:PROPERTIES: :ID: 20210801T063911.469866 :ROAM_ALIASES: john :END: #+TITLE: Web Bible - John #+DESCRIPTION: The World English Bible is a Public Domain translation of the Holy Bible into modern English. Includes Apocrypha/Deuterocanon. #+LICENSE: The World English Bible is in the Public Domain. You may copy it freely. "World English Bible" is a trademark that may only be used to refer to faithful copies of the text of the World English Bible as distributed from http://eBible.org. It is still subject to God's Law concerning His Word, including the Great Commission (Matthew 28:18-20). * Chapter 1 ** Verse 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ** Verse 2 The same was in the beginning with God. ** Verse 3 All things were made through him. Without him, nothing was made that has been made. ** Verse 4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men. ** Verse 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome 1:5 The word translated “overcome” (κατέλαβεν) can also be translated “comprehended.” It refers to getting a grip on an enemy to defeat him. it. ** Verse 6 There came a man sent from God, whose name was John. ** Verse 7 The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him. ** Verse 8 He was not the light, but was sent that he might testify about the light. ** Verse 9 The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world. ** Verse 10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn’t recognize him. ** Verse 11 He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him. ** Verse 12 But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name: ** Verse 13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. ** Verse 14 The Word became flesh and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the only born 1:14 The phrase “only born” is from the Greek word “μονογενους”, which is sometimes translated “only begotten” or “one and only”. Son of the Father, full of grace and truth. ** Verse 15 John 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.’” ** Verse 16 From his fullness we all received grace upon grace. ** Verse 17 For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ. 1:17 “Christ” means “Anointed One”. ** Verse 18 No one has seen God at any time. The only born 1:18 The phrase “only born” is from the Greek word “μονογενη”, which is sometimes translated “only begotten” or “one and only”. Son, 1:18 NU reads “God” who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him. ** Verse 19 This is John’s testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?” ** Verse 20 He declared, and didn’t deny, but he declared, “I am not the Christ.” ** Verse 21 They asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the prophet?” He answered, “No.” ** Verse 22 They said therefore to him, “Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?” ** Verse 23 He said, “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ 1:23 Isaiah 40:3 as Isaiah the prophet said.” ** Verse 24 The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees. ** Verse 25 They asked him, “Why then do you baptize if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?” ** Verse 26 John answered them, “I baptize in water, but among you stands one whom you don’t know. ** Verse 27 He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I’m not worthy to loosen.” ** Verse 28 These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing. ** Verse 29 The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, 1:29 “Behold”, from “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection. the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! ** Verse 30 This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who is preferred before me, for he was before me.’ ** Verse 31 I didn’t know him, but for this reason I came baptizing in water, that he would be revealed to Israel.” ** Verse 32 John testified, saying, “I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him. ** Verse 33 I 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.’ ** Verse 34 I have seen and have testified that this is the Son of God.” ** Verse 35 Again, the next day, John was standing with two of his disciples, ** Verse 36 and he looked at Jesus as he walked, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!” ** Verse 37 The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus. ** Verse 38 Jesus turned and saw them following, and said to them, “What are you looking for?” They said to him, “Rabbi” (which is to say, being interpreted, Teacher), “where are you staying?” ** Verse 39 He said to them, “Come and see.” They came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about the tenth hour. 1:39 4:00 p.m. ** Verse 40 One of the two who heard John and followed him was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother. ** Verse 41 He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which is, being interpreted, Christ 1:41 “Messiah” (Hebrew) and “Christ” (Greek) both mean “Anointed One”.). ** Verse 42 He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas” (which is by interpretation, Peter). 1:42 “Cephas” (Aramaic) and “Peter” (Greek) both mean “Rock”. ** Verse 43 On the next day, he was determined to go out into Galilee, and he found Philip. Jesus said to him, “Follow me.” ** Verse 44 Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. ** Verse 45 Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him of whom Moses in the law and also the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.” ** Verse 46 Nathanael said to him, “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.” ** Verse 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!” ** Verse 48 Nathanael 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.” ** Verse 49 Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!” ** Verse 50 Jesus answered him, “Because I told you, ‘I saw you underneath the fig tree,’ do you believe? You will see greater things than these!” ** Verse 51 He 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.” * Chapter 2 ** Verse 1 The third day, there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there. ** Verse 2 Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to the wedding. ** Verse 3 When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no wine.” ** Verse 4 Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come.” ** Verse 5 His mother said to the servants, “Whatever he says to you, do it.” ** Verse 6 Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews’ way of purifying, containing two or three metretes 2:6 2 to 3 metretes is about 20 to 30 U. S. Gallons, or 75 to 115 liters. apiece. ** Verse 7 Jesus said to them, “Fill the water pots with water.” So they filled them up to the brim. ** Verse 8 He said to them, “Now draw some out, and take it to the ruler of the feast.” So they took it. ** Verse 9 When 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 ** Verse 10 and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have kept the good wine until now!” ** Verse 11 This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him. ** Verse 12 After this, he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they stayed there a few days. ** Verse 13 The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ** Verse 14 He found in the temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, and the changers of money sitting. ** Verse 15 He made a whip of cords and drove all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers’ money and overthrew their tables. ** Verse 16 To those who sold the doves, he said, “Take these things out of here! Don’t make my Father’s house a marketplace!” ** Verse 17 His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will eat me up.” 2:17 Psalm 69:9 ** Verse 18 The Jews therefore answered him, “What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?” ** Verse 19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” ** Verse 20 The Jews therefore said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple! Will you raise it up in three days?” ** Verse 21 But he spoke of the temple of his body. ** Verse 22 When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said. ** Verse 23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did. ** Verse 24 But Jesus didn’t entrust himself to them, because he knew everyone, ** Verse 25 and because he didn’t need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man. * Chapter 3 ** Verse 1 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. ** Verse 2 He came to Jesus 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.” ** Verse 3 Jesus answered him, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born anew, 3:3 The word translated “anew” here and in John 3:7 (ἄνωθεν) also means “again” and “from above”. he can’t see God’s Kingdom.” ** Verse 4 Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” ** Verse 5 Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and Spirit, he can’t enter into God’s Kingdom. ** Verse 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit. ** Verse 7 Don’t marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born anew.’ ** Verse 8 The wind 3:8 The same Greek word (πνεῦμα) means wind, breath, and spirit. 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.” ** Verse 9 Nicodemus answered him, “How can these things be?” ** Verse 10 Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and don’t understand these things? ** Verse 11 Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know and testify of that which we have seen, and you don’t receive our witness. ** Verse 12 If I told you earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? ** Verse 13 No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven. ** Verse 14 As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, ** Verse 15 that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. ** Verse 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only born 3:16 The phrase “only born” is from the Greek word “μονογενη”, which is sometimes translated “only begotten” or “one and only”. Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. ** Verse 17 For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him. ** Verse 18 He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only born Son of God. ** Verse 19 This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil. ** Verse 20 For everyone who does evil hates the light and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed. ** Verse 21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.” ** Verse 22 After these things, Jesus came with his disciples into the land of Judea. He stayed there with them and baptized. ** Verse 23 John also was baptizing in Enon near Salim, because there was much water there. They came and were baptized; ** Verse 24 for John was not yet thrown into prison. ** Verse 25 Therefore a dispute arose on the part of John’s disciples with some Jews about purification. ** Verse 26 They 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.” ** Verse 27 John answered, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven. ** Verse 28 You yourselves testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but, ‘I have been sent before him.’ ** Verse 29 He 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. Therefore my joy is made full. ** Verse 30 He must increase, but I must decrease. ** Verse 31 “He 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. ** Verse 32 What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness. ** Verse 33 He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true. ** Verse 34 For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure. ** Verse 35 The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand. ** Verse 36 One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys 3:36 The same word can be translated “disobeys” or “disbelieves” in this context. the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.” * Chapter 4 ** Verse 1 Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John ** Verse 2 (although Jesus himself didn’t baptize, but his disciples), ** Verse 3 he left Judea and departed into Galilee. ** Verse 4 He needed to pass through Samaria. ** Verse 5 So he came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. ** Verse 6 Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour. 4:6 noon ** Verse 7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” ** Verse 8 For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. ** Verse 9 The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) ** Verse 10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” ** Verse 11 The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. So where do you get that living water? ** Verse 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his children and his livestock?” ** Verse 13 Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, ** Verse 14 but 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.” ** Verse 15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I don’t get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw.” ** Verse 16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” ** Verse 17 The woman answered, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You said well, ‘I have no husband,’ ** Verse 18 for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly.” ** Verse 19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. ** Verse 20 Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.” ** Verse 21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. ** Verse 22 You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews. ** Verse 23 But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers. ** Verse 24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” ** Verse 25 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming, he who is called Christ. 4:25 “Messiah” (Hebrew) and “Christ” (Greek) both mean “Anointed One”. When he has come, he will declare to us all things.” ** Verse 26 Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one who speaks to you.” ** Verse 27 Just then, 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?” ** Verse 28 So the woman left her water pot, went away into the city, and said to the people, ** Verse 29 “Come, see a man who told me everything that I have done. Can this be the Christ?” ** Verse 30 They went out of the city, and were coming to him. ** Verse 31 In the meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.” ** Verse 32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.” ** Verse 33 The disciples therefore said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?” ** Verse 34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work. ** Verse 35 Don’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. ** Verse 36 He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit to eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. ** Verse 37 For in this the saying is true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’ ** Verse 38 I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.” ** Verse 39 From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, “He told me everything that I have done.” ** Verse 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days. ** Verse 41 Many more believed because of his word. ** Verse 42 They said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.” ** Verse 43 After the two days he went out from there and went into Galilee. ** Verse 44 For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. ** Verse 45 So 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. ** Verse 46 Jesus came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum. ** Verse 47 When 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. ** Verse 48 Jesus therefore said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe.” ** Verse 49 The nobleman said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” ** Verse 50 Jesus said to him, “Go your way. Your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way. ** Verse 51 As he was going down, his servants met him and reported, saying “Your child lives!” ** Verse 52 So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. They said therefore to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour, 4:52 1:00 p.m. the fever left him.” ** Verse 53 So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.” He believed, as did his whole house. ** Verse 54 This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judea into Galilee. * Chapter 5 ** Verse 1 After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ** Verse 2 Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew, “Bethesda”, having five porches. ** Verse 3 In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water; ** Verse 4 for 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. 5:4 NU omits from “waiting” in verse 3 to the end of verse 4. ** Verse 5 A certain man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years. ** Verse 6 When 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?” ** Verse 7 The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, another steps down before me.” ** Verse 8 Jesus said to him, “Arise, take up your mat, and walk.” ** Verse 9 Immediately, the man was made well, and took up his mat and walked. Now that day was a Sabbath. ** Verse 10 So the Jews said to him who was cured, “It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry the mat.” ** Verse 11 He answered them, “He who made me well said to me, ‘Take up your mat and walk.’” ** Verse 12 Then they asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your mat and walk’?” ** Verse 13 But he who was healed didn’t know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, a crowd being in the place. ** Verse 14 Afterward 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.” ** Verse 15 The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. ** Verse 16 For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath. ** Verse 17 But Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, so I am working, too.” ** Verse 18 For 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. ** Verse 19 Jesus therefore 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. ** Verse 20 For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does. He will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel. ** Verse 21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires. ** Verse 22 For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son, ** Verse 23 that 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. ** Verse 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. ** Verse 25 Most 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. ** Verse 26 For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself. ** Verse 27 He also gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man. ** Verse 28 Don’t marvel at this, for the hour comes in which all who are in the tombs will hear his voice ** Verse 29 and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment. ** Verse 30 I 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. ** Verse 31 “If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid. ** Verse 32 It is another who testifies about me. I know that the testimony which he testifies about me is true. ** Verse 33 You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth. ** Verse 34 But the testimony which I receive is not from man. However, I say these things that you may be saved. ** Verse 35 He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light. ** Verse 36 But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John; for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me. ** Verse 37 The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form. ** Verse 38 You don’t have his word living in you, because you don’t believe him whom he sent. ** Verse 39 “You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me. ** Verse 40 Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life. ** Verse 41 I don’t receive glory from men. ** Verse 42 But I know you, that you don’t have God’s love in yourselves. ** Verse 43 I have come in my Father’s name, and you don’t receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him. ** Verse 44 How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God? ** Verse 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. ** Verse 46 For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me. ** Verse 47 But if you don’t believe his writings, how will you believe my words?” * Chapter 6 ** Verse 1 After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is also called the Sea of Tiberias. ** Verse 2 A great multitude followed him, because they saw his signs which he did on those who were sick. ** Verse 3 Jesus went up