but that of the father who sent me.
25 I spoke these things to you when I was staying with you.
26 But the comforter, the holy spirit, which the father will send in my name, he will teach you everything and will remind you of everything I have said to you.
27 I leave you peace. I give you my peace. I give it to you not as the world gives it. Do not let your heart be troubled, or be afraid.
28 You have heard that I said to you, ‘I am going away and I will come back to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced in that I said, ‘I am going to the father,’ because the father is greater than I am.
29 And now I have spoken to you before it happens, so that when it does happen, you may believe.
30 I will no longer discuss many things with you. For the ruler of the world is coming, but he has no hold on me in any way.
31 But let the world know that I love the father, and that as my father commanded me, so I act. Up you get, let us move on from here.
1 I am the true vine, and my father is the cultivator.
2 As for every branch in me which does not bear fruit, he removes it. But as for every one which bears fruit, he prunes it, so that it bears more fruit.
3 You are already clean, because of the word which I have spoken to you.
4 Remain in me, and I will in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, if it does not remain in the vine, so neither can you, if you do not remain in me.
5 I am the vine; you are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, will bear much fruit, because without me you cannot do anything.
6 If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and withers, and people gather them and put them on the fire, and they are burnt.
7 If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will take place for you.
8 This is what my father is glorified by: by you bearing much fruit, and so becoming disciples to me.
9 As my father loved me, so I have loved you. Remain in my love.
10 If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, as I have kept the commandments of my father and remain in his love.
11 I have said these things to you in order that my joy may remain in you, and your joy may be fulfilled.
12 This is my commandment, that you love each other as I have loved you.
13 No-one has love greater than this, that someone should lay down his life for his friends.
14 You are my friends if you do what I command you.
15 I no longer call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master does. But I have called you friends, because I have informed you of everything that I have heard from my father.
16 You did not choose me, but I chose you, and I appointed you to go and bear fruit, and for your fruit to remain, so that whatever you ask the father for in my name, he should give you.
17 I charge you with this: that you love each other.
18 If the world hates you, know that it hated me before you.
19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. However since you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world – that is why the world hates you.
20 Remember the words which I spoke to you. A servant is not greater than his master. If they persecuted me, they will persecute you too. If they kept my word, they will keep yours as well.
21 But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.
22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin. But now they have no excuse for their sin.
23 He who hates me also hates my father.
24 If I had not done the works among them which no-one else has done, they would have no sin. But as it is they have seen and hated both me and my father.
25 But this is so that the word written in their law might be fulfilled: ‘They hated me gratuitously.’
26 But when the comforter comes, whom I will send you from the father – the spirit of truth which proceeds from the father – he will testify about me.
27 But you testify too, because you have been with me from the start.
1 I have told you these things so that you are not offended.
2 They will excommunicate you from the synagogues, but an hour is coming when everyone who kills you will think he is offering service to God.
3 And they will do these things because they do not know the father or me.
4 However, I have told you these things so that when the hour comes, you will remember that I told you them. But I did not tell you these things from the start, because I was with you.
5 Now, though, I am going to him who sent me, yet none of you is asking me, ‘Where are you going?’
6 But because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart.
7 But I tell you the truth: it is advantageous to you for me to depart, since if I do not depart, the comforter will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
8 And when he has come, he will convince the world of sin and righteousness and judgment:
9 of sin, because they do not believe in me;
10 of righteousness, because I am going to my father, and you will see me no more;
11 of judgment, because the ruler of this world stands judged.
12 I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them at present.
13 But when he comes, the spirit of truth, he will guide you into the whole truth, for he will not speak on his own initiative, but whatever he hears he will say, and he will announce to you things to come.
14 He will glorify me, because he will take from what is mine and announce it to you.
15 Everything that the father has is mine. That is why I said that he takes from what is mine and he will announce it to you.
16 Just a little while and you will not see me, and then another little while and you will see me, because I am going to the father.”
17 Then some of his disciples said to each other, “What does this that he says mean: ‘Just a little while and you will not see me, and then another little while and you will see me,’ and ‘I am going to the father’?”
18 So they said, “What does this that he said mean: ‘Just a little while’? We do not know what he is saying.”
19 Then Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him about it, and he said to them, “Are you discussing this matter with each other because I said, ‘Just a little while and you will not see me, and then another a little while and you will see me’?
20 Truly, truly, I say to you, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. So you will be grieved, but your grief will turn into joy.
21 When a woman is in labour, she is in pain, because her hour has come, but when she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the suffering because of the joy in that a man has been born in the world.
22 So you now have grief. But I will see you again and your heart will rejoice, and no-one will take your joy from you.
23 And on that day you will not ask me anything. Truly, truly, I say to you, that whatever you ask of the father in my name, he will give you.
24 Up to now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask, and you will receive, so that your joy may be fulfilled.
25 I have told you these things in proverbs, but the hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in proverbs, but I will inform you plainly concerning the father.
26 On that day you will ask in my name. But I do not say to you that I will ask the father on behalf of you,
27 for the father himself loves you because you have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
28 I came from the father and I have come into the world. I am leaving the world again and I am going to the father.”
29 His disciples said to him, “Look, now you are speaking plainly and are not using any proverb.
30 We now know that you know everything, and don't need anyone to ask you. By this we believe that you have come from God.”
31 Jesus replied to them, “Do you now believe?
32 Look the hour is coming, and has now come, for each of you to be scattered to your own home, and for you to leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the father is with me.
33 I have spoken these things to you so that you may have peace in me. In the world, you have tribulation, but be of good courage: I have overcome the world.”
1 Jesus said these things and lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your son, in order that your son may for his part glorify you.
2 Do this just as you gave him authority over all flesh, which you did so that he should give age-abiding life to the whole of what you have given him.
3 And this is age-abiding life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
4 I have glorified you on the earth; I have completed the work which you gave me to do.
5 And now, glorify me, father, in your presence with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.
6 I have manifested your name to the men you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me, and they have kept your word.
7 They have come to know now that everything that you have given me is from you,
8 because I have given them the words which you have given me, and they received them, and they truly knew that I came out from you, and they believed that you sent me.
9 I make a request for them. I do not make a request for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.
10 And all my possessions are yours, and yours are mine, and I have been glorified by them.
11 I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I am going to you. Holy father, keep them in your name which you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are.
12 When I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. I have guarded those whom you have given me, and not one of them has been lost, except the son of perdition, so that the scripture might be fulfilled.
13 And now I am going to you, and I say these things in the world so that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
14 I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world.
15 I do not ask that you remove them from the world, but that you keep them from evil.
16 They are not of the world, as I am not of the world.
17 Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.
18 As you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world.
19 And I sanctify myself on behalf of them, so that they too may be sanctified by truth.
20 But I do not only make request for these, but also for those who believe in me through their word,
21 so that all may be one, as you, father, are in me and I in you, so that they too may be one in us, so that the world may believe that you sent me.
22 And I have given them the glory which you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one:
23 I in them and you in me, so that they may be perfected into one, and so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them as you loved me.
24 Father, I want those whom you have given me also to be with me where I am, so that they may see my glory which you gave me, because you loved me before the overthrow of the world.
25 Righteous father, although the world did not know you, yet I knew you, and these knew that you sent me,
26 and I have made your name known to them, and I will make it known, so that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
1 When he had said these things, Jesus went out with his disciples across the Cedron Brook, where there was a garden, which he and his disciples went into.
2 Now Judas, who would betray him, also knew the place, because Jesus had often gathered there with his disciples.
3 Then Judas, having received a cohort, and officers from the senior priests and Pharisees, went there with torches and lamps and weapons.
4 Then Jesus, knowing everything that was coming upon him, went out and said to them, “Who are you looking for?”
5 They answered him, “Jesus the Nazarene.” Jesus said to them, “I am he.” Judas, incidentally, who would betray him, was also standing with them.
6 Now when he said to them, “I am he”, they backed away and fell to the ground.
7 So he asked them again, “Who are you looking for?” They then said, “Jesus the Nazarene.”
8 Jesus replied, “I told you that I am he. So if you are looking for me, let these go.”
9 This was in order that that the words which he had said might be fulfilled, “I have not lost one of those whom you have given me.”
10 Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. The name of the servant, by the way, was Malchus.
11 Then Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword in its sheath. Shall I in any way not drink the cup which the father has given me?”
12 Then the cohort and the cohort commander and the officers from the Jews seized Jesus and bound him,
13 and led him away to Annas first, for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest in that year.
14 Now Caiaphas was the one who had advised the Jews that it was expedient that one man should perish for the sake of the people.
15 Meanwhile Simon Peter was following Jesus, as was the other disciple. Now that disciple was known to the high priest, and he went with Jesus into the high priest's precinct.
16 But Peter stood at the door outside. Then the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, came out and spoke to the doorkeeper-girl, and brought Peter in.
17 Then the doorkeeper maidservant said to Peter, “Are you not also one of this man's disciples?” He said, “No, I am not.”
18 Now the servants and the officers were standing there, having made a charcoal fire, because it was cold, and they were warming themselves. And Peter was standing with them, warming himself as well.
19 Then the high priest asked Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching.
20 Jesus replied to him, “I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in the synagogue and in the temple, where the Jews always gather, and I did not say anything in secret.
21 Why are you questioning me? Question those who have heard what I said to them. Look, they know what I said.”
22 When he had said these things, one of the officers standing by gave Jesus a slap in the face and said, “Is this how you answer the high priest?”
23 Jesus replied to him, “If I have said anything wrong, testify concerning the wrong. But if it was right, why are you hitting me?”
24 Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas the high priest.
25 Meanwhile Peter was standing and warming himself. Then they said to him, “Are you not also one of his disciples?” He then denied it and said, “No, I am not.”
26 One of the high priest's servants, who was a relative of him whose ear Peter had cut off, said, “Did I not see you in the garden with him?”
27 Peter then denied it again, and immediately the cock crowed.
28 Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas to the governmental headquarters. Now it was early, but they themselves did not go into the governmental headquarters, so as not to be defiled, but rather to be able to eat the Passover meal.
29 Then Pilate came out to them and said, “What accusation do you bring against this man?”
30 They answered and said to him, “If he were not a wrongdoer, we would not have handed him over to you.”
31 Then Pilate said to them, “You take him and judge him according to your law.” Then the Jews said to him, “It is not permitted for us to kill anyone.”
32 This was so that the word of Jesus, which he spoke, might be fulfilled, indicating what kind of death he was going to die.
33 Then Pilate went into the governmental headquarters again, and called for Jesus, and said to him, “Are you the king of the Jews?”
34 Jesus replied to him, “Are you asking this on your own initiative, or have others told you about me?”
35 Pilate answered, “I am not a Jew, am I? Your people and the senior priests delivered you to me. What have you done?”
36 Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my assistants would be contending for me not to be delivered to the Jews. But as it is my kingdom is not constituted of things here.”
37 Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king, then?” Jesus answered, “As you say, I am a king. I was born for the following purpose, and for the following purpose I came into the world: to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice.”
38 Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” And having said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, “I find no case against him at all.
39 Now it is a custom for you that I release one person to you at the Passover. So do you want me to release the king of the Jews to you?”
40 Then they all shouted again, and said, “Not this one, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber.
1 So Pilate then took Jesus and had him flogged.
2 And the soldiers plaited a crown from thorns, and put it on his head, and put a purple robe around him,
3 and said, “Greetings, O king of the Jews,” and they gave him slaps in the face.
4 Then Pilate came out again, and said to them, “Look, I am bringing him out to you, so that you may know that I find no case against him at all.”
5 Then Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, and he said to them, “Behold the man!”
6 Then when the senior priests and officers had seen him, they shouted, and said, “Crucify him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “You take him and crucify him, for I find no case against him.”
7 The Jews replied to him, “We have a law and he needs to die according to our law, because he has made himself the son of God.”
8 Then when Pilate heard that statement, he was all the more afraid,
9 and he went into the governmental headquarters again and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.
10 Then Pilate said to him, “Won't you speak to me? Don't you know that I have authority to crucify you and authority to release you?”
11 Jesus replied, “You would have no authority over me at all, if it were not given you from above. That is why he who is betraying me to you has a greater sin.”
12 From then on Pilate looked for a way to release him. But the Jews shouted, and said, “If you release him, you are not Caesar's friend. Everyone who makes himself king opposes Caesar.”
13 Then Pilate heeded this talk and led Jesus out and sat at the tribunal at a place called The Pavement, which in Hebraic is Gabbatha.
14 Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover at about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, “Behold your king!”
15 And they shouted, “Away with him, away with him. Crucify him.” Pilate said to them, “Should I crucify your king?” The senior priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar.”
16 So he then handed him over to them to be crucified. And they took Jesus with them and led him away.
17 And carrying his cross, he went out to the place called The Place of the Skull, which is called in Hebraic Golgotha,
18 where they crucified him, and two others with him on either side, with Jesus in the middle.
19 And Pilate wrote an inscription and put it on the cross, and it read, “Jesus the Nazarene, the king of the Jews.”
20 So many of the Jews read this inscription, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city. And it was written in Hebraic, Greek, and Latin.
21 Then the Jews' senior priests said to Pilate, “Don't write, ‘The king of the Jews,’ but, ‘He said, «I am the king of the Jews.» ’ ”
22 Pilate replied, “What I have written, I have written.”
23 Then, when they had crucified Jesus, the soldiers took his clothes and divided them into four parts, a part for each soldier, and the tunic. But the tunic was seamless, woven from the top in one piece.
24 So they said to each other, “Let us not split it, but cast lots for it as to whose it will be,” so that the scripture might be fulfilled which says, “They shared out my clothes among themselves, and for my clothing they cast a lot.” So the soldiers did these things.
25 But standing at the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleopas, and Mary Magdalene.
26 Then Jesus, seeing his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing there, said to his mother, “Madam, behold your son”.
27 Then he said to the disciple, “Behold your mother.” And from that hour, the disciple took her into his own home.
28 After this Jesus saw that everything had already been completed, and in order that the scripture be fulfilled, he said, “I am thirsty.”
29 Accordingly, a jar full of vinegar was standing there. Then they filled a sponge with vinegar and put it round a hyssop plant and brought it to his mouth.
30 So when Jesus had received the vinegar, he said, “It has been completed,” and, bowing his head, he gave up the ghost.
31 Then, in order that the bodies should not remain on the cross on the Sabbath, since it was the Preparation Day, for that Sabbath day was a high Sabbath, the Jews asked Pilate for their legs to be broken and for them to be removed.
32 So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first one, and of the other who had been crucified with him,
33 but when they came to Jesus, when they saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs,
34 however one of the soldiers pierced his rib with his spear, and immediately blood and water came out.
35 And he who saw it testified, and his testimony is true, and he knew that he spoke the truth, in order that you might believe.
36 For these things took place in order that the scripture might be fulfilled: “Not a bone of him shall be crushed.”
37 And again, another scripture says, “They shall look at him whom they pierced through.”
38 After these things Joseph of Aramathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, asked Pilate (but secretly, for fear of the Jews), that he might remove Jesus's body, and Pilate gave permission. So he went and removed Jesus's body.
39 And Nicodemus, who had come to Jesus previously by night, also came, carrying a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about John 19:10John 19:0 litras in weight.
40 Then they took Jesus's body and bound it with linen strips with the scented ointments, as it is the custom of the Jews to embalm.
41 Now there was a garden in the place where he was crucified, and in the garden there was a new tomb in which no-one had ever been laid.
42 So they placed Jesus there because of the Jews' Preparation Day, because the tomb was nearby.
1 On the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb early in the morning when it was still dark, and she saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb.
2 So she ran and went to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don't know where they have put him.”
3 Then Peter and the other disciple went out and made their way to the tomb,
4 and the two of them ran together, although the other disciple ran on ahead faster than Peter and arrived at the tomb first.
5 And stooping alongside, he saw the linen strips lying there. However, he did not go in.
6 Then Simon Peter, following him, arrived, and went into the tomb and saw the linen strips lying there,
7 and the sweat-band, which had been on his head, not lying with the linen strips, but wrapped up on its own in a certain place.
8 So then the other disciple, who had arrived first, also went into the tomb, and saw this, and believed.
9 For they did not yet know the scripture which says that he must rise from the dead.
10 Then the disciples went back home.
11 But Mary stood outside the tomb weeping. Then while she was weeping, she stooped and peered into the tomb,
12 and saw two angels in white sitting down, one at the head and one at the feet of where the body of Jesus had lain.
13 And they said to her, “Madam, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “Because they have taken my Lord away, and I don't know where they have put him.”
14 Then when she had said this, she turned round and saw Jesus standing, but did not know that it was Jesus.
15 Jesus said to her “Madam, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?” She, thinking that it was the gardener, said to him, “Sir, if you carried him away, tell me where you put him, and I will remove him.”
16 Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned round and said, “Rabbouni!” which means “Teacher”.
17 Jesus said to her, “Don't touch me, for I have not yet ascended to my father. But go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my father, and your father, and my God, and your God.’ ”
18 Mary Magdalene went to report to the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had said these things to her.
19 Then with it being evening on that first day of the week, and the doors where the disciples had gathered being closed for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their company and said to them, “Peace to you.”
20 And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and side. So the disciples rejoiced at seeing the Lord.
21 Then Jesus said to them again, “Peace to you. As the father has sent me, so I too send you out.”
22 And when he had said this, he blew into them, and said to them, “Receive holy spirit.
23 If you forgive the sins of any, their sins are forgiven. If you hold on to the sins of any, they remain held.”
24 Now Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came,
25 so the other disciples said to him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands, and I put my finger in the mark of the nails, and put my hand in his side, I will definitely not believe.”
26 Then eight days later, his disciples were again indoors, and Thomas was with them. Jesus came in, although the doors were closed, and stood in their company, and said, “Peace to you.”
27 Then he said to Thomas, “Bring your finger here and see my hands, and stretch out your hand and put it in my side, and do not be unbelieving, but believing.”
28 Then Thomas responded, and said to him, “My Lord and my God.”
29 Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, yet have believed.”
30 To be sure, Jesus performed many other signs too in the presence of his disciples, which have not been written in this book,
31 but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the son of God, and that by believing, you may have life through his name.
1 After these things, Jesus manifested himself to the disciples again, at the Sea of Tiberias, and he manifested himself in this way:
2 Simon Peter and Thomas called Didymus were there, as were Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples.
3 Simon Peter said to them, “I am going fishing.” They said to him, “We will come along with you.” They departed and immediately went on board the boat, but that night they caught nothing.
4 Then with morning having already broken, Jesus was standing on the shore. The disciples, however, did not know that it was Jesus.
5 Then Jesus said to them, “Children, haven't you got any hearty food?” They answered him, “No.”
6 Then he said to them, “Cast the net on the right hand side of the boat, and you will find some.” So they cast it, and they could no longer haul it up because of the large number of fish.
7 Then that disciple, whom Jesus loved, said to Peter, “It's the Lord!” Then, when he heard that it was the Lord, Simon Peter girded himself with his cape – for he was naked – and cast himself into the sea.
8 But the other disciples came by boat, for they were not far from land, just about two hundred cubits, dragging the net full of fish.
9 Then when they had disembarked onto land, they saw a charcoal fire set up and fish lying on it, and bread.
10 Jesus said to them, “Bring some of the fish which you have just caught.”
11 Simon Peter went on board and hauled the net on land, full with one hundred and fifty-three large fish, yet with so many the net did not tear.
12 Jesus said to them, “Come and have your breakfast.” But not one of the disciples dared ask him, “Who are you?” because they knew it was the Lord.
13 Then Jesus came and took the bread, and gave some to them, and the cooked fish likewise.
14 This was the third time now that Jesus was manifested to his disciples, after rising from the dead,
15 then when they had had breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these do?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord, you know that I hold you in affection.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”
16 He asked him a second time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord, you know that I hold you in affection.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.”
17 He asked him a third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you hold me in affection?” Peter was grieved that he had asked him a third time, “Do you hold me in affection?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know I hold you in affection.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.
18 Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were younger, you used to gird yourself and go around where you wanted. But when you grow old, you will hold out your hands, and another will gird you, and he will take you where you don't want to go.”
19 He said this signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. And when he had said this, he said to him, “Follow me.”
20 Then Peter turned round and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following, who had for his part leant back on his breast at the supper and had said, “Lord, who is the one who will betray you?”
21 When Peter saw him, he asked Jesus, “Lord, what about him?”
22 Jesus said to him, “If I want him to remain until I come, what has that got to do with you? You follow me.”
23 So this saying spread among the brothers that that disciple would not die. But Jesus had not said to him that he would not die, but, “If I want him to remain until I come, what has that got to do with you?”
24 This is the disciple who is testifying about these things, and who wrote these things, and we know that his testimony is true.
25 And there are many other things which Jesus did, for which, if they were individually written down, I don't think the world itself could contain the books which would be written. Amen.