8 but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2 At break of day however He returned to the Temple, and there the people came to Him in crowds. He seated Himself; 3 and was teaching them when the Scribes and the Pharisees brought to Him a woman who had been found committing adultery. They made her stand in the centre of the court, and they put the case to Him. 4 "Rabbi," they said, "this woman has been found in the very act of committing adultery. 5 Now, in the Law, Moses has ordered us to stone such women to death. But what do you say?" 6 They asked this in order to put Him to the test, so that they might have some charge to bring against Him. But Jesus leant forward and began to write with His finger on the ground. 7 When however they persisted with their question, He raised His head and said to them, "Let the sinless man among you be the first to throw a stone at her." 8 Then He leant forward again, and again began to write on the ground. 9 They listened to Him, and then, beginning with the eldest, took their departure, one by one, till all were gone. And Jesus was left behind alone—and the woman in the centre of the court. 10 Then, raising His head, Jesus said to her, "Where are they? Has no one condemned you?" 11 "No one, Sir," she replied. "And *I* do not condemn you either," said Jesus; "go, and from this time do not sin any more."

12 Once more Jesus addressed them. "I am the Light of the world," He said; "the man who follows me shall certainly not walk in the dark, but shall have the light of Life." 13 "You are giving testimony about yourself," said the Pharisees; "your testimony is not true." 14 "Even if I am giving testimony about myself," replied Jesus, "my testimony is true; for I know where I came from and where I am going, but you know neither of these two things. 15 You judge according to appearances: I am judging no one. 16 And even if I do judge, my judgement is just; for I am not alone, but the Father who sent me is with me. 17 In your own Law, too, it is written that the testimony of two men is true. 18 I am one giving testimony about myself, and the Father who sent me gives testimony about me." 19 "Where is your Father?" they asked. "You know my Father as little as you know me." He replied; "if you knew me, you would know my Father also." 20 These sayings He uttered in the Treasury, while teaching in the Temple; yet no one arrested Him, because His time had not yet come.

21 Again He said to them, "I am going away. Then you will try to find me, but you will die in your sins. Where I am going, it is impossible for you to come." 22 The Jews began to ask one another, "Is he going to kill himself, do you think, that he says, `Where I am going, it is impossible for you to come'?" 23 "You," He continued, "are from below, I am from above: you are of this present world, I am not of this present world. 24 That is why I told you that you will die in your sins; for, unless you believe that I am He, that is what will happen." 25 "You—who are you?" they asked. "How is it that I am speaking to you at all?" replied Jesus. 26 "Many things I have to speak and to judge concerning you. But He who sent me is true, and the things which I have heard from Him are those which I have come into the world to speak." 27 They did not perceive that He was speaking to them of the Father. 28 So Jesus added, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He. Of myself I do nothing; but as the Father has taught me, so I speak. 29 And He who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone: for I do always what is pleasing to Him." 30 As He thus spoke, many became believers in Him.

31 Jesus therefore said to those of the Jews who had now believed in Him, "As for you, if you hold fast to my teaching, then you are truly my disciples; 32 and you shall know the Truth, and the Truth will make you free." 33 "We are descendants of Abraham," they answered, "and have never at any time been in slavery to any one. What do those words of yours mean, `You shall become free'?" 34 "In most solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "that every one who commits sin is the slave of sin. 35 Now a slave does not remain permanently in his master's house, but a son does. 36 If then the Son shall make you free, you will be free indeed. 37 You are descendants of Abraham, I know; but you want to kill me, because my teaching gains no ground within you.

38 The words I speak are those I have learnt in the presence of the Father. Therefore you also should do what you have heard from your father." 39 "Our father is Abraham," they said. "If you were Abraham's children," replied Jesus, "it is Abraham's deeds that you would be doing. 40 But, in fact, you are longing to kill me, a man who has spoken to you the truth which I have heard from God. Abraham did not do that. 41 You are doing the deeds of your father." "We," they replied, "are not illegitimate children. We have one Father, namely God." 42 "If God were your Father," said Jesus, "you would love me; for it is from God that I came and I am now here. I have not come of myself, but *He* sent me. 43 How is it you do not understand me when I speak? It is because you cannot bear to listen to my words. 44 The father whose sons you are is the Devil; and you desire to do what gives him pleasure. *He* was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand firm in the truth—for there is no truth in him. Whenever he utters his lie, he utters it out of his own store; for he is a liar, and the father of lies. 45 But because I speak the truth, you do not believe me.

46 Which of *you* convicts me of sin? If I speak the truth, why do you not believe me? 47 He who is a child of God listens to God's words. You do not listen to them: and why? It is because you are not God's children." 48 "Are we not right," answered the Jews, "in saying that you are a Samaritan and are possessed by a demon?" 49 "I am not possessed by a demon," replied Jesus. "On the contrary I honour my Father, and you dishonour me. 50 I, however, am not aiming at glory for myself: there is One who aims at glory for me—and who judges.

51 In most solemn truth I tell you that if any one shall have obeyed my teaching he shall in no case ever see death." 52 "Now," exclaimed the Jews, "we know that you are possessed by a demon. Abraham died, and so did the Prophets, and yet *you* say, `If any one shall have obeyed my teaching, he shall in no case ever taste death.' 53 Are you really greater than our forefather Abraham? For he died. And the prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?" 54 "Were I to glorify myself," answered Jesus, "I should have no real glory. There is One who glorifies me—namely my Father, who you say is your God. 55 You do not know Him, but I know Him perfectly; and were I to deny my knowledge of Him, I should resemble you, and be a liar. On the contrary I do know Him, and I obey His commands. 56 Abraham your forefather exulted in the hope of seeing my day: and he saw it, and was glad." 57 "You are not yet fifty years old," cried the Jews, "and have you seen Abraham?" 58 "In most solemn truth," answered Jesus, "I tell you that before Abraham came into existence, I am." 59 Thereupon they took up stones with which to stone Him, but He hid Himself and went away out of the Temple.

9 As He passed by, He saw a man who had been blind from his birth. 2 So His disciples asked Him, "Rabbi, who sinned—this man or his parents—that he was born blind?" 3 "Neither he nor his parents sinned," answered Jesus, "but he was born blind in order that God's mercy might be openly shown in him. 4 We must do the works of Him who sent me while there is daylight. Night is coming on, when no one can work. 5 When I am in the world, I am the Light of the world." 6 After thus speaking, He spat on the ground, and then, kneading the dust and spittle into clay, He smeared the clay over the man's eyes and said to him, 7 "Go and wash in the pool of Siloam" —the name means `Sent.' So he went and washed his eyes, and returned able to see.

