4:13 Jesus replied, 1 “Everyone who drinks some of this water will be thirsty 2 again. 4:14 But whoever drinks some of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again, 3 but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain 4 of water springing up 5 to eternal life.”
16:1 “I have told you all these things so that you will not fall away. 9 16:2 They will put you out of 10 the synagogue, 11 yet a time 12 is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God. 13 16:3 They 14 will do these things because they have not known the Father or me. 15 16:4 But I have told you these things 16 so that when their time 17 comes, you will remember that I told you about them. 18
“I did not tell you these things from the beginning because I was with you. 19 16:5 But now I am going to the one who sent me, 20 and not one of you is asking me, ‘Where are you going?’ 21 16:6 Instead your hearts are filled with sadness 22 because I have said these things to you. 16:7 But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I am going away. For if I do not go away, the Advocate 23 will not come to you, but if I go, I will send him to you. 16:8 And when he 24 comes, he will prove the world wrong 25 concerning sin and 26 righteousness and 27 judgment – 16:9 concerning sin, because 28 they do not believe in me; 29 16:10 concerning righteousness, 30 because 31 I am going to the Father and you will see me no longer; 16:11 and concerning judgment, 32 because 33 the ruler of this world 34 has been condemned. 35
16:12 “I have many more things to say to you, 36 but you cannot bear 37 them now. 16:13 But when he, 38 the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide 39 you into all truth. 40 For he will not speak on his own authority, 41 but will speak whatever he hears, and will tell you 42 what is to come. 43 16:14 He 44 will glorify me, 45 because he will receive 46 from me what is mine 47 and will tell it to you. 48 16:15 Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said the Spirit 49 will receive from me what is mine 50 and will tell it to you. 51 16:16 In a little while you 52 will see me no longer; again after a little while, you 53 will see me.” 54
16:17 Then some of his disciples said to one another, “What is the meaning of what he is saying, 55 ‘In a little while you 56 will not see me; again after a little while, you 57 will see me,’ and, ‘because I am going to the Father’?” 58 16:18 So they kept on repeating, 59 “What is the meaning of what he says, 60 ‘In a little while’? 61 We do not understand 62 what he is talking about.” 63
16:19 Jesus could see 64 that they wanted to ask him about these things, 65 so 66 he said to them, “Are you asking 67 each other about this – that I said, ‘In a little while you 68 will not see me; again after a little while, you 69 will see me’? 16:20 I tell you the solemn truth, 70 you will weep 71 and wail, 72 but the world will rejoice; you will be sad, 73 but your sadness will turn into 74 joy. 16:21 When a woman gives birth, she has distress 75 because her time 76 has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being 77 has been born into the world. 78 16:22 So also you have sorrow 79 now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you. 80 16:23 At that time 81 you will ask me nothing. I tell you the solemn truth, 82 whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you. 83 16:24 Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive it, 84 so that your joy may be complete.
16:25 “I have told you these things in obscure figures of speech; 85 a time 86 is coming when I will no longer speak to you in obscure figures, but will tell you 87 plainly 88 about the Father. 16:26 At that time 89 you will ask in my name, and I do not say 90 that I will ask the Father on your behalf. 16:27 For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God. 91 16:28 I came from the Father and entered into the world, but in turn, 92 I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.” 93
16:29 His disciples said, “Look, now you are speaking plainly 94 and not in obscure figures of speech! 95 16:30 Now we know that you know everything 96 and do not need anyone 97 to ask you anything. 98 Because of this 99 we believe that you have come from God.”
16:31 Jesus replied, 100 “Do you now believe? 16:32 Look, a time 101 is coming – and has come – when you will be scattered, each one to his own home, 102 and I will be left alone. 103 Yet 104 I am not alone, because my Father 105 is with me. 16:33 I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble and suffering, 106 but take courage 107 – I have conquered the world.” 108
17:1 When Jesus had finished saying these things, he looked upward 109 to heaven 110 and said, “Father, the time 111 has come. Glorify your Son, so that your 112 Son may glorify you – 17:2 just as you have given him authority over all humanity, 113 so that he may give eternal life to everyone you have given him. 114 17:3 Now this 115 is eternal life 116 – that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, 117 whom you sent. 17:4 I glorified you on earth by completing 118 the work you gave me to do. 119 17:5 And now, Father, glorify me at your side 120 with the glory I had with you before the world was created. 121
17:6 “I have revealed 122 your name to the men 123 you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, 124 and you gave them to me, and they have obeyed 125 your word. 17:7 Now they understand 126 that everything 127 you have given me comes from you, 17:8 because I have given them the words you have given me. They 128 accepted 129 them 130 and really 131 understand 132 that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me. 17:9 I am praying 133 on behalf of them. I am not praying 134 on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those you have given me, because they belong to you. 135 17:10 Everything 136 I have belongs to you, 137 and everything you have belongs to me, 138 and I have been glorified by them. 139 17:11 I 140 am no longer in the world, but 141 they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them safe 142 in your name 143 that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one. 144 17:12 When I was with them I kept them safe 145 and watched over them 146 in your name 147 that you have given me. Not one 148 of them was lost except the one destined for destruction, 149 so that the scripture could be fulfilled. 150 17:13 But now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world, so they may experience 151 my joy completed 152 in themselves. 17:14 I have given them your word, 153 and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, 154 just as I do not belong to the world. 155 17:15 I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but that you keep them safe 156 from the evil one. 157 17:16 They do not belong to the world 158 just as I do not belong to the world. 159 17:17 Set them apart 160 in the truth; your word is truth. 17:18 Just as you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world. 161 17:19 And I set myself apart 162 on their behalf, 163 so that they too may be truly set apart. 164
17:20 “I am not praying 165 only on their behalf, but also on behalf of those who believe 166 in me through their testimony, 167 17:21 that they will all be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you. I pray 168 that they will be in us, so that the world will believe that you sent me. 17:22 The glory 169 you gave to me I have given to them, that they may be one just as we are one – 17:23 I in them and you in me – that they may be completely one, 170 so that the world will know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me.
17:24 “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, 171 so that they can see my glory that you gave me because you loved me before the creation of the world 172 . 17:25 Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you, I know you, and these men 173 know that you sent me. 17:26 I made known your name to them, and I will continue to make it known, 174 so that the love you have loved me with may be in them, and I may be in them.”
