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In the beginning, the Word already existed.

The Word was with God, and the Word was God.

From the very beginning, the Word was with God.

Through Him, God made all things.

Not one thing in all creation was made without Him.

The Word was the source of life.

And this life brought light to people.

The light shines in the darkness.

And the darkness has never put it out.

God sent his messenger, a man named John, who came to tell people about the

light, so that all should hear the message and believe.

He himself was not the light.

He came to tell about the light.

This.

Word was in the world, and though God made the world through him, yet the

did not recognize him.

He came to his own country, but his own people did not receive him.

Some, however, did receive him and believed in him, so he gave them the

become God's children.

They did not become God's children by natural means, that is, by being born as

the children of a human father.

The Word

became a human

being and full of grace and truth lived among us.

We saw His glory.

The glory which he received as the father's only son.

John spoke about him.

This is the one I was talking about when I said he comes after me.

But he is greater than I am because he existed before I was born.

Out of the fullness of his grace he has blessed us all, giving us one blessing

after another.

God gave the law through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus

No one has ever seen God, the only Son who is the same as God and is at the

Father's side.

He has made him known.

The Jewish authorities in Jerusalem sent some priests and Levites to John.

Who are you?

John did not refuse to answer, but spoke out openly and clearly.

I am not the Messiah.

Who are you then?

Are you Elijah?

No, I'm not.

Are you the prophet?

No. Then tell us who you are.

We have to take an answer back to those who sent us.

What do you say about yourself?

John answered by quoting the prophet Isaiah.

I am the voice of someone shouting in the desert.

Make a straight path for the Lord to travel.

The messengers who had been sent by the Pharisees then asked John, If you're not

the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor the prophet, why do you baptize?

It ties with water.

But among you stands the one you do not know.

He is coming after me, but I'm not good enough even to untie his

sandals.

All this happened in Bethany.

on the east side of the Jordan River, where John was baptizing.

The next day, John saw Jesus coming to him.

There is the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.

This is the one I was talking about when I said, a man is coming after me, but

he is greater than I am, because he existed before I was born.

I did not know who he would be, but I came baptizing with water in

order to make him known to the people of Israel.

And John gave this testimony.

I saw the Spirit come down like a dove from heaven and stay on him.

I still did not know that he was the one, but God, who sent me to baptize

water, had said to me, You will see the Spirit come down and stay on a man.

He is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.

I have seen it, and I tell you,

that he is the Son of God.

The next day, John was standing there again with two of his disciples when he

saw Jesus walking by.

There is the Lamb of God.

But the disciples heard him say this.

Jesus turned, saw them following him.

What are you looking for?

Where do you live?

Rabbi. Rabbi.

This word means teacher.

Come and see.

It was then about four o 'clock in the afternoon, so they went with him and saw

where he lived and spent the rest of that day with him.

One of them was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.

At once he found his brother, Simon.

We have found the Messiah.

This word means Christ.

Then he took Simon to Jesus.

Jesus looked at him.

Your name is Simon, son of John.

But you will be called Cephas.

This is the same as Peter and means a rock.

The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee.

He found Philip.

said to him, Come with me.

Philip was from Bethsaida, a town where Andrew and Peter lived.

Philip found Nathanael.

We have found the one whom Moses wrote about in the book of the law and whom

prophets also wrote about.

He is Jesus.

Son of Joseph from Nazareth. Can anything good come from Nazareth?

Come and see.

When Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, he said about him, Here is a real

Israelite. There is nothing false in him.

How do you know me?

I saw you when you were under the fig tree before Philip called you.

the king of Israel.

Do you believe just because I told you I saw you when you were under the fig

tree?

You will see much greater things than this.

I am telling you the truth.

You will see heaven open and God's angels going up and coming down on the

Man.

Two days later, there was a wedding in the town of Cana in Galilee.

Jesus' mother was there.

And Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding.

When the wine had given out, Jesus' mother said to him, They are out of

Madam.

What do you have to do with this?

My time has not yet come.

Do whatever he tells you.

The Jews have rules about ritual washing, and for this purpose six stone

jars were there, each one large enough to hold between 20 and 30 gallons.

Fill these jars with water.

They filled them to the brim. Now draw some water out and take it to the man in

charge of the feast.

the water, which now had turned into wine, and he tasted it.

He did not know where this wine had come from, but of course the servants who

had drawn out the water knew.

So he called the bridegroom.

Everyone else serves the best wine first, and after the guests have drunk a

he serves the ordinary wine. But you have kept the best wine until now.

Jesus performed this first miracle in Cana in Galilee.

There he revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.

After this, Jesus and his mother, brothers and disciples, went to

stayed there a few days.

It was almost time for the Passover festival, so Jesus went to Jerusalem.

There in the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep and pigeons and

the money changers sitting at their tables.

So he made a whip from cord and drove all the animals out of the temple, both

the sheep and the cattle.

overturned the tables of the money changers and scattered their coins.

And he ordered those who sold pigeons, Take them out of here!

Stop making my father's house a marketplace!

His disciples remembered that the scripture says, My devotion to your

God, burns in me like a fire.

The Jewish authorities came back at him with a question.

