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John Chapter 1

¹At the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

²He was with God at the beginning.

³All things were made through him. Without him, nothing was made that has been made.

⁴In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

⁵The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn't overcome it.

⁶There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John.

⁷The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him.

⁸He was not the light, but was sent that he might testify about the light.

⁹The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.

¹⁰He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn't recognize him.

¹¹He came to his own, and those who were his own didn't receive him.

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

¹⁴The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

¹⁵John testified about him. He cried out, saying, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.'" ¹⁶From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.

¹⁷For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus AnointedOne.

¹⁸No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.

¹⁹This is John's testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?" ²⁰He declared, and didn't deny, but he declared, "I am not the AnointedOne." ²¹They asked him, "What then? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the prophet?" He answered, "No." ²²So they said to him, "Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?" ²³He said, "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make straight the way of ForeverOne,' as Isaiah the prophet said." ²⁴The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees.

²⁵They asked him, "Then why do you baptize, if you are not the AnointedOne, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?" ²⁶John answered them, "I baptize in water, but among you stands one whom you don't know.

²⁷He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I'm not worthy to loosen." ²⁸These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

²⁹The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

³⁰This is he of whom I said, 'After me comes a man who is preferred before me, for he was before me.' ³¹I didn't know him, but for this reason I came baptizing in water: that he would be revealed to Israel." ³²John testified, saying, "I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him.

³³I didn't recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water said to me, 'On whomever you will see the Spirit descending and remaining on him is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.' ³⁴I have seen, and have testified that this is the Son of God." ³⁵Again, the next day, John was standing with two of his disciples, ³⁶and he looked at Jesus as he walked, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God!" ³⁷The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.

³⁸Jesus turned and saw them following, and said to them, "What are you looking for?" They said to him, "Rabbi" (which means Teacher), "where are you staying?" ³⁹He said to them, "Come, and see." They came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.

⁴⁰One of the two who heard John and followed him was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.

⁴¹He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, "We have found the Messiah!" (which means AnointedOne).

⁴²He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said, "You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas" (which is by interpretation, Peter).

⁴³On the next day, he was determined to go out into Galilee, and he found Philip. Jesus said to him, "Follow me." ⁴⁴Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter.

⁴⁵Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, "We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph." ⁴⁶Nathanael said to him, "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see." ⁴⁷Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!" ⁴⁸Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you." ⁴⁹Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!" ⁵⁰Jesus answered him, "Because I told you, 'I saw you underneath the fig tree,' do you believe? You will see greater things than these!" ⁵¹He said to him, "Most certainly, I tell you all, hereafter you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man."

John Chapter 2

¹The third day, there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee. Jesus' mother was there.

²Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to the wedding.

³When the wine ran out, Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no wine." ⁴Jesus said to her, "Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come." ⁵His mother said to the servants, "Whatever he says to you, do it." ⁶Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews' way of purifying, containing two or three metretes apiece.

⁷Jesus said to them, "Fill the water pots with water." So they filled them up to the brim.

⁸He said to them, "Now draw some out, and take it to the ruler of the feast." So they took it.

⁹When the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and didn't know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast called the bridegroom ¹⁰and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then what is worse. You have kept the good wine until now!" ¹¹This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

¹²After this, he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they stayed there a few days.

¹³The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

¹⁴He found in the temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, and the changers of money sitting.

¹⁵He made a whip of cords, and threw all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers' money and overthrew their tables.

¹⁶To those who sold the doves, he said, "Take these things out of here! Don't make my Father's house a marketplace!" ¹⁷His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will eat me up." ¹⁸The Jews therefore answered him, "What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?" ¹⁹Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." ²⁰So the Jews said, "It took forty-six years to build this temple! Will you raise it up in three days?" ²¹But he spoke of the temple of his body.

²²So when he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.

²³Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.

²⁴But Jesus didn't entrust himself to them, because he knew everyone, ²⁵and because he didn't need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.

John Chapter 3

¹Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

²The same came to him by night, and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him." ³Jesus answered him, "Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can't see God's Kingdom." ⁴Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb, and be born?" ⁵Jesus answered, "Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can't enter into God's Kingdom.

⁶What is born of the flesh is flesh. What is born of the Spirit is spirit.

⁷Don't marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born anew.' ⁸The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don't know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit." ⁹Nicodemus answered him, "How can these things be?" ¹⁰Jesus answered him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and don't understand these things?

¹¹Most certainly I tell you, we speak what we know, and testify of what we have seen, and you don't receive our witness.

¹²If I told you earthly things and you don't believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?

¹³No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.

¹⁴As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, ¹⁵that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

¹⁶For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

¹⁷For God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

¹⁸He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn't believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

¹⁹This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their actions were evil.

²⁰For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his actions would be exposed.

²¹But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his actions may be revealed, that they have been done in God." ²²After these things, Jesus came with his disciples into the land of Judea. He stayed there with them and baptized.

²³John also was baptizing in Enon near Salim, because there was much water there. They came, and were baptized; ²⁴for John was not yet thrown into prison.

²⁵So a dispute arose on the part of John's disciples with some Jews about purification.

²⁶They came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, he baptizes, and everyone is coming to him." ²⁷John answered, "A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.

²⁸You yourselves testify that I said, 'I am not the AnointedOne,' but, 'I have been sent before him.' ²⁹He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. So this, my joy, is made full.

³⁰He must increase, but I must decrease.

³¹He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.

³²What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness.

³³He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true.

³⁴For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.

³⁵The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.

³⁶One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won't see life, but the wrath of God remains on him."

John Chapter 4

¹So when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John ²(although Jesus himself didn't baptize, but his disciples did), ³he left Judea and departed into Galilee.

⁴He needed to pass through Samaria.

⁵So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph.