8 His neighbours, therefore, and the other people to whom he had been a familiar object because he was a beggar, began asking, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?" 9 "Yes it is," replied some of them. "No it is not," said others, "but he is like him." His own statement was, "I am the man." 10 "How then were your eyes opened?" they asked. 11 "He whose name is Jesus," he answered, "made clay and smeared my eyes with it, and then told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed and obtained sight." 12 "Where is he?" they inquired, but the man did not know.

13 They brought him to the Pharisees—the man who had been blind. 14 Now the day on which Jesus made the clay and opened the man's eyes was the Sabbath. 15 So the Pharisees renewed their questioning as to how he had obtained his sight. "He put clay on my eyes," he replied, "and I washed, and now I can see." 16 This led some of the Pharisees to say, "That man has not come from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath." "How is it possible for a bad man to do such miracles?" argued others. 17 And there was a division among them. So again they asked the once blind man, "What is your account of him? —for he opened your eyes." "He is a Prophet," he replied. 18 The Jews, however, did not believe the statement concerning him—that he had been blind and had obtained his sight—until they called his parents and asked them, 19 "Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How is it then that he can now see?" 20 "We know," replied the parents, "that this is our son and that he was born blind; 21 but how it is that he can now see or who has opened his eyes we do not know. Ask him himself; he is of full age; he himself will give his own account of it." 22 Such was their answer, because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already settled among themselves that if any one should acknowledge Jesus as the Christ, he should be excluded from the synagogue. 23 That was why his parents said, "He is of full age: ask him himself." 24 A second time therefore they called the man who had been blind, and said, "Give God the praise: we know that that man is a sinner." 25 "Whether he is a sinner or not, I do not know," he replied; "one thing I know—that I was once blind and that now I can see." 26 "What did he do to you?" they asked; "how did he open your eyes?" 27 "I have told you already," he replied, "and you did not listen to me. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also mean to be disciples of his?" 28 Then they railed at him, and said, "You are that man's disciple, but we are disciples of Moses. 29 We know that God spoke to Moses; but as for this fellow we do not know where he comes from." 30 "Why, this is marvellous!" the man replied; "you do not know where he comes from, and yet he has opened my eyes! 31 We know that God does not listen to bad people, but that if any one is a God-fearing man and obeys Him, to him He listens. 32 From the beginning of the world such a thing was never heard of as that any one should open the eyes of a man blind from his birth. 33 Had that man not come from God, he could have done nothing." 34 "You," they replied, "were wholly begotten and born in sin, and do *you* teach *us*?" And they put him out of the synagogue.

35 Jesus heard that they had done this. So having found him, He asked him, "Do you believe in the Son of God?" 36 "Who is He, Sir?" replied the man. "Tell me, so that I may believe in Him." 37 "You have seen Him," said Jesus; "and not only so: He is now speaking to you." 38 "I believe, Sir," he said. And he threw himself at His feet.

39 "I came into this world," said Jesus, "to judge men, that those who do not see may see, and that those who do see may become blind." 40 These words were heard by those of the Pharisees who were present, and they asked Him, "Are *we* also blind?" 41 "If you were blind," answered Jesus, "you would have no sin; but as a matter of fact you boast that you see. So your sin remains!"

10 "In most solemn truth I tell you that the man who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs over some other way, is a thief and a robber. 2 But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 To him the porter opens the door, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by their names and leads them out. 4 When he has brought out his own sheep—all of them—he walks at the head of them; and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice. 5 But a stranger they will by no means follow, but will run away from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers." 6 Jesus spoke to them in this figurative language, but they did not understand what He meant. 7 Again therefore Jesus said to them, "In most solemn truth I tell you that I am the Door of the sheep. 8 All who have come before me are thieves and robbers; but the sheep would not listen to them. 9 I am the Door. If any one enters by me, he will find safety, and will go in and out and find pasture. 10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy: I have come that they may have Life, and may have it in abundance. 11 "I am the Good Shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his very life for the sheep. 12 The hired servant—one who is not a shepherd and does not own the sheep—no sooner sees the wolf coming than he leaves the sheep and runs away; and the wolf worries and scatters them. 13 For he is only a hired servant and cares nothing for the sheep. 14 "I am the Good Shepherd. And I know my sheep and my sheep know me, 15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I am laying down my life for the sheep. 16 I have also other sheep—which do not belong to this fold. Those also I must bring, and they will listen to my voice; and they shall become one flock under one Shepherd. 17 For this reason my Father loves me, because I am laying down my life in order to receive it back again. 18 No one is taking it away from me, but I myself am laying it down. I am authorized to lay it down, and I am authorized to receive it back again. This is the command I received from my Father."

19 Again there arose a division among the Jews because of these words. 20 Many of them said, "He is possessed by a demon and is mad. Why do you listen to him?" 21 Others argued, "That is not the language of a demoniac: and can a demon open blind men's eyes?"

22 The Dedication Festival came on in Jerusalem. It was winter, 23 and Jesus was walking in the Temple in Solomon's Portico, 24 when the Jews gathered round Him and kept asking Him, "How long do you mean to keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us so plainly." 25 "I have told you," answered Jesus, "and you do not believe. The deeds that I do in my Father's name—they give testimony about me. 26 But you do not believe, because you are not my sheep. 27 My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them the Life of the Ages, and they shall never, never perish, nor shall any one wrest them from my hand. 29 What my Father has given me is more precious than all besides; and no one is able to wrest anything from my Father's hand. 30 I and the Father are one." 31 Again the Jews brought stones with which to stone Him. 32 Jesus remonstrated with them. "Many good deeds," He said, "have I shown you as coming from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?" 33 "For no good deed," the Jews replied, "are we going to stone you, but for blasphemy, and because you, who are only a man, are making yourself out to be God." 34 "Does it not stand written in your Law," replied Jesus, "`I said, you are gods'? 35 If those to whom God's word was addressed are called gods (and the Scripture cannot be annulled), 36 how is it that you say to one whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, `You are blaspheming,' because I said, `I am God's Son'? 37 If the deeds I do are not my Father's deeds, do not believe me. 38 But if they are, then even if you do not believe me, at least believe the deeds, that you may know and see clearly that the Father is in me, and that I am in the Father."

39 This made them once more try to arrest Him, but He withdrew out of their power. 40 Then He went away again to the other side of the Jordan, to the place where John had been baptizing at first; and there He stayed. 41 Large numbers of people also came to Him. Their report was, "John did not work any miracle, but all that John said about this Teacher was true." 42 And many became believers in Him there.