What miracle can you perform to show us that you have the right to do this?

Tear down this temple, and in three days I will build it again.

Are you going to build it again in three days?

It has taken 46 years to build this temple.

But the temple Jesus was speaking about.

Was his body.

So when he was raised from death.

His disciples remember. That he had said this.

And they believed the scripture.

And what Jesus had said.

While Jesus was in Jerusalem during the Passover festival, many believed in him

as they saw the miracles he performed.

But Jesus did not trust himself to them because he knew them all.

There was no need for anyone to tell him about them because he himself knew what

was in their hearts.

There was a Jewish leader named Nicodemus who belonged to the party of

Pharisees.

One night, he went to Jesus.

Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher sent by God.

No one could perform the miracles you are doing unless God were with him.

I am telling you the truth.

No one can see the kingdom of God without being born again.

How can a grown man be born again?

He certainly cannot enter his mother's womb and be born a second time. I am

telling you the truth.

No one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and the

A person is born physically of human parents, but is born spiritually of the

Spirit.

Do not be surprised because I tell you that you must all be born again.

The wind blows wherever it wishes.

You hear the sound it makes, but you do not know where it comes from or where it

is going.

It is like that with everyone who was born of the Spirit.

How can this be?

You are a great teacher in Israel, and you don't know this.

I am telling you the truth.

We speak of what we know and report what we have seen.

Yet none of you is willing to accept our message.

You do not believe me when I tell you about the things of this world.

How will you ever believe me then when I tell you about the things of heaven?

And no one has ever gone up to heaven except the Son of Man.

As Moses lifted up the bronze snake on a pole in the desert, in the same way the

Son of Man must be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him may have

eternal life.

For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who

believes in him may not die, but have eternal life.

For God did not send his Son into the world to be its judge, but to be its

Savior.

Those who believe in the Son, are not judged.

But those who do not believe have already been judged, because they have

believed in God's only Son.

This is how the judgment works.

The light has come into the world, but people love the darkness rather than the

light, because their deeds are evil.

Those who do evil things hate the light and will not come to the light.

because they do not want their evil deed to be shown up.

But those who do what is true come to the light, in order that the light may

show that what they did was in obedience to God.

After this, Jesus and his disciples went to the province of Judea, where he

spent some time with them, and baptized.

John also was baptizing in Anon, not far from Salim.

because there was plenty of water in that place.

People were going to him, and he was baptizing them.

This was before John had been put in prison.

Some of John's disciples began arguing with a Jew about the matter of ritual

washing.

Teacher, you remember the man who was with you on the east side of Jordan, the

one you spoke about?

Well, he is baptizing now, and everyone's going to him.

No one can have anything.

unless God gives it.

You yourselves are my witnesses that I said, I am not the Messiah, but I've

sent ahead of him.

The bridegroom is the one to whom the bride belongs, but the bridegroom's

friend, who stands by and listens, is glad when he hears the bridegroom's

This is how my own happiness is made complete.

He must become more important, but I become less important.

He who comes from above is greater than all.

He who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks about earthly matters.

But he who comes from heaven is above all.

He tells what he has seen and heard, yet no one accepts his message.

But whoever accepts his message confirms by this that God is truthful.

The one whom God has sent speaks God's words because God gives him the fullness

of his spirit.

The Father loves his Son and has put everything in his power.

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life.

Whoever disobeys the Son will not have life, but will remain under God's

punishment.

The Pharisees heard that Jesus was winning and baptizing more disciples

John.

Actually, Jesus himself did not baptize anyone. Only his disciples did.

So when Jesus heard what was being said, he left Judea and went back to Galilee.

On his way there, he had to go through Samaria.

In Samaria, he came to a town named Sychar, which was not far from the field

that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired out by the trip, sat down by the well.

It was about noon.

A Samaritan woman came to draw some water.

Give me a drink of water.

His disciples had gone into town to buy food.

You're a Jew, and I'm a Samaritan.

So how can you ask me for a drink?

Jews will not use the same cups and bowls that Samaritans use.

If you only knew what God gives, and who it is that is asking you for a drink,

you would ask him.

And he would give you a life -giving water.

Sir, you don't have a bucket, and the well is deep.

Where would you get that life -giving water?

It was our ancestor Jacob who gave us this well.

He and his children and his flocks all drank from it.

You don't claim to be greater than Jacob, do you?

Those who drink this water will get thirsty again.

But those who drink the water that I will give them will never be thirsty

The water that I will give them will become in them a spring, which will

them with life -giving water and give them eternal life.

Sir, give me that water.

Then I will never be thirsty again.

No, well, I have to come here to draw water.

Go and call your husband and come back.

I don't have a husband.

You're right when you say you don't have a husband.

You've been married to five men and the man you live with now is not really your

husband.

You have told me the truth.

Yes, you are a prophet, sir.

My Samaritan ancestors worshipped God on this mountain.

But you Jews say that Jerusalem is the place where we should worship God.

Believe me, woman.

The time will come when people will not worship the Father either on this

mountain or in Jerusalem.

You Samaritans do not really know whom you worship.

But we Jews know whom we worship because it is from the Jews that salvation

comes.

