Gospel of John Translation

The Gospel According to Saint John

1:1 At the commencement was the Word, and the Word existed alongside God, and the Word was indeed divine.
1:2 This very Word was present with God at the commencement.
1:3 Through Him, all things came into existence; and apart from Him, nothing that exists came to be.
1:4 In Him was life, and this life was the illumination of humankind.
1:5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overwhelmed it.
1:6 A man named John was dispatched by God.
1:7 He came as a witness, to testify about the Light, so that everyone might believe through him.
1:8 He was not the Light, but came to testify about the Light.
1:9 The true Light, which enlightens every person, was coming 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 His own, and His own people did not accept Him.
1:12 But to all who did receive Him, who believed in His name, He granted the right to become children of God.
1:13 These children were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
1:14 And the Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw His glory, the glory of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.
1:15 John testified concerning Him. He cried out, saying, “This is the one I spoke of: ‘He who comes after me surpasses me because He was before me.'”
1:16 From His fullness, we have all received grace upon grace.
1:17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
1:18 No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, He has made Him known.
1:19 This is John’s testimony when the Jews of Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him who he was.
1:20 He confessed and did not deny; he confessed, “I am not the Christ.”
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 They said to him, “Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”
1:23 He said, “I am a voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as the prophet Isaiah said.”
1:24 Now the Pharisees who had been sent
1:25 questioned him, “Why then do you baptize if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah,
1:26 John answered them, “I baptize with water, but among you stands One you do not know.
1:27 He is the One who comes after me, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.”
1:28 All this occurred in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
1:29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and declared, “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 comes after me who surpasses 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 descending from heaven like a dove, and it remained 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 descend and remain is the One who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.’
1:34 I have seen and I testify that this is God’s Chosen One.”
1:35 The following day John was again standing 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 are you seeking?” 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 they 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” (which is translated 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).
1:43 The next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. Finding Philip, He said to him, “Follow me.”
1:44 Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.
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 truly is an Israelite in whom there is no deceit.
1:48 Nathanael asked Him, “How do you know me?” Jesus answered, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”
1:49 Nathanael declared, “Rabbi, You are the Son of God; You are the King of Israel.”
1:50 Jesus said, “You believe because I told you I saw you under the fig tree. You will see greater things than that.”
1:51 He then added, “Truly, truly, I tell you, you will see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon 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 “Woman, why do you involve me?” Jesus replied. “My hour 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.
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. 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 What Jesus did here in Cana of Galilee was the first of the signs through which He revealed His glory; and His disciples believed in Him.
2:12 After this, He went down to Capernaum with His mother, His 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 people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money.
2:15 And so it came to pass, when he had fashioned a whip of small cords, he expelled them all from the temple, along with the sheep and the cattle; he scattered the money of the changers and upturned their tables;
2:16 And unto those who sold doves he declared, “Remove these hence; turn not my Father’s house into a house of commerce.”
2:17 His disciples recalled the scripture: “Passion for your house will consume me.”
2:18 The Jews then responded, asking him, “What sign can you show us, given these actions of yours?”
2:19 Jesus replied, “Demolish this temple, and in three days, I shall restore it.”
2:20 The Jews retorted, “Forty-six years it took to construct this temple, and you’ll rebuild it in three days?”
2:21 However, he spoke of the temple of his body.
2:22 After he rose from the dead, his disciples remembered these words; they believed the scripture and the words Jesus had spoken.
2:23 While he was in Jerusalem during the Passover festival, many believed in his name, witnessing the signs he was performing.
2:24 But Jesus did not fully trust them, for he knew all people,
2:25 And he did not need anyone to testify about human nature; he himself understood it well.
3:1 Among the Pharisees there was a man named Nicodemus, a leader among the Jews.
3:2 This man approached Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we recognize that you are a teacher sent by God, for no one could perform these signs you do unless God were with him.”
3:3 Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
3:4 Nicodemus questioned, “How can a person be born when they are old? Surely they cannot enter their mother’s womb a second time to be born!”
3:5 Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
3:7 Do not be astonished when I say to you, ‘You must be born anew.’
3:8 The wind blows where it pleases, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”
3:9 Nicodemus inquired, “How can these things be?”
3:10 Jesus responded, “You are Israel’s teacher and yet you do not understand these things?
3:11 Truly, truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know and bear witness to what we have seen, yet you do not receive our testimony.
3:12 If I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you of heavenly things?
3:13 No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man who is in heaven.
3:14 Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must
the Son of Man be lifted up,
3:15 so that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.
3:16 For God loved the world so deeply that he gave his only begotten Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but have eternal life.
3:17 Indeed, God sent not his Son into the world to condemn it, but that through him, the world might be saved.
3:18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because they have not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
3:19 And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.
3:20 For everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.
3:21 But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.
3:22 After this, Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside, where he remained with them and baptized.
3:23 John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming and being baptized
3:24 (for John had not yet been put in prison).
3:25 Now a discussion arose between some of John’s disciples and a Jew over purification.
3:26 And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you across the Jordan, to whom you bore witness—look, he is baptizing, and all are going to him.”
3:27 John answered, “A person cannot receive even one thing unless it is given him from heaven.
3:28 You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, ‘I am not the Christ, but I have been sent before him.’
3:29 The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom’s voice. Therefore this joy of mine is now complete.