11 Now a certain man, named Lazarus, of Bethany, was lying ill— Bethany being the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 2 (It was the Mary who poured the perfume over the Lord and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill.) 3 So the sisters sent to Him to say, "Master, he whom you hold dear is ill." 4 Jesus received the message and said, "This illness is not to end in death, but is to promote the glory of God, in order that the Son of God may be glorified by it." 5 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. 6 When, however, He heard that Lazarus was ill, He still remained two days in that same place. 7 Then, after that, He said to the disciples, "Let us return to Judaea." 8 "Rabbi," exclaimed the disciples, "the Jews have just been trying to stone you, and do you think of going back there again?" 9 "Are there not twelve hours in the day?" replied Jesus. "If any one walks in the daytime, he does not stumble—because he sees the light of this world. 10 But if a man walks by night, he does stumble, because the light is not in him." 11 He said this, and afterwards He added, "Our friend Lazarus is sleeping, but I will go and wake him." 12 "Master," said the disciples, "if he is asleep he will recover." 13 Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought He referred to the rest taken in ordinary sleep. 14 So then He told them plainly, 15 "Lazarus is dead; and for your sakes I am glad I was not there, in order that you may believe. But let us go to him." 16 "Let us go also," Thomas, the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, "that we may die with him."

17 On His arrival Jesus found that Lazarus had already been three days in the tomb. 18 Bethany was near Jerusalem, the distance being a little less than two miles; 19 and a considerable number of the Jews were with Martha and Mary, having come to express sympathy with them on the death of their brother. 20 Martha, however, as soon as she heard the tidings, "Jesus is coming," went to meet Him; but Mary remained sitting in the house. 21 So Martha came and spoke to Jesus. "Master, if you had been here," she said, "my brother would not have died. 22 And even now I know that whatever you ask God for, God will give you." 23 "Your brother shall rise again," replied Jesus. 24 "I know," said Martha, "that he will rise again at the resurrection, on the last day." 25 "I am the Resurrection and the Life," said Jesus; "he who believes in me, even if he has died, he shall live; 26 and every one who is living and is a believer in me shall never, never die. Do you believe this?" 27 "Yes, Master," she replied; "I thoroughly believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world." 28 After saying this, she went and called her sister Mary privately, telling her, "The Rabbi is here and is asking for you." 29 So she, on hearing that, rose up quickly to go to Him. 30 Now Jesus was not yet come into the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met Him. 31 So the Jews who were with Mary in the house sympathizing with her, when they saw that she had risen hastily and had gone out, followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep aloud there. 32 Mary then, when she came to Jesus and saw Him, fell at His feet and exclaimed, "Master, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."

33 Seeing her weeping aloud, and the Jews in like manner weeping who had come with her, Jesus, curbing the strong emotion of His spirit, 34 though deeply troubled, asked them, "Where have you laid him?" "Master, come and see," was their reply. 35 Jesus wept. 36 "See how dear he held him," said the Jews. 37 But others of them asked, "Was this man who opened the blind man's eyes unable to prevent this man from dying?" 38 Jesus, however, again restraining His strong feeling, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone had been laid against the mouth of it. 39 "Take away the stone," said Jesus. Martha, the sister of the dead man, exclaimed, "Master, by this time there is a foul smell; for it is three days since he died." 40 "Did I not promise you," replied Jesus, "that if you believe, you shall see the glory of God?" 41 So they removed the stone. Then Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, "Father, I thank Thee that Thou hast heard me. 42 I know that Thou always hearest me; but for the sake of the crowd standing round I have said this—that they may believe that Thou didst send me." 43 After speaking thus, He called out in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out." 44 The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped in cloths, and his face wrapped round with a towel. "Untie him," said Jesus, "and let him go free."

45 Thereupon a considerable number of the Jews—namely those who had come to Mary and had witnessed His deeds—became believers in Him; 46 though some of them went off to the Pharisees and told them what He had done. 47 Therefore the High Priests and the Pharisees held a meeting of the Sanhedrin. "What steps are we taking?" they asked one another; "for this man is performing a great number of miracles. 48 If we leave him alone in this way, everybody will believe in him, and the Romans will come and blot out both our city and our nation." 49 But one of them, named Caiaphas, being High Priest that year, said, "You know nothing about it. 50 You do not reflect that it is to your interest that one man should die for the people rather than the whole nation perish." 51 It was not as a mere man that he thus spoke. But being High Priest that year he was inspired to declare that Jesus was to die for the nation, 52 and not for the nation only, but in order to unite into one body all the far-scattered children of God. 53 So from that day forward they planned and schemed in order to put Him to death. 54 Therefore Jesus no longer went about openly among the Jews, but He left that neighbourhood and went into the district near the Desert, to a town called Ephraim, and remained there with the disciples. 55 The Jewish Passover was coming near, and many from that district went up to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves. 56 They therefore looked out for Jesus, and asked one another as they stood in the Temple, "What do you think? —will he come to the Festival at all?" 57 Now the High Priests and the Pharisees had issued orders that if any one knew where He was, he should give information, so that they might arrest Him.

12 Jesus, however, six days before the Passover, came to Bethany, where Lazarus was whom He had raised from the dead. 2 So they gave a dinner there in honour of Jesus, at which Martha waited at table, but Lazarus was one of the guests who were with Him. 3 Availing herself of the opportunity, Mary took a pound weight of pure spikenard, very costly, and poured it over His feet, and wiped His feet with her hair, so that the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. 4 Then said Judas (the Iscariot, one of the Twelve—the one who afterwards betrayed Jesus), 5 "Why was not that perfume sold for 300 shillings and the money given to the poor?" 6 The reason he said this was not that he cared for the poor, but that he was a thief, and that being in charge of the money-box, he used to steal what was put into it. 7 But Jesus interposed. "Do not blame her," He said, "allow her to have kept it for the time of my preparation for burial. 8 For the poor you always have with you, but you have not me always." 9 Now it became widely known among the Jews that Jesus was there; but they came not only on His account, but also in order to see Lazarus whom He had brought back to life. 10 The High Priests, however, consulted together to put Lazarus also to death, 11 for because of him many of the Jews left them and became believers in Jesus.

12 The next day a great crowd of those who had come to the Festival, hearing that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, 13 took branches of the palm trees and went out to meet Him, shouting as they went, "God save him! Blessings on him who comes in the name of the Lord —even on the King of Israel!" 14 And Jesus, having procured a young ass, sat upon it, just as the Scripture says, 15 "Fear not, Daughter of Zion! See, thy King is coming riding on an ass's colt." 16 The meaning of this His disciples did not understand at the time; but after Jesus was glorified they recollected that this was written about Him, and that they had done this to Him. 17 The large number of people, however, who had been present when He called Lazarus out of the tomb and brought him back to life, related what they had witnessed. 18 This was also why the crowd came to meet Him, because they had heard of His having performed that miracle. 19 The result was that the Pharisees said among themselves, "Observe how idle all your efforts are! The world is gone after him!"

20 Now some of those who used to come up to worship at the Festival were Greeks. 21 They came to Philip, of Bethsaida in Galilee, with the request, "Sir, we wish to see Jesus." 22 Philip came and told Andrew: Andrew and Philip told Jesus. 23 His answer was, "The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. 24 In most solemn truth I tell you that unless the grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains what it was—a single grain; but that if it dies, it yields a rich harvest. 25 He who holds his life dear, is destroying it; and he who makes his life of no account in this world shall keep it to the Life of the Ages. 26 If a man wishes to be my servant, let him follow me; and where I am, there too shall my servant be. If a man wishes to be my servant, the Father will honour him.

27 Now is my soul full of trouble; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But for this purpose I have come to this hour. 28 Father, glorify Thy name." Thereupon there came a voice from the sky, "I have glorified it and will also glorify it again." 29 The crowd that stood by and heard it, said that there had been thunder. Others said, "An angel spoke to him." 30 "It is not for my sake," said Jesus, "that that voice came, but for your sakes. 31 Now is a judgement of this world: now will the Prince of this world be driven out. 32 And I— if I am lifted up from the earth—will draw all men to me." 33 He said this to indicate the kind of death He would die. 34 The crowd answered Him, "We have heard out of the Law that the Christ remains for ever. In what sense do you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is that Son of Man?" 35 "Yet a little while," He replied, "the light is among you. Be faithful to the light that you have, for fear darkness should overtake you; for a man who walks in the dark does not know where he is going. 36 In the degree that you have light, believe in the Light, so that you may become sons of Light." Jesus said this, and went away and hid Himself from them.

37 But though He had performed such great miracles in their presence, they did not believe in Him— 38 in order that the words of Isaiah the Prophet might be fulfilled, "Lord, who has believed our preaching? And the arm of the Lord—to whom has it been unveiled?" 39 For this reason they were unable to believe—because Isaiah said again, 40 "He has blinded their eyes and made their minds callous, lest they should see with their eyes and perceive with their minds, and should turn, and I should heal them." 41 Isaiah uttered these words because he saw His glory; and he spoke of Him.

42 Nevertheless even from among the Rulers many believed in Him. But because of the Pharisees they did not avow their belief, for fear they should be shut out from the synagogue. 43 For they loved the glory that comes from men rather than the glory that comes from God.

44 But Jesus cried aloud, "He who believes in me, believes not so much in me, as in Him who sent me; 45 and he who sees me sees Him who sent me. 46 I have come like light into the world, in order that no one who believes in me may remain in the dark. 47 And if any one hears my teachings and regards them not, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world. 48 He who sets me at naught and does not receive my teachings is not left without a judge: the Message which I have spoken will judge him on the last day. 49 Because I have not spoken on my own authority; but the Father who sent me, Himself gave me a command what to say and in what words to speak. 50 And I know that His command is the Life of the Ages. What therefore I speak, I speak just as the Father has bidden me."

13 Now just before the Feast of the Passover this incident took place. Jesus knew that the time had come for Him to leave this world and go to the Father; and having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end. 2 While supper was proceeding, the Devil having by this time suggested to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, the thought of betraying Him, Jesus, 3 although He knew that the Father had put everything into His hands, and that He had come forth from God and was now going to God, 4 rose from the table, threw off His upper garments, and took a towel and tied it round Him. 5 Then He poured water into a basin, and proceeded to wash the feet of the disciples and to wipe them with the towel which He had put round Him. 6 When He came to Simon Peter, Peter objected. "Master," he said, "are *you* going to wash my feet?" 7 "What I am doing," answered Jesus, "for the present you do not know, but afterwards you shall know." 8 "Never, while the world lasts," said Peter, "shall you wash my feet." "If I do not wash you," replied Jesus, "you have no share with me." 9 "Master," said Peter, "wash not only my feet, but also my hands and my head." 10 "Any one who has lately bathed," said Jesus, "does not need to wash more than his feet, but is clean all over. And you my disciples are clean, and yet this is not true of all of you." 11 For He knew who was betraying Him, and that was why He said, "You are not all of you clean." 12 So after He had washed their feet, put on His garments again, and returned to the table, He said to them, "Do you understand what I have done to you? 13 You call me `The Rabbi' and `The Master,' and rightly so, for such I am. 14 If I then, your Master and Rabbi, have washed your feet, it is also your duty to wash one another's feet. 15 For I have set you an example in order that you may do what I have done to you. 16 In most solemn truth I tell you that a servant is not superior to his master, nor is a messenger superior to him who sent him. 17 If you know all this, blessed are you if you act accordingly.

18 I am not speaking of all of you. I know whom I have chosen, but things are as they are in order that the Scripture may be fulfilled, which says, `He who eats my bread has lifted up his heel against me.' 19 From this time forward I tell you things before they happen, in order that when they do happen you may believe that I am He. 20 In most solemn truth I tell you that he who receives whoever I send receives me, and that he who receives me receives Him who sent me." 21 After speaking thus Jesus was troubled in spirit and said with deep earnestness, "In most solemn truth I tell you that one of you will betray me." 22 The disciples began looking at one another, at a loss to know to which of them He was referring. 23 There was at table one of His disciples—the one Jesus loved— reclining with his head on Jesus's bosom. 24 Making a sign therefore to him, Simon Peter said, "Tell us to whom he is referring." 25 So he, having his head on Jesus's bosom, leaned back and asked, "Master, who is it?" 26 "It is the one," answered Jesus, "for whom I shall dip this piece of bread and to whom I shall give it." Accordingly He dipped the piece of bread, and took it and gave it to Judas, the son of the Iscariot Simon. 27 Then, after Judas had received the piece of bread, Satan entered into him. "Lose no time about it," said Jesus to him. 28 But why He said this no one else at the table understood. 29 Some, however, supposed that because Judas had the money-box Jesus meant, "Buy what we require for the Festival," or that he should give something to the poor. 30 So Judas took the piece of bread and immediately went out. And it was night.

31 So when he was gone out, Jesus said, "Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in Him. 32 Moreover God will glorify Him in Himself, and will glorify Him without delay. 33 Dear children, I am still with you a little longer. You will seek me, but, as I said to the Jews, `Where I am going you cannot come,' so for the present I say to you. 34 A new commandment I give you, to love one another; that as I have loved you, you also may love one another. 35 It is by this that every one will know that you are my disciples—if you love one another."

36 "Master," inquired Simon Peter, "where are you going?" "Where I am going," replied Jesus, "you cannot be my follower now, but you shall be later." 37 "Master," asked Peter again, "why cannot I follow you now? I will lay down my life on your behalf. 38 "You say you will lay down your life on my behalf!" said Jesus; "in most solemn truth I tell you that the cock will not crow before you have three times disowned me."

14 "Let not your hearts be troubled. Trust in God: trust in me also. 2 In my Father's house there are many resting-places. Were it otherwise, I would have told you; for I am going to make ready a place for you. 3 And if I go and make ready a place for you, I will return and take you to be with me, that where I am you also may be.

4 And where I am going, you all know the way." 5 "Master," said Thomas, "we do not know where you are going. In what sense do we know the way?" 6 "I am the Way," replied Jesus, "and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you—all of you—knew me, you would fully know my Father also. From this time forward you know Him and have seen Him." 8 "Master," said Philip, "cause us to see the Father: that is all we need." 9 "Have I been so long among you," Jesus answered, "and yet you, Philip, do not know me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How can *you* ask me, `Cause us to see the Father'? 10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and that the Father is in me? The things that I tell you all I do not speak on my own authority: but the Father dwelling within me carries on His own work. 11 Believe me, all of you, that I am in the Father and that the Father is in me; or at any rate, believe me because of what I do.

12 In most solemn truth I tell you that he who trusts in me—the things which I do he shall do also; and greater things than these he shall do, because I am going to the Father. 13 And whatever any of you ask in my name, I will do, in order that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you make any request of me in my name, I will do it.

15 "If you love me, you will obey my commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be for ever with you—the Spirit of truth. 17 That Spirit the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him. You know Him, because He remains by your side and is in you.

18 I will not leave you bereaved: I am coming to you. 19 Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me: because I live, you also shall live. 20 At that time you will know that I am in my Father, and that you are in me, and that I am in you. 21 He who has my commandments and obeys them—he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will clearly reveal myself to him." 22 Judas (not the Iscariot) asked, "Master, how is it that you will reveal yourself clearly to us and not to the world?" 23 "If any one loves me," replied Jesus, "he will obey my teaching; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. 24 He who has no love for me does not obey my teaching; and yet the teaching to which you are listening is not mine, but is the teaching of the Father who sent me.

25 "All this I have spoken to you while still with you. 26 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send at my request, will teach you everything, and will bring to your memories all that I have said to you. 27 Peace I leave with you: my own peace I give to you. It is not as the world gives its greetings that I give you peace. Let not your hearts be troubled or dismayed.

28 "You heard me say to you, `I am going away, and yet I am coming to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced because I am going to the Father; for the Father is greater than I am. 29 I have now told you before it comes to pass, that when it has come to pass you may believe. 30 In future I shall not talk much with you, for the Prince of this world is coming. And yet in me he has nothing; 31 but it is in order that the world may know that I love the Father, and that it is in obedience to the command which the Father gave me that I thus act. Rise, let us be going."

15 "I am the Vine—the True Vine, and my Father is the vine-dresser. 2 Every branch in me—if it bears no fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 Already you are cleansed—through the teaching which I have given you. 4 Continue in me, and let me continue in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself—that is, if it does not continue in the vine—so neither can you if you do not continue in me. 5 I am the Vine, you are the branches. He who continues in me and in whom I continue bears abundant fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. 6 If any one does not continue in me, he is like the unfruitful branch which is at once thrown away and then withers up. Such branches they gather up and throw into the fire and they are burned. 7 "If you continue in me and my sayings continue in you, ask what you will and it shall be done for you. 8 By this is God glorified—by your bearing abundant fruit and thus being true disciples of mine.

9 As the Father has loved me, I have also loved you: continue in my love. 10 If you obey my commands, you will continue in my love, as I have obeyed my Father's commands and continue in His love. 11 "These things I have spoken to you in order that I may have joy in you, and that your joy may become perfect. 12 This is my commandment to you, to love one another as I have loved you. 13 No one has greater love than this—a man laying down his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends, if you do what I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, because a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because all that I have heard from the Father I have made known to you. 16 It is not you who chose me, but it is I who chose you and appointed you that you might go and be fruitful and that your fruit might remain; so that whatever petition you present to the Father in my name He may give you. 17 "Thus I command you to love one another.

18 If the world hates you, remember that it has first had me as the fixed object of its hatred. 19 If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own property. But because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world—for that reason the world hates you. 20 Bear in mind what I said to you, `A servant is not superior to his master.' If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you: if they have obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. 21 But they will inflict all this suffering upon you on account of your bearing my name—because they do not know Him who sent me. 22 "If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have had no sin; but as the case stands they are without excuse for their sin. 23 He who hates me hates my Father also. 24 If I had not done among them, as I have, such miracles as no one else ever did, they would have had no sin; but they have in fact seen and also hated both me and my Father. 25 But this has been so, in order that the saying may be fulfilled which stands written in their Law, `They have hated me without any reason.'

26 "When the Advocate is come whom I will send to you from the Father's presence—the Spirit of Truth who comes forth from the Father's presence—He will be a witness concerning me. 27 And you also are witnesses, because you have been with me from the first.

16 "These things I have spoken to you in order to clear stumbling-blocks out of your path. 2 You will be excluded from the synagogues; nay more, the time is coming when any one who has murdered one of you will suppose he is offering service to God. 3 And they will do these things because they have failed to recognize the Father and to discover who I am. 4 But I have spoken these things to you in order that when the time for their accomplishment comes you may remember them, and may recollect that I told you. I did not, however, tell you all this at first, because I was still with you. 5 But now I an returning to Him who sent me; and not one of you asks me where I am going. 6 But grief has filled your hearts because I have said all this to you.

7 "Yet it is the truth that I am telling you—it is to your advantage that I go away. For unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you. 8 And He, when He comes, will convict the world in respect of sin, of righteousness, and of judgement; — 9 of sin, because they do not believe in me; 10 of righteousness, because I am going to the Father, and you will no longer see me; 11 of judgement, because the Prince of this world is under sentence. 12 "I have much more to say to you, but you are unable at present to bear the burden of it. 13 But when He has come—the Spirit of Truth—He will guide you into all the truth. For He will not speak as Himself originating what He says, but all that He hears He will speak, and He will make known the future to you. 14 He will glorify me, because He will take of what is mine and will make it known to you. 15 Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said that the Spirit of Truth takes of what is mine and will make it known to you.

16 "A little while and you see me no more, and again a little while and you shall see me." 17 Some of His disciples therefore said to one another, "What does this mean which He is telling us, `A little while and you do not see me, and again a little while and you shall see me,' and `Because I am going to the Father'?" 18 So they asked one another repeatedly, "What can that `little while' mean which He speaks of? We do not understand His words." 19 Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask Him, and He said, "Is this what you are questioning one another about—my saying, `A little while and you do not see me, and again a little while and you shall see me'? 20 In most solemn truth I tell you that you will weep aloud and lament, but the world will be glad. You will mourn, but your grief will be turned into gladness. 21 A woman, when she is in labour, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has given birth to the babe, she no longer remembers the pain, because of her joy at a child being born into the world. 22 So you also now have sorrow; but I shall see you again, and your hearts will be glad, and your gladness no one will take away from you.

