Category: John

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

2 He was with God in the beginning.

3 All things were made through Him, and nothing that was made was made without Him.

4 Life was in Him, and Life was the light of men.

5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

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

7 He arrived as a witness to offer testimony about the Light, so that all would believe through him.

8 He was not the Light, but he was to offer testimony about the Light.

9 The true Light, which illuminates every man, was coming into this world.

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

11 He went to his own, and his own did not accept him.

12 Yet whoever did accept him, those who believed in his name, he gave them the power to become the sons of God.

13 These are born, not of blood, nor of the will of flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

14 And the Word became flesh, and he lived among us, and we saw his glory, glory like that of an only-begotten son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

15 John offers testimony about him, and he cries out, saying: “This is the one about whom I said: ‘He who is to come after me, has been placed ahead of me, because he existed before me.’ ”

16 And from his fullness, we all have received, even grace for grace.

17 For the law was given though Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

18 No one ever saw God; the only-begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he himself has described him.

19 And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to him, so that they might ask him, “Who are you?”

20 And he confessed it and did not deny it; and what he confessed was: “I am not the Christ.”

21 And they questioned him: “Then what are you? Are you Elijah?” And he said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” And he answered, “No.”

22 Therefore, they said to him: “Who are you, so that we may give an answer to those who sent us? What do you say about yourself?”

23 He said, “I am a voice crying out in the desert, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ just as the prophet Isaiah said.”

24 And some of those who had been sent were from among the Pharisees.

25 And they questioned him and said to him, “Then why do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, and not Elijah, and not the Prophet?”

26 John answered them by saying: “I baptize with water. But in your midst stands one, whom you do not know.

27 The same is he who is to come after me, who has been placed ahead of me, the laces of whose shoes I am not worthy to loosen.”

28 These things happened in Bethania, across the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

29 On the next day, John saw Jesus coming toward him, and so he said: “Behold, the Lamb of God. Behold, he who takes away the sin of the world.

30 This is the one about whom I said, ‘After me arrives a man, who has been placed ahead of me, because he existed before me.’

31 And I did not know him. Yet it is for this reason that I come baptizing with water: so that he may be made manifest in Israel.”

32 And John offered testimony, saying: “For I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove; and he remained upon him.

33 And I did not know him. But he who sent me to baptize with water said to me: ‘He over whom you will see the Spirit descending and remaining upon him, this is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’

34 And I saw, and I gave testimony: that this one is the Son of God.”

35 The next day again, John was standing with two of his disciples.

36 And catching sight of Jesus walking, he said, “Behold, the Lamb of God.”

37 And two disciples were listening to him speaking. And they followed Jesus.

38 Then Jesus, turning around and seeing them following him, said to them, “What are you seeking?” And they said to him, “Rabbi (which means in translation, Teacher), where do you live?”

39 He said to them, “Come and see.” They went and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. Now it was about the tenth hour.

40 And Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who had heard about him from John and had followed him.

41 First, he found his brother Simon, and he said to him, “We have found the Messiah,” (which is translated as the Christ).

42 And he led him to Jesus. And Jesus, gazing at him, said: “You are Simon, son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas,” (which is translated as Peter).

43 On the next day, he wanted to go into Galilee, and he found Philip. And Jesus said to him, “Follow me.”

44 Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.

45 Philip found Nathanael, and he said to him, “We have found the one about whom Moses wrote in the Law and the Prophets: Jesus, the son of Joseph, from Nazareth.”

46 And Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good be from Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”

47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him, and he said about him, “Behold, an Israelite in whom truly there is no deceit.”

48 Nathanael said to him, “From where do you know me?” Jesus responded and said to him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”

49 Nathanael answered him and said: “Rabbi, you are the Son of God. You are the King of Israel.”

50 Jesus responded and said to him: “Because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree, you believe. Greater things than these, you will see.”

51 And he said to him, “Amen, amen, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the Angels of God ascending and descending over the Son of man.”

1 And on the third day, a wedding was held in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.

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

3 And when the wine was failing, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.”

4 And Jesus said to her: “What is that to me and to you, woman? My hour has not yet arrived.”

5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”

6 Now in that place, there were six stone water jars, for the purification ritual of the Jews, containing two or three measures each.

7 Jesus said to them, “Fill the water jars with water.” And they filled them to the very top.

8 And Jesus said to them, “Now draw from it, and carry it to the chief steward of the feast.” And they took it to him.

9 Then, when the chief steward had tasted the water made into wine, since he did not know where it was from, for only the servants who had drawn the water knew, the chief steward called the groom,

10 and he said to him: “Every man offers the good wine first, and then, when they have become inebriated, he offers what is worse. But you have kept the good wine until now.”

11 This was the beginning of the signs that Jesus accomplished in Cana of Galilee, and it manifested his glory, and his disciples believed in him.

12 After this, he descended to Capernaum, with his mother and his brothers and his disciples, but they did not remain there for many days.

13 And the Passover of the Jews was near, and so Jesus ascended to Jerusalem.

14 And he found, sitting in the temple, sellers of oxen and sheep and doves, and the moneychangers.

15 And when he had made something like a whip out of little cords, he drove them all out of the temple, including the sheep and the oxen. And he poured out the brass coins of the moneychangers, and he overturned their tables.

16 And to those who were selling doves, he said: “Take these things out of here, and do not make my Father’s house into a house of commerce.”

17 And truly, his disciples were reminded that it is written: “Zeal for your house consumes me.”

18 Then the Jews responded and said to him, “What sign can you show to us, that you may do these things?”

19 Jesus responded and said to them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”

20 Then the Jews said, “This temple has been built up over forty-six years, and you will raise it up in three days?”

21 Yet he was speaking about the Temple of his body.

22 Therefore, when he had resurrected from the dead, his disciples were reminded that he had said this, and they believed in the Scriptures and in the word that Jesus had spoken.

23 Now while he was at Jerusalem during the Passover, on the day of the feast, many trusted in his name, seeing his signs that he was accomplishing.

24 But Jesus did not trust himself to them, because he himself had knowledge of all persons,

25 and because he had no need of anyone to offer testimony about a man. For he knew what was within a man.

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

2 He went to Jesus at night, and he said to him: “Rabbi, we know that you have arrived as a teacher from God. For no one would be able to accomplish these signs, which you accomplish, unless God were with him.”

3 Jesus responded and said to him, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless one has been reborn anew, he is not able to see the kingdom of God.”

4 Nicodemus said to him: “How could a man be born when he is old? Surely, he cannot enter a second time into his mother’s womb to be reborn?”

5 Jesus responded: “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless one has been reborn by water and the Holy Spirit, he is not able to enter into the kingdom of God.

6 What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

7 You should not be amazed that I said to you: You must be born anew.

8 The Spirit inspires where he wills. And you hear his voice, but you do not know where he comes from, or where he is going. So it is with all who are born of the Spirit.”

9 Nicodemus responded and said to him, “How are these things able to be accomplished?”

10 Jesus responded and said to him: “You are a teacher in Israel, and you are ignorant of these things?

11 Amen, amen, I say to you, that we speak about what we know, and we testify about what we have seen. But you do not accept our testimony.

12 If I have spoken to you about earthly things, and you have not believed, then how will you believe, if I will speak to you about heavenly things?

13 And no one has ascended to heaven, except the one who descended from heaven: the Son of man who is in heaven.

14 And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so also must the Son of man be lifted up,

15 so that whoever believes in him may not perish, but may have eternal life.

16 For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life.

17 For God did not send his Son into the world, in order to judge the world, but in order that the world may be saved through him.

18 Whoever believes in him is not judged. But whoever does not believe is already judged, because he does not believe in the name of the only-begotten Son of God.

19 And this is the judgment: that the Light has come into the world, and men loved darkness more than light. For their works were evil.

20 For everyone who does evil hates the Light and does not go toward the Light, so that his works may not be corrected.

21 But whoever acts in truth goes toward the Light, so that his works may be manifested, because they have been accomplished in God.”

22 After these things, Jesus and his disciples went into the land of Judea. And he was living there with them and baptizing.

23 Now John was also baptizing, at Aenon near Salim, because there was much water in that place. And they were arriving and being baptized.

24 For John had not yet been cast into prison.

25 Then a dispute occurred between the disciples of John and the Jews, about purification.

26 And they went to John and said to him: “Rabbi, the one who was with you across the Jordan, about whom you offered testimony: behold, he is baptizing and everyone is going to him.”

27 John responded and said: “A man is not able to receive anything, unless it has been given to him from heaven.

28 You yourselves offer testimony for me that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but that I have been sent before him.

29 He who holds the bride is the groom. But the friend of the groom, who stands and listens to Him, rejoices joyfully at the voice of the groom. And so, this, my joy, has been fulfilled.

30 He must increase, while I must decrease.

31 He who comes from above, is above everything. He who is from below, is of the earth, and he speaks about the earth. He who comes from heaven is above everything.

32 And what he has seen and heard, about this he testifies. And no one accepts his testimony.

33 Whoever has accepted his testimony has certified that God is truthful.

34 For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God. For God does not give the Spirit by measure.

35 The Father loves the Son, and he has given everything into his hand.

36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. But whoever is unbelieving toward the Son shall not see life; instead the wrath of God remains upon him.”

1 And so, when Jesus realized that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made more disciples and baptized more than John,

2 (though Jesus himself was not baptizing, but only his disciples)

3 he left behind Judea, and he traveled again to Galilee.

4 Now he needed to cross through Samaria.

5 Therefore, he went into a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the estate which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

6 And Jacob’s well was there. And so Jesus, being tired from the journey, was sitting in a certain way on the well. It was about the sixth hour.

7 A woman of Samaria arrived to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me to drink.”

8 For his disciples had gone into the city in order to buy food.

9 And so, that Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, are requesting a drink from me, though I am a Samaritan woman?” For the Jews do not associate with the Samaritans.

10 Jesus responded and said to her: “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, ‘Give me to drink,’ perhaps you would have made a request of him, and he would have given you living water.”