into the mountain, and he sat there with his disciples. ** Verse 4 Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand. ** Verse 5 Jesus therefore, lifting up his eyes and seeing that a great multitude was coming to him, said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread, that these may eat?” ** Verse 6 He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do. ** Verse 7 Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii 6:7 A denarius was a silver coin worth about a day’s wages for an agricultural laborer, so 200 denarii would be between 6 and 7 month’s pay. worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may receive a little.” ** Verse 8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him, ** Verse 9 “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these among so many?” ** Verse 10 Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” Now there was much grass in that place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand. ** Verse 11 Jesus 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. ** Verse 12 When they were filled, he said to his disciples, “Gather up the broken pieces which are left over, that nothing be lost.” ** Verse 13 So 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. ** Verse 14 When therefore the people saw the sign which Jesus did, they said, “This is truly the prophet who comes into the world.” ** Verse 15 Jesus therefore, perceiving that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, withdrew again to the mountain by himself. ** Verse 16 When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea. ** Verse 17 They entered into the boat, and were going over the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not come to them. ** Verse 18 The sea was tossed by a great wind blowing. ** Verse 19 When therefore they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia, 6:19 25 to 30 stadia is about 5 to 6 kilometers or about 3 to 4 miles they saw Jesus walking on the sea 6:19 See Job 9:8 and drawing near to the boat; and they were afraid. ** Verse 20 But he said to them, “It is I. 6:20 or, I AM Don’t be afraid.” ** Verse 21 They were willing therefore to receive him into the boat. Immediately the boat was at the land where they were going. ** Verse 22 On 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. ** Verse 23 However, boats from Tiberias came near to the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks. ** Verse 24 When the multitude therefore saw that Jesus wasn’t there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus. ** Verse 25 When they found him on the other side of the sea, they asked him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?” ** Verse 26 Jesus 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. ** Verse 27 Don’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.” ** Verse 28 They said therefore to him, “What must we do, that we may work the works of God?” ** Verse 29 Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.” ** Verse 30 They said therefore to him, “What then do you do for a sign, that we may see and believe you? What work do you do? ** Verse 31 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, ‘He gave them bread out of heaven 6:31 Greek and Hebrew use the same word for “heaven”, “the heavens”, “the sky”, and “the air”. to eat.’” 6:31 Exodus 16:4; Nehemiah 9:15; Psalm 78:24-25 ** Verse 32 Jesus therefore 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. ** Verse 33 For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world.” ** Verse 34 They said therefore to him, “Lord, always give us this bread.” ** Verse 35 Jesus 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. ** Verse 36 But I told you that you have seen me, and yet you don’t believe. ** Verse 37 All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out. ** Verse 38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. ** Verse 39 This 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. ** Verse 40 This 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.” ** Verse 41 The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, “I am the bread which came down out of heaven.” ** Verse 42 They said, “Isn’t this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then does he say, ‘I have come down out of heaven?’” ** Verse 43 Therefore Jesus answered them, “Don’t murmur among yourselves. ** Verse 44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him; and I will raise him up in the last day. ** Verse 45 It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ 6:45 Isaiah 54:13 Therefore everyone who hears from the Father and has learned, comes to me. ** Verse 46 Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God. He has seen the Father. ** Verse 47 Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life. ** Verse 48 I am the bread of life. ** Verse 49 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and they died. ** Verse 50 This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die. ** Verse 51 I 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.” ** Verse 52 The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” ** Verse 53 Jesus therefore 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. ** Verse 54 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. ** Verse 55 For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. ** Verse 56 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him. ** Verse 57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on me will also live because of me. ** Verse 58 This 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.” ** Verse 59 He said these things in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum. ** Verse 60 Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?” ** Verse 61 But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, “Does this cause you to stumble? ** Verse 62 Then what if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? ** Verse 63 It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life. ** Verse 64 But 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. ** Verse 65 He said, “For this cause I have said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father.” ** Verse 66 At this, many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him. ** Verse 67 Jesus said therefore to the twelve, “You don’t also want to go away, do you?” ** Verse 68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life. ** Verse 69 We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” ** Verse 70 Jesus answered them, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?” ** Verse 71 Now he spoke of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, for it was he who would betray him, being one of the twelve. * Chapter 7 ** Verse 1 After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. ** Verse 2 Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand. ** Verse 3 His brothers therefore said to him, “Depart from here and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do. ** Verse 4 For no one does anything in secret while he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world.” ** Verse 5 For even his brothers didn’t believe in him. ** Verse 6 Jesus therefore said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready. ** Verse 7 The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil. ** Verse 8 You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled.” ** Verse 9 Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee. ** Verse 10 But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret. ** Verse 11 The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, “Where is he?” ** Verse 12 There 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.” ** Verse 13 Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews. ** Verse 14 But when it was now the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught. ** Verse 15 The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “How does this man know letters, having never been educated?” ** Verse 16 Jesus therefore answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me. ** Verse 17 If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God or if I am speaking from myself. ** Verse 18 He 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. ** Verse 19 Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?” ** Verse 20 The multitude answered, “You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?” ** Verse 21 Jesus answered them, “I did one work and you all marvel because of it. ** Verse 22 Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy. ** Verse 23 If 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? ** Verse 24 Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.” ** Verse 25 Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, “Isn’t this he whom they seek to kill? ** Verse 26 Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ? ** Verse 27 However, we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from.” ** Verse 28 Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, “You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don’t know. ** Verse 29 I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.” ** Verse 30 They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come. ** Verse 31 But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, “When the Christ comes, he won’t do more signs than those which this man has done, will he?” ** Verse 32 The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him. ** Verse 33 Then Jesus said, “I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me. ** Verse 34 You will seek me and won’t find me. You can’t come where I am.” ** Verse 35 The Jews therefore said among themselves, “Where will this man go that we won’t find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks? ** Verse 36 What is this word that he said, ‘You will seek me, and won’t find me;’ and ‘Where I am, you can’t come’?” ** Verse 37 Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink! ** Verse 38 He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.” ** Verse 39 But 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. ** Verse 40 Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, “This is truly the prophet.” ** Verse 41 Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “What, does the Christ come out of Galilee? ** Verse 42 Hasn’t the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the offspring 7:42 or, seed of David, 7:42 2 Samuel 7:12 and from Bethlehem, 7:42 Micah 5:2 the village where David was?” ** Verse 43 So a division arose in the multitude because of him. ** Verse 44 Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him. ** Verse 45 The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him?” ** Verse 46 The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this man!” ** Verse 47 The Pharisees therefore answered them, “You aren’t also led astray, are you? ** Verse 48 Have any of the rulers or any of the Pharisees believed in him? ** Verse 49 But this multitude that doesn’t know the law is cursed.” ** Verse 50 Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them, ** Verse 51 “Does our law judge a man unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?” ** Verse 52 They answered him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.” 