3:30 He must increase, but I must decrease.”
3:31 He who comes from above is above all. He who is of the earth belongs to the earth and speaks in an earthly way. He who comes from heaven is above all.
3:32 He bears witness to what he
has seen and heard, yet no one accepts his testimony.
3:33 Whoever has accepted his testimony has certified that God is truthful.
3:34 For he whom God has sent utters the words of God, for he gives the Spirit without measure.
3:35 The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hand.
3:36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.
4:1 When Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that he was making and baptizing more disciples than John
4:2 (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but his disciples did),
4:3 he left Judea and departed again for Galilee.
4:4 And he had to pass through Samaria.
4:5 So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
4:6 Jacob’s well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.
4:7 A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.”
4:8 (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.)
4:9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
4:10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
4:11 The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water?
4:12 Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.”
4:13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again,
4:14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will 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 will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”
4:16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”
4:17 The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’;
4:18 for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.”
4:19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.
4:20 “Our ancestors worshipped on this mountain, but you claim that Jerusalem is the place where one must worship.”
4:21 Jesus replied, “My dear woman, believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.”
4:22 “You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation comes from the Jews.”
4:23 “Yet a time is approaching, indeed it’s here now, when true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for these are the kind of worshippers the Father seeks.”
4:24 “God is spirit, and his worshippers must worship in spirit and in truth.”
4:25 The woman said to him, “I’m aware that the Messiah, called Christ, is coming; when he arrives, he’ll explain everything to us.”
4:26 Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking 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 Messiah?”
4:30 They left 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 complete his work.”
4:35 “Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.”
4:36 “Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a 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 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 Festival, 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 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 “Go,” Jesus replied, “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, “Yesterday at one in the afternoon the fever left him.”
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 his whole household believed.
4:54 This was the second sign Jesus performed after coming from Judea to Galilee.
5:1 After this, there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
5:2 Now in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate there is a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda 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.
5:4 For an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool and stirred up the water; whoever then first, after the stirring up of the water, stepped in was made well from whatever disease with which he was afflicted.
5:5 One who had been there, 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 The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; while I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”
5:8 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 man 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 they tried all the more 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: “Very truly I tell you, 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, and he will show him even greater works than these, so that you will be amazed.
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. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him.
5:24 “Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life.
5:25 Very truly I tell you, 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 also 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 what is good will rise to live, and those who have done what is 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 true.
5:32 There is another who testifies in my favor,
and I know that his testimony about me is true.
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 works that the Father has given me to finish—the very works that I am doing—testify 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 study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me,
5:40 yet you refuse to come to me to have life.
5:41 “I do not accept glory from human beings,
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 since you accept glory from one another but do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?
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 Sometime 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 signs he had performed by healing the sick.
6:3 Then Jesus went up on a mountainside and sat down with his disciples.
6:4 The Jewish Passover Festival 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, “It would take more than half a year’s wages to 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 they sat down (about five thousand men were there).
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 sign Jesus performed, 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 about three or four miles, they saw Jesus approaching the boat, walking on the water; and they were frightened.
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 On the morrow, the crowd that remained on the far side of the sea realised that only one boat had been there, and Jesus had not embarked with his disciples, for they had departed alone.
6:23 However, other boats arrived from Tiberias near the place where they had eaten bread after the Lord had given thanks.
6:24 Seeing neither Jesus nor his disciples, the people boarded the boats and sailed to Capernaum in search of Jesus.
6:25 Having found him across the sea, they enquired, “Rabbi, when did you arrive here?”
6:26 Jesus responded, “Truly, I tell you, you seek me not for witnessing the signs, but because you ate the loaves and were satisfied.
6:27 Strive not for perishable sustenance, but for the sustenance that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will grant you, for God the Father has set His seal upon him.”
6:28 They asked him, “What must we do to perform the works of God?”
6:29 Jesus answered, “The work of God is to believe in the one He has sent.”
6:30 They then queried, “What sign can you show, that we may see and believe you? What work do you perform?
6:31 Our ancestors ate manna in the wilderness, as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”
6:32 Jesus declared, “Truly, I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.
6:33 For the bread of God is that which descends from heaven and gives life to the world.”
6:34 They implored him, “Lord, always give us this bread.”
6:35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.
6:36 But I told you that even though you have seen me,
you do not believe.
6:37 Everyone the Father gives me will come to me, and I will never reject anyone who comes to me.
6:38 For I descended from heaven not to follow my own will, but the will of Him who sent me.
6:39 And this is the will of the One who sent me, that I should lose none of those He has given me, but resurrect them on the last day.
6:40 For it is my Father’s will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day.”
6:41 The Jews then grumbled 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 does he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”
6:43 Jesus answered them, “Stop grumbling among yourselves.
6:44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day.
6:45 It is written in the Prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from Him comes to me.
6:46 Not that anyone has seen the Father, except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father.
6:47 Truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.
6:48 I am the bread of life.
6:49 Your ancestors ate manna in the wilderness, yet they died.
6:50 This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.
6:51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, they will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”
6:52 The Jews then argued among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
6:53 Jesus said to them, “Truly, I tell you, 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 them up on the last day.
6:55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.
6:56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them.
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. It is not like the bread the ancestors ate; they died. But whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.”
6:59 He said these things 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 Then 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—they are full of the Spirit and 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 them.”
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 have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.”
6:70 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 these events, Jesus travelled in Galilee, for he did not wish to journey in Judea because the Jews sought to kill him.
7:2 Now, the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near.
7:3 His brothers then said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea, so that your disciples too can see the deeds you’re accomplishing.
7:4 No one does anything in secret while seeking public recognition. If you do these things, make yourself known to the world.”
7:5 For even his own brothers did not believe in him.
7:6 Jesus replied, “My time has not yet arrived, but your time is always opportune.
7:7 The world cannot hate you; but it hates me because I testify that its works are evil.
7:8 You go up to the festival. I am not yet going up to this festival, for my time has not fully come.”
7:9 After saying this, he remained in Galilee.
7:10 But after his brothers had gone to the festival, then he also went, not publicly, but in secret.
7:11 The Jews were looking for him at the festival and asking, “Where is he?”
7:12 There was considerable murmuring about him among the crowds. Some said, “He is a good man,” while others said, “No, he deceives the people.”
7:13 Yet no one spoke openly about him for fear of the Jews.
7:14 About halfway through the festival, Jesus went up to the temple and began to teach.
7:15 The Jews were astonished and said, “How does this man have such learning, having never been taught?”
7:16 Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not my own but comes from the one who sent me.
7:17 If anyone is willing to do His will, he will know whether my teaching is from God or whether I speak on my own.
7:18 Whoever speaks on their own authority seeks their own glory; but the one seeking the glory of the one who sent him is true, and there is nothing false in him.
7:19 Didn’t Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill me?”
7:20 The crowd answered, “You are possessed by a demon. Who is trying to kill you?”
7:21 Jesus replied, “I performed one miracle, and you are all astonished.
7:22 Yet, because Moses gave you circumcision (though it actually did not come from Moses but from the patriarchs), you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.
7:23 If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, why are you angry with me for healing a man’s whole body on the Sabbath?
7:24 Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.”
7:25 Some of the people of Jerusalem began to say, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?
7:26 Yet here he is, speaking openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Messiah?
7:27 But we know where this man is from; when the Messiah comes, no one will know where he is from.”
7:28 Then Jesus cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, “You both know me, and you know where I am from. I have not come on my own, but the one who sent me is true, whom you do not know.
7:29 I know him, for I come from him, and he sent me.”
7:30 So they were seeking to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him because his hour had not yet come.
7:31 Many in the crowd believed in him and said, “When the Messiah comes, will he perform more signs than this man has done?”
7:32 The Pharisees heard the crowd whispering such
things about him, so the chief priests and Pharisees sent temple guards to arrest him.
7:33 Jesus then said, “I am only with you for a short time, and then I will 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 will not find him? Will he go to the dispersed among the Greeks and teach the Greeks?
7:36 What does he mean by saying, ‘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 festival, 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 Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”
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 Messiah.” Still others asked, “How can the Messiah come from Galilee?
7:42 Does not Scripture say that the Messiah will come from David’s descendants 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 hands 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 The guards replied, “No one ever spoke the way this man does.”
7:47 The Pharisees retorted, “Are you also deceived?
7:48 Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed in him?
7:49 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 a man without first hearing him to find out what he has been doing?”
7:52 They replied, “Are you from Galilee, too? Look into it, and you will find that a prophet does not come out of Galilee.”
7:53 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, “Let any one of you who is without sin 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.”
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 true, 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 witnesses is true.
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?” Jesus answered, “You do not know me or my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”
8:20 He spoke these words while teaching in the temple courts near the place where the offerings were put. Yet no one seized him, because his hour 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 he, you will indeed die in your sins.”
8:25 “Who are you?” they asked. “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning,” Jesus replied.
8:26 “I have much to say in judgment of you. But he who sent me is trustworthy, 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 he 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 As he spoke these words, many believed 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 And you shall recognise the truth, and the truth shall set you free.
8:33 They retorted, “We are descendants of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How can you claim, ‘You will be set free’?”
8:34 Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, anyone who commits sin is a slave to sin.
8:35 The slave does not remain in the household forever; however, the Son remains forever.
8:36 Therefore, if the Son liberates you, you will be truly free.
8:37 I am aware that you are descendants of Abraham; yet you seek to kill me, as my teachings find no resonance in you.
8:38 I speak of what I have witnessed with my Father, and you act according to what you have seen with your father.”
8:39 They responded, “Abraham is our father.” Jesus said to them, “If you were truly Abraham’s children, you would emulate Abraham’s deeds.
8:40 Yet here you are, trying to kill me, a man who has spoken the truth to you as I heard it from God. Abraham did not do such things.
8:41 You are doing your father’s deeds.” They said to him, “We were not born of immorality; we have one Father, even God.”
8:42 Jesus declared, “If God were truly your Father, you would love me, for I came forth from God and am here. I have not come of my own accord, but He sent me.
8:43 Why don’t you understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word.
8:44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you willingly carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and has never stood in the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, 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 Which of you can convict me of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don’t you believe me?
8:47 Whoever belongs to God listens to God’s words; the reason you do not listen is that you do not belong to God.”
8:48 The Jews replied, “Aren’t we right in saying that you are a Samaritan and demon-possessed?”
8:49 Jesus answered, “I am not demon-possessed; instead, I honour my Father, and you dishonour me.
8:50 I am not seeking glory for myself; but there is one who seeks it, and he is the judge.
8:51 Truly, truly, I tell you, if anyone keeps my word, they will never experience death.”
8:52 The Jews said to him, “Now we are certain that you are demon-possessed. Abraham and the prophets died, yet you claim, ‘Whoever keeps my word will never taste death.’
8:53 Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? And the prophets died too. Who do you think you are?”
8:54 Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’
8:55 Yet you have not known Him, but I know Him. If I were to say I do not know Him, I would be a liar like you, but I do know Him and keep His word.
8:56 Your father Abraham exulted in the prospect of seeing my day; he saw it and was delighted.”
8:57 The Jews then said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?”
8:58 Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am.”
8:59 At this, they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus concealed himself and departed from the temple, passing through their midst.
9:1 As Jesus passed by, 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 Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him.
9:4 We must do the works of Him who sent me while it is day; night is coming when no one can work.
9:5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
9:6 Having said these things, he spat on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he anointed the man’s eyes with the mud
9:7 and said to him, “Go, wash in the Pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). So he went and washed, and came back seeing.
9:8 The neighbours and those who had seen him before as a beggar were saying, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?”
9:9 Some said, “It is he.” Others said, “No, but he is like him.” He kept saying, “I am the man.”
9:10 So they said to him, “Then how were your eyes opened?”
9:11 He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud and anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed and received my sight.”
9:12 They asked him, “Where is he?” He said, “I do not know.”
9:13 They brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind.
9:14 Now it was a Sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.
9:15 Then the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.”
9:16 Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath.” But others said, “How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?” And there was a division among them.
9:17 So they said again to the blind man, “What do you say about him, since he has opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet.”
9:18 The Jews did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight
9:19 and asked them, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”
9:20 His parents answered, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.
9:21 But how he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he is of age. He will speak for himself.”
9:22 His parents said these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed Jesus to be Christ, he was to be put out of the synagogue.
9:23 Therefore his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”
9:24 So for the second time they called the man who had been blind and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”
9:25 He answered, “Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.”
9:26 They said to him again, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”
9:27 He answered them, “I have told you already, and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?”
9:28 And they reviled him, saying, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.
9:29 We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where he comes from.”
9:30 The man answered, “Why, this is an astonishing thing! You do not know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes.
9:31 We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshipper of God and does His will, God listens to him.
9:32 Never since the world began has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind.
9:33 If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”
9:34 They answered him, “You were born entirely in sins, and are you teaching us?” And they cast him out.
9:35 Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of God?”
9:36 He answered, “And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?”
9:37 Jesus said to him, “You have seen him, and it is he who is speaking with you.”
9:38 He said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshipped him.
9:39 Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.”
9:40 Some of the Pharisees near him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”
9:41 Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no guilt; but now that you say, ‘We see,’ your guilt remains.
10:1 Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber.
10:2 But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
10:3 To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
10:4 When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.
10:5 A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.”
10:6 This figure of speech Jesus used with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.
10:7 So Jesus again said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.
10:8 All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.
10:9 I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.
10:10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
10:11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
10:12 He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them.
10:13 He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.
10:14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own 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 And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.
10:17 For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may 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 I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father.”
10:19 There was again a division among the Jews because of these words.
10:20 Many of them said, “He has a demon, and is insane; why listen to him?”
10:21 Others said, “These are not the words of one who is oppressed by a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”
10:22 Now it was the Feast of Dedication at Jerusalem. It was winter,
10:23 and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the colonnade of Solomon.
10:24 So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”
10:25 Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name bear witness about me,
10:26 but you do not believe because you are not among my sheep.
10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
10:28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
10:29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.
10:30 I and the Father are one.”
10:31 The Jews picked up stones again to stone him.
10:32 Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?”
10:33 The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.”
10:34 Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’?
10:35 If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be annulled—10:36 how can you say of the one whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?
10:37 If I do not do the works of my Father, do not believe me;
10:38 but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.”
10:39 Again they sought to arrest him, but he escaped from their hands.
10:40 He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and there he remained.
10:41 And many came to him. And they said, “John did no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true.”
10:42 And many believed in him there.
11:1 Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
11:2 It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill.
11:3 So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.”
11:4 But when Jesus heard it he said, “This illness does not lead to death. It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”
11:5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
11:6 So, when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was.
11:7 Then after this he said to the disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.”
11:8 The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just now seeking to stone you, and are you going there again?”
11:9 Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
11:10 But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”
11:11 After saying these things, he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go to awaken him.”
11:12 The disciples said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”
11:13 Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he meant taking rest in sleep.
11:14 Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus has died,
11:15 and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”
11:16 So Thomas, called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with him.”
11:17 Now when Jesus came, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days.
11:18 Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles off,
11:19 and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them concerning their brother.
11:20 Martha, upon hearing of Jesus’ approach, hurried out to meet Him, whilst Mary remained seated within their home.
11:21 Martha then spoke to Jesus, saying, “My Lord, had You been here, my brother would not have passed away.”
11:22 Yet she expressed belief, “Even now, I know that whatever You request of God, He will grant You.”
11:23 Jesus assured her, “Your brother will rise again.”
11:24 Martha replied, “I am aware he will rise in the resurrection at the end of days.”
