\NormalFont\ShortTitle{John}
{\MTB The
\par }{\MTB Good News According to
\par }{\MT John

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\SH Introduction
\par }{\PP \par }{\Q \VerseOne{1}In
the
beginning
the
Word
was;
\par }{\QB and
the
Word
was
with
God;
\par }{\QB and
the
Word
was
God.
\par }{\MM \par }{\Q \VS{2}He
was
in
the
beginning
with
God;
\par }{\QB \VS{3}through
him
all
things
came
into
being,
\par }{\QB and
nothing
came
into
being
apart
from
him.
\par }{\Q \VS{4}That
which
came
into
being
in
him
was
life;
\par }{\QB and
the
life
was
the
light
of
humanity;
\par }{\QB \VS{5}and
the
light
shines
in
the
darkness,
\par }{\QB and
the
darkness
never
overpowered
it.
\par }{\MM \par }{\Q \VS{6}There
appeared
a
man
sent
from
God,
whose
name
was
John;
\par }{\QB \VS{7}he
came
as
a
witness –
to
bear
witness
to
the
light
\par }{\QB so
that
through
him
everyone
might
believe.
\par }{\Q \VS{8}He
was
not
the
light,
\par }{\QB but
he
came
to
bear
witness
to
the
light.
\par }{\MM \par }{\Q \VS{9}That
was
the
true
light
which
enlightens
everyone
coming
into
the
world.
\par }{\Q \VS{10}He
was
in
the
world;
\par }{\QB and
through
him
the
world
came
into
being –
\par }{\QB yet
the
world
did
not
know
him.
\par }{\MM \par }{\Q \VS{11}He
came
to
his
own –
\par }{\QB yet
his
own
did
not
receive
him.
\par }{\Q \VS{12}But
to
all
who
did
receive
him
he
gave
power
to
become
children
of
God –
\par }{\QB to
those
who
believe
in
his
name.
\par }{\Q \VS{13}For
not
to
natural
conception,
nor
to
human instincts,
nor
to
human
will
did
they owe
the
new
life,
\par }{\QB but
to
God.
\par }{\MM \par }{\Q \VS{14}And
the
Word
became
human,
and
lived
among
us,
\par }{\QB (We
saw
his
glory –
the
glory
of
the
Only
Son
sent
from
the
Father),
\par }{\QB full
of
love
and
truth.
\par }{\Q \VS{15}(John
bears
witness
to
him;
he
cried
aloud –
for
it
was
he
who
spoke –
\par }{\QB “He
who
is
coming
after
me
is
now
before
me,
\par }{\QB for
he
was
ever
first”);
\par }{\Q \VS{16}out
of
his
fullness
we
have
all
received
\par }{\QB gift
after
gift
of
love;
\par }{\Q \VS{17}for
the
Law
was
given
through
Moses,
\par }{\QB love
and
truth
came
through
Jesus
Christ.
\par }{\Q \VS{18}No
one
has
ever
yet
seen
God;
\par }{\QB God
the
only
Son,
who
is
ever
with
the
Father –
\par }{\Q he
has
revealed
him.
\par }{\MM \par }{\SH The
Preparation
\par }{\PP \VS{19}When
the religious
authorities
in
Jerusalem
sent
some
Priests
and
Levites
to
ask
John – “Who
are
you?”,
\VS{20}he
told
them
clearly
and
simply, “I
am
not
the
Christ.”
\par }{\PP \VS{21}“What
then?”
they
asked. “Are
you
Elijah?”
\par }{\PP “No,”
he
said, “I
am
not.”
\par }{\PP “Are
you ‘the prophet’?”
He
answered, “No.”
\par }{\PP \VS{22}“Who
then
are
you?”
they
continued. “Tell
us
so
that
we
have
an
answer
to
give
to
those
who
have
sent
us.
What
do
you
say
about
yourself?”
\par }{\PP \VS{23}“I,”
he
answered, “am –
\par }{\Q ‘The
voice
of
one
crying
aloud
in
the
wilderness:
make
a
straight
road
for
the Lord’,
\par }{\BB \par }{\MM as
the
prophet
Isaiah
said.”
\par }{\PP \VS{24}These
men
had
been
sent
from
the
Pharisees;
\VS{25}and
their
next
question
was, “Why
then
do
you baptize,
if
you
are
not
the
Christ
or
Elijah
or ‘the prophet’?”
\VS{26}John’s
answer
was – “I baptize
with
water,
but
among
you
stands
one
whom
you
do
not
know;
\VS{27}he
is
coming
after
me,
yet
I
am
not
worthy
even
to unfasten
his
sandal.”
\VS{28}This
happened
at Bethany,
across
the
Jordan,
where
John
was baptizing.
\par }{\PP \VS{29}The
next
day
John
saw
Jesus
coming towards
him,
and
exclaimed, “Here
is
the
Lamb
of
God,
who
takes
away
the
sin
of
the
world!
\VS{30}I
was
talking
about
him
when
I
said ‘After
me
there
is
coming
a
man
who
ranks
ahead
of
me,
because
before
I
was
born
he
already
was.’
\VS{31}I
did
not
know
who
he
was,
but
I
have
come baptizing
with
water
to
make
him
known
to
Israel.”
\VS{32}John
also
said:
\par }{\PP “I
saw
the
Spirit
come
down
from
heaven
like
a
dove
and
rest
on
him.
\VS{33}I
myself
did
not
know
him,
but
he
who
sent
me
to baptize
with
water,
he
said
to
me ‘He
on
whom
you
see
the
Spirit
descending,
and
remaining
on
him –
he
it
is
who baptizes
with
the
Holy
Spirit.’
\VS{34}This
I
have
seen
myself,
and
I
have
declared
my
belief
that
he
is
the
Son
of
God.”
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{35}The
next
day,
when
John
was
standing
with
two
of
his
disciples,
\VS{36}he
looked
at
Jesus
as
he
passed
and
exclaimed, “There
is
the
Lamb
of
God!”
\VS{37}The
two
disciples
heard
him
say
this,
and
followed
Jesus.
\VS{38}But
Jesus
turned
around,
and
saw
them
following.
{\WJ{“What
are
you
looking
for?”}}
he
asked. “Rabbi,”
they
answered (or,
as
we
should
say, ‘Teacher’), “where
are
you
staying?”
\par }{\PP \VS{39}{\WJ{“Come,
and
you
will
see,”}}
he
replied.
So
they
went,
and
saw
where
he
was
staying,
and
spent
that
day
with
him.
\par }{\PP It
was
then
about
four
in
the
afternoon.
\VS{40}One
of
the
two,
who
heard
what
John
said
and
followed
Jesus,
was Andrew,
Simon
Peter’s
brother.
\VS{41}He
first
found
his
own
brother
Simon,
and
said
to
him, “We
have
found
the
Messiah!” (a
word
which
means ‘Christ,’
or ‘Consecrated’.)
\VS{42}Then
he
brought
him
to
Jesus.
Looking
straight
at
him,
Jesus
said,
{\WJ{“You
are
Simon,
the
son
of
John;
you
will
be
called
Cephas”}} (which
means ‘Peter,’
or ‘Rock’).
\VS{43}The
following
day
Jesus
decided
to
leave
for
Galilee.
He
found
Philip,
and
said
to
him,
{\WJ{“Follow
me.”}}
\VS{44}Philip
was
from Bethsaida,
the
same
town
as Andrew
and
Peter.
\VS{45}He
found
Nathanael
and
said
to
him, “We
have
found
him
of
whom
Moses
wrote
in
the
Law,
and
of
whom
the
prophets
also
wrote –
Jesus
of
Nazareth,
Joseph’s
son!”
\par }{\PP \VS{46}“Can
anything
good
come
out
of
Nazareth?”
asked
Nathanael. “Come
and
see,”
replied
Philip.
\VS{47}When
Jesus
saw
Nathanael
coming towards
him,
he
said,
{\WJ{“Here
is
a
true
Israelite,
in
whom
there
is
no
deceit!”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{48}“How
do
you
know
me?”
asked
Nathanael.
{\WJ{“Even
before
Philip
called
you,”}}
replied
Jesus,
{\WJ{“when
you
were
under
the
fig
tree,
I
saw
you.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{49}“Rabbi,”
Nathanael
exclaimed, “you
are
the
Son
of
God,
you
are
king
of
Israel!”
\par }{\PP \VS{50}{\WJ{“Do
you
believe
in
me,”}}
asked
Jesus,
{\WJ{“because
I
told
you
that
I
saw
you
under
the
fig
tree?
You
will
see
greater
things
than
those!}}
\VS{51}{\WJ{
In
truth
I
tell
you,”}}
he
added,
{\WJ{“you
will
all
see
heaven
open,
and
the
angels
of
God
ascending
and
descending
on
the
Son
of
Man.”}}

\par }\Chap{2}{\SH The Work in Judaea, Galilee and Samaria
\par }{\PP \VerseOne{1}Two
days
after
this
there
was
a
wedding
at
Cana
in
Galilee,
and
Jesus’
mother
was
there.
\VS{2}Jesus
himself,
too,
with
his
disciples,
was
invited
to
the
wedding.
\VS{3}And,
when
the
wine
ran
short,
his
mother
said
to
him, “They
have
no
wine
left.”
\par }{\PP \VS{4}{\WJ{“What
do
you
want
with
me?”}}
answered
Jesus.
{\WJ{“My
time
has
not
come
yet.”}}
\VS{5}His
mother
said
to
the
servants, “Do
whatever
he
tells
you.”
\VS{6}There
were
standing
there
six
stone water-jars,
in
accordance
with
the
Jewish
rule
of
purification,
each
holding
twenty
or
thirty
gallons.
\par }{\PP \VS{7}Jesus
said
to
the
servants,
{\WJ{“Fill
the water-jars
with
water.”}}
\VS{8}And,
when
they
had
filled
them
to
the
brim,
he
added,
{\WJ{“Now
take
some
out,
and
carry
it
to
the
Master
of
the
feast.”}}
The
servants
did
so.
\VS{9}And,
when
the
Master
of
the
feast
had
tasted
the
water
which
had
now
become
wine,
not
knowing
where
it
had
come
from –
although
the
servants
who
had
taken
out
the
water
knew –
\VS{10}He
called
the
groom
and
said
to
him, “Everyone
puts
good
wine
on
the
table
first,
and
inferior
wine
afterward,
when
his
guests
have
drunk
freely;
but
you
have
kept
back
the
good
wine
till
now!”
\VS{11}This,
the
first
sign
of
his
mission,
Jesus
gave
at
Cana
in
Galilee,
and
by
it
revealed
his
glory;
and
his
disciples
believed
in
him.
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{12}After
this,
Jesus
went
down
to
Capernaum –
he,
his
mother,
his
brothers,
and
his
disciples;
but
they
stayed
there
only
a
few
days.
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{13}Then,
as
the
Jewish
Passover
was
near,
Jesus
went
up
to
Jerusalem.
\VS{14}In
the
Temple
Courts
he
found
people
who
were
selling
bullocks,
sheep,
and
pigeons,
and
the
money
changers
at
their counters.
\VS{15}So
he
made
a
whip
of
cords,
and
drove
them
all
out
of
the
Temple
Courts,
and
the
sheep
and
bullocks
as
well;
he
scattered
the
money
of
the
money
changers,
and
overturned
their
tables,
\VS{16}and
said
to
the pigeon-dealers,
{\WJ{“Take
these
things
away.
Do
not
turn
my
Father’s
house
into
a
market
house.”}}
\VS{17}His
disciples
remembered
that
scripture
said – ‘Passion
for
your
house
will
consume
me.’
\par }{\PP \VS{18}Then
some
of
the religious
authorities
asked
Jesus, “What
sign
are
you
going
to
show
us,
since
you
act
in
this
way?”
\par }{\PP \VS{19}{\WJ{“Destroy
this
temple,”}}
was
his
answer,
{\WJ{“and
I
will
raise
it
in
three
days.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{20}“This
Temple,”
the
authorities
replied, “has
been forty-six
years
in
building,
and
are
you
going
to ‘raise
it
in
three
days’?”
\VS{21}But
Jesus
was
speaking
of
his
body
as
a
temple.
\VS{22}Afterward,
when
he
had
risen
from
the
dead,
his
disciples
remembered
that
he
had
said
this;
and
they
believed
the
passage
of
scripture,
and
the
words
which
Jesus
had
spoken.
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{23}While
Jesus
was
in
Jerusalem,
during
the
Passover
Festival,
many
came
to
trust
in
him,
when
they
saw
the
signs
of
his
mission
that
he
was
giving.
\VS{24}But
Jesus
did
not
put
himself
in
their
power
because
he
knew
what
was
in
their
hearts.
\VS{25}He
did
not
need
anyone
to
tell
him
about
people
because
he
could
read
what
was
in
them.

\par }{\BB \par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
there
was
a
Pharisee
named
Nicodemus,
who
was
a
leading
man
among
his
people.
\VS{2}This
man
came
to
Jesus
by
night,
and
said
to
him, “Rabbi,
we
know
that
you
are
a
teacher
come
from
God;
for
no
one
could
give
such
signs
as
you
are
giving,
unless
God
were
with
him.”
\par }{\PP \VS{3}{\WJ{“In
truth
I
tell
you,”}}
exclaimed
Jesus,
{\WJ{“unless
a
person
is reborn,
they
cannot
see
the
kingdom
of
God.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{4}“How
can
a
person,”
asked
Nicodemus, “be
born
when
they
are
old?
Can
they
be
born
a
second
time?”
\par }{\PP \VS{5}{\WJ{“In
truth
I
tell
you,”}}
answered
Jesus,
{\WJ{“unless
a
person
owes
their
birth
to
water
and
Spirit,
they
cannot
enter
the
kingdom
of
God.}}
\VS{6}{\WJ{
All
that
owes
its
birth
to
human nature
is
human,
and
all
that
owes
its
birth
to
the
Spirit
is
spiritual.}}
\VS{7}{\WJ{
Do
not
wonder
at
my
telling
you
that
you
all
need
to
be reborn.}}
\VS{8}{\WJ{
The
wind
blows
wherever
it
wants,
and
you
can
hear
the
sound
it
makes,
but
you
do
not
know
where
it
comes
from,
or
where
it
goes;
it
is
the
same
with
everyone
who
owes
his
birth
to
the
Spirit.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{9}“How
can
that
be?”
asked
Nicodemus.
\VS{10}{\WJ{“What!
You
a
teacher
of
Israel,”}}
exclaimed
Jesus,
{\WJ{“and
yet
do
not
understand
this!}}
\VS{11}{\WJ{
In
truth
I
tell
you
that
we
speak
of
what
we
know,
and
state
what
we
have
seen;
and
yet
you
do
not
accept
our
statements.}}
\VS{12}{\WJ{
If,
when
I
tell
you
earthly
things,
you
do
not
believe
me,
how
will
you
believe
me
when
I
tell
you
of
heavenly
things?}}
\VS{13}{\WJ{
No
one
has
ascended
to
heaven,
except
him
who
descended
from
heaven –
the
Son
of
Man
himself.}}
\VS{14}{\WJ{
And,
as
Moses
lifted
up
the
snake
in
the
desert,
so
must
the
Son
of
Man
be
lifted
up;}}
\VS{15}{\WJ{
so
that
everyone
who
believes
in
him
may
have
eternal
life.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{16}{\WJ{
For
God
so
loved
the
world,
that
he
gave
his
only
Son,
so
that
everyone
who
believes
in
him
may
not
be
lost,
but
have
eternal
life.}}
\VS{17}{\WJ{
For
God
did
not
send
his
Son
into
the
world
to
condemn
the
world,
but
so
that
the
world
might
be
saved
through
him.}}
\VS{18}{\WJ{
The
person
who
believes
in
him
escapes condemnation,
while
the
person
who
does
not
believe
in
him
is
already
condemned,
because
they
have
not
believed
in
the
only
Son
of
God.}}
\VS{19}{\WJ{
The
ground
of
their
condemnation
is
this,
that
though
the
light
has
come
into
the
world,
people
preferred
the
darkness
to
the
light,
because
their
actions
were
wicked.}}
\VS{20}{\WJ{
For
the
person
who
lives
an
evil
life
hates
the
light,
and
will
not
come
to
it,
fearing
that
their
actions
will
be
exposed;}}
\VS{21}{\WJ{
but
the
person
who
lives
by
the
truth
comes
into
the
light,
so
it
can
be
clearly
seen
that
God
is
in
all
they
do.}}
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{22}After
this,
Jesus
went
with
his
disciples
into
the
country
parts
of
Judea;
and
there
he
stayed
with
them,
and baptized.
\VS{23}John,
also,
was baptizing
at Aenon
near
Salim,
because
there
were
many
streams
there;
and
people
were
constantly
coming
and
being baptized.
\VS{24}(For
John
had
not
yet
been
imprisoned).
\VS{25}Now
a
discussion
arose
between
some
of
John’s
disciples
and
a
fellow
Jew
on
the
subject
of
purification;
\VS{26}and
the
disciples
came
to
John
and
said, “Rabbi,
the
man
who
was
with
you
on
the
other
side
of
the
Jordan,
and
to
whom
you
have
yourself
borne
testimony –
he,
also,
is baptizing,
and
everybody
is
going
to
him.”
\VS{27}John’s
answer
was – “A
person
can
gain
nothing
but
what
is
given
them
from
heaven.
\VS{28}You
are
yourselves
witnesses
that
I
said ‘I
am
not
the
Christ,’
but ‘I
have
been
sent
before
him
as
a
messenger.’
\VS{29}It
is
the
groom
who
has
the
bride;
but
the groom’s
friend,
who
stands
by
and
listens
to
him,
is
filled
with
joy
when
he
hears
the groom’s
voice.
This
joy
I
have
felt
to
the
full.
\VS{30}He
must
become
greater,
and
I
less.”
\par }{\PP \VS{31}He
who
comes
from
above
is
above
all
others;
but
a
child
of
earth
is
earthly,
and
his
teaching
is
earthly,
too.
He
who
comes
from
heaven
is
above
all
others.
\VS{32}He states
what
he
has
seen
and
what
he
heard,
and
yet
no
one
accepts
his
statement.
\VS{33}They
who
did
accept
his
statement
confirm
the
fact
that
God
is
true.
\VS{34}For
he
whom
God
sent
as
his
messenger
gives
us
God’s
own
teaching,
for
God
does
not
limit
the
gift
of
the
Spirit.
\VS{35}The
Father
loves
his
Son,
and
has
put
everything
in
his
hands.
\VS{36}The
person
who
believes
in
the
Son
has
eternal
life,
while
a
person
who
rejects
the
Son
will
not
even
see
that
life,
but
remains
under
God’s
displeasure.