23 You will put no questions to me then. "In most solemn truth I tell you that whatever you ask the Father for in my name He will give you. 24 As yet you have not asked for anything in my name: ask, and you shall receive, that your hearts may be filled with gladness. 25 "All this I have spoken to you in veiled language. The time is coming when I shall no longer speak to you in veiled language, but will tell you about the Father in plain words. 26 At that time you will make your requests in my name; and I do not promise to ask the Father on your behalf, 27 for the Father Himself holds you dear, because you have held me dear and have believed that I came from the Father's presence.

28 I came from the Father and have come into the world. Again I am leaving the world and am going to the Father." 29 "Ah, now you are using plain language," said His disciples, "and are uttering no figure of speech! 30 Now we know that you have all knowledge, and do not need to be pressed with questions. Through this we believe that you came from God." 31 "Do you at last believe?" replied Jesus. 32 "Remember that the time is coming, nay, has already come, for you all to be dispersed each to his own home and to leave me alone. And yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me. 33 "I have spoken all this to you in order that in me you may have peace. In the world you have affliction. But keep up your courage: *I* have won the victory over the world."

17 When Jesus had thus spoken, He raised his eyes towards Heaven and said, "Father, the hour has come. Glorify Thy Son that the Son may glorify Thee; 2 even as Thou hast given Him authority over all mankind, so that on all whom Thou hast given Him He may bestow the Life of the Ages. 3 And in this consists the Life of the Ages—in knowing Thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent. 4 I have glorified Thee on earth, having done perfectly the work which by Thine appointment has been mine to do. 5 And now, Father, do Thou glorify me in Thine own presence, with the glory that I had in Thy presence before the world existed.

6 "I have revealed Thy perfections to the men whom Thou gavest me out of the world. Thine they were, and Thou gavest them to me, and they have obeyed Thy message. 7 Now they know that whatever Thou hast given me is from Thee. 8 For the truths which Thou didst teach me I have taught them. And they have received them, and have known for certain that I came out from Thy presence, and have believed that Thou didst send me. 9 "I am making request for them: for the world I do not make any request, but for those whom Thou hast given me. Because they are Thine, 10 and everything that is mine is Thine, and everything that is Thine is mine; and I am crowned with glory in them.

11 I am now no longer in the world, but they are in the world and I am coming to Thee. "Holy Father, keep them true to Thy name—the name which Thou hast given me to bear—that they may be one, even as we are. 12 While I was with them, I kept them true to Thy name—the name Thou hast given me to bear—and I kept watch over them, and not one of them is lost but only he who is doomed to destruction—that the Scripture may be fulfilled. 13 "But now I am coming to Thee, and I speak these words while I am in the world, in order that they may have my gladness within them filling their hearts. 14 I have given them Thy Message, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. 15 I do not ask that Thou wilt remove them out of the world, but that Thou wilt protect them from the Evil one. 16 They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

17 Make them holy in the truth: Thy Message is truth. 18 Just as Thou didst send me into the world, I also have sent them; 19 and on their behalf I consecrate myself, in order that they may become perfectly consecrated in truth.

20 "Nor is it for them alone that I make request. It is also for those who trust in me through their teaching; 21 that they may all be one, even as Thou art in me, O Father, and I am in Thee; that they also may be in us; that the world may believe that Thou didst send me. 22 And the glory which Thou hast given me I have given them, that they may be one, just as we are one: 23 I in them and Thou in me; that they may stand perfected in one; that the world may come to understand that Thou didst send me and hast loved them with the same love as that with which Thou hast loved me.

24 "Father, those whom Thou hast given me—I desire that where I am they also may be with me, that they may see the glory—my glory—my gift from Thee, which Thou hast given me because Thou didst love me before the creation of the world. 25 And, righteous Father, though the world has failed to recognize Thee, I have known Thee, and these have perceived that Thou didst send me. 26 And I have made known Thy name to them and will make it known, that the love with which Thou hast loved me may be in them, and that I may be in them."

18 After offering this prayer Jesus went out with His disciples to a place on the further side of the Ravine of the Cedars, where there was a garden which He entered—Himself and His disciples. 2 Now Judas also, who at that very time was betraying Him, knew the place, for Jesus had often resorted there with His disciples. 3 So Judas, followed by the battalion and by a detachment of the Temple police sent by the High Priests and Pharisees, came there with torches and lamps and weapons. 4 Jesus therefore, knowing all that was about to befall Him, went out to meet them. "Who are you looking for?" He asked them. 5 "For Jesus the Nazarene," was the answer. "I am he," He replied. (Now Judas who was betraying Him was also standing with them.) 6 As soon then as He said to them, "I am he," they went backwards and fell to the ground. 7 Again therefore He asked them, "Who are you looking for?" "For Jesus the Nazarene," they said. 8 "I have told you," replied Jesus, "that I am he. If therefore you are looking for me, let these my disciples go their way." 9 He made this request in order that the words He had spoken might be fulfilled, "As for those whom Thou hast given me, I have not lost one." 10 Simon Peter, however, having a sword, drew it, and, aiming at the High Priest's servant, cut off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus. 11 Jesus therefore said to Peter, "Put back your sword. Shall I refuse to drink the cup of sorrow which the Father has given me to drink?" 12 So the battalion and their tribune and the Jewish police closed in, and took Jesus and bound Him.

13 They then brought Him to Annas first; for Annas was the father-in-law of Caiaphas who was High Priest that year. 14 (It was this Caiaphas who had advised the Jews, saying, "It is to your interest that one man should die for the People.") 15 Meanwhile Simon Peter was following Jesus, and so also was another disciple. The latter was known to the High Priest, and went in with Jesus into the court of the High Priest's palace. 16 But Peter remained standing outside the door, till the disciple who was acquainted with the High Priest came out and induced the portress to let Peter in. 17 This led the girl, the portress, to ask Peter, "Are you also one of this man's disciples?" "No, I am not," he replied. 18 Now because it was cold the servants and the police had lighted a charcoal fire, and were standing and warming themselves; and Peter too remained with them, standing and warming himself. 19 So the High Priest questioned Jesus about His disciples and His teaching. 20 "As for me," replied Jesus, "I have spoken openly to the world. I have continually taught in some synagogue or in the Temple where all the Jews are wont to assemble, and I have said nothing in secret. 21 Why do you question me? Question those who heard what it was I said to them: these witnesses here know what I said." 22 Upon His saying this, one of the officers standing by struck Him with his open hand, asking Him as he did so, "Is that the way you answer the High Priest?" 23 "If I have spoken wrongly," replied Jesus, "bear witness to it as wrong; but if rightly, why that blow?" 24 So Annas sent Him bound to Caiaphas the High Priest. 25 But Simon Peter remained standing and warming himself, and this led to their asking him, "Are you also one of his disciples?" He denied it, and said, "No, I am not." 26 One of the High Priest's servants, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Did I not see you in the garden with him?" 27 Once more Peter denied it, and immediately a cock crowed.

