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  John

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ²The same was in the beginning with God. ³All things were made through him; and without him was nothing made that has been made. ⁴In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

⁵And the light shined in the darkness; and the darkness apprehended it not. ⁶There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John. ⁷The same came for a witness, that he might bear witness of that light, that all might believe through him. ⁸He was not the light, but came that he might bear witness of the light.

⁹This was the true light, even the light which lights every man, coming into the world.

¹⁰He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world knew him not.

¹¹He came unto his own, and they that were his own received him not.

¹²But as many as received him, to them gave he the right to become children of God, even to them that believe on his name: ¹³who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

¹⁴And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth.

¹⁵John bears witness of him, and cries, saying, This was he of whom I said, He that comes after me is become before me: for he was before me. ¹⁶For of his fullness we all received, and grace for grace. ¹⁷For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. ¹⁸No man has seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.

¹⁹And this is the witness of John, when the Jews sent unto him from Jerusalem priests and Levites to ask him, Who are you? ²⁰And he confessed, and denied not. He confessed, I am not the Christ. ²¹And they asked him, What then? Are you Elijah? And he said, I am not. Are you the prophet? And he answered, No. ²²They said therefore unto him, Who are you that we may give an answer to them that sent us? What say you of yourself? ²³He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as Isaiah the prophet said. ²⁴And they had been sent from the Pharisees. ²⁵And they asked him, and said unto him, Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, neither Elijah, neither the prophet? ²⁶John answered them, saying, I baptize in water: but in the midst of you stands one whom you know not, ²⁷even he that comes after me, the latches of whose shoe I am not worthy to unloose. ²⁸These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

²⁹The following day he sees Jesus coming unto him, and said, Behold, the Lamb of God, that takes away the sin of the world! ³⁰This is he of whom I said, After me comes a man who is become before me: for he was before me. ³¹And I knew him not, but that he should be made manifest to Israel. For this cause I came baptizing in water. ³²And John bore witness, saying, I have beheld the Spirit descending as a dove out of heaven; and it abode upon him. ³³And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize in water, he said unto me, Upon whomsoever you shall see the Spirit descending, and abiding upon him, the same is he that baptizes in the Holy Spirit. ³⁴And I have seen, and have borne witness that this is the Son of God. ³⁵Again on the following day John was standing with two of his disciples; ³⁶and he looked upon Jesus as he walked, and said, Behold, the Lamb of God!

³⁷And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus. ³⁸And Jesus turned, and beheld them following, and said unto them, What do you seek? And they said unto him, Rabbi (which is to say, being interpreted, Teacher), where do you abide? ³⁹He said unto them, Come, and you shall see. They came therefore and saw where he abode; and they abode with him that day: it was about the tenth hour. ⁴⁰One of the two that heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother. ⁴¹He finds first his own brother Simon, and said unto him, We have found the Messiah (which is, being interpreted, Christ). ⁴²He then brought him unto Jesus. Jesus looked upon him, and said, You are Simon the son of John: you shall be called Cephas (which is by interpretation, Peter).

⁴³The following day he was of a mind to go forth into Galilee, where he finds Philip: and Jesus said unto him, Follow me. ⁴⁴Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter. ⁴⁵Philip then finds Nathanael, and said unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph. ⁴⁶And Nathanael said unto him, Can any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip said unto him, Come and see. ⁴⁷Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said of him, Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile! ⁴⁸Nathanael said unto him, From where do you know me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you. ⁴⁹Nathanael answered him, Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are King of Israel. ⁵⁰Jesus answered and said unto him, Because I said unto you, I saw you underneath the fig tree, you believe? You shall see greater things than these. ⁵¹And he said unto him, Truly, truly, I say unto you, You shall see the heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.

2 And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there: ²and Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the marriage. ³And when the wine supply failed, the mother of Jesus said unto him, They have no wine. ⁴And Jesus said unto her, Woman, what have I to do with you? My hour is not yet come. ⁵His mother said unto the servants, Whatsoever he says unto you, do it. ⁶Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews’ manner of purifying, containing two or three firkins apiece. ⁷Jesus said unto them, Fill the water pots with water. And they filled them up to the brim. ⁸And he said unto them— Now draw some out and give it unto the ruler of the feast. And they took it. ⁹And when the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and knew not from where it had come (but the servants that had drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast calls the bridegroom, ¹⁰and said unto him, Every man sets on the good wine first; and when men have drunk freely, then that which is worse: but you have kept the good wine until now. ***¹¹This beginning of his signs did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested his glory; and his disciples believed on him.

¹²After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples; and they abode there not many days. ¹³And the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ¹⁴And he found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: ¹⁵and he made a scourge of cords, and cast all of them out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew their tables; ¹⁶and to them that sold the doves he said, Take these things out; make not my Father’s house a house of merchandise. ¹⁷His disciples remembered that it was written, the Zeal for your house shall eat me up. ¹⁸The Jews therefore answered and said unto him, What sign do you show unto us, seeing that you do these things? ¹⁹Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. ²⁰The Jews therefore said, Forty-six years was this temple in building, and will you raise it up in three days? ²¹But he spoke of the temple of his body. ²²When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he spoke this; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.

²³Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed on his name, beholding his signs that he did. ²⁴But Jesus did not trust himself unto them, for he knew all men, ²⁵and because he needed not that any one should bear witness concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.