\par }{\BB \par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now,
when
the
Master
heard
that
the
Pharisees
had
been
told
that
he
was
making
and baptizing
more
disciples
than
John
\VS{2}(Though
it
was
not
Jesus
himself,
but
his
disciples,
who baptized),
\VS{3}he
left
Judea,
and
set
out
again
for
Galilee.
\VS{4}He
had
to
pass
through
Samaria,
\VS{5}and,
on
his
way,
he
came
to
a
Samaritan
town
called
Shechem,
near
the
plot
of
land
that
Jacob
gave
to
his
son
Joseph.
\VS{6}Jacob’s
Spring
was
there,
and
Jesus,
being
tired
after
his
journey,
sat
down
beside
the
spring,
just
as
he
was.
It
was
then
about
midday.
\VS{7}A
woman
of
Samaria
came
to
draw
water;
and
Jesus
said
to
her –
{\WJ{“Give
me
some
to
drink,”}}
\VS{8}For
his
disciples
had
gone
into
the
town
to
buy
food.
\VS{9}“How
is
it,”
replied
the
Samaritan
woman, “that
you
who
are
a
Jew
ask
for
water
from
a
Samaritan
woman
like
me?” (For
Jews
do
not
associate
with
Samaritans).
\VS{10}{\WJ{“If
you
knew
of
the
gift
of
God,”}}
replied
Jesus,
{\WJ{“and
who
it
is
that
is
saying
to
you ‘Give
me
some
water,’
you
would
have
asked
him,
and
he
would
have
given
you
living
water.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{11}“You
have
no
bucket,
Sir,
and
the
well
is
deep,”
she
said. “Where
did
you
get
that ‘living
water?’
\VS{12}Surely
you
are
not
greater
than
our
ancestor
Jacob
who
gave
us
the
well,
and
used
to
drink
from
it
himself,
and
his
sons,
and
his
cattle!”
\par }{\PP \VS{13}{\WJ{“All
who
drink
of
this
water,”}}
replied
Jesus,
{\WJ{“will
be
thirsty
again;}}
\VS{14}{\WJ{
but
whoever
once
drinks
of
the
water
that
I
will
give
him
will
never
thirst
any
more;
but
the
water
that
I
will
give
him
will
become
a
spring welling
up
within
him –
a
source
of
eternal
life.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{15}“Give
me
this
water,
Sir,”
said
the
woman, “so
that
I
may
not
be
thirsty,
nor
have
to
come
all
the
way
here
to
draw
water.”
\par }{\PP \VS{16}{\WJ{“Go
and
call
your
husband,”}}
said
Jesus,
{\WJ{“and
then
come
back.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{17}“I
have
no
husband,”
answered
the
woman.
{\WJ{“You
are
right
in
saying ‘I
have
no
husband,’ ”}}
replied
Jesus,
\VS{18}{\WJ{“For
you
have
had
five
husbands,
and
the
man
with
whom
you
are
now
living
is
not
your
husband;
in
saying
that,
you
have
spoken
the
truth.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{19}“I
see,
Sir,
that
you
are
a
prophet!”
exclaimed
the
woman.
\VS{20}“It
was
on
this
mountain
that
our
ancestors
worshiped;
and
yet
you
Jews
say
that
the
proper
place
for
worship
is
in
Jerusalem.”
\par }{\PP \VS{21}{\WJ{“Believe
me,”}}
replied
Jesus,
{\WJ{“a
time
is
coming
when
it
will
be
neither
on
this
mountain
nor
in
Jerusalem
that
you
will
worship
the
Father.}}
\VS{22}{\WJ{
You
Samaritans
do
not
know
what
you
worship;
we
know
what
we
worship,
for
salvation
comes
from
the
Jews.}}
\VS{23}{\WJ{
But
a
time
is
coming,
indeed
it
is
already
here,
when
the
true
worshipers
will
worship
the
Father
spiritually
and
truly;
for
such
are
the
worshipers
that
the
Father
desires.}}
\VS{24}{\WJ{
God
is
Spirit;
and
those
who
worship
him
must
worship
spiritually
and
truly.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{25}“I
know,”
answered
the
woman, “that
the
Messiah,
who
is
called
the
Christ,
is
coming;
when
once
he
has
come,
he
will
tell
us
everything.”
\par }{\PP \VS{26}{\WJ{“I
am
he,”}}
Jesus
said
to
her,
{\WJ{“I
who
am
speaking
to
you.”}}
\VS{27}At
this
moment
his
disciples
came
up,
and
were
surprised
to
find
him
talking
with
a
woman;
but
none
of
them
asked ‘What
do
you
want?’
or ‘Why
are
you
talking
with
her?’
\VS{28}So
the
woman,
leaving
her
pitcher,
went
back
to
the
town,
and
said
to
the
people,
\VS{29}“Come
and
see
someone
who
has
told
me
everything
that
I
have
done.
Can
he
be
the
Christ?”
\VS{30}And
the
people
left
the
town
and
went
to
see
Jesus.
\par }{\PP \VS{31}Meanwhile
the
disciples
kept
saying
to
him, “Take
something
to
eat,
Rabbi.”
\par }{\PP \VS{32}{\WJ{“I
have
food
to
eat,”}}
he
answered,
{\WJ{“of
which
you
know
nothing.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{33}“Can
anyone
have
brought
him
anything
to
eat?”
the
disciples
said
to
one
another.
\VS{34}{\WJ{“My
food,”}}
replied
Jesus,
{\WJ{“is
to
do
the
will
of
him
who
sent
me,
and
to
complete
his
work.}}
\VS{35}{\WJ{
Don’t
you
say
that
it
still
wants
four
months
to
harvest?
Why,
look
up,
and
see
how
white
the
fields
are
for
harvest!}}
\VS{36}{\WJ{
Already
the
reaper
is
receiving
wages
and
gathering
in
sheaves
for
eternal
life,
so
that
sower
and
reaper
rejoice
together.}}
\VS{37}{\WJ{
For
here
the
proverb
holds
good – ‘One
sows,
another
reaps.’}}
\VS{38}{\WJ{
I
have
sent
you
to
reap
that
on
which
you
have
spent
no
labor;
others
have
labored,
and
you
have
reaped
the
results
of
their
labor.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{39}Many
from
that
town
came
to
believe
in
Jesus –
Samaritans
though
they
were –
because
the
woman
had
said, ‘He
has
told
me
everything
that
I
have
done.’
\VS{40}And,
when
these
Samaritans
had
come
to
Jesus,
they
begged
him
to
stay
with
them,
and
he
stayed
there
two
days.
\VS{41}But
far
more
came
to
believe
in
him
because
of
what
he
said
himself,
\VS{42}and
they
said
to
the
woman, “It
is
no
longer
because
of
what
you
say
that
we
believe
in
him,
for
we
have
heard
him
ourselves
and
know
that
he
really
is
the
Savior
of
the
world.”
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{43}After
these
two
days
Jesus
went
on
to
Galilee;
\VS{44}for
he
himself
declared
that ‘a
prophet
is
not
honored
in
his
own
country.’
\VS{45}When
he
entered
Galilee,
the
Galileans
welcomed
him,
for
they
had
seen
all
that
he
did
at
Jerusalem
during
the
Festival,
at
which
they
also
had
been
present.
\VS{46}So
Jesus
came
again
to
Cana
in
Galilee,
where
he
had
turned
the
water
into
wine.
Now
there
was
one
of
the
king’s
officers
whose
son
was
lying
ill
at
Capernaum.
\VS{47}When
this
man
heard
that
Jesus
had
returned
from
Judea
to
Galilee,
he
went
to
him,
and
begged
him
to
come
down
and
cure
his
son;
for
he
was
at
the
point
of
death.
\VS{48}Jesus
answered,
{\WJ{“Unless
you
all
see
signs
and
wonders,
you
will
not
believe.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{49}“Sir,”
said
the
officer, “come
down
before
my
child
dies.”
And
Jesus
answered, “Go,
your
son
is
living.”
\VS{50}The
man
believed
what
Jesus
said
to
him,
and
went;
\VS{51}and,
while
he
was
on
his
way
down,
his
servants
met
him,
and
told
him
that
his
child
was
living.
\VS{52}So
he
asked
them
at
what
time
the
boy
began
to
get
better. “It
was
yesterday,
about
one o’clock,”
they
said, “that
the
fever
left
him.”
\VS{53}By
this
the
father
knew
that
it
was
at
the
very
time
when
Jesus
had
said
to
him
{\WJ{‘Your
son
is living’}};
and
he
himself,
with
all
his
household,
believed
in
Jesus.
\VS{54}This
was
the
second
occasion
on
which
Jesus
gave
a
sign
of
his
mission
on
coming
from
Judea
to
Galilee.

\par }{\BB \par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Sometime
after
this
there
was
a
Jewish
Festival;
and
Jesus
went
up
to
Jerusalem.
\VS{2}There
is
in
Jerusalem,
near
the sheep-gate,
a
bath
with
five colonnades
around
it.
It
is
called
in
Hebrew ‘Bethesda.’
\VS{3}In
these colonnades
a
large
number
of
sick
people
were
lying –
blind,
lame,
and
crippled.
\VS{4}\FTNT{*}{{\FR 5:4 }
Some later manuscripts add: for an angel of the Lord went down at certain times into the pool, and stirred up the water. The first person to step in after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease they had.}
\VS{5}One
man
who
was
there
had
been
crippled
for
thirty-eight
years.
\VS{6}Jesus
saw
the
man
lying
there,
and,
finding
that
he
had
been
in
this
state
a
long
time,
said
to
him,
{\WJ{“Do
you
wish
to
be
cured?”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{7}“I
have
no
one,
Sir,”
the
sick
man
answered, “to
put
me
into
the
bath
when
there
is
a
troubling
of
the
water,
and,
while
I
am
getting
to
it,
someone
else
steps
down
before
me.”
\par }{\PP \VS{8}{\WJ{“Stand
up,”}}
said
Jesus,
{\WJ{“take
up
your
mat,
and
walk.”}}
\VS{9}The
man
was
cured
immediately,
and
took
up
his
mat
and
began
walking.
\VS{10}Now
it
was
the
Sabbath.
So
the religious
authorities
said
to
the
man
who
had
been
cured, “This
is
the
Sabbath;
you
must
not
carry
your
mat.”
\par }{\PP \VS{11}“The
man
who
cured
me,”
he
answered, “said
to
me
{\WJ{‘Take
up
your
mat
and
walk.’ ”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{12}“Who
was
it,”
they
asked, “that
said
to
you
{\WJ{‘Take
up
your mat
and walk’?”}}
\VS{13}But
the
man
who
had
been
restored
did
not
know
who
it
was;
for
Jesus
had
moved
away,
because
there
was
a
crowd
there.
\VS{14}Afterward
Jesus
found
the
man
in
the
Temple
Courts,
and
said
to
him,
{\WJ{“You
are
cured
now;
do
not
sin
again,
or
something
worse
may
happen
to
you.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{15}The
man
went
away,
and
told
the
authorities
that
it
was
Jesus
who
had
cured
him.
\VS{16}And
that
was
why
they
began
to
persecute
Jesus –
because
he
did
things
of
this
kind
on
the
Sabbath.
\VS{17}But Jesus
replied,
{\WJ{“My
Father
works
to
this
very
hour,
and
I
work
also.”}}
\VS{18}This
made
the
authorities
all
the
more
eager
to
kill
him,
because
not
only
was
he
doing
away
with
the
Sabbath,
but
he
actually
called
God
his
own
Father –
putting
himself
on
an
equality
with
God.
\par }{\PP \VS{19}So
Jesus
made
this
further
reply,
{\WJ{“In
truth
I
tell
you,
the
Son
can
do
nothing
of
himself;
he
does
only
what
he
sees
the
Father
doing;
whatever
the
Father
does,
the
Son
does
also.}}
\VS{20}{\WJ{
For
the
Father
loves
his
Son,
and
shows
him
everything
that
he
is
doing;
and
he
will
show
him
still
greater
things –
so
that
you
will
be
filled
with
wonder.}}
\VS{21}{\WJ{
For,
just
as
the
Father
raises
the
dead
and
gives
them
life,
so
also
the
Son
gives
life
to
whom
he
pleases.}}
\VS{22}{\WJ{
The
Father
himself
does
not
judge
any
one,
but
has
entrusted
the
work
of
judging
entirely
to
his
Son,}}
\VS{23}{\WJ{
so
that
everyone
may
honor
the
Son,
just
as
they
honor
the
Father.
The
person
who
does
not
honour
the
Son
fails
to
honour
the
Father
who
sent
him.}}
\VS{24}{\WJ{
In
truth
I
tell
you
that
the
person
who
listens
to
my
message
and
believes
him
who
sent
me,
has
eternal
life,
and
does
not
come
under
condemnation,
but
has
already
passed
out
of
death
into
life.}}
\VS{25}{\WJ{
In
truth
I
tell
you
that
a
time
is
coming,
indeed
it
is
already
here,
when
the
dead
will
listen
to
the
voice
of
the
Son
of
God,
and
when
those
who
listen
will
live.}}
\VS{26}{\WJ{
For,
just
as
the
Father
has inherent
life
within
him,
so
also
he
has
granted
to
the
Son
to
have inherent
life
within
him;}}
\VS{27}{\WJ{
and,
because
he
is
Son
of
Man,
he
has
also
given
him
authority
to
act
as
judge.}}
\VS{28}{\WJ{
Do
not
wonder
at
this;
for
the
time
is
coming
when
all
who
are
in
their
graves
will
hear
his
voice,}}
\VS{29}{\WJ{
and
will
come
out –
those
who
have
done
good
rising
to
life,
and
those
who
have
lived
evil
lives
rising
for
condemnation.}}
\VS{30}{\WJ{
I
can
do
nothing
of
myself;
I
judge
as
I
am
taught;
and
the
judgment
that
I
give
is
just,
because
my
aim
is
not
to
do
my
own
will,
but
the
will
of
him
who
sent
me.}}
\par }{\PP \VS{31}{\WJ{“If
I
bear
testimony
to
myself,
my
testimony
is
not
trustworthy;}}
\VS{32}{\WJ{
it
is
another
who
bears
testimony
to
me,
and
I
know
that
the
testimony
which
he
bears
to
me
is
trustworthy.}}
\VS{33}{\WJ{
You
have
yourselves
sent
to
John,
and
he
has
testified
to
the
truth.}}
\VS{34}{\WJ{
But
the
testimony
which
I
receive
is
not
from
people;
I
am
saying
this
for
your
salvation.}}
\VS{35}{\WJ{
He
was
the
Lamp
that
was
burning
and
shining,
and
you
were
ready
to
rejoice,
for
a
time,
in
his
light.}}
\VS{36}{\WJ{
But
the
testimony
which
I
have
is
of
greater
weight
than
John’s;
for
the
work
that
the
Father
has
given
me
to
carry
out –
the
work
that
I
am
doing –
is
in
itself
proof
that
the
Father
has
sent
me
as
his
messenger.}}
\VS{37}{\WJ{
The
Father
who
has
sent
me
has
himself
borne
testimony
to
me.
You
have
neither
listened
to
his
voice,
not
seen
his
form;}}
\VS{38}{\WJ{
and
you
have
not
taken
his
message
home
to
your
hearts,
because
you
do
not
believe
him
whom
he
sent
as
his
messenger.}}
\VS{39}{\WJ{
You
search
the
scriptures,
because
you
think
that
you
find
in
them immortal
life;}}
and,
though
it
is
those
scriptures
that
bear
testimony
to
me,
\VS{40}{\WJ{
you
refuse
to
come
to
me
to
have
life.}}
\par }{\PP \VS{41}{\WJ{“I
do
not
receive
honor
from
people,}}
\VS{42}{\WJ{
but
I
know
this
of
you,
that
you
have
not
the
love
of
God
in
your
hearts.}}
\VS{43}{\WJ{
I
have
come
in
my
Father’s
name,
and
you
do
not
receive
me;
if
another
comes
in
his
own
name,
you
will
receive
him.}}
\VS{44}{\WJ{
How
can
you
believe
in
me,
when
you
receive
honor
from
one
another
and
do
not
desire
the
honor
which
comes
from
the
only
God?}}
\VS{45}{\WJ{
Do
not
think
that
I
will
accuse
you
to
the
Father;
your
accuser
is
Moses,
on
whom
you
have
been
resting
your
hopes.}}
\VS{46}{\WJ{
For,
had
you
believed
Moses,
you
would
have
believed
me,
for
it
was
of
me
that
Moses
wrote;}}
\VS{47}{\WJ{
but,
if
you
do
not
believe
his
writings,
how
will
you
believe
my
teaching?”}}