11 The woman said to him: “Lord, you do not have anything with which to draw water, and the well is deep. From where, then, do you have living water?

12 Surely, you are not greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and who drank from it, with his sons and his cattle?”

13 Jesus responded and said to her: “All who drink from this water will thirst again. But whoever shall drink from the water that I will give to him will not thirst for eternity.

14 Instead, the water that I will give to him will become in him a fountain of water, springing up into eternal life.”

15 The woman said to him, “Lord, give me this water, so that I may not thirst and may not come here to draw water.”

16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and return here.”

17 The woman responded and said, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her: “You have spoken well, in saying, ‘I have no husband.’

18 For you have had five husbands, but he whom you have now is not your husband. You have spoken this in truth.”

19 The woman said to him: “Lord, I see that you are a Prophet.

20 Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, but you say that Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.”

21 Jesus said to her: “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you shall worship the Father, neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem.

22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know. For salvation is from the Jews.

23 But the hour is coming, and it is now, when true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father also seeks such persons who may worship him.

24 God is Spirit. And so, those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth.”

25 The woman said to him: “I know that the Messiah is coming (who is called the Christ). And then, when he will have arrived, he will announce everything to us.”

26 Jesus said to her: “I am he, the one who is speaking with you.”

27 And then his disciples arrived. And they wondered that he was speaking with the woman. Yet no one said: “What are you seeking?” or, “Why are you talking with her?”

28 And so the woman left behind her water jar and went into the city. And she said to the men there:

29 “Come and see a man who has told me all the things that I have done. Is he not the Christ?”

30 Therefore, they went out of the city and came to him.

31 Meanwhile, the disciples petitioned him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”

32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat which you do not know.”

33 Therefore, the disciples said to one another, “Could someone have brought him something to eat?”

34 Jesus said to them: “My food is to do the will of the One who sent me, so that I may perfect his work.

35 Do you not say, ‘There are still four months, and then the harvest arrives?’ Behold, I say to you: Lift up your eyes and look at the countryside; for it is already ripe for the harvest.

36 For he who reaps, receives wages and gathers fruit unto eternal life, so that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

37 For in this the word is true: that it is one who sows, and it is another who reaps.

38 I have sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.”

39 Now many of the Samaritans from that city believed in him, because of the word of the woman who was offering testimony: “For he told me all the things that I have done.”

40 Therefore, when the Samaritans had come to him, they petitioned him to lodge there. And he lodged there for two days.

41 And many more believed in him, because of his own word.

42 And they said to the woman: “Now we believe, not because of your speech, but because we ourselves have heard him, and so we know that he is truly the Savior of the world.”

43 Then, after two days, he departed from there, and he traveled into Galilee.

44 For Jesus himself offered testimony that a Prophet has no honor in his own country.

45 And so, when he had arrived in Galilee, the Galileans received him, because they had seen all that he had done at Jerusalem, in the day of the feast. For they also went to the feast day.

46 Then he went again into Cana of Galilee, where he made water into wine. And there was a certain ruler, whose son was sick at Capernaum.

47 Since he had heard that Jesus came to Galilee from Judea, he sent to him and begged him to come down and heal his son. For he was beginning to die.

48 Therefore, Jesus said to him, “Unless you have seen signs and wonders, you do not believe.”

49 The ruler said to him, “Lord, come down before my son dies.”

50 Jesus said to him, “Go, your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and so he went away.

51 Then, as he was going down, his servants met him. And they reported to him, saying that his son was alive.

52 Therefore, he asked them at which hour he had become better. And they said to him, “Yesterday, at the seventh hour, the fever left him.”

53 Then the father realized that it was at the same hour that Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.” And both he and his entire household believed.

54 This next sign was the second that Jesus accomplished, after he had arrived in Galilee from Judea.

1 After these things, there was a feast day of the Jews, and so Jesus ascended to Jerusalem.

2 Now at Jerusalem is the Pool of Evidence, which in Hebrew is known as the Place of Mercy; it has five porticos.

3 Along these lay a great multitude of the sick, the blind, the lame, and the withered, waiting for the movement of the water.

4 Now at times an Angel of the Lord would descend into the pool, and so the water was moved. And whoever descended first into the pool, after the motion of the water, he was healed of whatever infirmity held him.

5 And there was a certain man in that place, having been in his infirmity for thirty-eight years.

6 Then, when Jesus had seen him reclining, and when he realized that he had been afflicted for a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?”

7 The invalid answered him: “Lord, I do not have any man to put me in the pool, when the water has been stirred. For as I am going, another descends ahead of me.”

8 Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your stretcher, and walk.”

9 And immediately the man was healed. And he took up his stretcher and walked. Now this day was the Sabbath.

10 Therefore, the Jews said to the one who had been healed: “It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to take up your stretcher.”

11 He answered them, “The one who healed me, he said to me, ‘Take up your stretcher and walk.’ ”

12 Therefore, they questioned him, “Who is that man, who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk?’ ”

13 But the one who had been given health did not know who it was. For Jesus had turned aside from the crowd gathered in that place.

14 Afterwards, Jesus found him in the temple, and he said to him: “Behold, you have been healed. Do not choose to sin further, otherwise something worse may happen to you.”

15 This man went away, and he reported to the Jews that it was Jesus who had given him health.

16 Because of this, the Jews were persecuting Jesus, for he was doing these things on the Sabbath.

17 But Jesus answered them, “Even now, my Father is working, and I am working.”

18 And so, because of this, the Jews were seeking to kill him even more so. For not only did he break the Sabbath, but he even said that God was his Father, making himself equal to God.

19 Then Jesus responded and said to them: “Amen, amen, I say to you, the Son is not able to do anything of himself, but only what he has seen the Father doing. For whatever he does, even this does the Son do, similarly.

20 For the Father loves the Son, and he shows him all that he himself does. And greater works than these will he show him, so much so that you shall wonder.

21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives life, so also does the Son give life to whomever he wills.

22 For the Father does not judge anyone. But he has given all judgment to the Son,

23 so that all may honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son, does not honor the Father who sent him.

24 Amen, amen, I say to you, that whoever hears my word, and believes in him who sent me, has eternal life, and he does not go into judgment, but instead he crosses from death into life.

25 Amen, amen, I say to you, that the hour is coming, and it is now, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear it shall live.

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

27 And he has given him the authority to accomplish judgment. For he is the Son of man.

28 Do not be amazed at this. For the hour is coming in which all who are in the grave shall hear the voice of the Son of God.

29 And those who have done good shall go forth to the resurrection of life. Yet truly, those who have done evil shall go to the resurrection of judgment.

30 I am not able to do anything of myself. As I hear, so do I judge. And my judgment is just. For I do not seek my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

31 If I offer testimony about myself, my testimony is not true.

32 There is another who offers testimony about me, and I know that the testimony which he offers about me is true.

33 You sent to John, and he offered testimony to the truth.

34 But I do not accept testimony from man. Instead, I say these things, so that you may be saved.

35 He was a burning and shining light. So you were willing, at the time, to exult in his light.

36 But I hold a greater testimony than that of John. For the works which the Father has given to me, so that I may complete them, these works themselves that I do, offer testimony about me: that the Father has sent me.

37 And the Father who has sent me has himself offered testimony about me. And you have never heard his voice, nor have you beheld his appearance.

38 And you do not have his word abiding in you. For the one whom he sent, the same you would not believe.

39 Study the Scriptures. For you think that in them you have eternal life. And yet they also offer testimony about me.

40 And you are not willing to come to me, so that you may have life.

41 I do not accept glory from men.

42 But I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you.

43 I have come in the name of my Father, and you do not accept me. If another will arrive in his own name, him you will accept.

44 How are you able to believe, you who accept glory from one another and yet do not seek the glory that is from God alone?

45 Do not consider that I might accuse you with the Father. There is one who accuses you, Moses, in whom you hope.

46 For if you were believing in Moses, perhaps you would believe in me also. For he wrote about me.

47 But if you do not believe by his writings, how will you believe by my words?”

1 After these things, Jesus traveled across the sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias.

2 And a great multitude was following him, for they saw the signs that he was accomplishing toward those who were infirm.

3 Therefore, Jesus went onto a mountain, and he sat down there with his disciples.

4 Now the Passover, the feast day of the Jews, was near.

5 And so, when Jesus had lifted up his eyes and had seen that a very great multitude came to him, he said to Philip, “From where should we buy bread, so that these may eat?”

6 But he said this to test him. For he himself knew what he would do.

7 Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii of bread would not be sufficient for each of them to receive even a little.”

8 One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, said to him:

9 “There is a certain boy here, who has five barley loaves and two fish. But what are these among so many?”

10 Then Jesus said, “Have the men sit down to eat.” Now, there was much grass in that place. And so the men, in number about five thousand, sat down to eat.

11 Therefore, Jesus took the bread, and when he had given thanks, he distributed it to those who were sitting down to eat; similarly also, from the fish, as much as they wanted.

12 Then, when they were filled, he said to his disciples, “Gather the fragments that are left over, lest they be lost.”

13 And so they gathered, and they filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which were left over from those who had eaten.

14 Therefore, those men, when they had seen that Jesus had accomplished a sign, they said, “Truly, this one is the Prophet who is to come into the world.”

15 And so, when he realized that they were going to come and take him away and make him king, Jesus fled back to the mountain, by himself alone.

16 Then, when evening arrived, his disciples descended to the sea.

17 And when they had climbed into a boat, they went across the sea to Capernaum. And darkness had now arrived, and Jesus had not returned to them.

18 Then the sea was stirred up by a great wind that was blowing.

19 And so, 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.

20 But he said to them: “It is I. Do not be afraid.”

21 Therefore, they were willing to receive him into the boat. But immediately the boat was at the land to which they were going.

22 On the next day, the crowd which was standing across the sea saw that there were no other small boats in that place, except one, and that Jesus had not entered into the boat with his disciples, but that his disciples had departed alone.

23 Yet truly, other boats came over from Tiberias, next to the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord gave thanks.

24 Therefore, when the crowd had seen that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they climbed into the small boats, and they went to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.

25 And when they had found him across the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?”

26 Jesus answered them and said: “Amen, amen, I say to you, you seek me, not because you have seen signs, but because you have eaten from the bread and were satisfied.

27 Do not work for food that perishes, but for that which endures to eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”

28 Therefore, they said to him, “What should we do, so that we may labor in the works of God?”

29 Jesus responded and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he sent.”

30 And so they said to him: “Then what sign will you do, so that we may see it and believe in you? What will you work?

31 Our fathers ate manna in the desert, just as it has been written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’ ”

32 Therefore, Jesus said to them: “Amen, amen, I say to you, Moses did not give you bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.

33 For the bread of God is he who descends from heaven and gives life to the world.”

34 And so they said to him, “Lord, give us this bread always.”

35 Then Jesus said to them: “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.

36 But I say to you, that even though you have seen me, you do not believe.

37 All that the Father gives to me shall come to me. And whoever comes to me, I will not cast out.

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

39 Yet this is the will of the Father who sent me: that I should lose nothing out of all that he has given to me, but that I should raise them up on the last day.

40 So then, this is the will of my Father who sent me: that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him may have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

41 Therefore, the Jews murmured about him, because he had said: “I am the living bread, who descended from heaven.”

42 And they said: “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? Then how can he say: ‘For I descended from heaven?’ ”

43 And so Jesus responded and said to them: “Do not choose to murmur among yourselves.

44 No one is able to come to me, unless the Father, who has sent me, has drawn him. And I will raise him up on the last day.

45 It has been written in the Prophets: ‘And they shall all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has listened and learned from the Father comes to me.

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

47 Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes in me has eternal life.

48 I am the bread of life.

49 Your fathers ate manna in the desert, and they died.

50 This is the bread which descends from heaven, so that if anyone will eat from it, he may not die.

51 I am the living bread, who descended from heaven.

52 If anyone eats from this bread, he shall live in eternity. And the bread that I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world.”

53 Therefore, the Jews debated among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

54 And so, Jesus said to them: “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you will not have life in you.

55 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

56 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.

57 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.

58 Just as the living Father has sent me and I live because of the Father, so also whoever eats me, the same shall live because of me.

59 This is the bread that descends from heaven. It is not like the manna that your fathers ate, for they died. Whoever eats this bread shall live forever.”

60 He said these things when he was teaching in the synagogue at Capernaum.

61 Therefore, many of his disciples, upon hearing this, said: “This saying is difficult,” and, “Who is able to listen to it?”

62 But Jesus, knowing within himself that his disciples were murmuring about this, said to them: “Does this offend you?

63 Then what if you were to see the Son of man ascending to where he was before?

64 It is the Spirit who gives life. The flesh does not offer anything of benefit. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

65 But there are some among you who do not believe.” For Jesus knew from the beginning who were unbelieving and which one would betray him.

66 And so he said, “For this reason, I said to you that no one is able to come to me, unless it has been given to him by my Father.”

67 After this, many of his disciples went back, and they no longer walked with him.

68 Therefore, Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you also want to go away?”

69 Then Simon Peter answered him: “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

70 And we have believed, and we recognize that you are the Christ, the Son of God.”

71 Jesus answered them: “Have I not chosen you twelve? And yet one among you is a devil.”

72 Now he was speaking about Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon. For this one, even though he was one of the twelve, was about to betray him.

1 Then, after these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee. For he was not willing to walk in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him.

2 Now the feast day of the Jews, the Feast of Tabernacles, was near.

3 And his brothers said to him: “Move away from here and go into Judea, so that your disciples there may also see your works that you do.

4 Of course, no one does anything in secret, but he himself seeks to be in the public view. Since you do these things, manifest yourself to the world.”

5 For neither did his brothers believe in him.

6 Therefore, Jesus said to them: “My time has not yet come; but your time is always at hand.

7 The world cannot hate you. But it hates me, because I offer testimony about it, that its works are evil.

8 You may go up to this feast day. But I am not going up to this feast day, because my time has not yet been fulfilled.”

9 When he had said these things, he himself remained in Galilee.

10 But after his brothers went up, then he also went up to the feast day, not openly, but as if in secret.

11 Therefore, the Jews were seeking him on the feast day, and they were saying, “Where is he?”

12 And there was much murmuring in the crowd concerning him. For certain ones were saying, “He is good.” But others were saying, “No, for he seduces the crowds.”

13 Yet no one was speaking openly about him, out of fear of the Jews.

14 Then, about the middle of the feast, Jesus ascended into the temple, and he was teaching.

15 And the Jews wondered, saying: “How does this one know letters, though he has not been taught?”

16 Jesus responded to them and said: “My doctrine is not of me, but of him who sent me.

17 If anyone has chosen to do his will, then he will realize, about the doctrine, whether it is from God, or whether I am speaking from myself.

18 Whoever speaks from himself seeks his own glory. But whoever seeks the glory of him who sent him, this one is true, and injustice is not in him.

19 Did not Moses give you the law? And yet not one among you keeps the law!

20 Why are you seeking to kill me?” The crowd responded and said: “You must have a demon. Who is seeking to kill you?”

21 Jesus responded and said to them: “One work have I done, and you all wonder.

22 For Moses gave you circumcision, (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers) and on the Sabbath you circumcise a man.

23 If a man can receive circumcision on the Sabbath, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, why are you indignant toward me, because I have made a man whole on the Sabbath?

24 Do not judge according to appearances, but instead judge a just judgment.”

25 Therefore, some of those from Jerusalem said: “Is he not the one whom they are seeking to kill?

26 And behold, he is speaking openly, and they say nothing to him. Could the leaders have decided that it is true this one is the Christ?

27 But we know him and where he is from. And when the Christ has arrived, no one will know where he is from.”

28 Therefore, Jesus cried out in the temple, teaching and saying: “You know me, and you also know where I am from. And I have not arrived of myself, but he who sent me is true, and him you do not know.

29 I know him. For I am from him, and he has sent me.”

30 Therefore, they were seeking to apprehend him, and yet no one laid hands on him, because his hour had not yet come.

31 But many among the crowd believed in him, and they were saying, “When the Christ arrives, will he perform more signs than this man does?”

32 The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about him. And the leaders and the Pharisees sent attendants to apprehend him.

33 Therefore, Jesus said to them: “For a brief time, I am still with you, and then I am going to him who sent me.

34 You shall seek me, and you will not find me. And where I am, you are not able to go.”

35 And so the Jews said among themselves: “Where is this place to which he will go, such that we will not find him? Will he go to those dispersed among the Gentiles and teach the Gentiles?

36 What is this word that he spoke, ‘You will seek me and you will not find me; and where I am, you are not able to go?’ ”

37 Then, on the last great day of the feast, Jesus was standing and crying out, saying: “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink:

38 whoever believes in me, just as Scripture says, ‘From his chest shall flow rivers of living water.’ ”

39 Now he said this about the Spirit, which those who believe in him would soon be receiving. For the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

40 Therefore, some from that crowd, when they had heard these words of his, were saying, “This one truly is the Prophet.”

41 Others were saying, “He is the Christ.” Yet certain ones were saying: “Does the Christ come from Galilee?

42 Does Scripture not say that the Christ comes from the offspring of David and from Bethlehem, the town where David was?”

43 And so there arose a dissension among the multitude because of him.

44 Now certain ones among them wanted to apprehended him, but no one laid hands upon him.

45 Therefore, the attendants went to the high priests and the Pharisees. And they said to them, “Why have you not brought him?”

46 The attendants responded, “Never has a man spoken like this man.”

47 And so the Pharisees answered them: “Have you also been seduced?

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

49 But this crowd, which does not know the law, they are accursed.”

50 Nicodemus, the one who came to him by night and who was one of them, said to them,

51 “Does our law judge a man, unless it has first heard him and has known what he has done?”

52 They responded and said to him: “Are you also a Galilean? Study the Scriptures, and see that a prophet does not arise from Galilee.”

53 And each one returned to his own house.

1 But Jesus continued on to the Mount of Olives.

2 And early in the morning, he went again to the temple; and all the people came to him. And sitting down, he taught them.

3 Now the scribes and Pharisees brought forward a woman caught in adultery, and they stood her in front of them.

4 And they said to him: “Teacher, this woman was just now caught in adultery.

5 And in the law, Moses commanded us to stone such a one. Therefore, what do you say?”

6 But they were saying this to test him, so that they might be able to accuse him. Then Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the earth.

7 And then, when they persevered in questioning him, he stood upright and said to them, “Let whoever is without sin among you be the first to cast a stone at her.”

8 And bending down again, he wrote on the earth.

9 But upon hearing this, they went away, one by one, beginning with the eldest. And Jesus alone remained, with the woman standing in front of him.

10 Then Jesus, raising himself up, said to her: “Woman, where are those who accused you? Has no one condemned you?”

11 And she said, “No one, Lord.” Then Jesus said: “Neither will I condemn you. Go, and now do not choose to sin anymore.”

12 Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying: “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me does not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.”

13 And so the Pharisees said to him, “You offer testimony about yourself; your testimony is not true.”

14 Jesus responded and said to them: “Even though I offer testimony about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going.

15 You judge according to the flesh. I do not judge anyone.

16 And when I do judge, my judgment is true. For I am not alone, but it is I and he who sent me: the Father.

17 And it is written in your law that the testimony of two men is true.

18 I am one who offers testimony about myself, and the Father who sent me offers testimony about me.”

19 Therefore, they said to him, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered: “You know neither me, nor my Father. If you did know me, perhaps you would know my Father also.”

20 Jesus spoke these words at the treasury, while teaching in the temple. And no one apprehended him, because his hour had not yet come.

21 Therefore, Jesus again spoke to them: “I am going, and you shall seek me. And you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you are not able to go.”

22 And so the Jews said, “Is he going to kill himself, for he said: ‘Where I am going, you are not able to go?’ ”

23 And he said to them: “You are from below. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.

24 Therefore, I said to you, that you will die in your sins. For if you will not believe that I am, you will die in your sin.”

25 And so they said to him, “Who are you?” Jesus said to them: “The Beginning, who is also speaking to you.

26 I have much to say about you and to judge. But he who sent me is true. And what I have heard from him, this I speak within the world.”

27 And they did not realize that he was calling God his Father.

28 And so Jesus said to them: “When you will have lifted up the Son of man, then you shall realize that I am, and that I do nothing of myself, but just as the Father has taught me, so do I speak.

29 And he who sent me is with me, and he has not abandoned me alone. For I always do what is pleasing to him.”

30 As he was speaking these things, many believed in him.

31 Therefore, Jesus said to those Jews who believed in him: “If you will abide in my word, you will truly be my disciples.

32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.”

33 They answered him: “We are the offspring of Abraham, and we have never been a slave to anyone. How can you say, ‘You shall be set free?’ ”

34 Jesus answered them: “Amen, amen, I say to you, that everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.

35 Now the slave does not abide in the house for eternity. Yet the Son does abide in eternity.

36 Therefore, if the Son has set you free, then you will truly be free.

37 I know that you are sons of Abraham. But you are seeking to kill me, because my word has not taken hold in you.

38 I speak what I have seen with my Father. And you do what you have seen with your father.”

39 They responded and said to him, “Abraham is our father.” Jesus said to them: “If you are the sons of Abraham, then do the works of Abraham.

40 But now you are seeking to kill me, a man who has spoken the truth to you, which I have heard from God. This is not what Abraham did.

41 You do the works of your father.” Therefore, they said to him: “We were not born out of fornication. We have one father: God.”

42 Then Jesus said to them: “If God were your father, certainly you would love me. For I proceeded and came from God. For I did not come from myself, but he sent me.

43 Why do you not recognize my speech? It is because you are not able to hear my word.

44 You are of your father, the devil. And you will carry out the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning. And he did not stand in the truth, because the truth is not in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks it from his own self. For he is a liar, and the father of lies.

45 But if I speak the truth, you do not believe me.

46 Which of you can convict me of sin? If I speak the truth to you, why do you not believe me?

47 Whoever is of God, hears the words of God. For this reason, you do not hear them: because you are not of God.”

48 Therefore, the Jews responded and said to him, “Are we not correct in saying that you are a Samaritan, and that you have a demon?”

49 Jesus responded: “I do not have a demon. But I honor my Father, and you have dishonored me.

50 But I am not seeking my own glory. There is One who seeks and judges.

51 Amen, amen, I say to you, if anyone will have kept my word, he will not see death for eternity.”

52 Therefore, the Jews said: “Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham is dead, and the Prophets; and yet you say, ‘If anyone will have kept my word, he shall not taste death for eternity.’

53 Are you greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? And the prophets are dead. So who do you make yourself to be?”

54 Jesus responded: “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me. And you say about him that he is your God.

55 And yet you have not known him. But I know him. And if I were to say that I do not know him, then I would be like you, a liar. But I know him, and I keep his word.

56 Abraham, your father, rejoiced that he might see my day; he saw it and was glad.”

57 And so the Jews said to him, “You have not yet reached fifty years, and you have seen Abraham?”

58 Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, before Abraham was made, I am.”

59 Therefore, they took up stones to cast at him. But Jesus hid himself, and he departed from the temple.

1 And Jesus, while passing by, saw a man blind from birth.

2 And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born blind?”

3 Jesus responded: “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but it was so that the works of God would be made manifest in him.

4 I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day: the night is coming, when no one is able to work.

5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

6 When he had said these things, he spat on the ground, and he made clay from the spittle, and he smeared the clay over his eyes.

7 And he said to him: “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which is translated as: one who has been sent). Therefore, he went away and washed, and he returned, seeing.

8 And so the bystanders and those who had seen him before, when he was a beggar, said, “Is this not the one who was sitting and begging?” Some said, “This is he.”

9 But others said, “Certainly not, but he is similar to him.” Yet truly, he himself said, “I am he.”

10 Therefore, they said to him, “How were your eyes opened?”

11 He responded: “That man who is called Jesus made clay, and he anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash.’ And I went, and I washed, and I see.”

12 And they said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I do not know.”

13 They brought the one who had been blind to the Pharisees.

14 Now it was the Sabbath, when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes.

15 Therefore, again the Pharisees questioned him as to how he had seen. And he said to them, “He placed clay over my eyes, and I washed, and I see.”

16 And so certain Pharisees said: “This man, who does not keep the Sabbath, is not from God.” But others said, “How could a sinful man accomplish these signs?” And there was a schism among them.

17 Therefore, they spoke again to the blind man, “What do you say about him who opened your eyes?” Then he said, “He is a Prophet.”

18 Therefore, the Jews did not believe, about him, that he had been blind and had seen, until they called the parents of him who had seen.

19 And they questioned them, saying: “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? Then how is it that he now sees?”

20 His parents responded to them and said: “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.

21 But how it is that he now sees, we do not know. And who opened his eyes, we do not know. Ask him. He is old enough. Let him speak for himself.”

22 His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jews. For the Jews had already conspired, so that if anyone were to confess him to be the Christ, he would be expelled from the synagogue.

23 It was for this reason that his parents said: “He is old enough. Ask him.”

24 Therefore, they again called the man who had been blind, and they said to him: “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”

25 And so he said to them: “If he is a sinner, I do not know it. One thing I do know, that although I was blind, now I see.”

26 Then they said to him: “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”

27 He answered them: “I have already told you, and you heard it. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?”

28 Therefore, they cursed him and said: “You be his disciple. But we are disciples of Moses.

29 We know that God spoke to Moses. But this man, we do not know where he is from.”

30 The man responded and said to them: “Now in this is a wonder: that you do not know where he is from, and yet he has opened my eyes.

31 And we know that God does not hear sinners. But if anyone is a worshipper of God and does his will, then he heeds him.

32 From ancient times, it has not been heard that anyone has opened the eyes of someone born blind.

33 Unless this man were of God, he would not be able to do any such thing.”

34 They responded and said to him, “You were born entirely in sins, and you would teach us?” And they cast him out.

35 Jesus heard that they had cast him out. And when he had found him, he said to him, “Do you believe in the Son of God?”

36 He responded and said, “Who is he, Lord, so that I may believe in him?”

37 And Jesus said to him, “You have both seen him, and he is the one who is speaking with you.”

38 And he said, “I believe, Lord.” And falling prostrate, he worshipped him.

39 And Jesus said, “I came into this world in judgment, so that those who do not see, may see; and so that those who see, may become blind.”

40 And certain Pharisees, who were with him, heard this, and they said to him, “Are we also blind?”

41 Jesus said to them: “If you were blind, you would not have sin. Yet now you say, ‘We see.’ So your sin persists.”

1 “Amen, amen, I say to you, he who does not enter through the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up by another way, he is a thief and a robber.

2 But he who enters through the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

3 To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name, and he leads them out.

4 And when he has sent out his sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.

5 But they do not follow a stranger; instead they flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.”

6 Jesus spoke this proverb to them. But they did not understand what he was saying to them.

7 Therefore, Jesus spoke to them again: “Amen, amen, I say to you, that I am the door of the sheep.

8 All others, as many as have come, are thieves and robbers, and the sheep did not listen to them.

9 I am the door. If anyone has entered through me, he will be saved. And he shall go in and go out, and he shall find pastures.

10 The thief does not come, except so that he may steal and slaughter and destroy. I have come so that they may have life, and have it more abundantly.

11 I am the good Shepherd. The good Shepherd gives his life for his sheep.

12 But the hired hand, and whoever is not a shepherd, to whom the sheep do not belong, he sees the wolf approaching, and he departs from the sheep and flees. And the wolf ravages and scatters the sheep.

13 And the hired hand flees, because he is a hired hand and there is no concern for the sheep within him.

14 I am the good Shepherd, and I know my own, and my own know me,

15 just as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. And I lay down my life for my sheep.

16 And I have other sheep that are not of this fold, and I must lead them. They shall hear my voice, and there shall be one sheepfold and one shepherd.

17 For this reason, the Father loves me: because I lay down my life, so that I may take it up again.

18 No one takes it away from me. Instead, I lay it down of my own accord. And I have the power to lay it down. And I have the power to take it up again. This is the commandment that I have received from my Father.”

19 A dissension occurred again among the Jews because of these words.

20 Then many of them were saying: “He has a demon or he is insane. Why do you listen him?”

21 Others were saying: “These are not the words of someone who has a demon. How would a demon be able to open the eyes of the blind?”

22 Now it was the Feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem, and it was winter.

23 And Jesus was walking in the temple, in the portico of Solomon.

24 And so the Jews surrounded him and said to him: “How long will you hold our souls in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”

25 Jesus answered them: “I speak to you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in the name of my Father, these offer testimony about me.

26 But you do not believe, because you are not of my sheep.

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

28 And I give them eternal life, and they shall not perish, for eternity. And no one shall seize them from my hand.

29 What my Father gave to me is greater than all, and no one is able to seize from the hand of my Father.

30 I and the Father are one.”

31 Therefore, the Jews took up stones, in order to stone him.

32 Jesus answered them: “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?”

33 The Jews answered him: “We do not stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy and because, though you are a man, you make yourself God.”

34 Jesus responded to them: “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said: you are gods?’

35 If he called those to whom the word of God was given gods, and Scripture cannot be broken,

36 why do you say, about him whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You have blasphemed,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’

37 If I do not do the works of my Father, do not believe in me.

38 But if I do them, even if you are not willing to believe in me, believe the works, so that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I am in the Father.”

39 Therefore, they sought to apprehend him, but he escaped from their hands.

40 And he went again across the Jordan, to that place where John first was baptizing. And he lodged there.

41 And many went out to him. And they were saying: “Indeed, John accomplished no signs.

42 But all things whatsoever that John said about this man were true.” And many believed in him.