1:1 In the beginning 175 was the Word, and the Word was with God, 176 and the Word was fully God. 177 1:2 The Word 178 was with God in the beginning. 1:3 All things were created 179 by him, and apart from him not one thing was created 180 that has been created. 181 1:4 In him was life, 182 and the life was the light of mankind. 183 1:5 And the light shines on 184 in the darkness, 185 but 186 the darkness has not mastered it. 187
1:6 A man came, sent from God, whose name was John. 188 1:7 He came as a witness 189 to testify 190 about the light, so that everyone 191 might believe through him. 1:8 He himself was not the light, but he came to testify 192 about the light. 1:9 The true light, who gives light to everyone, 193 was coming into the world. 194 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was created 195 by him, but 196 the world did not recognize 197 him. 1:11 He came to what was his own, 198 but 199 his own people 200 did not receive him. 201 1:12 But to all who have received him – those who believe in his name 202 – he has given the right to become God’s children 1:13 – children not born 203 by human parents 204 or by human desire 205 or a husband’s 206 decision, 207 but by God.
1:14 Now 208 the Word became flesh 209 and took up residence 210 among us. We 211 saw his glory – the glory of the one and only, 212 full of grace and truth, who came from the Father. 1:15 John 213 testified 214 about him and shouted out, 215 “This one was the one about whom I said, ‘He who comes after me is greater than I am, 216 because he existed before me.’” 1:16 For we have all received from his fullness one gracious gift after another. 217 1:17 For the law was given through Moses, but 218 grace and truth came about through Jesus Christ. 1:18 No one has ever seen God. The only one, 219 himself God, who is in closest fellowship with 220 the Father, has made God 221 known. 222
1:19 Now 223 this was 224 John’s 225 testimony 226 when the Jewish leaders 227 sent 228 priests and Levites from Jerusalem 229 to ask him, “Who are you?” 230 1:20 He confessed – he did not deny but confessed – “I am not the Christ!” 231 1:21 So they asked him, “Then who are you? 232 Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not!” 233 “Are you the Prophet?” 234 He answered, “No!” 1:22 Then they said to him, “Who are you? Tell us 235 so that we can give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”
1:23 John 236 said, “I am the voice of one shouting in the wilderness, ‘Make straight 237 the way for the Lord,’ 238 as Isaiah the prophet said.” 1:24 (Now they had been sent from the Pharisees. 239 ) 240 1:25 So they asked John, 241 “Why then are you baptizing if you are not the Christ, 242 nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”
1:26 John answered them, 243 “I baptize with water. Among you stands one whom you do not recognize, 244 1:27 who is coming after me. I am not worthy 245 to untie the strap 246 of his sandal!” 1:28 These things happened in Bethany 247 across the Jordan River 248 where John was baptizing.
1:29 On the next day John 249 saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God 250 who takes away the sin of the world! 1:30 This is the one about whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who is greater than I am, 251 because he existed before me.’ 1:31 I did not recognize 252 him, but I came baptizing with water so that he could be revealed to Israel.” 253
1:32 Then 254 John testified, 255 “I saw the Spirit descending like a dove 256 from heaven, 257 and it remained on him. 258 1:33 And I did not recognize him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘The one on whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining – this is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’ 1:34 I have both seen and testified that this man is the Chosen One of God.” 259
1:35 Again the next day John 260 was standing there 261 with two of his disciples. 1:36 Gazing at Jesus as he walked by, he said, “Look, the Lamb of God!” 262 1:37 When John’s 263 two disciples heard him say this, 264 they followed Jesus. 265 1:38 Jesus turned around and saw them following and said to them, “What do you want?” 266 So they said to him, “Rabbi” (which is translated Teacher), 267 “where are you staying?” 1:39 Jesus 268 answered, 269 “Come and you will see.” So they came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. Now it was about four o’clock in the afternoon. 270
1:40 Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two disciples who heard what John said 271 and followed Jesus. 272 1:41 He first 273 found his own brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah!” 274 (which is translated Christ). 275 1:42 Andrew brought Simon 276 to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon, the son of John. 277 You will be called Cephas” (which is translated Peter). 278
1:43 On the next day Jesus 279 wanted to set out for Galilee. 280 He 281 found Philip and said 282 to him, “Follow me.” 1:44 (Now Philip was from Bethsaida, 283 the town of 284 Andrew and Peter.) 1:45 Philip found Nathanael 285 and told him, “We have found the one Moses wrote about in the law, and the prophets also 286 wrote about – Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.” 1:46 Nathanael 287 replied, 288 “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” 289 Philip replied, 290 “Come and see.”
1:47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and exclaimed, 291 “Look, a true Israelite in whom there is no deceit!” 292 1:48 Nathanael asked him, “How do you know me?” Jesus replied, 293 “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, 294 I saw you.” 1:49 Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the king 295 of Israel!” 296 1:50 Jesus said to him, 297 “Because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You will see greater things than these.” 298 1:51 He continued, 299 “I tell all of you the solemn truth 300 – you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.” 301
7:1 After this 307 Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. 308 He 309 stayed out of Judea 310 because the Jewish leaders 311 wanted 312 to kill him. 7:2 Now the Jewish feast of Tabernacles 313 was near. 314 7:3 So Jesus’ brothers 315 advised him, “Leave here and go to Judea so your disciples may see your miracles that you are performing. 316 7:4 For no one who seeks to make a reputation for himself 317 does anything in secret. 318 If you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.” 7:5 (For not even his own brothers believed in him.) 319
7:6 So Jesus replied, 320 “My time 321 has not yet arrived, 322 but you are ready at any opportunity! 323 7:7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil. 7:8 You go up 324 to the feast yourselves. I am not going up to this feast 325 because my time 326 has not yet fully arrived.” 327 7:9 When he had said this, he remained in Galilee.
7:10 But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then Jesus 328 himself also went up, not openly but in secret. 7:11 So the Jewish leaders 329 were looking for him at the feast, asking, “Where is he?” 330 7:12 There was 331 a lot of grumbling 332 about him among the crowds. 333 Some were saying, “He is a good man,” but others, “He deceives the common people.” 334 7:13 However, no one spoke openly about him for fear of the Jewish leaders. 335
7:14 When the feast was half over, Jesus went up to the temple courts 336 and began to teach. 337 7:15 Then the Jewish leaders 338 were astonished 339 and said, “How does this man know so much when he has never had formal instruction?” 340 7:16 So Jesus replied, 341 “My teaching is not from me, but from the one who sent me. 342 7:17 If anyone wants to do God’s will, 343 he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak from my own authority. 344 7:18 The person who speaks on his own authority 345 desires 346 to receive honor 347 for himself; the one who desires 348 the honor 349 of the one who sent him is a man of integrity, 350 and there is no unrighteousness in him. 7:19 Hasn’t Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps 351 the law! Why do you want 352 to kill me?”