\par }{\BB \par }\Chap{6}{\PP \VerseOne{1}After
this,
Jesus
crossed
the
Sea
of
Galilee –
otherwise
called
the
Lake
of
Tiberias.
\VS{2}A
great
crowd
of
people,
however,
followed
him,
because
they
saw
the
signs
of
his
mission
in
his
work
among
those
who
were
sick.
\VS{3}Jesus
went
up
the
hill,
and
sat
down
there
with
his
disciples.
\VS{4}It
was
near
the
time
of
the
Jewish
Festival
of
the
Passover.
\VS{5}Looking
up,
and noticing
that
a
great
crowd
was
coming towards
him,
Jesus
said
to
Philip,
{\WJ{“Where
are
we
to
buy
bread
for
these
people
to
eat?”}}
\VS{6}He
said
this
to
test
him,
for
he
himself
knew
what
he
meant
to
do.
\VS{7}“Even
if
we
spent
a
years’
wages
on
bread,”
answered
Philip, “it
would
not
be
enough
for
each
of
them
to
have
a
little.”
\par }{\PP \VS{8}“There
is
a
boy
here,”
said Andrew,
another
of
his
disciples,
Simon
Peter’s
brother,
\VS{9}“Who
has
five
barley
loaves
and
two
fish;
but
what
is
that
for
so
many?”
\par }{\PP \VS{10}{\WJ{“Make
the
people
sit
down,”}}
said
Jesus.
It
was
a grassy
spot;
so
the
people,
who
numbered
about
five
thousand,
sat
down,
\VS{11}and
then
Jesus
took
the
loaves,
and,
after
saying
the
thanksgiving,
distributed
them
to
those
who
were
sitting
down;
and
the
same
with
the
fish,
giving
the
people
as
much
as
they
wanted.
\VS{12}When
they
were
satisfied,
Jesus
said
to
his
disciples,
{\WJ{“Collect
the
broken
pieces
that
are
left,
so
that
nothing
may
be
wasted.”}}
\VS{13}The
disciples
did
so,
and
filled
twelve
baskets
with
the
pieces
of
the
five
barley
loaves,
which
were
left
after
all
had
eaten.
\par }{\PP \VS{14}When
the
people
saw
the
signs
which
Jesus
gave,
they
said, “This
is
certainly
the
prophet
who
was
to
come
into
the
world.”
\VS{15}But
Jesus,
having
discovered
that
they
were
intending
to
come
and
carry
him
off
to
make
him
king,
went
again
up
the
hill,
quite
alone.
\par }{\PP \VS{16}When
evening
fell,
his
disciples
went
down
to
the
sea,
\VS{17}and,
getting
into
a
boat,
began
to
cross
to
Capernaum.
By
this
time
darkness
had
set
in,
and
Jesus
had
not
yet
come
back
to
them;
\VS{18}the
sea,
too,
was
getting
rough,
for
a
strong
wind
was
blowing.
\VS{19}When
they
had
rowed
three
or
four
miles,
they
caught
sight
of
him
walking
on
the
water
and
approaching
the
boat,
and
they
were
frightened.
\VS{20}But
Jesus
said
to
them,
{\WJ{“It
is
I;
do
not
be
afraid!”}}
\VS{21}And
after
this
they
were
glad
to
take
him
into
the
boat;
and
the
boat
at
once
arrived
off
the
shore,
for
which
they
had
been
making.
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{22}The
people
who
remained
on
the
other
side
of
the
sea
had
seen
that
only
one
boat
had
been
there,
and
that
Jesus
had
not
gone
into
it
with
his
disciples,
but
that
they
had
left
without
him.
\VS{23}Some
boats,
however,
had
come
from
Tiberias,
from
near
the
spot
where
they
had
eaten
the
bread
after
the
Master
had
said
the
thanksgiving.
\VS{24}So,
on
the
next
day,
when
the
people
saw
that
Jesus
was
not
there,
or
his
disciples
either,
they
themselves
got
into
the
boats,
and
went
to
Capernaum
to
look
for
him.
\VS{25}And,
when
they
found
him
on
the
other
side
of
the
sea,
they
said, “When
did
you
get
here,
Rabbi?”
\par }{\PP \VS{26}{\WJ{“In
truth
I
tell
you,”}}
answered
Jesus,
{\WJ{“it
is
not
because
of
the
signs
which
you
saw
that
you
are
looking
for
me,
but
because
you
had
the
bread
to
eat
and
were
satisfied.}}
\VS{27}{\WJ{
Work,
not
for
the
food
that
perishes,
but
for
the
food
that
lasts
for
eternal
life,
which
the
Son
of
Man
will
give
you;
for
on
him
the
Father –
God
himself –
has
set
the
seal
of
his
approval.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{28}“How,”
they
asked, “are
we
to
do
the
work
that
God
wants
us
to
do?”
\par }{\PP \VS{29}{\WJ{“The
work
that
God
wants
you
to
do,”}}
answered
Jesus,
{\WJ{“is
to
believe
in
him
whom
God
sent
as
his
messenger.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{30}“What
sign,
then,”
they
asked, “are
you
giving,
which
we
may
see,
and
so
believe
you?
What
is
the
work
that
you
are
doing?
\VS{31}Our
ancestors
had
the
manna
to
eat
in
the
desert;
as
scripture
says – ‘He
gave
them
bread
from
heaven
to
eat.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{32}{\WJ{“In
truth
I
tell
you,”}}
replied
Jesus,
{\WJ{“Moses
did
not
give
you
the
bread
from
heaven,
but
my
Father
does
give
you
the
true
bread
from
heaven;}}
\VS{33}{\WJ{
for
the
bread
that
God
gives
is
that
which
comes
down
from
heaven,
and
gives
life
to
the
world.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{34}“Master,”
they
exclaimed, “give
us
that
bread
always!”
\par }{\PP \VS{35}{\WJ{“I
am
the
life-giving
bread,”}}
Jesus
said
to
them,
{\WJ{“whoever
comes
to
me
will
never
be
hungry,
and
whoever
believes
in
me
will
never
thirst
again.}}
\VS{36}{\WJ{
But,
as
I
have
said
already,
you
have
seen
me,
and
yet
you
do
not
believe
in
me.}}
\VS{37}{\WJ{
All
those
whom
the
Father
gives
me
will
come
to
me;
and
no
one
who
comes
to
me
will
I
ever
turn
away.}}
\VS{38}{\WJ{
For
I
have
come
down
from
heaven,
to
do,
not
my
own
will,
but
the
will
of
him
who
sent
me;}}
\VS{39}{\WJ{
and
his
will
is
this –
that
I
should
not
lose
one
of
all
those
whom
he
has
given
me,
but
should
raise
them
up
at
the
Last
day.}}
\VS{40}{\WJ{
For
it
is
the
will
of
my
Father
that
everyone
who
sees
the
Son,
and
believes
in
him,
should
have immortal
life;
and
I
myself
will
raise
him
up
at
the
Last
day.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{41}The
people
began
murmuring
against
Jesus
for
saying –
{\WJ{‘I
am
the
bread
which
came
down
from
heaven.’}}
\VS{42}“Is
not
this
Jesus,
Joseph’s
son,”
they
asked, “whose
father
and
mother
we
know?
How
is
it
that
he
now
says
that
he
has
come
down
from
heaven?”
\par }{\PP \VS{43}{\WJ{“Do
not
murmur
among
yourselves,”}}
said
Jesus
in
reply.
\VS{44}{\WJ{“No
one
can
come
to
me,
unless
the
Father
who
sent
me
draws
him
to
me;
and
I
will
raise
him
up
at
the
Last
day.}}
\VS{45}{\WJ{
It
is
said
in
the
prophets – ‘And
they
will
all
be
taught
by
God.’
Everyone
who
is
taught
by
the
Father
and
learns
from
him
comes
to
me.}}
\VS{46}{\WJ{
Not
that
anyone
has
seen
the
Father,
except
him
who
is
from
God –
he
has
seen
the
Father.}}
\VS{47}{\WJ{
In
truth
I
tell
you,
the
person
who
believes
in
me
has
eternal
life.}}
\VS{48}{\WJ{
I
am
the
life-giving
bread.}}
\VS{49}{\WJ{
Your
ancestors
ate
the
manna
in
the
desert,
and
yet
died.}}
\VS{50}{\WJ{
The
bread
that
comes
down
from
heaven
is
such
that
whoever
eats
of
it
will
never
die.}}
\VS{51}{\WJ{
I
am
the
living
bread
that
has
come
down
from
heaven.
If
anyone
eats
of
this
bread,
they
will
live
for
ever;
and
the
bread
that
I
will
give
is
my
flesh,
which
I
will
give
for
the
life
of
the
world.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{52}They
began disputing
with
one
another, “How
is
it
possible
for
this
man
to
give
us
his
flesh
to
eat?”
\par }{\PP \VS{53}{\WJ{“In
truth
I
tell
you,”}}
answered
Jesus,
{\WJ{“unless
you
eat
the
flesh
of
the
Son
of
Man,
and
drink
his
blood,
you
have
not
life
within
you.}}
\VS{54}{\WJ{
Everyone
who
takes
my
flesh
for
their
food,
and
drinks
my
blood,
has
eternal
life;
and
I
will
raise
them
up
at
the
Last
day.}}
\VS{55}{\WJ{
For
my
flesh
is
true
food,
and
my
blood
true
drink.}}
\VS{56}{\WJ{
Everyone
who
takes
my
flesh
for
their
food,
and
drinks
my
blood,
remains
united
to
me,
and
I
to
them.}}
\VS{57}{\WJ{
As
the
living
Father
sent
me
as
his
messenger,
and
as
I
live
because
the
Father
lives,
so
the
person
who
takes
me
for
their
food
will
live
because
I
live.}}
\VS{58}{\WJ{
That
is
the
bread
which
has
come
down
from
heaven –
not
such
as
your
ancestors
ate,
and
yet
died;
the
person
who
takes
this
bread
for
their
food
will
live
for
ever.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{59}All
this
Jesus
said
in
a
synagogue,
when
he
was
teaching
in
Capernaum.
\VS{60}On
hearing
it,
many
of
his
disciples
said, “This
is
harsh
doctrine!
Who
can
bear
to
listen
to
it?”
\VS{61}But
Jesus,
aware
that
his
disciples
were
murmuring
about
it,
said
to
them,
\VS{62}{\WJ{“Is
this
a hindrance
to
you?
What,
then,
if
you
should
see
the
Son
of
Man
ascending
where
he
was
before?}}
\VS{63}{\WJ{
It
is
the
Spirit
that
gives
life;
human
strength achieves
nothing.
In
the
teaching
that
I
have
been
giving
you
there
is
Spirit
and
there
is
life.}}
\VS{64}{\WJ{
Yet
there
are
some
of
you
who
do
not
believe
in
me.”}}
For
Jesus
knew
from
the
first
who
they
were
that
did
not
believe
in
him,
and
who
it
was
that
would
betray
him;
\VS{65}and
he
added,
{\WJ{“This
is
why
I
told
you
that
no
one
can
come
to
me,
unless
enabled
by
the
Father.”}}
\VS{66}After
this
many
of
his
disciples
drew
back,
and
did
not
go
about
with
him
any
longer.
\VS{67}So
Jesus
said
to
the
Twelve,
{\WJ{“Do
you
also
wish
to
leave
me?”}}
\VS{68}But
Simon
Peter
answered, “Master,
to
whom
would
we
go?
Eternal
life
is
in
your
teaching;
\VS{69}and
we
have
learned
to
believe
and
to
know
that
you
are
the
Holy
One
of
God.”
\par }{\PP \VS{70}{\WJ{“Didn’t
I
myself
choose
you
to
be
the
Twelve?”}}
replied
Jesus,
{\WJ{“and
yet,
even
of
you,
one
is
playing
the devil’s
part.”}}
\VS{71}He
meant
Judas,
the
son
of
Simon
Iscariot,
who
was
about
to
betray
him,
though
he
was
one
of
the
Twelve.

\par }{\BB \par }\Chap{7}{\PP \VerseOne{1}After
this,
Jesus
went
about
in
Galilee,
for
he
would
not
do
so
in
Judea,
because
the religious
authorities (in
Jerusalem)
were
eager
to
put
him
to
death.
\VS{2}When
the
Jewish
Festival
of
Tabernacles
was
near,
\VS{3}his
brothers
said
to
him, “Leave
this
part
of
the
country,
and
go
into
Judea,
so
that
your
disciples,
as
well
as
we,
may
see
the
work
that
you
are
doing.
\VS{4}For
no
one
does
a
thing
privately,
if
they
are
seeking
to
be widely
known.
Since
you
do
these
things,
you
should
show
yourself
publicly
to
the
world.”
\VS{5}For
even
his
brothers
did
not
believe
in
him.
\par }{\PP \VS{6}{\WJ{“My
time,”}}
answered
Jesus,
{\WJ{“is
not
come
yet,
but
your
time
is
always
here.}}
\VS{7}{\WJ{
The
world
cannot
hate
you,
but
it
does
hate
me,
because
I
testify
that
its
ways
are
evil.}}
\VS{8}{\WJ{
Go
yourselves
up
to
the
Festival;
I
am
not
going
to
this
Festival
yet,
because
my
time
has
not
yet
come.”}}
\VS{9}After
telling
them
this,
he
stayed
on
in
Galilee.
\par }{\PP \VS{10}But,
when
his
brothers
had
gone
up
to
the
Festival,
Jesus
also
went
up –
not
publicly,
but
privately.
\VS{11}The
authorities
were
looking
for
him
at
the
Festival
and
asking ‘Where
is
he?’;
\VS{12}and
there
were
many whispers
about
him
among
the
people,
some
saying ‘He
is
a
good
man;’
others, ‘No!
He
is
leading
the
people
astray.’
\VS{13}No
one,
however,
spoke
freely
about
him,
because
they
were
afraid
of
the
authorities.
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{14}About
the
middle
of
the
Festival
week,
Jesus
went
up
into
the
Temple
Courts,
and
began
teaching.
\VS{15}The
authorities
were
astonished. “How
has
this
man
got
his
learning,”
they
asked, “when
he
has
never
studied?”
\VS{16}So,
in
reply,
Jesus
said,
{\WJ{“My
teaching
is
not
my
own;
it
is
his
who
sent
me.}}
\VS{17}{\WJ{
If
anyone
has
the
will
to
do
God’s
will,
they
will
find
out
whether
my
teaching
is
from
God,
or
whether
I
speak
on
my
own
authority.}}
\VS{18}{\WJ{
The
person
who
speaks
on
their
own
authority
seeks
honor
for
themselves;
but
the
one
who
seeks
the
honor
of
him
who
sent
him
is
sincere,
and
there
is
nothing
false
in
him.}}
\VS{19}{\WJ{
Was
not
it
Moses
who
gave
you
the
Law?
Yet
not
one
of
you
obeys
it!
Why
are
you
seeking
to
put
me
to
death?”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{20}“You
must
be
possessed
by
a
demon!”
the
people
exclaimed. “Who
is
seeking
to
put
you
to
death?”
\par }{\PP \VS{21}{\WJ{“There
was
one
thing
I
did,”}}
replied
Jesus,
{\WJ{“at
which
you
are
all
still
wondering.}}
\VS{22}{\WJ{
But
that
is
why
Moses
has
instituted
circumcision
among
you –
not,
indeed,
that
it
began
with
him,
but
with
our
ancestors –
and
that
is
why
you
circumcise
even
on
a
Sabbath.}}
\VS{23}{\WJ{
When
a
man
receives
circumcision
on
a
Sabbath
to
prevent
the
Law
of
Moses
from
being
broken,
how
can
you
be
angry
with
me
for
making
a
man
sound
and
well
on
a
Sabbath?}}
\VS{24}{\WJ{
Do
not
judge
by
appearances;
judge
justly.”}}
\VS{25}At
this
some
of
the
people
of
Jerusalem
exclaimed, “Is
not
this
the
man
who
they
are
seeking
to
put
to
death?
\VS{26}Yet
here
he
is,
speaking
out
boldly,
and
they
say
nothing
to
him!
Is
it possible
that
our
leading
men
have
really
discovered
that
he
is
the
Christ?
\VS{27}Yet
we
know
where
this
man
is
from;
but,
when
the
Christ
comes,
no
one
will
be
able
to
tell
where
he
is
from.”
\VS{28}Therefore,
Jesus,
as
he
was
teaching
in
the
Temple
Courts,
raised
his
voice
and
said,
{\WJ{“Yes;
you
know
me
and
you
know
where
I
am
from.
Yet
I
have
not
come
on
my
own
authority,
but
he
who
sent
me
may
be
trusted;
and
him
you
do
not
know.}}
\VS{29}{\WJ{
I
do
know
him,
for
it
is
from
him
that
I
have
come,
and
he
sent
me
as
his
messenger.”}}
\VS{30}So
they
sought
to
arrest
him;
but
no
one
touched
him,
for
his
time
was
not
come
yet.
\VS{31}Many
of
the
people,
however,
believed
in
him. “When
the
Christ
comes,”
they
said, “will
he
give
more
signs
of
his
mission
than
this
man
has
given?”
\VS{32}The
Pharisees
heard
the
people
whispering
about
him
in
this
way,
and
so
the
chief
priests
and
the
Pharisees
sent
officers
to
arrest
him;
\VS{33}at
which
Jesus
said,
{\WJ{“I
will
be
with
you
but
a
little
longer,
and
then
I
am
going
to
him
who
sent
me.}}
\VS{34}{\WJ{
You
will
look
for
me,
and
you
will
not
find
me;
and
you
will
not
be
able
to
come
where
I
will
be.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{35}“Where
is
this
man
going,”
the
people
asked
one
another, “that
we
would
not
find
him?
Will
he
go
to
our
countrymen
abroad,
and
teach
foreigners?
\VS{36}What
does
he
mean
by
saying
{\WJ{‘You
will
look
for
me,
and
you
will
not
find
me;
and
you
will
not
be
able
to
come
where
I
will be’?”}}
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{37}On
the
last
and
greatest
day
of
the
Festival,
Jesus,
who
was
standing
by,
exclaimed,
{\WJ{“If
anyone
is
thirsty,
they
should
come
to
me
and
drink.}}
\VS{38}{\WJ{
From
the
heart
of
those
who
believe
in
me
will
flow,
as
is
said
in
scripture,
rivers
of
living
water.”}}
\VS{39}(By
this
he
meant
the
Spirit,
which
those
who
had
believed
in
him
were
to
receive;
for
the
Spirit
had
not
yet
come,
because
Jesus
had
not
yet
been
exalted.)
\VS{40}Some
of
the
people,
when
they
heard
these
words,
said, “This
is
certainly
the
Prophet!”;
\VS{41}others
said, “the
Christ!”;
but
some
asked, “What!
Does
the
Christ
come
from
Galilee?
\VS{42}Is
not
it
said
in
scripture
that
it
is
of
the
descendants
of
David,
and
from
Bethlehem,
the
village
to
which
David
belonged,
that
the
Christ
is
to
come?”
\VS{43}So
there
was
a
sharp
division
among
the
people
because
of
Jesus.
\VS{44}Some
of
them
wanted
to
arrest
him,
and
yet
no
one
touched
him.
\VS{45}When
the
officers
returned
to
the
chief
priests
and
Pharisees,
they
were
asked, “Why
have
you
not
brought
him?”
\par }{\PP \VS{46}“No
one
ever
spoke
as
he
speaks!”
they
answered.
\VS{47}“What!
Have
you
been
led
astray
too?”
the
Pharisees
replied.
\VS{48}“Have
any
of
our
leading
men
believed
in
him,
or
any
of
the
Pharisees?
\VS{49}As
for
these
people
who
do
not
know
the
Law –
they
are
cursed!”
\VS{50}But
one
of
their
number,
Nicodemus,
who
before
this
had
been
to
see
Jesus,
said
to
them,
\VS{51}“Does
our
Law
pass
judgment
on
a
person
without
first
giving
them
a
hearing,
and
finding
out
what
they
have
been
doing?”
\par }{\PP \VS{52}“Are
you
also
from
Galilee?”
they retorted. “Search,
and
you
will
find
that
no
prophet
is
to
arise
in
Galilee!”
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{53}And
everyone
went
home

