1:1 |
From
the first he was the Word, and the Word was in relation with God and was
God. |
1:2 |
This
Word was from the first in relation with God. |
1:3 |
All
things came into existence through him, and without him nothing was. |
1:4 |
What
came into existence in him was life, and the life was the light of men. |
1:5 |
And
the light goes on shining in the dark; it is not overcome by the dark. |
1:6 |
There was a man
sent from God, whose name was John. |
1:7 |
He
came for witness, to give witness about the light, so that all men might have
faith through him. |
1:8 |
He
himself was not the light: he was sent to give witness about the light. |
1:9 |
The
True light, which gives light to every man, was then coming into the
world. |
1:10 |
He
was in the world, the world which came into being through him, but the world
had no knowledge of him. |
1:11 |
He
came to the things which were his and his people did not take him to their
hearts. |
1:12 |
To
all those who did so take him, however, he gave the right of becoming
children of God--that is, to those who had faith in his name: |
1:13 |
Whose
birth was from God and not from blood, or from an impulse of the flesh and
man's desire. |
1:14 |
And
so the Word became flesh and took a place among us for a time; and we saw his
glory--such glory as is given to an only son by his father--saw it to be True
and full of grace. |
1:15 |
John
gave witness about him, crying, This is he of whom I said, He who is coming
after me is put over me because he was in existence before me. |
1:16 |
From
his full measure we have all been given grace on grace. |
1:17 |
For
the law was given through Moses; grace and the True way of life are ours
through Jesus Christ. |
1:18 |
No
man has seen God at any time; the only Son, who is on the breast of the
Father, he has made clear what God is. |
1:19 |
And
this is the witness of John when the Jews sent priests and Levites from
Jerusalem to him with the question, Who are you? |
1:20 |
He
said quite openly and straightforwardly, I am not the Christ. |
1:21 |
And
they said to him, What then? Are you Elijah? And he said, I am not. Are you
the prophet? And his answer was, I am not. |
1:22 |
So
they said to him, Who are you then? We have to give some answer to those who
sent us. What have you to say about yourself? |
1:23 |
He
said, I am the voice of one crying in the waste land, Make straight the way
of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet. |
1:24 |
Those
who had been sent came from the Pharisees. |
1:25 |
And
they put this question to him, saying, Why then are you giving baptism if you
are not the Christ, or Elijah, or the prophet? |
1:26 |
John's
answer was: I give baptism with water; but there is one among you of whom you
have no knowledge; |
1:27 |
It
is he who is coming after me; I am not good enough to undo his shoes. |
1:28 |
These
things took place at Bethany on the other side of the Jordan, where John was
giving baptism. |
1:29 |
The
day after, John sees Jesus coming to him and says, See, here is the Lamb of
God who takes away the sin of the world! |
1:30 |
This
is he of whom I said, One is coming after me who is put over me because he
was in existence before me. |
1:31 |
I
myself had no knowledge of him, but I came giving baptism with water so that
he might be seen openly by Israel. |
1:32 |
And
John gave this witness, saying, I saw the Spirit coming down from heaven like
a dove and resting on him. |
1:33 |
I
had no knowledge who he was, but he who sent me to give baptism with water
said to me, The one on whom you see the Spirit coming down and resting, it is
he who gives baptism with the Holy Spirit. |
1:34 |
This
I saw myself and my witness is that he is the Son of God. |
1:35 |
The
day after, John was there again with two of his disciples; |
1:36 |
And
looking at Jesus while he was walking he said, See, there is the Lamb of
God! |
1:37 |
Hearing
what he said, the two disciples went after Jesus. |
1:38 |
And
Jesus, turning round, saw them coming after him and said to them, What are
you looking for? They said to him, Rabbi (which is to say, Master), where are
you living? |
1:39 |
He
said to them, Come and see. They went with him then and saw where he was
living; and they were with him all that day: it was then about the tenth hour
of the day. |
1:40 |
Andrew,
Simon Peter's brother, was one of the two men who, hearing what John said,
went after Jesus. |
1:41 |
Early
in the morning he came across his brother and said to him, We have made
discovery! It is the Messiah! (which is to say, the Christ). |
1:42 |
And
he took him to Jesus. Looking at him fixedly Jesus said, You are Simon, the
son of John; your name will be Cephas (which is to say, Peter). |
1:43 |
The
day after this, Jesus had a desire to go into Galilee. He came across Philip
and said to him, Come and be my disciple. |
1:44 |
Now
Philip's town was Beth-saida, where Andrew and Peter came from. |
1:45 |
Philip
came across Nathanael and said to him, We have made a discovery! It is he of
whom Moses, in the law, and the prophets were writing, Jesus of Nazareth, the
son of Joseph. |
1:46 |
Nazareth!
said Nathanael, Is it possible for any good to come out of Nazareth? Philip
said to him, Come and see. |
1:47 |
Jesus
saw Nathanael coming to him and said of him, See, here is a True son of
Israel in whom there is nothing false. |
1:48 |
Nathanael
said to him, Where did you get knowledge of me? In answer Jesus said, Before
Philip was talking with you, while you were still under the fig-tree, I saw
you. |
1:49 |
Nathanael
said to him, Rabbi, you are the Son of God, you are King of Israel! |
1:50 |
In
answer Jesus said to him, You have faith because I said to you, I saw you
under the fig-tree. You will see greater things than these. |
1:51 |
And
he said to him, Truly I say to you all, You will see heaven opening and God's
angels going up and coming down on the Son of man. |
2:1 |
On
the third day two people were going to be married at Cana in Galilee. The
mother of Jesus was there: |
2:2 |
And
Jesus with his disciples came as guests. |
2:3 |
When
they had not enough wine, the mother of Jesus said to him, They have no
wine. |
2:4 |
Jesus
said to her, Woman, this is not your business; my time is still to come. |
2:5 |
His
mother said to the servants, Whatever he says to you, do it. |
2:6 |
Now
six pots of stone, every one taking two or three firkins of water, were
placed there for the purpose of washing, as is the way of the Jews. |
2:7 |
Jesus
said to the servants, Make the pots full of water. And they made them full to
the top. |
2:8 |
Then
he said to them, Now take some, and give it to the master of the feast. So
they took it to him. |
2:9 |
After
tasting the water which had now become wine, the master of the feast (having
no idea where it came from, though it was clear to the servants who took the
water out) sent for the newly-married man, |
2:10 |
And
said to him, Every man first puts out his best wine and when all have had
enough he puts out what is not so good; but you have kept the good wine till
now. |
2:11 |
This,
the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee and let his glory be
seen openly; and his disciples put their faith in him. |
2:12 |
After
this he went down to Capernaum, with his mother, his brothers, and his
disciples, and they were there not more than two or three days. |
2:13 |
The
time of the Passover of the Jews was near and Jesus went up to
Jerusalem. |
2:14 |
And
there in the Temple he saw men trading in oxen and sheep and doves, and he
saw the changers of money in their seats: |
2:15 |
And
he made a whip of small cords and put them all out of the Temple, with the
sheep and the oxen, sending in all directions the small money of the changers
and overturning their tables; |
2:16 |
And
to those who were trading in doves he said, Take these things away; do not
make my Father's house a market. |
2:17 |
And
it came to the minds of the disciples that the Writings say, I am on fire
with passion for your house. |
2:18 |
Then
the Jews put this question to him: What sign of authority have you to give
us, seeing that you do these things? |
2:19 |
And
Jesus said to them, Send destruction on this Temple and I will put it up
again in three days. |
2:20 |
The
Jews said, The building of this Temple took forty-six years; and you will put
it up in three days! |
2:21 |
But
his words were about that holy building which was his body. |
2:22 |
So
when he had come back again from the dead, the memory of these words came
back to the disciples, and they had faith in the holy Writings and in the
word which Jesus had said. |
2:23 |
Now
while he was in Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover, a great number of
people came to have faith in his name, after seeing the signs which he
did. |
2:24 |
But
Jesus did not have faith in them, because he had knowledge of them all. |
2:25 |
He
had no need for any witness about man; for he himself had knowledge of what
was in man. |
3:1 |
Now
there was among the Pharisees a man named Nicodemus, who was one of the
rulers of the Jews. |
3:2 |
He
came to Jesus by night and said to him, Rabbi, we are certain that you have
come from God as a teacher, because no man would be able to do these signs
which you do if God was not with him. |
3:3 |
Jesus
said to him, Truly, I say to you, Without a new birth no man is able to see
the kingdom of God. |
3:4 |
Nicodemus
said to him, How is it possible for a man to be given birth when he is old?
Is he able to go into his mother's body a second time and come to birth
again? |
3:5 |
Jesus
said in answer, Truly, I say to you, If a man's birth is not from water and
from the Spirit, it is not possible for him to go into the kingdom of
God. |
3:6 |
That
which has birth from the flesh is flesh, and that which has birth from the
Spirit is spirit. |
3:7 |
Do
not be surprised that I say to you, It is necessary for you to have a second
birth. |
3:8 |
The
wind goes where its pleasure takes it, and the sound of it comes to your
ears, but you are unable to say where it comes from and where it goes: so it
is with everyone whose birth is from the Spirit. |
3:9 |
And
Nicodemus said to him, How is it possible for these things to be? |
3:10 |
And
Jesus, answering, said, Are you the teacher of Israel and have no knowledge
of these things? |
3:11 |
Truly,
I say to you, We say that of which we have knowledge; we give witness of what
we have seen; and you do not take our witness to be true. |
3:12 |
If
you have no belief when my words are about the things of earth, how will you
have belief if my words are about the things of heaven? |
3:13 |
And
no one has ever gone up to heaven but he who came down from heaven, the Son
of man. |
3:14 |
As
the snake was lifted up by Moses in the waste land, even so it is necessary
for the Son of man to be lifted up: |
3:15 |
So that
whoever has faith may have in him eternal life. |
3:16 |
For
God had such love for the world that he gave his only Son, so that whoever
has faith in him may not come to destruction but have eternal life. |
3:17 |
God
did not send his Son into the world to be judge of the world; he sent him so
that the world might have salvation through him. |
3:18 |
The
man who has faith in him does not come up to be judged; but he who has no
faith in him has been judged even now, because he has no faith in the name of
the only Son of God. |
3:19 |
And
this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world
and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts
are evil. |
3:20 |
The
light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the
light for fear that his acts will be seen. |
3:21 |
But
he whose life is True comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that
his acts have been done by the help of God. |
3:22 |
After
these things Jesus and his disciples went into the land of Judaea, and there
he was with them for some time, giving baptism. |
3:23 |
Now
John was then giving baptism at Aenon near Salim, because there was much
water there; and people came and were given baptism. |
3:24 |
For at this time
John had not been put into prison. |
3:25 |
Then
a question came up between John's disciples and a Jew about washing. |
3:26 |
And
they went to John and said to him, Rabbi, the man who was with you on the
other side of the Jordan, the man to whom you gave witness, is now giving
baptism, and everyone is going to him. |
3:27 |
And
this was John's answer: A man is unable to have anything if it is not given
to him from heaven. |
3:28 |
You
yourselves give witness that I said, I am not the Christ. What I said was, I
am sent before the Christ. |
3:29 |
He
who has the bride is the husband: but the husband's friend, whose place is by
his side and whose ears are open to him, is full of joy because of the
husband's voice: such is my joy, and it is complete. |
3:30 |
He
has to become greater while I become less. |
3:31 |
He
who comes from heaven is greater than all others: he who comes from earth is
of the earth, and of the earth are his words: he who comes from heaven is
over all. |
3:32 |
He
gives witness of what he has seen and of what has come to his ears; and no
man takes his witness as true. |
3:33 |
He
who so takes his witness has made clear his faith that God is true. |
3:34 |
For
he whom God has sent says God's words; and God does not give him the Spirit
by measure. |
3:35 |
The
Father has love for the Son and has put all things into his hands. |
3:36 |
He
who has faith in the Son has eternal life; but he who has not faith in the
Son will not see life; God's wrath is resting on him. |
4:1 |
Now
when it was clear to the Lord that word had come to the ears of the Pharisees
that Jesus was making more disciples than John and was giving them
baptism |
4:2 |
(Though,
in fact, it was his disciples who gave baptism, not Jesus himself), |
4:3 |
He went
out of Judaea into Galilee again. |
4:4 |
And it was
necessary for him to go through Samaria. |
4:5 |
So
he came to a town of Samaria which was named Sychar, near to the bit of land
which Jacob gave to his son Joseph: |
4:6 |
Now
Jacob's fountain was there. Jesus, being tired after his journey, was resting
by the fountain. It was about the sixth hour. |
4:7 |
A
woman of Samaria came to get water, and Jesus said to her, Give me some
water. |
4:8 |
For his
disciples had gone to the town to get food. |
4:9 |
The
woman of Samaria said to him, Why do you, a Jew, make a request for water to
me, a woman of Samaria? She said this because Jews have nothing to do with
the people of Samaria. |
4:10 |
In
answer Jesus said, If you had knowledge of what God gives freely and who it
is who says to you, Give me water, you would make your prayer to him, and he
would give you living water. |
4:11 |
The
woman said to him, Sir, you have no vessel and the fountain is deep; from
where will you get the living water? |
4:12 |
Are
you greater than our father Jacob who gave us the fountain and took the water
of it himself, with his children and his cattle? |
4:13 |
Jesus
said to her, Everyone who takes this water will be in need of it again: |
4:14 |
But
whoever takes the water I give him will never be in need of drink again; for
the water I give him will become in him a fountain of eternal life. |
4:15 |
The
woman said to him, Sir, give me this water, so that I may not be in need
again of drink and will not have to come all this way for it. |
4:16 |
Jesus
said to her, Go, get your husband and come back here with him. |
4:17 |
In
answer, the woman said, I have no husband. Jesus said to her, You have said
rightly, I have no husband: |
4:18 |
You
have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband: that
was truly said. |
4:19 |
The woman
said to him, Sir, I see that you are a prophet. |
4:20 |
Our
fathers gave worship on this mountain, but you Jews say that the right place
for worship is in Jerusalem. |
4:21 |
Jesus
said to her, Woman, take my word for this; the time is coming when you will
not give worship to the Father on this mountain or in Jerusalem. |
4:22 |
You
give worship, but without knowledge of what you are worshipping: we give
worship to what we have knowledge of: for salvation comes from the Jews. |
4:23 |
But
the time is coming, and is even now here, when the True worshippers will give
worship to the Father in the True way of the spirit, for these are the
worshippers desired by the Father. |
4:24 |
God
is Spirit: then let his worshippers give him worship in the True way of the
spirit. |
4:25 |
The
woman said to him, I am certain that the Messiah, who is named Christ, is
coming; when he comes he will make all things clear to us. |
4:26 |
Jesus said to
her, I, who am talking to you, am he. |
4:27 |
At
that point the disciples came back, and they were surprised to see him
talking to a woman; but not one of them said to him, What is your purpose?