7:20 The crowd 353 answered, “You’re possessed by a demon! 354 Who is trying to kill you?” 355 7:21 Jesus replied, 356 “I performed one miracle 357 and you are all amazed. 358 7:22 However, because Moses gave you the practice of circumcision 359 (not that it came from Moses, but from the forefathers), you circumcise a male child 360 on the Sabbath. 7:23 But if a male child 361 is circumcised 362 on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, 363 why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well 364 on the Sabbath? 7:24 Do not judge according to external appearance, 365 but judge with proper 366 judgment.”
7:25 Then some of the residents of Jerusalem 367 began to say, “Isn’t this the man 368 they are trying 369 to kill? 7:26 Yet here he is, speaking publicly, 370 and they are saying nothing to him. 371 Do the rulers really know that this man 372 is the Christ? 373 7:27 But we know where this man 374 comes from. 375 Whenever the Christ 376 comes, no one will know where he comes from.” 377
7:28 Then Jesus, while teaching in the temple courts, 378 cried out, 379 “You both know me and know where I come from! 380 And I have not come on my own initiative, 381 but the one who sent me 382 is true. You do not know him, 383 7:29 but 384 I know him, because I have come from him 385 and he 386 sent me.”
7:30 So then they tried to seize Jesus, 387 but no one laid a hand on him, because his time 388 had not yet come. 7:31 Yet many of the crowd 389 believed in him and said, “Whenever the Christ 390 comes, he won’t perform more miraculous signs than this man did, will he?” 391
7:32 The Pharisees 392 heard the crowd 393 murmuring these things about Jesus, 394 so the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers 395 to arrest him. 396 7:33 Then Jesus said, “I will be with you for only a little while longer, 397 and then 398 I am going to the one who sent me. 7:34 You will look for me 399 but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come.”
7:35 Then the Jewish leaders 400 said to one another, “Where is he 401 going to go that we cannot find him? 402 He is not going to go to the Jewish people dispersed 403 among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he? 404 7:36 What did he mean by saying, 405 ‘You will look for me 406 but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come’?”
7:37 On the last day of the feast, the greatest day, 407 Jesus stood up and shouted out, 408 “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and 7:38 let the one who believes in me drink. 409 Just as the scripture says, ‘From within him 410 will flow rivers of living water.’” 411 7:39 (Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were going to receive, for the Spirit had not yet been given, 412 because Jesus was not yet glorified.) 413
7:40 When they heard these words, some of the crowd 414 began to say, “This really 415 is the Prophet!” 416 7:41 Others said, “This is the Christ!” 417 But still others said, “No, 418 for the Christ doesn’t come from Galilee, does he? 419 7:42 Don’t the scriptures say that the Christ is a descendant 420 of David 421 and comes from Bethlehem, 422 the village where David lived?” 423 7:43 So there was a division in the crowd 424 because of Jesus. 425 7:44 Some of them were wanting to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him. 426
7:45 Then the officers 427 returned 428 to the chief priests and Pharisees, 429 who said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him back with you?” 430 7:46 The officers replied, “No one ever spoke like this man!” 7:47 Then the Pharisees answered, 431 “You haven’t been deceived too, have you? 432 7:48 None of the rulers 433 or the Pharisees have believed in him, have they? 434 7:49 But this rabble 435 who do not know the law are accursed!”
7:50 Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus 436 before and who was one of the rulers, 437 said, 438 7:51 “Our law doesn’t condemn 439 a man unless it first hears from him and learns 440 what he is doing, does it?” 441 7:52 They replied, 442 “You aren’t from Galilee too, are you? 443 Investigate carefully and you will see that no prophet 444 comes from Galilee!”
7:53 445 [[And each one departed to his own house. 8:1 But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 446 8:2 Early in the morning he came to the temple courts again. All the people came to him, and he sat down and began to teach 447 them. 8:3 The experts in the law 448 and the Pharisees 449 brought a woman who had been caught committing adultery. They made her stand in front of them 8:4 and said to Jesus, 450 “Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of adultery. 8:5 In the law Moses commanded us to stone to death 451 such women. 452 What then do you say?” 8:6 (Now they were asking this in an attempt to trap him, so that they could bring charges against 453 him.) 454 Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger. 455 8:7 When they persisted in asking him, he stood up straight 456 and replied, 457 “Whoever among you is guiltless 458 may be the first to throw a stone at her.” 8:8 Then 459 he bent over again and wrote on the ground.
8:9 Now when they heard this, they began to drift away one at a time, starting with the older ones, 460 until Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. 8:10 Jesus stood up straight 461 and said to her, “Woman, 462 where are they? Did no one condemn you?” 8:11 She replied, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “I do not condemn you either. Go, and from now on do not sin any more.”]] 463
8:12 Then Jesus spoke out again, 464 “I am the light of the world. 465 The one who follows me will never 466 walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” 8:13 So the Pharisees 467 objected, 468 “You testify about yourself; your testimony is not true!” 469 8:14 Jesus answered, 470 “Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you people 471 do not know where I came from or where I am going. 472 8:15 You people 473 judge by outward appearances; 474 I do not judge anyone. 475 8:16 But if I judge, my evaluation is accurate, 476 because I am not alone when I judge, 477 but I and the Father who sent me do so together. 478 8:17 It is written in your law that the testimony of two men is true. 479 8:18 I testify about myself 480 and the Father who sent me testifies about me.”
8:19 Then they began asking 481 him, “Who is your father?” Jesus answered, “You do not know either me or my Father. If you knew me you would know my Father too.” 482 8:20 (Jesus 483 spoke these words near the offering box 484 while he was teaching in the temple courts. 485 No one seized him because his time 486 had not yet come.) 487
8:21 Then Jesus 488 said to them again, 489 “I am going away, and you will look for me 490 but will die in your sin. 491 Where I am going you cannot come.” 8:22 So the Jewish leaders 492 began to say, 493 “Perhaps he is going to kill himself, because he says, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’” 8:23 Jesus replied, 494 “You people 495 are from below; I am from above. You people are from this world; I am not from this world. 8:24 Thus I told you 496 that you will die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am he, 497 you will die in your sins.”
8:25 So they said to him, “Who are you?” Jesus replied, 498 “What I have told you from the beginning. 8:26 I have many things to say and to judge 499 about you, but the Father 500 who sent me is truthful, 501 and the things I have heard from him I speak to the world.” 502 8:27 (They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father.) 503
8:28 Then Jesus said, 504 “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, 505 and I do nothing on my own initiative, 506 but I speak just what the Father taught me. 507 8:29 And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, 508 because I always do those things that please him.” 8:30 While he was saying these things, many people 509 believed in him.