\par }\Chap{8}{\PP \VerseOne{1}except
Jesus,
who
went
to
the
Mount
of
Olives\FTNT{*}{{\FR 8:1 }
This passage is inserted in some manuscripts from an ancient source, and found either after John 7:53 or after Luke 21:38 or elsewhere.}.
\VS{2}But
he
went
again
into
the
Temple
Courts
early
in
the
morning,
and
all
the
people
came
to
him;
and
he
sat
down
and
taught
them.
\VS{3}Presently,
however,
the
Teachers
of
the
Law
and
the
Pharisees
brought
a
woman
who
had
been
caught
in
adultery,
and
placed
her
in
the
middle
of
the
Court,
\VS{4}and
said
to
Jesus, “Teacher,
this
woman
was
found
in
the
act
of
adultery.
\VS{5}Now
Moses,
in
the
Law,
commanded
us
to
stone
such
women
to
death;
what
do
you
say?”
\par }{\PP \VS{6}They
said
this
to
test
him,
in
order
to
have
a
charge
to
bring
against
him.
But
Jesus
stooped
down,
and
wrote
on
the
ground
with
his
finger.
\VS{7}However,
as
they
continued
asking
him,
he
raised
himself,
and
said, “Let
the
person
among
you
who
has
never
done
wrong
throw
the
first
stone
at
her.”
\par }{\PP \VS{8}And
again
he
stooped
down,
and
wrote
on
the
ground.
\VS{9}When
they
heard
that,
they
went
out
one
by
one,
beginning
with
the
eldest;
and
Jesus
was
left
alone
with
the
woman
in
the
middle
of
the
Court.
\VS{10}Raising
himself,
Jesus
said
to
her, “Woman,
where
are
they?
Did
no
one
condemn
you?”
\par }{\PP \VS{11}“No
one,
Sir,”
she
answered.
\par }{\PP “Neither
do
I
condemn
you,”
said
Jesus “go,
and
do
not
sin
again.”
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{12}Jesus
again
addressed
the
people.
{\WJ{“I
am
the
light
of
the
world,”}}
he
said.
{\WJ{“The
person
who
follows
me
will
not
walk
in
darkness,
but
will
have
the
light
of
life.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{13}“You
are
bearing
testimony
to
yourself!”
exclaimed
the
Pharisees, “your
testimony
is
not
trustworthy.”
\par }{\PP \VS{14}{\WJ{“Even
if
I
bear
testimony
to
myself,”}}
answered
Jesus,
{\WJ{“my
testimony
is
trustworthy;
for
I
know
where
I
came
from,
and
where
I
am
going;
but
you
do
not
know
where
I
come
from,
nor
where
I
am
going.}}
\VS{15}{\WJ{
You
judge
by
appearances;
I
judge
no
one.}}
\VS{16}{\WJ{
Yet,
even
if
I
were
to
judge,
my
judgment
would
be
trustworthy;
because
I
am
not
alone,
but
the
Father
who
sent
me
is
with
me.}}
\VS{17}{\WJ{
Why,
in
your
own
Law
it
is
said
that
the
testimony
of
two
persons
is
trustworthy.}}
\VS{18}{\WJ{
I,
who
bear
testimony
to
myself,
am
one,
and
the
Father
who
sent
me
also
bears
testimony
to
me.”}}
\VS{19}{\WJ{“Where
is
your
father,
then?”}}
they
asked.
{\WJ{“You
know
neither
me
nor
my
Father,”}}
replied
Jesus.
{\WJ{“If
you
had
known
me,
you
would
have
also
known
my
Father.”}}
\VS{20}These
statements
Jesus
made
in
the
Treasury,
while
teaching
in
the
Temple
Courts.
Yet
no
one
arrested
him,
for
his
time
had
not
then
come.
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{21}Jesus
again
spoke
to
the
people.
{\WJ{“I
am
going
away,”}}
he
said,
{\WJ{“and
you
will
look
for
me,
but
you
will
die
in
your
sin;
you
cannot
come
where
I
am
going.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{22}“Is
he
going
to
kill
himself,”
the
people
exclaimed, “that
he
says –
{\WJ{‘You
cannot
go
where
I
am going’?”}}
\VS{23}{\WJ{“You,”}}
added
Jesus,
{\WJ{“are
from
below,
I
am
from
above;
you
are
of
this
present
world,
I
am
not;}}
\VS{24}{\WJ{
and
so
I
told
you
that
you
would
die
in
your
sins,
for,
unless
you
believe
that
I
am
what
I
am,
you
will
die
in
your
sins.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{25}“Who
are
you?”
they
asked.
{\WJ{“Why
ask
exactly
what
I
have
been
telling
you?”}}
said
Jesus.
\VS{26}{\WJ{“I
have
still
much
that
concerns
you
to
speak
of
and
to
pass
judgment
on;
yet
he
who
sent
me
may
be
trusted,
and
I
speak
to
the
world
only
of
the
things
which
I
have
heard
from
him.”}}
\VS{27}They
did
not
understand
that
he
meant
the
Father.
\VS{28}So
Jesus
added,
{\WJ{“When
you
have
lifted
up
the
Son
of
Man,
then
you
will
understand
that
I
am
what
I
am,
and
that
I
do
nothing
of
myself,
but
that
I
say
just
what
the
Father
has
taught
me.}}
\VS{29}{\WJ{
Moreover,
he
who
sent
me
is
with
me;
he
has
not
left
me
alone;
for
I
always
do
what
pleases
him.”}}
\VS{30}While
he
was
speaking
in
this
way,
many
came
to
believe
in
him.
\VS{31}So
Jesus
went
on
to
say
to
those
who
had
believed
him,
{\WJ{“If
you
remain
constant
to
my
message,
you
are
truly
my
disciples;}}
\VS{32}{\WJ{
and
you
will
find
out
the
truth,
and
the
truth
will
set
you
free.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{33}“We
are
descendants
of
Abraham,”
was
their
answer, “and
have
never
yet
been
in
slavery
to
anyone.
What
do
you
mean
by
saying
{\WJ{‘you
will
be
set free’?”}}
\VS{34}{\WJ{“In
truth
I
tell
you,”}}
replied
Jesus,
{\WJ{“everyone
who
sins
is
a
slave
to
sin.}}
\VS{35}{\WJ{
And
a
slave
does
not
remain
in
the
home
always;
but
a
son
remains
always.}}
\VS{36}{\WJ{
If,
then,
the
Son
sets
you
free,
you
will
be
free
indeed!}}
\VS{37}{\WJ{
I
know
that
you
are
descendants
of
Abraham;
yet
you
are
seeking
to
put
me
to
death,
because
my
message
finds
no
place
in
your
hearts.}}
\VS{38}{\WJ{
I
tell
you
what
I
have
myself
seen
in
the
presence
of
my
Father;
and
you,
in
the
same
way,
do
what
you
have
learned
from
your
father.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{39}“Our
father
is
Abraham,”
was
their
answer.
{\WJ{“If
you
are
Abraham’s
children,”}}
replied
Jesus,
{\WJ{“do
what
Abraham
did.}}
\VS{40}{\WJ{
But,
as
it
is,
you
are
seeking
to
put
me
to
death –
a
man
who
has
told
you
the
truth
as
he
heard
it
from
God.
Abraham
did
not
act
in
that
way.}}
\VS{41}{\WJ{
You
are
doing
what
your
own
father
does.”}}
\par }{\PP “We
are
not bastards,”
they
said, “we
have
one
Father –
God
himself.”
\par }{\PP \VS{42}{\WJ{“If
God
were
your
Father,”}}
Jesus
replied,
{\WJ{“you
would
have
loved
me,
for
I
came
out
from
God,
and
now
am
here;
and
I
have
not
come
of
myself,
but
he
sent
me
as
his
messenger.}}
\VS{43}{\WJ{
How
is
it
that
you
do
not
understand
what
I
say?
It
is
because
you
cannot
bear
to
listen
to
my
message.}}
\VS{44}{\WJ{
As
for
you,
you
are
children
of
your
father
the
devil,
and
you
are
determined
to
do
what
your
father
loves
to
do.
He
was
a
murderer
from
the
first,
and
did
not
stand
by
the
truth,
because
there
is
no
truth
in
him.
Whenever
he
lies,
he
does
what
is
natural
to
him;
because
he
is
a
liar,
and
the
father
of
lying.}}
\VS{45}{\WJ{
But,
as
for
me,
it
is
because
I
speak
the
truth
to
you
that
you
do
not
believe
me.}}
\VS{46}{\WJ{
Which
of
you
can
convict
me
of
sin?
Why
then
don’t
you
believe
me,
if
I
am
speaking
truth?}}
\VS{47}{\WJ{
The
person
who
comes
from
God
listens
to
God’s
teaching;
the
reason
why
you
do
not
listen
is
because
you
do
not
come
from
God.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{48}“Aren’t
we
right,
after
all,”
replied
the
people, “in
saying
that
you
are
a
Samaritan,
and
are
possessed
by
a
demon?”
\par }{\PP \VS{49}{\WJ{“I
am
not
possessed
by
a
demon,”}}
Jesus
answered,
{\WJ{“but
I
am
honoring
my
Father;
and
yet
you
dishonor
me.}}
\VS{50}{\WJ{
Not
that
I
am
seeking
honor
for
myself;
there
is
one
who
is
seeking
my
honor,
and
he
decides.}}
\VS{51}{\WJ{
In
truth
I
tell
you,
if
anyone
lays
my
message
to
heart,
he
will
never
really
die.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{52}“Now
we
are
sure
that
you
are
possessed
by
a
demon,”
the
people
replied. “Abraham
died,
and
so
did
the
prophets;
and
yet
you
say
{\WJ{‘If
anyone
lays
my
message
to
heart,
they
will
never
know
death.’}}
\VS{53}Are
you
greater
than
our
ancestor
Abraham,
who
died?
And
the
prophets
died
too.
Whom
do
you
make
yourself
out
to
be?”
\par }{\PP \VS{54}{\WJ{“If
I
do
honor
to
myself,”}}
answered
Jesus,
{\WJ{“such
honor
counts
for
nothing.
It
is
my
Father
who
does
me
honor –
and
you
say
that
he
is
your
God;}}
\VS{55}{\WJ{
and
yet
you
have
not
learned
to
know
him;
but
I
know
him;
and,
if
I
were
to
say
that
I
do
not
know
him,
I
should
be
a
liar
like
you;
but
I
do
know
him,
and
I
lay
his
message
to
heart.}}
\VS{56}{\WJ{
Your
ancestor
Abraham
rejoiced
that
he
would
see
my
day;
and
he
did
see
it,
and
was
glad.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{57}“You
are
not
fifty
years
old
yet,”
the
people
exclaimed, “and
have
you
seen
Abraham?”
\par }{\PP \VS{58}{\WJ{“In
truth
I
tell
you,”}}
replied
Jesus,
{\WJ{“before
Abraham
existed
I
was.”}}
\VS{59}At
this
they
took
up
stones
to
throw
at
him;
but
Jesus
hid
himself,
and
left
the
Temple
Courts.

\par }{\BB \par }\Chap{9}{\PP \VerseOne{1}As
Jesus
passed
by,
he
saw
a
man
who
had
been
blind
from
his
birth.
\VS{2}“Rabbi,”
asked
his
disciples, “who
was
it
that
sinned,
this
man
or
his
parents,
that
he
was
born
blind?”
\par }{\PP \VS{3}{\WJ{“Neither
the
man
nor
the
parents,”}}
replied
Jesus,
{\WJ{“but
he
was
born
blind
so
that
the
work
of
God
should
be
made
plain
in
him.}}
\VS{4}{\WJ{
We
must
do
the
work
of
him
who
sent
me,
while
it
is
day;
night
is
coming,
when
no
one
can
work.}}
\VS{5}{\WJ{
As
long
as
I
am
in
the
world,
I
am
the
light
of
the
world.”}}
\VS{6}Saying
this,
Jesus
spat
on
the
ground,
made
some paste
with
the
saliva,
and
put
it
on
the
man’s
eyes.
\VS{7}{\WJ{“Go,”}}
he
said,
{\WJ{“and
wash
your
eyes
in
the
Bath
of
Siloam”}} (a
word
which
means ‘messenger’).
So
the
man
went
and
washed
his
eyes,
and
returned
able
to
see.
\VS{8}His
neighbors,
and
those
who
had
formerly
known
him
by
sight
as
a
beggar,
exclaimed, “Is
not
this
the
man
who
used
to
sit
and
beg?”
\par }{\PP \VS{9}“Yes,”
some
said, “it
is”;
while
others
said, “No,
but
he
is
like
him.”
The
man
himself
said, “I
am
he.”
\par }{\PP \VS{10}“How
did
you
get
your
sight,
then?”
they
asked.
\VS{11}“The
man
whom
they
call
Jesus,”
he
answered, “made
a paste,
and
anointed
my
eyes,
and
said
to
me
{\WJ{‘Go
to
Siloam
and
wash
your
eyes.’}}
So
I
went
and
washed
my
eyes,
and
gained
my
sight.”
\par }{\PP \VS{12}“Where
is
he?”
they
asked. “I
do
not
know,”
he
answered.
\VS{13}They
took
the
man,
who
had
been
blind,
to
the
Pharisees.
\VS{14}Now
it
was
a
Sabbath
when
Jesus
made
the paste
and
gave
him
his
sight.
\VS{15}So
the
Pharisees
also
questioned
the
man
as
to
how
he
had
gained
his
sight. “He
put
a paste
on
my
eyes,”
he
answered, “and
I
washed
them,
and
I
can
see.”
\par }{\PP \VS{16}“The
man
cannot
be
from
God,”
said
some
of
the
Pharisees, “for
he
does
not
keep
the
Sabbath.”
\par }{\PP “How
is
it
possible,” retorted
others, “for
a
bad
man
to
give
signs
like
this?”
\VS{17}So
there
was
a
difference
of
opinion
among
them,
and
they
again
questioned
the
man. “What
do
you
yourself
say
about
him,
for
it
is
to
you
that
he
has
given
sight?”
\VS{18}The religious
authorities,
however,
refused
to
believe
that
he
had
been
blind
and
had
gained
his
sight,
until
they
had
called
his
parents
and
questioned
them.
\VS{19}“Is
this
your
son,”
they
asked, “who
you
say
was
born
blind?
If
so,
how
is
it
that
he
can
see
now?”
\par }{\PP \VS{20}“We
know
that
this
is
our
son,”
answered
the
parents, “and
that
he
was
born
blind;
\VS{21}but
how
it
is
that
he
can
see
now
we
do
not
know;
nor
do
we
know
who
it
was
that
gave
him
his
sight.
Ask
him –
he
is
old
enough –
he
will
tell
you
about
himself.”
\VS{22}His
parents
spoke
in
this
way
because
they
were
afraid
of
the
authorities;
for
the
authorities
had
already
agreed
that,
if
anyone
should
acknowledge
Jesus
as
the
Christ,
he
should
be
expelled
from
their
synagogues.
\VS{23}This
was
why
his
parents
said ‘He
is
old
enough;
ask
him.’
\VS{24}So
the
authorities
again
called
the
man
who
had
been
blind,
and
said
to
him, “Give
God
the
praise;
we
know
that
this
is
a
bad
man.”
\par }{\PP \VS{25}“I
know
nothing
about
his
being
a
bad
man,”
he
replied. “One
thing
I
do
know,
that
although
I
was
blind,
now
I
can
see.”
\par }{\PP \VS{26}“What
did
he
do
to
you?”
they
asked. “How
did
he
give
you
your
sight?”
\par }{\PP \VS{27}“I
told
you
just
now,”
he
answered, “and
you
did
not
listen.
Why
do
you
want
to
hear
it
again?
Surely
you
also
do
not
want
to
become
his
disciples?”
\par }{\PP \VS{28}“You
are
his
disciple,”
they retorted scornfully. “But
we
are
disciples
of
Moses.
\VS{29}We
know
that
God
spoke
to
Moses;
but,
as
for
this
man,
we
do
not
know
where
he
comes
from.”
\par }{\PP \VS{30}“Well,”
the
man
replied, “this
is
very
strange;
you
do
not
know
where
he
comes
from,
and
yet
he
has
given
me
my
sight!
\VS{31}We
know
that
God
never
listens
to
bad
people,
but,
when
a
person
is
god-fearing
and
does
God’s
will,
God
listens
to
them.
\VS{32}Since
the
world
began,
such
a
thing
was
never
heard
of
as
anyone’s
giving
sight
to
a
person
born
blind.
\VS{33}If
this
man
had
not
been
from
God,
he
could
not
have
done
anything
at
all.”
\par }{\PP \VS{34}“You,”
they retorted, “were
born
totally
depraved;
and
are
you
trying
to
teach
us?”
So
they
expelled
him.
\VS{35}Jesus
heard
of
their
having
put
him
out;
and,
when
he
had
found
the
man,
he
asked,
{\WJ{“Do
you
believe
in
the
Son
of
Man?”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{36}“Tell
me
who
he
is,
Sir,”
he
replied, “so
that
I
may
believe
in
him.”
\par }{\PP \VS{37}{\WJ{“Not
only
have
you
seen
him,”}}
said
Jesus,
{\WJ{“but
it
is
he
who
is
now
speaking
to
you.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{38}“Then,
Sir,
I
do
believe,”
said
the
man,
bowing
to
the
ground
before
him;
\VS{39}and
Jesus
added,
{\WJ{“It
was
to
put
people
to
the
test
that
I
came
into
this
world,
in
order
that
those
that
cannot
see
should
see,
and
that
those
that
can
see
should
become
blind.”}}
\VS{40}Hearing
this,
some
of
the
Pharisees
who
were
with
him
said, “Then
are
we
blind
too?”
\par }{\PP \VS{41}{\WJ{“If
you
had
been
blind,”}}
replied
Jesus,
{\WJ{“you
would
have
had
no
sin
to
answer
for;
but,
as
it
is,
you
say ‘We
can
see,’
and
so
your
sin
remains.}}