3 Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: ²the same came unto him by night, and said to him, Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that you do, except God be with him. ³Jesus answered and said unto him, Truly, truly, I say unto you, Except one be born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God. ⁴Nicodemus said unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb, and be born? ⁵Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say unto you, Except one be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God! ⁶That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. ⁷Marvel not that I said unto you, You must be born anew. ⁸The wind blows where it will, and you hear the voice thereof, but know not from where it comes, or where it goes: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. ⁹Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? ¹⁰Jesus answered and said unto him, Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not understand these things? ¹¹Verily, truly, I say unto you, We speak that which we know, and bear witness of that which we have seen; and you do not receive our witness. ¹²If I told you earthly things and you did not believe, how shall you believe if I tell you heavenly things? ¹³And no one has ascended into heaven, but he that descended out of heaven, even the Son of man, who is in heaven. ¹⁴And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up; ¹⁵that whosoever believes, may, in him, have eternal life. ¹⁶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes on him should not perish, but have eternal life. ¹⁷For God sent not the Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world should be saved through him. ¹⁸He that believes on him is not judged: he that believes not has been judged already, because he has not believed on the name of the only begotten Son of God. ***¹⁹And this is the judgment, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. ²⁰For every one that does evil hates the light, and comes not to the light, unless his works should be reproved. ²¹But he that does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be made manifest, that they have been worked in God.

²²After these things Jesus and his disciples came into the land of Judaea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized. ²³And John also was baptizing in Enon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized. ²⁴For John was not yet cast into prison. ²⁵There arose therefore a questioning on the part of John’s disciples with a Jew about purifying. ²⁶And they came unto John, and said to him, Rabbi, he that was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have borne witness, behold, the same baptizes, and all men come to him. ²⁷John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it had been given him from heaven. ²⁸You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but, that I am sent before him. ²⁹He that has the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, that stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice: with this my joy therefore is made full. ³⁰He must increase, but I must decrease. ³¹He that comes from above is above all: he that is of the earth is of the earth, and of the earth he speaks: he that comes from heaven is above all. ³²What he has seen and heard, of the same he bears witness; and no man receives his witness. ³³He that has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true. ³⁴For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God: for he gives not the Spirit by measure. ³⁵The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand. ³⁶He that believes on the Son has eternal life; but he that obeys not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.

4 When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John ²(although Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples), ³he left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee.

⁴And he needed to pass through Samaria. ⁵So he comes to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph: ⁶and Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour. ⁷There comes a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus said unto her, Give me to drink. ⁸For his disciples were gone away into the city to buy food. ⁹The Samaritan woman therefore said unto him, How is it that you, being a Jew, ask drink of me, who am a Samaritan woman? (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) ¹⁰Jesus answered and said unto her, If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that said to you, Give me to drink; you would have asked of him, and he would have given you living water. ¹¹The woman said unto him, Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: where then do you have that living water? ¹²Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, and his sons, and his cattle? ¹³Jesus answered and said unto her, Every one that drink of this water shall thirst again: ¹⁴but whosoever drink of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up unto eternal life. ¹⁵The woman said unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come all the way here to draw. ¹⁶Jesus said unto her, Go, call your husband, and come here. ¹⁷The woman answered and said unto him, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, ***You said well, I have no husband: ¹⁸for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband: this have you said truly. ¹⁹The woman said unto him, Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. ²⁰Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and you say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. ²¹Jesus said unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall you worship the Father. ²²You worship that which you know not: we worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews. ²³But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth: for such does the Father seek to be his worshippers. ²⁴God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship in spirit and truth. ²⁵The woman said unto him, I know that Messiah comes (he that is called Christ): when he is come, he will declare unto us all things. ²⁶Jesus said unto her, I that speak unto you am he.

²⁷And upon this came his disciples; and they marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no man said, What do you seek? Or, Why do you speak with her? ²⁸So the woman left her waterpot, and went away into the city, and said to the people, ²⁹Come, see a man, who told me all things that ever I did: can this be the Christ? ³⁰They went out of the city, and were coming to him. ³¹In the mean while the disciples prayed him, saying, Rabbi, eat. ³²But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that you know not. ³³The disciples therefore said one to another, Has any man brought him anything to eat? ³⁴Jesus said unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to accomplish his work. ³⁵Say not, There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest? Behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields, that they are already white unto harvest. ³⁶He that reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit unto life eternal; that he that sows and he that reaps may rejoice together. ³⁷For herein is the saying true, One sows, and another reaps. ³⁸I sent you to reap that whereon you have not labored: others have labored, and you are entered into their labor. ³⁹And from that city many of the Samaritans believed on him because of the word of the woman, who testified, He told me all things that ever I did. ⁴⁰So when the Samaritans came unto him, they asked him to abide with them: and he abode there two days. ⁴¹And many more believed because of his word; ⁴²and they said to the woman, Now we believe, not because of your speaking: for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.

⁴³And after the two days he went forth from there into Galilee. ⁴⁴For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet has no honor in his own country. ⁴⁵So when he came into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went unto the feast. ⁴⁶He came therefore again unto Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum. ⁴⁷When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him, and asked him that he would come down, and heal his son; for he was at the point of death. ⁴⁸Jesus therefore said unto him, Except you see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe. ⁴⁹The nobleman said unto him, Sir, come down or else my child will die. ⁵⁰Jesus said unto him, Go your way; your son lives. The man believed the word that Jesus spoke unto him, and he went his way. ⁵¹And as he was now going down, his servants met him, saying, that his son lives. ⁵²So he inquired of them the hour when he began to amend. They said therefore unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him. ⁵³So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said unto him, Your son lives: and he himself believed, and his whole house. ⁵⁴This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judaea into Galilee.