8:31 Then Jesus said to those Judeans 510 who had believed him, “If you continue to follow my teaching, 511 you are really 512 my disciples 8:32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” 513 8:33 “We are descendants 514 of Abraham,” they replied, 515 “and have never been anyone’s slaves! How can you say, 516 ‘You will become free’?” 8:34 Jesus answered them, “I tell you the solemn truth, 517 everyone who practices 518 sin is a slave 519 of sin. 8:35 The slave does not remain in the family 520 forever, but the son remains forever. 521 8:36 So if the son 522 sets you free, you will be really free. 8:37 I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. 523 But you want 524 to kill me, because my teaching 525 makes no progress among you. 526 8:38 I am telling you the things I have seen while with the 527 Father; 528 as for you, 529 practice the things you have heard from the 530 Father!”
8:39 They answered him, 531 “Abraham is our father!” 532 Jesus replied, 533 “If you are 534 Abraham’s children, you would be doing 535 the deeds of Abraham. 8:40 But now you are trying 536 to kill me, a man who has told you 537 the truth I heard from God. Abraham did not do this! 538 8:41 You people 539 are doing the deeds of your father.”
Then 540 they said to Jesus, 541 “We were not born as a result of immorality! 542 We have only one Father, God himself.” 8:42 Jesus replied, 543 “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. 544 I 545 have not come on my own initiative, 546 but he 547 sent me. 8:43 Why don’t you understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot accept 548 my teaching. 549 8:44 You people 550 are from 551 your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. 552 He 553 was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, 554 because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, 555 he speaks according to his own nature, 556 because he is a liar and the father of lies. 557 8:45 But because I am telling you 558 the truth, you do not believe me. 8:46 Who among you can prove me guilty 559 of any sin? 560 If I am telling you 561 the truth, why don’t you believe me? 8:47 The one who belongs to 562 God listens and responds 563 to God’s words. You don’t listen and respond, 564 because you don’t belong to God.” 565
8:48 The Judeans 566 replied, 567 “Aren’t we correct in saying 568 that you are a Samaritan and are possessed by a demon?” 569 8:49 Jesus answered, “I am not possessed by a demon, 570 but I honor my Father – and yet 571 you dishonor me. 8:50 I am not trying to get 572 praise for myself. 573 There is one who demands 574 it, and he also judges. 575 8:51 I tell you the solemn truth, 576 if anyone obeys 577 my teaching, 578 he will never see death.” 579
8:52 Then 580 the Judeans 581 responded, 582 “Now we know you’re possessed by a demon! 583 Both Abraham and the prophets died, and yet 584 you say, ‘If anyone obeys 585 my teaching, 586 he will never experience 587 death.’ 588 8:53 You aren’t greater than our father Abraham who died, are you? 589 And the prophets died too! Who do you claim to be?” 8:54 Jesus replied, 590 “If I glorify myself, my glory is worthless. 591 The one who glorifies me is my Father, about whom you people 592 say, ‘He is our God.’ 8:55 Yet 593 you do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, 594 I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I obey 595 his teaching. 596 8:56 Your father Abraham was overjoyed 597 to see my day, and he saw it and was glad.” 598
8:57 Then the Judeans 599 replied, 600 “You are not yet fifty years old! 601 Have 602 you seen Abraham?” 8:58 Jesus said to them, “I tell you the solemn truth, 603 before Abraham came into existence, 604 I am!” 605 8:59 Then they picked up 606 stones to throw at him, 607 but Jesus hid himself and went out from the temple area. 608
9:1 Now as Jesus was passing by, 609 he saw a man who had been blind from birth. 9:2 His disciples asked him, 610 “Rabbi, who committed the sin that caused him to be born blind, this man 611 or his parents?” 612 9:3 Jesus answered, “Neither this man 613 nor his parents sinned, but he was born blind so that 614 the acts 615 of God may be revealed 616 through what happens to him. 617 9:4 We must perform the deeds 618 of the one who sent me 619 as long as 620 it is daytime. 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.” 621 9:6 Having said this, 622 he spat on the ground and made some mud 623 with the saliva. He 624 smeared the mud on the blind man’s 625 eyes 9:7 and said to him, “Go wash in the pool of Siloam” 626 (which is translated “sent”). 627 So the blind man 628 went away and washed, and came back seeing.
9:8 Then the neighbors and the people who had seen him previously 629 as a beggar began saying, 630 “Is this not the man 631 who used to sit and beg?” 9:9 Some people said, 632 “This is the man!” 633 while others said, “No, but he looks like him.” 634 The man himself 635 kept insisting, “I am the one!” 636 9:10 So they asked him, 637 “How then were you made to see?” 638 9:11 He replied, 639 “The man called Jesus made mud, 640 smeared it 641 on my eyes and told me, 642 ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed, and was able to see.” 643 9:12 They said 644 to him, “Where is that man?” 645 He replied, 646 “I don’t know.”
9:13 They brought the man who used to be blind 647 to the Pharisees. 648 9:14 (Now the day on which Jesus made the mud 649 and caused him to see 650 was a Sabbath.) 651 9:15 So the Pharisees asked him again how he had gained his sight. 652 He replied, 653 “He put mud 654 on my eyes and I washed, and now 655 I am able to see.”
9:16 Then some of the Pharisees began to say, 656 “This man is not from God, because he does not observe 657 the Sabbath.” 658 But others said, “How can a man who is a sinner perform 659 such miraculous signs?” Thus there was a division 660 among them. 9:17 So again they asked the man who used to be blind, 661 “What do you say about him, since he caused you to see?” 662 “He is a prophet,” the man replied. 663
9:18 Now the Jewish religious leaders 664 refused to believe 665 that he had really been blind and had gained his sight until at last they summoned 666 the parents of the man who had become able to see. 667 9:19 They asked the parents, 668 “Is this your son, whom you say 669 was born blind? Then how does he now see?” 9:20 So his parents replied, 670 “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind. 9:21 But we do not know how he is now able to see, nor do we know who caused him to see. 671 Ask him, he is a mature adult. 672 He will speak for himself.” 9:22 (His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jewish religious leaders. 673 For the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus 674 to be the Christ 675 would be put out 676 of the synagogue. 677 9:23 For this reason his parents said, “He is a mature adult, 678 ask him.”) 679
9:24 Then they summoned 680 the man who used to be blind 681 a second time and said to him, “Promise before God to tell the truth. 682 We know that this man 683 is a sinner.” 9:25 He replied, 684 “I do not know whether he is a sinner. I do know one thing – that although I was blind, now I can see.” 9:26 Then they said to him, “What did he do to you? How did he cause you to see?” 685 9:27 He answered, 686 “I told you already and you didn’t listen. 687 Why do you want to hear it 688 again? You people 689 don’t want to become his disciples too, do you?”