\par }\Chap{10}{\PP \VerseOne{1}{\WJ{
In
truth
I
tell
you,
whoever
does
not
go
into
the sheepfold
through
the
door,
but
climbs
up
at
some
other
place,
that
person
is
a
thief
and
a
robber;}}
\VS{2}{\WJ{
but
the
person
who
goes
in
through
the
door
is
shepherd
to
the
sheep.}}
\VS{3}{\WJ{
For
him
the
watchman
opens
the
door;
and
the
sheep
listen
to
his
voice;
and
he
calls
his
own
sheep
by
name,
and
leads
them
out.}}
\VS{4}{\WJ{
When
he
has
brought
them
all
out,
he
walks
in
front
of
them,
and
his
sheep
follow
him,
because
they
know
his
voice.}}
\VS{5}{\WJ{
They
will
not
follow
a
stranger,
but
will
run
away
from
him;
because
they
do
not
know
a
stranger’s
voice.”}}
\VS{6}This
was
the allegory
that
Jesus
told
them,
but
they
did
not
understand
of
what
he
was
speaking.
\VS{7}So
he
continued,
{\WJ{“In
truth
I
tell
you,
I
am
the
door
for
the
sheep.}}
\VS{8}{\WJ{
All
who
came
before
me
were
thieves
and
robbers;
but
the
sheep
did
not
listen
to
them.}}
\VS{9}{\WJ{
I
am
the
door;
he
who
goes
in
through
me
will
be
safe,
and
he
will
go
in
and
out
and
find
pasture.}}
\VS{10}{\WJ{
The
thief
comes
only
to
steal,
to
kill,
and
to
destroy;
I
have
come
so
that
they
may
have
life,
and
may
have
it
in
greater
fullness.}}
\VS{11}{\WJ{
I
am
the
good
shepherd.
The
good
shepherd
lays
down
his
life
for
his
sheep.}}
\VS{12}{\WJ{
The
hired
man
who
is
not
a
shepherd,
and
who
does
not
own
the
sheep,
when
he
sees
a
wolf
coming,
leaves
them
and
runs
away;
then
the
wolf
seizes
them,
and
scatters
the
flock.}}
\VS{13}{\WJ{
He
does
this
because
he
is
only
a
hired
man
and
does
not
care
about
the
sheep.}}
\VS{14}{\WJ{
I
am
the
good
shepherd;
and
I
know
my
sheep,
and
my
sheep
know
me –}}
\VS{15}{\WJ{
Just
as
the
Father
knows
me
and
I
know
the
Father –
and
I
lay
down
my
life
for
the
sheep.}}
\VS{16}{\WJ{
I
have
other
sheep
besides,
which
do
not
belong
to
this
fold;
I
must
lead
them
also,
and
they
will
listen
to
my
voice;
and
they
will
become
one
flock
under
one
shepherd.}}
\VS{17}{\WJ{
This
is
why
the
Father
loves
me,
because
I
lay
down
my
life –
to
receive
it
again.}}
\VS{18}{\WJ{
No
one
took
it
from
me,
but
I
lay
it
down
of
myself.
I
have
authority
to
lay
it
down,
and
I
have
authority
to
receive
it
again.
This
is
the
command
which
I
received
from
my
Father.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{19}In consequence
of
these
words
a
difference
of
opinion
again
arose
among
the
people.
\VS{20}Many
of
them
said, “He
is
possessed
by
a
demon
and
is
mad;
why
do
you
listen
to
him?”
\VS{21}Others
said, “This
is
not
the
teaching
of
one
who
is
possessed
by
a
demon.
Can
a
demon
give
sight
to
the
blind?”
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{22}Soon
after
this
the
Festival
of
the Rededication
was
held
at
Jerusalem.
\VS{23}It
was
winter;
and
Jesus
was
walking
in
the
Temple
Courts,
in
the Colonnade
of
Solomon,
\VS{24}when
the
people
gathered
around
him,
and
said, “How
long
are
you
going
to
keep
us
in
suspense?
If
you
are
the
Christ,
tell
us
so frankly.”
\par }{\PP \VS{25}{\WJ{“I
have
told
you
so,”}}
replied
Jesus,
{\WJ{“and
you
do
not
believe
me.
The
work
that
I
am
doing
in
my
Father’s
name
bears
testimony
to
me.}}
\VS{26}{\WJ{
But
you
do
not
believe
me,
because
you
are
not
of
my
flock.}}
\VS{27}{\WJ{
My
sheep
listen
to
my
voice;
I
know
them,
and
they
follow
me;}}
\VS{28}{\WJ{
and
I
give
them
eternal
life,
and
they
will
not
be
lost;
nor
will
anyone
snatch
them
out
of
my
hands.}}
\VS{29}{\WJ{
What
my
Father
has
entrusted
to
me
is
more
than
all
else;
and
no
one
can
snatch
anything
out
of
the
Father’s
hands.}}
\VS{30}{\WJ{
The
Father
and
I
are
one.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{31}Some
of
the
people
again
brought
stones
to
throw
at
him;
\VS{32}and
seeing
this,
Jesus
said,
{\WJ{“I
have
done
before
your
eyes
many
good
actions,
inspired
by
the
Father;
for
which
of
them
would
you
stone
me?”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{33}“It
is
not
for
any
good
action
that
we
would
stone
you,”
they
answered, “but
for
blasphemy;
and
because
you,
who
are
only
a
man,
make
yourself
out
to
be
God.”
\par }{\PP \VS{34}{\WJ{“Are
there
not,”}}
replied
Jesus,
{\WJ{“these
words
in
your
Law – ‘I
said,
You
are gods’?}}
\VS{35}{\WJ{
If
those
to
whom
God’s
word
were
addressed
were
said
to
be ‘gods’ –
and
scripture
cannot
be
set
aside –}}
\VS{36}{\WJ{
do
you
say
of
one
whom
the
Father
has
consecrated
and
sent
as
his
messenger
to
the
world ‘You
are
blaspheming,’
because
I
said ‘I
am
God’s Son’?}}
\VS{37}{\WJ{
If
I
am
not
doing
the
work
that
my
Father
is
doing,
do
not
believe
me;}}
\VS{38}{\WJ{
if
I
am
doing
it,
even
though
you
do
not
believe
me,
believe
what
that
work
shows;
so
that
you
may
understand,
and
understand
more
and
more
clearly,
that
the
Father
is
in
union
with
me,
and
I
with
the
Father.”}}
\VS{39}The
authorities
again
sought
to
arrest
him;
but
he
escaped
their
hands.
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{40}Then
Jesus
again
crossed
the
Jordan
to
the
place
where
John
used
to baptize
at
first,
and
stayed
there
some
time,
during
which
many
people
came
to
see
him.
\VS{41}“John
gave
no
sign
of
his
mission,”
they
said. “But
everything
that
he
said
about
this
man
was
true.”
\VS{42}And
many
learned
to
believe
in
Jesus
there.

\par }{\BB \par }\Chap{11}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
a
man
named
Lazarus,
of Bethany,
was
lying
ill;
he
belonged
to
the
same
village
as
Mary
and
her
sister
Martha.
\VS{2}This
Mary,
whose
brother
Lazarus
was
ill,
was
the
Mary
who
anointed
the
Master
with
perfume,
and
wiped
his
feet
with
her
hair.
\VS{3}The
sisters,
therefore,
sent
this
message
to
Jesus – ‘Master,
your
friend
is ill’;
\VS{4}and,
when
Jesus
heard
it,
he
said,
{\WJ{“This
illness
is
not
to
end
in
death,
but
is
to redound
to
the
honor
of
God,
in
order
that
the
Son
of
God
may
be
honored
through
it.”}}
\VS{5}Jesus
loved
Martha
and
her
sister,
and
Lazarus.
\VS{6}Yet,
when
he
heard
of
the
illness
of Lazarus,
he
still
stayed
two
days
in
the
place
where
he
was.
\VS{7}Then,
after
that,
he
said
to
his
disciples,
{\WJ{“Let
us
go
to
Judea
again.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{8}“Rabbi,”
they
replied, “the
authorities
there
were
but
just
now
seeking
to
stone
you;
and
are
you
going
there
again?”
\par }{\PP \VS{9}{\WJ{“Are
not
there
twelve
hours
in
the
day?”}}
answered
Jesus.
{\WJ{“If
someone
walks
about
in
the
daytime,
they
don’t
stumble,
because
they
can
see
the
light
of
the
sun;}}
\VS{10}{\WJ{
but,
if
they
walk
about
at
night,
they
stumble,
because
they
have
not
the
light.”}}
\VS{11}And,
when
he
had
said
this,
he
added,
{\WJ{“Our
friend
Lazarus
has
fallen
asleep;
but
I
am
going
so
that
I
may
wake
him.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{12}“If
he
has
fallen
asleep,
Master,
he
will
get
well,”
said
the
disciples.
\VS{13}But
Jesus
meant
that
he
was
dead;
they,
however,
supposed
that
he
was
speaking
of
natural
sleep.
\VS{14}Then
he
said
to
them
plainly,
{\WJ{“Lazarus
is
dead;}}
\VS{15}{\WJ{
and
I
am
glad
for
your
sakes
that
I
was
not
there,
so
that
you
may
learn
to
believe
in
me.
But
let
us
go
to
him.”}}
\VS{16}At
this,
Thomas,
who
was
called ‘The Twin,’
said
to
his
fellow
disciples, “Let
us
go
too,
so
that
we
may
die
with
him.”
\VS{17}When
Jesus
reached
the
place,
he
found
that Lazarus
had
been
four
days
in
the
tomb
already.
\VS{18}Bethany
being
only
about
two
miles
from
Jerusalem,
\VS{19}a
number
of
the
people
had
come
there
to
comfort
Martha
and
Mary
because
of
their
brother’s
death.
\VS{20}When
Martha
heard
that
Jesus
was
coming,
she
went
to
meet
him;
but
Mary
sat
quietly
at
home.
\VS{21}“Master,”
Martha
said
to
Jesus, “if
you
had
been
here,
my
brother
would
not
have
died.
\VS{22}Even
now,
I
know
that
God
will
grant
you
whatever
you
ask
him.”
\par }{\PP \VS{23}{\WJ{“Your
brother
will
rise
to
life,”}}
said
Jesus.
\VS{24}“I
know
that
he
will,”
replied
Martha, “in
the resurrection
at
the
Last
day.”
\par }{\PP \VS{25}{\WJ{“I
am
the resurrection
and
the
life,”}}
said
Jesus.
{\WJ{“He
who
believes
in
me
will
live,
though
he
die;}}
\VS{26}{\WJ{
and
he
who
lives
and
believes
in
me
will
never
die.
Do
you
believe
this?”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{27}“Yes
Master,”
she
answered. “I
have
learned
to
believe
that
you
are
the
Christ,
the
Son
of
God,
who
was
to
come
into
the
world.”
\VS{28}After
saying
this, Martha
went
and
called
her
sister
Mary,
and
whispered, “The
teacher
is
here,
and
is
asking
for
you.”
\VS{29}As
soon
as Mary
heard
that,
she
got
up
quickly,
and
went
to
meet
him.
\VS{30}Jesus
had
not
then
come
into
the
village,
but
was
still
at
the
place
where
Martha
had
met
him.
\VS{31}So
the
people,
who
were
in
the
house
with
Mary,
comforting
her,
when
they
saw
her
get
up
quickly
and
go
out,
followed
her,
thinking
that
she
was
going
to
the
tomb
to
weep
there.
\VS{32}When
Mary
came
where
Jesus
was
and
saw
him,
she
threw
herself
at
his
feet. “Master,”
she
exclaimed, “if
you
had
been
here,
my
brother
would
not
have
died!”
\VS{33}When
Jesus
saw
her
weeping,
and
the
people
who
had
come
with
her
weeping
also,
he
groaned
deeply,
and
was
greatly
distressed.
\VS{34}{\WJ{“Where
have
you
buried
him?”}}
he
asked. “Come
and
see,
Master,”
they
answered.
\VS{35}Jesus
burst
into
tears.
\VS{36}“How
he
must
have
loved
him!”
the
people
exclaimed;
\VS{37}but
some
of
them
said, “Could
not
this
man,
who
gave
sight
to
the
blind
man,
have
also
prevented
Lazarus
from
dying?”
\VS{38}Again
groaning
inwardly,
Jesus
came
to
the
tomb.
It
was
a
cave,
and
a
stone
lay
against
the
mouth
of
it.
\VS{39}{\WJ{“Move
the
stone
away,”}}
said
Jesus. “Master,”
said
Martha,
the
sister
of
the
dead
man, “by
this
time
the
smell
must
be
offensive,
for
this
is
the
fourth
day
since
his
death.”
\par }{\PP \VS{40}{\WJ{“Didn’t
I
tell
you,”}}
replied
Jesus,
{\WJ{“that,
if
you
would
believe
in
me,
you
should
see
the
glory
of
God?”}}
\VS{41}So
they
moved
the
stone
away;
and
Jesus,
with
uplifted
eyes,
said,
{\WJ{“Father,
I
thank
you
that
you
have
heard
my
prayer;}}
\VS{42}{\WJ{
I
know
that
you
always
hear
me;
but
I
say
this
for
the
sake
of
the
people
standing
near,
so
that
they
may
believe
that
you
has
sent
me
as
your
messenger.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{43}Then,
after
saying
this,
Jesus
called
in
a
loud
voice,
{\WJ{“Lazarus!
Come
out!”}}
\VS{44}The
dead
man
came
out,
wrapped
hand
and
foot
in
a winding-sheet;
his
face,
too,
had
been
wrapped
in
a
cloth.
{\WJ{“Set
him
free,”}}
said
Jesus,
{\WJ{“and
let
him
go.”}}
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{45}In consequence
of
this,
many
of
the
people,
who
had
come
to
visit
Mary
and
had
seen
what
Jesus
did,
put
their
faith
in
him.
\VS{46}Some
of
them,
however,
went
to
the
Pharisees,
and
told
them
what
he
had
done.
\VS{47}The
chief
priests
and
the
Pharisees
called
a
meeting
of
the
High
Council,
and
said, “What
are
we
to
do,
now
that
this
man
is
giving
so
many
signs?
\VS{48}If
we
allow
him
to
continue
as
we
are
doing,
everyone
will
believe
in
him;
and
the
Romans
will
come
and
will
take
from
us
both
our
Temple
and
our
nation.”
\VS{49}One
of
them,
however,
Caiaphas,
who
was
high
priest
that
year,
said
to
them,
\VS{50}“You
are
utterly mistaken.
You
do
not
consider
that
it
is
better
for
you
that
one
person
should
die
for
the
people,
rather
than
the
whole
nation
should
be
destroyed.”
\VS{51}Now
he
did
not
say
this
of
his
own
accord;
but,
as
high
priest
that
year,
he
prophesied
that
Jesus
was
to
die
for
the
nation –
\VS{52}And
not
for
the
nation
only,
but
also
that
he
might
unite
in
one
body
the
children
of
God
now
scattered
far
and
wide.
\VS{53}So
from
that
day
they
plotted
to
put
Jesus
to
death.
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{54}In consequence
of
this,
Jesus
did
not
go
about
publicly
among
the
people
any
more,
but
left
and
went
into
the
country bordering
on
the
wilderness,
to
a
town
called
Ephraim,
where
he
stayed
with
his
disciples.
\VS{55}But
the
Jewish
Festival
of
the
Passover
was
near;
and
many
people
had
gone
up
from
the
country
to
Jerusalem,
for
their
purification,
before
the
Festival
began.
\VS{56}So
they
looked
for
Jesus
there,
and
said
to
one
another,
as
they
stood
in
the
Temple
Courts, “What
do
you
think?
Do
you
think
he
will
come
to
the
Festival?”
\VS{57}The
chief
priests
and
the
Pharisees
had
already
issued
orders
that,
if
anyone
learned
where
Jesus
was,
he
should
give
information,
so
that
they
might
arrest
him.

\par }\Chap{12}{\SH The Last Days
\par }{\PP \VerseOne{1}Six
days
before
the
Passover
Jesus
came
to Bethany,
where
Lazarus,
whom
he
had
raised
from
the
dead,
was
living.
\VS{2}There
a
supper
was
given
in
his
honor
at
which
Martha
waited,
while
Lazarus
was
one
of
those
present
at
the
table.
\VS{3}So
Mary
took
a
pound
of
choice
spikenard
perfume
of
great
value,
and
anointed
the
feet
of
Jesus
with
it,
and
then
wiped
them
with
her
hair.
The
whole
house
was
filled
with
the
scent
of
the
perfume.
\VS{4}One
of
the
disciples,
Judas
Iscariot,
who
was
about
to
betray
Jesus,
asked,
\VS{5}“Why
was
not
this
perfume
sold
for
a
year’s
wages,
and
the
money
given
to
poor
people?”
\VS{6}He
said
this,
not
because
he
cared
for
the
poor,
but
because
he
was
a
thief,
and,
being
in
charge
of
the
purse,
used
to
take
what
was
put
in
it.
\VS{7}{\WJ{“Leave
her
alone,”}}
said
Jesus,
{\WJ{“so
that
she
may
keep
it
until
the
day
when
my
body
is
being
prepared
for
burial.}}
\VS{8}{\WJ{
The
poor
you
always
have
with
you,
but
you
will
not
always
have
me.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{9}Now
great
numbers
of
people
found
out
that
Jesus
was
at Bethany;
and
they
came
there,
not
only
because
of
him,
but
also
to
see
Lazarus,
whom
he
had
raised
from
the
dead.
\VS{10}The
chief
priests,
however,
plotted
to
put
Lazarus,
as
well
as
Jesus,
to
death,
\VS{11}because
it
was owing
to
him
that
many
of
the
people
had
left
them,
and
were
becoming
believers
in
Jesus.
\VS{12}On
the
following
day
great
numbers
of
people
who
had
come
to
the
Festival,
hearing
that
Jesus
was
on
his
way
to
Jerusalem,
took
palm
branches,
\VS{13}and
went
out
to
meet
him,
shouting
as
they
went, “God
save
him!
Blessed
is
he
who
comes
in
the
name
of
the
Lord –
the
king
of
Israel!”
\VS{14}Having
found
a
young
donkey,
Jesus
seated
himself
on
it,
in
accordance
with
the
passage
of
scripture –
\VS{15}‘Fear
not,
people
of
Zion.
Your
king
is
coming
to
you,
sitting
on
the
foal
of
a
donkey.’
\VS{16}His
disciples
did
not
understand
all
this
at
first;
but,
when
Jesus
had
been
exalted,
then
they
remembered
that
these
things
had
been
said
of
him
in
scripture,
and
that
they
had
done
these
things
for
him.
\VS{17}Meanwhile
the
people
who
were
with
him,
when
he
called
Lazarus
out
of
the
tomb
and
raised
him
from
the
dead,
were
telling
what
they
had
seen.
\VS{18}This,
indeed,
was
why
the
crowd
met
him –
because
people
had
heard
that
he
had
given
this
sign
of
his
mission.
\VS{19}So
the
Pharisees
said
to
one
another, “You
see
that
you
are
gaining
nothing!
Why,
all
the
world
has
run
after
him!”
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{20}Among
those
who
were
going
up
to
worship
at
the
Festival
were
some
Greeks,
\VS{21}who
went
to
Philip
of Bethsaida
in
Galilee,
and
said, “Sir,
we
wish
to
see
Jesus.”
\VS{22}Philip
went
and
told Andrew,
and
then
together
they
went
and
told
Jesus.
\VS{23}This
was
his
reply –
{\WJ{“The
time
has
come
for
the
Son
of
Man
to
be
exalted.}}
\VS{24}{\WJ{
In
truth
I
tell
you,
unless
a
grain
of
wheat
falls
into
the
ground
and
dies,
it
remains
solitary;
but,
if
it
dies,
it
becomes
fruitful.}}
\VS{25}{\WJ{
A
person
who
loves
their
life
loses
it;
while
someone
who
hates
their
life
in
the
present
world
will
preserve
it
for
eternal
life.}}
\VS{26}{\WJ{
If
someone
is
ready
to
serve
me,
let
them
follow
me;
and
where
I
am,
there
my
servant
will
be
also.
If
a
person
is
ready
to
serve
me,
my
Father
will
honor
them.}}
\VS{27}{\WJ{
Now
I
am
distressed
at
heart
and
what
can
I
say?
Father,
bring
me
safe
through
this
hour –
yet
it
was
for
this
reason
that
I
came
to
this
hour –}}
\VS{28}{\WJ{
Father,
honor
your
own
name.”}}
At
this
there
came
a
voice
from
heaven,
which
said, “I
have
already
honored
it,
and
I
will
honor
it
again.”
\VS{29}The
crowd
of
bystanders,
who
heard
the
sound,
said
that
it
was
thundering.
Others
said, “An
angel
has
been
speaking
to
him.”
\par }{\PP \VS{30}{\WJ{“It
was
not
for
my
sake
that
the
voice
came,”}}
said
Jesus,
{\WJ{“but
for
yours.}}
\VS{31}{\WJ{
Now
this
world
is
on
its
trial.
Now
the
Spirit
that
is
ruling
this
world
will
be
driven
out;}}
\VS{32}{\WJ{
and
I,
when
I
am
lifted
up
from
the
earth,
will
draw
all
people
to
myself.”}}
\VS{33}By
these
words
he indicated
what
death
he
was
destined
to
die.
\VS{34}“We,”
replied
the
people, “have
learned
from
the
Law
that
the
Christ
is
to
remain
for
ever;
how
is
it,
then,
that
you
say
that
the
Son
of
Man
must
be
{\WJ{‘lifted up’}}
Who
is
this ‘Son
of
Man’?”
\par }{\PP \VS{35}{\WJ{“Only
a
little
while
longer,”}}
answered
Jesus,
{\WJ{“will
you
have
the
light
among
you.
Travel
on
while
you
have
the
light,
so
that
darkness
may
not
overtake
you;
he
who
travels
in
the
darkness
does
not
know
where
he
is
going.}}
\VS{36}{\WJ{
While
you
still
have
the
light,
believe
in
the
light,
so
that
you
may
be
children
of
light.”}}
After
he
had
said
this,
Jesus
went
away,
and
hid
himself
from
them.
\VS{37}But,
though
Jesus
had
given
so
many
signs
of
his
mission
before
their
eyes,
they
still
did
not
believe
in
him,
\VS{38}in
fulfillment
of
the
words
of
the
prophet
Isaiah,
where
he
says – ‘Lord,
who
has
believed
our
teaching?
And
to
whom
has
the
might
of
the
Lord
been
revealed?’
\VS{39}The
reason
why
they
were
unable
to
believe
is
given
by
Isaiah
elsewhere,
in
these
words –
\VS{40}‘He
has
blinded
their
eyes,
and blunted
their
mind,
so
that
they
should
not
see
with
their
eyes,
and
perceive
with
their
mind,
and
turn –
And
I
should
heal
them.’
\VS{41}Isaiah
said
this,
because
he
saw Christ’s
glory;
and
it
was
of
him
that
he
spoke.
\VS{42}Yet
for
all
this,
even
among
the
leading
men
there
were
many
who
came
to
believe
in
Jesus;
but,
because
of
the
Pharisees,
they
did
not
acknowledge
it,
because
they
were
afraid
that
they
should
be
expelled
from
their
synagogues;
\VS{43}for
they
valued
honor
from
people
more
than
honor
from
God.
\VS{44}But
Jesus
had
proclaimed,
{\WJ{“He
who
believes
in
me
believes,
not
in
me,
but
in
him
who
sent
me;}}
\VS{45}{\WJ{
and
he
who
sees
me
sees
him
who
sent
me.}}
\VS{46}{\WJ{
I
have
come
as
a
light
into
the
world,
so
that
no
one
who
believes
in
me
should
remain
in
the
darkness.}}
\VS{47}{\WJ{
When
anyone
hears
my
teaching
and
pays
no
heed
to
it,
I
am
not
his
judge;
for
I
came
not
to
judge
the
world,
but
to
save
the
world.}}
\VS{48}{\WJ{
He
who
rejects
me,
and disregards
my
teaching,
has
a
judge
already –
the
message
which
I
have
delivered
will
itself
be
his
judge
at
the
Last
day.}}
\VS{49}{\WJ{
For
I
have
not
delivered
it
on
my
own
authority;
but
the
Father,
who
sent
me,
has
himself
given
me
his
command
as
to
what
I
should
say,
and
what
message
I
should
deliver.}}
\VS{50}{\WJ{
And
I
know
that
eternal
life
lies
in
keeping
his
command.
Therefore,
whatever
I
say,
I
say
only
what
the
Father
has
taught
me.”}}