7:52 Isaiah 9:1; Matthew 4:13-16 ** Verse 53 Everyone went to his own house, * Chapter 8 ** Verse 1 but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. ** Verse 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. ** Verse 3 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the middle, ** Verse 4 they told him, “Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act. ** Verse 5 Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. 8:5 Leviticus 20:10; Deuteronomy 22:22 What then do you say about her?” ** Verse 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. ** Verse 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.” ** Verse 8 Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger. ** Verse 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. ** Verse 10 Jesus, standing up, saw her and said, “Woman, where are your accusers? Did no one condemn you?” ** Verse 11 She said, “No one, Lord.” Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more.” 8:11 John 8:11, but puts brackets around it to indicate that the textual critics had less confidence that this was original. ** Verse 12 Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. 8:12 Isaiah 60:1 He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.” ** Verse 13 The Pharisees therefore said to him, “You testify about yourself. Your testimony is not valid.” ** Verse 14 Jesus 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. ** Verse 15 You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one. ** Verse 16 Even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me. ** Verse 17 It’s also written in your law that the testimony of two people is valid. 8:17 Deuteronomy 17:6; 19:15 ** Verse 18 I am one who testifies about myself, and the Father who sent me testifies about me.” ** Verse 19 They said therefore to him, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.” ** Verse 20 Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come. ** Verse 21 Jesus said therefore again 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.” ** Verse 22 The Jews therefore said, “Will he kill himself, because he says, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come’?” ** Verse 23 He said to them, “You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world. ** Verse 24 I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am 8:24 or, I AM he, you will die in your sins.” ** Verse 25 They said therefore to him, “Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning. ** Verse 26 I 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.” ** Verse 27 They didn’t understand that he spoke to them about the Father. ** Verse 28 Jesus therefore 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. ** Verse 29 He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.” ** Verse 30 As he spoke these things, many believed in him. ** Verse 31 Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples. ** Verse 32 You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” 8:32 Psalm 119:45 ** Verse 33 They answered him, “We are Abraham’s offspring, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, ‘You will be made free’?” ** Verse 34 Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin. ** Verse 35 A bondservant doesn’t live in the house forever. A son remains forever. ** Verse 36 If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. ** Verse 37 I know that you are Abraham’s offspring, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you. ** Verse 38 I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father.” ** Verse 39 They answered him, “Our father is Abraham.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham. ** Verse 40 But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham didn’t do this. ** Verse 41 You do the works of your father.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God.” ** Verse 42 Therefore 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. ** Verse 43 Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word. ** Verse 44 You 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. ** Verse 45 But because I tell the truth, you don’t believe me. ** Verse 46 Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? ** Verse 47 He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t hear, because you are not of God.” ** Verse 48 Then the Jews answered him, “Don’t we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?” ** Verse 49 Jesus answered, “I don’t have a demon, but I honor my Father and you dishonor me. ** Verse 50 But I don’t seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges. ** Verse 51 Most certainly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death.” ** Verse 52 Then the Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, as did the prophets; and you say, ‘If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.’ ** Verse 53 Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?” ** Verse 54 Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God. ** Verse 55 You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, ‘I don’t know him,’ I would be like you, a liar. But I know him and keep his word. ** Verse 56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it and was glad.” ** Verse 57 The Jews therefore said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old! Have you seen Abraham?” ** Verse 58 Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM. 8:58 Exodus 3:14” ** Verse 59 Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hid himself and went out of the temple, having gone through the middle of them, and so passed by. * Chapter 9 ** Verse 1 As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. ** Verse 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” ** Verse 3 Jesus answered, “This man didn’t sin, nor did his parents, but that the works of God might be revealed in him. ** Verse 4 I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work. ** Verse 5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” ** Verse 6 When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man’s eyes with the mud, ** Verse 7 and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing. ** Verse 8 Therefore the neighbors and those who saw that he was blind before said, “Isn’t this he who sat and begged?” ** Verse 9 Others were saying, “It is he.” Still others were saying, “He looks like him.” He said, “I am he.” ** Verse 10 They therefore were asking him, “How were your eyes opened?” ** Verse 11 He answered, “A man called Jesus made mud, anointed my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash.’ So I went away and washed, and I received sight.” ** Verse 12 Then they asked him, “Where is he?” He said, “I don’t know.” ** Verse 13 They brought him who had been blind to the Pharisees. ** Verse 14 It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. ** Verse 15 Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. He said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see.” ** Verse 16 Some therefore of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath.” Others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” So there was division among them. ** Verse 17 Therefore they asked the blind man again, “What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet.” ** Verse 18 The Jews therefore didn’t believe concerning him, that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight, ** Verse 19 and asked them, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? How then does he now see?” ** Verse 20 His parents answered them, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind; ** Verse 21 but 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.” ** Verse 22 His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue. ** Verse 23 Therefore his parents said, “He is of age. Ask him.” ** Verse 24 So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.” ** Verse 25 He therefore answered, “I don’t know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see.” ** Verse 26 They said to him again, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?” ** Verse 27 He 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?” ** Verse 28 They insulted him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses. ** Verse 29 We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we don’t know where he comes from.” ** Verse 30 The man answered them, “How amazing! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes. ** Verse 31 We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, he listens to him. 9:31 Psalm 66:18; Proverbs 15:29; 28:9 ** Verse 32 Since the world began it has never been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of someone born blind. ** Verse 33 If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.” ** Verse 34 They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” Then they threw him out. ** Verse 35 Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of God?” ** Verse 36 He answered, “Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?” ** Verse 37 Jesus said to him, “You have both seen him, and it is he who speaks with you.” ** Verse 38 He said, “Lord, I believe!” and he worshiped him. ** Verse 39 Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.” ** Verse 40 Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?” ** Verse 41 Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains. * Chapter 10 ** Verse 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. ** Verse 2 But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. ** Verse 3 The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. ** Verse 4 Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. ** Verse 5 They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don’t know the voice of strangers.” ** Verse 6 Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn’t understand what he was telling them. ** Verse 7 Jesus therefore said to them again, “Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep’s door. ** Verse 8 All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them. ** Verse 9 I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out and will find pasture. ** Verse 10 The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly. ** Verse 11 “I am the good shepherd. 