And is already here.

When by the power of God's spirit, people will worship the Father as he

is.

Offering him the true worship that he wants.

God is spirit.

And only by the power of his spirit can people worship him as he really is.

I know that the Messiah will come.

And when he comes, he will tell us everything.

I am he, I who am talking with you.

At that moment, Jesus' disciples returned, and they were greatly

find him talking with a woman.

But none of them said to her, What do you want?

Or asked him, Why are you talking with her?

Then the woman left her water jar and went back to the town.

Come and see the man who told me everything I've ever done.

Could he be the Messiah?

So they left the town and went to Jesus.

In the meantime, the disciples were begging Jesus, Teacher, have something

eat. But he answered, I have food to eat that you know nothing about.

So the disciples started asking among themselves, Could somebody have brought

him food?

My food is to obey the will of the one who sent me and to finish the work he

gave me to do.

You have a saying.

Four more months and then the harvest.

But I tell you, take a good look at the fields.

The crops are now ripe and ready to be harvested.

The one who reaps the harvest is being paid and gathers the crop for eternal

life. So the one who plants and the one who reaps will be glad together.

For the saying is true.

Someone plants, someone else reaps.

I have sent you to reap the harvest in a field where you did not work.

Others work there, and you profit from their work.

Many of the Samaritans in that town believed in Jesus because the woman had

said, He told me everything I have ever done.

So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them, and Jesus

stayed there two days.

Many more believed because of his message, and they told the woman, We

now, not because of what you said, but because we ourselves have heard him, and

we know that he really is the Savior of the world.

After spending two days there, Jesus left and went to Galilee, for he himself

had said, Prophets are not respected in their own country.

When he arrived in Galilee, the people there welcomed him, because they had

to the Passover festival in Jerusalem and had seen everything that he had done

during the festival.

Then Jesus went back to Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into

wine.

A government official was there whose son was sick in Capernaum.

When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and

asked him to go to Capernaum and heal his son who was about to die.

None of you will ever believe unless you see miracles and wonders.

Sir, come with me.

Before my child dies.

Go.

Your son will live.

The man believed Jesus' words and went.

On his way home, his servants met him with the news.

Your boy is going to live. He asked them what time it was when his son got

better. It was one o 'clock yesterday afternoon when the fever left him.

Then the father remembered that it was at that very hour when Jesus had told

him.

Your son will live.

So he and all his family believed.

This was the second miracle that Jesus performed after coming from Judea to

Galilee.

After this, Jesus went to Jerusalem for a religious festival.

Near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem, there is a pool with five porches. In Hebrew,

it is called Besatha.

A large crowd of sick people were lying on the porches.

The blind, the lame, and the paralyzed.

A man was there who had been sick for 38 years.

Jesus saw him lying there, and he knew that the man had been sick for such a

long time.

Do you want to get well?

So I don't have anyone here to put me in the pool when the water is stirred up

While I'm trying to get in somebody else gets there first

Get

up pick up your mat and walk

He picked up his mat and started walking.

The day this happened

was a Sabbath.

So the Jewish authorities told the man who had been healed, This is a Sabbath,

and it is against our law for you to carry your mat.

The man who made me well told me to pick up my mat and walk.

Who is the man who told you to do this?

But the man who had been healed did not know who Jesus was, for there was a

crowd in that place, and Jesus had slipped away.

Afterwards, Jesus found him in the temple.

You're well now.

So stop sinning, or something worse may happen to you.

Then the man left and told the Jewish authorities that it was Jesus who had

healed him.

So they began to persecute Jesus, because he had done this healing on a

Jesus answered them, My Father is always working,

and I too must work.

This saying made the Jewish authorities all the more determined to kill him.

Not only had he broken the Sabbath law, but he had said that God was his own

Father. and in this way had made himself equal with God.

So Jesus answered them, I tell you the truth.

The Son can do nothing on his own.

He does only what he sees his Father doing, what the Father does.

The Son also does.

For the Father loves the Son and shows them all that he himself is doing.

He will show him even greater things to do than this, and you will all be

amazed.

just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, in the same way the Son

gives life to those he wants to.

Nor does the Father himself judge anyone.

He has given his Son the full right to judge, so that all will honor the Son in

the same way as they honor the Father.

Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

I am telling you the truth.

Those who hear my words and believe in him who sent me have eternal life.

They will not be judged, but have already passed from death to life.

I am telling you the truth.

The time is coming.

The time has already come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God.

And those who hear it will come to life.

Just as the Father is himself the source of life, in the same way he has made

his Son to be the source of life.

And he has given the Son the right to judge because he is.

the Son of Man.

Do not be surprised at this.

The time is coming when all the dead will hear his voice and come out of

graves.

Those who have done good will rise and live.

And those who have done evil will rise and be condemned.

I can do nothing on my own authority.

I judge only as God tells me, so my judgment is right.

Because I am not trying to do what I want, but only what he who sent me

If I testify on my own behalf, what I say is not to be accepted as real proof.

But there is someone else who testifies on my behalf.

And I know that what he says about me is true.

John is the one to whom you sent your messengers.

And he spoke on behalf of the truth.