5 After these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ²Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porches. ³In these lay a multitude of them that were sick, blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. ⁴For an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the waters stepped in was made whole, from whatsoever disease he had. ⁵And a certain man was there, who had been in his infirmity thirty-eight years. ⁶When Jesus saw him lying, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he said unto him, Would you be made whole? ⁷The sick man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steps down before me. ⁸Jesus said unto him, Arise, take up your bed, and walk. ⁹And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed and walked. Now it was on that day the Sabbath. ¹⁰So the Jews said unto him that was cured, It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to take up your bed. ¹¹But he answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up your bed, and walk. ¹²They asked him, Who is the man that said unto you, Take up your bed, and walk? ¹³But he that was healed knew not who it was; for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in the place. ¹⁴Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, you are made whole: sin no more, unless a worse thing befalls you. ¹⁵The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him whole. ¹⁶And for this cause, the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did these things on the Sabbath.

¹⁷But Jesus answered them, My Father works even until now, and I work. ¹⁸For this cause therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God. ¹⁹Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Truly, truly, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing: for what so ever things he does, these the Son also does in like manner. ²⁰For the Father loves the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does: and greater works than these will he show him, that you may marvel. ²¹For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he will. ²²For neither does the Father judge any man, but he has given all judgment unto the Son; ²³that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He that honors not the Son honors not the Father that sent him. ²⁴Truly, truly, I say unto you, He that hears my word, and believes him that sent me, has eternal life, and comes not into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. ²⁵Truly, truly, I say unto you, The hour comes, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that hear shall live. ²⁶For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself: ²⁷and he gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man. ²⁸Marvel not at this: for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs shall hear his voice, ²⁹and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of judgment. ³⁰I can of myself do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is righteous; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.

³¹If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. ³²It is another that bears witness of me; and I know that the witness that he witnesses of me is true. ³³You have sent unto John, and he has borne witness unto the truth. ³⁴But the witness that I receive is not from man: yet I say these things that you may be saved. ³⁵He was the lamp that burns and shines; and you were willing to rejoice for a season in his light. ³⁶But the witness which I have is greater than that of John; for the works which the Father has given me to accomplish, the very works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father has sent me. ³⁷And the Father that sent me, he has borne witness of me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form. ³⁸And you have not his word abiding in you: for whom he sent, him you believe not. ³⁹You search the scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me; ⁴⁰and you will not come to me, that you may have life. ⁴¹I receive not glory from men. ⁴²But I know you, that you have not the love of God in yourselves. ⁴³I am come in my Father’s name, and you receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him you will receive. ⁴⁴How can you believe, who, receive glory one of another, and the glory that comes from the only God you seek not? ⁴⁵Think not that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope. ⁴⁶For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote of me. ⁴⁷But if you believe not his writings, how shall you believe my words?

6 After these things Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias. ²And a great multitude followed him, because they beheld the signs that he did on them that were sick. ³And Jesus went up into the mountain, and there he sat with his disciples. ⁴Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand. ⁵Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a great multitude comes unto him, said unto Philip, From where are we to buy bread, that these may eat? ⁶And this he said to prove him: for he himself knew what he would do. ⁷Philip answered him, Two hundred shillings’ worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one may take a little. ⁸One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said unto him, ⁹There is a lad here, who has five barley loaves, and two fishes: but what are these among so many? ¹⁰Jesus said, Make the people sit down. Now there was much grass in that place. So the men sat down, and numbered about five thousand. ¹¹Jesus therefore took the loaves; and having given thanks, he distributed to them that were set down; likewise also of the fishes as much as they would. ¹²And when they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the broken pieces which remain over, that nothing be lost. ¹³So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves, which remained over unto them that had eaten. ¹⁴When therefore the people saw the sign which he did, they said, This is of a truth the prophet that comes into the world.

¹⁵Jesus therefore perceiving that they were about to come and take him by force, to make him king, withdrew again into the mountain just himself alone. ¹⁶And when evening came, his disciples went down unto the sea; ¹⁷and they entered into a boat, and were going over the sea unto Capernaum. And it was now dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them. ¹⁸And the sea was rising up by reason of a great wind that blew. ¹⁹When therefore they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty furlongs, they beheld Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing near unto the boat: and they were afraid. ²⁰But he said unto them, It is I; be not afraid. ²¹They were willing therefore to receive him into the boat: and immediately the boat was at the land where they were going.

²²On the next day the multitude that stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there, save one, and that Jesus had not entered with his disciples into the boat, but that his disciples went away alone ²³(howbeit there came boats from Tiberias near unto the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks): ²⁴when the multitude therefore saw that Jesus was not there, neither his disciples, they themselves got into the boats, and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus. ²⁵And when they found him on the other side of the sea, they said unto him, Rabbi, when did you come here? ²⁶Jesus answered them and said, Truly, truly, I say unto you, You seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled. ²⁷Work not for the food that perishes, but for the food that abides unto eternal life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him the Father, even God, has sealed.

²⁸They said therefore unto him, What must we do, that we may work the works of God? ²⁹Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that you believe on him whom he has sent. ³⁰They said therefore unto him, What then do you do for a sign, that we may see, and believe you? What work will you do? ³¹Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, He gave them bread out of heaven to eat. ³²Jesus therefore said unto them, Truly, truly, I say unto you, It was not Moses that gave you the bread out of heaven; but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven. ³³For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life unto the world. ³⁴They said therefore unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread. ³⁵Jesus said unto them. I am the bread of life: he that comes to me shall not hunger, and he that believes on me shall never thirst. ³⁶But I said unto you, that you have seen me, and yet believe not. ³⁷All that which the Father gives to me, shall come unto me. And him that comes to me I will in no way cast out. ³⁸For I am come down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. ³⁹And this is the will of him that sent me, that of all that which he has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day. ⁴⁰For this is the will of my Father, that every one that beholds the Son, and believes on him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. ⁴¹The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, I am the bread that came down out of heaven. ⁴²And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he now say, I am come down out of heaven? ⁴³Jesus answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves. ⁴⁴No man can come to me, except the Father that sent me draw him: and I will raise him up in the last day. ⁴⁵It is written in the prophets, And they shall all be taught of God. Every one that has heard from the Father, and has learned, comes unto me. ⁴⁶Not that any man has seen the Father, accept he that is from God, he has seen the Father. ⁴⁷Truly, truly, I say unto you, He that believes has eternal life. ⁴⁸I am the bread of life. ⁴⁹Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. ⁵⁰This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. ⁵¹I am the living bread which came down out of heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: yes and the bread which I will give is my flesh, ***for the life of the world. ⁵²The Jews therefore were questioning one with another, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? ⁵³Jesus therefore said unto them, Truly, truly, I say unto you, Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have not life in yourselves. ⁵⁴He that eat my flesh and drink my blood has eternal life: and I will raise him up at the last day. ⁵⁵For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. ⁵⁶He that eat my flesh and drink my blood abides in me, and I in him. ⁵⁷As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he that eat my flesh, he also shall live because of me. ⁵⁸This is the bread which came down out of heaven: not as the fathers ate, and died; he that eat this bread shall live forever. ⁵⁹These things he said in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.

⁶⁰Many of his disciples therefore, when the heard this, said, This is a hard saying; who can hear it? ⁶¹But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said unto them, Does this cause you to stumble? ⁶²What then if you should behold the Son of man ascending where he was before? ⁶³It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh profits nothing: the words that I have spoken unto you are spirit, and are life. ⁶⁴But there are some of you that do not believe. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who it was that should betray him. ⁶⁵And he said, For this cause have I said unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it be given unto him of the Father. ⁶⁶Upon this many of his disciples went back, and walked with him no more. ⁶⁷Jesus said therefore unto the twelve, Would you also go away? ⁶⁸Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. ⁶⁹And we have believed and know that you are the Holy One of God. ⁷⁰Jesus answered them, Did I not choose the twelve of you, and one of you is a devil? ⁷¹Now he spoke of Judas the son of Simon Iscariot, for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve.

7 And after these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Judaea, because the Jews sought to kill him. ²Now the feast of the Jews, the feast of tabernacles, was at hand. ³His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart and go into Judaea, that your disciples also may behold your works which you do. ⁴For no man does anything in secret, and himself seeks  to be known openly. If you do these things, manifest yourself to the world. ⁵For even his brethren did not believe on him. ⁶Jesus therefore said unto them, My time is not yet come; but your time is always ready. ⁷The world cannot hate you; but me it hates, because I testify of it, that its works are evil. ⁸You go up unto the feast: I will not go up unto this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled. ⁹And having said these things unto them, he abode longer in Galilee. ¹⁰But when his brethren were gone up unto the feast, then he went up also, not publicly, but as it were in secret. ¹¹The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he? ¹²And there was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him: some said, He is a good man; others said, Not so, but he leads the multitude astray. ¹³Yet no man spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.

¹⁴But when it was now in the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught. ¹⁵The Jews therefore marveled, saying, How does this man have knowledge, having never studied? ¹⁶Jesus therefore answered them and said, My teaching is not my own, but his that sent me. ¹⁷If any man wills to do his will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it is of God, or whether I speak from myself. ¹⁸He that speaks from himself seeks his own glory: but he that seeks the glory of him that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him. ¹⁹Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keep the law? Why do you seek to kill me? ²⁰The multitude answered, You have a demon: who seeks  to kill you? ²¹Jesus answered and said unto them, I did one work, and you all marvel because of it. ***²²Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers); and on the Sabbath you circumcise a man. ²³If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken; are you angry with me, because I made a man in every way whole on the Sabbath? ²⁴Judge not according to appearance, but judge righteous judgments. ²⁵Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, Is not this he whom they seek to kill? ²⁶And lo, he speaks openly, and they say nothing unto him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is the Christ? ²⁷How is it we know this man whence he is: but when the Christ comes, no one knows whence he is. ²⁸Jesus therefore cried in the temple, teaching and saying, You both know me, and know whence I am; and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom you know not. ²⁹I know him; because I am from him, and he sent me. ³⁰They sought therefore to take him: and no man laid his hand on him, because his hour was not yet come. ³¹But of the multitude many believed on him; and they said, When the Christ shall come, will he do more signs than those which this man has done? ³²The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him; and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to take him. ³³Jesus therefore said, Yet a little while am I with you, and I go unto him that sent me. ³⁴Yuo shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, you cannot come. ³⁵The Jews therefore said among themselves, Where will this man go that we shall not find him? Will he go unto the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks? ³⁶What is this word that he said, You shall seek me, and shall not find me; and where I am, you cannot come?