10:11 Ezekiel 34:11-12,15,22 The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. ** Verse 12 He 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. ** Verse 13 The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand and doesn’t care for the sheep. ** Verse 14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own; ** Verse 15 even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep. ** Verse 16 I have other sheep which are not of this fold. 10:16 Isaiah 56:8 I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd. ** Verse 17 Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, 10:17 Isaiah 53:7-8 that I may take it again. ** Verse 18 No 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.” ** Verse 19 Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because of these words. ** Verse 20 Many of them said, “He has a demon and is insane! Why do you listen to him?” ** Verse 21 Others 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?” 10:21 Exodus 4:11 ** Verse 22 It was the Feast of the Dedication 10:22 The “Feast of the Dedication” is the Greek name for “Hanukkah”, a celebration of the rededication of the Temple. at Jerusalem. ** Verse 23 It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon’s porch. ** Verse 24 The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, “How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.” ** Verse 25 Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you don’t believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me. ** Verse 26 But you don’t believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you. ** Verse 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. ** Verse 28 I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. ** Verse 29 My Father who has given them to me is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand. ** Verse 30 I and the Father are one.” ** Verse 31 Therefore the Jews took up stones again to stone him. ** Verse 32 Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?” ** Verse 33 The Jews answered him, “We don’t stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.” ** Verse 34 Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’ 10:34 Psalm 82:6 ** Verse 35 If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken), ** Verse 36 do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’ ** Verse 37 If I don’t do the works of my Father, don’t believe me. ** Verse 38 But if I do them, though you don’t believe me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.” ** Verse 39 They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand. ** Verse 40 He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing at first, and he stayed there. ** Verse 41 Many came to him. They said, “John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said about this man is true.” ** Verse 42 Many believed in him there. * Chapter 11 ** Verse 1 Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha. ** Verse 2 It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus, was sick. ** Verse 3 The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, “Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick.” ** Verse 4 But 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.” ** Verse 5 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. ** Verse 6 When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was. ** Verse 7 Then after this he said to the disciples, “Let’s go into Judea again.” ** Verse 8 The disciples asked him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you. Are you going there again?” ** Verse 9 Jesus answered, “Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world. ** Verse 10 But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn’t in him.” ** Verse 11 He 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.” ** Verse 12 The disciples therefore said, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.” ** Verse 13 Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep. ** Verse 14 So Jesus said to them plainly then, “Lazarus is dead. ** Verse 15 I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let’s go to him.” ** Verse 16 Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, 11:16 “Didymus” means “Twin”. said to his fellow disciples, “Let’s also go, that we may die with him.” ** Verse 17 So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already. ** Verse 18 Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia 11:18 15 stadia is about 2.8 kilometers or 1.7 miles away. ** Verse 19 Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother. ** Verse 20 Then when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary stayed in the house. ** Verse 21 Therefore Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died. ** Verse 22 Even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you.” ** Verse 23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” ** Verse 24 Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.” ** Verse 25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies. ** Verse 26 Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?” ** Verse 27 She said to him, “Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, God’s Son, he who comes into the world.” ** Verse 28 When she had said this, she went away and called Mary, her sister, secretly, saying, “The Teacher is here and is calling you.” ** Verse 29 When she heard this, she arose quickly and went to him. ** Verse 30 Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha met him. ** Verse 31 Then 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.” ** Verse 32 Therefore 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.” ** Verse 33 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit and was troubled, ** Verse 34 and said, “Where have you laid him?” They told him, “Lord, come and see.” ** Verse 35 Jesus wept. ** Verse 36 The Jews therefore said, “See how much affection he had for him!” ** Verse 37 Some of them said, “Couldn’t this man, who opened the eyes of him who was blind, have also kept this man from dying?” ** Verse 38 Jesus therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it. ** Verse 39 Jesus 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.” ** Verse 40 Jesus said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believed, you would see God’s glory?” ** Verse 41 So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. 11:41 NU omits “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. ** Verse 42 I 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.” ** Verse 43 When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” ** Verse 44 He 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.” ** Verse 45 Therefore many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did believed in him. ** Verse 46 But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them the things which Jesus had done. ** Verse 47 The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs. ** Verse 48 If 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.” ** Verse 49 But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all, ** Verse 50 nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.” ** Verse 51 Now he didn’t say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation, ** Verse 52 and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad. ** Verse 53 So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death. ** Verse 54 Jesus therefore walked no more 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. ** Verse 55 Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves. ** Verse 56 Then they sought for Jesus and spoke with one another as they stood in the temple, “What do you think—that he isn’t coming to the feast at all?” ** Verse 57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him. * Chapter 12 ** Verse 1 Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. ** Verse 2 So they made him a supper there. Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him. ** Verse 3 Therefore Mary took a pound 12:3 a Roman pound of 12 ounces, or about 340 grams 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. ** Verse 4 Then Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, one of his disciples, who would betray him, said, ** Verse 5 “Why wasn’t this ointment sold for three hundred denarii 12:5 300 denarii was about a year’s wages for an agricultural laborer. and given to the poor?” ** Verse 6 Now 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. ** Verse 7 But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial. ** Verse 8 For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me.” ** Verse 9 A large crowd therefore 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. ** Verse 10 But the chief priests conspired to put Lazarus to death also, ** Verse 11 because on account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus. ** Verse 12 On the next day a great multitude had come to the feast. When they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, ** Verse 13 they took the branches of the palm trees and went out to meet him, and cried out, “Hosanna! 12:13 “Hosanna” means “save us” or “help us, we pray”. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, 12:13 Psalm 118:25-26 the King of Israel!” ** Verse 14 Jesus, having found a young donkey, sat on it. As it is written, ** Verse 15 “Don’t be afraid, daughter of Zion. Behold, your King comes, sitting on a donkey’s colt.” 12:15 Zechariah 9:9 ** Verse 16 His 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. ** Verse 17 The multitude therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead was testifying about it. ** Verse 18 For this cause also the multitude went and met him, because they heard that he had done this sign. ** Verse 19 The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, “See how you accomplish nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him.” ** Verse 20 Now there were certain Greeks among those who went up to worship at the feast. ** Verse 21 Therefore, these came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, “Sir, we want to see Jesus.” ** Verse 22 Philip came and told Andrew, and in turn, Andrew came with Philip, and they told Jesus. ** Verse 23 Jesus answered them, “The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. ** Verse 24 Most 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. ** Verse 25 He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life. ** Verse 26 If 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. ** Verse 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. ** Verse 28 Father, glorify your name!” Then a voice came out of the sky, saying, “I have both glorified it and will glorify it again.” ** Verse 29 Therefore the multitude who stood by and heard it said that it had thundered. Others said, “An angel has spoken to him.” ** Verse 30 Jesus answered, “This voice hasn’t come for my sake, but for your sakes. ** Verse 31 Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out. ** Verse 32 And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.” ** Verse 33 But he said this, signifying by what kind of death he should die. ** Verse 34 The multitude answered him, “We have heard out of the law that the Christ remains forever. 12:34 Isaiah 9:7; Daniel 2:44; See Isaiah 53:8 How do you say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up?’ Who is this Son of Man?” ** Verse 35 Jesus therefore 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. ** Verse 36 While 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. ** Verse 37 But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they didn’t believe in him, ** Verse 38 that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke: “Lord, who has believed our report? 12:38 Isaiah 53:1 ** Verse 39 For this cause they couldn’t believe, for Isaiah said again: ** Verse 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, 12:40 Isaiah 6:10 ** Verse 41 Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke of him. 12:41 Isaiah 6:1 ** Verse 42 Nevertheless, 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, ** Verse 43 for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise. ** Verse 44 Jesus cried out and said, “Whoever believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me. ** Verse 45 He who sees me sees him who sent me. ** Verse 46 I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness. ** Verse 47 If 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. ** Verse 48 He 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. ** Verse 49 For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me gave me a commandment, what I should say and what I should speak. ** Verse 50 I know that his commandment is eternal life. The things therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, so I speak.” * Chapter 13 ** Verse 1 Now 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. ** Verse 2 During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him, ** Verse 3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came from God and was going to God, ** Verse 4 arose from supper, and laid aside his outer garments. He took a towel and wrapped a towel around his waist. ** Verse 5 Then 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. ** Verse 6 Then he came to Simon Peter. He said to him, “Lord, do you wash my feet?” ** Verse 7 Jesus answered him, “You don’t know what I am doing now, but you will understand later.” ** Verse 8 Peter said to him, “You will never wash my feet!” Jesus answered him, “If I don’t wash you, you have no part with me.” ** Verse 9 Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!” ** Verse 10 Jesus 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.” ** Verse 11 For he knew him who would betray him; therefore he said, “You are not all clean.” ** Verse 12 So 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? ** Verse 13 You call me, ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord.’ You say so correctly, for so I am. ** Verse 14 If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. ** Verse 15 For I have given you an example, that you should also do as I have done to you. ** Verse 16 Most certainly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his lord, neither is one who is sent greater than he who sent him. ** Verse 17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them. ** Verse 18 I 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.’ 13:18 Psalm 41:9 ** Verse 19 From now on, I tell you before it happens, that when it happens, you may believe that I am he. ** Verse 20 Most certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, receives me; and he who receives me, receives him who sent me.” ** Verse 21 When Jesus had said this, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, “Most certainly I tell you that one of you will betray me.” ** Verse 22 The disciples looked at one another, perplexed about whom he spoke. ** Verse 23 One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was at the table, leaning against Jesus’ breast. ** Verse 24 Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, and said to him, “Tell us who it is of whom he speaks.” ** Verse 25 He, leaning back, as he was, on Jesus’ breast, asked him, “Lord, who is it?” ** Verse 26 Jesus therefore answered, “It is he to whom 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. ** Verse 27 After the piece of bread, then Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to him, “What you do, do quickly.” ** Verse 28 Now nobody at the table knew why he said this to him. ** Verse 29 For 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. ** Verse 30 Therefore having received that morsel, he went out immediately. It was night. ** Verse 31 When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him. ** Verse 32 If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him immediately. ** Verse 33 Little 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. ** Verse 34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another. ** Verse 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” ** Verse 36 Simon 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.” ** Verse 37 Peter said to him, “Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.” ** Verse 38 Jesus 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. * Chapter 14 ** Verse 1 “Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. ** Verse 2 In 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. ** Verse 3 If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also. ** Verse 4 You know where I go, and you know the way.” ** Verse 5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going. How can we know the way?” ** Verse 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me. ** Verse 7 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him and have seen him.” ** Verse 8 Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.” ** Verse 9 Jesus 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?’ ** Verse 10 Don’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 works. ** Verse 11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works’ sake. ** Verse 12 Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father. ** Verse 13 Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. ** Verse 14 If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it. ** Verse 15 If you love me, keep my commandments. ** Verse 16 I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, 14:16 Greek παρακλητον: Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, and Comforter. that he may be with you forever: ** Verse 17 the 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. ** Verse 18 I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you. ** Verse 19 Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also. ** Verse 20 In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. ** Verse 21 One 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.” ** Verse 22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?” ** Verse 23 Jesus 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. ** Verse 24 He 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. ** Verse 25 “I have said these things to you while still living with you. ** Verse 26 But 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. ** Verse 27 Peace 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. ** Verse 28 You heard how I told you, ‘I am going away, and I will come back 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. ** Verse 29 Now I have told you before it happens so that when it happens, you may believe. ** Verse 30 I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me. ** Verse 31 But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let’s go from here. * Chapter 15 ** Verse 1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. ** Verse 2 Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. ** Verse 3 You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. ** Verse 4 Remain 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. ** Verse 5 I 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. ** Verse 6 If 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. ** Verse 7 If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you. ** Verse 8 “In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples. ** Verse 9 Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love. ** Verse 10 If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, even as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. ** Verse 11 I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full. ** Verse 12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. ** Verse 13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. ** Verse 14 You are my friends if you do whatever I command you. ** Verse 15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you. ** Verse 16 You 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. ** Verse 17 “I command these things to you, that you may love one another. ** Verse 18 If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. ** Verse 19 If 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, therefore the world hates you. ** Verse 20 Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ 15:20 John 13:16 If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. ** Verse 21 But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me. ** Verse 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. ** Verse 23 He who hates me, hates my Father also. ** Verse 24 If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father. ** Verse 25 But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’ 15:25 Psalm 35:19; 69:4 ** Verse 26 “When the Counselor 15:26 Greek Parakletos: Counselor, Helper, Advocate, Intercessor, and Comforter. 