28 So they brought Jesus from Caiaphas's house to the Praetorium. It was the early morning, and they would not enter the Praetorium themselves for fear of defilement, and in order that they might be able to eat the Passover. 29 Accordingly Pilate came out to them and inquired, "What accusation have you to bring against this man?" 30 "If the man were not a criminal," they replied, "we would not have handed him over to you." 31 "Take him yourselves," said Pilate, "and judge him by your Law." "We have no power," replied the Jews, "to put any man to death." 32 They said this that the words might be fulfilled in which Jesus predicted the kind of death He was to die. 33 Re-entering the Praetorium, therefore, Pilate called Jesus and asked Him, "Are *you* the King of the Jews?" 34 "Do you say this of yourself, or have others told it you about me?" replied Jesus. 35 "Am I a Jew?" exclaimed Pilate; "it is your own nation and the High Priests who have handed you over to me. What have you done?" 36 "My kingdom," replied Jesus, "does not belong to this world. If my kingdom did belong to this world, my subjects would have resolutely fought to save me from being delivered up to the Jews. But, as a matter of fact, my kingdom has not this origin." 37 "So then *you* are a king!" rejoined Pilate. "Yes," said Jesus, "you say truly that I am a king. For this purpose I was born, and for this purpose I have come into the world—to give testimony for the truth. Every one who is a friend of the truth listens to my voice." 38 "What is truth?" said Pilate. But no sooner had he spoken the words than he went out again to the Jews and told them, "I find no crime in him. 39 But you have a custom that I should release one prisoner to you at the Passover. So shall I release to you the King of the Jews?" 40 With a roar of voices they again cried out, saying, "Not this man, but Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a robber.

19 Then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. 2 And the soldiers, twisting twigs of thorn into a wreath, put it on His head, and threw round Him a crimson cloak. 3 Then they began to march up to Him, saying in a mocking voice, "Hail King of the Jews!" And they struck Him with the palms of their hands. 4 Once more Pilate came out and said to the Jews, "See, I am bringing him out to you to let you clearly understand that I find no crime in him." 5 So Jesus came out, wearing the wreath of thorns and the crimson cloak. And Pilate said to them, "See, there is the man." 6 As soon then as the High Priests and the officers saw Him, they shouted "To the cross! To the cross!" "Take him yourselves and crucify him," said Pilate; "for I, at any rate, find no crime in him." 7 "We," replied the Jews, "have a Law, and in accordance with that Law he ought to die, for having claimed to be the Son of God." 8 More alarmed than ever, Pilate no sooner heard these words than he re-entered the Praetorium and began to question Jesus. 9 "What is your origin?" he asked. But Jesus gave him no answer. 10 "Do you refuse to speak even to me?" asked Pilate; "do you not know that I have it in my power either to release you or to crucify you?" 11 "You would have had no power whatever over me," replied Jesus, "had it not been granted you from above. On that account he who has delivered me up to you is more guilty than you are." 12 Upon receiving this answer, Pilate was for releasing Him. But the Jews kept shouting, "If you release this man, you are no friend of Caesar's. Every one who sets himself up as king declares himself a rebel against Caesar." 13 On hearing this, Pilate brought Jesus out, and sat down on the judge's seat in a place called the Pavement—or in Hebrew, Gabbatha. 14 It was the day of Preparation for the Passover, about six o'clock in the morning. Then he said to the Jews, "There is your king!" 15 This caused a storm of outcries, "Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!" "Am I to crucify your king?" Pilate asked. "We have no king, except Caesar," answered the High Priests.

16 Then Pilate gave Him up to them to be crucified. Accordingly they took Jesus; 17 and He went out carrying His own cross, to the place called Skull-place—or, in Hebrew, Golgotha— 18 where they nailed Him to a cross, and two others at the same time, one on each side and Jesus in the middle.

19 And Pilate wrote a notice and had it fastened to the top of the cross. It ran thus: JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS. 20 Many of the Jews read this notice, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the notice was in three languages—Hebrew, Latin, and Greek. 21 This led the Jewish High Priests to remonstrate with Pilate. "You should not write `The King of the Jews,'" they said, "but that he claimed to be King of the Jews." 22 "What I have written I have written," was Pilate's answer. 23 So the soldiers, as soon as they had crucified Jesus, took His garments, including His tunic, and divided them into four parts—one part for each soldier. The tunic was without seam, woven from the top in one piece. 24 So they said to one another, "Do not let us tear it. Let us draw lots for it." This happened that the Scripture might be fulfilled which says, "They shared my garments among them, and drew lots for my clothing." That was just what the soldiers did. 25 Now standing close to the cross of Jesus were His mother and His mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. 26 So Jesus, seeing His mother, and seeing the disciple whom He loved standing near, said to His mother, "Behold, your son!" 27 Then He said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" And from that time the disciple received her into his own home. 28 After this, Jesus, knowing that everything was now brought to an end, said—that the Scripture might be fulfilled, "I am thirsty." 29 There was a jar of wine standing there. With this wine they filled a sponge, put it on the end of a stalk of hyssop, and lifted it to His mouth. 30 As soon as Jesus had taken the wine, He said, "It is finished." And then, bowing His head, He yielded up His spirit.

31 Meanwhile the Jews, because it was the day of Preparation for the Passover, and in order that the bodies might not remain on the crosses during the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was one of special solemnity), requested Pilate to have the legs of the dying men broken, and the bodies removed. 32 Accordingly the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man and also of the other who had been crucified with Jesus. 33 Then they came to Jesus Himself: but when they saw that He was already dead, they refrained from breaking His legs. 34 One of the soldiers, however, made a thrust at His side with a lance, and immediately blood and water flowed out. 35 This statement is the testimony of an eye-witness, and it is true. He knows that he is telling the truth—in order that you also may believe. 36 For all this took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled which declares, "Not one of His bones shall be broken." 37 And again another Scripture says, "They shall look on Him whom they have pierced."