\par }{\BB \par }\Chap{13}{\PP p
\VerseOne{1}Before
the
Passover
Festival
began,
Jesus
knew
that
the
time
had
come
for
him
to
leave
the
world
and
go
to
the
Father.
He
had
loved
those
who
were
his
own
in
the
world,
and
he
loved
them
to
the
last.
\VS{2}The
devil
had
already
put
the
thought
of
betraying
Jesus
into
the
mind
of
Judas
Iscariot,
the
son
of
Simon;
\VS{3}and
at supper,
Jesus –
although
knowing
that
the
Father
had
put
everything
into
his
hands,
and
that
he
had
come
from
God,
and
was
to
return
to
God –
\VS{4}rose
from
his
place,
and,
taking
off
his
upper
garments,
tied
a
towel
around
his
waist.
\VS{5}He
then
poured
some
water
into
the
basin,
and
began
to
wash
the
disciples’
feet,
and
to
wipe
them
with
the
towel
which
was
tied
around
him.
\VS{6}When
he
came
to
Simon
Peter,
Peter
said, “You,
Master!
Are
you
going
to
wash
my
feet?”
\par }{\PP \VS{7}{\WJ{“You
do
not
understand
now
what
I
am
doing,”}}
replied
Jesus,
{\WJ{“but
you
will
learn
by
and
by.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{8}“You
will
never
wash
my
feet!”
exclaimed
Peter.
{\WJ{“Unless
I
wash
you,”}}
answered
Jesus,
{\WJ{“you
have
nothing
in
common
with
me.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{9}“Then,
Master,
not
my
feet
only,”
exclaimed
Simon
Peter, “but
also
my
hands
and
my
head.”
\par }{\PP \VS{10}{\WJ{“He
who
has
bathed,”}}
replied
Jesus,
{\WJ{“has
no
need
to
wash,
unless
it
be
his
feet,
but
is
altogether
clean;
and
you,”}}
he
said
to
the
disciples,
{\WJ{“are
clean,
yet
not
all
of
you.”}}
\VS{11}For
he
knew
who
was
going
to
betray
him,
and
that
was
why
he
said
{\WJ{‘You
are
not
all
clean.’}}
\VS{12}When
he
had
washed
their
feet,
and
had
put
on
his
upper
garments
and
taken
his
place,
he
spoke
to
them
again.
{\WJ{“Do
you
understand
what
I
have
been
doing
to
you?”}}
he
asked.
\VS{13}{\WJ{“You
yourselves
call
me ‘the teacher’
and ‘the Master’,
and
you
are
right,
for
I
am
both.}}
\VS{14}{\WJ{
If
I,
then – ‘the Master’
and ‘the teacher’ –
have
washed
your
feet,
you
also
ought
to
wash
one
another’s
feet;}}
\VS{15}{\WJ{
for
I
have
given
you
an
example,
so
that
you
may
do
just
as
I
have
done
to
you.}}
\VS{16}{\WJ{
In
truth
I
tell
you,
a
servant
is
not
greater
than
their
master,
neither
is
a
messenger
greater
than
the
one
who
sends
them.}}
\VS{17}{\WJ{
Now
that
you
know
these
things,
happy
are
you
if
you
do
them.}}
\VS{18}{\WJ{
I
am
not
speaking
about
all
of
you.
I
know
whom
I
have
chosen;
but
this
is
in
fulfillment
of
the
words
of
scripture – ‘He
that
is
eating
my
bread
has
lifted
his
heel
against
me.’}}
\VS{19}{\WJ{
For
the
future
I
will
tell
you
of
things
before
they
take
place,
so
that,
when
they
take
place,
you
may
believe
that
I
am
what
I
am.}}
\VS{20}{\WJ{
In
truth
I
tell
you,
the
one
who
receives
anyone
that
I
send
receives
me;
and
the
person
who
receives
me
receives
him
who
sent
me.”}}
\VS{21}After
saying
this,
Jesus
was
much
troubled,
and
said
solemnly,
{\WJ{“In
truth
I
tell
you
that
it
is
one
of
you
who
will
betray
me.”}}
\VS{22}The
disciples
looked
at
one
another,
wondering
whom
he
meant.
\VS{23}Next
to
Jesus,
in
the
place
on
his
right
hand,
was
one
of
his
disciples,
whom
he
loved.
\VS{24}So
Simon
Peter
made
signs
to
that
disciple,
and
whispered, “Tell
me
who
it
is
that
he
means.”
\VS{25}Being
in
this
position,
that
disciple leant
back
on
Jesus’
shoulder,
and
asked
him, “Who
is
it,
Master?”
\par }{\PP \VS{26}{\WJ{“It
is
the
one,”}}
answered
Jesus,
{\WJ{“to
whom
I
will
give
a
piece
of
bread
after dipping
it
in
the
dish.”}}
And,
when
Jesus
had
dipped
the
bread,
he
took
it
and
gave
it
to
Judas,
the
son
of
Simon
Iscariot;
\VS{27}and
it
was
then,
after
he
had
received
it,
that
Satan
took
possession
of
him.
So
Jesus
said
to
him,
{\WJ{“Do
at
once
what
you
are
going
to
do.”}}
\VS{28}But
no
one
at
the
table
understood
why
he
said
this
to
Judas.
\VS{29}Some
thought
that,
as
Judas
kept
the
purse,
Jesus
meant
that
he
was
to
buy
some
things
needed
for
the
Festival,
or
to
give
something
to
the
poor.
\VS{30}After
taking
the
piece
of
bread,
Judas
went
out
immediately;
and
it
was
night.
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{31}When
Judas
had
gone
out,
Jesus
said,
{\WJ{“Now
the
Son
of
Man
has
been
exalted,
and
God
has
been
exalted
through
him;}}
\VS{32}{\WJ{
and
God
will
exalt
him
with
himself –
yes,
he
will
exalt
him
forthwith.}}
\VS{33}{\WJ{
My
children,
I
am
to
be
with
you
but
a
little
while
longer.
You
will
look
for
me;
and
what
I
said
to
the
people – ‘You
cannot
come
where
I
am going’ –
I
now
say
to
you.}}
\VS{34}{\WJ{
I
give
you
a
new
commandment –
love
one
another;
love
one
another
as
I
have
loved
you.}}
\VS{35}{\WJ{
It
is
by
this
that
everyone
will
recognize
you
as
my
disciples –
by
your
loving
one
another.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{36}“Where
are
you
going,
Master?”
asked
Peter.
{\WJ{“I
am
going
where
you
cannot
now
follow
me,”}}
answered
Jesus,
{\WJ{“but
you
will
follow
me
later.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{37}“Why
cannot
I
follow
you
now,
Master?”
asked
Peter. “I
will
lay
down
my
life
for
you.”
\par }{\PP \VS{38}{\WJ{“Will
you
lay
down
your
life
for
me?”}}
replied
Jesus.
{\WJ{“In
truth
I
tell
you,
the cock
will
not
crow
until
you
have disowned
me
three
times.}}

\par }\Chap{14}{\PP \VerseOne{1}{\WJ{
Do
not
let
your
hearts
be
troubled.
Believe
in
God;
believe
also
in
me.}}
\VS{2}{\WJ{
In
my
Father’s
home
there
are
many
dwellings.
If
it
had
not
been
so,
I
should
have
told
you,
for
I
am
going
to
prepare
a
place
for
you.}}
\VS{3}{\WJ{
And,
since
I
go
and
prepare
a
place
for
you,
I
will
return
and
take
you
to
be
with
me,
so
that
you
may
be
where
I
am;}}
\VS{4}{\WJ{
and
you
know
the
way
to
the
place
where
I
am
going.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{5}“We
do
not
know
where
you
are
going,
Master,”
said
Thomas. “So
how
can
we
know
the
way?”
\VS{6}Jesus
answered,
{\WJ{“I
am
the
way,
and
the
truth,
and
the
life;
no
one
ever
comes
to
the
Father
except
through
me.}}
\VS{7}{\WJ{
If
you
had
recognized
me,
you
would
have
known
my
Father
also;
for
the
future
you
will
recognize
him,
indeed
you
have
already
seen
him.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{8}“Master,
show
us
the
Father,”
said
Philip, “and
we
will
be
satisfied.”
\par }{\PP \VS{9}{\WJ{“Have
I
been
all
this
time
among
you,”}}
said
Jesus,
{\WJ{“and
yet
you,
Philip,
have
not
recognized
me?
The
person
who
has
seen
me
has
seen
the
Father,
how
can
you
say,
then, ‘Show
us
the Father’?}}
\VS{10}{\WJ{
Don’t
you
believe
that
I
am
in
union
with
the
Father,
and
the
Father
with
me?
In
giving
you
my
teaching
I
am
not
speaking
on
my
own
authority;
but
the
Father
himself,
always
in
union
with
me,
does
his
own
work.}}
\VS{11}{\WJ{
Believe
me,”
he
said
to
them
all, “when
I
say
that
I
am
in
union
with
the
Father
and
the
Father
with
me,
or
else
believe
me
because
of
the
work
itself.}}
\VS{12}{\WJ{
In
truth
I
tell
you,
the
person
who
believes
in
me
will
themselves
do
the
work
that
I
am
doing;
and
they
will
do
greater
work
still,
because
I
am
going
to
the
Father.}}
\VS{13}{\WJ{
Whatever
you
ask,
in
my
name,
I
will
do,
so
that
the
Father
may
be
honored
in
the
Son.}}
\VS{14}{\WJ{
If
you
ask
anything,
in
my
name,
I
will
do
it.}}
\VS{15}{\WJ{
If
you
love
me,
you
will
lay
my
commands
to
heart,}}
\VS{16}{\WJ{
and
I
will
ask
the
Father,
and
he
will
give
you
another
helper,
to
be
with
you
always –
the
Spirit
of
truth.}}
\VS{17}{\WJ{
The
world
cannot
receive
this
Spirit,
because
it
does
not
see
him
or
recognize
him,
but
you
recognize
him,
because
he
is
always
with
you,
and
is
within
you.}}
\VS{18}{\WJ{
I
will
not
leave
you
bereaved;
I
will
come
to
you.}}
\VS{19}{\WJ{
In
a
little
while
the
world
will
see
me
no
more,
but
you
will
still
see
me;
because
I
am
living,
you
will
be
living
also.}}
\VS{20}{\WJ{
At
that
time
you
will
recognize
that
I
am
in
union
with
the
Father,
and
you
with
me,
and
I
with
you.}}
\VS{21}{\WJ{
It
is
they
who
have
my
commands
and
lays
them
to
heart
who
loves
me;
and
the
person
who
loves
me
will
be
loved
by
my
Father,
and
I
will
love
them,
and
will
reveal
myself
to
them.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{22}“What
has
happened,
Master,”
said
Judas (not
Judas
Iscariot), “that
you
are
going
to
reveal
yourself
to
us,
and
not
to
the
world?”
\par }{\PP \VS{23}{\WJ{“Whoever
loves
me,”}}
Jesus
answered,
{\WJ{“will
lay
my
message
to
heart;
and
my
Father
will
love
him,
and
we
will
come
to
him
and
make
our
home
with
him.}}
\VS{24}{\WJ{
The
person
who
does
not
love
me
will
not
lay
my
message
to
heart;
and
the
message
to
which
you
are
listening
is
not
my
own,
but
comes
from
the
Father
who
sent
me.}}
\VS{25}{\WJ{
I
have
told
you
all
this
while
still
with
you,}}
\VS{26}{\WJ{
but
the
helper –
the
Holy
Spirit
whom
the
Father
will
send
in
my
name –
will
teach
you
all
things,
and
will
recall
to
your
minds
all
that
I
have
said
to
you.}}
\VS{27}{\WJ{
Peace
be
with
you!
My
own
peace
I
give
you.
I
do
not
give
to
you
as
the
world
gives.
Do
not
let
your
hearts
be
troubled,
or
dismayed.}}
\VS{28}{\WJ{
You
heard
me
say
that
I
was
going
away
and
would
return
to
you.
Had
you
loved
me,
you
would
have
been
glad
that
I
was
going
to
the
Father,
because
the
Father
is
greater
than
I.}}
\VS{29}{\WJ{
And
this
I
have
told
you
now
before
it
happens,
so
that,
when
it
does
happen,
you
may
still
believe
in
me.}}
\VS{30}{\WJ{
I
will
not
talk
with
you
much
more,
for
the
Spirit
that
is
ruling
the
world
is
coming.
He
has
nothing
in
common
with
me;}}
\VS{31}{\WJ{
but
he
is
coming
so
that
the
world
may
see
that
I
love
the
Father,
and
that
I
do
as
the
Father
commanded
me.
Come,
let
us
be
going.}}