11:25 Jesus declared to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me will live, even if he dies;
11:26 and whoever lives and believes in Me will never perish. Do you believe this?”
11:27 She answered, “Yes, Lord, I believe You are the Messiah, the Son of God, who is to come into the world.”
11:28 Having said this, she went to summon her sister Mary, discreetly saying, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.”
11:29 As soon as Mary heard this, she quickly got up and went to Him.
11:30 Jesus had not yet entered the village but was still at the place where Martha had met Him.
11:31 The Jews who were comforting her in the house, seeing Mary get up quickly and go out, followed her, thinking she was going to the tomb to weep.
11:32 When Mary arrived where Jesus was and saw Him, she fell at His feet, saying, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.”
11:33 Upon seeing her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, Jesus was deeply moved in spirit and troubled.
11:34 He asked, “Where have you laid him?” They told Him, “Lord, come and see.”
11:35 Jesus wept.
11:36 Then the Jews said, “See how much He loved him!”
11:37 But some remarked, “Could not He who opened the eyes of the blind man have prevented this man’s death?”
11:38 Jesus, once more deeply moved, went to the tomb, which was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.
11:39 He instructed, “Remove the stone.” Martha, the deceased’s sister, said to Him, “Lord, by now there will be an odor, for he has been dead four days.”
11:40 Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believe, you would see the glory of God?”
11:41 So they took away the stone. Jesus looked upward and said, “Father, I thank You for hearing Me.
11:42 I knew You always hear Me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe You sent Me.”
11:43 After saying this, He shouted with 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 instructed them, “Unbind him and let him go.”
11:45 Consequently, many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary and had seen what Jesus did, believed in Him.
11:46 But some of them went to the Pharisees and reported what Jesus had done.
11:47 Therefore, the chief priests and the Pharisees convened a council and said, “What are we accomplishing? This man is performing many signs.
11:48 If we let Him go on like this, everyone will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”
11:49 But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all,
11:50 nor do you take into account that it is better
for you that one man should die for the people, and not that the whole nation should perish.”
11:51 He did not say this on his own, but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was to die for the nation,
11:52 and not only for that nation, but also to gather into one the scattered children of God.
11:53 From that day on, they plotted to take His life.
11:54 As a result, Jesus no longer moved about publicly among the Jews. Instead, He withdrew to a region near the wilderness, to a village called Ephraim, where He stayed with His disciples.
11:55 The Jewish Passover was near, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover to purify themselves.
11:56 They kept looking for Jesus and as they stood in the temple courts, they asked one another, “Do you think He will not come to the festival?”
11:57 The chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where Jesus was should report it, so they might arrest Him.
12:1 Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom He had raised from the dead.
12:2 There 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 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.”
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 believing in Him.
12:12 The next day the great crowd that had come for the festival heard that Jesus was on His way to Jerusalem.
12:13 They took palm branches and went out to meet Him, shouting, “Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the King of Israel!”
12:14 Jesus, finding a young donkey, sat on it, as it is written,
12:15 “Do not be afraid, Daughter Zion; see, your King is coming, seated on a donkey’s colt.”
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 these things had been done 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 performed this 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 festival.
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 Very truly I tell you, 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 Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their 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 soul 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 And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people 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 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 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. Whoever walks in the dark does not know where they are going.
12:36 Believe in the light while you have the light, so that you may become children of light.” After Jesus had said this, He departed and hid Himself from them.
12:37 Even though He had performed so many signs in their presence, they still did not believe in Him.
12:38 Thus was fulfilled the word of Isaiah the prophet, who said, “O Lord, who has heeded our message? To whom has the Lord’s might been unveiled?”
12:39 Therefore, belief eluded them, as Isaiah again proclaimed,
12:40 “He has veiled their eyes and hardened their hearts, lest they see with their eyes, understand with their hearts, and turn, so I might heal them.”
12:41 Isaiah said these things when he beheld His splendour and spoke of Him.
12:42 Yet, even among the leading authorities, many believed in Him; but they did not confess Him for fear of the Pharisees, lest they be expelled from the synagogue.
12:43 For they treasured the acclaim of people more than the praise of God.
12:44 Jesus declared loudly, “Whoever believes in me, believes not only in me but also in Him who sent me.
12:45 And he who sees me, sees Him who sent me.
12:46 I have come as light into the world, so that everyone who believes in me may not remain in darkness.
12:47 If anyone hears my words and does not believe, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save it.
12:48 He who rejects me and does not receive my words, has a judge; the word I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
12:49 For I have not spoken on my own authority; the Father who sent me commanded me what to say and speak.
12:50 And I know that His commandment is eternal life. Whatever I say, therefore, I say as the Father has told me.”
13:1 Before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that His hour had come to leave this world for the Father, having loved His own in the world, loved them to the end.
13:2 During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray Him,
13:3 Jesus, aware that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was returning to God,
13:4 rose from supper, laid aside His garments, and took a towel and tied it around Himself.
13:5 Then He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe 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 answered him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand.”
13:8 Peter said to Him, “You shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.”
13:9 Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!”
13:10 Jesus said to him, “One who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean, but not every one of you.”
13:11 For He knew who was to betray Him; that was why He said, “Not all of you are clean.”
13:12 After He had washed their feet, put on His garments, and resumed His place, He said to them, “Do you understand what I have done for you?