or, Why are you talking to her? |
4:28 |
Then
the woman put down her water-pot and went into the town, and said to the
people, |
4:29 |
Come
and see a man who has been talking to me of everything I ever did! Is it
possible that this is the Christ? |
4:30 |
So
they went out of the town and came to him. |
4:31 |
While
this was taking place, the disciples were saying to Jesus, Master, take some
food. |
4:32 |
But
he said to them, I have food of which you have no knowledge. |
4:33 |
So
the disciples said one to another, Did anyone give him food? |
4:34 |
Jesus
said, My food is to do the pleasure of him who sent me and to make his work
complete. |
4:35 |
You
would say, Four months from now is the time of the grain-cutting. Take a
look, I say to you, at the fields; they are even now white for cutting. |
4:36 |
He
who does the cutting now has his reward; he is getting together fruit for
eternal life, so that he who did the planting and he who gets in the grain
may have joy together. |
4:37 |
In
this the saying is a True one, One does the planting, and another gets in the
grain. |
4:38 |
I
sent you to get in grain which you had no hand in planting: other men did
that work, and you take the reward. |
4:39 |
Now
a number of the people of that town had faith in him because of the woman's
witness: He has been talking to me of everything I ever did. |
4:40 |
So
when the people came to him they made request to him to be among them for a
time, and he was there two days. |
4:41 |
And
a great number more of them came to have faith in him because of what he
himself said. |
4:42 |
And
they said to the woman, Now we have faith, but not because of your story: we
ourselves have given ear to his words, and we are certain that he is truly
the Saviour of the world. |
4:43 |
And after
the two days he went on from there into Galilee. |
4:44 |
For
Jesus himself said that a prophet has no honour in the country of his
birth. |
4:45 |
So
when he came into Galilee, the Galilaeans took him to their hearts because of
the things which they had seen him do in Jerusalem at the feast--they
themselves having been there at the feast. |
4:46 |
So
he came to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And there was a
certain man of high position whose son was ill at Capernaum. |
4:47 |
When
it came to his ears that Jesus had come from Judaea into Galilee, he went to
him and made a request that he would come down to his son, who was near to
death, and make him well. |
4:48 |
Then
Jesus said to him, You will not have faith if you do not see signs and
wonders. |
4:49 |
The man said,
Sir, come down before my boy is dead. |
4:50 |
And
Jesus said, Go in peace; your son is living. The man had faith in the word
which Jesus said to him and went away. |
4:51 |
And
while he was going down, his servants came to him and said, Your boy is
living. |
4:52 |
So
he put a question to them as to the hour when he became better; and they said
to him, The disease went from him yesterday at the seventh hour. |
4:53 |
It
was clear then to the father that this was the very time at which Jesus said
to him, Your son is living. And he had faith in Jesus, he and all his
family. |
4:54 |
Now
this is the second sign which Jesus did after he had come out of Judaea into
Galilee. |
5:1 |
After
these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to
Jerusalem. |
5:2 |
Now
in Jerusalem near the sheep-market there is a public bath which in Hebrew is
named Beth-zatha. It has five doorways. |
5:3 |
In
these doorways there were a great number of people with different diseases:
some unable to see, some without the power of walking, some with wasted
bodies. |
5:4 |
[] |
5:5 |
One man
was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. |
5:6 |
When
Jesus saw him there on the floor it was clear to him that he had been now a
long time in that condition, and so he said to the man, Is it your desire to
get well? |
5:7 |
The
ill man said in answer, Sir, I have nobody to put me into the bath when the
water is moving; and while I am on the way down some other person gets in
before me. |
5:8 |
Jesus
said to him, Get up, take your bed and go. |
5:9 |
And
the man became well straight away, and took up his bed and went. Now that day
was the Sabbath. |
5:10 |
So
the Jews said to the man who had been made well, It is the Sabbath; and it is
against the law for you to take up your bed. |
5:11 |
He
said to them, But he who made me well, said to me, Take up your bed and
go. |
5:12 |
Then
they put to him the question: Who is the man who said to you, Take it up and
go? |
5:13 |
Now
he who had been made well had no knowledge who it was, Jesus having gone away
because of the number of people who were in that place. |
5:14 |
After
a time Jesus came across him in the Temple and said to him, See, you are well
and strong; do no more sin for fear a worse thing comes to you. |
5:15 |
The
man went away and said to the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him
well. |
5:16 |
And
for this reason the Jews were turned against Jesus, because he was doing
these things on the Sabbath. |
5:17 |
But
his answer was: My Father is still working even now, and so I am
working. |
5:18 |
For
this cause the Jews had an even greater desire to put Jesus to death, because
not only did he not keep the Sabbath but he said God was his Father, so
making himself equal with God. |
5:19 |
So
Jesus made answer and said, Truly I say to you, The Son is not able to do
anything himself; he is able to do only what he sees the Father doing;
whatever the Father does the Son does it in the same way. |
5:20 |
For
the Father has love for the Son and lets him see everything which he does:
and he will let him see greater works than these so that you may be full of
wonder. |
5:21 |
In
the same way, as the Father gives life to the dead, even so the Son gives
life to those to whom he is pleased to give it. |
5:22 |
The
Father is not the judge of men, but he has given all decisions into the hands
of the Son; |
5:23 |
So
that all men may give honour to the Son even as they give honour to the
Father. He who gives no honour to the Son gives no honour to the Father who
sent him. |
5:24 |
Truly
I say to you, The man whose ears are open to my word and who has faith in him
who sent me, has eternal life; he will not be judged, but has come from death
into life. |
5:25 |
Truly
I say to you, The time is coming, it has even now come, when the voice of the
Son of God will come to the ears of the dead, and those hearing it will have
life. |
5:26 |
For
even as the Father has life in himself, so he has given to the Son to have
life in himself. |
5:27 |
And
he has given him authority to be judge because he is the Son of man. |
5:28 |
Do
not be surprised at this: for the time is coming when his voice will come to
all who are in the place of the dead, |
5:29 |
And
they will come out; those who have done good, into the new life; and those
who have done evil, to be judged. |
5:30 |
Of
myself I am unable to do anything: as the voice comes to me so I give a
decision: and my decision is right because I have no desire to do what is
pleasing to myself, but only what is pleasing to him who sent me. |
5:31 |
If I
gave witness about myself, my witness would not be true. |
5:32 |
There
is another who gives witness about me and I am certain that the witness he
gives about me is true. |
5:33 |
You
sent to John and he gave True witness. |
5:34 |
But
I have no need of a man's witness: I only say these things so that you may
have salvation. |
5:35 |
He
was a burning and shining light, and for a time you were ready to be happy in
his light. |
5:36 |
But
the witness which I have is greater than that of John: the work which the
Father has given me to do, the very work which I am now doing, is a witness
that the Father has sent me. |
5:37 |
And
the Father himself who sent me has given witness about me. Not one of you has
ever given ear to his voice; his form you have not seen. |
5:38 |
And
you have not kept his word in your hearts, because you have not faith in him
whom he has sent. |
5:39 |
You
make search in the holy Writings, in the belief that through them you get
eternal life; and it is those Writings which give witness about me. |
5:40 |
And
still you have no desire to come to me so that you may have life. |
5:41 |
I do not take
honour from men; |
5:42 |
But
I have knowledge of you that you have no love for God in your hearts. |
5:43 |
I
have come in my Father's name, and your hearts are not open to me. If another
comes with no other authority but himself, you will give him your
approval. |
5:44 |
How
is it possible for you to have faith while you take honour one from another
and have no desire for the honour which comes from the only God? |
5:45 |
Put
out of your minds the thought that I will say things against you to the
Father: the one who says things against you is Moses, on whom you put your
hopes. |
5:46 |
If
you had belief in Moses you would have belief in me; for his writings are
about me. |
5:47 |
If
you have no belief in his writings, how will you have belief in my
words? |
6:1 |
After
these things Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee--that
is, the sea of Tiberias. |
6:2 |
And
a great number of people went after him because they saw the signs which he
did on those who were ill. |
6:3 |
Then
Jesus went up the mountain and was seated there with his disciples. |
6:4 |
Now
the Passover, a feast of the Jews, was near. |
6:5 |
Lifting
up his eyes, Jesus saw a great number of people coming to where he was, and
he said to Philip, Where may we get bread for all these people? |
6:6 |
This
he said, testing him: for he had no doubt what he himself would do. |
6:7 |
Philip
made answer, Bread to the value of two hundred pence would not be enough even
to give everyone a little. |
6:8 |
One
of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, said to Jesus, |
6:9 |
There
is a boy here with five barley cakes and two fishes: but what is that among
such a number? |
6:10 |
Jesus
said, Let the people be seated. Now there was much grass in that place. And
those seated on the grass were about five thousand. |
6:11 |
Then
Jesus took the cakes and having given praise to God, he gave them to the
people who were seated, and the fishes in the same way, as much as they had
need of. |
6:12 |
And
when they had had enough, Jesus said to his disciples, Take up the broken
bits which are over, so that nothing may be wasted. |
6:13 |
So
they took them up: twelve baskets full of broken bits of the five cakes which
were over after the people had had enough. |
6:14 |
And
when the people saw the sign which he had done, they said, Truly, this is the
prophet who is to come into the world. |
6:15 |
Now
when Jesus saw that the people were about to come and take him by force to
make him a king, he went away again up the mountain by himself. |
6:16 |
When evening
came the disciples went down to the sea; |
6:17 |
And
they took a boat and went across the sea in the direction of Capernaum. By
then it was dark and still Jesus had not come to them. |
6:18 |
The
sea was getting rough because of a strong wind which was blowing. |
6:19 |
After
they had gone three or four miles they saw Jesus walking on the sea and
coming near to the boat; and they had great fear. |
6:20 |
But
he said to them, It is I, have no fear. |
6:21 |
Then
they readily took him into the boat: and straight away the boat was at the
land to which they were going. |
6:22 |
The
day after, the people who were on the other side of the sea saw that only one
small boat had been there, that Jesus had not gone in that boat with the
disciples, but that the disciples had gone away by themselves. |
6:23 |
Some
other boats, however, came from Tiberias near to the place where they had
taken the bread after the Lord had given praise. |
6:24 |
So
when the people saw that Jesus was not there, or his disciples, they got into
those boats and went over to Capernaum looking for Jesus. |
6:25 |
And
when they came across him on the other side of the sea they said, Rabbi, when
did you come here? |
6:26 |
Jesus,
answering them, said, Truly I say to you, You come after me, not because you
saw signs, but because you were given the bread and had enough. |
6:27 |
Let
your work not be for the food which comes to an end, but for the food which
goes on for eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you, for on him
has God the Father put his mark. |
6:28 |
Then they
said to him, How may we do the works of God? |
6:29 |
Jesus,
answering, said to them, This is to do the work of God: to have faith in him
whom God has sent. |
6:30 |
So
they said, What sign do you give us, so that we may see and have faith in
you? What do you do? |
6:31 |
Our
fathers had the manna in the waste land, as the Writings say, He gave them
bread from heaven. |
6:32 |
Jesus
then said to them, Truly I say to you, What Moses gave you was not the bread
from heaven; it is my Father who gives you the True bread from heaven. |
6:33 |
The
bread of God is the bread which comes down out of heaven and gives life to
the world. |
6:34 |
Ah,
Lord, they said, give us that bread for ever! |
6:35 |
And
this was the answer of Jesus: I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will
never be in need of food, and he who has faith in me will never be in need of
drink. |
6:36 |
But
it is as I said to you: you have seen me, and still you have no faith. |
6:37 |
Whatever
the Father gives to me will come to me; and I will not send away anyone who
comes to me. |
6:38 |
For
I have come down from heaven, not to do my pleasure, but the pleasure of him
who sent me. |
6:39 |
And
this is the pleasure of him who sent me, that I am not to let out of my hands
anything which he has given me, but I am to give it new life on the last
day. |
6:40 |
This,
I say, is my Father's pleasure, that everyone who sees the Son and has faith
in him may have eternal life: and I will take him up on the last day. |
6:41 |
Now
the Jews said bitter things about Jesus because of his words, I am the bread
which came down from heaven. |
6:42 |
And
they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we
have seen? How is it then that he now says, I have come down from
heaven? |
6:43 |
Jesus
made answer and said, Do not say things against me, one to another. |
6:44 |
No
man is able to come to me if the Father who sent me does not give him the
desire to come: and I will take him up from the dead on the last day. |
6:45 |
The
writings of the prophets say, And they will all have teaching from God.
