John


1:1   In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word
was God. 
1:2  He was with God in the beginning. 
1:3   Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that
has been made. 
1:4  In him was life, and that life was the light of men. 
1:5  The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood
{[5] Or <darkness, and the darkness has not overcome>} it. 
1:6   There came a man who was sent from God; his name was John. 
1:7  He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through
him all men might believe. 
1:8  He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light. 
1:9  The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world.
{[9] Or <This was the true light that gives light to every man who comes
into the world>} 
1:10   He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the
world did not recognize him. 
1:11  He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. 
1:12  Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he
gave the right to become children of God-- 
1:13  children born not of natural descent, {[13] Greek <of bloods>} nor of
human decision or a husband's will, but born of God. 
1:14   The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen
his glory, the glory of the One and Only, {[14] Or <the Only Begotten>} who
came from the Father, full of grace and truth. 
1:15   John testifies concerning him. He cries out, saying, "This was he of
whom I said, `He who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before
me.'" 
1:16  From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after
another. 
1:17  For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through
Jesus Christ. 
1:18  No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only, {[18] Or <the Only
Begotten>}  {[18] Some manuscripts <but the only> (or <only begotten>)
<Son>} who is at the Father's side, has made him known. 
1:19   Now this was John's testimony when the Jews of Jerusalem sent priests
and Levites to ask him who he was. 
1:20  He did not fail to confess, but confessed freely, "I am not the
Christ. {[20] Or <Messiah.> "The Christ" (Greek) and "the Messiah" (Hebrew)
both mean "the Anointed One"; also in verse 25.}" 
1:21   They asked him, "Then who are you? Are you Elijah?"  He said, "I am
not."  "Are you the Prophet?"  He answered, "No." 
1:22   Finally they said, "Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to
those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?" 
1:23   John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet, "I am the voice of
one calling in the desert, `Make straight the way for the Lord.'" {[23]
Isaiah 40:3} 
1:24   Now some Pharisees who had been sent 
1:25  questioned him, "Why then do you baptize if you are not the Christ,
nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?" 
1:26   "I baptize with {[26] Or <in>; also in verses 31 and 33} water," John
replied, "but among you stands one you do not know. 
1:27  He is the one who comes after me, the thongs of whose sandals I am not
worthy to untie." 
1:28   This all happened at Bethany on the other side of the Jordan, where
John was baptizing. 
1:29   The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look, the
Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! 
1:30  This is the one I meant when I said, `A man who comes after me has
surpassed me because he was before me.' 
1:31  I myself did not know him, but the reason I came baptizing with water
was that he might be revealed to Israel." 
1:32   Then John gave this testimony: "I saw the Spirit come down from
heaven as a dove and remain on him. 
1:33  I would not have known him, except that the one who sent me to baptize
with water told me, `The man on whom you see the Spirit come down and remain
is he who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.' 
1:34  I have seen and I testify that this is the Son of God." 
1:35   The next day John was there again with two of his disciples. 
1:36  When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, "Look, the Lamb of God!" 
1:37   When the two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus. 
1:38  Turning around, Jesus saw them following and asked, "What do you
want?"  They said, "Rabbi" (which means Teacher), "where are you staying?" 
1:39   "Come," he replied, "and you will see."  So they went and saw where
he was staying, and spent that day with him. It was about the tenth hour. 
1:40   Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, was one of the two who heard what John
had said and who had followed Jesus. 
1:41  The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and tell him,
"We have found the Messiah" (that is, the Christ). 
1:42  And he brought him to Jesus.  Jesus looked at him and said, "You are
Simon son of John. You will be called Cephas" (which, when translated, is
Peter {[42] Both <Cephas> (Aramaic) and <Peter> (Greek) mean <rock>.}). 
1:43   The next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. Finding Philip, he
said to him, "Follow me." 
1:44   Philip, like Andrew and Peter, was from the town of Bethsaida. 
1:45  Philip found Nathanael and told him, "We have found the one Moses
wrote about in the Law, and about whom the prophets also wrote--Jesus of
Nazareth, the son of Joseph." 
1:46   "Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?" Nathanael asked. 
"Come and see," said Philip. 
1:47   When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, he said of him, "Here is a true
Israelite, in whom there is nothing false." 
1:48   "How do you know me?" Nathanael asked.  Jesus answered, "I saw you
while you were still under the fig tree before Philip called you." 
1:49   Then Nathanael declared, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the
King of Israel." 
1:50   Jesus said, "You believe {[50] Or <Do you believe... ?>} because I
told you I saw you under the fig tree. You shall see greater things than
that." 
1:51  He then added, "I tell you {[51] The Greek is plural.} the truth, you
{[51] The Greek is plural.} shall see heaven open, and the angels of God
ascending and descending on the Son of Man." 

2:1   On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus'
mother was there, 
2:2  and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. 
2:3  When the wine was gone, Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no more
wine." 
2:4   "Dear woman, why do you involve me?" Jesus replied. "My time has not
yet come." 
2:5   His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells you." 
2:6   Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for
ceremonial washing, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons. {[6] Greek
<two to three metretes> (probably about 75 to 115 liters)} 
2:7   Jesus said to the servants, "Fill the jars with water"; so they filled
them to the brim. 
2:8   Then he told them, "Now draw some out and take it to the master of the
banquet."  They did so, 
2:9  and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned
into wine. He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants
who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside 
2:10  and said, "Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the
cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved
the best till now." 
2:11   This, the first of his miraculous signs, Jesus performed at Cana in
Galilee. He thus revealed his glory, and his disciples put their faith in
him. 
2:12   After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and brothers and
his disciples. There they stayed for a few days. 
2:13   When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to
Jerusalem. 
2:14  In the temple courts he found men selling cattle, sheep and doves, and
others sitting at tables exchanging money. 
2:15  So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple area,
both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and
overturned their tables. 
2:16  To those who sold doves he said, "Get these out of here! How dare you
turn my Father's house into a market!" 
2:17   His disciples remembered that it is written: "Zeal for your house
will consume me." {[17] Psalm 69:9} 
2:18   Then the Jews demanded of him, "What miraculous sign can you show us
to prove your authority to do all this?" 
2:19   Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again
in three days." 
2:20   The Jews replied, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple,
and you are going to raise it in three days?" 
2:21  But the temple he had spoken of was his body. 
2:22  After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had
said. Then they believed the Scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken. 
2:23   Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people saw
the miraculous signs he was doing and believed in his name. {[23] Or <and
believed in him>} 
2:24  But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, for he knew all men. 
2:25  He did not need man's testimony about man, for he knew what was in a
man. 

3:1   Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a member of the
Jewish ruling council. 
3:2  He came to Jesus at night and said, "Rabbi, we know you are a teacher
who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs you are
doing if God were not with him." 
3:3   In reply Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth, no one can see the
kingdom of God unless he is born again. {[3] Or <born from above>; also in
verse 7}" 
3:4   "How can a man be born when he is old?" Nicodemus asked. "Surely he
cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb to be born!" 
3:5   Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of
God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. 
3:6  Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit {[6] Or <but spirit>} gives
birth to spirit. 
3:7  You should not be surprised at my saying, `You {[7] The Greek is
plural.} must be born again.' 
3:8  The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot
tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born
of the Spirit." 
3:9   "How can this be?" Nicodemus asked. 
3:10   "You are Israel's teacher," said Jesus, "and do you not understand
these things? 
3:11  I tell you the truth, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what
we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony. 
3:12  I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how
then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things? 
3:13  No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from
heaven--the Son of Man. {[13] Some manuscripts <Man, who is in heaven>} 
3:14  Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man
must be lifted up, 
3:15  that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life. {[15] Or
<believes may have eternal life in him>} 
3:16   "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, {[16]
Or <his only begotten Son>} that whoever believes in him shall not perish
but have eternal life. 
3:17  For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but
to save the world through him. 
3:18  Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe
stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's
one and only Son. {[18] Or <God's only begotten Son>} 
3:19  This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved
darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 
3:20  Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the
light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 
3:21  But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be
seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God." {[21] Some
interpreters end the quotation after verse 15.} 
3:22   After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the Judean
countryside, where he spent some time with them, and baptized. 
3:23  Now John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was
plenty of water, and people were constantly coming to be baptized. 
3:24  (This was before John was put in prison.) 
3:25  An argument developed between some of John's disciples and a certain
Jew {[25] Some manuscripts <and certain Jews>} over the matter of ceremonial
washing. 
3:26  They came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, that man who was with you
on the other side of the Jordan--the one you testified about--well, he is
baptizing, and everyone is going to him." 
3:27   To this John replied, "A man can receive only what is given him from
heaven. 
3:28  You yourselves can testify that I said, `I am not the Christ {[28] Or
<Messiah>} but am sent ahead of him.' 
3:29  The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the
bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the
bridegroom's voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete. 
3:30  He must become greater; I must become less. 
3:31   "The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is from the
earth belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth. The one who
comes from heaven is above all. 
3:32  He testifies to what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his
testimony. 
3:33  The man who has accepted it has certified that God is truthful. 
3:34  For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God {[34]
Greek <he>} gives the Spirit without limit. 
3:35  The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands. 
3:36  Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the
Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him." {[36] Some
interpreters end the quotation after verse 30.} 

4:1   The Pharisees heard that Jesus was gaining and baptizing more
disciples than John, 
4:2  although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. 
4:3  When the Lord learned of this, he left Judea and went back once more to
Galilee. 
4:4   Now he had to go through Samaria. 
4:5  So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground
Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 
4:6  Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey,
sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour. 
4:7   When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will
you give me a drink?" 
4:8  (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.) 
4:9   The Samaritan woman said to him, "You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan
woman. How can you ask me for a drink?" (For Jews do not associate with
Samaritans. {[9] Or <do not use dishes Samaritans have used>}) 
4:10   Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that
asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you
living water." 
4:11   "Sir," the woman said, "you have nothing to draw with and the well is
deep. Where can you get this living water? 
4:12  Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank
from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?" 
4:13   Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty
again, 
4:14  but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the
water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal
life." 
4:15   The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water so that I won't get
thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water." 
4:16   He told her, "Go, call your husband and come back." 
4:17   "I have no husband," she replied.  Jesus said to her, "You are right
when you say you have no husband. 
4:18  The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is
not your husband. What you have just said is quite true." 
4:19   "Sir," the woman said, "I can see that you are a prophet. 
4:20  Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the
place where we must worship is in Jerusalem." 
4:21   Jesus declared, "Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will
worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 
4:22  You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do
know, for salvation is from the Jews. 
4:23  Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will
worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers
the Father seeks. 
4:24  God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in
truth." 
4:25   The woman said, "I know that Messiah" (called Christ) "is coming.
When he comes, he will explain everything to us." 
4:26   Then Jesus declared, "I who speak to you am he." 
4:27   Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him
talking with a woman. But no one asked, "What do you want?" or "Why are you
talking with her?" 
4:28   Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said
to the people, 
4:29  "Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the
Christ {[29] Or <Messiah>}?" 
4:30  They came out of the town and made their way toward him. 
4:31   Meanwhile his disciples urged him, "Rabbi, eat something." 
4:32   But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you know nothing
about." 
4:33   Then his disciples said to each other, "Could someone have brought
him food?" 
4:34   "My food," said Jesus, "is to do the will of him who sent me and to
finish his work. 
4:35  Do you not say, `Four months more and then the harvest'? I tell you,
open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. 
4:36  Even now the reaper draws his wages, even now he harvests the crop for
eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. 
4:37  Thus the saying `One sows and another reaps' is true. 
4:38  I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the
hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor." 
4:39   Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the
woman's testimony, "He told me everything I ever did." 
4:40  So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them,
and he stayed two days. 
4:41  And because of his words many more became believers. 
4:42   They said to the woman, "We no longer believe just because of what
you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really
is the Savior of the world." 
4:43   After the two days he left for Galilee. 
4:44  (Now Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honor in his
own country.) 
4:45  When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him. They had seen
all that he had done in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, for they also had
been there. 
4:46   Once more he visited Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water
into wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at
Capernaum. 
4:47  When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he
went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to death.

4:48   "Unless you people see miraculous signs and wonders," Jesus told him,
"you will never believe." 
4:49   The royal official said, "Sir, come down before my child dies." 
4:50   Jesus replied, "You may go. Your son will live."  The man took Jesus
at his word and departed. 
4:51  While he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that
his boy was living. 
4:52  When he inquired as to the time when his son got better, they said to
him, "The fever left him yesterday at the seventh hour." 
4:53   Then the father realized that this was the exact time at which Jesus
had said to him, "Your son will live." So he and all his household believed.

4:54   This was the second miraculous sign that Jesus performed, having come
from Judea to Galilee. 

5:1   Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for a feast of the Jews. 
5:2  Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic
is called Bethesda {[2] Some manuscripts <Bethzatha>; other manuscripts
<Bethsaida>} and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. 
5:3  Here a great number of disabled people used to lie--the blind, the
lame, the paralyzed. {[3] Some less important manuscripts <paralyzed--and
they waited for the moving of the waters.> <[4] From time to time an angel
of the Lord would come down and stir up the waters. The first one into the
pool after each such disturbance would be cured of whatever disease he
had.>} 
5:5  One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 
5:6  When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this
condition for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?" 
5:7   "Sir," the invalid replied, "I have no one to help me into the pool
when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes
down ahead of me." 
5:8   Then Jesus said to him, "Get up! Pick up your mat and walk." 
5:9  At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.  The day on
which this took place was a Sabbath, 
5:10  and so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, "It is the
Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat." 
5:11   But he replied, "The man who made me well said to me, `Pick up your
mat and walk.'" 
5:12   So they asked him, "Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and
walk?" 
5:13   The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped
away into the crowd that was there. 
5:14   Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, "See, you are
well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you." 
5:15  The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him
well. 
5:16   So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jews
persecuted him. 
5:17  Jesus said to them, "My Father is always at his work to this very day,
and I, too, am working." 
5:18  For this reason the Jews tried all the harder to kill him; not only
was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father,
making himself equal with God. 
5:19   Jesus gave them this answer: "I tell you the truth, the Son can do
nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because
whatever the Father does the Son also does. 
5:20  For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, to your
amazement he will show him even greater things than these. 
5:21  For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so
the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it. 
5:22  Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to
the Son, 
5:23  that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does
not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him. 
5:24   "I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who
sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from
death to life. 
5:25  I tell you the truth, a time is coming and has now come when the dead
will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live. 
5:26  For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son to
have life in himself. 
5:27  And he has given him authority to judge because he is the Son of Man. 
5:28   "Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in
their graves will hear his voice 
5:29  and come out--those who have done good will rise to live, and those
who have done evil will rise to be condemned. 
5:30  By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is
just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me. 
5:31   "If I testify about myself, my testimony is not valid. 
5:32  There is another who testifies in my favor, and I know that his
testimony about me is valid. 
5:33   "You have sent to John and he has testified to the truth. 
5:34  Not that I accept human testimony; but I mention it that you may be
saved. 
5:35  John was a lamp that burned and gave light, and you chose for a time
to enjoy his light. 
5:36   "I have testimony weightier than that of John. For the very work that
the Father has given me to finish, and which I am doing, testifies that the
Father has sent me. 
5:37  And the Father who sent me has himself testified concerning me. You
have never heard his voice nor seen his form, 
5:38  nor does his word dwell in you, for you do not believe the one he
sent. 
5:39  You diligently study {[39] Or <Study diligently> (the imperative)} the
Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These
are the Scriptures that testify about me, 
5:40  yet you refuse to come to me to have life. 
5:41   "I do not accept praise from men, 
5:42  but I know you. I know that you do not have the love of God in your
hearts. 
5:43  I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me; but if
someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him. 
5:44  How can you believe if you accept praise from one another, yet make no
effort to obtain the praise that comes from the only God {[44] Some early
manuscripts <the Only One>}? 
5:45   "But do not think I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser
is Moses, on whom your hopes are set. 
5:46  If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me. 
5:47  But since you do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to
believe what I say?" 