9:28 They 690 heaped insults 691 on him, saying, 692 “You are his disciple! 693 We are disciples of Moses! 9:29 We know that God has spoken to Moses! We do not know where this man 694 comes from!” 9:30 The man replied, 695 “This is a remarkable thing, 696 that you don’t know where he comes from, and yet he caused me to see! 697 9:31 We know that God doesn’t listen to 698 sinners, but if anyone is devout 699 and does his will, God 700 listens to 701 him. 702 9:32 Never before 703 has anyone heard of someone causing a man born blind to see. 704 9:33 If this man 705 were not from God, he could do nothing.” 9:34 They replied, 706 “You were born completely in sinfulness, 707 and yet you presume to teach us?” 708 So they threw him out.
9:35 Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, so he found the man 709 and said to him, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?” 710 9:36 The man 711 replied, 712 “And who is he, sir, that 713 I may believe in him?” 9:37 Jesus told him, “You have seen him; he 714 is the one speaking with you.” 715 9:38 [He said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him. 716 9:39 Jesus 717 said,] 718 “For judgment I have come into this world, so that those who do not see may gain their sight, 719 and the ones who see may become blind.”
9:40 Some of the Pharisees 720 who were with him heard this 721 and asked him, 722 “We are not blind too, are we?” 723 9:41 Jesus replied, 724 “If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin, 725 but now because you claim that you can see, 726 your guilt 727 remains.” 728
10:1 “I tell you the solemn truth, 729 the one who does not enter the sheepfold 730 by the door, 731 but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber. 10:2 The one who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 10:3 The doorkeeper 732 opens the door 733 for him, 734 and the sheep hear his voice. He 735 calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 736 10:4 When he has brought all his own sheep 737 out, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they recognize 738 his voice. 10:5 They will never follow a stranger, 739 but will run away from him, because they do not recognize 740 the stranger’s voice.” 741 10:6 Jesus told them this parable, 742 but they 743 did not understand 744 what he was saying to them.
10:7 So Jesus said to them again, “I tell you the solemn truth, 745 I am the door for the sheep. 746 10:8 All who came before me were 747 thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. 748 10:9 I am the door. If anyone enters through me, he will be saved, and will come in and go out, 749 and find pasture. 750 10:10 The thief comes only to steal and kill 751 and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and may have it abundantly. 752
10:11 “I am the good 753 shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life 754 for the sheep. 10:12 The hired hand, 755 who is not a shepherd and does not own sheep, sees the wolf coming and abandons 756 the sheep and runs away. 757 So the wolf attacks 758 the sheep and scatters them. 10:13 Because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep, 759 he runs away. 760
10:14 “I am the good shepherd. I 761 know my own 762 and my own know me – 10:15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father – and I lay down my life 763 for 764 the sheep. 10:16 I have 765 other sheep that do not come from 766 this sheepfold. 767 I must bring them too, and they will listen to my voice, 768 so that 769 there will be one flock and 770 one shepherd. 10:17 This is why the Father loves me 771 – because I lay down my life, 772 so that I may take it back again. 10:18 No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down 773 of my own free will. 774 I have the authority 775 to lay it down, and I have the authority 776 to take it back again. This commandment 777 I received from my Father.”
10:19 Another sharp division took place among the Jewish people 778 because of these words. 10:20 Many of them were saying, “He is possessed by a demon and has lost his mind! 779 Why do you listen to him?” 10:21 Others said, “These are not the words 780 of someone possessed by a demon. A demon cannot cause the blind to see, 781 can it?” 782
10:22 Then came the feast of the Dedication 783 in Jerusalem. 784 10:23 It was winter, 785 and Jesus was walking in the temple area 786 in Solomon’s Portico. 787 10:24 The Jewish leaders 788 surrounded him and asked, 789 “How long will you keep us in suspense? 790 If you are the Christ, 791 tell us plainly.” 792 10:25 Jesus replied, 793 “I told you and you do not believe. The deeds 794 I do in my Father’s name testify about me. 10:26 But you refuse to believe because you are not my sheep. 10:27 My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 10:28 I give 795 them eternal life, and they will never perish; 796 no one will snatch 797 them from my hand. 10:29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, 798 and no one can snatch 799 them from my Father’s hand. 10:30 The Father and I 800 are one.” 801
10:31 The Jewish leaders 802 picked up rocks again to stone him to death. 10:32 Jesus said to them, 803 “I have shown you many good deeds 804 from the Father. For which one of them are you going to stone me?” 10:33 The Jewish leaders 805 replied, 806 “We are not going to stone you for a good deed 807 but for blasphemy, 808 because 809 you, a man, are claiming to be God.” 810
10:34 Jesus answered, 811 “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods’? 812 10:35 If those people to whom the word of God came were called ‘gods’ (and the scripture cannot be broken), 813 10:36 do you say about the one whom the Father set apart 814 and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? 10:37 If I do not perform 815 the deeds 816 of my Father, do not believe me. 10:38 But if I do them, even if you do not believe me, believe the deeds, 817 so that you may come to know 818 and understand that I am in the Father and the Father is in me.” 10:39 Then 819 they attempted 820 again to seize him, but he escaped their clutches. 821
10:40 Jesus 822 went back across the Jordan River 823 again to the place where John 824 had been baptizing at an earlier time, 825 and he stayed there. 10:41 Many 826 came to him and began to say, “John 827 performed 828 no miraculous sign, but everything John said about this man 829 was true!” 10:42 And many believed in Jesus 830 there.
11:1 Now a certain man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village where Mary and her sister Martha lived. 831 11:2 (Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil 832 and wiped his feet dry with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) 833 11:3 So the sisters sent a message 834 to Jesus, 835 “Lord, look, the one you love is sick.” 11:4 When Jesus heard this, he said, “This sickness will not lead to death, 836 but to God’s glory, 837 so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” 838 11:5 (Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.) 839
11:6 So when he heard that Lazarus 840 was sick, he remained in the place where he was for two more days. 11:7 Then after this, he said to his disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.” 841 11:8 The disciples replied, 842 “Rabbi, the Jewish leaders 843 were just now trying 844 to stone you to death! Are 845 you going there again?” 11:9 Jesus replied, 846 “Are there not twelve hours in a day? If anyone walks around in the daytime, he does not stumble, 847 because he sees the light of this world. 848 11:10 But if anyone walks around at night, 849 he stumbles, 850 because the light is not in him.”