13:13 You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am.
13:14 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.
13:15 For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you.
13:16 Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.
13:17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
13:18 I am not speaking of all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But the Scripture will be fulfilled, ‘He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.’
13:19 I am telling you this now, before it takes place, that when it does take place you may believe that I am He.
13:20 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever receives the one I send receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.”
13:21 After saying these things, Jesus was troubled in spirit, and testified, “Truly, truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me.”
13:22 The disciples looked at one another, uncertain of whom He spoke.
13:23 One of His disciples, whom Jesus loved, was reclining at table close to Jesus,
13:24 so Simon Peter motioned to him to ask Jesus of whom He was speaking.
13:25 So that disciple, leaning back against Jesus, said to Him, “Lord, who is it?”
13:26 Jesus answered, “It is he to whom I will give this morsel of bread when I have dipped it.” So when He had dipped the morsel, He gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.
13:27 Then after the morsel, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him, “What you are going to do, do quickly.”
13:28 Now no one at the table knew why He said this to him.
13:29 Some thought that, because Judas had the money bag, Jesus was telling him, “Buy what we need for the feast,” or that he should give something to the poor.
13:30 So, after receiving the morsel of bread, he immediately went out. And it was night.
13:31 When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in Him.
13:32 If God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself and glorify Him at once.
13:33 Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek me, and just as I said to the Jews, so now I say to you, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’
13:34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
13:35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
13:36 Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, where are you going?” Jesus answered him, “Where I am going you cannot follow me now, but you will follow afterward.”
13:37 Peter said to Him, “Lord, why can I not follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.”
13:38 Jesus answered, “Will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly, I say to you, the rooster will not crow till you have denied me three times.
14:1 Let not your heart be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.
14:2 In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?
14:3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
14:4 And you know the way to where I am going.”
14:5 Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?”
14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
14:7 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know Him and have seen Him.”
14:8 Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.”
14:9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
14:10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does His works.
14:11 Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves.
14:12 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.
14:13 Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14:14 If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.
14:15 If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
14:16 And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,
14:17 Indeed, the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot welcome, for it neither sees nor knows him: but you recognise him; for he resides with you, and will be within you.
14:18 I shall not leave you bereft: I shall come to you.
14:19 Presently, the world will no longer behold me; but you will see me: because I live, you too shall live.
14:20 On that day, you will understand that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
14:21 Whoever possesses and obeys my commandments, it is they who love me: and those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them.
14:22 Judas (not Iscariot) asked, Lord, how will you reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?
14:23 Jesus replied, If a person loves me, they will heed my word: and my Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.
14:24 Those who do not love me do not heed my teachings: and the teaching you hear is not mine, but belongs to the Father who sent me.
14:25 These things I have told you while still with you.
14:26 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and 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 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 rejoice 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 say much more to you, for the prince of this world is coming. He has no hold over me,
14:31 but he comes so that the world may learn that I love the Father and 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 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, as I also 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 you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
15:6 If you do not remain in me, you are 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 done for 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 keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept 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: to lay down one’s life for one’s 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 so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.
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 what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ 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; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
15:23 Whoever hates me hates my Father as well.
15:24 If I had not done among them the works no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. As it is, they have seen, 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.’
15:26 When the Advocate 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 fall away.
16:2 They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are 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 their time comes you will remember that I warned you about them. I did not tell you this from the beginning because I was with you,
16:5 but now I am going to him who sent me. None of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’
16:6 Rather, you are filled with grief because I have said these things.
16:7 But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.
16:8 When he comes, he will prove the world wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment:
16:9 About sin, because people do not believe in me;
16:10 About righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer;
16:11 And about 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 the 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 glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you.
16:15 All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make 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 Very truly I tell you, 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. Very truly I tell you, 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 “Do you now believe?” Jesus replied.
16:32 “A time is coming and in fact has come when you will be scattered, each to your 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 hour 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 know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
17:4 I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do.
17:5 And now, O Father, honour thou me within thine own essence with the splendour I possessed alongside thee ere the cosmos existed.
17:6 Thy name I have revealed to the men whom thou bestowed upon me from the world: they were thine, and thou gavest them to me, and they have adhered to thy message.
17:7 They have now realised that everything thou hast entrusted to me is derived from thee.
17:8 For the teachings thou imparted to me, I have passed on to them; and they have accepted these, assuredly understanding that I originated from thee, and they have trusted that thou didst dispatch me.
17:9 I intercede for them: I do not petition for the world, but for those whom thou hast entrusted to me; for they belong to thee.
17:10 All that is mine is thine, and thine is mine; and in them, my glory is manifest.
17:11 And now, I am no longer in the world, but they remain in the world, and I am coming to thee. Holy Father, safeguard them in thy name, which thou hast given me, that they may be unified, as we are.
17:12 While I was with them, I preserved them in thy name: those whom thou gavest me I have guarded, and not one is lost, save the son of doom; so that the scripture would be fulfilled.
17:13 And now I come to thee; and I speak these things in the world, that they might possess my joy in its fullness within themselves.
17:14 I have bestowed upon them thy word; and the world has despised them, for they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
17:15 I entreat not that thou shouldst remove them from the world, but that thou shouldst protect them from evil.
17:16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
17:17 Consecrate them through thy truth: thy word is verity.