\par }{\BB \par }\Chap{15}{\PP \VerseOne{1}{\WJ{“I
am
the
true
vine,
and
my
Father
is
the vine-grower.}}
\VS{2}{\WJ{
Any
unfruitful
branch
in
me
he
takes
away,
and
he cleanses
every
fruitful
branch,
so
that
it
may
bear
more
fruit.}}
\VS{3}{\WJ{
You
are
already
clean
because
of
the
message
that
I
have
given
you.}}
\VS{4}{\WJ{
Remain
united
to
me,
and
I
will
remain
united
to
you.
As
a
branch
cannot
bear
fruit
by
itself,
unless
it
remains
united
to
the
vine;
no
more
can
you,
unless
you
remain
united
to
me.}}
\VS{5}{\WJ{
I
am
the
vine,
you
are
the
branches.
If
you
remains
united
to
me,
while
I
remain
united
to
you –
you
bear
fruit
plentifully;
for
you
can
do
nothing
apart
from
me.}}
\VS{6}{\WJ{
If
anyone
does
not
remain
united
to
me,
they
are
thrown
away,
as
a
branch
would
be,
and
withers
up.
Such
branches
are
collected
and
thrown
into
the
fire,
and
are
burnt.}}
\VS{7}{\WJ{
If
you
remain
united
to
me,
and
my
teaching
remains
in
your
hearts,
ask
whatever
you
wish,
and
it
will
be
yours.}}
\VS{8}{\WJ{
It
is
by
your
bearing
fruit
plentifully,
and
so
showing
yourselves
my
disciples,
that
my
Father
is
honored.}}
\VS{9}{\WJ{
As
the
Father
has
loved
me,
so
have
I
loved
you;
remain
in
my
love.}}
\VS{10}{\WJ{
If
you
lay
my
commands
to
heart,
you
will
remain
in
my
love;
just
as
I
have
laid
the
Father’s
commands
to
heart
and
remain
in
his
love.}}
\VS{11}{\WJ{
I
have
told
you
all
this
so
that
my
own
joy
may
be
yours,
and
that
your
joy
may
be
complete.}}
\VS{12}{\WJ{
This
is
my
command –
love
one
another,
as
I
have
loved
you.}}
\VS{13}{\WJ{
No
one
can
give
greater
proof
of
love
than
by
laying
down
their
life
for
their
friends.}}
\VS{14}{\WJ{
And
you
are
my
friends,
if
you
do
what
I
command
you.}}
\VS{15}{\WJ{
I
no
longer
call
you ‘servants,’
because
a
servant
does
not
know
what
their
master
is
doing;
but
I
have
given
you
the
name
of ‘friends,’
because
I
made
known
to
you
everything
that
I
learned
from
my
Father.}}
\VS{16}{\WJ{
It
wasn’t
you
who
chose
me,
but
I
who
chose
you,
and
I
appointed
you
to
go
and
bear
fruit –
fruit
that
should
remain,
so
that
the
Father
might
grant
you
whatever
you
ask
in
my
name.}}
\VS{17}{\WJ{
I
am
giving
you
these
commands
that
you
may
love
one
another.}}
\VS{18}{\WJ{
If
the
world
hates
you,
you
know
that
it
has
first
hated
me.}}
\VS{19}{\WJ{
If
you
belonged
to
the
world,
the
world
would
love
its
own.
Because
you
do
not
belong
to
the
world,
but
I
have
chosen
you
out
of
the
world –
that
is
why
the
world
hates
you.}}
\VS{20}{\WJ{
Remember
what
I
said
to
you – ‘A
servant
is
not
greater
than
their
master.’
If
they
have
persecuted
me,
they
will
also
persecute
you;
if
they
have
laid
my
message
to
heart,
they
will
lay
yours
to
heart
also.}}
\VS{21}{\WJ{
But
they
will
do
all
this
to
you,
because
you
believe
in
my
name,
for
they
do
not
know
him
who
sent
me.}}
\VS{22}{\WJ{
If
I
had
not
come
and
spoken
to
them,
they
would
have
had
no
sin
to
answer
for;
but
as
it
is,
they
have
no
excuse
for
their
sin.}}
\VS{23}{\WJ{
The
person
who
hates
me
hates
my
Father
also.}}
\VS{24}{\WJ{
If
I
had
not
done
among
them
such
work
as
no
one
else
ever
did,
they
would
have
had
no
sin
to
answer
for;
but,
as
it
is,
they
have
both
seen
and
hated
both
me
and
my
Father.}}
\VS{25}{\WJ{
And
so
is
fulfilled
what
is
said
in
their
Law – ‘They
hated
me
without
cause.’}}
\VS{26}{\WJ{
But,
when
the
helper
comes,
whom
I
will
send
to
you
from
the
Father –
the
Spirit
of
truth,
who
comes
from
the
Father –
will
bear
testimony
to
me;}}
\VS{27}{\WJ{
yes,
and
you
also
are
to
bear
testimony,
because
you
have
been
with
me
from
the
first.}}

\par }\Chap{16}{\PP \VerseOne{1}“I
have
spoken
to
you
in
this
way
so
that
you
may
not
falter.
\VS{2}{\WJ{
They
will
expel
you
from
their
synagogues;
indeed
the
time
is
coming
when
anyone
who
kills
you
will
think
that
they
are
making
an
offering
to
God.}}
\VS{3}{\WJ{
They
will
do
this,
because
they
have
not
learned
to
know
the
Father,
or
even
me.}}
\VS{4}{\WJ{
But
I
have
spoken
to
you
of
these
things
so
that,
when
the
time
for
them
comes,
you
may
remember
that
I
told
you
about
them
myself.}}
\VS{5}{\WJ{
I
did
not
tell
you
all
this
at
first,
because
I
was
with
you.
But
now
I
am
to
return
to
him
who
sent
me;
and
yet
not
one
of
you
asks
me – ‘Where
are
you
going?’}}
\VS{6}{\WJ{
Although
your
hearts
are
full
of
sorrow
at
all
that
I
have
been
saying
to
you.}}
\VS{7}{\WJ{
Yet
I
am
only
telling
you
the
truth;
it
is
for
your
good
that
I
should
go
away.
For
otherwise
the
helper
will
never
come
to
you,
but,
if
I
leave
you,
I
will
send
him
to
you.}}
\VS{8}{\WJ{
And
he,
when
he
comes,
will
bring conviction
to
the
world
as
to
sin,
and
as
to
righteousness,
and
as
to
judgment;}}
\VS{9}{\WJ{
as
to
sin,
for
people
do
not
believe
in
me;}}
\VS{10}{\WJ{
as
to
righteousness,
for
I
am
going
to
the
Father,
and
you
will
see
me
no
longer;}}
\VS{11}{\WJ{
as
to
judgment,
for
the
Spirit
that
is
ruling
this
world
has
been
condemned.}}
\VS{12}{\WJ{
I
have
still
much
to
say
to
you,
but
you
cannot
bear
it
now.}}
\VS{13}{\WJ{
Yet
when
he –
The
Spirit
of
truth –
comes,
he
will
guide
you
into
all
truth;
for
he
will
not
speak
on
his
own
authority,
but
he
will
speak
of
all
that
he
hears;
and
he
will
tell
you
of
the
things
that
are
to
come.}}
\VS{14}{\WJ{
He
will
honor
me;
because
he
will
take
of
what
is
mine,
and
will
tell
it
to
you.}}
\VS{15}{\WJ{
Everything
that
the
Father
has
is
mine;
that
is
why
I
said
that
he
takes
of
what
is
mine,
and
will
tell
it
to
you.}}
\VS{16}{\WJ{
In
a
little
while
you
will
no
longer
see
me;
and
then
in
a
little
while
you
will
see
me
indeed.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{17}At
this
some
of
his
disciples
said
to
one
another, “What
does
he
mean
by
saying
to
us
{\WJ{‘In
a
little
while
you
will
not
see
me,
and
then
in
a
little
while
you
will
see
me indeed’;}}
and
by
saying
{\WJ{‘Because
I
am
going
to
the Father’?}}
\VS{18}What
does
he
mean
by
{\WJ{‘In
a
little while’?”}}
they
said. “We
do
not
know
what
he
is
speaking
about.”
\VS{19}Jesus
saw
that
they
were
wanting
to
ask
him
a
question,
and
said,
{\WJ{“Are
you
trying
to
find
out
from
one
another
what
I
meant
by
saying ‘In
a
little
while
you
will
not
see
me;
and
then
in
a
little
while
you
will
see
me indeed’?}}
\VS{20}{\WJ{
In
truth
I
tell
you
that
you
will
weep
and
mourn,
but
the
world
will
rejoice;
you
will
suffer
pain,
but
your
pain
will
turn
to
joy.}}
\VS{21}{\WJ{
A
woman
in
labor
is
in
pain
because
her
time
has
come;
but
no sooner
is
the
child
born,
than
she
forgets
her
trouble
in
her
joy
that
a
child
has
been
born
into
the
world.}}
\VS{22}{\WJ{
You,
in
the
same
way,
are
sorry
now;
but
I
will
see
you
again,
and
your
hearts
will
rejoice,
and
no
one
will
rob
you
of
your
joy.}}
\VS{23}{\WJ{
And
at
that
time
you
will
not
ask
me
anything;
in
truth
I
tell
you,
if
you
ask
the
Father
for
anything,
he
will
grant
it
to
you
in
my
name.}}
\VS{24}{\WJ{
So
far
you
have
not
asked
for
anything,
in
my
name;
ask,
and
you
will
receive,
so
that
your
joy
may
be
complete.}}
\VS{25}{\WJ{
I
have
spoken
to
you
of
all
this
in
figures;
a
time
is
coming,
however,
when
I
will
not
speak
any
longer
to
you
in
figures,
but
will
tell
you
about
the
Father
plainly.}}
\VS{26}{\WJ{
You
will
ask,
at
that
time,
in
my
name;
and
I
do
not
say
that
I
will
intercede
with
the
Father
for
you;}}
\VS{27}{\WJ{
for
the
Father
himself
loves
you,
because
you
have
loved
me,
and
have
believed
that
I
came
from
the
Father.}}
\VS{28}{\WJ{
I
came
out
from
the
Father,
and
have
come
into
the
world;
and
now
I
am
to
leave
the
world,
and
go
to
the
Father.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{29}“At
last,”
exclaimed
the
disciples, “you
are
using
plain
words
and
not
speaking
in
figures
at
all.
\VS{30}Now
we
are
sure
that
you
know
everything,
and
need
not
wait
for
anyone
to
question
you.
This
makes
us
believe
that
you
did
come
from
God.”
\par }{\PP \VS{31}{\WJ{“Do
you
believe
that
already?”}}
Jesus
answered.
\VS{32}{\WJ{“Listen!
A
time
is
coming –
indeed
it
has
already
come –
when
you
are
to
be
scattered,
each
going
his
own
way,
and
to
leave
me
alone;
and
yet
I
am
not
alone,
because
the
Father
is
with
me.}}
\VS{33}{\WJ{
I
have
spoken
to
you
in
this
way,
so
that
in
me
you
may
find
peace.
In
the
world
you
will
find
trouble;
yet,
take
courage!
I
have
conquered
the
world.”}}

\par }{\BB \par }\Chap{17}{\PP \VerseOne{1}After
saying
this,
Jesus
raised
his
eyes heavenwards,
and
said:
\par }{\Q {\WJ{“Father,
the
hour
has
come;
honor
your
Son,
so
that
your
Son
may
honor
you;}}
\VS{2}{\WJ{
even
as
you
gave
him
power
over
all
humanity,
so
that
he
should
give
eternal
life
to
everyone
you
have
given
him.}}
\VS{3}{\WJ{
And
the
eternal
life
is
this –
to
know
you
the
one
true
God,
and
Jesus
Christ
whom
you
have
sent
as
your
messenger.}}
\VS{4}{\WJ{
I
have
honored
you
on
earth
by completing
the
work
which
you
have
given
me
to
do;}}
\VS{5}{\WJ{
and
now
do
you
honor
me,
Father,
at
your
own
side,
with
the
honor
which
I
had
at
your
side
before
the
world
began.}}
\VS{6}{\WJ{
I
have
revealed
you
to
those
whom
you
gave
me
from
the
world;
they
were
your
own,
and
you
gave
them
to
me;
and
they
have
laid
your
message
to
heart.}}
\VS{7}{\WJ{
They
recognize
now
that
everything
that
you
gave
me
was
from
you;}}
\VS{8}{\WJ{
for
I
have
given
them
the
teaching
which
you
gave
me,
and
they
received
it,
and
clearly
understood
that
I
came
from
you,
and
they
believed
that
you
have
sent
me
as
your
messenger.}}
\VS{9}{\WJ{
I
intercede
for
them;
I
am
not interceding
for
the
world,
but
for
those
whom
you
have
given
me,
for
they
are
your
own –}}
\VS{10}{\WJ{
All
that
is
mine
is
yours,
and
all
that
is
yours
is
mine –
and
I
am
honored
in
them.}}
\VS{11}{\WJ{
Now
I
am
to
be
in
this
world
no
longer,
but
they
are
still
to
be
in
the
world,
and
I
am
to
come
to
you.
Holy
Father,
keep
them
by
that
revelation
of
your
name
which
you
have
given
me,
so
that
they
may
be
one,
as
we
are.}}
\VS{12}{\WJ{
While
I
was
with
them,
I
kept
them
by
that
revelation,
and
I
have
guarded
them;
and
not
one
of
them
has
been
lost,
except
that
lost
soul –
in
fulfillment
of
scripture.}}
\VS{13}{\WJ{
But
now
I
am
to
come
to
you;
and
I
am
speaking
like
this,
while
still
in
the
world,
so
that
they
may
have
my
own
joy,
in
all
its
fullness,
in
their
hearts.}}
\VS{14}{\WJ{
I
have
given
them
your
message;
and
the
world
hated
them,
because
they
do
not
belong
to
the
world,
even
as
I
do
not
belong
to
the
world.}}
\VS{15}{\WJ{
I
do
not
ask
you
to
take
them
out
of
the
world,
but
to
keep
them
from
evil.}}
\VS{16}{\WJ{
They
do
not
belong
to
the
world,
even
as
I
do
not
belong
to
the
world.}}
\VS{17}{\WJ{
Consecrate
them
by
the
truth;
your
message
is
truth.}}
\VS{18}{\WJ{
Just
as
you
have
sent
me
as
your
messenger
to
the
world,
so
I
send
them
as
my
messengers
to
the
world.}}
\VS{19}{\WJ{
And
it
is
for
their
sakes
that
I
am
consecrating
myself,
so
that
they
also
may
be
truly
consecrated.}}
\VS{20}{\WJ{
But
it
is
not
only
for
them
that
I
am interceding,
but
also
for
those
who
believe
in
me
through
their
message,}}
\VS{21}{\WJ{
that
they
all
may
be
one –
that
as
you,
Father,
are
in
union
with
us –
and
so
the
world
may
believe
that
you
have
sent
me
as
your
messenger.}}
\VS{22}{\WJ{
I
have
given
them
the
honor
which
you
have
given
me,
so
that
they
may
be
one
as
we
are
one –}}
\VS{23}{\WJ{
I
in
union
with
them
and
you
with
me –
so
that
they
may
be
perfected
in
their
union,
and
so
that
the
world
may
know
that
you
have
sent
me
as
your
messenger,
and
that
you
have
loved
them
as
you
have
loved
me.}}
\VS{24}{\WJ{
Father,
my
desire
for
all
those
whom
you
have
given
me
is
that
they
may
be
with
me
where
I
am,
so
that
they
may
see
the
honor
which
you
have
given
me;
for
you
did
love
me
before
the
beginning
of
the
world.}}
\VS{25}{\WJ{
Righteous
Father,
though
the
world
did
not
know
you,
I
knew
you;
and
these
people
knew
that
you
have
sent
me
as
your
messenger.}}
\VS{26}{\WJ{
I
have
made
you
known
to
them,
and
will
do
so
still;
that
the
love
that
you
have
had
for
me
may
be
in
their
hearts,
and
that
I
may
be
in
them
also.”}}
\par }{\MM \par }
{\BB \par }\Chap{18}{\PP \VerseOne{1}When
Jesus
had
said
this,
he
went
out
with
his
disciples
and
crossed
the
Kidron
ravine
to
a
place
where
there
was
a
garden,
into
which
he
and
his
disciples
went.
\VS{2}The
place
was
well
known
to
Judas,
the
betrayer,
for
Jesus
and
his
disciples
had
often
met
there.
\VS{3}So
Judas,
who
had
obtained
the
soldiers
of
the Roman
garrison,
and
some
guards
from
the
chief
priests
and
the
Pharisees,
came
there
with
lanterns,
torches,
and
weapons.
\VS{4}Jesus,
aware
of
all
that
was
coming
upon
him,
went
to
meet
them,
and
said
to
them,
{\WJ{“For
whom
are
you
looking?”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{5}“Jesus
of
Nazareth,”
was
their
answer.
{\WJ{“I
am
he,”}}
said
Jesus. (Judas,
the
betrayer,
was
also
standing
with
them.)
\VS{6}When
Jesus
said
{\WJ{‘I
am
he,’}}
they
drew
back
and
fell
to
the
ground.
\VS{7}So
he
again
asked
for
whom
they
were
looking,
and
they
answered, “Jesus
of
Nazareth.”
\par }{\PP \VS{8}{\WJ{“I
have
already
told
you
that
I
am
he,”}}
replied
Jesus,
{\WJ{“so,
if
it
is
for
me
that
you
are
looking,
let
these
people
go.”}}
\VS{9}This
was
in
fulfillment
of
his
words –
{\WJ{‘Of
those
whom
you
have
given
me
I
have
not
lost
one.’}}
\VS{10}At
this,
Simon
Peter,
who
had
a
sword
with
him,
drew
it,
and
struck
the
high
priest’s
servant,
and
cut
off
his
right
ear.
The
servant’s
name
was
Malchus.
\VS{11}But
Jesus
said
to
Peter,
{\WJ{“Sheathe
your
sword.
Should
I
not
drink
the
cup
which
the
Father
has
given
me?”}}
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP p
\VS{12}So
the
soldiers
of
the
garrison,
with
their
commanding
officer
and
the
Jewish
guards,
arrested
Jesus
and
bound
him,
\VS{13}and
took
him
first
of
all
to Annas. Annas
was
the
father-in-law
of
Caiaphas,
who
was
high
priest
that
year.
\VS{14}It
was
Caiaphas
who
had
counseled
the religious
authorities,
that
it
was
best
that
one
person
should
die
for
the
people.
\VS{15}Meanwhile
Simon
Peter
followed
Jesus,
and
so
did
another
disciple.
That
disciple,
being well-known
to
the
high
priest,
went
with
Jesus
into
the
high
priest’s
courtyard,
\VS{16}while
Peter
stood
outside
by
the
door.
Presently
the
other
disciple –
the
one well-known
to
the
high
priest –
went
out
and
spoke
to
the portress,
and
brought
Peter
in.
\VS{17}So
the
maidservant
said
to
Peter, “Aren’t
you
also
one
of
this
man’s
disciples?”
\par }{\PP “No,
I
am
not,”
he
said.
\VS{18}The
servants
and
guards
were
standing
around
a
charcoal
fire (which
they
had
made
because
it
was
cold),
and
were
warming
themselves.
Peter,
too,
was
with
them,
standing
and
warming
himself.
\VS{19}The
high
priest
questioned
Jesus
about
his
disciples
and
about
his
teaching.
\VS{20}{\WJ{“For
my
part,”}}
answered
Jesus,
{\WJ{“I
have
spoken
to
all
the
world
openly.
I
always
taught
in
some
synagogue,
or
in
the
Temple
Courts,
places
where
everyone
assembles,
and
I
never
spoke
of
anything
in
secret.}}
\VS{21}{\WJ{
Why
question
me?
Question
those
who
have
listened
to
me
as
to
what
I
have
spoken
about
to
them.
They
must
know
what
I
said.”}}
\VS{22}When
Jesus
said
this,
one
of
the
guards,
who
was
standing
near,
gave
him
a
blow
with
his
hand. “Do
you
answer
the
high
priest
like
that?”
he
exclaimed.
\VS{23}{\WJ{“If
I
said
anything
wrong,
give
evidence
about
it,”}}
replied
Jesus,
{\WJ{“but
if
not,
why
do
you
strike
me?”}}
\VS{24}Annas
sent
him
bound
to
Caiaphas
the
high
priest.
\VS{25}Meanwhile
Simon
Peter
was
standing
there,
warming
himself;
so
they
said
to
him, “Aren’t
you
also
one
of
his
disciples?”
Peter
denied
it. “No,
I
am
not,”
he
said.
\VS{26}One
of
the
high
priest’s
servants,
a relation
of
the
man
whose
ear
Peter
had
cut
off,
exclaimed, “Didn’t
I
myself
see
you
with
him
in
the
garden?”
\VS{27}Peter
again
denied
it;
and
at
that
moment
a cock
crowed.
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{28}From
Caiaphas
they
took
Jesus
to
the
Government
house.
It
was
early
in
the
morning.
But
they
did
not
enter
the
Government
house
themselves,
otherwise
they
might
become
defiled,
and
so
be
unable
to
eat
the
Passover.
\VS{29}Therefore
Pilate
came
outside
to
speak
to
them. “What
charge
do
you
bring
against
this
man?”
he
asked.
\VS{30}“If
he
had
not
been
a criminal,
we
should
not
have
given
him
up
to
you,”
they
answered.
\VS{31}“Take
him
yourselves,”
said
Pilate, “and
try
him
by
your
own
Law.”
\par }{\PP “We
have
no
power
to
put
anyone
to
death,”
the
authorities
replied –
\VS{32}in
fulfillment
of
what
Jesus
had
said
when indicating
the
death
that
he
was
destined
to
die.
\VS{33}After
that,
Pilate
went
into
the
Government
house
again,
and
calling
Jesus
up,
asked
him, “Are
you
the
king
of
the
Jews?”
\par }{\PP \VS{34}{\WJ{“Do
you
ask
me
that
yourself?”}}
replied
Jesus,
{\WJ{“or
did
others
say
it
to
you
about
me?”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{35}“Do
you
take
me
for
a
Jew?”
was Pilate’s
answer. “It
is
your
own
nation
and
the
chief
priests
who
have
given
you
up
to
me.
What
have
you
done?”
\par }{\PP \VS{36}{\WJ{“My
kingly
power,”}}
replied
Jesus,
{\WJ{“is
not
due
to
this
world.
If
it
had
been
so,
my
servants
would
be
doing
their
utmost
to
prevent
my
being
given
up
to
the
authorities;
but
my
kingly
power
is
not
from
the
world.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{37}“So
you
are
a
king
after
all!”
exclaimed
Pilate.
{\WJ{“Yes,
it
is
true
I
am
a
king,”}}
answered
Jesus.
{\WJ{“I
was
born
for
this,
I
have
come
into
the
world
for
this –
to
bear
testimony
to
the
truth.
Everyone
who
is
on
the
side
of
truth
listens
to
my
voice.”}}
\par }{\PP \VS{38}“What
is
truth?”
exclaimed
Pilate.
After
saying
this,
he
went
out
to
the
crowd
again,
and
said, “For
my
part,
I
find
nothing
with
which
he
can
be
charged.
\VS{39}It
is,
however,
the
custom
for
me
to
grant
you
the
release
of
one
man
at
the
Passover
Festival.
Do
you
wish
for
the
release
of
the
king
of
the
Jews?”
\par }{\PP \VS{40}“No,
not
this
man,”
they
shouted
again, “but Barabbas!”
This Barabbas
was
a
robber.