It is not that I must have a human witness. I say this only in order that

may be saved.

John was like a lamp, burning and shining.

And you were willing for a while to enjoy his light.

But I have a witness on my behalf, which is even greater than the witness that

John gave.

What I do, that is the deeds my father gave me to do.

These speak on my behalf and show that the father has sent me.

And the Father who sent me also testifies on my behalf.

You have never heard his voice or seen his face.

And you do not keep his message in your hearts, for you do not believe in the

one whom he sent.

You study the Scriptures, because you think that in them you will find eternal

life. And these very Scriptures speak about me, yet you are not willing to

to me in order to have life.

I am not looking for human praise.

But I know what kind of people you are.

And I know that you have no love for God in your hearts.

I have come with my father's authority, but you have not received me.

When, however, someone comes with his own authority, you will receive him.

You like to receive praise from one another, but you do not try to win

from the one who alone is God.

How then can you believe me?

Do not think, however, that I am the one who will accuse you to my father.

Moses, in whom you have put your hope, is the very one who will accuse you.

If you had really believed Moses, you would have believed me, because he wrote

about me.

But since you do not believe what he...

After this, Jesus went across Lake Galilee, or Lake Tiberias, as it is also

called.

A large crowd followed him because they had seen

his miracles of healing the sick.

Jesus went up a hill and sat down with his disciples.

The time for the Passover festival was near.

Jesus looked around and saw that a large crowd was coming to him.

Where can we buy enough food to feed all these people?

He said this to test Philip.

Actually, he already knew what he would do. For everyone to have even a little,

it would take more than 200 silver coins to buy enough bread.

Another one of his disciples, Andrew, who was Simon Peter's brother, said,

is a boy here who has five loaves of barley bread and two fish.

But they will certainly not be enough for all these people.

Make the people sit down.

There was a lot of grass there, so all the people sat down.

There were about 5 ,000 men.

Jesus took the bread, gave thanks to God,

and

distributed

it to the people who were sitting there.

He did the same with the fish.

And they all had as much as they wanted.

When they were all full, he said to his disciples, Gather the pieces left over.

Let us not waste a bit.

So they gathered them all and filled twelve baskets with the pieces left over

from the five barley loaves which the people had eaten.

Seeing this miracle that Jesus had performed, the people there said, Surely

is the prophet who was to come into the world.

Jesus knew.

But they were about to come and seize him in order to make him king by force.

he went off again to the hills by himself.

When evening came, Jesus' disciples went down to the lake, got into a boat, and

went back across the lake towards Capernaum.

Night came on, and Jesus said, still had not come to them.

By then a strong wind was blowing and stirring up the water.

The disciples have rolled about three or four miles when they saw Jesus walking.

Don't be afraid.

It is I.

took him into the boat.

And immediately the boat reached land at the place they were heading for.

Next day, the crowd which had stayed on the other side of the lake realized that

there had only been one boat there.

They knew that Jesus had not gone in it with his disciples, but that they had

left without him.

Other boats, which were from Tiberias, came to shore near the place where the

crowd had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.

When the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they got into

those boats and went to Capernaum, looking for him.

When the people found Jesus on the other side of the lake, they said to him,

Teacher, when did you get here?

I am telling you the truth.

You were looking for me because you ate the bread and had all you wanted.

Not because you understood my miracles.

Do not work for food that spoils.

Instead, work for the food that lasts for eternal life.

This is the food which the Son of Man will give you because God the Father has

put his mark of approval on him.

What can we do in order to do what God wants us to do?

What God wants you to do is to believe in the one he sent.

What miracle will you perform so that we may see it and believe you? What will

you do?

He gave them bread from heaven to eat.

I am telling you the truth.

What Moses gave you was not the bread from heaven.

It is my Father who gives you the real bread from heaven.

For the bread that God gives is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to

the world.

I am the bread of life.

Those who come to me will never be hungry.

Those who believe in me will never be thirsty.

Now I told you that you have seen me, but will not believe.

Everyone whom my Father gives me will come to me.

I will never turn away anyone who comes to me, because I have come down from

heaven to do not my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

And it is the will of him who sent me.

That I should not lose any of all those he has given me.

But that I should raise them all to life on the last day.

For what my father wants is that all who see the Son and believe in him should

have eternal life.

And I will raise them to life on the last day. The people started grumbling

about him because he said, I am the bread that came down from heaven. This

man...

Jesus, son of Joseph, isn't he?

We know his father and mother.

How then does he now say he came down from heaven?

the Father who sent me draws them to me.

And I will raise them to life on the last day.

The prophets wrote, everyone will be taught by God.

Anyone who hears the Father and learns from him comes to me.

This does not mean that anyone has seen the Father.

He who is from God is the only one who has seen the Father. I am telling you

truth.

He who believes has eternal life.

I am the bread of life.

Your ancestors ate manna in the desert, but they died.

that whoever eats it will not die.

I am the living bread that came down from heaven.

If you eat this bread, you will live forever.

The bread that I will give you is my flesh, which I give so that the world

live. This started an angry argument among them. How can this man give us his

flesh to eat?

Have life in yourselves.

Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life.

And I will raise them to life on the last day.

For my flesh is the real food. My blood is the real drink.

Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood live in me.

And I live in them.

The living Father sent me.

And because of him I live.

In the same way, whoever eats me will live because of me.

This, then, is the bread that came down from heaven.

It is not like the bread that your ancestors ate but then later died.

Those who eat this bread will live forever.

Jesus said this as he taught in the synagogue in Capernaum.

of his followers heard this and said, this teaching is too hard.

Who can listen to it?

Without being told, Jesus knew that they were grumbling about this.

Does this make you want to give up?

Suppose then that you should see the Son of Man go back up to the place where he

was before.

What gives life is God's Spirit.

Human power is of no use at all.

The words I have spoken to you bring God's life -giving spirit.

Yet some of you do not believe.

Jesus knew from the very beginning who were the ones that would not believe and

which one would betray him.

This is the very reason I told you that no people can come to me unless the

Father makes it possible for them to do so.

Because of this, many of Jesus' followers turned back and would not go

anymore.

And you?

Would you also like to leave?

Lord, to whom would we go?

You have the words that give eternal life.

And now we believe and know that you are the only one.

What comes from God?

I chose the twelve of you,

didn't I?

Yet one of you is a devil.

He was talking about Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.

For Judas, even though he was one of the twelve disciples, was going to betray

him.

After this, Jesus traveled in Galilee.

He did not want to travel in Judea because the Jewish authorities there

wanting to kill him.

The time for the festival of shelters was near, so Jesus' brothers said to

leave this place and go to Judea so that your followers will see the things that

you're doing.

People don't hide what they're doing if they want to be well known.

Since you are doing these things, let the whole world know about you.

Not even his brothers believed in him.

The right time for me has not yet come.

Any time is right for you.

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me.

Because I keep telling it that its ways are bad.

You go on to the festival.

I am not going to this festival.

The right time has not come for me.

He said this.

and then stayed on in Galilee.

After his brothers had gone to the festival, Jesus also went.

However, he did not go openly, but secretly.

The Jewish authorities were looking for him at the festival.

Where is he? they asked.

There was much whispering about him in the crowd.

He is a good man, some people said. No, others said, he fools the people.

But no one talked about him openly because they were afraid of the Jewish

authorities.

The festival was nearly half over when Jesus went to the temple and began

teaching.

The Jewish authorities were greatly surprised.

How does this man know so much when he's never been to school?

What I teach is not my own teaching, but it comes from God who sent me.

Whoever is willing to do what God wants will know whether what I teach comes

from God or whether I speak on my own authority.

Those who speak on their own authority are trying to gain glory for themselves.

But he who wants glory for the one who sent him is honest.

And there is nothing false in him.

Moses gave you the law, didn't he?

But not one of you obeys the law.

Why are you trying to kill me?

You have a demon in you.

Who is trying to kill you?

I performed one miracle.

And you were all surprised.

Moses ordered you to circumcise your sons.

Although it was not Moses, but your ancestors who started it.

And so you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath.

If a boy is circumcised on the Sabbath so that Moses' law is not broken, why

you angry with me?

Because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath.

Stop judging by external standards.

and judged by true standards.

Some of the people of Jerusalem said, Isn't this the man the authorities are

trying to kill?

Look, he is talking in public, and they say nothing against him.

Can it be that they really know that he is the Messiah?

But when the Messiah comes, no one will know where he is from.

And we all know where this man comes from.

As Jesus taught in the temple, he said in a loud voice, Do you really know me

and know where I am from?

I have not come on my own authority.

He who sent me, however, is truthful.

You do not know him, but I know him, because I come from him, and he sent me.

Then they tried to seize him.

No one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

But many in the crowd believed in him. When the Messiah comes, will he perform

more miracles than this man has?

The Pharisees heard the crowd whispering these things about

Jesus.

So they and the chief priests sent some guards to arrest him.

I shall be with you a little while longer.

And then I shall go away to him who sent me.

You will look for me, but you will not find me.

Because you cannot go where I will be.

The Jewish authorities said among themselves...

Where is he about to go so that we shall not find him?

Will he go to the Greek cities where our people live and teach the Greeks?

He says that we will look for him, but will not find him,

and that we cannot go where he will be.

What does he mean?

On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and said in

loud voice, Whoever is thirsty, They should come to me, and whoever believes

me should drink.

As the scripture says, streams of life -giving water will pour out from his

side. Jesus said this about the spirit which those who believed in him were

going to receive.

At that time, the spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not been

raised to glory.

Some of the people in the crowd heard him say this.

This man is really the prophet.

The Messiah will not come from Galilee.

The scripture says that the Messiah will be a descendant of King David and will

be born in Bethlehem, the town where David lived.

So there was a division in the crowd because of Jesus.

Some wanted to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him.

When the guards went back, the chief priests and Pharisees asked them,

Why did you not bring him?

Nobody has ever talked the way this man does.

Did he fool you, too?

Have you ever known one of the authorities or one Pharisee to believe

This crowd does not know the law of Moses.

So they are under God's curse.

One of the Pharisees there was Nicodemus.

the man who had gone to see Jesus before.