6:1   Some time after this, Jesus crossed to the far shore of the Sea of
Galilee (that is, the Sea of Tiberias), 
6:2  and a great crowd of people followed him because they saw the
miraculous signs he had performed on the sick. 
6:3  Then Jesus went up on a mountainside and sat down with his disciples. 
6:4  The Jewish Passover Feast was near. 
6:5   When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said
to Philip, "Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?" 
6:6  He asked this only to test him, for he already had in mind what he was
going to do. 
6:7   Philip answered him, "Eight months' wages {[7] Greek <two hundred
denarii>} would not buy enough bread for each one to have a bite!" 
6:8   Another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, spoke up, 
6:9  "Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but
how far will they go among so many?" 
6:10   Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." There was plenty of grass in
that place, and the men sat down, about five thousand of them. 
6:11  Jesus then took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed to those who
were seated as much as they wanted. He did the same with the fish. 
6:12   When they had all had enough to eat, he said to his disciples,
"Gather the pieces that are left over. Let nothing be wasted." 
6:13  So they gathered them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the
five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten. 
6:14   After the people saw the miraculous sign that Jesus did, they began
to say, "Surely this is the Prophet who is to come into the world." 
6:15  Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make him king by force,
withdrew again to a mountain by himself. 
6:16   When evening came, his disciples went down to the lake, 
6:17  where they got into a boat and set off across the lake for Capernaum.
By now it was dark, and Jesus had not yet joined them. 
6:18  A strong wind was blowing and the waters grew rough. 
6:19  When they had rowed three or three and a half miles, {[19] Greek
<rowed twenty-five or thirty stadia> (about 5 or 6 kilometers)} they saw
Jesus approaching the boat, walking on the water; and they were terrified. 
6:20  But he said to them, "It is I; don't be afraid." 
6:21  Then they were willing to take him into the boat, and immediately the
boat reached the shore where they were heading. 
6:22   The next day the crowd that had stayed on the opposite shore of the
lake realized that only one boat had been there, and that Jesus had not
entered it with his disciples, but that they had gone away alone. 
6:23  Then some boats from Tiberias landed near the place where the people
had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks. 
6:24  Once the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor his disciples were
there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum in search of Jesus. 
6:25   When they found him on the other side of the lake, they asked him,
"Rabbi, when did you get here?" 
6:26   Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, you are looking for me, not
because you saw miraculous signs but because you ate the loaves and had your
fill. 
6:27  Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal
life, which the Son of Man will give you. On him God the Father has placed
his seal of approval." 
6:28   Then they asked him, "What must we do to do the works God requires?" 
6:29   Jesus answered, "The work of God is this: to believe in the one he
has sent." 
6:30   So they asked him, "What miraculous sign then will you give that we
may see it and believe you? What will you do? 
6:31  Our forefathers ate the manna in the desert; as it is written: `He
gave them bread from heaven to eat.' {[31] Exodus 16:4; Neh. 9:15; Psalm
78:24,25}" 
6:32   Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, it is not Moses who has
given you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true
bread from heaven. 
6:33  For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life
to the world." 
6:34   "Sir," they said, "from now on give us this bread." 
6:35   Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will
never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty. 
6:36  But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. 
6:37  All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me
I will never drive away. 
6:38  For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will
of him who sent me. 
6:39  And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all
that he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. 
6:40  For my Father's will is that everyone who looks to the Son and
believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last
day." 
6:41   At this the Jews began to grumble about him because he said, "I am
the bread that came down from heaven." 
6:42  They said, "Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and
mother we know? How can he now say, `I came down from heaven'?" 
6:43   "Stop grumbling among yourselves," Jesus answered. 
6:44  "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I
will raise him up at the last day. 
6:45  It is written in the Prophets: `They will all be taught by God.' {[45]
Isaiah 54:13} Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes
to me. 
6:46  No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has
seen the Father. 
6:47  I tell you the truth, he who believes has everlasting life. 
6:48  I am the bread of life. 
6:49  Your forefathers ate the manna in the desert, yet they died. 
6:50  But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which a man may eat
and not die. 
6:51  I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of
this bread, he will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give
for the life of the world." 
6:52   Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, "How can this
man give us his flesh to eat?" 
6:53   Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh
of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 
6:54  Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will
raise him up at the last day. 
6:55  For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. 
6:56  Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him.

6:57  Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so
the one who feeds on me will live because of me. 
6:58  This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your forefathers ate
manna and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live forever." 
6:59  He said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum. 
6:60   On hearing it, many of his disciples said, "This is a hard teaching.
Who can accept it?" 
6:61   Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to
them, "Does this offend you? 
6:62  What if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before! 
6:63  The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have
spoken to you are spirit {[63] Or <Spirit>} and they are life. 
6:64  Yet there are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus had known
from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray him. 
6:65  He went on to say, "This is why I told you that no one can come to me
unless the Father has enabled him." 
6:66   From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer
followed him. 
6:67   "You do not want to leave too, do you?" Jesus asked the Twelve. 
6:68   Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the
words of eternal life. 
6:69  We believe and know that you are the Holy One of God." 
6:70   Then Jesus replied, "Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of
you is a devil!" 
6:71  (He meant Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, who, though one of the
Twelve, was later to betray him.) 

7:1   After this, Jesus went around in Galilee, purposely staying away from
Judea because the Jews there were waiting to take his life. 
7:2  But when the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near, 
7:3  Jesus' brothers said to him, "You ought to leave here and go to Judea,
so that your disciples may see the miracles you do. 
7:4  No one who wants to become a public figure acts in secret. Since you
are doing these things, show yourself to the world." 
7:5  For even his own brothers did not believe in him. 
7:6   Therefore Jesus told them, "The right time for me has not yet come;
for you any time is right. 
7:7  The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that what
it does is evil. 
7:8  You go to the Feast. I am not yet {[8] Some early manuscripts do not
have <yet.>} going up to this Feast, because for me the right time has not
yet come." 
7:9  Having said this, he stayed in Galilee. 
7:10   However, after his brothers had left for the Feast, he went also, not
publicly, but in secret. 
7:11  Now at the Feast the Jews were watching for him and asking, "Where is
that man?" 
7:12   Among the crowds there was widespread whispering about him. Some
said, "He is a good man."  Others replied, "No, he deceives the people." 
7:13  But no one would say anything publicly about him for fear of the Jews.

7:14   Not until halfway through the Feast did Jesus go up to the temple
courts and begin to teach. 
7:15  The Jews were amazed and asked, "How did this man get such learning
without having studied?" 
7:16   Jesus answered, "My teaching is not my own. It comes from him who
sent me. 
7:17  If anyone chooses to do God's will, he will find out whether my
teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own. 
7:18  He who speaks on his own does so to gain honor for himself, but he who
works for the honor of the one who sent him is a man of truth; there is
nothing false about him. 
7:19  Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law. Why
are you trying to kill me?" 
7:20   "You are demon-possessed," the crowd answered. "Who is trying to kill
you?" 
7:21   Jesus said to them, "I did one miracle, and you are all astonished. 
7:22  Yet, because Moses gave you circumcision (though actually it did not
come from Moses, but from the patriarchs), you circumcise a child on the
Sabbath. 
7:23  Now if a child can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of
Moses may not be broken, why are you angry with me for healing the whole man
on the Sabbath? 
7:24  Stop judging by mere appearances, and make a right judgment." 
7:25   At that point some of the people of Jerusalem began to ask, "Isn't
this the man they are trying to kill? 
7:26  Here he is, speaking publicly, and they are not saying a word to him.
Have the authorities really concluded that he is the Christ {[26] Or
<Messiah>; also in verses 27, 31, 41 and 42}? 
7:27  But we know where this man is from; when the Christ comes, no one will
know where he is from." 
7:28   Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out, "Yes, you
know me, and you know where I am from. I am not here on my own, but he who
sent me is true. You do not know him, 
7:29  but I know him because I am from him and he sent me." 
7:30   At this they tried to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him,
because his time had not yet come. 
7:31  Still, many in the crowd put their faith in him. They said, "When the
Christ comes, will he do more miraculous signs than this man?" 
7:32   The Pharisees heard the crowd whispering such things about him. Then
the chief priests and the Pharisees sent temple guards to arrest him. 
7:33   Jesus said, "I am with you for only a short time, and then I go to
the one who sent me. 
7:34  You will look for me, but you will not find me; and where I am, you
cannot come." 
7:35   The Jews said to one another, "Where does this man intend to go that
we cannot find him? Will he go where our people live scattered among the
Greeks, and teach the Greeks? 
7:36  What did he mean when he said, `You will look for me, but you will not
find me,' and `Where I am, you cannot come'?" 
7:37   On the last and greatest day of the Feast, Jesus stood and said in a
loud voice, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. 
7:38  Whoever believes in me, as {[37,38] Or 
           <If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me. 
           And let him drink, [38] who believes in me. 
           As>} the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow
from within him." 
7:39  By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later
to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had
not yet been glorified. 
7:40   On hearing his words, some of the people said, "Surely this man is
the Prophet." 
7:41   Others said, "He is the Christ."  Still others asked, "How can the
Christ come from Galilee? 
7:42  Does not the Scripture say that the Christ will come from David's
family {[42] Greek <seed>} and from Bethlehem, the town where David lived?" 
7:43  Thus the people were divided because of Jesus. 
7:44  Some wanted to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him. 
7:45   Finally the temple guards went back to the chief priests and
Pharisees, who asked them, "Why didn't you bring him in?" 
7:46   "No one ever spoke the way this man does," the guards declared. 
7:47   "You mean he has deceived you also?" the Pharisees retorted. 
7:48  "Has any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed in him? 
7:49  No! But this mob that knows nothing of the law--there is a curse on
them." 
7:50   Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier and who was one of their own
number, asked, 
7:51  "Does our law condemn anyone without first hearing him to find out
what he is doing?" 
7:52   They replied, "Are you from Galilee, too? Look into it, and you will
find that a prophet {[52] Two early manuscripts <the Prophet>} does not come
out of Galilee." 
7:53   {The earliest and most reliable manuscripts and other ancient
witnesses do not have John 7:53-8:11.} Then each went to his own home. 