17:18 As thou hast dispatched me into the world, so have I also sent them into the world.
17:19 And for their sakes, I consecrate myself, that they too may be sanctified in truth.
17:20 Not for these alone do I pray, but also for those who shall believe in me through their word;
17:21 That they all may be unified; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be unified in us: that the world may believe that thou hast dispatched me.
17:22 And the majesty which thou hast given me, I have conferred upon them; that they may be unified, just as we are unified:
17:23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfectly unified; and that the world may recognise that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
17:24 Father, my desire is that those also, whom thou hast given me, may be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast bestowed upon me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
17:25 O righteous Father, the world has not recognised thee: but I have recognised thee, and these have understood that thou hast dispatched me.
17:26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will continue to declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may dwell in them, and I in them.
18:1 Having uttered these words, Jesus proceeded with his disciples across the brook Cedron, where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered.
18:2 And Judas, who betrayed him, was familiar with the place: for Jesus frequently gathered there with his disciples.
18:3 Judas then, having procured a detachment of soldiers and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, approaches there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.
18:4 Jesus, aware of all that would transpire, stepped forward and inquired of them, “Whom do you seek?”
18:5 They replied, “Jesus of Nazareth.” Jesus declared, “I am he.” And Judas, who betrayed him, stood among them.
18:6 As soon as he stated, “I am he,” they drew back and fell to the ground.
18:7 He questioned them once more, “Whom do you seek?” They said, “Jesus of Nazareth.”
18:8 Jesus responded, “I have told you that I am he: if therefore ye seek me, allow these others to depart:”
18:9 This was to fulfill his pronouncement, “Of those whom thou gavest me, I have lost none.”
18:10 Then Simon Peter, wielding a sword, drew it and struck the high priest’s servant, severing his right ear. The servant’s name was Malchus.
18:11 Jesus then said to Peter, “Sheathe your sword: shall I not drink the cup that my Father has given me?”
18:12 Subsequently, the cohort, its commander, and the Jewish officers arrested Jesus and bound him,
18:13 And first took him to Annas, as he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.
18:14 It was Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it was expedient for one man to perish on behalf of the people.
18:15 Simon Peter and another disciple followed Jesus. This disciple was known to the high priest and entered with Jesus into the courtyard of the high priest,
18:16 But Peter stood outside at the door. The other disciple, known to the high priest, went out, spoke to the doorkeeper, and brought Peter in.
18:17 Then the maid who kept the door said to Peter, “Are you not also one of this man’s disciples?” He said, “I am not.”
18:18 Now the servants and officers had made a fire of coals, for it was cold, and they warmed themselves. Peter stood with them and warmed himself.
18:19 The high priest then questioned Jesus about his disciples and his teachings.
18:20 Jesus answered, “I have spoken openly to the world; I always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where all the Jews come together. I have said nothing in secret.
18:21 Why question me? Ask those who have heard what I spoke to them; indeed, they know what I said.”
18:22 When he had said this, one of the officers standing nearby struck Jesus with his hand, saying, “Is that how you answer the high priest?”
18:23 Jesus replied, “If I have spoken wrongly, testify to the wrong; but if rightly, why do you strike me?”
18:24 Then Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas the high priest.
18:25 Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said to him, “Are you not also one of his disciples?” He denied it and said, “I am not.”
18:26 One of the servants of the high priest, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, asked, “Did I not see you in the garden with him?”
18:27 Again Peter denied it, and at that moment the cock crowed.
18:28 Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas to the governor’s headquarters. It was early morning. They themselves did not enter the headquarters, so as to avoid ritual defilement and to be able to eat the Passover.
18:29 So Pilate went out to them and said, “What accusation do you bring against this man?” 18:30 They answered, “If this man were not a criminal, we would not have handed him over to you.”
18:31 Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law.” The Jews replied, “We are not permitted to put anyone to death.”
18:32 This was to fulfill what Jesus had said when he indicated the kind of death he was to die.
18:33 Pilate then re-entered the headquarters, summoned Jesus, and asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”
18:34 Jesus responded, “Do you ask this on your own, or did others tell you about me?”
18:35 Pilate replied, “Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have handed you over to me. What have you done?”
18:36 Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is not from here.”
18:37 Pilate then said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born, and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”
18:38 Pilate asked him, “What is truth?” After saying this, he went out again to the Jews and told them, “I find no basis for a charge against him.
18:39 But you have a custom that I release one prisoner for you at the Passover. Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?”
18:40 They cried out again, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber.
19:1 Then Pilate took Jesus and flogged him.
19:2 And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and arrayed him in a purple robe.
19:3 They came up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and struck him with their hands.
19:4 Pilate went out again and said to them, “See, I am bringing him out to you, so that you may know that I find no guilt in him.”
19:5 So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Behold the man!”
19:6 When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, “Crucify him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no guilt in him.”
19:7 The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die because he has made himself the Son of God.”
19:8 When Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid.
19:9 He entered his headquarters again and asked Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.
19:10 So Pilate said to him, “You will not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you and authority to crucify you?”
19:11 Jesus answered him, “You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore he who delivered me over to you has the greater sin.”
19:12 From then on Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend. Everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar.”
19:13 When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called The Stone Pavement, and in Aramaic Gabbatha.
19:14 Now it was the day of Preparation of the Passover; it was about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, “Behold your King!”