Everyone whose ears have been open to the teaching of the Father comes to
me. |
6:46 |
Not
that anyone has ever seen the Father; only he who is from God, he has seen
the Father. |
6:47 |
Truly I
say to you, He who has faith in me has eternal life. |
6:48 |
I am the bread of
life. |
6:49 |
Your
fathers took the manna in the waste land--and they are dead. |
6:50 |
The
bread which comes from heaven is such bread that a man may take it for food
and never see death. |
6:51 |
I
am the living bread which has come from heaven: if any man takes this bread
for food he will have life for ever: and more than this, the bread which I
will give is my flesh which I will give for the life of the world. |
6:52 |
Then
the Jews had an angry discussion among themselves, saying, How is it possible
for this man to give us his flesh for food? |
6:53 |
Then
Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, If you do not take the flesh of the
Son of man for food, and if you do not take his blood for drink, you have no
life in you. |
6:54 |
He
who takes my flesh for food and my blood for drink has eternal life: and I
will take him up from the dead at the last day. |
6:55 |
My
flesh is True food and my blood is True drink. |
6:56 |
He
who takes my flesh for food and my blood for drink is in me and I in
him. |
6:57 |
As
the living Father has sent me, and I have life because of the Father, even so
he who takes me for his food will have life because of me. |
6:58 |
This
is the bread which has come down from heaven. It is not like the food which
your fathers had: they took of the manna, and are dead; but he who takes this
bread for food will have life for ever. |
6:59 |
Jesus
said these things in the Synagogue while he was teaching at Capernaum. |
6:60 |
Then,
hearing this, a number of his disciples said, This is a hard saying; who is
able to take in such teaching? |
6:61 |
When
Jesus became conscious that his disciples were protesting about what he said,
he said to them, Does this give you trouble? |
6:62 |
What
then will you say if you see the Son of man going up to where he was
before? |
6:63 |
The
spirit is the life giver; the flesh is of no value: the words which I have
said to you are spirit and they are life. |
6:64 |
But
still some of you have no faith. For it was clear to Jesus from the first who
they were who had no faith, and who it was who would be False to him. |
6:65 |
And
he said, This is why I said to you, No man is able to come to me if he is not
given the power to do so by the Father. |
6:66 |
Because
of what he said, a number of the disciples went back and would no longer go
with him. |
6:67 |
So Jesus
said to the twelve, Have you a desire to go away? |
6:68 |
Then
Simon Peter gave this answer: Lord, to whom are we to go? you have the words
of eternal life; |
6:69 |
And
we have faith and are certain that you are the Holy One of God. |
6:70 |
Then
Jesus said, Did I not make a selection of you, the twelve, and one of you is
a son of the Evil One? |
6:71 |
He
was talking of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. It was he who was to be
False to Jesus--one of the twelve. |
7:1 |
After
this, Jesus went from place to place in Galilee. He did not go about in
Judaea, because the Jews were looking for a chance to put him to death. |
7:2 |
But the
feast of the Jews, the feast of tents, was near. |
7:3 |
So
his brothers said to him, Go away from here into Judaea so that your
disciples may see the works which you do. |
7:4 |
Because
no man does things secretly if he has a desire that men may have knowledge of
him. If you do these things, let yourself be seen by all men. |
7:5 |
For
even his brothers had no belief in him. |
7:6 |
Jesus
said to them, My time is still to come, but any time is good for you. |
7:7 |
It
is not possible for you to be hated by the world; but I am hated by it,
because I give witness that what it does is evil. |
7:8 |
Go
you up to the feast: I am not going up now to the feast because my time has
not fully come. |
7:9 |
Having
said these things to them, he still kept in Galilee. |
7:10 |
But
after his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he went up, not publicly,
but in secret. |
7:11 |
At
the feast the Jews were looking for him and saying, Where is he? |
7:12 |
And
there was much discussion about him among the mass of the people. Some said,
He is a good man; but others said, No, he is giving people False ideas. |
7:13 |
But
no man said anything about him openly for fear of the Jews. |
7:14 |
Now
in the middle of the feast Jesus went up to the Temple and was teaching. |
7:15 |
Then
the Jews were surprised and said, How has this man got knowledge of books? He
has never been to school. |
7:16 |
Jesus
gave them this answer: It is not my teaching, but his who sent me. |
7:17 |
If
any man is ready to do God's pleasure he will have knowledge of the teaching
and of where it comes from--from God or from myself. |
7:18 |
The
man whose words come from himself is looking for glory for himself, but he
who is looking for the glory of him who sent him--that man is True and there
is no evil in him. |
7:19 |
Did
not Moses give you the law? Even so, not one of you keeps the law. Why have
you a desire to put me to death? |
7:20 |
The
people said in answer, You have an evil spirit: who has any desire to put you
to death? |
7:21 |
This
was the answer of Jesus: I have done one work and you are all surprised at
it. |
7:22 |
Moses
gave you circumcision--not that it comes from Moses, but from the
fathers--and even on the Sabbath you give a child circumcision. |
7:23 |
If
a child is given circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not
be broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on
the Sabbath? |
7:24 |
Let
not your decisions be based on what you see, but on righteousness. |
7:25 |
Then
some of the people of Jerusalem said, Is not this the man whose death is
desired? |
7:26 |
And
here he is talking openly and they say nothing to him! Is it possible that
the rulers have knowledge that this is truly the Christ? |
7:27 |
However,
it is clear to us where this man comes from: but when the Christ comes no one
will have knowledge where he comes from. |
7:28 |
Then,
when he was teaching in the Temple, Jesus said with a loud voice, You have
knowledge of me and you have knowledge of where I come from; and I have not
come of myself; but there is One who has sent me; he is true, but you have no
knowledge of him. |
7:29 |
I
have knowledge of him because I came from him and he sent me. |
7:30 |
Then
they had a desire to take him: but no man put hands on him because his hour
was still to come. |
7:31 |
And
numbers of the people had belief in him, and they said, When the Christ comes
will he do more signs than this man has done? |
7:32 |
This
discussion of the people came to the ears of the Pharisees; and the chief
priests and the Pharisees sent servants to take him. |
7:33 |
Then
Jesus said, I will be with you a little longer and then I go to him who sent
me. |
7:34 |
You
will be looking for me, and you will not see me: and where I am you may not
come. |
7:35 |
So
the Jews said among themselves, To what place is he going where we will not
see him? will he go to the Jews living among the Greeks and become the
teacher of the Greeks? |
7:36 |
What
is this saying of his, You will be looking for me and will not see me, and
where I am you may not come? |
7:37 |
On
the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus got up and said in a loud
voice, If any man is in need of drink let him come to me and I will give it
to him. |
7:38 |
He
who has faith in me, out of his body, as the Writings have said, will come
rivers of living water. |
7:39 |
This
he said of the Spirit which would be given to those who had faith in him: the
Spirit had not been given then, because the glory of Jesus was still to
come. |
7:40 |
When
these words came to their ears, some of the people said, This is certainly
the prophet. |
7:41 |
Others
said, This is the Christ. But others said, Not so; will the Christ come from
Galilee? |
7:42 |
Do
not the Writings say that the Christ comes of the seed of David and from
Beth-lehem, the little town where David was? |
7:43 |
So there
was a division among the people because of him. |
7:44 |
And
some of them had a desire to take him; but no man put hands on him. |
7:45 |
Then
the servants went back to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them,
Why have you not got him with you? |
7:46 |
The
servants made answer, No man ever said things like this man. |
7:47 |
Then
the Pharisees said to them, Have you, like the others, been given False
ideas? |
7:48 |
Have
any of the rulers belief in him, or any one of the Pharisees? |
7:49 |
But
these people who have no knowledge of the law are cursed. |
7:50 |
Nicodemus--he
who had come to Jesus before, being himself one of them--said to them, |
7:51 |
Is
a man judged by our law before it has given him a hearing and has knowledge
of what he has done? |
7:52 |
This
was their answer: And do you come from Galilee? Make search and you will see
that no prophet comes out of Galilee. |
8:1 |
And
every man went to his house; But Jesus went to the Mountain of Olives. |
8:2 |
And
early in the morning he came again into the Temple and all the people came to
him and he was seated teaching them. |
8:3 |
Now
the scribes and Pharisees came, with a woman who had been taken in the act of
sinning against the married relation; |
8:4 |
And
putting her forward, they said to him, Master, this woman has been taken in
the very act of sinning against the married relation. |
8:5 |
Now
in the law Moses gave directions that such women were to be stoned; what do
you say about it? |
8:6 |
They
said this, testing him, so that they might have something against him. But
Jesus, with his head bent down, made letters on the floor with his
finger. |
8:7 |
But
when they went on with their questions, he got up and said to them, Let him
among you who is without sin be the first to send a stone at her. |
8:8 |
And again,
with bent head, he made letters on the floor. |
8:9 |
And
when his words came to their ears, they went out one by one, starting with
the oldest even to the last, because they were conscious of what was in their
hearts: and Jesus was there by himself with the woman before him. |
8:10 |
Then
Jesus got up, and seeing nobody but the woman, he said to her, Where are the
men who said things against you? did no one give a decision against you? |
8:11 |
And
she said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said, And I do not give a decision against
you: go, and never do wrong again.] |
8:12 |
Then
again Jesus said to them, I am the light of the world; he who comes with me
will not be walking in the dark but will have the light of life. |
8:13 |
So
the Pharisees said to him, The witness you give is about yourself: your
witness is not true. |
8:14 |
Jesus
said in answer, Even if I give witness about myself, my witness is true,
because I have knowledge of where I came from and where I am going; but you
have no knowledge of where I come from or of where I am going. |
8:15 |
You are
judging from what you see; I am judging no man. |
8:16 |
Even
if I am judging, my decision is right, because I am not by myself--with me is
the Father who sent me. |
8:17 |
Even
in your law it is said that the witness of two men is true. |
8:18 |
I
give witness about myself and the Father who sent me gives witness about
me. |
8:19 |
Then
they said to him, Where is your Father? Jesus said in answer, You have no
knowledge of me or of my Father: if you had knowledge of me you would have
knowledge of my Father. |
8:20 |
Jesus
said these words in the place where the offerings were stored, while he was
teaching in the Temple: but no man took him because his time was still to
come. |
8:21 |
Then
he said to them again, I am going away and you will be looking for me, but
death will overtake you in your sins. It is not possible for you to come
where I am going. |
8:22 |
So
the Jews said, Will he take his life? Is that why he says, Where I go it is
not possible for you to come? |
8:23 |
And
he said to them, You are of the earth; I am from heaven: you are of this
world; I am not of this world. |
8:24 |
For
this reason I said to you that death will overtake you in your sins: for if