According to our law, we cannot condemn people before hearing them and finding

out what they have done.

Well, are you also from Galilee?

Study the scriptures, and you will learn that no prophet ever comes from

Galilee.

Then everyone went home, but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

Early the next morning, he went back to the temple.

All the people gathered round him, and he sat down and began to teach them.

The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman who had

committing adultery, and they made her stand before them all.

Teacher!

This woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery.

In our law, Moses commanded that such a woman must be stoned to death.

Now what do you say?

They said this to trap Jesus so that they could accuse him.

But he bent over and wrote on the ground with his finger.

As they stood there asking him questions, he straightened up.

Whichever one of you has committed no sin may throw the first stone at her.

Then he bent over again and wrote on the ground.

When they heard this, they all left, one by one, the older ones first.

Jesus was left alone with the woman still standing there.

He straightened up.

Where are they?

Is there no one left to condemn you?

No one, sir.

I do not condemn you either.

Go.

But do not sin again.

Jesus spoke to the Pharisees again.

I am the light of the world.

Whoever follows me will have the light of life and will never walk in darkness.

Now you are testifying on your own behalf.

What you say proves nothing.

No.

Even though I do testify on my own behalf, what I say is true.

Because I know where I came from and where I am going.

You do not know where I came from or where I am going.

You make judgments in a purely human way.

I pass judgment on no one.

But if I were to do so, my judgment would be true.

Because I am not alone in this.

The Father who sent me is with me.

It is written in your law that when two witnesses agree, what they say is true.

I testify on my own behalf, and the Father who sent me also testifies.

Where is your father?

You know neither me nor my father.

If you knew me, you would know my father also.

Jesus said all this as he taught in the temple, in the room where the offering

boxes were placed.

And no one arrested him, because his hour had not come.

I will go away. You will look for me.

But you will die in your sins.

You cannot go where I am going.

He says that we cannot go where he is going.

Does this mean that he will kill himself?

You belong to this world here below, but I come from above.

You are from this world, but I am not from this world.

That is why I told you that you will die in your sins.

And you will die in your sins if you do not believe that I am who I am.

Much to condemn you for.

The one who sent me, however, is truthful.

And I tell the world only what I have heard from him.

They did not understand that Jesus was talking to them about the Father.

When you lift up the Son of Man, you will know that I am who I am.

Then you will know that I do nothing on my own authority.

But I say only what the Father has instructed me to say.

And he who sent me is with me.

He has not left me alone.

Because I always do what pleases him.

Many who heard Jesus say these things believed in him.

If you obey my teaching, you are really my disciple.

You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.

We are the descendants of Abraham, and we have never been anybody's slaves.

What do you mean, then, by saying you will be free? I am telling you the

Everyone who sins is a slave of sin.

A slave does not belong to a family permanently, but a son belongs there

forever.

If the son sets you free, then you will be really free.

I know you are Abraham's descendants, yet you are trying to kill me because

will not accept my teaching.

I talk about what my father has shown me.

But you do what your father has told you. My father is Abraham.

If you really were Abraham's children, you would do the same things that he

All I have ever done is to tell you the truth I heard from God, yet you are

trying to kill me.

Abraham did nothing like this.

You were doing what your father did.

God himself is the only father we have, and we are his true children.

If God really were your father, you would love me, because I came from God,

now I am here.

I did not come on my own authority, but he sent me.

Why do you not understand what I say?

It is because you cannot bear to listen to my message.

You are the children of your father, the devil, and you are to follow your

father's desires.

From the very beginning, he was a murderer.

And has never been on the side of truth.

Because there is no truth in him.

When he tells a lie, he is only doing what is natural to him.

Because he is a liar and the father of all lies.

But I tell the truth.

And that is why you do not believe me.

Which one of you can prove that I am guilty of sin?

If I tell the truth, then why do you not believe me?

He who comes from God listens to God's words.

You, however, are not from God, and that is why you will not listen.

Were we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon in you?

I have no demon.

I honor my father, but you dishonor me. I am not seeking honor for myself, but

there is one who is seeking it and who judges in my favor.

I am telling you the truth.

Whoever obeys my teaching will never die.

Now we know for sure that you have a demon.

Abraham died and the prophets died.

Yet you say that whoever obeys your teaching will never die.

Our father Abraham died.

You do not claim to be greater than Abraham, do you? And the prophets also

Who do you think you are?

If I were to honor myself, that honor would be worth nothing.

The one who honors me is my father. The very one you say is your God.

You have never known him, but I know him.

If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you, but I do

know him, and I obey his word.

Your father, Abraham, rejoiced that he was to see the time of my coming.

He saw it and was glad.

You are not even 50 years old, and you have seen Abraham.

Abraham was bold.

But Jesus hid himself and left the temple.

As Jesus was walking along, He saw a man who had

been born blind.

Teacher, whose sin caused him to be born blind?

Was it his own or his parents' sin?

His blindness has nothing to do with his sins or his parents' sins.

He is blind so that God's power might be seen at work in him.

As long as it is they...

He must keep on doing the work of him who sent me.

Night is coming.

And no one can work.

Well, I'm in the world.

I am the light for the world.

After he said this, Jesus spat on the ground and made some mud with the

He rubbed the mud on the man's eyes.

Don't wash your face in the pool of Siloam.

This name means scent.

So the man went, washed his face, and came back, seeing.

His neighbors then, and the people who had seen him begging before this, asked,

Isn't this the man who used to sit and beg?

He is the one.

No, he isn't. He just looks like him.

I am the man.

How is it that you can now see?

The man called Jesus made some mud, rubbed it on my eyes, and told me to go

Shalom and wash my face.

So I went.

And as soon as I watched, I could see.

What is he?

I don't know.

Then they took to the Pharisees, the man who had been blind.

The day that Jesus made the mud and cured him of his blindness was a

The Pharisees then asked the man again how he had received his sight.

He put some mud on my eyes.

I washed my face, and now I can see.

A man who did this cannot be from God, for he does not obey the Sabbath law.

How could a man who is a sinner perform such miracles as these?

And there was division among them.

You say he cured you of your blindness.

Well, what do you say about him?

He is a prophet.

The Jewish authorities, however, were not willing to believe that he had been

blind and could now see until they called his parents.

Is this your son?

You say that he was born blind.

How is it then that he can now see?

We know that he is our son, and we know that he was born blind.

But... We don't know how it is that he is now able to see, nor do we know who

cured him of his blindness.

Ask him.

He is old enough and he can answer for himself.

His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish authorities who had

already agreed that anyone who said he believed that Jesus was the Messiah

be expelled from the synagogue.

That is why his parents said, he is old enough. Ask him.

A second time.

They called back the man who had been born blind.

Promise before God that you will tell the truth.

We know that this man who cured you is a sinner.

I do not know if he is a sinner or not.

One thing I do know.

I was blind.

And now I see.

What did he do to you?

How did he cure you of your blindness?

I have already told you and you would not listen.

Why do you want to hear it again?

Maybe you too would like to be his disciples.

They insulted him and said, You are that fellow's disciple.

But we are Moses' disciples.

We know that God spoke to Moses.

As for that fellow, however, we do not even know where he comes from.

What a strange thing that is.

You do not know where he comes from, but he cured me of my blindness. We know

that God does not listen to sinners.

He does listen to people who respect him and do what he wants them to do.

Since the beginning of the world, nobody has ever heard of anyone giving sight

to a person born blind.

Unless this man came from God, he would not be able to do a thing.

You were born and brought up in sin.

And you are trying to...

And they expelled him from the synagogue.

When Jesus heard what had happened, he found the man.

Do you believe in the Son of Man?

Tell me who he is, sir, so that I can believe in him.

You have already seen him, and he is the one who is talking with you now.

I believe, Lord.

And he knelt down before Jesus.

I came to this world to judge, so that the blind should see, and those who

see should become blind.

Some Pharisees who were there with him heard him say this and asked him, Surely

you don't mean that we are blind to...

If you were blind,

then you would not be guilty.

But since you claim that you can see, this means that you are still guilty.

I am telling you the truth.

The man who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate...

but climbs in some other way as a thief and a robber.

The man who goes in through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.

The gatekeeper opens the gate for him.

The sheep hear his voice as he calls his own sheep by name, and he leads them

out. When he has brought them out, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow

him because they know his voice.

They will not follow someone else.

Instead, they will run away from such a person because they do not know his

voice. Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what he meant.

So Jesus said again, I am telling you the truth.

I am the gate for the sheep.

All others who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did

listen to them. I am the gate.

Those who come in by me will be saved.

They will come in and go out and find pasture. The thief comes only in order

steal, kill, and destroy.

I have come.

In order that you might have life.

Life in all its fullness.

I am the good shepherd who is willing to die for the sheep.

When the hired man, who is not a shepherd and does not own the sheep,

wolf coming, he leaves the sheep and runs away.

So the wolf snatches the sheep and scatters them.

The hired man runs away because he is only a hired man.

As the Father knows me, and I know the Father, in the same way I know my sheep,

and they know me.

And I am willing to die for them.

There are other sheep which belong to me that are not in this sheep pen.

I must bring them too.

They will listen to my voice, and they will become one flock with one shepherd.

The Father loves me.

because I am willing to give up my life in order that I may receive it back

again. No one takes my life away from me.

I give it up of my own free will.

I have the right to give it up, and I have the right to take it back.

This is what my father has commanded me to do.

Again there was division among the people because of these words.

It was winter, and the festival of the dedication of the temple was being

celebrated in Jerusalem.

Jesus was walking in Solomon's porch in the temple when the people gathered

round him.

How long are you going to keep us in suspense?

Tell us the plain truth.

Are you the Messiah?

I have already told you, but you would not believe me.

The deeds I do by my Father's authority speak on my behalf.

You will not believe, for you are not my sheep.

My sheep listen to my voice.

I know them and they follow me. I give them eternal life and they shall never

die.

No one can snatch them away from me.

What my father has given me is greater than everything.

And no one can snatch them away from the father's care.

The father and I are one.

And the people again picked up stones to throw at him.

I have done many

good deeds in your presence, which the Father gave me to do.

For which one of these do you want to stone me?

We do not want to stone you because of any good deeds, but because of your

blasphemy. You're only a man, but you're trying to make yourself God.

It is written in your own law

that God said you are gods.

We know that what the scripture says is true forever.

And God called those people gods.

The people to whom his message was given.

As for me, the Father chose me and sent me into the world.

How then can you say that I blaspheme because I said that I am the Son of God?

Do not believe me then if I am not doing the things my Father wants me to do.

But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, you should at least believe

my deeds in order that you may know.

once and for all, that the Father is in me and that I am in the Father.

Blasphemy!

Blasphemy!

Once more they tried to seize Jesus, but he slipped out of their hands.

Jesus then went back again across the Jordan River to the place where John had

been baptizing, and he stayed there.

Many people came to him.

John performed no miracles, they said, but everything he said about this man

true, and many people there believed in him.

A man named Lazarus, who lived in Bethany, became sick.

Bethany was the town where Mary and her sister Martha lived.

This Mary was the one who poured the perfume on the Lord's feet and wiped

with her hair.

It was her brother, Lazarus, who was sick.

The sisters sent Jesus the message.

Lord, your dear friend is sick.

When Jesus heard it, he said, The final result of this sickness will not be the

death of Lazarus.

This has happened in order to bring glory to God, and it will be the means

which the Son of God will receive glory.

Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

Yet when he received the news that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was

two more days.

Then he said to his disciples, Let us go back to Judea.

Teacher, just a short time ago the people there wanted to stone you. And

planning to go back?

A day has twelve hours, doesn't it?

So those who walk in broad daylight do not stumble, for they see the light of

this world.

But if they walk during the night, they stumble because they have no light.

Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep.

But I will go and wake him up.

If he is asleep, Lord, he will get well.

Jesus meant that Lazarus had died, but they thought he meant natural sleep. So

Jesus told them plainly.

Lazarus is dead.

But for your sake, I am glad that I was not with him, so that you will believe.

Let us go to him.

Thomas, called the twin, said to his fellow disciples, Let us all go along

the teacher, so that we may die with him.

When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had been buried four days

Bethany was less than two miles from Jerusalem, and many Judeans had come to

Martha and Mary to comfort them about their brother's death.

When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him.

But Mary stayed in the house.

If you had been here, Lord, my brother would not have died.

But I know that even now, God will give you whatever you ask him for.

Your brother will rise to life.

I know that he will rise to life on the last day.

I am the resurrection and the life.

Those who believe in me will live, even though they die.

And those who live and believe in me will never die.

Do you believe this?

Yes, Lord.

I do believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, who is to come into the

world.

After Martha said this, she went back and called her sister Mary privately.

The teacher is here.

And is asking for you.

When Mary heard this, she got up and hurried out to meet him.

Jesus had not yet arrived in the village, but was still in the place

Martha had met him.

The people who were in the house with Mary, comforting her, followed her when

they saw her get up and hurry out.

They thought that she was going to the grave to weep there.

Mary arrived where Jesus was, and as soon as she saw him, she fell at his

Lord, if you

had been here, my brother would not have died.

Jesus saw her weeping.

and he saw how the people with her were weeping also.

His heart was touched, and he was deeply moved.

Where have you buried him?

Come and see, Lord.

Jesus wept.

See how much he loved him, the people said.

But some of them said, he gave sight to the blind man, didn't he?

Could he not have kept Lazarus from dying?

Deeply moved once more, Jesus went to the tomb, which was a cave with a stone

placed at the entrance.

Take the stone away.

There will be a bath now, Lord.

He has been buried four days.

Didn't I tell you that you would see God's glory if you believed?

Jesus looked up.

I thank you, Father, that you listen to me.

I know that you always listen to me.

But I say this for the sake of the people here, so that they will believe

you sent me.

After he had said this, he called out in a loud voice,

Come out!

He came out.

His hands and feet wrapped in grave clothes.

and with a cloth round his face.

Untie him, and let him go.

Many of the people who had come to visit Mary saw what Jesus did, and they

believed in him.

But some of them returned to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had

So the Pharisees and the chief priests met with the council and said, What

we do?

Look at all the miracles this man is performing.

If we let him go on in this way, everyone will believe in him.

The Roman authorities will take action and destroy our temple and our nation.

One of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said, What fools

are!

Don't you realize that it is better for you to have let one man die for the

people instead of having the whole nation destroyed?

Actually, he did not say this of his own accord.

Rather... As he was high priest that year, he was prophesying that Jesus was

going to die for the Jewish people, and not only for them, but also to bring

together into one body all the scattered people of God.

From that day on, the Jewish authorities made plans to kill Jesus.

So Jesus did not travel openly in Judea, but left and went to a place near the

desert, to a town named Ephraim.

where he stayed with his disciples.

The time for the Passover festival was near, and many people went up from the

country to Jerusalem to perform the ritual of purification before the

They were looking for Jesus, and as they gathered in the temple, they asked one

another, What do you think?

Surely he will not come to the festival, will he?

The chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders.

But if anyone knew where Jesus was, he must report it, so that they could

him.