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. ** Verse 27 You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning. * Chapter 16 ** Verse 1 “I have said these things to you so that you wouldn’t be caused to stumble. ** Verse 2 They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God. ** Verse 3 They will do these things 16:3 TR adds “to you” because they have not known the Father nor me. ** Verse 4 But 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. ** Verse 5 But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ ** Verse 6 But because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart. ** Verse 7 Nevertheless 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. ** Verse 8 When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment; ** Verse 9 about sin, because they don’t believe in me; ** Verse 10 about righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you won’t see me any more; ** Verse 11 about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged. ** Verse 12 “I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now. ** Verse 13 However, 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. ** Verse 14 He will glorify me, for he will take from what is mine and will declare it to you. ** Verse 15 All things that the Father has are mine; therefore I said that he takes 16:15 TR reads “will take” instead of “takes” of mine and will declare it to you. ** Verse 16 “A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me.” ** Verse 17 Some of his disciples therefore 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’?” ** Verse 18 They said therefore, “What is this that he says, ‘A little while’? We don’t know what he is saying.” ** Verse 19 Therefore 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?’ ** Verse 20 Most 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. ** Verse 21 A 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. ** Verse 22 Therefore 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. ** Verse 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. ** Verse 24 Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full. ** Verse 25 “I 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. ** Verse 26 In that day you will ask in my name; and I don’t say to you that I will pray to the Father for you, ** Verse 27 for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God. ** Verse 28 I came from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world and go to the Father.” ** Verse 29 His disciples said to him, “Behold, now you are speaking plainly, and using no figures of speech. ** Verse 30 Now 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.” ** Verse 31 Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe? ** Verse 32 Behold, 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. ** Verse 33 I 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.” * Chapter 17 ** Verse 1 Jesus 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; ** Verse 2 even as you gave him authority over all flesh, so he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him. ** Verse 3 This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ. ** Verse 4 I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do. ** Verse 5 Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed. ** Verse 6 “I 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. ** Verse 7 Now they have known that all things whatever you have given me are from you, ** Verse 8 for 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. ** Verse 9 I pray for them. I don’t pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. ** Verse 10 All things that are mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. ** Verse 11 I 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. ** Verse 12 While 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. ** Verse 13 But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves. ** Verse 14 I have given them your word. The world hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. ** Verse 15 I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one. ** Verse 16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. ** Verse 17 Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth. 17:17 Psalm 119:142 ** Verse 18 As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world. ** Verse 19 For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth. ** Verse 20 “Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who will believe in me through their word, ** Verse 21 that 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. ** Verse 22 The glory which you have given me, I have given to them, that they may be one, even as we are one, ** Verse 23 I 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. ** Verse 24 Father, 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. ** Verse 25 Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me. ** Verse 26 I 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.” * Chapter 18 ** Verse 1 When 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. ** Verse 2 Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus often met there with his disciples. ** Verse 3 Judas then, having taken a detachment of soldiers and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons. ** Verse 4 Jesus therefore, knowing all the things that were happening to him, went out and said to them, “Who are you looking for?” ** Verse 5 They answered him, “Jesus of Nazareth.” Jesus said to them, “I am he.” Judas also, who betrayed him, was standing with them. ** Verse 6 When therefore he said to them, “I am he,” they went backward and fell to the ground. ** Verse 7 Again therefore he asked them, “Who are you looking for?” They said, “Jesus of Nazareth.” ** Verse 8 Jesus answered, “I told you that I am he. If therefore you seek me, let these go their way,” ** Verse 9 that the word might be fulfilled which he spoke, “Of those whom you have given me, I have lost none.” 18:9 John 6:39 ** Verse 10 Simon Peter therefore, having a sword, drew it, struck the high priest’s servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant’s name was Malchus. ** Verse 11 Jesus therefore said to Peter, “Put the sword into its sheath. The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not surely drink it?” ** Verse 12 So the detachment, the commanding officer, and the officers of the Jews seized Jesus and bound him, ** Verse 13 and led him to Annas first, for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was high priest that year. ** Verse 14 Now it was Caiaphas who advised the Jews that it was expedient that one man should perish for the people. ** Verse 15 Simon Peter followed Jesus, as did another disciple. Now that disciple was known to the high priest, and entered in with Jesus into the court of the high priest; ** Verse 16 but 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. ** Verse 17 Then the maid who kept the door said to Peter, “Are you also one of this man’s disciples?” He said, “I am not.” ** Verse 18 Now 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. ** Verse 19 The high priest therefore asked Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching. ** Verse 20 Jesus 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. ** Verse 21 Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them. Behold, they know the things which I said.” ** Verse 22 When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped Jesus with his hand, saying, “Do you answer the high priest like that?” ** Verse 23 Jesus answered him, “If I have spoken evil, testify of the evil; but if well, why do you beat me?” ** Verse 24 Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas, the high priest. ** Verse 25 Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said therefore to him, “You aren’t also one of his disciples, are you?” He denied it and said, “I am not.” ** Verse 26 One 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?” ** Verse 27 Peter therefore denied it again, and immediately the rooster crowed. ** Verse 28 They led Jesus therefore 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. ** Verse 29 Pilate therefore went out to them and said, “What accusation do you bring against this man?” ** Verse 30 They answered him, “If this man weren’t an evildoer, we wouldn’t have delivered him up to you.” ** Verse 31 Pilate therefore said to them, “Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law.” Therefore the Jews said to him, “It is illegal for us to put anyone to death,” ** Verse 32 that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying by what kind of death he should die. ** Verse 33 Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, called Jesus, and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” ** Verse 34 Jesus answered him, “Do you say this by yourself, or did others tell you about me?” ** Verse 35 Pilate answered, “I’m not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests delivered you to me. What have you done?” ** Verse 36 Jesus 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.” ** Verse 37 Pilate therefore 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.” ** Verse 38 Pilate 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. ** Verse 39 But you have a custom that I should release someone to you at the Passover. Therefore, do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?” ** Verse 40 Then they all shouted again, saying, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber. * Chapter 19 ** Verse 1 So Pilate then took Jesus and flogged him. ** Verse 2 The soldiers twisted thorns