you have not faith that I am he, death will come to you while you are in your
sins. |
8:25 |
Then
they said to him, Who are you? Jesus said, What I said to you from the
first. |
8:26 |
I
have much to say about you and against you: but he who sent me is True and
what he has said to me I say to the world. |
8:27 |
They did not
see that his words were about the Father. |
8:28 |
So
Jesus said, When the Son of man has been lifted up by you, then it will be
clear to you who I am, and that I do nothing of myself, but say as the Father
gave me teaching. |
8:29 |
He
who sent me is with me; he has not gone from me, because at all times I do
the things which are pleasing to him. |
8:30 |
When he said
this a number came to have faith in him. |
8:31 |
Then
Jesus said to the Jews who had faith in him, If you keep my word, then you
are truly my disciples; |
8:32 |
And
you will have knowledge of what is true, and that will make you free. |
8:33 |
They
said to him in answer, We are Abraham's seed and have never been any man's
servant: why do you say, You will become free? |
8:34 |
And
this was the answer Jesus gave them: Truly I say to you, Everyone who does
evil is the servant of sin. |
8:35 |
Now
the servant does not go on living in the house for ever, but the son
does. |
8:36 |
If then the
son makes you free, you will be truly free. |
8:37 |
I
am conscious that you are Abraham's seed; but you have a desire to put me to
death because my word has no place in you. |
8:38 |
I
say the things which I have seen in my Father's house: and you do the things
which come to you from your father's house. |
8:39 |
In
answer they said to him, Our father is Abraham. Jesus said to them, If you
were Abraham's children you would do what Abraham did. |
8:40 |
But
now you have a desire to put me to death, a man who has said to you what is
true, as I had it from God: Abraham did not do that. |
8:41 |
You
are doing the works of your father. They said to him, We are True sons of
Abraham; we have one Father, who is God. |
8:42 |
Jesus
said to them, If God was your Father you would have love for me, because it
was from God I came and am here. I did not come of myself, but he sent
me. |
8:43 |
Why
are my words not clear to you? It is because your ears are shut to my
teaching. |
8:44 |
You
are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do
his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the
True way because there is no True thing in him. When he says what is false,
it is natural to him, for he is False and the father of what is false. |
8:45 |
But
because I say what is true, you have no belief in me. |
8:46 |
Which
of you is able truly to say that I am a sinner? If I say what is true, why
have you no belief in me? |
8:47 |
He
who is a child of God gives ear to the words of God: your ears are not open
to them because you are not from God. |
8:48 |
The
Jews said to him in answer, Are we not right in saying that you are of
Samaria and have an evil spirit? |
8:49 |
And
this was the answer of Jesus: I have not an evil spirit; but I give honour to
my Father and you do not give honour to me. |
8:50 |
I,
however, am not in search of glory for myself: there is One who is searching
for it and he is judge. |
8:51 |
Truly
I say to you, If a man keeps my word he will never see death. |
8:52 |
The
Jews said to him, Now we are certain that you have an evil spirit. Abraham is
dead, and the prophets are dead; and you say, If a man keeps my word he will
never see death. |
8:53 |
Are
you greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? and the prophets are dead:
who do you say that you are? |
8:54 |
Jesus
said in answer, If I take glory for myself, my glory is nothing: it is my
Father who gives me glory, of whom you say that he is your God. |
8:55 |
You
have no knowledge of him, but I have knowledge of him; and if I said I have
no knowledge of him I would be talking falsely like you: but I have full
knowledge of him, and I keep his word. |
8:56 |
Your
father Abraham was full of joy at the hope of seeing my day: he saw it and
was glad. |
8:57 |
Then
the Jews said to him, You are not fifty years old; have you seen
Abraham? |
8:58 |
Jesus
said to them, Truly I say to you, Before Abraham came into being, I am. |
8:59 |
So
they took up stones to send at him: but Jesus got secretly out of their way
and went out of the Temple. |
9:1 |
And when
he went on his way, he saw a man blind from birth. |
9:2 |
And
his disciples put a question to him, saying, Master, was it because of this
man's sin, or the sin of his father and mother, that he has been blind from
birth? |
9:3 |
Jesus
said in answer, It was not because of his sin, or because of his father's or
mother's; it was so that the works of God might be seen openly in him. |
9:4 |
While
it is day we have to do the works of him who sent me: the night comes when no
work may be done. |
9:5 |
As long
as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. |
9:6 |
Having
said these words, he put earth, mixed with water from his mouth, on the man's
eyes, |
9:7 |
And
said to him, Go and make yourself clean in the bath of Siloam (the sense of
the name is, Sent). So he went away and, after washing, came back able to
see. |
9:8 |
Then
the neighbours and others who had seen him before in the street, with his
hand out for money, said, Is not this the man who got money from people? |
9:9 |
Some
said, It is he: others said, No, but he is like him. He said, I am he. |
9:10 |
So they said
to him, How then were your eyes made open? |
9:11 |
His
answer was: The man who is named Jesus put earth mixed with water on my eyes,
and said to me, Go and make yourself clean in Siloam: so I went away and,
after washing, am now able to see. |
9:12 |
And
they said to him, Where is he? His answer was: I have no knowledge. |
9:13 |
They
took him before the Pharisees--this man who had been blind. |
9:14 |
Now
the day on which the earth was mixed by Jesus and the man's eyes were made
open was the Sabbath. |
9:15 |
So
the Pharisees put more questions to him about how his eyes had been made
open. And he said to them, He put earth on my eyes, and I had a wash and am
able to see. |
9:16 |
Then
some of the Pharisees said, That man has not come from God, for he does not
keep the Sabbath. Others said, How is it possible for a sinner to do such
signs? So there was a division among them. |
9:17 |
Again
they said to the blind man, What have you to say about him for opening your
eyes? And he said, He is a prophet. |
9:18 |
Now
the Jews had no belief in the statement that he had been blind and was now
able to see, till they sent for the father and mother of the man whose eyes
had been made open, |
9:19 |
And
put the question to them, saying, Is this your son, of whom you say that he
was blind at birth? how is it then that he is now able to see? |
9:20 |
In
answer his father and mother said, We are certain that this is our son and
that he was blind at birth: |
9:21 |
But
how it is he is now able to see, or who made his eyes open, we are not able
to say: put the question to him; he is old enough to give an answer for
himself. |
9:22 |
They
said this because of their fear of the Jews: for the Jews had come to an
agreement that if any man said that Jesus was the Christ he would be put out
of the Synagogue. |
9:23 |
That
was the reason why they said, He is old enough; put the question to him. |
9:24 |
So
they sent a second time for the man who had been blind and they said to him,
Give glory to God: it is clear to us that this man is a sinner. |
9:25 |
He
said in answer, I have no knowledge if he is a sinner or not, but one thing I
am certain about; I was blind, and now I see. |
9:26 |
Then
they said to him, What did he do to you? how did he give you the use of your
eyes? |
9:27 |
His
answer was: I have said it before, but your ears were shut: why would you
have me say it again? is it your desire to become his disciples? |
9:28 |
And
they were angry with him and said, You are his disciple, but we are disciples
of Moses. |
9:29 |
We
are certain that God gave his word to Moses: but as for this man, we have no
knowledge where he comes from. |
9:30 |
The
man said in answer, Why, here is a strange thing! You have no knowledge where
he comes from though he gave me the use of my eyes. |
9:31 |
We
have knowledge that God does not give ear to sinners, but if any man is a
worshipper of God and does his pleasure, to him God's ears are open. |
9:32 |
In
all the years nobody has ever before seen the eyes of a man blind from birth
made open. |
9:33 |
If
this man did not come from God he would be unable to do anything. |
9:34 |
Their
answer was: You came to birth through sin; do you make yourself our teacher?
And they put him out of the Synagogue. |
9:35 |
It
came to the ears of Jesus that they had put him out, and meeting him he said,
Have you faith in the Son of man? |
9:36 |
He
said in answer, And who is he, Lord? Say, so that I may have faith in
him. |
9:37 |
Jesus
said to him, You have seen him; it is he who is talking to you. |
9:38 |
And he
said, Lord, I have faith. And he gave him worship. |
9:39 |
And
Jesus said, I came into this world to be a judge, so that those who do not
see may see, and those who see may become blind. |
9:40 |
These
words came to the ears of the Pharisees who were with him and they said to
him, Are we, then, blind? |
9:41 |
Jesus
said to them, If you were blind you would have no sin: but now that you say,
We see; your sin is there still. |
10:1 |
Truly
I say to you, He who does not go through the door into the place where the
sheep are kept, but gets in by some other way, is a thief and an outlaw. |
10:2 |
He who goes
in by the door is the keeper of the sheep. |
10:3 |
The
porter lets him in; and the sheep give ear to his voice; he says over the
names of the sheep, and takes them out. |
10:4 |
When
he has got them all out, he goes before them, and the sheep go after him, for
they have knowledge of his voice. |
10:5 |
They
will not go after another who is not their keeper, but will go from him in
flight, because his voice is strange to them. |
10:6 |
In
this Jesus was teaching them in the form of a story: but what he said was not
clear to them. |
10:7 |
So
Jesus said again, Truly I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. |
10:8 |
All
who came before me are thieves and outlaws: but the sheep did not give ear to
them. |
10:9 |
I
am the door: if any man goes in through me he will have salvation, and will
go in and go out, and will get food. |
10:10 |
The
thief comes only to take the sheep and to put them to death: he comes for
their destruction: I have come so that they may have life and have it in
greater measure. |
10:11 |
I
am the good keeper of sheep: the good keeper gives his life for the
sheep. |
10:12 |
He
who is a servant, and not the keeper or the owner of the sheep, sees the wolf
coming and goes in flight, away from the sheep; and the wolf comes down on
them and sends them in all directions: |
10:13 |
Because he
is a servant he has no interest in the sheep. |
10:14 |
I
am the good keeper; I have knowledge of my sheep, and they have knowledge of
me, |
10:15 |
Even
as the Father has knowledge of me and I of the Father; and I am giving my
life for the sheep. |
10:16 |
And
I have other sheep which are not of this field: I will be their guide in the
same way, and they will give ear to my voice, so there will be one flock and
one keeper. |
10:17 |
For
this reason am I loved by the Father, because I give up my life so that I may
take it again. |
10:18 |
No
one takes it away from me; I give it up of myself. I have power to give it
up, and I have power to take it again. These orders I have from my
Father. |
10:19 |
There
was a division again among the Jews because of these words. |
10:20 |
And
a number of them said, He has an evil spirit and is out of his mind; why do
you give ear to him? |
10:21 |
Others
said, These are not the words of one who has an evil spirit. Is it possible
for an evil spirit to make blind people see? |
10:22 |
Then
came the feast of the opening of the Temple in Jerusalem: it was winter; |
10:23 |
And
Jesus was walking in the Temple, in Solomon's covered way. |
10:24 |
Then
the Jews came round him, saying, how long are you going to keep us in doubt?
If you are the Christ, say so clearly. |
10:25 |
Jesus
said in answer, I have said it and you have no belief: the works which I do
in my Father's name, these give witness about me. |
10:26 |
But you have
no belief because you are not of my sheep. |
10:27 |
My
sheep give ear to my voice, and I have knowledge of them, and they come after
me: |
10:28 |
And
I give them eternal life; they will never come to destruction, and no one
will ever take them out of my hand. |
10:29 |
That
which my Father has given to me has more value than all; and no one is able
to take anything out of the Father's hand. |
10:30 |
I and my Father are
one. |
10:31 |
Then
the Jews took up stones again to send at him. |
10:32 |
Jesus
said to them in answer, I have let you see a number of good works from the
Father; for which of those works are you stoning me? |
10:33 |
This
was their answer: We are not stoning you for a good work but for evil words;
because being a man you make yourself God. |
10:34 |
In
answer, Jesus said, Is there not a saying in your law, I said, You are
gods? |
10:35 |
If
he said they were gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Writings may
not be broken), |
10:36 |
Do
you say of him whom the Father made holy and sent into the world, Your words
are evil; because I said, I am God's Son? |
10:37 |
If
I am not doing the works of my Father, do not have belief in me; |
10:38 |
But
if I am doing them, then have belief in the works even if you have no belief
in me; so that you may see clearly and be certain that the Father is in me
and I am in the Father. |
10:39 |
Then
again they made an attempt to take him; but he got away from them. |
10:40 |
And
he went again to the other side of the Jordan, to the place where John first
gave baptism; and he was there for a time. |
10:41 |
And
a great number of people came to him, saying, John did no sign: but
everything John said of this man was true. |
10:42 |
And
a number came to have faith in him there. |
11:1 |
Now
a certain man named Lazarus was ill; he was of Bethany, the town of Mary and
her sister Martha. |
11:2 |
(The
Mary whose brother Lazarus was ill, was the Mary who put perfumed oil on the
Lord and made his feet dry with her hair.) |
11:3 |
So
the sisters sent to him, saying, Lord, your dear friend is ill. |
11:4 |
When
this came to his ears, Jesus said, The end of this disease is not death, but
the glory of God, so that the Son of God may have glory because of it. |
11:5 |
Now
Jesus had love in his heart for Martha and her sister and Lazarus. |
11:6 |
So
when the news came to him that Lazarus was ill, he did not go from the place
where he was for two days. |
11:7 |
Then
after that time he said to his disciples, Let us go into Judaea again. |
11:8 |
The
disciples said to him, Master, the Jews were attempting only the other day to
have you stoned, and are you going back there again? |
11:9 |
Then
Jesus said in answer, Are there not twelve hours in the day? A man may go
about in the day without falling, because he sees the light of this
world. |
11:10 |
But
if a man goes about in the night, he may have a fall because the light is not
in him. |
11:11 |
These
things said he: and after that he said to them, Lazarus our friend is at
rest; but I go so that I may make him come out of his sleep. |
11:12 |
Then
his disciples said to him, Lord, if he is resting he will get well. |
11:13 |
Jesus,
however, was talking of his death: but they had the idea that he was talking
about taking rest in sleep. |
11:14 |
Then
Jesus said to them clearly, Lazarus is dead. |
11:15 |
And
because of you I am glad I was not there, so that you may have faith; but let
us go to him. |
11:16 |
Then
Thomas, who was named Didymus, said to the other disciples, Let us go so that
we may be with him in death. |
11:17 |
Now
when Jesus came, he made the discovery that Lazarus had been put into the
earth four days before. |
11:18 |
Now Bethany
was near to Jerusalem, about two miles away; |
11:19 |
And
a number of Jews had come to Martha and Mary to give them comfort about their
brother. |
11:20 |
When
Martha had the news that Jesus was on the way, she went out to him, but Mary
did not go from the house. |
11:21 |
Then
Martha said to Jesus, Lord, if you had been here my brother would not be
dead. |
11:22 |
But
I am certain that, even now, whatever request you make to God, God will give
it to you. |
11:23 |
Jesus said
to her, Your brother will come to life again. |
11:24 |
Martha
said to him, I am certain that he will come to life again when all come back
from the dead at the last day. |
11:25 |
Jesus
said to her, I am myself that day and that life; he who has faith in me will
have life even if he is dead; |
11:26 |
And
no one who is living and has faith in me will ever see death. Is this your
faith? |
11:27 |
She
said to him, Yes, Lord: my faith is that you are the Christ, the Son of God,
who was to come into the world. |
11:28 |
And
having said this, she went away and said secretly to her sister Mary, The
Master is here and has sent for you. |
11:29 |
And Mary,
hearing this, got up quickly and went to him. |
11:30 |
Now
Jesus had not at this time come into the town, but was still in the place
where Martha had seen him. |
11:31 |
Then
the Jews who were with her in the house, comforting her, when they saw Mary
get up quickly and go out, went after her in the belief that she was going to
the place of the dead and would be weeping there. |
11:32 |
When
Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she went down at his feet, saying,
Lord, if you had been here my brother would not be dead. |
11:33 |
And
when Jesus saw her weeping, and saw the Jews weeping who came with her, his
spirit was moved and he was troubled, |
11:34 |
And
said, Where have you put him? They said, Come and see, Lord. |
11:35 |
And Jesus himself
was weeping. |
11:36 |
So
the Jews said, See how dear he was to him! |
11:37 |
But
some of them said, This man, who made open the eyes of the blind man, was he
not able to keep his friend from death? |
11:38 |
So
Jesus, deeply troubled in heart, came to the place of the dead. It was a hole
in the rock, and a stone was over the opening. |
11:39 |
Jesus
said, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said,
Lord, by this time the body will be smelling, for he has been dead four
days. |
11:40 |
Jesus
said to her, Did I not say to you that if you had faith you would see the
glory of God? |
11:41 |
So
they took away the stone. And Jesus, looking up to heaven, said, Father, I
give praise to you for hearing me. |
11:42 |
I
was certain that your ears are at all times open to me, but I said it because
of these who are here, so that they may see that you sent me. |
11:43 |
Then
he said in a loud voice, Lazarus, come out! |
11:44 |
And
he who was dead came out, with linen bands folded tightly about his hands and
feet, and a cloth about his face. Jesus said to them, Make him free and let
him go. |
11:45 |
Then
a number of the Jews who had come to Mary and had seen the things which Jesus
did had belief in him. |
11:46 |
But
some of them went to the Pharisees with the news of what Jesus had done. |
11:47 |
Then
the high priests and the Pharisees had a meeting and said, What are we doing?
This man is doing a number of signs. |
11:48 |
If
we let him go on in this way, everybody will have belief in him and the
Romans will come and take away our place and our nation. |
11:49 |
But
one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, You have
no knowledge of anything; |
11:50 |
You
do not see that it is in your interest for one man to be put to death for the
people, so that all the nation may not come to destruction. |
11:51 |
He
did not say this of himself, but being the high priest that year he said, as
a prophet, that Jesus would be put to death for the nation; |
11:52 |
And
not for that nation only, but for the purpose of uniting in one body the
children of God all over the world. |
11:53 |
And
from that day they took thought together how to put him to death. |
11:54 |
So
Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but went from there into
the country near to the waste land, to a town named Ephraim, where he was for
some time with the disciples. |
11:55 |
Now
the Passover of the Jews was near, and numbers of people went up from the
country to Jerusalem to make themselves clean before the Passover. |
11:56 |
They
were looking for Jesus and saying to one another while they were in the
Temple, What is your opinion? Will he not come to the feast? |
11:57 |
Now
the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone had
knowledge where he was, he was to give them word, so that they might take
him. |
12:1 |
Then,
six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus was, whom
Jesus had made to come back from the dead. |
12:2 |
So
they made him a meal there, and he was waited on by Martha, and Lazarus was
among those who were seated with him at table. |
12:3 |
Then
Mary, taking a pound of perfumed oil of great value, put it on the feet of
Jesus and made them dry with her hair: and the house became full of the smell
of the perfume. |
12:4 |
But
one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot (who was to give him up), said, |
12:5 |
Why
was not this perfume traded for three hundred pence, and the money given to
the poor? |
12:6 |
(He
said this, not because he had any love for the poor; but because he was a
thief, and, having the money-bag, took for himself what was put into
it.) |
12:7 |
Then
Jesus said, Let her be. Let her keep what she has for the day of my
death. |
12:8 |
The
poor you have ever with you, but me you have not for ever. |
12:9 |
Then
a great number of the Jews had news that he was there: and they came, not
only because of Jesus, but so that they might see Lazarus who had been dead
and to whom he had given life. |
12:10 |
Now
there was talk among the chief priests of putting Lazarus to death; |
12:11 |
For
because of him a great number of the Jews went away and had belief in
Jesus. |
12:12 |
The
day after, a great number of people who were there for the feast, when they
had the news that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, |
12:13 |
Took
branches of palm-trees and went out to him, crying, A blessing on him who
comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel! |
12:14 |
And
Jesus saw a young ass and took his seat on it; as the Writings say, |
12:15 |
Have
no fear, daughter of Zion: see your King is coming, seated on a young
ass. |
12:16 |
(These
things were not clear to his disciples at first: but when Jesus had been
lifted up into his glory, then it came to their minds that these things in
the Writings were about him and that they had been done to him.) |
12:17 |
Now
the people who were with him when his voice came to Lazarus in the place of
the dead, and gave him life again, had been talking about it. |
12:18 |
And
that was the reason the people went out to him, because it had come to their
ears that he had done this sign. |
12:19 |
Then
the Pharisees said one to another, You see, you are unable to do anything:
the world has gone after him. |
12:20 |
Now
there were some Greeks among the people who had come up to give worship at
the feast: |
12:21 |
They
came to Philip, who was of Beth-saida in Galilee, and made a request, saying,
Sir, we have a desire to see Jesus. |
12:22 |
Philip
went and gave word of it to Andrew; and Andrew went with Philip to
Jesus. |
12:23 |
And
Jesus said to them in answer, The hour of the glory of the Son of man has
come. |
12:24 |
Truly
I say to you, If a seed of grain does not go into the earth and come to an
end, it is still a seed and no more; but through its death it gives much
fruit. |
12:25 |
He
who is in love with life will have it taken from him; and he who has no care
for his life in this world will keep it for ever and ever. |
12:26 |
If
any man is my servant, let him come after me; and where I am, there will my
servant be. If any man becomes my servant, my Father will give him
honour. |
12:27 |
Now
is my soul troubled; and what am I to say? Father, keep me from this hour.