³⁷Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. ³⁸He that believes on me, as the scripture has said, from within him shall flow rivers of living water. ³⁹But this he spoke of the Spirit, which they that believed on him were to receive: for the Spirit was not yet given; because Jesus was not yet glorified. ⁴⁰Some of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, This is of a truth the prophet. ⁴¹Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, What, does the Christ come out of Galilee? ⁴²Has not the scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was? ⁴³So there arose a division in the multitude because of him. ⁴⁴And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him.

⁴⁵The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why did you not bring him? ⁴⁶The officers answered, Never has man so spoke. ⁴⁷The Pharisees therefore answered them, Are you also led astray? ⁴⁸Has any of the rulers believed on him, or of the Pharisees? ⁴⁹But this multitude that knows not the law are accursed. ⁵⁰Nicodemus said unto them (he that came to him before, being one of them), ⁵¹Does our law judge a man, except it first hear from himself and know what he does? ⁵²They answered and said unto him, Are you also of Galilee? Search, and see that out of Galilee arises no prophet. ⁵³And they went every man unto his own house:

8 But Jesus went unto the mount of Olives. ²And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them. ³And the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery; and having set her in their midst, ⁴they said unto him, Teacher, this woman has been taken in adultery, in the very act. ⁵Now the law Moses commanded us to stone such a one: what then do you say of her? ⁶And they said this, trying him, that they might have reason to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground. ⁷But when they continued asking him, he lifted himself up, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. ⁸And again he stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground. ⁹And they, when they heard it, went away one by one, beginning from the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman, where she was, in the midst. ¹⁰And Jesus lifted himself up, and said unto her, Woman, where are they? Did no man condemn you? ¹¹And she said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said, Neither do I condemn you: go your way and sin no more.

¹²Again Jesus spoke unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that follows me shall not walk in the darkness, but shall have the light of life. ¹³The Pharisees therefore said unto him, You bear witness of yourself; your witness is not true. ¹⁴Jesus answered and said unto them, Even if I bear witness of myself, my witness is true; for I know from where I came, and where I go; but you know not from where I came, or where I go. ¹⁵You judge after the flesh; I judge no man. ¹⁶Yes and if I judge, my judgment is true; for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me. ¹⁷Yes and in your law it is written, that the witness of two men is true. ¹⁸I am he that bears witness of myself, and the Father that sent me bears witness of me. ¹⁹They said therefore unto him, Where is your Father? Jesus answered, You know neither me, nor my Father: if you knew me, you would know my Father also. ²⁰These words he spoke in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no man took him; because his hour was not yet come.

²¹He said therefore again unto them, I go away, and you shall seek me, and shall die in your sin: where I go, you cannot come. ²²The Jews therefore said, Will he kill himself, that he said, Where I go, you cannot come? ²³And he said unto them, You are from beneath; I am from above: you are of this world; I am not of this world. ²⁴I said therefore unto you, that you shall die in your sins: for except you believe that I am he, you shall die in your sins. ²⁵They said therefore unto him, Who are you? Jesus said unto them, Even that which I have also spoken unto you from the beginning. ²⁶I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you: howbeit he that sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I spoke unto the world. ²⁷They perceived not that he spoke to them of the Father. ²⁸Jesus therefore said, When you have lifted up the Son of man, then shall you know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself, but as the Father taught me, I speak these things. ²⁹And he that sent me is with me; he has not left me alone; for I do always the things that are pleasing to him. ³⁰As he spoke these things, many believed on him.

³¹Jesus therefore said to those Jews that had believed him, If you abide in my word, then are you truly my disciples; ³²and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. ³³They answered unto him, We are Abraham’s seed, and have never yet been in bondage to any man: how say you, You shall be made free? ³⁴Jesus answered them, Truly, truly, I say unto you, Every one that commits sin is the bondservant of sin. ³⁵And the bondservant abides not in the house for ever: the son abides for ever. ³⁶If therefore the Son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed. ³⁷I know that you are Abraham’s seed: yet you seek to kill me, because my word has not free course in you.

³⁸I speak the things that I have seen with my Father: and you also do the things which you heard from your father. ³⁹They answered and said unto him, Our father is Abraham. Jesus said unto them, If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham. ⁴⁰But now you seek to kill me, a man that has told you the truth, which I heard from God: this Abraham did not. ⁴¹You do the works of your father. They said unto him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God. ⁴²Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, you would love me: for I came forth and am come from God; for neither have I come of myself, but he sent me. ⁴³Why do you not understand my speech? Even because you cannot hear my word. ⁴⁴You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father it is your will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and stands not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof. ⁴⁵But because I say the truth, you believe me not.

⁴⁶Which of you would convict me of sin? If I say the truth, why do you not believe me? ⁴⁷He that is of God hears the words of God: for this cause you hear them not, because you are not of God. ⁴⁸The Jews answered and said unto him, Say we not well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon? ⁴⁹Jesus answered, I have not a demon; but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me. ⁵⁰But I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeks and judges.

⁵¹Truly, truly, I say unto you, If a man keep my word, he shall never see death. ⁵²The Jews said unto him, Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets; and you say, If a man keep my word, he shall never taste of death. ⁵³Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? And the prophets died: whom make you yourself? ⁵⁴Jesus answered, If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing: it is my Father that golrifies me; of whom you say, that he is your God; ⁵⁵and you have not known him: but I know him; and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be like unto you, a liar: but I know him, and keep his word. ⁵⁶Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day; and he saw it, and was glad. ⁵⁷The Jews therefore said unto him, You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham? ⁵⁸Jesus said unto them, Truly, truly, I say unto you, Before Abraham was born, I am. ⁵⁹They took up stones therefore to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple.