11:11 After he said this, he added, 851 “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep. 852 But I am going there to awaken him.” 11:12 Then the disciples replied, 853 “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.” 11:13 (Now Jesus had been talking about 854 his death, but they 855 thought he had been talking about real sleep.) 856
11:14 Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus has died, 11:15 and I am glad 857 for your sake that I was not there, so that you may believe. 858 But let us go to him.” 11:16 So Thomas (called Didymus 859 ) 860 said to his fellow disciples, “Let us go too, so that we may die with him.” 861
11:17 When 862 Jesus arrived, 863 he found that Lazarus 864 had been in the tomb four days already. 865 11:18 (Now Bethany was less than two miles 866 from Jerusalem, 867 11:19 so many of the Jewish people of the region 868 had come to Martha and Mary to console them 869 over the loss of their brother.) 870 11:20 So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary was sitting in the house. 871 11:21 Martha 872 said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. 11:22 But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will grant 873 you.” 874
11:23 Jesus replied, 875 “Your brother will come back to life again.” 876 11:24 Martha said, 877 “I know that he will come back to life again 878 in the resurrection at the last day.” 11:25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live 879 even if he dies, 11:26 and the one who lives and believes in me will never die. 880 Do you believe this?” 11:27 She replied, 881 “Yes, Lord, I believe 882 that you are the Christ, 883 the Son of God who comes into the world.” 884
11:28 And when she had said this, Martha 885 went and called her sister Mary, saying privately, 886 “The Teacher is here and is asking for you.” 887 11:29 So when Mary 888 heard this, she got up quickly and went to him. 11:30 (Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still in the place where Martha had come out to meet him.) 11:31 Then the people 889 who were with Mary 890 in the house consoling her saw her 891 get up quickly and go out. They followed her, because they thought she was going to the tomb to weep 892 there.
11:32 Now when Mary came to the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” 11:33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the people 893 who had come with her weeping, he was intensely moved 894 in spirit and greatly distressed. 895 11:34 He asked, 896 “Where have you laid him?” 897 They replied, 898 “Lord, come and see.” 11:35 Jesus wept. 899 11:36 Thus the people who had come to mourn 900 said, “Look how much he loved him!” 11:37 But some of them said, “This is the man who caused the blind man to see! 901 Couldn’t he have done something to keep Lazarus 902 from dying?”
11:38 Jesus, intensely moved 903 again, came to the tomb. (Now it was a cave, and a stone was placed across it.) 904 11:39 Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” 905 Martha, the sister of the deceased, 906 replied, “Lord, by this time the body will have a bad smell, 907 because he has been buried 908 four days.” 909 11:40 Jesus responded, 910 “Didn’t I tell you that if you believe, you would see the glory of God?” 11:41 So they took away 911 the stone. Jesus looked upward 912 and said, “Father, I thank you that you have listened to me. 913 11:42 I knew that you always listen to me, 914 but I said this 915 for the sake of the crowd standing around here, that they may believe that you sent me.” 11:43 When 916 he had said this, he shouted in a loud voice, 917 “Lazarus, come out!” 11:44 The one who had died came out, his feet and hands tied up with strips of cloth, 918 and a cloth wrapped around his face. 919 Jesus said to them, “Unwrap him 920 and let him go.”
11:45 Then many of the people, 921 who had come with Mary and had seen the things Jesus 922 did, believed in him. 11:46 But some of them went to the Pharisees 923 and reported to them 924 what Jesus had done. 11:47 So the chief priests and the Pharisees 925 called the council 926 together and said, “What are we doing? For this man is performing many miraculous signs. 11:48 If we allow him to go on in this way, 927 everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away our sanctuary 928 and our nation.”
11:49 Then one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said, 929 “You know nothing at all! 11:50 You do not realize 930 that it is more to your advantage to have one man 931 die for the people than for the whole nation to perish.” 932 11:51 (Now he did not say this on his own, 933 but because he was high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the Jewish nation, 934 11:52 and not for the Jewish nation 935 only, 936 but to gather together 937 into one the children of God who are scattered.) 938 11:53 So from that day they planned together to kill him.
11:54 Thus Jesus no longer went 939 around publicly 940 among the Judeans, 941 but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, 942 and stayed there with his disciples. 11:55 Now the Jewish feast of Passover 943 was near, and many people went up to Jerusalem 944 from the rural areas before the Passover to cleanse themselves ritually. 945 11:56 Thus they were looking for Jesus, 946 and saying to one another as they stood in the temple courts, 947 “What do you think? That he won’t come to the feast?” 11:57 (Now the chief priests and the Pharisees 948 had given orders that anyone who knew where Jesus 949 was should report it, so that they could arrest 950 him.) 951
12:1 Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom he 952 had raised from the dead. 12:2 So they prepared a dinner for Jesus 953 there. Martha 954 was serving, and Lazarus was among those present at the table 955 with him. 12:3 Then Mary took three quarters of a pound 956 of expensive aromatic oil from pure nard 957 and anointed the feet of Jesus. She 958 then wiped his feet dry with her hair. (Now the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfumed oil.) 959 12:4 But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who was going to betray him) 960 said, 12:5 “Why wasn’t this oil sold for three hundred silver coins 961 and the money 962 given to the poor?” 12:6 (Now Judas 963 said this not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief. As keeper of the money box, 964 he used to steal what was put into it.) 965 12:7 So Jesus said, “Leave her alone. She has kept it for the day of my burial. 966 12:8 For you will always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me!” 967
12:9 Now a large crowd of Judeans 968 learned 969 that Jesus 970 was there, and so they came not only because of him 971 but also to see Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead. 12:10 So the chief priests planned to kill Lazarus too, 972 12:11 for on account of him many of the Jewish people from Jerusalem 973 were going away and believing in Jesus.
12:12 The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. 974 12:13 So they took branches of palm trees 975 and went out to meet him. They began to shout, 976 “Hosanna! 977 Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! 978 Blessed is 979 the king of Israel!” 12:14 Jesus found a young donkey 980 and sat on it, just as it is written, 12:15 “Do not be afraid, people of Zion; 981 look, your king is coming, seated on a donkey’s colt!” 982 12:16 (His disciples did not understand these things when they first happened, 983 but when Jesus was glorified, 984 then they remembered that these things were written about him and that these things had happened 985 to him.) 986
12:17 So the crowd who had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead were continuing to testify about it. 987 12:18 Because they had heard that Jesus 988 had performed this miraculous sign, the crowd went out to meet him. 12:19 Thus the Pharisees 989 said to one another, “You see that you can do nothing. Look, the world has run off after him!”
12:20 Now some Greeks 990 were among those who had gone up to worship at the feast. 12:21 So these approached Philip, 991 who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and requested, 992 “Sir, we would like to see Jesus.” 12:22 Philip went and told Andrew, and they both 993 went and told Jesus. 12:23 Jesus replied, 994 “The time 995 has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. 996 12:24 I tell you the solemn truth, 997 unless a kernel of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains by itself alone. 998 But if it dies, it produces 999 much grain. 1000 12:25 The one who loves his life 1001 destroys 1002 it, and the one who hates his life in this world guards 1003 it for eternal life. 12:26 If anyone wants to serve me, he must follow 1004 me, and where I am, my servant will be too. 1005 If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
12:27 “Now my soul is greatly distressed. And what should I say? ‘Father, deliver me 1006 from this hour’? 1007 No, but for this very reason I have come to this hour. 1008 12:28 Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven, 1009 “I have glorified it, 1010 and I will glorify it 1011 again.” 12:29 The crowd that stood there and heard the voice 1012 said that it had thundered. Others said that an angel had spoken to him. 1013 12:30 Jesus said, 1014 “This voice has not come for my benefit 1015 but for yours. 12:31 Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world 1016 will be driven out. 1017 12:32 And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people 1018 to myself.” 12:33 (Now he said this to indicate clearly what kind of death he was going to die.) 1019
12:34 Then the crowd responded, 1020 “We have heard from the law that the Christ 1021 will remain forever. 1022 How 1023 can you say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this Son of Man?” 12:35 Jesus replied, 1024 “The light is with you for a little while longer. 1025 Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. 1026 The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going. 12:36 While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become sons of light.” 1027 When Jesus had said these things, he went away and hid himself from them.
12:37 Although Jesus 1028 had performed 1029 so many miraculous signs before them, they still refused to believe in him, 12:38 so that the word 1030 of Isaiah the prophet would be fulfilled. He said, 1031 “Lord, who has believed our message, and to whom has the arm of the Lord 1032 been revealed?” 1033 12:39 For this reason they could not believe, 1034 because again Isaiah said,
12:40 “He has blinded their eyes
and hardened their heart, 1035
so that they would not see with their eyes
and understand with their heart, 1036
and turn to me, 1037 and I would heal them.” 1038
12:41 Isaiah said these things because he saw Christ’s 1039 glory, and spoke about him.
12:42 Nevertheless, even among the rulers 1040 many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees 1041 they would not confess Jesus to be the Christ, 1042 so that they would not be put out of 1043 the synagogue. 1044 12:43 For they loved praise 1045 from men more than praise 1046 from God.
12:44 But Jesus shouted out, 1047 “The one who believes in me does not believe in me, but in the one who sent me, 1048 12:45 and the one who sees me sees the one who sent me. 1049 12:46 I have come as a light into the world, so that everyone who believes in me should not remain in darkness. 12:47 If anyone 1050 hears my words and does not obey them, 1051 I do not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world. 1052 12:48 The one who rejects me and does not accept 1053 my words has a judge; 1054 the word 1055 I have spoken will judge him at the last day. 12:49 For I have not spoken from my own authority, 1056 but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me 1057 what I should say and what I should speak. 12:50 And I know that his commandment is eternal life. 1058 Thus the things I say, I say just as the Father has told me.” 1059
13:1 Just before the Passover feast, Jesus knew that his time 1060 had come to depart 1061 from this world to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now loved them to the very end. 1062 13:2 The evening meal 1063 was in progress, and the devil had already put into the heart 1064 of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, that he should betray 1065 Jesus. 1066 13:3 Because Jesus 1067 knew that the Father had handed all things over to him, 1068 and that he had come from God and was going back to God, 13:4 he got up from the meal, removed 1069 his outer clothes, 1070 took a towel and tied it around himself. 1071 13:5 He poured water into the washbasin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to dry them with the towel he had wrapped around himself. 1072
13:6 Then he came to Simon Peter. Peter 1073 said to him, “Lord, are you going to wash 1074 my feet?” 13:7 Jesus replied, 1075 “You do not understand 1076 what I am doing now, but you will understand 1077 after these things.” 13:8 Peter said to him, “You will never wash my feet!” 1078 Jesus replied, 1079 “If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.” 1080 13:9 Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, wash 1081 not only my feet, but also my hands and my head!” 13:10 Jesus replied, 1082 “The one who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, 1083 but is completely 1084 clean. 1085 And you disciples 1086 are clean, but not every one of you.” 13:11 (For Jesus 1087 knew the one who was going to betray him. For this reason he said, “Not every one of you is 1088 clean.”) 1089
13:12 So when Jesus 1090 had washed their feet and put his outer clothing back on, he took his place at the table 1091 again and said to them, “Do you understand 1092 what I have done for you? 13:13 You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and do so correctly, 1093 for that is what I am. 1094 13:14 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you too ought to wash one another’s feet. 13:15 For I have given you an example 1095 – you should do just as I have done for you. 13:16 I tell you the solemn truth, 1096 the slave 1097 is not greater than his master, nor is the one who is sent as a messenger 1098 greater than the one who sent him. 13:17 If you understand 1099 these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
13:18 “What I am saying does not refer to all of you. I know the ones I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the scripture, 1100 ‘The one who eats my bread 1101 has turned against me.’ 1102 13:19 I am telling you this now, 1103 before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe 1104 that I am he. 1105 13:20 I tell you the solemn truth, 1106 whoever accepts 1107 the one I send accepts me, and whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me.” 1108
13:21 When he had said these things, Jesus was greatly distressed 1109 in spirit, and testified, 1110 “I tell you the solemn truth, 1111 one of you will betray me.” 1112 13:22 The disciples began to look at one another, worried and perplexed 1113 to know which of them he was talking about. 13:23 One of his disciples, the one Jesus loved, 1114 was at the table 1115 to the right of Jesus in a place of honor. 1116 13:24 So Simon Peter 1117 gestured to this disciple 1118 to ask Jesus 1119 who it was he was referring to. 1120 13:25 Then the disciple whom Jesus loved 1121 leaned back against Jesus’ chest and asked him, “Lord, who is it?” 13:26 Jesus replied, 1122 “It is the one to whom I will give this piece of bread 1123 after I have dipped it in the dish.” 1124 Then he dipped the piece of bread in the dish 1125 and gave it to Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son. 13:27 And after Judas 1126 took the piece of bread, Satan entered into him. 1127 Jesus said to him, 1128 “What you are about to do, do quickly.” 13:28 (Now none of those present at the table 1129 understood 1130 why Jesus 1131 said this to Judas. 1132 13:29 Some thought that, because Judas had the money box, Jesus was telling him to buy whatever they needed for the feast, 1133 or to give something to the poor.) 1134 13:30 Judas 1135 took the piece of bread and went out immediately. (Now it was night.) 1136
13:31 When 1137 Judas 1138 had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in him. 13:32 If God is glorified in him, 1139 God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him right away. 1140 13:33 Children, I am still with you for a little while. You will look for me, 1141 and just as I said to the Jewish religious leaders, 1142 ‘Where I am going you cannot come,’ 1143 now I tell you the same. 1144
13:34 “I give you a new commandment – to love 1145 one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 1146 13:35 Everyone 1147 will know by this 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 replied, 1148 “Where I am going, you cannot follow me now, but you will follow later.” 13:37 Peter said to him, “Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you!” 1149 13:38 Jesus answered, “Will you lay down your life for me? 1150 I tell you the solemn truth, 1151 the rooster will not crow until you have denied me three times!