No: for this purpose have I come to this hour. |
12:28 |
Father,
give glory to your name. Then there came a voice out of heaven, saying, I
have given it glory, and I will give it glory again. |
12:29 |
Hearing
the sound, a number of people who were there said that it was thunder: others
said, An angel was talking to him. |
12:30 |
Jesus
said in answer, This voice came not for me but for you. |
12:31 |
Now
is this world to be judged: now will the ruler of this world be sent
out. |
12:32 |
And
I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will make all men come to me. |
12:33 |
(This
he said, pointing to the sort of death he would have.) |
12:34 |
Then
the people in answer said to him, The law says that the Christ will have life
without end: how say you then that it is necessary for the Son of man to be
lifted up? Who is this Son of man? |
12:35 |
Jesus
said to them, For a little time longer the light will be among you; while you
have the light go on walking in it, so that the dark may not overtake you:
one walking in the dark has no knowledge of where he is going. |
12:36 |
In
so far as you have the light, put your faith in the light so that you may
become sons of light. With these words Jesus went away and for a time was not
seen again by them. |
12:37 |
But
though he had done such a number of signs before them, they still had no
belief in him: |
12:38 |
So
that the words of the prophet Isaiah might come true, when he said, Lord, who
has any belief in our preaching? and the arm of the Lord, to whom has it been
unveiled? |
12:39 |
For
this reason they were unable to have belief, because Isaiah said again, |
12:40 |
He
has made their eyes blind, and their hearts hard; for fear that they might
see with their eyes and get knowledge with their hearts, and be changed, and
I might make them well. |
12:41 |
(Isaiah
said these words because he saw his glory. His words were about him.) |
12:42 |
However,
a number even of the rulers had belief in him, but because of the Pharisees
they did not say so openly for fear that they might be shut out from the
Synagogue: |
12:43 |
For
the praise of men was dearer to them than the approval of God. |
12:44 |
Then
Jesus said with a loud voice, He who has faith in me, has faith not in me,
but in him who sent me. |
12:45 |
And he
who sees me, sees him who sent me. |
12:46 |
I
have come as a light into the world, so that no one who has faith in me will
go on living in the dark. |
12:47 |
And
if any man gives ear to my words and does not keep them, I am not his judge:
I did not come to be judge of the world but to give salvation to the
world. |
12:48 |
He
who puts me on one side and does not take my words to heart, is not without a
judge: the word which I have said will be his judge on the last day. |
12:49 |
For
I have not said it on my authority, but the Father who sent me gave me orders
what to say and how to say it. |
12:50 |
And
I have knowledge that his order is eternal life: so that the things which I
say, I say them even as the Father says them to me. |
13:1 |
Now
before the feast of the Passover, it was clear to Jesus that the time had
come for him to go away from this world to the Father. Having once had love
for those in the world who were his, his love for them went on to the end. |
13:2 |
So
while a meal was going on, the Evil One having now put it into the heart of
Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to be False to him, |
13:3 |
Jesus,
being conscious that the Father had put everything into his hands, and that
he came from God and was going to God, |
13:4 |
Got
up from table, put off his robe and took a cloth and put it round him. |
13:5 |
Then
he put water into a basin and was washing the feet of the disciples and
drying them with the cloth which was round him. |
13:6 |
So
he came to Simon Peter. Peter said, Lord, are my feet to be washed by
you? |
13:7 |
And
Jesus, answering, said to him, What I do is not clear to you now, but it will
be clear to you in time to come. |
13:8 |
Peter
said, I will never let my feet be washed by you, never. Jesus said in answer,
If I do not make you clean you have no part with me. |
13:9 |
Simon
Peter said to him, Lord, not my feet only, but my hands and my head. |
13:10 |
Jesus
said to him, He who is bathed has need only to have his feet washed and then
he is clean all over: and you, my disciples, are clean, but not all of
you. |
13:11 |
(He
had knowledge who was False to him; that is why he said, You are not all
clean.) |
13:12 |
Then,
after washing their feet and putting on his robe again, he took his seat and
said to them, Do you see what I have done to you? |
13:13 |
You
give me the name of Master and Lord: and you are right; that is what I
am. |
13:14 |
If
then I, the Lord and the Master, have made your feet clean, it is right for
you to make one another's feet clean. |
13:15 |
I
have given you an example, so that you may do what I have done to you. |
13:16 |
Truly
I say to you, A servant is not greater than his lord; and he who is sent is
not greater than the one who sent him. |
13:17 |
If
these things are clear to you, happy are you if you do them. |
13:18 |
I
am not talking of you all: I have knowledge of my True disciples, but things
are as they are, so that the Writings may come true, The foot of him who
takes bread with me is lifted up against me. |
13:19 |
From
this time forward, I give you knowledge of things before they come about, so
that when they come about you may have belief that I am he. |
13:20 |
Truly
I say to you, He who takes to his heart anyone whom I send, takes me to his
heart; and he who so takes me, takes him who sent me. |
13:21 |
When
Jesus had said this he was troubled in spirit, and gave witness, saying,
Truly I say to you, that one of you will be False to me. |
13:22 |
Then
the eyes of the disciples were turned on one another, in doubt as to whom he
had in mind. |
13:23 |
There
was at table one of his disciples, the one dear to Jesus, resting his head on
Jesus' breast. |
13:24 |
Making
a sign to him, Simon Peter said, Who is it he is talking about? |
13:25 |
He,
then, resting his head on Jesus' breast, said to him, Lord, who is it? |
13:26 |
This
was the answer Jesus gave: It is the one to whom I will give this bit of
bread after I have put it in the vessel. Then he took the bit of bread, put
it into the vessel, and gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. |
13:27 |
And
when Judas took the bread Satan went into him. Then Jesus said to him, Do
quickly what you have to do. |
13:28 |
Now
it was not clear to anyone at table why he said this to him. |
13:29 |
Some
were of the opinion that because Judas kept the money-bag Jesus said to him,
Get the things we have need of for the feast; or, that he was to give
something to the poor. |
13:30 |
So
Judas, having taken the bit of bread, straight away went out: and it was
night. |
13:31 |
Then
when he had gone out, Jesus said, Now is glory given to the Son of man, and
God is given glory in him. |
13:32 |
If
God is given glory in him, God will give him glory in himself, and will give
him glory even now. |
13:33 |
My
dear children, I am only to be with you a little longer. Then you will be
looking for me: and as I said to the Jews, so now I say to you, Where I am
going you may not come. |
13:34 |
I
give you a new law: Have love one for another; even as I have had love for
you, so are you to have love one for another. |
13:35 |
By
this it will be clear to all men that you are my disciples, if you have love
one for another. |
13:36 |
Simon
Peter said to him, Lord, where are you going? Jesus said in answer, Where I
am going you may not come with me now, but you will come later. |
13:37 |
Peter
said to him, Why may I not come with you even now? I will give up my life for
you. |
13:38 |
Jesus
said in answer, Will you give up your life for me? Truly I say to you, Before
the cry of the cock you will have said three times that you are not my
disciple. |
14:1 |
Let
not your heart be troubled: have faith in God and have faith in me. |
14:2 |
In
my Father's house are rooms enough; if it was not so, would I have said that
I am going to make ready a place for you? |
14:3 |
And
if I go and make ready a place for you, I will come back again and will take
you to be with me, so that you may be where I am. |
14:4 |
And
you all have knowledge of where I am going, and of the way to it. |
14:5 |
Thomas
said, Lord, we have no knowledge of where you are going; how may we have
knowledge of the way? |
14:6 |
Jesus
said to him, I am the True and living way: no one comes to the Father but by
me. |
14:7 |
If
you had knowledge of me, you would have knowledge of my Father: you have
knowledge of him now and have seen him. |
14:8 |
Philip
said to him, Lord, let us see the Father, and we have need of nothing
more. |
14:9 |
Jesus
said to him, Philip, have I been with you all this time, and still you have
no knowledge of me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. Why do you say,
Let us see the Father? |
14:10 |
Have
you not faith that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words
which I say to you, I say not from myself: but the Father who is in me all
the time does his works. |
14:11 |
Have
faith that I am in the Father and that the Father is in me: at least, have
faith in me because of what I do. |
14:12 |
Truly
I say to you, He who puts his faith in me will do the very works which I do,
and he will do greater things than these, because I am going to my
Father. |
14:13 |
And
whatever request you make in my name, that I will do, so that the Father may
have glory in the Son. |
14:14 |
If you make
any request to me in my name, I will do it. |
14:15 |
If
you have love for me, you will keep my laws. |
14:16 |
And
I will make prayer to the Father and he will give you another Helper to be
with you for ever, |
14:17 |
Even
the Spirit of True knowledge. That Spirit the world is not able to take to
its heart because it sees him not and has no knowledge of him: but you have
knowledge of him, because he is ever with you and will be in you. |
14:18 |
I will
not let you be without a friend: I am coming to you. |
14:19 |
A
little time longer, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me;
and you will be living because I am living. |
14:20 |
At
that time it will be clear to you that I am in my Father, and you are in me,
and I in you. |
14:21 |
He
who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has
love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will
let myself be seen clearly by him. |
14:22 |
Judas
(not Iscariot) said to him, How is it that you will let yourself be seen
clearly by us and not by the world? |
14:23 |
Jesus
said to him in answer, If anyone has love for me, he will keep my words: and
he will be dear to my Father; and we will come to him and make our
living-place with him. |
14:24 |
He
who has no love for me does not keep my words; and the word which you are
hearing is not my word but the Father's who sent me. |
14:25 |
I have said
all this to you while I am still with you. |
14:26 |
But
the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will be
your teacher in all things and will put you in mind of everything I have said
to you. |
14:27 |
May
peace be with you; my peace I give to you: I give it not as the world gives.
Let not your heart be troubled; let it be without fear. |
14:28 |
Keep
in mind how I said to you, I go away and come to you again. If you had love
for me you would be glad, because I am going to the Father: for the Father is
greater than I. |
14:29 |
And
now I have given you word of it before it comes, so that, when it comes, you
may have faith. |
14:30 |
After
this I will not say much to you, because the ruler of this world comes: and
he has no power over me; |
14:31 |
But
he comes so that the world may see that I have love for the Father, and that
I am doing as I am ordered by the Father. Get up, and let us go. |
15:1 |
I
am the True vine and my Father is the gardener. |
15:2 |
He
takes away every branch in me which has no fruit, and every branch which has
fruit he makes clean, so that it may have more fruit. |
15:3 |
You
are clean, even now, through the teaching which I have given you. |
15:4 |
Be
in me at all times as I am in you. As the branch is not able to give fruit of
itself, if it is not still on the vine, so you are not able to do so if you
are not in me. |
15:5 |
I
am the vine, you are the branches: he who is in me at all times as I am in
him, gives much fruit, because without me you are able to do nothing. |
15:6 |
If
a man does not keep himself in me, he becomes dead and is cut off like a dry
branch; such branches are taken up and put in the fire and burned. |
15:7 |
If
you are in me at all times, and my words are in you, then anything for which
you make a request will be done for you. |
15:8 |
Here
is my Father's glory, in that you give much fruit and so are my True
disciples. |
15:9 |
Even
as the Father has given me his love, so I have given my love to you: be ever
in my love. |
15:10 |
If
you keep my laws, you will be ever in my love, even as I have kept my
Father's laws, and am ever in his love. |
15:11 |
I
have said these things to you so that I may have joy in you and so that your
joy may be complete. |
15:12 |
This
is the law I give you: Have love one for another, even as I have love for
you. |
15:13 |
Greater
love has no man than this, that a man gives up his life for his friends. |
15:14 |
You are
my friends, if you do what I give you orders to do. |
15:15 |
No
longer do I give you the name of servants; because a servant is without
knowledge of what his master is doing: I give you the name of friends,
because I have given you knowledge of all the things which my Father has said
to me. |
15:16 |
You
did not take me for yourselves, but I took you for myself; and I gave you the
work of going about and producing fruit which will be for ever; so that
whatever request you make to the Father in my name he may give it to you. |
15:17 |
So this is my
law for you: Have love one for another. |
15:18 |
If
you are hated by the world, keep in mind that I was hated by the world before
you. |
15:19 |
If
you were of the world, you would be loved by the world: but because you are
not of the world, but I have taken you out of the world, you are hated by the
world. |
15:20 |
Keep
in mind the words I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord. If
they were cruel to me, they will be cruel to you; if they kept my words, they
will keep yours. |
15:21 |
They
will do all this to you because of my name--because they have no knowledge of
him who sent me. |
15:22 |
If
I had not come and been their teacher they would have had no sin: but now
they have no reason to give for their sin. |
15:23 |
He
who has hate for me has hate for my Father. |
15:24 |
If
I had not done among them the works which no other man ever did, they would
have had no sin: but now they have seen, and they have had hate in their
hearts for me and my Father. |
15:25 |
This
comes about so that the writing in their law may be made true, Their hate for
me was without cause. |
15:26 |
When
the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father even the Spirit of
True knowledge who comes from the Father--he will give witness about me; |
15:27 |
And
you, in addition, will give witness because you have been with me from the
first. |
16:1 |
I
have said these things to you so that you may not be in doubt. |
16:2 |
They
will put you out of the Synagogues: yes, the time is coming when whoever puts
you to death will have the belief that he is doing God's pleasure. |
16:3 |
They
will do these things to you because they have not had knowledge of the Father
or of me. |
16:4 |
I
have said these things to you so that when the time comes, what I have said
may come to your mind. I did not say them to you at the first, because then I
was still with you. |
16:5 |
But
now I am going to him who sent me; and not one of you says to me, Where are
you going? |
16:6 |
But
your hearts are full of sorrow because I have said these things. |
16:7 |
But
what I am saying is true: my going is for your good: for if I do not go away,
the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. |
16:8 |
And
he, when he comes, will make the world conscious of sin, and of
righteousness, and of being judged: |
16:9 |
Of
sin, because they have not faith in me; |
16:10 |
Of
righteousness, because I go to the Father and you will see me no more; |
16:11 |
Of
being judged, because the ruler of this world has been judged. |
16:12 |
I
have still much to say to you, but you are not strong enough for it now. |
16:13 |
However,
when he, the Spirit of True knowledge, has come, he will be your guide into
all True knowledge: for his words will not come from himself, but whatever
has come to his hearing, that he will say: and he will make clear to you the
things to come. |
16:14 |
He
will give me glory, because he will take of what is mine, and make it clear
to you. |
16:15 |
Everything
which the Father has is mine: that is why I say, He will take of what is mine
and will make it clear to you. |
16:16 |
After
a little time you will see me no longer; and then again, after a little time,
you will see me. |
16:17 |
So
some of the disciples said one to another, What is this he is saying, After a
little time, you will see me no longer; and then again, after a little time,
you will see me? and, I am going to the Father? |
16:18 |
So
they said again and again, What is this he is saying, A little time? His
words are not clear to us. |
16:19 |
Jesus
saw that they had a desire to put the question to him, so he said to them, Is
this what you are questioning one with another, why I said, After a little
time, you will see me no longer; and then again, after a little time, you
will see me? |
16:20 |
Truly
I say to you, You will be weeping and sorrowing, but the world will be glad:
you will be sad, but your sorrow will be turned into joy. |
16:21 |
When
a woman is about to give birth she has sorrow, because her hour is come; but
when she has given birth to the child, the pain is put out of her mind by the
joy that a man has come into the world. |
16:22 |
So
you have sorrow now: but I will see you again, and your hearts will be glad,
and no one will take away your joy. |
16:23 |
And
on that day you will put no questions to me. Truly I say to you, Whatever
request you make to the Father, he will give it to you in my name. |
16:24 |
Up
to now you have made no request in my name: do so, and it will be answered,
so that your hearts may be full of joy. |
16:25 |
All
this I have said to you in veiled language: but the time is coming when I
will no longer say things in veiled language but will give you knowledge of
the Father clearly. |
16:26 |
In
that day you will make requests in my name: and I do not say that I will make
prayer to the Father for you, |
16:27 |
For
the Father himself gives his love to you, because you have given your love to
me and have had faith that I came from God. |
16:28 |
I
came out from the Father and have come into the world: again, I go away from
the world and go to the Father. |
16:29 |
His
disciples said, Now you are talking clearly and not in veiled language. |
16:30 |
Now
we are certain that you have knowledge of all things and have no need for
anyone to put questions to you: through this we have faith that you came from
God. |
16:31 |
Jesus made
answer, Have you faith now? |
16:32 |
See,
a time is coming, yes, it is now here, when you will go away in all
directions, every man to his house, and I will be by myself: but I am not by
myself, because the Father is with me. |
16:33 |
I
have said all these things to you so that in me you may have peace. In the
world you have trouble: but take heart! I have overcome the world. |
17:1 |
Jesus
said these things; then, lifting his eyes to heaven, he said, Father, the
time has now come; give glory to your Son, so that the Son may give glory to
you: |
17:2 |
Even
as you gave him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all those
whom you have given to him. |
17:3 |
And
this is eternal life: to have knowledge of you, the only True God, and of him
whom you have sent, even Jesus Christ. |
17:4 |
I
have given you glory on the earth, having done all the work which you gave me
to do. |
17:5 |
And
now, Father, let me have glory with you, even that glory which I had with you
before the world was. |
17:6 |
I
have given knowledge of your name to the men whom you gave me out of the
world: yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your
words. |
17:7 |
Now
it is clear to them that whatever you have given to me comes from you: |
17:8 |
Because
I have given them the words which you gave to me; and they have taken them to
heart, and have certain knowledge that I came from you, and they have faith
that you sent me. |
17:9 |
My
prayer is for them: my prayer is not for the world, but for those whom you
have given to me, because they are yours |
17:10 |
(All
mine are yours, and yours are mine) and I have glory in them. |
17:11 |
And
now I will be no longer in the world, but they are in the world and I come to
you. Holy Father, keep them in your name which you have given to me, so that
they may be one even as we are one. |
17:12 |
While
I was with them I kept them safe in your name which you have given to me: I
took care of them and not one of them has come to destruction, but only the
son of destruction, so that the Writings might come true. |
17:13 |
And
now I come to you; and these things I say in the world so that they may have
my joy complete in them. |
17:14 |
I
have given your word to them; and they are hated by the world, because they
are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. |
17:15 |
My
prayer is not that you will take them out of the world, but that you will
keep them from the Evil One. |
17:16 |
They are
not of the world any more than I am of the world. |
17:17 |
Make
them holy by the True word: your word is the True word. |
17:18 |
Even
as you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. |
17:19 |
And
for them I make myself holy, so that they may be made truly holy. |
17:20 |
My
prayer is not for them only, but for all who will have faith in me through
their word; |
17:21 |
May
they all be one! Even as you, Father, are in me and I am in you, so let them
be in us, so that all men may come to have faith that you sent me. |
17:22 |
And
the glory which you have given to me I have given to them, so that they may
be one even as we are one; |
17:23 |
I
in them, and you in me, so that they may be made completely one, and so that
it may become clear to all men that you have sent me and that they are loved
by you as I am loved by you. |
17:24 |
Father,
it is my desire that these whom you have given to me may be by my side where
I am, so that they may see my glory which you have given to me, because you
had love for me before the world came into being. |
17:25 |
Father
of righteousness, I have knowledge of you, though the world has not; and to
these it is clear that you sent me; |
17:26 |
And
I have given to them knowledge of your name, and will give it, so that the
love which you have for me may be in them and I in them. |
18:1 |
When
Jesus had said these words he went out with his disciples over the stream
Kedron to a garden, into which he went with his disciples. |
18:2 |
And
Judas, who was False to him, had knowledge of the place because Jesus went
there frequently with his disciples. |
18:3 |
So
Judas, getting a band of armed men and police from the chief priests and
Pharisees, went there with lights and with arms. |
18:4 |
Then
Jesus, having knowledge of everything which was coming on him, went forward
and said to them, Who are you looking for? |
18:5 |
Their
answer was, Jesus the Nazarene. Jesus said, I am he. And Judas, who was False
to him, was there at their side. |
18:6 |
And
when he said to them, I am he, they went back, falling to the earth. |
18:7 |
So
again he put the question to them, Who are you looking for? And they said,
Jesus the Nazarene. |
18:8 |
Jesus
made answer, I have said that I am he; if you are looking for me, let these
men go away. |
18:9 |
(He
said this so that his words might come true, I have kept safe all those whom
you gave to me.) |
18:10 |
Then
Simon Peter, who had a sword, took it out and gave the high priest's servant
a blow, cutting off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus. |
18:11 |
Then
Jesus said to Peter, Put back your sword: am I not to take the cup which my
Father has given to me? |
18:12 |
Then
the band and the chief captain and the police took Jesus and put cords round
him. |
18:13 |
They
took him first to Annas, because Annas was the father-in-law of Caiaphas who
was the high priest that year. |
18:14 |
It
was Caiaphas who had said to the Jews that it was in their interest for one
man to be put to death for the people. |
18:15 |
And
Simon Peter went after Jesus with another disciple. Now that disciple was a
friend of the high priest and he went in with Jesus into the house of the
high priest; |
18:16 |
But
Peter was kept outside at the door. Then this other disciple, who was a
friend of the high priest, came out and had a word with the girl who kept the
door, and took Peter in. |
18:17 |
Then
the girl who was the door-keeper said to Peter, Are you not one of this man's
disciples? In answer he said, I am not. |
18:18 |
Now
the servants and the police had made a fire of coals because it was cold;
they were warming themselves in front of it and Peter was there with them,
warming himself. |
18:19 |
Then
the high priest put questions to Jesus about his disciples and his
teaching. |
18:20 |
Jesus
made answer, I said things openly to the world at all times; I have given my
teaching in the Synagogues and in the Temple to which all the Jews come; and
I have said nothing secretly. |
18:21 |
Why
are you questioning me? put questions to my hearers about what I have said to
them: they have knowledge of what I said. |
18:22 |
When
he said this, one of the police by his side gave him a blow with his open
hand, saying, Do you give such an answer to the high priest? |
18:23 |
Jesus
said in answer, If I have said anything evil, give witness to the evil: but
if I said what is true, why do you give me blows? |
18:24 |
Then Annas
sent him chained to Caiaphas, the high priest. |
18:25 |
But
Simon Peter was still there warming himself by the fire. They said to him,
Are you not one of his disciples? He said, No, I am not. |
18:26 |
One
of the servants of the high priest, a relation of him whose ear had been cut
off by Peter, said, Did I not see you with him in the garden? |
18:27 |
Then
again Peter said, No. And straight away a cock gave its cry. |
18:28 |
So
they took Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the Praetorium. It was early.
They themselves did not go into the Praetorium, so that they might not become
unclean, but might take the Passover. |
18:29 |
So
Pilate came out to them and put the question: What have you to say against
this man? |
18:30 |
They
said to him in answer, If the man was not a wrongdoer we would not have given
him up to you. |
18:31 |
Then
Pilate said to them, Take him yourselves and let him be judged by your law.
But the Jews said to him, We have no right to put any man to death. |
18:32 |
(That
the word of Jesus might come true, pointing to the sort of death he would
have.) |
18:33 |
Then
Pilate went back into the Praetorium and sent for Jesus and said to him, Are
you the King of the Jews? |
18:34 |
Jesus
made answer, Do you say this of yourself, or did others say it about me? |
18:35 |
Pilate
said, Am I a Jew? Your nation and the chief priests have given you into my
hands: what have you done? |
18:36 |
Jesus
said in answer, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom was of this
world, my disciples would have made a good fight to keep me out of the hands
of the Jews: but my kingdom is not here. |
18:37 |
Then
Pilate said to him, Are you then a king? Jesus made answer, You say that I am
a king. For this purpose was I given birth, and for this purpose I came into
the world, that I might give witness to what is true. Every lover of what is
True gives ear to my voice. |
18:38 |
Pilate
said to him, True? what is true? Having said this he went out again to the
Jews and said to them, I see no wrong in him. |
18:39 |
But
every year you make a request to me to let a prisoner go free at the
Passover. Is it your desire that I let the King of the Jews go free? |
18:40 |
Then
again they gave a loud cry, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was an
outlaw. |
19:1 |
Then Pilate
took Jesus and had him whipped with cords. |
19:2 |
And
the men of the army made a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and they
put a purple robe on him. |
19:3 |
And
they kept coming and saying, Long life to the King of the Jews! And they gave
him blows with their hands. |
19:4 |
And
Pilate went out again and said to them, See, I let him come out to you to
make it clear to you that I see no wrong in him. |
19:5 |
Then
Jesus came out with the crown of thorns and the purple robe. And Pilate said
to them, Here is the man! |
19:6 |
So
when the chief priests and the police saw him they gave a loud cry, To the
cross! to the cross! Pilate said to them, Take him yourselves and put him on
the cross: I see no crime in him. |
19:7 |
And
the Jews made answer, We have a law, and by that law it is right for him to
be put to death because he said he was the Son of God. |
19:8 |
When
this saying came to Pilate's ears his fear became greater; |
19:9 |
And
he went again into the Praetorium and said to Jesus, Where do you come from?
But Jesus gave him no answer. |
19:10 |
Then
Pilate said to him, You say nothing to me? is it not clear to you that I have
power to let you go free and power to put you to death on the cross? |
19:11 |
Jesus
gave this answer: You would have no power at all over me if it was not given
to you by God; so that he who gave me up to you has the greater sin. |
19:12 |
Hearing
this, Pilate had a desire to let him go free, but the Jews said in a loud
voice, If you let this man go, you are not Caesar's friend: everyone who
makes himself a king goes against Caesar. |
19:13 |
So
when these words came to Pilate's ear, he took Jesus out, seating himself in
the judge's seat in a place named in Hebrew, Gabbatha, or the Stone
Floor. |
19:14 |
(It
was the day when they made ready for the Passover; and it was about the sixth
hour.) And he said to the Jews, There is your King! |
19:15 |
Then
they gave a loud cry, Away with him! away with him! to the cross! Pilate said
to them, Am I to put your King to death on the cross? The chief priests said
in answer, We have no king but Caesar. |
19:16 |
So
then he gave him up to them to be put to death on the cross. And they took
Jesus away; |
19:17 |
And
he went out with his cross on him to the place which is named Dead Man's Head
(in Hebrew, Golgotha): |
19:18 |
Where
they put him on the cross with two others, one on this side and one on that,
and Jesus in the middle. |
19:19 |
And
Pilate put on the cross a statement in writing. The writing was: JESUS THE
NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS. |
19:20 |
The
writing was seen by a number of the Jews, for the place where Jesus was put
to death on the cross was near the town; and the writing was in Hebrew and
Latin and Greek. |
19:21 |
Then
the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, Do not put, The King of the
Jews, but, He said, I am the King of the Jews. |
19:22 |
But
Pilate made answer, What I have put in writing will not be changed. |
19:23 |
And
when Jesus was nailed to the cross, the men of the army took his clothing,
and made a division of it into four parts, to every man a part, and they took
his coat: now the coat was without a join, made out of one bit of cloth. |
19:24 |
So
they said among themselves, Let this not be cut up, but let us put it to the
decision of chance and see who gets it. (They did this so that the Writings
might come true, which say, They made a distribution of my clothing among
them, and my coat they put to the decision of chance.) This was what the men
of the army did. |
19:25 |
Now
by the side of the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother's sister
Mary, the wife of Cleopas, and Mary Magdalene. |
19:26 |
So
when Jesus saw his mother and the disciple who was dear to him, he said to
his mother, Mother, there is your son! |
19:27 |
Then
he said to the disciple, There is your mother! And from that hour the
disciple took her to his house. |
19:28 |
After
this, being conscious that all things had now been done so that the Writings
might come true, Jesus said, Give me water. |
19:29 |
Now
there was a vessel ready, full of bitter wine, and they put a sponge full of
it on a stick and put it to his mouth. |
19:30 |
So
when Jesus had taken the wine he said, All is done. And with his head bent he
gave up his spirit. |
19:31 |
Now
it was the day of getting ready for the Passover, and so that the bodies
might not be on the cross on the Sabbath (because the day of that Sabbath was
a great day), the Jews made a request to Pilate that their legs might be
broken, and that they might be taken away. |
19:32 |
So
the men of the army came, and the legs of the first were broken and then of
the other who was put to death on the cross with Jesus: |
19:33 |
But
when they came to Jesus, they saw that he was dead by this time, and so his
legs were not broken; |
19:34 |
But
one of the men made a wound in his side with a spear, and straight away there
came out blood and water. |
19:35 |
And
he who saw it has given witness (and his witness is true; he is certain that
what he says is true) so that you may have belief. |
19:36 |
These
things came about so that the Writings might be true, No bone of his body
will be broken. |
19:37 |
And
again another verse says, They will see him who was wounded by their
spears. |
19:38 |
After
these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly
for fear of the Jews, made a request to Pilate to let him take away the body
of Jesus: and Pilate said he might do so. So he went and took away his body. |
19:39 |
And
Nicodemus came (he who had first come to Jesus by night) with a roll of myrrh
and aloes mixed, about a hundred pounds. |
19:40 |
Then
they took the body of Jesus, folding linen about it with the spices, as is
the way of the Jews when they put the dead to rest. |
19:41 |
Now
there was a garden near the cross, and in the garden a new place for the dead
in which no man had ever been put. |
19:42 |
So
they put Jesus there, because it was the Jews' day of getting ready for the
Passover, and the place was near. |
20:1 |
Now
on the first day of the week, very early, while it was still dark, Mary
Magdalene came to the place and saw that the stone had been taken away from
it. |
20:2 |
Then
she went running to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple who was loved by
Jesus, and said to them, They have taken away the Lord out of the place of
the dead and we have no knowledge where they have put him. |
20:3 |
So
Peter and the other disciple went out to the place of the dead. |
20:4 |
They
went running together, and the other disciple got in front of Peter and came
first to the hole in the rock; |
20:5 |
And
looking in, he saw the linen bands on the earth; but he did not go in, |
20:6 |
Then
Simon Peter came after him and went into the hole in the rock; and he saw the
linen bands on the earth, |
20:7 |
And
the cloth, which had been round his head, not with the linen bands but rolled
up in a place by itself. |
20:8 |
Then
the other disciple who came there first went in; and he saw and belief came
to him. |
20:9 |
For
at that time they had no knowledge that the Writings said that he would have
to come again from the dead. |
20:10 |
So then the
disciples went away again to their houses. |
20:11 |
But
Mary was still there outside the hole in the rock, weeping; and while she was
weeping and looking into the hole, |
20:12 |
She
saw two angels in white seated where the body of Jesus had been, one at the
head and the other at the feet. |
20:13 |
They
said to her, Woman, why are you weeping? She said to them, Because they have
taken away my Lord, and I have no knowledge where they have put him. |
20:14 |
And
then looking round, she saw Jesus there, but had no idea that it was
Jesus. |
20:15 |
Jesus
said to her, Woman, why are you weeping? who are you looking for? She, taking
him for the gardener, said to him, Sir, if you have taken him away from here,
say where you have put him and I will take him away. |
20:16 |
Jesus
said to her, Mary! Turning, she said to him in Hebrew, Rabboni! (which is to
say, Master). |
20:17 |
Jesus
said to her, Do not put your hand on me, for I have not gone up to the
Father: but go to my brothers and say to them, I go up to my Father and your
Father, to my God and your God. |
20:18 |
Mary
Magdalene went with the news to the disciples, and said she had seen the Lord
and that he had said these things to her. |
20:19 |
At
evening on that day, the first day of the week, when, for fear of the Jews,
the doors were shut where the disciples were, Jesus came among them and said
to them, May peace be with you! |
20:20 |
And
when he had said this, he let them see his hands and his side. Then the
disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. |
20:21 |
And
Jesus said to them again, May peace be with you! As the Father sent me, even
so I now send you. |
20:22 |
And
when he had said this, breathing on them, he said to them, Let the Holy
Spirit come on you: |
20:23 |
Any
to whom you give forgiveness, will be made free from their sins; and any from
whom you keep back forgiveness, will still be in their sins. |
20:24 |
Now
Thomas, one of the twelve, named Didymus, was not with them when Jesus
came. |
20:25 |
So
the other disciples said to him, We have seen the Lord. But he said to them,
If I do not see in his hands the print of the nails and put my finger into
the print of the nails, and if I do not put my hand into his side, I will
never have belief. |
20:26 |
And
after eight days, his disciples were again in the house and Thomas was with
them. Though the doors were shut, Jesus came, and taking his place in the
middle of them, he said, May peace be with you! |
20:27 |
Then
he said to Thomas, Put out your finger, and see my hands; and put your hand
here into my side: and be no longer in doubt but have belief. |
20:28 |
And
Thomas said in answer, My Lord and my God! |
20:29 |
Jesus
said to him, Because you have seen me you have belief: a blessing will be on
those who have belief though they have not seen me! |
20:30 |
A
number of other signs Jesus did before his disciples which are not recorded
in this book: |
20:31 |
But
these are recorded, so that you may have faith that Jesus is the Christ, the
Son of God, and so that, having this faith you may have life in his
name. |
21:1 |
After
these things Jesus let himself be seen again by the disciples at the sea of
Tiberias; and it came about in this way. |
21:2 |
Simon
Peter, Thomas named Didymus, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of
Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were all together. |
21:3 |
Simon
Peter said to them, I am going fishing. They said to him, And we will come
with you. They went out and got into the boat; but that night they took no
fish. |
21:4 |
Now
very early in the morning Jesus was there by the edge of the sea (though the
disciples were not conscious that it was Jesus). |
21:5 |
So
Jesus said to them, Children, have you taken any fish? They made answer,
No. |
21:6 |
And
he said to them, Let down the net on the right side of the boat and you will
get some. So they put it in the water and now they were not able to get it up
again because of the great number of fish. |
21:7 |
So
the disciple who was dear to Jesus said to Peter, It is the Lord! Hearing
that it was the Lord, Peter put his coat round him (because he was not
clothed) and went into the sea. |
21:8 |
And
the other disciples came in the little boat (they were not far from land,
only about two hundred cubits off) pulling the net full of fish. |
21:9 |
When
they got to land, they saw a fire of coals there, with fish cooking on it,
and bread. |
21:10 |
Jesus
said to them, Get some of the fish which you have now taken. |
21:11 |
So
Peter went to the boat and came back pulling the net to land, full of great
fish, a hundred and fifty-three; and though there was such a number the net
was not broken. |
21:12 |
Jesus
said to them, Come and take some food. And all the disciples were in fear of
putting the question, Who are you? being conscious that it was the Lord. |
21:13 |
Then
Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and the fish in the same
way. |
21:14 |
Now
this was the third time that Jesus let himself be seen by the disciples after
he had come back from the dead. |
21:15 |
Then
when they had taken food, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, is
your love for me greater than the love of these others? He said to him, Yes,
Lord; you are certain of my love for you. He said to him, Then give my lambs
food. |
21:16 |
Again,
a second time, he said to him, Simon, son of John, have you any love for me?
Yes, Lord, he said, you are certain of my love for you. Then take care of my
sheep, said Jesus. |
21:17 |
He
said to him a third time, Simon, son of John, am I dear to you? Now Peter was
troubled in his heart because he put the question a third time, Am I dear to
you? And he said to him, Lord, you have knowledge of all things; you see that
you are dear to me. Jesus said to him, Then give my sheep food. |
21:18 |
Truly
I say to you, When you were young, you made yourself ready and went wherever
you had a desire to go: but when you are old, you will put out your hands and
another will make you ready, and you will be taken where you have no desire
to go. |
21:19 |
Now
this he said, pointing out the sort of death by which he would give God
glory. And after saying this, he said to him, Come after me. |
21:20 |
Then
Peter, turning round, saw the disciple who was dear to Jesus coming after
them--the disciple who was resting on his breast at the last meal, and said,
Lord, who is it who will be False to you? |
21:21 |
Seeing him,
Peter said to Jesus, What about this man? |
21:22 |
Jesus
said to him, If it is my desire for him to be here till I come back, what is
that to you? come yourself after me. |
21:23 |
So
this saying went about among the brothers that this disciple would not
undergo death: Jesus, however, did not say that he would not undergo death,
but, If it is my desire for him to be here till I come back, what is that to
you? |
21:24 |
This
is the disciple who gives witness about these things and who put them in
writing: and we have knowledge that his witness is true. |
21:25 |
And
Jesus did such a number of other things that, if every one was recorded, it
is my opinion that even the world itself is not great enough for the books
there would be. |
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