19:15 They cried out, “Away with him, away with him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar.”
19:16 So he delivered him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus,
19:17 and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called the Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha.
19:18 There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them.
19:19 And Pilate inscribed a declaration, placing it upon the cross. The inscription read, “Jesus of Nazareth, the Monarch of the Jews.”
19:20 Many of the Jews read this title, for the site of Jesus’ crucifixion was close to the city. The words were penned in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin.
19:21 The Jewish chief priests then said to Pilate, “Do not inscribe ‘The Monarch of the Jews,’ but rather, ‘He claimed, I am the Monarch of the Jews.'”
19:22 Pilate replied, “What I have inscribed, remains inscribed.”
19:23 After crucifying Jesus, the soldiers took his garments, dividing them into four shares, one for each soldier. His tunic, seamless and woven in one piece from top to bottom, they did not divide.
19:24 They agreed, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots to decide whose it shall be.” This was to fulfil the scripture: “They divided my garments among them, and for my clothing, they cast lots.” And thus, the soldiers did these things.
19:25 Near Jesus’ cross stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.
19:26 Seeing his mother and the disciple he cherished standing nearby, Jesus said to his mother, “Woman, behold your son!”
19:27 Then he said to the disciple, “Behold your mother!” From that moment, the disciple welcomed her into his home.
19:28 Aware that everything was now completed, and so that Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.”
19:29 A jar full of vinegar stood there. Soaking a sponge in the vinegar and placing it on a hyssop stick, they held it to his mouth.
19:30 When Jesus had received the vinegar, he declared, “It is accomplished.” Bowing his head, he surrendered his spirit.
19:31 As it was the Preparation Day, the Jews, to prevent the bodies from remaining on the cross during the Sabbath, since that Sabbath was a significant day, asked Pilate to have their legs broken and the bodies removed.
19:32 The soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man crucified with Jesus, then those of the other.
19:33 When they came to Jesus and found he was already deceased, they did not break his legs.
19:34 But one soldier pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water flowed out.
19:35 The witness of these events has testified, and his testimony is truthful. He knows he tells the truth, so you also may believe.
19:36 These things occurred so that the Scripture would be fulfilled: “Not one of his bones will be broken.”
19:37 And another scripture says, “They will look on the one they have pierced.”
19:38 After these events, Joseph of Arimathaea, a disciple of Jesus, albeit secretly for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate for permission to take Jesus’ body. Pilate consented. So, he came and removed Jesus’ body.
19:39 Nicodemus, who initially visited Jesus at night, also arrived, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about a hundred pounds.
19:40 They took Jesus’ body and wrapped it in linen cloths with the spices, following the burial custom of the Jews.
19:41 In the place where he was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden, a new tomb, in which no one had yet been laid.
19:42 There, because of the Jewish day of Preparation and since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus.
20:1 On the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance.
20:2 She ran and found Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.”
20:3 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 Stooping to look in, he saw the linen wrappings lying there, but he did not go in.
20:6 Then Simon Peter, following him, went into the tomb and saw the linen wrappings lying there,
20:7 and the cloth that had been on Jesus’ head, not lying with the linen wrappings but rolled up in a place by itself.
20:8 Then 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 where they were staying.
20:11 Now 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 He asked her, “Woman, 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!” (“Teacher”).
20:17 Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending 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 Jewish leaders, 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’s sins, their sins are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.”
20:24 Now Thomas, also known as Didymus, one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came.
20:25 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 place my hand into his side, I will not believe.”
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 performed many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book.
20:31 But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, 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. 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 fishing,” 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.
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, an hundred and fifty three, 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 Following their meal, Jesus addressed Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonas, is your love for me greater than these?” Peter responded, “Indeed, Lord, you are aware of my affection for you.” Jesus instructed him, “Tend to my lambs.”
21:16 Once more, He questioned him, “Simon, son of Jonas, do you love me?” Peter replied, “Indeed, Lord, you know of my love for you.” Jesus said, “Shepherd my sheep.”
21:17 A third time, He asked, “Simon, son of Jonas, do you love me?” Peter felt a pang of sorrow, as He asked him for the third time, “Do you love me?” Peter answered, “Lord, you know all things; you recognise my love for you.” Jesus told him, “Feed my sheep.”
21:18 “Truly, truly, I tell you, when you were younger, you dressed yourself and walked where you wished. But when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and lead you where you do not wish to go.”
21:19 This He said to signify the manner of death by which Peter would glorify God. After saying this, He told him, “Follow me.”
21:20 Then Peter, turning around, observed the disciple whom Jesus cherished following them. This was the same disciple who had reclined next to Jesus during the supper and inquired, “Lord, who is the one betraying you?”
21:21 Seeing him, Peter asked Jesus, “Lord, what about this man?”
21:22 Jesus responded, “If it is my will that he remains until I return, what concern is that of yours? You must follow me.”
21:23 This led to a misunderstanding among the disciples that this disciple would not die. However, Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but rather, “If it is my will that he remains until I return, what concern is that of yours?”
21:24 This is the disciple who has borne witness to these events and has recorded them. And we believe that his testimony is trustworthy.
21:25 Moreover, there are numerous other deeds that Jesus performed. Were each of them to be documented, I suppose the world itself could not hold the volumes that would be written. Amen.

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