into a crown and put it on his head, and dressed him in a purple garment. ** Verse 3 They kept saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and they kept slapping him. ** Verse 4 Then 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.” ** Verse 5 Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, “Behold, the man!” ** Verse 6 When therefore 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.” ** Verse 7 The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.” ** Verse 8 When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid. ** Verse 9 He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer. ** Verse 10 Pilate therefore 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?” ** Verse 11 Jesus 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.” ** Verse 12 At 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!” ** Verse 13 When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called “The Pavement”, but in Hebrew, “Gabbatha.” ** Verse 14 Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour. 19:14 “the sixth hour” would have been 6:00 a.m. according to the Roman timekeeping system, or noon for the Jewish timekeeping system in use, then. He said to the Jews, “Behold, your King!” ** Verse 15 They 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!” ** Verse 16 So then he delivered him to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him away. ** Verse 17 He went out, bearing his cross, to the place called “The Place of a Skull”, which is called in Hebrew, “Golgotha”, ** Verse 18 where they crucified him, and with him two others, on either side one, and Jesus in the middle. ** Verse 19 Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. There was written, “JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.” ** Verse 20 Therefore 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. ** Verse 21 The 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.”’” ** Verse 22 Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.” ** Verse 23 Then 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. ** Verse 24 Then 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. 19:24 Psalm 22:18 Therefore the soldiers did these things. ** Verse 25 But standing by Jesus’ cross were his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. ** Verse 26 Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” ** Verse 27 Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home. ** Verse 28 After this, Jesus, seeing 19:28 NU, TR read “knowing” instead of “seeing” that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I am thirsty!” ** Verse 29 Now 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. ** Verse 30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, “It is finished!” Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. ** Verse 31 Therefore 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. ** Verse 32 Therefore the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and of the other who was crucified with him; ** Verse 33 but when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they didn’t break his legs. ** Verse 34 However, one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out. ** Verse 35 He who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, that you may believe. ** Verse 36 For these things happened that the Scripture might be fulfilled, “A bone of him will not be broken.” 19:36 Exodus 12:46; Numbers 9:12; Psalm 34:20 ** Verse 37 Again another Scripture says, “They will look on him whom they pierced.” 19:37 Zechariah 12:10 ** Verse 38 After 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. He came therefore and took away his body. ** Verse 39 Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred Roman pounds. 19:39 100 Roman pounds of 12 ounces each, or about 72 pounds, or 33 Kilograms. ** Verse 40 So they took Jesus’ body, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury. ** Verse 41 Now 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. ** Verse 42 Then, because of the Jews’ Preparation Day (for the tomb was near at hand), they laid Jesus there. * Chapter 20 ** Verse 1 Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. ** Verse 2 Therefore 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!” ** Verse 3 Therefore Peter and the other disciple went out, and they went toward the tomb. ** Verse 4 They both ran together. The other disciple outran Peter and came to the tomb first. ** Verse 5 Stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths lying there; yet he didn’t enter in. ** Verse 6 Then Simon Peter came, following him, and entered into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying, ** Verse 7 and the cloth that had been on his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by itself. ** Verse 8 So then the other disciple who came first to the tomb also entered in, and he saw and believed. ** Verse 9 For as yet they didn’t know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead. ** Verse 10 So the disciples went away again to their own homes. ** Verse 11 But Mary was standing outside at the tomb weeping. So as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb, ** Verse 12 and she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. ** Verse 13 They 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.” ** Verse 14 When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, and didn’t know that it was Jesus. ** Verse 15 Jesus 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.” ** Verse 16 Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned and said to him, “Rabboni!” 20:16 Rabboni is a transliteration of the Hebrew word for “great teacher.” which is to say, “Teacher!” 20:16 or, Master ** Verse 17 Jesus 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.’” ** Verse 18 Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had said these things to her. ** Verse 19 When therefore 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.” ** Verse 20 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples therefore were glad when they saw the Lord. ** Verse 21 Jesus therefore said to them again, “Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.” ** Verse 22 When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit! ** Verse 23 If you forgive anyone’s sins, they have been forgiven them. If you retain anyone’s sins, they have been retained.” ** Verse 24 But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus,[fn:1] wasn’t with them when Jesus came. ** Verse 25 The other disciples therefore 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.” ** Verse 26 After eight days, again his disciples were inside and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, the doors being locked, and stood in the middle, and said, “Peace be to you.” ** Verse 27 Then 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.” ** Verse 28 Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!” ** Verse 29 Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen me, 20:29 TR adds “Thomas,” you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed.” ** Verse 30 Therefore Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book; ** Verse 31 but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name. * Chapter 21 ** Verse 1 After these things, Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias. He revealed himself this way. ** Verse 2 Simon Peter, Thomas called Didymus, 21:2 or, Twin Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were together. ** Verse 3 Simon 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. ** Verse 4 But when day had already come, Jesus stood on the beach; yet the disciples didn’t know that it was Jesus. ** Verse 5 Jesus therefore said to them, “Children, have you anything to eat?” They answered him, “No.” ** Verse 6 He said to them, “Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.” They cast it therefore, and now they weren’t able to draw it in for the multitude of fish. ** Verse 7 That disciple therefore 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. ** Verse 8 But the other disciples came in the little boat (for they were not far from the land, but about two hundred cubits 21:8 200 cubits is about 100 yards or about 91 meters away), dragging the net full of fish. ** Verse 9 So when they got out on the land, they saw a fire of coals there, with fish and bread laid on it. ** Verse 10 Jesus said to them, “Bring some of the fish which you have just caught.” ** Verse 11 Simon 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. ** Verse 12 Jesus said to them, “Come and eat breakfast!” None of the disciples dared inquire of him, “Who are you?” knowing that it was the Lord. ** Verse 13 Then Jesus came and took the bread, gave it to them, and the fish likewise. ** Verse 14 This is now the third time that Jesus was revealed to his disciples after he had risen from the dead. ** Verse 15 So 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.” ** Verse 16 He 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.” ** Verse 17 He 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. ** Verse 18 Most 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.” ** Verse 19 Now he said this, signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. When he had said this, he said to him, “Follow me.” ** Verse 20 Then 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?” ** Verse 21 Peter, seeing him, said to Jesus, “Lord, what about this man?” ** Verse 22 Jesus said to him, “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you? You follow me.” ** Verse 23 This saying therefore went out among the brothers 21:23 The word for “brothers” here may be also correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” 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?” ** Verse 24 This is the disciple who testifies about these things, and wrote these things. We know that his witness is true. ** Verse 25 There 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. * Footnotes [fn:1] or, Twin * File Variables # Local Variables: # eval: (display-line-numbers-mode -1) # eval: (org-super-agenda-mode -1) # eval: (flyspell-lazy-mode -1) # eval: (flycheck-popup-tip-mode -1) # eval: (vi-tilde-fringe-mode -1) # eval: (writegood-mode -1) # eval: (transient-mark-mode -1) # eval: (projectile-mode -1) # eval: (olivetti-mode 1) # eval: (visual-line-mode 1) # End: