World English Bible
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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 1:2The same was in the beginning with God. 1:3All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made. 1:4In him was life, and the life was the light of men. 1:5The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn't overcome it. 1:6There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John. 1:7The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him. 1:8He was not the light, but was sent that he might testify about the light. 1:9The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn't recognize him. 1:11He came to his own, and those who were his own didn't receive him. 1:12But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who believe in his name: 1:13who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 1:14The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth. 1:15John testified about him. He cried out, saying, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.'" 1:16From his fullness we all received grace upon grace. 1:17For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 1:18No one has seen God at any time. The only conceived Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him. 1:19This is John's testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?" He confessed, and didn't deny, but he confessed, "I am not the Christ." They asked him, "What then? Are you Elijah?"He said, "I am not."
"Are you the prophet?"
He answered, "No."
They said therefore to him, "Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?" He said, "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make straight the way of the Lord,' as Isaiah the prophet said." The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees. 1:25They asked him, "Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?" John answered them, "I baptize in water, but among you stands one whom you don't know, 1:27he who comes after me, whose sandal strap I'm not worthy to untie." 1:28These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing. On the next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! 1:30This is he of whom I said, 'After me comes a man who is preferred before me, for he was before me.' 1:31I didn't know him, but for this reason I came baptizing in water: that he would be revealed to Israel." 1:32John testified, saying, "I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him. 1:33I didn't recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water, he said to me, 'On whoever you will see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.' 1:34I have seen, and have testified that this is the Son of God." Again, on the next day, John was standing with two of his disciples, 1:36and he looked at Jesus as he walked, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God!" 1:37The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus. 1:38Jesus turned, and saw them following, and said to them, "What are you looking for?"They said to him, "Rabbi" (which is to say, being interpreted, Teacher), "where are you staying?"
He said to them, "Come, and see."They came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about
the tenth hour. 1:40One of the two who heard John, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. 1:41He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, "We have found the Messiah!" (which is, being interpreted, Christ). 1:42He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said, "You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas" (which is by interpretation, Peter). 1:43On the next day, he was determined to go forth into Galilee, and he found Philip. Jesus said to him, "Follow me." 1:44Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter. 1:45Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, "We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph." Nathanael said to him, "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?"Philip said to him, "Come and see."
Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!" Nathanael says to him, "How do you know me?"Jesus answered him,
"Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you." Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!" Jesus answered him, "Because I told you, 'I saw you underneath the fig tree,' do you believe? You will see greater things than these." 1:51He said to him, "Most assuredly, I tell you, hereafter you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man." The third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee. Jesus' mother was there. 2:2Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to the marriage. 2:3When the wine ran out, Jesus' Mother said to him, "They have no wine." Jesus said to her, "Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come." His mother said to the servants, "Whatever he says to you, do it." 2:6Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews' manner of purifying, containing two or three metretes apiece. 2:7Jesus said to them, "Fill the water pots with water." They filled them up to the brim. 2:8He said to them, "Now draw some out, and take it to the ruler of the feast." They took it. 2:9When the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and didn't know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast called the bridegroom, 2:10and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have kept the good wine until now!" 2:11This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory. His disciples believed in him. After this, he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and there they stayed not many days. 2:13The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2:14He found in the temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, and the changers of money sitting. 2:15He made a whip of cords, and threw all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers' money, and overthrew their tables. 2:16To those who sold the doves, he said, "Take these things out of here! Don't make my Father's house a marketplace!" 2:17His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will eat me up." The Jews therefore answered him, "What sign do you show to us, seeing that you do these things?" Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." The Jews therefore said, "Forty-six years was this temple in building, and will you raise it up in three days?" 2:21But he spoke of the temple of his body. 2:22When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said. Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did. 2:24But Jesus didn't trust himself to them, because he knew all people, 2:25and because he didn't need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man. Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 3:2The same came to 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, unless God is with him." Jesus answered him, "Most assuredly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can't see the kingdom of God." Nicodemus said to 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?" Jesus answered, "Most assuredly I tell you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he can't enter into the kingdom of God! 3:6That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 3:7Don't marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born anew.' 3:8The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don't know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit." Nicodemus answered him, "How can these things be?" Jesus answered him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and don't understand these things? 3:11Most assuredly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don't receive our witness. 3:12If I told you earthly things and you don't believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? 3:13No one has ascended into heaven, but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven. 3:14As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 3:15that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 3:16For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 3:17For God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him. 3:18He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn't believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only born Son of God. 3:19This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. 3:20For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, for fear that his works would be reproved. 3:21But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done with God." After these things, Jesus came with his disciples into the land of Judea. He stayed there with them, and baptized. 3:23John also was baptizing in Enon near Salim, because there was much water there. They came, and were baptized. 3:24For John was not yet thrown into prison. 3:25There arose therefore a questioning on the part of John's disciples with some Jews about purification. 3:26They came to John, and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, the same baptizes, and all men come to him." John answered, "A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven. 3:28You yourselves testify about me, that I said, 'I am not the Christ,' but, 'I have been sent before him.' 3:29He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full. 3:30He must increase, but I must decrease. 3:31He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the Earth belongs to the Earth, and speaks of the Earth. He who comes from heaven is above all. 3:32What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness. 3:33He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true. 3:34For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure. 3:35The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand. 3:36He who believes in the Son has eternal life, but he who disobeys the Son won't see life, but the wrath of God remains on him." Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John 4:2(although Jesus himself didn't baptize, but his disciples), 4:3he left Judea, and departed again into Galilee. 4:4He needed to pass through Samaria. 4:5So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph. 4:6Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour. 4:7A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink." 4:8For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, "How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water." The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. From where then have you that living water? 4:12Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, as did his sons, and his cattle?" Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, 4:14but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life." The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I don't get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw." Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here." The woman answered, "I have no husband."Jesus said to her,
"You said well, 'I have no husband,' 4:18for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly." The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. 4:20Our fathers worshipped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship." Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father. 4:22You worship that which you don't know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews. 4:23But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshippers. 4:24God is a Spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth." The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah comes," (he who is called Christ). "When he has come, he will declare to us all things." Jesus said to her, "I who speak to you am he." 4:27At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, "What are you looking for?" or, "Why do you speak with her?" 4:28So the woman left her water pot, and went away into the city, and said to the people, 4:29"Come, see a man who told me everything that I did. Can this be the Christ?" They went out of the city, and were coming to him. 4:31In the meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, "Rabbi, eat." But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you don't know about." The disciples therefore said one to another, "Has anyone brought him something to eat?" Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work. 4:35Don't you say, 'There are yet four months until the harvest?' Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the fields, that they are white already to harvest. 4:36He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. 4:37For in this the saying is true, 'One sows, and another reaps.' 4:38I sent you to reap that for which you haven't labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor." From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, 'He told me everything that I did." 4:40So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days. 4:41Many more believed because of his word. 4:42They 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 Christ, the Savior of the world." After the two days he went forth from there and went into Galilee. 4:44For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. 4:45So 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 to the feast. 4:46He came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum. 4:47When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and begged him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. 4:48Jesus therefore said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe." The nobleman said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies." 4:50Jesus said to him, "Go your way. Your son lives." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way. 4:51As he was now going down, his servants met him and reported, saying "your child lives!" 4:52So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. They said therefore to him, "Yesterday at the seventh hour, the fever left him." 4:53So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, "Your son lives." He believed, as did his whole house. 4:54This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judea into Galilee. After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 5:2Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew, "Bethesda," having five porches. 5:3In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water; 5:4for an angel of the Lord went down at certain times into the pool, and stirred up the water. Whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was made whole of whatever disease he was afflicted with. 5:5A certain man was there, who had been sick for thirty-eight years. 5:6When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been sick for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to be made well?" The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I'm coming, another steps down before me." Jesus said to him, "Arise, take up your mat, and walk." Immediately, the man was made well, and took up his mat and walked.Now it was the Sabbath on that day.
5:10So the Jews said to him who was cured, "It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry your mat." He answered them, "He who made me well, the same said to me, 'Take up your mat, and walk.'" Then they asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Take up your mat, and walk'?" But he who was healed didn't know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, a crowd being in the place. 5:14Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, "Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you." The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. 5:16For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath. 5:17But Jesus answered them, "My Father is still working, so I am working, too." 5:18For 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. 5:19Jesus therefore answered them, "Most assuredly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise. 5:20For the Father loves the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does. He will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel. 5:21For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires. 5:22For neither does the Father judge any man, but he has given all judgment to the Son, 5:23that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn't honor the Son doesn't honor the Father who sent him. 5:24Most assuredly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn't come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. 5:25Most assuredly, I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God's voice; and those who hear will live. 5:26For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself. 5:27He also gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man. 5:28Don't marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice, 5:29and will come forth; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment. 5:30I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don't seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me. "If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid. 5:32It is another who testifies about me. I know that the testimony which he testifies about me is true. 5:33You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth. 5:34But the testimony which I receive is not from man. However, I say these things that you may be saved. 5:35He was the lamp that burns and shines, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light. 5:36But the testimony 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, testify about me, that the Father has sent me. 5:37The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form. 5:38You don't have his word living in you; for whom he sent, him you don't believe. 5:39You search the scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me. 5:40Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life. 5:41I don't receive glory from men. 5:42But I know you, that you don't have God's love in yourselves. 5:43I have come in my Father's name, and you don't receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him. 5:44How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don't seek the glory that comes from the only God? "Don't think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope. 5:46For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me. 5:47But if you don't believe his writings, how will you believe my words?" After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is also called the Sea of Tiberias. 6:2A great multitude followed him, because they saw the signs which he did on those who were sick. 6:3Jesus went up into the mountain, and he sat there with his disciples. 6:4Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand. 6:5Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a great multitude was coming to him, said to Philip, "Where are we to buy bread, that these may eat?" 6:6This he said to test him, for he himself knew what he would do. Philip answered him, "Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that everyone of them may receive a little." 6:8One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him, 6:9"There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these among so many?" Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." Now there was much grass in that place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand. 6:11Jesus took the loaves; and having given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to those who were sitting down; likewise also of the fish as much as they desired. 6:12When they were filled, he said to his disciples, "Gather up the broken pieces which are left over, that nothing be lost." 6:13So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves, which were left over by those who had eaten. 6:14When therefore the people saw the sign which Jesus did, they said, "This is truly the prophet who comes into the world." 6:15Jesus therefore, perceiving that they were about to come and take him by force, to make him king, withdrew again into the mountain by himself. When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea, 6:17and they entered into the boat, and were going over the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not come to them. 6:18The sea was rising by reason of a great wind that blew. 6:19When therefore they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia, they saw Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing near to the boat; and they were afraid. 6:20But he said to them, "It is I. Don't be afraid." 6:21They were willing therefore to receive him into the boat. Immediately the boat was at the land where they were going. 6:22On the next day, the multitude that stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there, except the one which his disciples had entered, and that Jesus hadn't entered with his disciples into the boat, but his disciples went away alone. 6:23However boats from Tiberias came near to the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks. 6:24When the multitude therefore saw that Jesus wasn't there, neither his disciples, they themselves got into the boats, and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus. 6:25When they found him on the other side of the sea, they asked him, "Rabbi, when did you come here?" Jesus answered them, "Most assuredly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled. 6:27Don't work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For the Father, even God, has sealed him." They said therefore to him, "What must we do, that we may work the works of God?" Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent." They said therefore to him, "What then do you do for a sign, that we may see, and believe you? What work do you do? 6:31Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, 'He gave them bread out of the sky to eat.'" Jesus therefore said to them, "Most assuredly, I tell you, it wasn't Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven*, but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven. 6:33For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world." They said therefore to him, "Lord, always give us this bread." Jesus said to them. "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty. 6:36But I told you that you have seen me, and yet don't believe. 6:37All that which the Father gives me will come to me. Him who comes to me I will in no way throw out. 6:38For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. 6:39This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all who he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise them up at the last day. 6:40This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day." The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, "I am the bread which came down out of heaven." 6:42They said, "Isn't this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then does he say, 'I have come down out of heaven?'" Therefore Jesus answered them, "Don't murmur among yourselves. 6:44No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day. 6:45It is written in the prophets, 'They will all be taught by God.' Everyone who hears from the Father, and has learned, comes to me. 6:46Not that any man has seen the Father, except he who is from God. He has seen the Father. 6:47Most assuredly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life. 6:48I am the bread of life. 6:49Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 6:50This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that a man may eat of it, and not die. 6:51I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world." The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" Jesus therefore said to them, "Most assuredly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in yourselves. 6:54He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. 6:55For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. 6:56He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him. 6:57As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me. 6:58This is the bread which came down out of heaven -- not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever." 6:59These things he said in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum. Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, "This is a hard saying! Who can hear it?" But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, "Does this cause you to stumble? 6:62What if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? 6:63It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life. 6:64But there are some of you who don't believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who didn't believe, and who it was who would betray him. 6:65He said, "For this cause have I said to you that no one can come to me, except it be given to him by my Father." 6:66At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. 6:67Jesus said therefore to the twelve, "You don't also want to go away, do you?" Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life. 6:69We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God." Jesus answered them, "Didn't I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?" 6:71Now he spoke of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, for it was he who would betray him, being one of the twelve. After these things, Jesus walked in Galilee, for he would not walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. 7:2Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand. 7:3His brothers therefore said to him, "Depart from here, and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do. 7:4For no man does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world." 7:5For even his brothers didn't believe in him. Jesus therefore said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready. 7:7The world can't hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil. 7:8You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled." 7:9Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee. 7:10But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret. 7:11The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, "Where is he?" 7:12There 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." 7:13Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews. 7:14But when it was now the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught. 7:15The Jews therefore marveled, saying, "How does this man know letters, having never been educated?" Jesus therefore answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me. 7:17If anyone desires to do his will, he will know of the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I speak from myself. 7:18He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him. 7:19Didn't Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?" The multitude answered, "You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?" Jesus answered them, "I did one work, and you all marvel because of it. 7:22Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy. 7:23If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I made a man every bit whole on the Sabbath? 7:24Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment." Some therefore of them of Jerusalem said, "Isn't this he whom they seek to kill? 7:26Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ? 7:27However we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from." Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, "You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don't know. 7:29I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me." They sought therefore to take him. No one laid a hand on him, because his hour was not yet come. 7:31But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, "When the Christ comes, will he do more signs than those which this man has done?" 7:32The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to take him. Then Jesus said, "Yet a little while, am I with you, then I go to him who sent me. 7:34You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come." The Jews therefore said among themselves, "Where will this man go that we won't find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks? 7:36What is this word that he said, 'You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come?'" Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink! 7:38He who believes in me, as the scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water." 7:39But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn't yet glorified. Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, "This is truly the prophet." 7:41Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "What, does the Christ come out of Galilee? 7:42Hasn't the scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?" 7:43So there arose a division in the multitude because of him. 7:44Some of them would have taken him, but no one laid hands on him. 7:45The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why didn't you bring him?" The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man!" The Pharisees therefore answered them, "Are you also led astray? 7:48Has any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees? 7:49But this cursed multitude doesn't know the law." 7:50Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them, 7:51"Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?" They answered him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee." Everyone went to his own house, 8:1but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 8:2At dawn, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down, and taught them. 8:3The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the midst, 8:4they told him, "Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act. 8:5Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such. What then do you say about her?" 8:6They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of.But Jesus stooped down, and wrote on the ground with his finger, as if he didn't hear.
8:7But when they continued asking him, he lifted himself up, and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her." 8:8Again he stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground. They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the midst. 8:10Jesus lifted himself up, and seeing no one but the woman, said to her, "Woman, where are they? Did no one condemn you?" She said, "No one, Lord."Jesus said,
"Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more." Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life." The Pharisees therefore said to him, "You testify about yourself. Your witness is not valid." Jesus answered them, "Even if I testify about myself, my witness is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don't know where I came from, or where I am going. 8:15You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one. 8:16Even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me. 8:17It's also written in your law that the testimony of two men is valid. 8:18I am he who testifies about myself, and the Father who sent me testifies about me." They said therefore to him, "Where is your Father?"Jesus answered,
"You know neither me, nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also." 8:20Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. No one took him, because his hour had not yet come. 8:21Jesus said therefore again to them, "I am going away, and you will seek me, and will die in your sins. Where I go, you can't come." The Jews therefore said, "Will he kill himself, that he says, 'Where I am going, you can't come?'" 8:23He said to them, "You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world. 8:24I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins." They said therefore to him, "Who are you?"Jesus said to them,
"Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning. 8:26I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world." 8:27They didn't perceive that he spoke to them about the Father. 8:28Jesus therefore said to them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then will you know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things. 8:29He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn't left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him." 8:30As he spoke these things, many believed in him. 8:31Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, "If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples. 8:32You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free." They answered him, "We are Abraham's seed, and have never yet been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, 'You will be made free?'" Jesus answered them, "Most assuredly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin. 8:35A bondservant doesn't live in the house forever. A son remains forever. 8:36If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. 8:37I know that you are Abraham's seed, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you. 8:38I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father." They answered him, "Our father is Abraham."Jesus said to them,
"If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham. 8:40But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God. Abraham didn't do this. 8:41You do the works of your father."They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God."
8:42Therefore Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came forth and have come from God. For neither have I come of myself, but he sent me. 8:43Why don't you understand my speech? Because you can't hear my word. 8:44You are of your Father, the devil, and it is your desire to do the lusts of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn't stand 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 of it. 8:45But because I tell the truth, you don't believe me. 8:46Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? 8:47He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don't hear, because you are not of God." Then the Jews answered him, "Don't we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?" Jesus answered, "I don't have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me. 8:50But I don't seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges. 8:51Most assuredly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death." Then the Jews said to him, "Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets; and you say, 'If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.' 8:53Are you greater than our father, Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?" Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God. 8:55You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, 'I don't know him,' I would be like you, a liar. But I know him, and keep his word. 8:56Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, and was glad." The Jews therefore said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?" Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly, I tell you, before Abraham was born, I AM." They took up stones therefore to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by. As he passed by, he saw a man blind from his birth. 9:2His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" Jesus answered, "Neither did this man sin, nor his parents. But, that the works of God might be revealed in him, 9:4I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work. 9:5When I am in the world, I am the light of the world." 9:6When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man's eyes with the mud, 9:7and said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which means "Sent"). So he went away, washed, and came seeing. 9:8The neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he was blind, before, said, "Isn't this he who sat and begged?" 9:9Others said, "It is he." Still others said, "He is like him." 9:10They said therefore to him, "How were your eyes opened?" He answered, "A man called Jesus made mud, anointed my eyes, and said to me, "Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash." So I went away and washed, and I received sight." Then they asked him, "Where is he?"He said, "I don't know."
They brought him who before was blind to the Pharisees. 9:14It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. 9:15Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. He said to them, "He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see." Some therefore of the Pharisees said, "This man is not from God, because he doesn't keep the Sabbath." Others said, "How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?" There was division among them. 9:17Therefore they asked the blind man again, "What do you say about him, in that he opened your eyes?"He said, "He is a prophet."
The Jews therefore did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight, 9:19and asked them, "Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?" His parents answered them, "We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind; 9:21but how he now sees, we don't know; or who opened his eyes, we don't know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself." 9:22His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue. 9:23Therefore his parents said, "He is of age. Ask him." So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, "Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner." He therefore answered, "I don't know if he is a sinner. One thing I know: that though I was blind, now I see." They said to him again, "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?" He answered them, "I told you already, and you didn't listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?" They became abusive towards him and said, "You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses. 9:29We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we don't know where he comes from." The man answered them, "How amazing! You don't know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes. 9:31We know that God doesn't listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshipper of God, and does his will, he listens to him. 9:32Since the world began it has never been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind. 9:33If this man were not from God, he could do nothing." They answered him, "You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?" They threw him out. Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, "Do you believe in the Son of God?" He answered, "Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?" Jesus said to him, "You have both seen him, and it is he who speaks with you." He said, "Lord, I believe!" and he worshipped him. Jesus said, "I came into this world for judgment, that those who don't see may see; and that those who see may become blind." Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, "Are we also blind?" Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, 'We see.' Therefore your sin remains. "Most assuredly, I tell you, he who doesn't enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. 10:2But he who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 10:3The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out. 10:4Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. 10:5They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don't know the voice of strangers." 10:6 Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn't understand what he was telling them. Jesus therefore said to them again, "Most assuredly, I tell you, I am the sheep's door. 10:8All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn't listen to them. 10:9I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture. 10:10The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly. 10:11I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 10:12He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn't own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them. 10:13The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn't care for the sheep. 10:14I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I'm known by my own; 10:15even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep. 10:16I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd. 10:17Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. 10:18No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father." Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because of these words. 10:20Many of them said, "He has a demon, and is mad! Why do you listen to him?" 10:21Others said, "These are not the sayings of one possessed with a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?" It was the Feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem. 10:23It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon's porch. 10:24The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, "How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly." Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you don't believe. The works that I do in my Father's name, these testify about me. 10:26But you don't believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you. 10:27My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 10:28I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. 10:29My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father's hand. 10:30I and the Father are one." Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him. 10:32Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?" The Jews answered him, "We don't stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God." Jesus answered them, "Isn't it written in your law, 'I said, you are gods?' 10:35If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the scripture can't be broken), 10:36Do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You blaspheme,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God?' 10:37If I don't do the works of my Father, don't believe me. 10:38But if I do them, though you don't believe me, believe the works; that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father." They sought again to seize him, and he went forth out of their hand. 10:40He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was at the first baptizing, and there he stayed. 10:41Many came to him. They said, "John indeed did no sign, but everything whatever that John said about this man is true." 10:42Many believed in him there. Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha. 11:2It was that Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick. 11:3The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, "Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick." 11:4But when Jesus heard it, he said, "This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God's Son may be glorified by it." 11:5Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. 11:6When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed at that time two days in the place where he was. 11:7Then after this he said to the disciples, "Let's go into Judea again." The disciples told him, "Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you, and are you going there again?" Jesus answered, "Aren't there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn't stumble, because he sees the light of this world. 11:10But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn't in him." 11:11He said these things, and after that, he said to them, "Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep." The disciples therefore said to him, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover." Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep. 11:14So Jesus said to them plainly then, "Lazarus is dead. 11:15I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let's go to him." Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, "Let's go also, that we may die with him." So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already. 11:18Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia away. 11:19Many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother. 11:20Therefore Martha, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him, but Mary stayed in the house. 11:21Therefore Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn't have died. 11:22Even now I know that, whatever you ask of God, God will give you." 11:23Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again." Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day." Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, though he die, yet will he live. 11:26Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?" She said to him, "Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, God's Son, he who comes into the world." 11:28When she had said this, she went away, and called Mary, her