14:1 “Do not let your hearts be distressed. 1152 You believe in God; 1153 believe also in me. 14:2 There are many dwelling places 1154 in my Father’s house. 1155 Otherwise, I would have told you, because 1156 I am going away to make ready 1157 a place for you. 1158 14:3 And if I go and make ready 1159 a place for you, I will come again and take you 1160 to be with me, 1161 so that where I am you may be too. 14:4 And you know the way where I am going.” 1162
14:5 Thomas said, 1163 “Lord, we don’t know where you are going. How can we know the way?” 14:6 Jesus replied, 1164 “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. 1165 No one comes to the Father except through me. 14:7 If you have known me, you will know my Father too. 1166 And from now on you do know him and have seen him.”
14:8 Philip said, 1167 “Lord, show us the Father, and we will be content.” 1168 14:9 Jesus replied, 1169 “Have I been with you for so long, and you have not known 1170 me, Philip? The person who 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? 1171 The words that I say to you, I do not speak on my own initiative, 1172 but the Father residing in me performs 1173 his miraculous deeds. 1174 14:11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me, but if you do not believe me, 1175 believe because of the miraculous deeds 1176 themselves. 14:12 I tell you the solemn truth, 1177 the person who believes in me will perform 1178 the miraculous deeds 1179 that I am doing, 1180 and will perform 1181 greater deeds 1182 than these, because I am going to the Father. 14:13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, 1183 so that the Father may be glorified 1184 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 obey 1185 my commandments. 1186 14:16 Then 1187 I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate 1188 to be with you forever – 14:17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, 1189 because it does not see him or know him. But you know him, because he resides 1190 with you and will be 1191 in you.
14:18 “I will not abandon 1192 you as orphans, 1193 I will come to you. 1194 14:19 In a little while 1195 the world will not see me any longer, but you will see me; because I live, you will live too. 14:20 You will know at that time 1196 that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you. 14:21 The person who has my commandments and obeys 1197 them is the one who loves me. 1198 The one 1199 who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal 1200 myself to him.”
14:22 “Lord,” Judas (not Judas Iscariot) 1201 said, 1202 “what has happened that you are going to reveal 1203 yourself to us and not to the world?” 14:23 Jesus replied, 1204 “If anyone loves me, he will obey 1205 my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up residence with him. 1206 14:24 The person who does not love me does not obey 1207 my words. And the word 1208 you hear is not mine, but the Father’s who sent me.
14:25 “I have spoken these things while staying 1209 with you. 14:26 But the Advocate, 1210 the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you 1211 everything, 1212 and will cause you to remember everything 1213 I said to you.
14:27 “Peace I leave with you; 1214 my peace I give to you; I do not give it 1215 to you as the world does. 1216 Do not let your hearts be distressed or lacking in courage. 1217 14:28 You heard me say to you, 1218 ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad 1219 that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am. 1220 14:29 I have told you now before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe. 1221 14:30 I will not speak with you much longer, 1222 for the ruler of this world is coming. 1223 He has no power over me, 1224 14:31 but I am doing just what the Father commanded me, so that the world may know 1225 that I love the Father. 1226 Get up, let us go from here.” 1227
15:1 “I am the true vine 1228 and my Father is the gardener. 1229 15:2 He takes away 1230 every branch that does not bear 1231 fruit in me. He 1232 prunes 1233 every branch that bears 1234 fruit so that it will bear more fruit. 15:3 You are clean already 1235 because of the word that I have spoken to you. 15:4 Remain 1236 in me, and I will remain in you. 1237 Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, 1238 unless it remains 1239 in 1240 the vine, so neither can you unless you remain 1241 in me.
15:5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains 1242 in me – and I in him – bears 1243 much fruit, 1244 because apart from me you can accomplish 1245 nothing. 15:6 If anyone does not remain 1246 in me, he is thrown out like a branch, and dries up; and such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, 1247 and are burned up. 1248 15:7 If you remain 1249 in me and my words remain 1250 in you, ask whatever you want, and it will be done for you. 1251 15:8 My Father is honored 1252 by this, that 1253 you bear 1254 much fruit and show that you are 1255 my disciples.
15:9 “Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you; remain 1256 in my love. 15:10 If you obey 1257 my commandments, you will remain 1258 in my love, just as I have obeyed 1259 my Father’s commandments and remain 1260 in his love. 15:11 I have told you these things 1261 so that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be complete. 15:12 My commandment is this – to love one another just as I have loved you. 1262 15:13 No one has greater love than this – that one lays down his life 1263 for his friends. 15:14 You are my friends 1264 if you do what I command you. 15:15 I no longer call you slaves, 1265 because the slave does not understand 1266 what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything 1267 I heard 1268 from my Father. 15:16 You did not choose me, but I chose you 1269 and appointed you to go and bear 1270 fruit, fruit that remains, 1271 so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you. 15:17 This 1272 I command you – to love one another.
15:18 “If the world hates you, be aware 1273 that it hated me first. 1274 15:19 If you belonged to the world, 1275 the world would love you as its own. 1276 However, because you do not belong to the world, 1277 but I chose you out of the world, for this reason 1278 the world hates you. 1279 15:20 Remember what 1280 I told you, ‘A slave 1281 is not greater than his master.’ 1282 If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they obeyed 1283 my word, they will obey 1284 yours too. 15:21 But they will do all these things to you on account of 1285 my name, because they do not know the one who sent me. 1286 15:22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. 1287 But they no longer have any excuse for their sin. 15:23 The one who hates me hates my Father too. 15:24 If I had not performed 1288 among them the miraculous deeds 1289 that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. 1290 But now they have seen the deeds 1291 and have hated both me and my Father. 1292 15:25 Now this happened 1293 to fulfill the word that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without reason.’ 1294 15:26 When the Advocate 1295 comes, whom I will send you from the Father – the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father – he 1296 will testify about me, 15:27 and you also will testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.