38 After this, Joseph of Arimathaea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but for fear of the Jews a secret disciple, asked Pilate's permission to carry away the body of Jesus; and Pilate gave him leave. So he came and removed the body. 39 Nicodemus too—he who at first had visited Jesus by night—came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, in weight about seventy or eighty pounds. 40 Taking down the body they wrapped it in linen cloths along with the spices, in accordance with the Jewish mode of preparing for burial. 41 There was a garden at the place where Jesus had been crucified, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had yet been buried. 42 Therefore, because it was the day of Preparation for the Jewish Passover, and the tomb was close at hand, they put Jesus there.

20 On the first day of the week, very early, while it was still dark, Mary of Magdala came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from it. 2 So she ran, as fast as she could, to find Simon Peter and the other disciple—the one who was dear to Jesus—and to tell them, "They have taken the Master out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have put Him." 3 Peter and the other disciple started at once to go to the tomb, both of them running, 4 but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and reached it before he did. 5 Stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths lying there on the ground, but he did not go in. 6 Simon Peter, however, also came, following him, and entered the tomb. There on the ground he saw the cloths; 7 and the towel, which had been placed over the face of Jesus, not lying with the cloths, but folded up and put by itself. 8 Then the other disciple, who had been the first to come to the tomb, also went in and saw and was convinced. 9 For until now they had not understood the inspired teaching, that He must rise again from among the dead. 10 Then they went away and returned home.

11 Meanwhile Mary remained standing near the tomb, weeping aloud. She did not enter the tomb, but as she wept she stooped and looked in, 12 and saw two angels clothed in white raiment, sitting one at the head and one at the feet where the body of Jesus had been. 13 They spoke to her. "Why are you weeping?" they asked. "Because," she replied, "they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have put him." 14 While she was speaking, she turned round and saw Jesus standing there, but did not recognize Him. 15 "Why are you weeping?" He asked; "who are you looking for?" She, supposing that He was the gardener, replied, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him and I will remove him." 16 "Mary!" said Jesus. She turned to Him. "Rabboni!" she cried in Hebrew: the word means `Teacher!' 17 "Do not cling to me," said Jesus, "for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But take this message to my brethren: `I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'" 18 Mary of Magdala came and brought word to the disciples. "I have seen the Master," she said. And she told them that He had said these things to her.

19 On that same first day of the week, when it was evening and, for fear of the Jews, the doors of the house where the disciples were, were locked, Jesus came and stood in their midst, and said to them, "Peace be to you!" 20 Having said this He showed them His hands and also His side; and the disciples were filled with joy at seeing the Master. 21 A second time, therefore, He said to them, "Peace be to you! As the Father sent me, I also now send you." 22 Having said this He breathed upon them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you remit the sins of any persons, they remain remitted to them. If you bind fast the sins of any, they remain bound." 24 Thomas, one of the twelve—surnamed `the Twin' —was not among them when Jesus came. 25 So the rest of the disciples told him, "We have seen the Master!" His reply was, "Unless I see in his hands the wound made by the nails and put my finger into the wound, and put my hand into his side, I will never believe it."

26 A week later the disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them, when Jesus came—though the doors were locked—and stood in their midst, and said, "Peace be to you." 27 Then He said to Thomas, "Bring your finger here and feel my hands; bring you hand and put it into my side; and do not be ready to disbelieve but to believe." 28 "My Lord and my God!" replied Thomas. 29 "Because you have seen me," replied Jesus, "you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed." 30 There were also a great number of other signs which Jesus performed in the presence of the disciples, which are not recorded in this book. 31 But these have been recorded in order that you may believe that He is the Christ, the Son of God, and that, through believing, you may have Life through His name.

21 After this, Jesus again showed Himself to the disciples. It was at the Lake of Tiberias. The circumstances were as follows. 2 Simon Peter was with Thomas, called the Twin, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zabdi, and two others of the Master's disciples. 3 Simon Peter said to them, "I am going fishing." "We will go too," said they. So they set out and went on board their boat; but they caught nothing that night. 4 When, however, day was now dawning, Jesus stood on the beach, though the disciples did not know that it was Jesus. 5 He called to them. "Children," He said, "have you any food there?" "No," they answered. 6 "Throw the net in on the right hand side," He said, "and you will find fish." So they threw the net in, and now they could scarcely drag it along for the quantity of fish. 7 This made the disciple whom Jesus loved say to Peter, "It is the Master." Simon Peter therefore, when he heard the words, "It is the Master," drew on his fisherman's shirt—for he had not been wearing it—put on his girdle, and sprang into the water. 8 But the rest of the disciples came in the small boat (for they were not far from land—only about a hundred yards off), dragging the net full of fish. 9 As soon as they landed, they saw a charcoal fire burning there, with fish broiling on it, and bread close by. 10 Jesus told them to fetch some of the fish which they had just caught. 11 So Simon Peter went on board the boat and drew the net ashore full of large fish, 153 in number; and yet, although there were so many, the net had not broken. 12 "Come this way and have breakfast," said Jesus. But not one of the disciples ventured to question Him as to who He was, for they felt sure that it was the Master. 13 Then Jesus came and took the bread and gave them some, and the fish in the same way. 14 This was now the third occasion on which Jesus showed Himself to the disciples after He had risen from among the dead.

15 When they had finished breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these others do?" "Yes, Master," was his answer; "you know that you are dear to me." "Then feed my lambs," replied Jesus. 16 Again a second time He asked him, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" "Yes, Master," he said, "you know that you are dear to me." "Then be a shepherd to my sheep," He said. 17 A third time Jesus put the question: "Simon, son of John, am I dear to you?" It grieved Peter that Jesus asked him the third time, "Am I dear to you?" "Master," he replied, "you know everything, you can see that you are dear to me." "Then feed my much-loved sheep," said Jesus. 18 "In most solemn truth I tell you that whereas, when you were young, you used to put on your girdle and walk whichever way you chose, when you have grown old you will stretch out your arms and some one else will put a girdle round you and carry you where you have no wish to go." 19 This He said to indicate the kind of death by which that disciple would bring glory to God; and after speaking thus He said to him, "Follow me."

20 Peter turned round and noticed the disciple whom Jesus loved following—the one who at the supper had leaned back on His breast and had asked, "Master, who is it that is betraying you?" 21 On seeing him, Peter asked Jesus, "And, Master, what about him?" 22 "If I desire him to remain till I come," replied Jesus, "what concern is that of yours? You, yourself, must follow me." 23 Hence the report spread among the brethren that that disciple would never die. Yet Jesus did not say, "He is not to die," but, "If I desire him to remain till I come, what concern is that of yours?" 24 That is the disciple who gives his testimony as to these matters, and has written this history; and we know that his testimony is true. 25 But there are also many other things which Jesus did—so vast a number indeed that if they were all described in detail, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would have to be written.