8:1   But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 
8:2  At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people
gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. 
8:3  The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in
adultery. They made her stand before the group 
8:4  and said to Jesus, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of
adultery. 
8:5  In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you
say?" 
8:6  They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for
accusing him.  But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with
his finger. 
8:7  When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them,
"If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at
her." 
8:8  Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground. 
8:9   At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older
ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. 
8:10  Jesus straightened up and asked her, "Woman, where are they? Has no
one condemned you?" 
8:11   "No one, sir," she said.  "Then neither do I condemn you," Jesus
declared. "Go now and leave your life of sin."  
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8:12   When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, "I am the light of the
world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the
light of life." 
8:13   The Pharisees challenged him, "Here you are, appearing as your own
witness; your testimony is not valid." 
8:14   Jesus answered, "Even if I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is
valid, for I know where I came from and where I am going. But you have no
idea where I come from or where I am going. 
8:15  You judge by human standards; I pass judgment on no one. 
8:16  But if I do judge, my decisions are right, because I am not alone. I
stand with the Father, who sent me. 
8:17  In your own Law it is written that the testimony of two men is valid. 
8:18  I am one who testifies for myself; my other witness is the Father, who
sent me." 
8:19   Then they asked him, "Where is your father?"  "You do not know me or
my Father," Jesus replied. "If you knew me, you would know my Father also." 
8:20  He spoke these words while teaching in the temple area near the place
where the offerings were put. Yet no one seized him, because his time had
not yet come. 
8:21   Once more Jesus said to them, "I am going away, and you will look for
me, and you will die in your sin. Where I go, you cannot come." 
8:22   This made the Jews ask, "Will he kill himself? Is that why he says,
`Where I go, you cannot come'?" 
8:23   But he continued, "You are from below; I am from above. You are of
this world; I am not of this world. 
8:24  I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that
I am [the one I claim to be], {[24] Or <I am he>; also in verse 28} you will
indeed die in your sins." 
8:25   "Who are you?" they asked.  "Just what I have been claiming all
along," Jesus replied. 
8:26  "I have much to say in judgment of you. But he who sent me is
reliable, and what I have heard from him I tell the world." 
8:27   They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father. 
8:28  So Jesus said, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will
know that I am [the one I claim to be] and that I do nothing on my own but
speak just what the Father has taught me. 
8:29  The one who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always
do what pleases him." 
8:30  Even as he spoke, many put their faith in him. 
8:31   To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, "If you hold to my
teaching, you are really my disciples. 
8:32  Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." 
8:33   They answered him, "We are Abraham's descendants {[33] Greek <seed>;
also in verse 37} and have never been slaves of anyone. How can you say that
we shall be set free?" 
8:34   Jesus replied, "I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave to
sin. 
8:35  Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to
it forever. 
8:36  So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. 
8:37  I know you are Abraham's descendants. Yet you are ready to kill me,
because you have no room for my word. 
8:38  I am telling you what I have seen in the Father's presence, and you do
what you have heard from your father. {[38] Or <presence. Therefore do what
you have heard from the Father.>}" 
8:39   "Abraham is our father," they answered.  "If you were Abraham's
children," said Jesus, "then you would {[39] Some early manuscripts <"If you
are Abraham's children," said Jesus, "then>} do the things Abraham did. 
8:40  As it is, you are determined to kill me, a man who has told you the
truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do such things. 
8:41  You are doing the things your own father does."  "We are not
illegitimate children," they protested. "The only Father we have is God
himself." 
8:42   Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for
I came from God and now am here. I have not come on my own; but he sent me. 
8:43  Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear
what I say. 
8:44  You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your
father's desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the
truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native
language, for he is a liar and the father of lies. 
8:45  Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me! 
8:46  Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? If I am telling the truth, why
don't you believe me? 
8:47  He who belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear
is that you do not belong to God." 
8:48   The Jews answered him, "Aren't we right in saying that you are a
Samaritan and demon-possessed?" 
8:49   "I am not possessed by a demon," said Jesus, "but I honor my Father
and you dishonor me. 
8:50  I am not seeking glory for myself; but there is one who seeks it, and
he is the judge. 
8:51  I tell you the truth, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see
death." 
8:52   At this the Jews exclaimed, "Now we know that you are
demon-possessed! Abraham died and so did the prophets, yet you say that if
anyone keeps your word, he will never taste death. 
8:53  Are you greater than our father Abraham? He died, and so did the
prophets. Who do you think you are?" 
8:54   Jesus replied, "If I glorify myself, my glory means nothing. My
Father, whom you claim as your God, is the one who glorifies me. 
8:55  Though you do not know him, I know him. If I said I did not, I would
be a liar like you, but I do know him and keep his word. 
8:56  Your father Abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing my day; he saw
it and was glad." 
8:57   "You are not yet fifty years old," the Jews said to him, "and you
have seen Abraham!" 
8:58   "I tell you the truth," Jesus answered, "before Abraham was born, I
am!" 
8:59  At this, they picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus hid himself,
slipping away from the temple grounds. 

9:1   As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. 
9:2  His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents,
that he was born blind?" 
9:3   "Neither this man nor his parents sinned," said Jesus, "but this
happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life. 
9:4  As long as it is day, we must do the work of him who sent me. Night is
coming, when no one can work. 
9:5  While I am in the world, I am the light of the world." 
9:6   Having said this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the
saliva, and put it on the man's eyes. 
9:7  "Go," he told him, "wash in the Pool of Siloam" (this word means Sent).
So the man went and washed, and came home seeing. 
9:8   His neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging asked,
"Isn't this the same man who used to sit and beg?" 
9:9  Some claimed that he was.  Others said, "No, he only looks like him." 
But he himself insisted, "I am the man." 
9:10   "How then were your eyes opened?" they demanded. 
9:11   He replied, "The man they call Jesus made some mud and put it on my
eyes. He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed, and then I
could see." 
9:12   "Where is this man?" they asked him.  "I don't know," he said. 
9:13   They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind. 
9:14  Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened the man's eyes
was a Sabbath. 
9:15  Therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight.
"He put mud on my eyes," the man replied, "and I washed, and now I see." 
9:16   Some of the Pharisees said, "This man is not from God, for he does
not keep the Sabbath."  But others asked, "How can a sinner do such
miraculous signs?" So they were divided. 
9:17   Finally they turned again to the blind man, "What have you to say
about him? It was your eyes he opened."  The man replied, "He is a prophet."

9:18   The Jews still did not believe that he had been blind and had
received his sight until they sent for the man's parents. 
9:19  "Is this your son?" they asked. "Is this the one you say was born
blind? How is it that now he can see?" 
9:20   "We know he is our son," the parents answered, "and we know he was
born blind. 
9:21  But how he can see now, or who opened his eyes, we don't know. Ask
him. He is of age; he will speak for himself." 
9:22  His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews, for
already the Jews had decided that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the
Christ {[22] Or <Messiah>} would be put out of the synagogue. 
9:23  That was why his parents said, "He is of age; ask him." 
9:24   A second time they summoned the man who had been blind. "Give glory
to God, {[24] A solemn charge to tell the truth (see Joshua 7:19)}" they
said. "We know this man is a sinner." 
9:25   He replied, "Whether he is a sinner or not, I don't know. One thing I
do know. I was blind but now I see!" 
9:26   Then they asked him, "What did he do to you? How did he open your
eyes?" 
9:27   He answered, "I have told you already and you did not listen. Why do
you want to hear it again? Do you want to become his disciples, too?" 
9:28   Then they hurled insults at him and said, "You are this fellow's
disciple! We are disciples of Moses! 
9:29  We know that God spoke to Moses, but as for this fellow, we don't even
know where he comes from." 
9:30   The man answered, "Now that is remarkable! You don't know where he
comes from, yet he opened my eyes. 
9:31  We know that God does not listen to sinners. He listens to the godly
man who does his will. 
9:32  Nobody has ever heard of opening the eyes of a man born blind. 
9:33  If this man were not from God, he could do nothing." 
9:34   To this they replied, "You were steeped in sin at birth; how dare you
lecture us!" And they threw him out. 
9:35   Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and when he found him, he
said, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?" 
9:36   "Who is he, sir?" the man asked. "Tell me so that I may believe in
him." 
9:37   Jesus said, "You have now seen him; in fact, he is the one speaking
with you." 
9:38   Then the man said, "Lord, I believe," and he worshiped him. 
9:39   Jesus said, "For judgment I have come into this world, so that the
blind will see and those who see will become blind." 
9:40   Some Pharisees who were with him heard him say this and asked, "What?
Are we blind too?" 
9:41   Jesus said, "If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin; but
now that you claim you can see, your guilt remains. 

10:1   "I tell you the truth, the man who does not enter the sheep pen by
the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber. 
10:2  The man who enters by the gate is the shepherd of his sheep. 
10:3  The watchman opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his
voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 
10:4  When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his
sheep follow him because they know his voice. 
10:5  But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away
from him because they do not recognize a stranger's voice." 
10:6  Jesus used this figure of speech, but they did not understand what he
was telling them. 
10:7   Therefore Jesus said again, "I tell you the truth, I am the gate for
the sheep. 
10:8  All who ever came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep
did not listen to them. 
10:9  I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. {[9] Or <kept
safe>} He will come in and go out, and find pasture. 
10:10  The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that
they may have life, and have it to the full. 
10:11   "I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for
the sheep. 
10:12  The hired hand is not the shepherd who owns the sheep. So when he
sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf
attacks the flock and scatters it. 
10:13  The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for
the sheep. 
10:14   "I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me-- 
10:15  just as the Father knows me and I know the Father--and I lay down my
life for the sheep. 
10:16  I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them
also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one
shepherd. 
10:17  The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life--only to
take it up again. 
10:18  No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have
authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I
received from my Father." 
10:19   At these words the Jews were again divided. 
10:20  Many of them said, "He is demon-possessed and raving mad. Why listen
to him?" 
10:21   But others said, "These are not the sayings of a man possessed by a
demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?" 
10:22   Then came the Feast of Dedication {[22] That is, Hanukkah} at
Jerusalem. It was winter, 
10:23  and Jesus was in the temple area walking in Solomon's Colonnade. 
10:24  The Jews gathered around him, saying, "How long will you keep us in
suspense? If you are the Christ, {[24] Or <Messiah>} tell us plainly." 
10:25   Jesus answered, "I did tell you, but you do not believe. The
miracles I do in my Father's name speak for me, 
10:26  but you do not believe because you are not my sheep. 
10:27  My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. 
10:28  I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can
snatch them out of my hand. 
10:29  My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all {[29] Many
early manuscripts <What my Father has given me is greater than all>}; no one
can snatch them out of my Father's hand. 
10:30  I and the Father are one." 
10:31   Again the Jews picked up stones to stone him, 
10:32  but Jesus said to them, "I have shown you many great miracles from
the Father. For which of these do you stone me?" 
10:33   "We are not stoning you for any of these," replied the Jews, "but
for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God." 
10:34   Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your Law, `I have said
you are gods' {[34] Psalm 82:6}? 
10:35  If he called them `gods,' to whom the word of God came--and the
Scripture cannot be broken-- 
10:36  what about the one whom the Father set apart as his very own and sent
into the world? Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, `I am
God's Son'? 
10:37  Do not believe me unless I do what my Father does. 
10:38  But if I do it, even though you do not believe me, believe the
miracles, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I
in the Father." 
10:39  Again they tried to seize him, but he escaped their grasp. 
10:40   Then Jesus went back across the Jordan to the place where John had
been baptizing in the early days. Here he stayed 
10:41  and many people came to him. They said, "Though John never performed
a miraculous sign, all that John said about this man was true." 
10:42  And in that place many believed in Jesus. 

11:1   Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of
Mary and her sister Martha. 
11:2  This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who
poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair. 
11:3  So the sisters sent word to Jesus, "Lord, the one you love is sick." 
11:4   When he heard this, Jesus said, "This sickness will not end in death.
No, it is for God's glory so that God's Son may be glorified through it." 
11:5  Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. 
11:6  Yet when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was two
more days. 
11:7   Then he said to his disciples, "Let us go back to Judea." 
11:8   "But Rabbi," they said, "a short while ago the Jews tried to stone
you, and yet you are going back there?" 
11:9   Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours of daylight? A man who
walks by day will not stumble, for he sees by this world's light. 
11:10  It is when he walks by night that he stumbles, for he has no light." 
11:11   After he had said this, he went on to tell them, "Our friend Lazarus
has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up." 
11:12   His disciples replied, "Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better." 
11:13  Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he
meant natural sleep. 
11:14   So then he told them plainly, "Lazarus is dead, 
11:15  and for your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe.
But let us go to him." 
11:16   Then Thomas (called Didymus) said to the rest of the disciples, "Let
us also go, that we may die with him." 
11:17   On his arrival, Jesus found that Lazarus had already been in the
tomb for four days. 
11:18  Bethany was less than two miles {[18] Greek <fifteen stadia> (about 3
kilometers)} from Jerusalem, 
11:19  and many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them in the loss
of their brother. 
11:20  When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him,
but Mary stayed at home. 
11:21   "Lord," Martha said to Jesus, "if you had been here, my brother
would not have died. 
11:22  But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask." 
11:23   Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again." 
11:24   Martha answered, "I know he will rise again in the resurrection at
the last day." 
11:25   Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who
believes in me will live, even though he dies; 
11:26  and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe
this?" 
11:27   "Yes, Lord," she told him, "I believe that you are the Christ, {[27]
Or <Messiah>} the Son of God, who was to come into the world." 
11:28   And after she had said this, she went back and called her sister
Mary aside. "The Teacher is here," she said, "and is asking for you." 
11:29  When Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him. 
11:30  Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place
where Martha had met him. 
11:31  When the Jews who had been with Mary in the house, comforting her,
noticed how quickly she got up and went out, they followed her, supposing
she was going to the tomb to mourn there. 
11:32   When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at
his feet and said, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have
died." 
11:33   When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her
also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled. 
11:34  "Where have you laid him?" he asked.  "Come and see, Lord," they
replied. 
11:35   Jesus wept. 
11:36   Then the Jews said, "See how he loved him!" 
11:37   But some of them said, "Could not he who opened the eyes of the
blind man have kept this man from dying?" 
11:38   Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with
a stone laid across the entrance. 
11:39  "Take away the stone," he said.  "But, Lord," said Martha, the sister
of the dead man, "by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there
four days." 
11:40   Then Jesus said, "Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would
see the glory of God?" 
11:41   So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, "Father,
I thank you that you have heard me. 
11:42  I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of
the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me." 
11:43   When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come
out!" 
11:44  The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of
linen, and a cloth around his face.  Jesus said to them, "Take off the grave
clothes and let him go." 
11:45   Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary, and had seen
what Jesus did, put their faith in him. 
11:46  But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had
done. 
11:47  Then the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the
Sanhedrin.  "What are we accomplishing?" they asked. "Here is this man
performing many miraculous signs. 
11:48  If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and then
the Romans will come and take away both our place {[48] Or <temple>} and our
nation." 
11:49   Then one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year,
spoke up, "You know nothing at all! 
11:50  You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the
people than that the whole nation perish." 
11:51   He did not say this on his own, but as high priest that year he
prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation, 
11:52  and not only for that nation but also for the scattered children of
God, to bring them together and make them one. 
11:53  So from that day on they plotted to take his life. 
11:54   Therefore Jesus no longer moved about publicly among the Jews.
Instead he withdrew to a region near the desert, to a village called
Ephraim, where he stayed with his disciples. 
11:55   When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, many went up from
the country to Jerusalem for their ceremonial cleansing before the Passover.

11:56  They kept looking for Jesus, and as they stood in the temple area
they asked one another, "What do you think? Isn't he coming to the Feast at
all?" 
11:57  But the chief priests and Pharisees had given orders that if anyone
found out where Jesus was, he should report it so that they might arrest
him. 

12:1   Six days before the Passover, Jesus arrived at Bethany, where Lazarus
lived, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. 
12:2  Here a dinner was given in Jesus' honor. Martha served, while Lazarus
was among those reclining at the table with him. 
12:3  Then Mary took about a pint {[3] Greek <a litra> (probably about 0.5
liter)} of pure nard, an expensive perfume; she poured it on Jesus' feet and
wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of
the perfume. 
12:4   But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was later to betray
him, objected, 
12:5  "Why wasn't this perfume sold and the money given to the poor? It was
worth a year's wages. {[5] Greek <three hundred denarii>}" 
12:6  He did not say this because he cared about the poor but because he was
a thief; as keeper of the money bag, he used to help himself to what was put
into it. 
12:7   "Leave her alone," Jesus replied. "[It was intended] that she should
save this perfume for the day of my burial. 
12:8  You will always have the poor among you, but you will not always have
me." 
12:9   Meanwhile a large crowd of Jews found out that Jesus was there and
came, not only because of him but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised
from the dead. 
12:10  So the chief priests made plans to kill Lazarus as well, 
12:11  for on account of him many of the Jews were going over to Jesus and
putting their faith in him. 
12:12   The next day the great crowd that had come for the Feast heard that
Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem. 
12:13  They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting, 
          "Hosanna! {[13] A Hebrew expression meaning "Save!" which became
an exclamation of praise}"  
          "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!" {[13] Psalm
118:25, 26}  
          "Blessed is the King of Israel!" 
12:14  Jesus found a young donkey and sat upon it, as it is written, 
12:15     "Do not be afraid, O Daughter of Zion; 
          see, your king is coming, 
          seated on a donkey's colt." {[15] Zech. 9:9} 
12:16   At first his disciples did not understand all this. Only after Jesus
was glorified did they realize that these things had been written about him
and that they had done these things to him. 
12:17   Now the crowd that was with him when he called Lazarus from the tomb
and raised him from the dead continued to spread the word. 
12:18  Many people, because they had heard that he had given this miraculous
sign, went out to meet him. 
12:19  So the Pharisees said to one another, "See, this is getting us
nowhere. Look how the whole world has gone after him!" 
12:20   Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the
Feast. 
12:21  They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, with a
request. "Sir," they said, "we would like to see Jesus." 
12:22  Philip went to tell Andrew; Andrew and Philip in turn told Jesus. 
12:23   Jesus replied, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be
glorified. 
12:24  I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground
and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many
seeds. 
12:25  The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his
life in this world will keep it for eternal life. 
12:26  Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also
will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me. 
12:27   "Now my heart is troubled, and what shall I say? `Father, save me
from this hour'? No, it was for this very reason I came to this hour. 
12:28  Father, glorify your name!"  Then a voice came from heaven, "I have
glorified it, and will glorify it again." 
12:29  The crowd that was there and heard it said it had thundered; others
said an angel had spoken to him. 
12:30   Jesus said, "This voice was for your benefit, not mine. 
12:31  Now is the time for judgment on this world; now the prince of this
world will be driven out. 
12:32  But I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to
myself." 
12:33  He said this to show the kind of death he was going to die. 
12:34   The crowd spoke up, "We have heard from the Law that the Christ
{[34] Or <Messiah>} will remain forever, so how can you say, `The Son of Man
must be lifted up'? Who is this `Son of Man'?" 
12:35   Then Jesus told them, "You are going to have the light just a little
while longer. Walk while you have the light, before darkness overtakes you.
The man who walks in the dark does not know where he is going. 
12:36  Put your trust in the light while you have it, so that you may become
sons of light." When he had finished speaking, Jesus left and hid himself
from them. 
12:37   Even after Jesus had done all these miraculous signs in their
presence, they still would not believe in him. 
12:38  This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet: 
          "Lord, who has believed our message 
          and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?" {[38] Isaiah
53:1} 
12:39   For this reason they could not believe, because, as Isaiah says
elsewhere: 
12:40     "He has blinded their eyes 
          and deadened their hearts, 
          so they can neither see with their eyes, 
          nor understand with their hearts, 
          nor turn--and I would heal them." {[40] Isaiah 6:10} 
12:41  Isaiah said this because he saw Jesus' glory and spoke about him. 
12:42   Yet at the same time many even among the leaders believed in him.
But because of the Pharisees they would not confess their faith for fear
they would be put out of the synagogue; 
12:43  for they loved praise from men more than praise from God. 
12:44   Then Jesus cried out, "When a man believes in me, he does not
believe in me only, but in the one who sent me. 
12:45  When he looks at me, he sees the one who sent me. 
12:46  I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in
me should stay in darkness. 
12:47   "As for the person who hears my words but does not keep them, I do
not judge him. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save it. 
12:48  There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my
words; that very word which I spoke will condemn him at the last day. 
12:49  For I did not speak of my own accord, but the Father who sent me
commanded me what to say and how to say it. 
12:50  I know that his command leads to eternal life. So whatever I say is
just what the Father has told me to say." 

13:1   It was just before the Passover Feast. Jesus knew that the time had
come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own
who were in the world, he now showed them the full extent of his love. {[1]
Or <he loved them to the last>} 
13:2   The evening meal was being served, and the devil had already prompted
Judas Iscariot, son of Simon, to betray Jesus. 
13:3  Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and
that he had come from God and was returning to God; 
13:4  so he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a
towel around his waist. 
13:5  After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his
disciples' feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him. 
13:6   He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, "Lord, are you going to wash
my feet?" 
13:7   Jesus replied, "You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you
will understand." 
13:8   "No," said Peter, "you shall never wash my feet."  Jesus answered,
"Unless I wash you, you have no part with me." 
13:9   "Then, Lord," Simon Peter replied, "not just my feet but my hands and
my head as well!" 
13:10   Jesus answered, "A person who has had a bath needs only to wash his
feet; his whole body is clean. And you are clean, though not every one of
you." 
13:11  For he knew who was going to betray him, and that was why he said not
every one was clean. 
13:12   When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and
returned to his place. "Do you understand what I have done for you?" he
asked them. 
13:13  "You call me `Teacher' and `Lord,' and rightly so, for that is what I
am. 
13:14  Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also
should wash one another's feet. 
13:15  I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. 
13:16  I tell you the truth, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a
messenger greater than the one who sent him. 
13:17  Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them. 
13:18   "I am not referring to all of you; I know those I have chosen. But
this is to fulfill the scripture: `He who shares my bread has lifted up his
heel against me.' {[18] Psalm 41:9} 
13:19   "I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen
you will believe that I am He. 
13:20  I tell you the truth, whoever accepts anyone I send accepts me; and
whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me." 
13:21   After he had said this, Jesus was troubled in spirit and testified,
"I tell you the truth, one of you is going to betray me." 
13:22   His disciples stared at one another, at a loss to know which of them
he meant. 
13:23  One of them, the disciple whom Jesus loved, was reclining next to
him. 
13:24  Simon Peter motioned to this disciple and said, "Ask him which one he
means." 
13:25   Leaning back against Jesus, he asked him, "Lord, who is it?" 
13:26   Jesus answered, "It is the one to whom I will give this piece of
bread when I have dipped it in the dish." Then, dipping the piece of bread,
he gave it to Judas Iscariot, son of Simon. 
13:27  As soon as Judas took the bread, Satan entered into him.  "What you
are about to do, do quickly," Jesus told him, 
13:28  but no one at the meal understood why Jesus said this to him. 
13:29  Since Judas had charge of the money, some thought Jesus was telling
him to buy what was needed for the Feast, or to give something to the poor. 
13:30  As soon as Judas had taken the bread, he went out. And it was night. 
13:31   When he was gone, Jesus said, "Now is the Son of Man glorified and
God is glorified in him. 
13:32  If God is glorified in him, {[32] Many early manuscripts do not have
<If God is glorified in him.>} God will glorify the Son in himself, and will
glorify him at once. 
13:33   "My children, I will be with you only a little longer. You will look
for me, and just as I told the Jews, so I tell you now: Where I am going,
you cannot come. 
13:34   "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so
you must love one another. 
13:35  By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one
another." 
13:36   Simon Peter asked him, "Lord, where are you going?"  Jesus replied,
"Where I am going, you cannot follow now, but you will follow later." 
13:37   Peter asked, "Lord, why can't I follow you now? I will lay down my
life for you." 
13:38   Then Jesus answered, "Will you really lay down your life for me? I
tell you the truth, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three
times! 

14:1   "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God {[1] Or <You trust
in God>}; trust also in me. 
14:2  In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have
told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. 
14:3  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you
to be with me that you also may be where I am. 
14:4  You know the way to the place where I am going." 
14:5   Thomas said to him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going, so how
can we know the way?" 
14:6   Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one
comes to the Father except through me. 
14:7  If you really knew me, you would know {[7] Some early manuscripts <If
you really have known me, you will know>} my Father as well. From now on,
you do know him and have seen him." 
14:8   Philip said, "Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for
us." 
14:9   Jesus answered: "Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have been
among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How
can you say, `Show us the Father'? 
14:10  Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in
me? The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father,
living in me, who is doing his work. 
14:11  Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in
me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves. 
14:12  I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have
been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to
the Father. 
14:13  And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring
glory to the Father. 
14:14  You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it. 
14:15   "If you love me, you will obey what I command. 
14:16  And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to
be with you forever-- 
14:17  the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither
sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be
{[17] Some early manuscripts <and is>} in you. 
14:18  I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 
14:19  Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me.
Because I live, you also will live. 
14:20  On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in
me, and I am in you. 
14:21  Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me.
He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show
myself to him." 
14:22   Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, "But, Lord, why do you intend
to show yourself to us and not to the world?" 
14:23   Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My
Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. 
14:24  He who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you
hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me. 
14:25   "All this I have spoken while still with you. 
14:26  But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my
name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have
said to you. 
14:27  Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as
the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. 
14:28   "You heard me say, `I am going away and I am coming back to you.' If
you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the
Father is greater than I. 
14:29  I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen
you will believe. 
14:30  I will not speak with you much longer, for the prince of this world
is coming. He has no hold on me, 
14:31  but the world must learn that I love the Father and that I do exactly
what my Father has commanded me.  "Come now; let us leave. 

15:1   "I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 
15:2  He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch
that does bear fruit he prunes {[2] The Greek for <prunes> also means
<cleans>.} so that it will be even more fruitful. 
15:3  You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. 
15:4  Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by
itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you
remain in me. 
15:5   "I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in
him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. 
15:6  If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown
away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and
burned. 
15:7  If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish,
and it will be given you. 
15:8  This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing
yourselves to be my disciples. 
15:9   "As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my
love. 
15:10  If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have
obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love. 
15:11  I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy
may be complete. 
15:12  My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 
15:13  Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his
friends. 
15:14  You are my friends if you do what I command. 
15:15  I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his
master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I
learned from my Father I have made known to you. 
15:16  You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and
bear fruit--fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you
ask in my name. 
15:17  This is my command: Love each other. 
15:18   "If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. 
15:19  If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is,
you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That
is why the world hates you. 
15:20  Remember the words I spoke to you: `No servant is greater than his
master.' {[20] John 13:16} If they persecuted me, they will persecute you
also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. 
15:21  They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know
the One who sent me. 
15:22  If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of
sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin. 
15:23  He who hates me hates my Father as well. 
15:24  If I had not done among them what no one else did, they would not be
guilty of sin. But now they have seen these miracles, and yet they have
hated both me and my Father. 
15:25  But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: `They hated me
without reason.' {[25] Psalms 35:19; 69:4} 
15:26   "When the Counselor comes, whom I will send to you from the Father,
the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father, he will testify about me. 
15:27  And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the
beginning. 

16:1   "All this I have told you so that you will not go astray. 
16:2  They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, a time is coming when
anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God. 
16:3  They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me.

16:4  I have told you this, so that when the time comes you will remember
that I warned you. I did not tell you this at first because I was with you. 
16:5   "Now I am going to him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, `Where
are you going?' 
16:6  Because I have said these things, you are filled with grief. 
16:7  But I tell you the truth: It is for your good that I am going away.
Unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will
send him to you. 
16:8  When he comes, he will convict the world of guilt {[8] Or <will expose
the guilt of the world>} in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment: 
16:9  in regard to sin, because men do not believe in me; 
16:10  in regard to righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where
you can see me no longer; 
16:11  and in regard to judgment, because the prince of this world now
stands condemned. 
16:12   "I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. 
16:13  But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all
truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and
he will tell you what is yet to come. 
16:14  He will bring glory to me by taking from what is mine and making it
known to you. 
16:15  All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit
will take from what is mine and make it known to you. 
16:16   "In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little
while you will see me." 
16:17   Some of his disciples said to one another, "What does he mean by
saying, `In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little
while you will see me,' and `Because I am going to the Father'?" 
16:18  They kept asking, "What does he mean by `a little while'? We don't
understand what he is saying." 
16:19   Jesus saw that they wanted to ask him about this, so he said to
them, "Are you asking one another what I meant when I said, `In a little
while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see
me'? 
16:20  I tell you the truth, you will weep and mourn while the world
rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy. 
16:21  A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come;
but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a
child is born into the world. 
16:22  So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and
you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy. 
16:23  In that day you will no longer ask me anything. I tell you the truth,
my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. 
16:24  Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you
will receive, and your joy will be complete. 
16:25   "Though I have been speaking figuratively, a time is coming when I
will no longer use this kind of language but will tell you plainly about my
Father. 
16:26  In that day you will ask in my name. I am not saying that I will ask
the Father on your behalf. 
16:27  No, the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have
believed that I came from God. 
16:28  I came from the Father and entered the world; now I am leaving the
world and going back to the Father." 
16:29   Then Jesus' disciples said, "Now you are speaking clearly and
without figures of speech. 
16:30  Now we can see that you know all things and that you do not even need
to have anyone ask you questions. This makes us believe that you came from
God." 
16:31   "You believe at last!" {[31] Or <"Do you now believe?">} Jesus
answered. 
16:32  "But a time is coming, and has come, when you will be scattered, each
to his own home. You will leave me all alone. Yet I am not alone, for my
Father is with me. 
16:33   "I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In
this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the
world."  

17:1   After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed:   "Father,
the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. 
17:2  For you granted him authority over all people that he might give
eternal life to all those you have given him. 
17:3  Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God,
and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. 
17:4  I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me
to do. 
17:5  And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with
you before the world began. 
17:6   "I have revealed you {[6] Greek <your name>; also in verse 26} to
those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to
me and they have obeyed your word. 
17:7  Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you. 
17:8  For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They
knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent
me. 
17:9  I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you
have given me, for they are yours. 
17:10  All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has come to
me through them. 
17:11  I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the
world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of
your name--the name you gave me--so that they may be one as we are one. 
17:12  While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that
name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so
that Scripture would be fulfilled. 
17:13   "I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in
the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them. 
17:14  I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they
are not of the world any more than I am of the world. 
17:15  My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you
protect them from the evil one. 
17:16  They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. 
17:17  Sanctify {[17] Greek <hagiazo (set apart for sacred use> or <make
holy)>; also in verse 19} them by the truth; your word is truth. 
17:18  As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. 
17:19  For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified. 
17:20   "My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will
believe in me through their message, 
17:21  that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am
in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have
sent me. 
17:22  I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as
we are one: 
17:23  I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let
the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved
me. 
17:24   "Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am,
and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before
the creation of the world. 
17:25   "Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you,
and they know that you have sent me. 
17:26  I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in
order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be
in them."  

18:1   When he had finished praying, Jesus left with his disciples and
crossed the Kidron Valley. On the other side there was an olive grove, and
he and his disciples went into it. 
18:2   Now Judas, who betrayed him, knew the place, because Jesus had often
met there with his disciples. 
18:3  So Judas came to the grove, guiding a detachment of soldiers and some
officials from the chief priests and Pharisees. They were carrying torches,
lanterns and weapons. 
18:4   Jesus, knowing all that was going to happen to him, went out and
asked them, "Who is it you want?" 
18:5   "Jesus of Nazareth," they replied.  "I am he," Jesus said. (And Judas
the traitor was standing there with them.) 
18:6  When Jesus said, "I am he," they drew back and fell to the ground. 
18:7   Again he asked them, "Who is it you want?"  And they said, "Jesus of
Nazareth." 
18:8   "I told you that I am he," Jesus answered. "If you are looking for
me, then let these men go." 
18:9  This happened so that the words he had spoken would be fulfilled: "I
have not lost one of those you gave me." {[9] John 6:39} 
18:10   Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the high
priest's servant, cutting off his right ear. (The servant's name was
Malchus.) 
18:11   Jesus commanded Peter, "Put your sword away! Shall I not drink the
cup the Father has given me?" 
18:12   Then the detachment of soldiers with its commander and the Jewish
officials arrested Jesus. They bound him 
18:13  and brought him first to Annas, who was the father-in-law of
Caiaphas, the high priest that year. 
18:14  Caiaphas was the one who had advised the Jews that it would be good
if one man died for the people. 
18:15   Simon Peter and another disciple were following Jesus. Because this
disciple was known to the high priest, he went with Jesus into the high
priest's courtyard, 
18:16  but Peter had to wait outside at the door. The other disciple, who
was known to the high priest, came back, spoke to the girl on duty there and
brought Peter in. 
18:17   "You are not one of his disciples, are you?" the girl at the door
asked Peter.  He replied, "I am not." 
18:18   It was cold, and the servants and officials stood around a fire they
had made to keep warm. Peter also was standing with them, warming himself. 
18:19   Meanwhile, the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and
his teaching. 
18:20   "I have spoken openly to the world," Jesus replied. "I always taught
in synagogues or at the temple, where all the Jews come together. I said
nothing in secret. 
18:21  Why question me? Ask those who heard me. Surely they know what I
said." 
18:22   When Jesus said this, one of the officials nearby struck him in the
face. "Is this the way you answer the high priest?" he demanded. 
18:23   "If I said something wrong," Jesus replied, "testify as to what is
wrong. But if I spoke the truth, why did you strike me?" 
18:24  Then Annas sent him, still bound, to Caiaphas the high priest. {[24]
Or <(Now Annas had sent him, still bound, to Caiaphas the high priest.)>} 
18:25   As Simon Peter stood warming himself, he was asked, "You are not one
of his disciples, are you?"  He denied it, saying, "I am not." 
18:26   One of the high priest's servants, a relative of the man whose ear
Peter had cut off, challenged him, "Didn't I see you with him in the olive
grove?" 
18:27  Again Peter denied it, and at that moment a rooster began to crow. 
18:28   Then the Jews led Jesus from Caiaphas to the palace of the Roman
governor. By now it was early morning, and to avoid ceremonial uncleanness
the Jews did not enter the palace; they wanted to be able to eat the
Passover. 
18:29  So Pilate came out to them and asked, "What charges are you bringing
against this man?" 
18:30   "If he were not a criminal," they replied, "we would not have handed
him over to you." 
18:31   Pilate said, "Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law." 
"But we have no right to execute anyone," the Jews objected. 
18:32  This happened so that the words Jesus had spoken indicating the kind
of death he was going to die would be fulfilled. 
18:33   Pilate then went back inside the palace, summoned Jesus and asked
him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" 
18:34   "Is that your own idea," Jesus asked, "or did others talk to you
about me?" 
18:35   "Am I a Jew?" Pilate replied. "It was your people and your chief
priests who handed you over to me. What is it you have done?" 
18:36   Jesus said, "My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my
servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is
from another place." 
18:37   "You are a king, then!" said Pilate.  Jesus answered, "You are right
in saying I am a king. In fact, for this reason I was born, and for this I
came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth
listens to me." 
18:38   "What is truth?" Pilate asked. With this he went out again to the
Jews and said, "I find no basis for a charge against him. 
18:39  But it is your custom for me to release to you one prisoner at the
time of the Passover. Do you want me to release `the king of the Jews'?" 
18:40   They shouted back, "No, not him! Give us Barabbas!" Now Barabbas had
taken part in a rebellion. 

19:1   Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. 
19:2  The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his
head. They clothed him in a purple robe 
19:3  and went up to him again and again, saying, "Hail, king of the Jews!"
And they struck him in the face. 
19:4   Once more Pilate came out and said to the Jews, "Look, I am bringing
him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against
him." 
19:5  When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe,
Pilate said to them, "Here is the man!" 
19:6   As soon as the chief priests and their officials saw him, they
shouted, "Crucify! Crucify!"  But Pilate answered, "You take him and crucify
him. As for me, I find no basis for a charge against him." 
19:7   The Jews insisted, "We have a law, and according to that law he must
die, because he claimed to be the Son of God." 
19:8   When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid, 
19:9  and he went back inside the palace. "Where do you come from?" he asked
Jesus, but Jesus gave him no answer. 
19:10  "Do you refuse to speak to me?" Pilate said. "Don't you realize I
have power either to free you or to crucify you?" 
19:11   Jesus answered, "You would have no power over me if it were not
given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you is
guilty of a greater sin." 
19:12   From then on, Pilate tried to set Jesus free, but the Jews kept
shouting, "If you let this man go, you are no friend of Caesar. Anyone who
claims to be a king opposes Caesar." 
19:13   When Pilate heard this, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the
judge's seat at a place known as the Stone Pavement (which in Aramaic is
Gabbatha). 
19:14  It was the day of Preparation of Passover Week, about the sixth hour. 
"Here is your king," Pilate said to the Jews. 
19:15   But they shouted, "Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!" 
"Shall I crucify your king?" Pilate asked.  "We have no king but Caesar,"
the chief priests answered. 
19:16   Finally Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified.  So the
soldiers took charge of Jesus. 
19:17  Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which
in Aramaic is called Golgotha). 
19:18  Here they crucified him, and with him two others--one on each side
and Jesus in the middle. 
19:19   Pilate had a notice prepared and fastened to the cross. It read:
JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS. 
19:20  Many of the Jews read this sign, for the place where Jesus was
crucified was near the city, and the sign was written in Aramaic, Latin and
Greek. 
19:21  The chief priests of the Jews protested to Pilate, "Do not write `The
King of the Jews,' but that this man claimed to be king of the Jews." 
19:22   Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written." 
19:23   When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes, dividing
them into four shares, one for each of them, with the undergarment
remaining. This garment was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom.

19:24   "Let's not tear it," they said to one another. "Let's decide by lot
who will get it."  This happened that the scripture might be fulfilled which
said, 
          "They divided my garments among them 
          and cast lots for my clothing." {[24] Psalm 22:18} So this is what
the soldiers did. 
19:25   Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother's sister, Mary
the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 
19:26  When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved
standing nearby, he said to his mother, "Dear woman, here is your son," 
19:27  and to the disciple, "Here is your mother." From that time on, this
disciple took her into his home. 
19:28   Later, knowing that all was now completed, and so that the Scripture
would be fulfilled, Jesus said, "I am thirsty." 
19:29  A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put
the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus' lips. 
19:30  When he had received the drink, Jesus said, "It is finished." With
that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. 
19:31   Now it was the day of Preparation, and the next day was to be a
special Sabbath. Because the Jews did not want the bodies left on the
crosses during the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and
the bodies taken down. 
19:32  The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first man who
had been crucified with Jesus, and then those of the other. 
19:33  But when they came to Jesus and found that he was already dead, they
did not break his legs. 
19:34  Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus' side with a spear,
bringing a sudden flow of blood and water. 
19:35  The man who saw it has given testimony, and his testimony is true. He
knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may
believe. 
19:36  These things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled: "Not
one of his bones will be broken," {[36] Exodus 12:46; Num. 9:12; Psalm
34:20} 
19:37  and, as another scripture says, "They will look on the one they have
pierced." {[37] Zech. 12:10} 
19:38   Later, Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus. Now
Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly because he feared the Jews.
With Pilate's permission, he came and took the body away. 
19:39  He was accompanied by Nicodemus, the man who earlier had visited
Jesus at night. Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about
seventy-five pounds. {[39] Greek <a hundred litrai> (about 34 kilograms)} 
19:40  Taking Jesus' body, the two of them wrapped it, with the spices, in
strips of linen. This was in accordance with Jewish burial customs. 
19:41  At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in
the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid. 
19:42  Because it was the Jewish day of Preparation and since the tomb was
nearby, they laid Jesus there. 

20:1   Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary
Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the
entrance. 
20:2  So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one
Jesus loved, and said, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we
don't know where they have put him!" 
20:3   So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb. 
20:4  Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the
tomb first. 
20:5  He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did
not go in. 
20:6  Then Simon Peter, who was behind him, arrived and went into the tomb.
He saw the strips of linen lying there, 
20:7  as well as the burial cloth that had been around Jesus' head. The
cloth was folded up by itself, separate from the linen. 
20:8  Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went
inside. He saw and believed. 
20:9  (They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise
from the dead.) 
20:10   Then the disciples went back to their homes, 
20:11  but Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to
look into the tomb 
20:12  and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus' body had been, one
at the head and the other at the foot. 
20:13   They asked her, "Woman, why are you crying?"  "They have taken my
Lord away," she said, "and I don't know where they have put him." 
20:14  At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did
not realize that it was Jesus. 
20:15   "Woman," he said, "why are you crying? Who is it you are looking
for?"  Thinking he was the gardener, she said, "Sir, if you have carried him
away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him." 
20:16   Jesus said to her, "Mary."  She turned toward him and cried out in
Aramaic, "Rabboni!" (which means Teacher). 
20:17   Jesus said, "Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet returned to
the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, `I am returning to my
Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'" 
20:18   Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: "I have seen the
Lord!" And she told them that he had said these things to her. 
20:19   On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples
were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and
stood among them and said, "Peace be with you!" 
20:20  After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The disciples
were overjoyed when they saw the Lord. 
20:21   Again Jesus said, "Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I
am sending you." 
20:22  And with that he breathed on them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit.

20:23  If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you do not
forgive them, they are not forgiven." 
20:24   Now Thomas (called Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the
disciples when Jesus came. 
20:25  So the other disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord!"  But he
said to them, "Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger
where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe it."

20:26   A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was
with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and
said, "Peace be with you!" 
20:27  Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach
out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe." 
20:28   Thomas said to him, "My Lord and my God!" 
20:29   Then Jesus told him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed;
blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed." 
20:30   Jesus did many other miraculous signs in the presence of his
disciples, which are not recorded in this book. 
20:31  But these are written that you may {[31] Some manuscripts <may
continue to>} believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by
believing you may have life in his name. 

21:1   Afterward Jesus appeared again to his disciples, by the Sea of
Tiberias. {[1] That is, Sea of Galilee} It happened this way: 
21:2  Simon Peter, Thomas (called Didymus), Nathanael from Cana in Galilee,
the sons of Zebedee, and two other disciples were together. 
21:3  "I'm going out to fish," Simon Peter told them, and they said, "We'll
go with you." So they went out and got into the boat, but that night they
caught nothing. 
21:4   Early in the morning, Jesus stood on the shore, but the disciples did
not realize that it was Jesus. 
21:5   He called out to them, "Friends, haven't you any fish?"  "No," they
answered. 
21:6   He said, "Throw your net on the right side of the boat and you will
find some." When they did, they were unable to haul the net in because of
the large number of fish. 
21:7   Then the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It is the Lord!"
As soon as Simon Peter heard him say, "It is the Lord," he wrapped his outer
garment around him (for he had taken it off) and jumped into the water. 
21:8  The other disciples followed in the boat, towing the net full of fish,
for they were not far from shore, about a hundred yards. {[8] Greek <about
two hundred cubits> (about 90 meters)} 
21:9  When they landed, they saw a fire of burning coals there with fish on
it, and some bread. 
21:10   Jesus said to them, "Bring some of the fish you have just caught." 
21:11   Simon Peter climbed aboard and dragged the net ashore. It was full
of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn. 
21:12  Jesus said to them, "Come and have breakfast." None of the disciples
dared ask him, "Who are you?" They knew it was the Lord. 
21:13  Jesus came, took the bread and gave it to them, and did the same with
the fish. 
21:14  This was now the third time Jesus appeared to his disciples after he
was raised from the dead. 
21:15   When they had finished eating, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon son
of John, do you truly love me more than these?"  "Yes, Lord," he said, "you
know that I love you."  Jesus said, "Feed my lambs." 
21:16   Again Jesus said, "Simon son of John, do you truly love me?"  He
answered, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you."  Jesus said, "Take care of
my sheep." 
21:17   The third time he said to him, "Simon son of John, do you love me?" 
Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, "Do you love me?" He
said, "Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you."  Jesus said,
"Feed my sheep. 
21:18  I tell you the truth, when you were younger you dressed yourself and
went where you wanted; but when you are old you will stretch out your hands,
and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go." 
21:19  Jesus said this to indicate the kind of death by which Peter would
glorify God. Then he said to him, "Follow me!" 
21:20   Peter turned and saw that the disciple whom Jesus loved was
following them. (This was the one who had leaned back against Jesus at the
supper and had said, "Lord, who is going to betray you?") 
21:21  When Peter saw him, he asked, "Lord, what about him?" 
21:22   Jesus answered, "If I want him to remain alive until I return, what
is that to you? You must follow me." 
21:23  Because of this, the rumor spread among the brothers that this
disciple would not die. But Jesus did not say that he would not die; he only
said, "If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you?" 
21:24   This is the disciple who testifies to these things and who wrote
them down. We know that his testimony is true. 
21:25   Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were
written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for
the books that would be written. 
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