9 And as he passed by, he saw a man blind from his birth. ²And his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this man, or his parents, that he should be born blind? ³Jesus answered, Neither did this man sin, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. ⁴We must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night comes, when no man can work. ⁵When I am in the world, I am the light of the world. ⁶When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and anointed his eyes with the clay, ⁷and said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam (which is by interpretation, Sent). He went away therefore, and washed, and came seeing.

⁸The neighbors therefore, and they that saw him before, that he was a beggar, said, Is not this he that sat and begged? ⁹Others said, It is he: others said, No, but he is like him. He said, I am he! ¹⁰They said therefore unto him, How then were your eyes opened? ¹¹He answered, The man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed my eyes, and said unto me, Go to Siloam, and wash: so I went away and washed, and I received sight. ¹²And they said unto him, Where is he? He said, I know not.

¹³They brought to the Pharisees him that before was blind. ¹⁴Now it was the Sabbath on the day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes. ¹⁵Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. And he said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and I see. ¹⁶Some therefore of the Pharisees said, This man is not from God, because he keeps not the Sabbath. But others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such signs? And there was division among them. ¹⁷They said therefore unto the blind man again, What say you of him, in that he opened your eyes? And he said, He is a prophet. ¹⁸The Jews therefore did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him that had received his sight, ¹⁹and asked them, saying, Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see? ²⁰His parents answered and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind: ²¹but how he now sees, we know not; or who opened his eyes, we know not: ask him; he is of age; he shall speak for himself. ²²These things said his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man should confess him to be Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue. ²³Therefore his parents said, He is of age; ask him. ²⁴So they called a second time the man that was blind, and said unto him, Give glory to God: we know that this man is a sinner. ²⁵He therefore answered, Whether he is a sinner, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see. ²⁶They said therefore unto him, What did he do to you? How did he opened your eyes? ²⁷He answered them, I told you even now, and you did not hear; wherefore would you hear it again? Would you also become his disciples? ²⁸And they reviled him, and said, You are his disciple; but we are disciples of Moses. ²⁹We know that God has spoken unto Moses: but as for this man, we know not from where he is. ³⁰The man answered and said unto them, Why, herein is the marvel, that you know not from where he is, and yet he opened my eyes. ³¹We know that God hears not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and do his will, him he hears. ³²Since the world began it was never heard that any one opened the eyes of a man born blind. ³³If this man were not from God, he could do nothing. ³⁴They answered and said unto him, You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us? And they cast him out.

³⁵Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and finding him, he said, Do you believe on the Son of God? ³⁶He answered and said, And who is he, Lord, that I may believe on him? ³⁷Jesus said unto him, You have both seen him, and he it is that speaks with you. ³⁸And he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshipped him.

³⁹And Jesus said, For judgment I came into this world, that they that see not may see; and that they that see may become blind. ⁴⁰Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said unto him, Are we also blind? ⁴¹Jesus said unto them, If you were blind, you would have no sin: but now you say, We see: your sin remains.

10 Truly, truly, I say unto you, He that enters not by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. ²But he that enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. ³To him the porter opens; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out. ⁴When he has put forth all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. ⁵And a stranger they will not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers. ⁶This parable spoke Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spoke unto them. ⁷Jesus therefore said unto them again, Truly, truly, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. ⁸All that came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. ⁹I am the door; by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and go out, and shall find pasture. ¹⁰The thief comes not, but that he may steal, and kill, and destroy: I am come that they may have life, and may have it abundantly. ¹¹I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. ¹²He that is a hireling, and not a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, beholds the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep, and flees, and the wolf snatches them, and scatters them: ¹³he flees because he is a hireling, and cares not for the sheep. ¹⁴I am the good shepherd; and I know mine own, and mine own know me, ¹⁵even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep. ¹⁶And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice: and they shall become one flock, one shepherd. ¹⁷Therefore does the Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. ¹⁸No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment I received from my Father.

¹⁹There arose a division again among the Jews because of these words. ²⁰And many of them said, He has a demon, and is mad; why do you hear him? ²¹Others said, These are not the sayings of one possessed with a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?

²²And it was the feast of the dedication at Jerusalem: ²³it was winter; and Jesus was walking in the temple in Solomon’s porch. ²⁴The Jews therefore came round about him, and said unto him, How long do you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly. ²⁵Jesus answered them, I told you, and you believe not: the works that I do in my Father’s name, these bear witness of me. ²⁶But you believe not, because you are not of my sheep. ²⁷My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: ²⁸and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, and no one shall snatch them out of my hand. ²⁹My Father, who has given them unto me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. ³⁰I and the Father are one. ³¹The Jews took up stones again to stone him. ³²Jesus answered them, Many good works have I showed you from the Father; for which of those works do you stone me? ³³The Jews answered him, For a good work we stone you not, but for blasphemy; and because that you, being a man, make yourself God. ³⁴Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, you are gods? ³⁵If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came (and the scripture cannot be broken), ³⁶say you of him, whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, You blaspheme; because I said, I am the Son of God? ³⁷If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. ³⁸But if I do them, though you believe not me, believe the works: that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.

³⁹They sought again to take him: and he went forth out of their hand. ⁴⁰And he went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was at the first baptizing; and there be abode. ⁴¹And many came unto him; and they said, John indeed did no sign: but all things whatsoever John spoke of this man were true. ⁴²And many believed on him there.

11 Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister Martha. ²And it was that same Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick. ³The sisters therefore sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom you love is sick. ⁴But when Jesus heard it, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified thereby. ⁵Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. ⁶When therefore he heard that he was sick, he abode at that time two days in the place where he was. ⁷Then after this he said to the disciples, Let us go into Judaea again. ⁸The disciples said unto him, Rabbi, the Jews were but now seeking to stone you; and you go there again? ⁹Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If a man walk in the day, he stumbles not, because he sees the light of this world. ¹⁰But if a man walk in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him. ¹¹These things he spoke: and after this he said unto them, Our friend Lazarus is fallen asleep; but I go, that I may awaken him out of sleep. ¹²The disciples therefore said unto him, Lord, if he is fallen asleep, he will recover. ¹³Now Jesus had spoken of his death: but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep. ¹⁴Then Jesus therefore said unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead. ¹⁵And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent you may believe; nevertheless let us go unto him. ¹⁶Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said unto his fellow-disciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him.

¹⁷So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already. ¹⁸Now Bethany was near unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off; ¹⁹and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother. ²⁰Martha therefore, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary still sat in the house. ²¹Martha therefore said unto Jesus, Lord, if you had been here, my brother had not died. ²²And even now I know that, whatsoever you shall ask of God, God will give you. ²³Jesus said unto her, Your brother shall rise again. ²⁴Martha said unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. ²⁵Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believes on me, though he die, yet shall he live; ²⁶and whosoever lives and believes on me shall never die. Do you believe this? ²⁷She said unto him, Yes, Lord: I have believed that you are the Christ, the Son of God, even he that comes into the world. ²⁸And when she had said this, she went away, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Teacher is here, and calls you. ²⁹And she, when she heard it, arose quickly, and went unto him. ³⁰(Now Jesus was not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha met him.) ³¹The Jews then who were with her in the house, and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, supposing that she was going unto the tomb to weep there. ³²Mary therefore, when she came where Jesus was, and saw him, fell down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if you had been here, my brother had not died.

³³When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, ³⁴and said, Where have you laid him? They said unto him, Lord, come and see. ³⁵Jesus wept. ³⁶The Jews therefore said, Behold how he loved him! ³⁷But some of them said, Could not this man, who opened the eyes of him that was blind, have caused that this man also should not die? ³⁸Jesus therefore again groaning in himself comes to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it. ³⁹Jesus said, Take you away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, said unto him, Lord, by this time the body is decayed; for he has been dead four days. ⁴⁰Jesus said unto her, Said I not unto you, that, if you believed, you should see the glory of God? ⁴¹So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank you that you heard me. ⁴²And I know that you hear me always: but because of the multitude that stands around I said it, that they may believe that you did send me. ⁴³And when he had thus spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. ⁴⁴He that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave-clothes; and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus said unto them, Loose him, and let him go.

⁴⁵Many therefore of the Jews, who came to Mary and beheld that which he did, believed on him. ⁴⁶But some of them went away to the Pharisees, and told them the things which Jesus had done. ⁴⁷The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, What shall we do? For this man does many signs. ⁴⁸If we let him alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation. ⁴⁹But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said unto them, You know nothing at all, ⁵⁰nor do you take account that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not. ⁵¹Now this he said not of himself: but, being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation; ⁵²and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God that are scattered abroad. ⁵³So from that day forth they took counsel that they might put him to death. ⁵⁴Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed then into the country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim; and there he tarried with the disciples. ⁵⁵Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand: and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the Passover, to purify themselves. ⁵⁶They sought therefore for Jesus, and spoke one with another, as they stood in the temple, What do you think? That he will not come to the feast? ⁵⁷Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given commandment, that, if any man knew where he was, he should show it, that they might take him.

12 Jesus therefore six days before the Passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus raised from the dead. ²So they made him a supper there: and Martha served; but Lazarus was one of them that sat at meat with him. ³Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment. ⁴But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, that should betray him, said, ⁵Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred shillings, and given to the poor? ⁶Now this he said, not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and having the bag took away what was put therein. ⁷Jesus therefore said, Suffer her to keep it against the day of my burying. ⁸For the poor you have always with you; but me you have not always. ⁹The common people therefore of the Jews learned that he was there: and they came, not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead. ¹⁰But the chief priests took counsel that they might put Lazarus also to death; ¹¹because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus.

¹²On the following day a great multitude that had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, ¹³took the branches of the palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried out, Hosanna: Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel. ¹⁴And Jesus, having found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is written, ¹⁵Fear not, daughter of Zion: behold, your King comes, sitting on an ass’s colt. ¹⁶These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things unto him. ¹⁷The multitude therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from the dead, bare witness. ¹⁸For this cause also the multitude went and met him, for that they heard that he had done this sign. ¹⁹The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Behold how you prevail at nothing: lo, the world is gone after him.

²⁰Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship at the feast: ²¹these therefore came to Philip, who was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus. ²²Philip comes and tells Andrew: Andrew comes, and Philip, and they tell Jesus. ²³And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified. ²⁴Truly, truly, I say unto you, Except a grain of wheat fall into the earth and die, it abides by itself alone; but if it die, it bears much fruit. ²⁵He that loves his life loses it; and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. ²⁶If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall my servant be also: if any man serve me, him will the Father honor.