⁶Jacob's well was there. So Jesus, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

⁷A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink." ⁸For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

⁹So the Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) ¹⁰Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water." ¹¹The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. So where do you get that living water?

¹²Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his children and his livestock?" ¹³Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, ¹⁴but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life." ¹⁵The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I don't get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw." ¹⁶Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here." ¹⁷The woman answered, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You said well, 'I have no husband,' ¹⁸for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly." ¹⁹The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.

²⁰Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship." ²¹Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father.

²²You worship what you don't know. We worship what we know; for salvation is from the Jews.

²³But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshippers.

²⁴God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth." ²⁵The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah comes, he who is called the AnointedOne. When he has come, he will declare to us all things." ²⁶Jesus said to her, "I am he, the one who speaks to you." ²⁷At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, "What are you looking for?" or, "Why do you speak with her?" ²⁸So the woman left her water pot, went away into the city, and said to the people, ²⁹"Come, see a man who told me everything that I did. Can this be the AnointedOne?" ³⁰They went out of the city, and were coming to him.

³¹In the meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, "Rabbi, eat." ³²But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you don't know about." ³³So the disciples said to one another, "Has anyone brought him something to eat?" ³⁴Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

³⁵Don't you say, 'There are yet four months until the harvest?' Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.

³⁶He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

³⁷For in this the saying is true, 'One sows, and another reaps.' ³⁸I sent you to reap that for which you haven't labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor." ³⁹From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, "He told me everything that I did." ⁴⁰So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days.

⁴¹Many more believed because of his word.

⁴²They said to the woman, "Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the AnointedOne, the Savior of the world." ⁴³After the two days he went out from there and went into Galilee.

⁴⁴For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

⁴⁵So when he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast, for they also went to the feast.

⁴⁶Then Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.

⁴⁷When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and begged him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.

⁴⁸So Jesus said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe." ⁴⁹The nobleman said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies." ⁵⁰Jesus said to him, "Go your way. Your son lives." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.

⁵¹As he was going down, his servants met him and reported, saying "Your child lives!" ⁵²So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. So they said to him, "Yesterday at the seventh hour, the fever left him." ⁵³So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, "Your son lives." He believed, and so did his whole house.

⁵⁴This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judea into Galilee.

John Chapter 5

¹After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

²Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew, "Bethesda", having five porches.

³In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water; ⁴for an angel went down at certain times into the pool and stirred up the water. Whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease he had.

⁵A certain man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years.

⁶When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been sick for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to be made well?" ⁷The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I'm coming, another steps down before me." ⁸Jesus said to him, "Arise, take up your mat, and walk." ⁹Immediately, the man was made well, and took up his mat and walked. Now it was the Sabbath on that day.

¹⁰So the Jews said to him who was cured, "It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry the mat." ¹¹He answered them, "He who made me well said to me, 'Take up your mat and walk.'" ¹²Then they asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Take up your mat and walk'?" ¹³But he who was healed didn't know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, a crowd being in the place.

¹⁴Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, "Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you." ¹⁵The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

¹⁶For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.

¹⁷But Jesus answered them, "My Father is still working, so I am working, too." ¹⁸For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

¹⁹So Jesus answered them, "Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise.

²⁰For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does. He will show him greater acts than these, that you may marvel.

²¹For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.

²²For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son, ²³that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn't honor the Son doesn't honor the Father who sent him.

²⁴"Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn't come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

²⁵Most certainly I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God's voice; and those who hear will live.

²⁶For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself.

²⁷He also gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man.

²⁸Don't marvel at this, for the hour comes in which all who are in the tombs will hear his voice, ²⁹and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.

³⁰I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don't seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.

³¹"If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid.

³²It is another who testifies about me. I know that the testimony which he testifies about me is true.

³³You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.

³⁴[*But the testimony which I receive is not from man. However, I say these things that you may be saved.] ³⁵He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.

³⁶But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John, for the acts which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very acts that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me.

³⁷The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.

³⁸You don't have his word living in you, because you don't believe him whom he sent.

³⁹"You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

⁴⁰Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.

⁴¹I don't receive glory from men.

⁴²But I know you, that you don't have God's love in yourselves.

⁴³I have come in my Father's name, and you don't receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.

⁴⁴How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don't seek the glory that comes from the only God?

⁴⁵"Don't think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope.

⁴⁶For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.

⁴⁷But if you don't believe his writings, how will you believe my words?"

John Chapter 6

¹After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is also called the Sea of Tiberias.

²A great multitude followed him, because they saw his signs which he did on those who were sick.

³Jesus went up into the mountain, and he sat there with his disciples.

⁴Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand.

⁵So Jesus, lifting up his eyes and seeing that a great multitude was coming to him, said to Philip, "Where are we to buy bread, that these may eat?" ⁶He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.

⁷Philip answered him, "Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may receive a little." ⁸One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him, ⁹"There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these among so many?" ¹⁰Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." Now there was much grass in that place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.

¹¹Jesus took the loaves; and having given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to those who were sitting down; likewise also of the fish as much as they desired.

¹²When they were filled, he said to his disciples, "Gather up the broken pieces which are left over, that nothing be lost." ¹³So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves, which were left over by those who had eaten.

¹⁴So when the people saw the sign which Jesus did, they said, "This is truly the prophet who comes into the world." ¹⁵So Jesus, perceiving that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, withdrew again to the mountain by himself.

¹⁶When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea.

¹⁷They entered into the boat, and were going over the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not come to them.

¹⁸The sea was tossed by a great wind blowing.

¹⁹Then, when they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia, they saw Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing near to the boat; and they were afraid.

²⁰But he said to them, "It is I. Don't be afraid." ²¹They were willing therefore to receive him into the boat. Immediately the boat was at the land where they were going.

²²On the next day, the multitude that stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there, except the one in which his disciples had embarked, and that Jesus hadn't entered with his disciples into the boat, but his disciples had gone away alone.

²³However boats from Tiberias came near to the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks.

²⁴Then, when the multitude saw that Jesus wasn't there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats, and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.

²⁵When they found him on the other side of the sea, they asked him, "Rabbi, when did you come here?" ²⁶Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled.

²⁷Don't work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him." ²⁸So they said to him, "What must we do, that we may do the work of God?" ²⁹Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent." ³⁰So they said to him, "What then do you do for a sign, that we may see and believe you? What work do you do?

³¹Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, 'He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.'" ³²Then Jesus said to them, "Most certainly, I tell you, it wasn't Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven.

³³For the bread of God is what comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world." ³⁴So they said to him, "Lord, always give us this bread." ³⁵Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will not be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.

³⁶But I told you that you have seen me, and yet you don't believe.

³⁷All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.

³⁸For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

³⁹This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day.

⁴⁰This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day." ⁴¹So the Jews murmured concerning him, because he said, "I am the bread which came down out of heaven." ⁴²They said, "Isn't this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? Then how does he say, 'I have come down out of heaven?'" ⁴³Therefore Jesus answered them, "Don't murmur among yourselves.

⁴⁴No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

⁴⁵It is written in the prophets, 'They will all be taught by God.' So everyone who hears from the Father and has learned, comes to me.

⁴⁶Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God. He has seen the Father.

⁴⁷Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life.

⁴⁸I am the bread of life.

⁴⁹Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and they died.

⁵⁰This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die.

⁵¹I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh." ⁵²So the Jews contended with one another, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" ⁵³So Jesus said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in yourselves.

⁵⁴He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

⁵⁵For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.

⁵⁶He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.

⁵⁷As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.

⁵⁸This is the bread which came down out of heaven- not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever." ⁵⁹He said these things in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.

⁶⁰So many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, "This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?" ⁶¹But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, "Does this cause you to stumble?

⁶²Then what if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?

⁶³It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

⁶⁴But there are some of you who don't believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who didn't believe, and who it was who would betray him.

⁶⁵He said, "Because of this I have said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father." ⁶⁶At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

⁶⁷So Jesus said to the twelve, "You don't also want to go away, do you?" ⁶⁸Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

⁶⁹We have come to believe and know that you are the AnointedOne, the Son of the living God." ⁷⁰Jesus answered them, "Didn't I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?" ⁷¹Now he spoke of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, for it was he who would betray him, being one of the twelve.

John Chapter 7

¹After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn't walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.

²Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand.

³So his brothers said to him, "Depart from here and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your acts which you do.

⁴For no one does anything in secret while he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world." ⁵For even his brothers didn't believe in him.

⁶So Jesus said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.

⁷The world can't hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its actions are evil.

⁸You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled." ⁹Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee.

¹⁰But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.

¹¹So the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, "Where is he?" ¹²There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said, "He is a good man." Others said, "Not so, but he leads the multitude astray." ¹³Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.

¹⁴But when it was the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught.

¹⁵The Jews therefore marveled, saying, "How does this man know letters, having never been educated?" ¹⁶So Jesus answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.

¹⁷If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.

¹⁸He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

¹⁹Didn't Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?" ²⁰The multitude answered, "You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?" ²¹Jesus answered them, "I did one work and you all marvel because of it.

²²Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy.

²³If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I made a man completely healthy on the Sabbath?

²⁴Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment." ²⁵So some of them of Jerusalem said, "Isn't this the one they seek to kill?

²⁶Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the AnointedOne?

²⁷However we know where this man comes from, but when the AnointedOne comes, no one will know where he comes from." ²⁸So Jesus cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, "You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don't know.

²⁹I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me." ³⁰So they sought to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

³¹But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, "When the AnointedOne comes, he won't do more signs than those which this man has done, will he?" ³²The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.

³³Then Jesus said, "I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me.

³⁴You will seek me yet won't find me. You can't come where I am." ³⁵So the Jews said among themselves, "Where will this man go that we won't find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?

³⁶What is this word that he said, 'You will seek me yet won't find me'; and 'You can't come where I am.'?" ³⁷Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!

³⁸He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water." ³⁹But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn't yet glorified.

⁴⁰Many of the multitude, when they heard these words, said, "This is truly the prophet." ⁴¹Others said, "This is the AnointedOne." But some said, "What, does the AnointedOne come out of Galilee?

⁴²Hasn't the Scripture said that the AnointedOne comes of the offspring of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?" ⁴³So a division arose in the multitude because of him.

⁴⁴Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.

⁴⁵The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why didn't you bring him?" ⁴⁶The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man!" ⁴⁷So the Pharisees answered them, "You aren't also led astray, are you?

⁴⁸Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?

⁴⁹But this multitude that doesn't know the law is cursed." ⁵⁰Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them, ⁵¹"Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?" ⁵²They answered him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee." ⁵³[*Everyone went to his own house,]

John Chapter 8

¹[*but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.] ²[*Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down and taught them.] ³[*The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the middle,] ⁴[*they told him, "Teacher, we found this woman in the very act adultery.] ⁵[*Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone them. What then do you say?"] ⁶[*They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.] ⁷[*But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her."] ⁸[*Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.] ⁹[*They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.] ¹⁰[*Jesus, standing up, saw her and said, "Woman, where are your accusers? Did no one condemn you?"] ¹¹[*She said, "No one, Lord." Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more."] ¹²So again, Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life." ¹³So the Pharisees said to him, "You testify about yourself. Your testimony is not valid." ¹⁴Jesus answered them, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don't know where I came from, or where I am going.

¹⁵You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.

¹⁶Even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me.

¹⁷It's also written in your law that the testimony of two people is valid.

¹⁸I am one who testifies about myself, and the Father who sent me testifies about me." ¹⁹They said therefore to him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also." ²⁰Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

²¹So Jesus again said to them, "I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can't come." ²²The Jews therefore said, "Will he kill himself, because he says, 'Where I am going, you can't come'?" ²³He said to them, "You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.

²⁴I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins." ²⁵So they said to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning.

²⁶I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world." ²⁷They didn't understand that he spoke to them about the Father.

²⁸So Jesus said to them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things.

²⁹He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn't left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him." ³⁰As he spoke these things, many believed in him.

³¹So Jesus said to those Jews who had believed him, "If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.

³²You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free." ³³They answered him, "We are Abraham's offspring, and have never been in slavery to anyone. How do you say, 'You will be made free'?" ³⁴Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

³⁵A bondservant doesn't live in the house forever. A son remains forever.

³⁶So, if the Son sets you free, you will truly be free.

³⁷I know that you are Abraham's offspring, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.

³⁸I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father." ³⁹They answered him, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would do the actions of Abraham.

⁴⁰But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham didn't do this.

⁴¹You do the actions of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God." ⁴²So Jesus said to them, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven't come of myself, but he sent me.

⁴³Why don't you understand my speech? Because you can't hear my word.

⁴⁴You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn't stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

⁴⁵But because I tell the truth, you don't believe me.

⁴⁶Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?

⁴⁷He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don't hear, because you are not of God." ⁴⁸Then the Jews answered him, "Don't we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?" ⁴⁹Jesus answered, "I don't have a demon, but I honor my Father and you dishonor me.

⁵⁰But I don't seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges.

⁵¹Most certainly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death." ⁵²Then the Jews said to him, "Now we know that you do have a demon. Abraham died, and so did the prophets; and you say, 'If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.' ⁵³Are you greater than our father, Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?" ⁵⁴Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God.

⁵⁵You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, 'I don't know him,' I would be like you, a liar. But I do know him and keep his word.

⁵⁶Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, and was glad." ⁵⁷So the Jews said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old! Have you seen Abraham?" ⁵⁸Jesus said to them, "Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM." ⁵⁹So they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the middle of them, and so passed by.

John Chapter 9

¹As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.

²His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" ³Jesus answered, "Not for his sin, nor his parents'; but so that the work of God might be revealed in him.

⁴I must do the work of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

⁵While I am in the world, I am the light of the world." ⁶When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man's eyes with the mud, ⁷and said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which means "Sent"). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing.

⁸So the neighbors, and those who saw that he was blind before, said "Isn't this he who sat and begged?" ⁹Others were saying, "It is he." Still others were saying, "He looks like him." He said, "I am he." ¹⁰So they were asking him, "How were your eyes opened?" ¹¹He answered, "A man called Jesus made mud, anointed my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to the pool of Siloam and wash.' So I went away and washed, and I received sight." ¹²Then they asked him, "Where is he?" He said, "I don't know." ¹³They brought him who had been blind to the Pharisees.

¹⁴It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.

¹⁵So again the Pharisees asked him how he received his sight. He said to them, "He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see." ¹⁶So some of the Pharisees said, "This man is not from God, because he doesn't keep the Sabbath." Others said, "How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?" So there was division among them.

¹⁷So they asked the blind man again, "What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?" He said, "He is a prophet." ¹⁸So the Jews didn't believe that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the one who had received his sight, ¹⁹and asked them, "Is this your son, who you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?" ²⁰His parents answered them, "We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind; ²¹but how he now sees, we don't know; or who opened his eyes, we don't know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself." ²²His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as the AnointedOne, he would be put out of the synagogue.

²³So his parents said, "He is of age. Ask him." ²⁴So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, "Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner." ²⁵So he answered, "I don't know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see." ²⁶They said to him again, "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?" ²⁷He answered them, "I told you already, and you didn't listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don't also want to become his disciples, do you?" ²⁸They insulted him and said, "You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.

²⁹We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we don't know where he comes from." ³⁰The man answered them, "How amazing! You don't know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.

³¹We know that God doesn't listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshipper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

³²Since the world began it has never been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of someone born blind.

³³If this man were not from God, he could do nothing." ³⁴They answered him, "You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?" Then they threw him out.

³⁵Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, "Do you believe in the Son of God?" ³⁶He answered, "Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?" ³⁷Jesus said to him, "You have both seen him, and it is he who speaks with you." ³⁸He said, "Lord, I believe!" and he worshiped him.

³⁹Jesus said, "I came into this world for judgment, that those who don't see may see; and that those who see may become blind." ⁴⁰Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, "Are we also blind?" ⁴¹Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, 'We see.' Therefore your sin remains.

John Chapter 10

¹"Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn't enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, is a thief and a robber.

²But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

³The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

⁴Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

⁵They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don't know the voice of strangers." ⁶Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn't understand what he was telling them.

⁷So Jesus said to them again, "Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep's door.

⁸All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn't listen to them.

⁹I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.

¹⁰The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

¹¹I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

¹²He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn't own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them.

¹³The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn't care for the sheep.

¹⁴I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I'm known by my own; ¹⁵even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.

¹⁶I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.

¹⁷Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.

¹⁸No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father." ¹⁹So a division arose again among the Jews because of these words.

²⁰Many of them said, "He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?" ²¹Others said, "These are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon. It isn't possible for a demon to open the eyes of the blind, is it?" ²²It was the Feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem.

²³It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon's porch.

²⁴So the Jews came around him and said to him, "How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the AnointedOne, tell us plainly." ²⁵Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you don't believe. The actions that I do in my Father's name, these testify about me.

²⁶But you don't believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you.

²⁷My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

²⁸I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

²⁹My Father who has given them to me is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father's hand.

³⁰I and the Father are one." ³¹So the Jews took up stones again to stone him.

³²Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good actions from my Father. For which of those actions do you stone me?" ³³The Jews answered him, "We don't stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God." ³⁴Jesus answered them, "Isn't it written in your law, 'I said, you are gods?' ³⁵If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can't be broken), ³⁶do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You blaspheme,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God?' ³⁷If I don't do the actions of my Father, don't believe me.

³⁸But if I do them, though you don't believe me, believe the actions, that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father." ³⁹They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.

⁴⁰He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing at first, and there he stayed.

⁴¹Many came to him. They said, "John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said about this man is true." ⁴²Many believed in him there.

John Chapter 11

¹Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha.

²It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick.

³So the sisters sent to him, saying, "Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick." ⁴But when Jesus heard it, he said, "This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God's Son may be glorified by it." ⁵Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

⁶So when he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was.

⁷Then after this he said to the disciples, "Let's go into Judea again." ⁸The disciples asked him, "Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you. Are you going there again?" ⁹Jesus answered, "Aren't there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn't stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

¹⁰But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn't in him." ¹¹He said these things, and after that, he said to them, "Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep." ¹²So the disciples said, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover." ¹³Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep.

¹⁴So Jesus said to them plainly then, "Lazarus is dead.

¹⁵I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let's go to him." ¹⁶So Thomas, called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, "Let's go also, that we may die with him." ¹⁷So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already.

¹⁸Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia away.

¹⁹Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.

²⁰Then when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary stayed in the house.

²¹So Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you would have been here, my brother would not have died.

²²Even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you." ²³Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again." ²⁴Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day." ²⁵Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.

²⁶Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?" ²⁷She said to him, "Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the AnointedOne, God's Son who is coming into the world." ²⁸When she had said this, she went away and called Mary, her sister, secretly, saying, "The Teacher is here and is calling you." ²⁹When she heard this, she arose quickly and went to him.

³⁰Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was in the place where Martha met him.

³¹Then the Jews who were with her in the house and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, "She is going to the tomb to weep there." ³²So when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him, "Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn't have died." ³³So when Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, ³⁴and said, "Where have you laid him?" They told him, "Lord, come and see." ³⁵Jesus wept.

³⁶So the Jews said, "See how much affection he had for him!" ³⁷Some of them said, "Couldn't this man, who opened the eyes of him who was blind, have also kept this man from dying?" ³⁸So Jesus, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it.

³⁹Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, "Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days." ⁴⁰Jesus said to her, "Didn't I tell you that if you believed, you would see God's glory?" ⁴¹So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, "Father, I thank you that you listened to me.

⁴²I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude standing around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me." ⁴³When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!" ⁴⁴He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Free him, and let him go." ⁴⁵So many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did believed in him.

⁴⁶But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them the things which Jesus had done.

⁴⁷So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, "What are we doing? For this man does many signs.

⁴⁸If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation." ⁴⁹But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all, ⁵⁰nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish." ⁵¹Now he didn't say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation, ⁵²and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

⁵³So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.

⁵⁴So Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples.

⁵⁵Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.

⁵⁶Then they looked for Jesus and said to one another as they stood in the temple, "What do you think- that he isn't coming to the feast at all?" ⁵⁷Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him.

John Chapter 12

¹Then six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.

²So they made him a supper there. Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him.

³Then Mary took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed Jesus's feet and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.

⁴Then Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, one of his disciples, who would betray him, said, ⁵"Why wasn't this ointment sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor?" ⁶Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it.

⁷But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial.

⁸For you always have the poor with you, but you don't always have me." ⁹So a large crowd of the Jews learned that he was there, and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.

¹⁰But the chief priests conspired to put Lazarus to death also, ¹¹because on account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus.

¹²On the next day a great multitude had come to the feast. When they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, ¹³they took the branches of the palm trees and went out to meet him, and cried out, "Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of ForeverOne, the King of Israel!" ¹⁴Jesus, having found a young donkey, sat on it. As it is written, ¹⁵"Don't be afraid, daughter of Zion. Behold, your King comes, sitting on a donkey's colt." ¹⁶His disciples didn't understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him.

¹⁷So the multitude that was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead was testifying about it.

¹⁸For this cause also the multitude went and met him, because they heard that he had done this sign.

¹⁹The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, "See how you accomplish nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him." ²⁰Now there were certain Greeks among those who went up to worship at the feast.

²¹So they came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, "Sir, we want to see Jesus." ²²Philip came and told Andrew, and in turn, Andrew came with Philip, and they told Jesus.

²³Jesus answered them, "The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

²⁴Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.

²⁵He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.

²⁶If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

²⁷"Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? 'Father, save me from this time?' But I came to this time for this cause.

²⁸Father, glorify your name!" Then a voice came out of the sky, saying, "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again." ²⁹Then the multitude who stood by and heard it said that it had thundered. Others said, "An angel has spoken to him." ³⁰Jesus answered, "This voice hasn't come for my sake, but for your sakes.

³¹Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be thrown out.

³²And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself." ³³But he said this, signifying by what kind of death he should die.

³⁴The multitude answered him, "We have heard out of the law that the AnointedOne remains forever. How do you say, 'The Son of Man must be lifted up?' Who is this Son of Man?" ³⁵So Jesus said to them, "Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn't overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn't know where he is going.

³⁶While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light." Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.

³⁷But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they didn't believe in him, ³⁸that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, "ForeverOne, who has believed our report? To whom has the arm of ForeverOne been revealed?" ³⁹For this cause they couldn't believe, for Isaiah said again, ⁴⁰"He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them." ⁴¹Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke of him.

⁴²Nevertheless even many of the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn't confess it, so that they wouldn't be put out of the synagogue, ⁴³for they loved men's praise more than God's praise.

⁴⁴Jesus cried out and said, "Whoever believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me.

⁴⁵He who sees me sees him who sent me.

⁴⁶I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.

⁴⁷If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn't believe, I don't judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

⁴⁸He who rejects me, and doesn't receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke will judge him in the last day.

⁴⁹For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.

⁵⁰And I know that his commandment is eternal life. So the things which I say, just as the Father has said to me, so I speak."

John Chapter 13

¹Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

²During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him, ³Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came from God, and was going to God, ⁴arose from supper, and laid aside his outer garments. He took a towel and wrapped a towel around his waist.

⁵Then he poured water into the basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him.

⁶Then he came to Simon Peter. He said to him, "Lord, are you washing my feet?" ⁷Jesus answered him, "You don't know what I am doing now, but you will understand later." ⁸Peter said to him, "You will never wash my feet!" Jesus answered him, "If I don't wash you, you have no part with me." ⁹Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, not only my feet, but also my hands and my head!" ¹⁰Jesus said to him, "Someone who has bathed only needs to have his feet washed, but is completely clean. You are clean, but not all of you." ¹¹For he knew the one who would betray him, so he said, "You are not all clean." ¹²So when he had washed their feet, put his outer garment back on, and sat down again, he said to them, "Do you know what I have done to you?

¹³You call me, 'Teacher' and 'Lord.' You say so correctly, for so I am.

¹⁴If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.

¹⁵For I have given you an example, that you should also do as I have done to you.

¹⁶Most certainly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his master, neither is one who is sent greater than he who sent him.

¹⁷If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

¹⁸I don't speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, 'He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.' ¹⁹From now on, I tell you before it happens, that when it happens, you may believe that I am he.

²⁰Most certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, receives me; and he who receives me, receives him who sent me." ²¹When Jesus had said this, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, "Most certainly I tell you that one of you will betray me." ²²The disciples looked at one another, perplexed about whom he spoke.

²³One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was at the table, leaning against Jesus' breast.

²⁴So Simon Peter beckoned to him, and said to him, "Tell us who it is of whom he speaks." ²⁵He, leaning back, as he was, on Jesus' breast, asked him, "Lord, who is it?" ²⁶So Jesus answered, "It is the one I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it." So when he had dipped the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.

²⁷After the piece of bread, then Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to him, "What you do, do quickly." ²⁸Now nobody at the table knew why he said this to him.

²⁹For some thought, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus said to him, "Buy what things we need for the feast," or that he should give something to the poor.

³⁰So, having received that piece of bread, he went out immediately. It was night.

³¹When he had gone out, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him.

³²If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him immediately.

³³Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, 'Where I am going, you can't come,' so now I tell you.

³⁴A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

³⁵By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another." ³⁶Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus answered, "Where I am going, you can't follow now, but you will follow afterwards." ³⁷Peter said to him, "Lord, why can't I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you." ³⁸Jesus answered him, "Will you lay down your life for me? Most certainly I tell you, the rooster won't crow until you have denied me three times.

John Chapter 14

¹"Don't let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.

²In my Father's house are many homes. If it weren't so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.

³If I go and prepare a place for you, I will return and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.

⁴You know where I go, and you know the way." ⁵Thomas said to him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going. How can we know the way?" ⁶Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

⁷If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him, and have seen him." ⁸Philip said to him, "Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us." ⁹Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, 'Show us the Father?' ¹⁰Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his work.

¹¹Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very actions' sake.

¹²Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the actions that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater actions than these, because I am going to my Father.

¹³Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

¹⁴If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it.

¹⁵If you love me, keep my commandments.

¹⁶I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever: ¹⁷the Spirit of truth, whom the world can't receive; for it doesn't see him and doesn't know him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

¹⁸I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.

¹⁹Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.

²⁰In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

²¹One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him." ²²Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?" ²³Jesus answered him, "If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

²⁴He who doesn't love me doesn't keep my words. The word which you hear isn't mine, but the Father's who sent me.

²⁵I have said these things to you while still living with you.

²⁶But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

²⁷Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don't let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

²⁸You heard how I told you, 'I go away, and I come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said 'I am going to my Father;' for the Father is greater than I.

²⁹Now I have told you before it happens so that when it happens, you may believe.

³⁰I will speak not much more with you for the prince of the world comes. He has nothing in me.

³¹But I do what the Father commands me so that the world may know that I love the Father. Arise, let's go from here.

John Chapter 15

¹"I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.

²Every branch in me that doesn't bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

³You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

⁴Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can't bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.

⁵I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

⁶If a man doesn't remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

⁷If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

⁸"In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.

⁹Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.

¹⁰If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and remain in his love.

¹¹I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.

¹²"This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

¹³Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

¹⁴You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.

¹⁵No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn't know what his master does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

¹⁶You didn't choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

¹⁷"I command these things to you, that you may love one another.

¹⁸If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

¹⁹If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, so the world hates you.

²⁰Remember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

²¹But they will do all these things to you for my name's sake, because they don't know him who sent me.

²²If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

²³He who hates me, hates my Father also.

²⁴If I hadn't done among them the actions which no one else did, they wouldn't have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father.

²⁵But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, 'They hated me without a cause.' ²⁶"When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.

²⁷You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

John Chapter 16

¹"I have said these things to you so that you wouldn't be caused to stumble.

²They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

³They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.

⁴But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn't tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

⁵But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, 'Where are you going?' ⁶But because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart.

⁷Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don't go away, the Counselor won't come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.

⁸When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment; ⁹about sin, because they don't believe in me; ¹⁰about righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you won't see me any more; ¹¹about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged.

¹²"I still have many things to tell you, but you can't bear them now.

¹³However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

¹⁴He will glorify me, for he will take from what is mine, and will declare it to you.

¹⁵All things that the Father has are mine; that is why I said that he takes of mine and will declare it to you.

¹⁶A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me." ¹⁷So some of his disciples said to one another, "What is this that he says to us, 'A little while, and you won't see me, and again a little while, and you will see me;' and, 'Because I go to the Father'?" ¹⁸So they said "What is this that he says, 'A little while'? We don't know what he is saying." ¹⁹So Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, "Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, 'A little while, and you won't see me, and again a little while, and you will see me?' ²⁰Most certainly I tell you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.

²¹A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn't remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.

²²So you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

²³"In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.

²⁴Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

²⁵I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

²⁶In that day you will ask in my name; and I don't say to you that I will pray to the Father for you, ²⁷for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.

²⁸I came from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father." ²⁹His disciples said to him, "Behold, now you are speaking plainly, and not using figures of speech.

³⁰Now we know that you know all things, and don't need for anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came from God." ³¹Jesus answered them, "Do you now believe?

³²Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

³³I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world."

John Chapter 17

¹Jesus said these things, then lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, "Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you; ²even as you gave him authority over all flesh, so he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

³This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus AnointedOne.

⁴I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.

⁵Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.

⁶I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.

⁷Now they have known that all things whatever you have given me are from you, ⁸for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.

⁹I pray for them. I don't pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.

¹⁰All things that are mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them.

¹¹I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.

¹²While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. I have kept those whom you have given me. None of them is lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

¹³But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves.

¹⁴I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

¹⁵I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.

¹⁶They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.

¹⁷Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

¹⁸As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world.

¹⁹For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

²⁰Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who will believe in me through their word, ²¹that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

²²The glory which you have given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, even as we are one; ²³I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me.

²⁴Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.

²⁵Righteous Father, the world hasn't known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.

²⁶I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them."

John Chapter 18

¹When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered.

²Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus often met there with his disciples.

³Judas then, having taken a detachment of soldiers and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.

⁴So Jesus, knowing all the things that were happening to him, went out, and said to them, "Who are you looking for?" ⁵They answered him, "Jesus of Nazareth." Jesus said to them, "I am." Judas also, who betrayed him, was standing with them.

⁶So when he said to them "I am," they went backward, and fell to the ground.

⁷So again he asked them, "Who are you looking for?" They said, "Jesus of Nazareth." ⁸Jesus answered, "I told you that I am. So if you seek me, let these go their way," ⁹that the word might be fulfilled which he spoke, "Of those whom you have given me, I have lost none." ¹⁰So, having a sword, Simon Peter drew it, struck the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus.

¹¹So Jesus said to Peter, "Put the sword into its sheath. The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not surely drink it?" ¹²So the detachment, the commanding officer, and the officers of the Jews seized Jesus and bound him, ¹³and led him to Annas first, for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.

¹⁴Now it was Caiaphas who advised the Jews that it was expedient that one man should perish for the people.

¹⁵Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple. Now that disciple was known to the high priest, and entered in with Jesus into the court of the high priest; ¹⁶but Peter was standing at the door outside. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to her who kept the door, and brought in Peter.

¹⁷Then the maid who kept the door said to Peter, "Are you also one of this man's disciples?" He said, "I am not." ¹⁸Now the servants and the officers were standing there, having made a fire of coals, for it was cold. They were warming themselves. Peter was with them, standing and warming himself.

¹⁹So the high priest asked Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching.

²⁰Jesus answered him, "I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret.

²¹Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them. Behold, they know the things which I said." ²²When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped Jesus with his hand, saying, "Do you answer the high priest like that?" ²³Jesus answered him, "If I have spoken evil, testify of the evil; but if well, why do you beat me?" ²⁴Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas, the high priest.

²⁵Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. So they said to him, "You aren't also one of his disciples, are you?" He denied it and said, "I am not." ²⁶One of the servants of the high priest, being a relative of him whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Didn't I see you in the garden with him?" ²⁷So Peter denied it again, and immediately the rooster crowed.

²⁸So they led Jesus from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn't enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.

²⁹Pilate therefore went out to them, and said, "What accusation do you bring against this man?" ³⁰They answered him, "If this man weren't an evildoer, we wouldn't have delivered him up to you." ³¹So Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law." So the Jews said to him, "It is illegal for us to put anyone to death," ³²that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying by what kind of death he should die.

³³So Pilate entered again into the Praetorium, called Jesus, and said to him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" ³⁴Jesus answered him, "Do you say this by yourself, or did others tell you about me?" ³⁵Pilate answered, "I'm not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests delivered you to me. What have you done?" ³⁶Jesus answered, "My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn't be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here." ³⁷So Pilate said to him, "Are you a king then?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice." ³⁸Pilate said to him, "What is truth?" When he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, "I find no basis for a charge against him.

³⁹But you have a custom, that I should release someone to you at the Passover. So do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?" ⁴⁰Then they all shouted again, saying, "Not this man, but Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a robber.

John Chapter 19

¹So Pilate then took Jesus, and flogged him.

²The soldiers twisted thorns into a crown, and put it on his head, and dressed him in a purple garment.

³They kept saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" and they kept slapping him.

⁴Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, "Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against him." ⁵So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, "Behold, the man!" ⁶So when the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify!" Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him." ⁷The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God." ⁸So when Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid.

⁹He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, "Where are you from?" But Jesus gave him no answer.

¹⁰So Pilate said to him, "Aren't you speaking to me? Don't you know that I have power to release you and have power to crucify you?" ¹¹Jesus answered, "You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin." ¹²At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, "If you release this man, you aren't Caesar's friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!" ¹³So when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called "The Pavement", but in Hebrew, "Gabbatha." ¹⁴Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, "Behold, your King!" ¹⁵They cried out, "Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your King?" The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar!" ¹⁶So then he delivered him to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him away.

¹⁷He went out, bearing his cross, to the place called "The Place of a Skull", which is called "Golgotha" in Hebrew, ¹⁸where they crucified him, and with him two others, on either side one, and Jesus in the middle.

¹⁹Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. There was written, "JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS." ²⁰So many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek.

²¹The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, "Don't write, 'The King of the Jews,' but, 'he said, "I am King of the Jews."'" ²²Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written." ²³Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the tunic. Now the tunic was without seam, woven from the top throughout.

²⁴Then they said to one another, "Let's not tear it, but cast lots for it to decide whose it will be," that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which says, "They parted my garments among them. They cast lots for my clothing." So the soldiers did these things.

²⁵But standing by Jesus' cross were his mother, his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

²⁶So when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold your son!" ²⁷Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home.

²⁸After this, Jesus, seeing that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, "I am thirsty." ²⁹Now a vessel full of vinegar was set there; so they put a sponge full of the vinegar on hyssop, and held it at his mouth.

³⁰So when Jesus had received the vinegar, he said, "It is finished." Then he bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.

³¹Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies wouldn't remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

³²So the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who was crucified with him; ³³but when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was already dead, they didn't break his legs.

³⁴However one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.

³⁵He who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, that you may believe.

³⁶For these things happened that the Scripture might be fulfilled, "A bone of him will not be broken." ³⁷Again another Scripture says, "They will look on him whom they pierced." ³⁸After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away Jesus' body. Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took away his body.

³⁹Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred Roman pounds.

⁴⁰So they took Jesus' body, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury.

⁴¹Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden. In the garden was a new tomb in which no man had ever yet been laid.

⁴²Then because of the Jews' Preparation Day (for the tomb was near at hand) they laid Jesus there.

John Chapter 20

¹Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb.

²So she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, "They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we don't know where they have laid him!" ³So Peter and the other disciple went out, and they went toward the tomb.

⁴They both ran together. The other disciple outran Peter, and came to the tomb first.

⁵Stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths lying, yet he didn't enter in.

⁶Then Simon Peter came, following him, and entered into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying, ⁷and the cloth that had been on his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by itself.

⁸So then the other disciple who came first to the tomb also entered in, and he saw and believed.

⁹For as yet they didn't know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.

¹⁰So the disciples went away again to their own homes.

¹¹But Mary was standing outside at the tomb weeping. So, as she wept she stooped and looked into the tomb, ¹²and she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.

¹³They asked her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I don't know where they have laid him." ¹⁴When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, and didn't know that it was Jesus.

¹⁵Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?" She, supposing him to be the gardener, said to him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away." ¹⁶Jesus said to her, "Mary." She turned and said to him, "Rabboni!" which is to say, "Teacher!" ¹⁷Jesus said to her, "Don't hold me, for I haven't yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers and tell them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'" ¹⁸Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had said these things to her.

¹⁹So when it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the middle, and said to them, "Peace be to you." ²⁰When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Therefore the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord.

²¹So Jesus said to them again, "Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you." ²²When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit!

²³If you forgive anyone's sins, they have been forgiven. If you retain anyone's sins, they have been retained." ²⁴But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, wasn't with them when Jesus came.

²⁵So the other disciples said to him, "We have seen the Lord!" But he said to them, "Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe." ²⁶After eight days again his disciples were inside and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood in the middle and said, "Peace be to you." ²⁷Then he said to Thomas, "Reach here your finger, and see my hands. Reach here your hand, and put it into my side. Don't be unbelieving, but believing." ²⁸Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!" ²⁹Jesus said to him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed." ³⁰So Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book; ³¹but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the AnointedOne, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.

John Chapter 21

¹After these things, Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias. He revealed himself this way.

²Simon Peter, Thomas called Didymus, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were together.

³Simon Peter said to them, "I'm going fishing." They told him, "We are also coming with you." They immediately went out, and entered into the boat. That night, they caught nothing.

⁴But when day had already come, Jesus stood on the beach, yet the disciples didn't know that it was Jesus.

⁵So Jesus said to them, "Children, have you anything to eat?" They answered him, "No." ⁶He said to them, "throw the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some." So They threw it, and then they weren't able to draw it in for the multitude of fish!

⁷So that disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It's the Lord!" So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he wrapped his coat around himself (for he was naked), and threw himself into the sea.

⁸But the other disciples came in the little boat (for they were not far from the land, but about two hundred cubits away), dragging the net full of fish.

⁹So when they got out on the land, they saw a fire of coals there, with fish and bread laid on it.

¹⁰Jesus said to them, "Bring some of the fish which you have just caught." ¹¹Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land, full of one hundred fifty-three great fish. Even though there were so many, the net wasn't torn.

¹²Jesus said to them, "Come and eat breakfast!" None of the disciples dared inquire of him, "Who are you?" knowing that it was the Lord.

¹³Then Jesus came and took the bread, gave it to them, and the fish likewise.

¹⁴This is now the third time that Jesus was revealed to his disciples after he had risen from the dead.

¹⁵So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you." He said to him, "Feed my lambs." ¹⁶He said to him again a second time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you." He said to him, "Tend my sheep." ¹⁷He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?" Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, "Do you have affection for me?" He said to him, "Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep.

¹⁸Most certainly I tell you, when you were young, you dressed yourself and walked where you wanted to. But when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you don't want to go." ¹⁹Now he said this, signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. When he had said this, he said to him, "Follow me." ²⁰Then Peter, turning around, saw a disciple following. This was the disciple whom Jesus loved, the one who had also leaned on Jesus' breast at the supper and asked, "Lord, who is going to betray you?" ²¹Peter seeing him, said to Jesus, "Lord, what about this man?" ²²Jesus said to him, "If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you? You follow me." ²³So this saying went out among the brothers, that this disciple wouldn't die. Yet Jesus didn't say to him that he wouldn't die, but, "If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you?" ²⁴This is the disciple who testifies about these things, and wrote these things. We know that his witness is true.

²⁵There are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they would all be written, I suppose that even the world itself wouldn't have room for the books that would be written.

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