²⁷Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But for this cause came I unto this hour. ²⁸Father, glorify your name. There came therefore a voice out of heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again. ²⁹The multitude therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it had thundered: others said, An angel has spoken to him. ³⁰Jesus answered and said, This voice has not come for my sake, but for your sakes. ³¹Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. ³²And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto myself. ³³But this he said, signifying by what manner of death he should die. ³⁴The multitude therefore answered him, We have heard out of the law that the Christ abides for ever: and how say you, The Son of man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of man? ³⁵Jesus therefore said unto them, Yet a little while is the light among you. Walk while you have the light, that the darkness not overtake you: and he that walks in the darkness knows not where he goes. ³⁶While you have the light, believe on the light, that you may become sons of light. These things spoke Jesus, and he departed and hid himself from them.

³⁷But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they believed not on him: ³⁸that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, Lord, who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? ³⁹For this cause they could not believe, for that Isaiah said again, ⁴⁰He has blinded their eyes, and he hardened their heart; Unless they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, And should turn, And I should heal them. ⁴¹These things said Isaiah, because he saw his glory; and he spoke of him.

⁴²Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess it, unless they should be put out of the synagogue: ⁴³for they loved the glory that is of men more than the glory that is of God.

⁴⁴And Jesus cried and said, He that believes on me, believes not on me, but on him that sent me. ⁴⁵And he that beholds me beholds him that sent me. ⁴⁶I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believes on me may not abide in the darkness. ⁴⁷And if any man hear my sayings, and keep them not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. ⁴⁸He that rejects me, and receives not my sayings, has one that judges him: the word that I spoke, the same shall judge him in the last day. ⁴⁹For I spoke not from myself; but the Father that sent me, he has given me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. ⁵⁰And I know that his commandment is life eternal: the things therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said unto me, so I speak.

13 Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto his Father, having loved his own that were in the world, he loved them unto the end. ²And during supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him, ³Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all the things into his hands, and that he came forth from God, and goes unto God, ⁴rose up from supper, and laying aside his garments; he took a towel, and girded himself. ⁵Then he poured water into the basin, and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded. ⁶So he comes to Simon Peter. He said unto him, Lord, do you wash my feet? ⁷Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do you know not now; but you shall understand hereafter. ⁸Peter said unto him, You shall never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash you not, you have no part with me. ⁹Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head. ¹⁰Jesus said to him, He that is bathed needs not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and you are clean, but not all. ¹¹For he knew him that should betray him; therefore he said, You are not all clean. ¹²So when he had washed their feet, and taken his garments, and sat down again, he said unto them, Do you know what I have done to you? ¹³You call me, Teacher, and, Lord: and you say well; for so I am. ¹⁴If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. ¹⁵For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you. ¹⁶Truly, truly, I say unto you, a servant is not greater than his lord; neither one that is sent greater than he that sent him. ¹⁷If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

¹⁸I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled: He that eat my bread lifted up his heel against me. ¹⁹From henceforth I tell you before it comes to pass, that, when it is come to pass, you may believe that I am he. ²⁰Truly, truly, I say unto you, he that receives whomsoever I send receives me; and he that receives me receives him that sent me. ²¹When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in the spirit, and testified, and said, Truly, truly, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me. ²²The disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom he spoke. ²³There was at the table reclining in Jesus’ bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved. ²⁴Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, and said unto him, Tell us who it is of whom he speaks. ²⁵He leaning back, as he was, on Jesus’ breast said unto him, Lord, who is it? ²⁶Jesus therefore answered, He it is, for whom I shall dip the sop, and give it to him. So when he had dipped the sop, he takes and gives it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. ²⁷And after the sop, then entered Satan into him. Jesus therefore said unto him, What you do, do quickly. ²⁸Now no man at the table knew for what intent he spoke this unto him. ²⁹For some thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus said unto him, Buy what things we have need of for the feast; or, that he should give something to the poor. ³⁰He then having received the sop went out immediately: and it was night.

³¹When therefore he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him; ³²and God shall glorify him in himself, and immediately shall he glorify him. ³³Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Where I go, you cannot come; so now I say unto you. ³⁴A new commandment I give unto you, that you love one another; even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. ³⁵By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one to another.

³⁶Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, where are you going? Jesus answered, Where I go, you can not follow now; but you shall follow afterwards. ³⁷Peter said unto him, Lord, why cannot I follow you even now? I will lay down my life for you. ³⁸Jesus answered, Will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly, I say unto you, The cock shall not crow, till you have denied me three times.

14 Let not your heart be troubled: believe in God, believe also in me. ²In my Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. ³And if I go and prepare a place for you, I come again, and will receive you unto myself; that where I am, there you may be also.

⁴And where I go, you know the way. ⁵Thomas said unto him, Lord, we know not where you go; so how do we know the way? ⁶Jesus said unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one comes unto the Father, but by me. ⁷If you had known me, you would have known my Father also: from henceforth you know him, and have seen him. ⁸Philip said unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it suffices us. ⁹Jesus said unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and do you not know me, Philip? He that has seen me has seen the Father; how say you, Show us the Father? ¹⁰Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I say unto you I speak not from myself: but the Father abiding in me does his works. ¹¹Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake.

¹²Truly, truly, I say unto you, he that believes on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto the Father. ¹³And whatsoever you shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. ¹⁴If you shall ask anything in my name, that will I do.

¹⁵If you love me, you will keep my commandments. ¹⁶And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may be with you for ever, ¹⁷even the Spirit of truth: whom the world cannot receive; for it beholds him not, neither knows him: you know him; for he abides with you, and shall be in you.