\par }{\BB \par }\Chap{19}{\PP \VerseOne{1}After
that,
Pilate
had
Jesus
scourged.
\VS{2}The
soldiers
made
a
crown
with
some
thorns
and
put
it
on
his
head
and
threw
a
purple
robe
around
him.
\VS{3}They
kept
coming
up
to
him
and
saying, “Long
live
the
king
of
the
Jews!”
and
they
gave
him
blow
after
blow
with
their
hands.
\VS{4}Pilate
again
came
outside,
and
said
to
the
people, “Look!
I
am
bringing
him
out
to
you,
so
that
you
may
know
that
I
find
nothing
with
which
he
can
be
charged.”
\VS{5}Then
Jesus
came
outside,
wearing
the
crown
of
thorns
and
the
purple
robe;
and
Pilate
said
to
them, “Here
is
the
man!”
\VS{6}When
the
chief
priests
and
the
guards
saw
him,
they
shouted, “Crucify
him!
Crucify
him!”
\par }{\PP “Take
him
yourselves
and
crucify
him,”
said
Pilate. “For
my
part,
I
find
nothing
with
which
he
can
be
charged.”
\par }{\PP \VS{7}“But
we,”
replied
the
crowd, “have
a
Law,
under
which
he
deserves
death
for
making
himself
out
to
be
the
Son
of
God.”
\VS{8}When
Pilate
heard
what
they
said,
he
became
still
more
alarmed;
\VS{9}and,
going
into
the
Government
house
again,
he
said
to
Jesus, “Where
do
you
come
from?”
\VS{10}But
Jesus
made
no
reply.
So
Pilate
said
to
him, “Do
you
refuse
to
speak
to
me?
Don’t
you
know
that
I
have
power
to
release
you,
and
have
power
to
crucify
you?”
\par }{\PP \VS{11}{\WJ{“You
would
have
no
power
over
me
at
all,”}}
answered
Jesus,
{\WJ{“if
it
had
not
been
given
you
from
above;
and,
therefore,
the
man
who
betrayed
me
to
you
is
guilty
of
the
greater
sin.”}}
\VS{12}This
made
Pilate
anxious
to
release
him;
but
the
crowd
shouted, “If
you
release
that
man,
you
are
no
friend
of
the Emperor!
Anyone
who
makes
himself
out
to
be
a
king
is
setting
himself
against
the Emperor!”
\VS{13}On
hearing
what
they
said,
Pilate
brought
Jesus
out,
and
took
his
seat
on
the Bench
at
a
place
called ‘The
Stone Pavement’ –
in
Hebrew ‘Gabbatha.’
\VS{14}It
was
the
Passover
Preparation
day,
and
about
noon.
Then
he
said
to
the
crowd, “Here
is
your
king!”
\VS{15}At
that
the
people
shouted, “Kill
him!
Kill
him!
Crucify
him!”
\par }{\PP “What!
Should
I
crucify
your
king?”
exclaimed
Pilate. “We
have
no
king
but
the Emperor,”
replied
the
chief
priests;
\VS{16}so
Pilate
gave
Jesus
up
to
them
to
be
crucified.
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP So
they
took
Jesus;
\VS{17}and
he
went
out,
carrying
his
cross
himself,
to
the
place
which
is
named
from
a
skull,
or,
in
Hebrew,
Golgotha.
\VS{18}There
they
crucified
him,
and
two
others
with
him –
one
on
each
side,
and
Jesus
between
them.
\VS{19}Pilate
also
had
these
words
written
and
put
up
over
the
cross – ‘JESUS
OF
NAZARETH,
THE
KING
OF
THE
JEWS.’
\VS{20}These
words
were
read
by
many
people,
because
the
place
where
Jesus
was
crucified
was
near
the
city;
and
they
were
written
in
Hebrew,
Latin
and
Greek.
\VS{21}The
chief
priests
said
to
Pilate, “Do
not
write ‘The
king
of
the
Jews’,
but
write
what
the
man
said – ‘I
am
the
king
of
the
Jews.’ ”
\VS{22}But
Pilate
answered, “What
I
have
written,
I
have
written.”
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{23}When
the
soldiers
had
crucified
Jesus,
they
took
his
clothes
and
divided
them
into
four
shares –
a
share
for
each
soldier –
and
they
took
the
coat
also.
The
coat
had
no seam,
being
woven
in
one
piece
from
top
to
bottom.
\VS{24}So
they
said
to
one
another, “Do
not
let
us
tear
it,
but
let
us
cast
lots
for
it,
to
see
who
will
have
it.”
This
was
in
fulfillment
of
the
words
of
scripture –
\par }{\Q ‘They
shared
my
clothes
among
them,
\par }{\QB and
over
my
clothing
they
cast
lots.’
\par }{\MM That
was
what
the
soldiers
did.
\VS{25}Meanwhile
near
the
cross
of
Jesus
were
standing
his
mother
and
his
mother’s
sister,
as
well
as
Mary
the
wife
of
Clopas
and
Mary
of Magdala.
\VS{26}When
Jesus
saw
his
mother,
and
the
disciple
whom
he
loved,
standing
near,
he
said
to
his
mother,
{\WJ{“There
is
your
son.”}}
\VS{27}Then
he
said
to
that
disciple,
{\WJ{“There
is
your
mother.”}}
And
from
that
very
hour
the
disciple
took
her
to
live
in
his
house.
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{28}Afterward,
knowing
that
everything
was
now
finished,
Jesus
said,
in
fulfillment
of
the
words
of
scripture,
{\WJ{“I
am
thirsty.”}}
\VS{29}There
was
a
bowl
standing
there
full
of
common
wine;
so
they
put
a
sponge
soaked
in
the
wine
on
the
end
of
a hyssop-stalk,
and
held
it
up
to
his
mouth.
\VS{30}When
Jesus
had
received
the
wine,
he
exclaimed,
{\WJ{“All
is
finished!”}}
Then,
bowing
his
head,
he resigned
his
spirit
to
God.
\VS{31}It
was
the
Preparation
day,
and
so,
to
prevent
the
bodies
from
remaining
on
the
crosses
during
the
Sabbath (for
that
Sabbath
was
a
great
day),
the
Jews
asked
Pilate
to
have
the
legs
broken
and
the
bodies
removed.
\VS{32}Accordingly
the
soldiers
came
and
broke
the
legs
of
the
first
man,
and
then
those
of
the
other
who
had
been
crucified
with
Jesus;
\VS{33}but,
on
coming
to
him,
when
they
saw
that
he
was
already
dead,
they
did
not
break
his
legs.
\VS{34}One
of
the
soldiers,
however,
pierced
his
side
with
a
spear,
and
blood
and
water
immediately
flowed
from
it.
\VS{35}This
is
the
statement
of
one
who
actually
saw
it –
and
his
statement
may
be
relied
on,
and
he
knows
that
he
is
speaking
the
truth –
and
it
is
given
in
order
that
you
also
may
be
convinced.
\VS{36}For
all
this
happened
in
fulfillment
of
the
words
of
scripture – ‘Not
one
of
its
bones
will
be
broken.’
\VS{37}And
there
is
another
passage
which
says – ‘They
will
look
on
him
whom
they
pierced.’
\VS{38}After
this,
Joseph
of Arimathea,
a
disciple
of
Jesus –
but
a
secret
one, owing
to
his
fear
of
the religious
authorities –
begged Pilate’s
permission
to
remove
the
body
of
Jesus.
Pilate
gave
him
leave;
so
Joseph
went
and
removed
the
body.
\VS{39}Nicodemus,
too –
the
man
who
had
formerly
visited
Jesus
by
night –
came
with
a
roll
of
myrrh
and
aloes,
weighing
nearly
a
hundred
pounds.
\VS{40}They
took
the
body
of
Jesus,
and
wound
it
in
linen
with
the
spices,
according
to
the
Jewish
mode
of
burial.
\VS{41}At
the
place
where
Jesus
had
been
crucified
there
was
a
garden,
and
in
the
garden
a
newly
made
tomb
in
which
no
one
had
ever
been
laid.
\VS{42}And
so,
because
of
its
being
the
Preparation
day,
and
as
the
tomb
was
close
at
hand,
they
laid
Jesus
there.

\par }\Chap{20}{\SH The Risen Life
\par }{\PP \VerseOne{1}On
the
first
day
of
the
week,
early
in
the
morning,
while
it
was
still
dark,
Mary
of Magdala
went
to
the
tomb,
and
saw
that
the
stone
had
been
removed.
\VS{2}So
she
came
running
to
Simon
Peter,
and
to
that
other
disciple
who
was
Jesus’
friend,
and
said
to
them, “They
have
taken
away
the
Master
out
of
the
tomb,
and
we
do
not
know
where
they
have
laid
him!”
\VS{3}So,
Peter
started
off
with
that
other
disciple,
and
they
went
to
the
tomb.
\VS{4}The
two
began
running
together;
but
the
other
disciple
ran
faster
than
Peter,
and
reached
the
tomb
first.
\VS{5}Stooping
down,
he
saw
the
linen
wrappings
lying
there,
but
did
not
go
in.
\VS{6}Presently
Simon
Peter
came
following
behind
him,
and
went
into
the
tomb;
and
he
looked
at
the
linen
wrappings
lying
there,
\VS{7}and
the
cloth
which
had
been
on Jesus’
head,
not
lying
with
the
wrappings,
but
rolled
up
on
one
side, separately.
\VS{8}Then
the
other
disciple,
who
had
reached
the
tomb
first,
went
inside
too,
and
he
saw
for
himself
and
was
convinced.
\VS{9}For
they
did
not
then
understand
the
passage
of
scripture
which
says
that
Jesus
must
rise
again
from
the
dead.
\VS{10}The
disciples
then
returned
to
their
companions.
\par }{\PP \VS{11}Meanwhile
Mary
was
standing
close
outside
the
tomb,
weeping.
Still
weeping,
she leant
forward
into
the
tomb,
\VS{12}and
perceived
two
angels
clothed
in
white
sitting
there,
where
the
body
of
Jesus
had
been
lying,
one
where
the
head
and
the
other
where
the
feet
had
been.
\VS{13}“Why
are
you
weeping?”
asked
the
angels. “They
have
taken
my
Master
away,”
she
answered, “and
I
do
not
know
where
they
have
laid
him.”
\VS{14}After
saying
this,
she
turned
around,
and
looked
at
Jesus
standing
there,
but
she
did
not
know
that
it
was
Jesus.
\VS{15}{\WJ{“Why
are
you
weeping?
Whom
are
you
seeking?”}}
he
asked.
Supposing
him
to
be
the
gardener, Mary
answered, “If
it
was
you,
Sir,
who
carried
him
away,
tell
me
where
you
have
laid
him,
and
I
will
take
him
away
myself.”
\par }{\PP \VS{16}{\WJ{“Mary!”}}
said
Jesus.
She
turned
around,
and
exclaimed
in
Hebrew, “Rabboni!” (or,
as
we
should
say, ‘teacher’).
\VS{17}{\WJ{“Do
not
hold
me,”}}
Jesus
said,
{\WJ{“for
I
have
not
yet
ascended
to
the
Father.
But
go
to
my
brothers,
and
tell
them
that
I
am
ascending
to
him
who
is
my
Father
and
their
Father,
my
God
and
their
God.”}}
\VS{18}Mary
of Magdala
went
and
told
the
disciples
that
she
had
seen
the
Master,
and
that
he
had
said
this
to
her.
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{19}In
the
evening
of
the
same
day –
the
first
day
of
the
week –
after
the
doors
of
the
room,
in
which
the
disciples
were,
had
been
shut
because
they
were
afraid
of
the religious
authorities,
Jesus
came
and
stood
among
them
and
said,
{\WJ{“Peace
be
with
you”;}}
\VS{20}after
which
he
showed
them
his
hands
and
his
side.
The
disciples
were
filled
with
joy
when
they
saw
the
Master.
\VS{21}Again
Jesus
said
to
them,
{\WJ{“Peace
be
with
you.
As
the
Father
has
sent
me
as
his
messenger,
so
I
am
sending
you.”}}
\VS{22}After
saying
this,
he
breathed
on
them,
and
said,
{\WJ{“Receive
the
Holy
Spirit;}}
\VS{23}{\WJ{
if
you remit
anyone’s
sins,
they
have
been remitted;
and,
if
you
retain
them,
they
have
been
retained.”}}
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{24}But
Thomas,
one
of
the
Twelve,
called ‘The Twin,’
was
not
with
them
when
Jesus
came;
\VS{25}so
the
rest
of
the
disciples
said
to
him, “We
have
seen
the
Master!”
\par }{\PP “Unless
I
see
the
marks
of
the
nails
in
his
hands,”
he
exclaimed, “and
put
my
finger
into
the
marks,
and
put
my
hand
into
his
side,
I
will
not
believe
it.”
\VS{26}A
week
later
the
disciples
were
again
in
the
house,
and
Thomas
was
with
them.
After
the
doors
had
been
shut,
Jesus
came
and
stood
among
them,
and
said,
{\WJ{“Peace
be
with
you.”}}
\VS{27}Then
he
said
to
Thomas,
{\WJ{“Place
your
finger
here,
and
look
at
my
hands;
and
place
your
hand
here,
and
put
it
into
my
side;
and
do
not
refuse
to
believe,
but
believe.”}}
\VS{28}And
Thomas
exclaimed, “My
Master,
and
my
God!”
\par }{\PP \VS{29}{\WJ{“Is
it
because
you
have
seen
me
that
you
have
believed?”}}
said
Jesus.
{\WJ{“Blessed
are
they
who
have
not
seen,
and
yet
have
believed!”}}
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{30}There
were
many
other
signs
of
his
mission
that
Jesus
gave
in
presence
of
the
disciples,
which
are
not
recorded
in
this
book;
\VS{31}but
these
have
been
recorded
so
that
you
may
believe
that
Jesus
is
the
Christ,
the
Son
of
God –
and
that,
through
your
belief
in
his
name,
you
may
have
life.

\par }{\BB \par }\Chap{21}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Later
on,
Jesus
showed
himself
again
to
the
disciples
by
the
Sea
of
Tiberias.
\VS{2}It
was
in
this
way, –
Simon
Peter,
Thomas,
who
was
called ‘The Twin,’
Nathanael
of
Cana
in
Galilee,
Zebedee’s
sons,
and
two
other
disciples
of
Jesus,
were
together,
when
Simon
Peter
said,
\VS{3}“I
am
going
fishing.”
\par }{\PP “We
will
come
with
you,”
said
the
others.
They
went
out
and
got
into
the
boat,
but
caught
nothing
that
night.
\VS{4}Just
as
day
was
breaking,
Jesus
came
and
stood
on
the beach;
but
the
disciples
did
not
know
that
it
was
he.
\VS{5}{\WJ{“My
children,”}}
he
said,
{\WJ{“have
you
anything
to
eat?”}}
\par }{\PP “No,”
they
answered.
\VS{6}{\WJ{“Cast
your
net
to
the
right
of
the
boat,”}}
he
said,
{\WJ{“and
you
will
find
fish.”}}
So
they
cast
the
net,
and
now
they
could
not
haul
it
in
because
of
the
quantity
of
fish.
\VS{7}The
disciple
whom
Jesus
loved
said
to
Peter, “It
is
the
Master!”
When
Simon
Peter
heard
that
it
was
the
Master,
he
fastened
his
coat
around
him (for
he
had
taken
it
off),
and
threw
himself
into
the
sea.
\VS{8}But
the
rest
of
the
disciples
came
in
the
boat (for
they
were
only
about
a
hundred
yards
from
shore),
dragging
the
net
full
of
fish.
\VS{9}When
they
had
come
ashore,
they
found
a
charcoal
fire
ready,
with
some
fish
already
on
it,
and
some
bread
as
well.
\VS{10}{\WJ{“Bring
some
of
the
fish
which
you
have
just
caught,”}}
said
Jesus.
\VS{11}So
Simon
Peter
got
into
the
boat
and hauled
the
net
ashore
full
of
large
fish,
a
hundred
and
fifty-three
of
them;
and
yet,
although
there
were
so
many,
the
net
had
not
been
torn.
\VS{12}{\WJ{“Come
and
have breakfast.”}},
Jesus
said.
None
of
the
disciples
dared
ask
him
who
he
was,
because
they
knew
it
was
the
Master.
\VS{13}Jesus
went
and
took
the
bread
and
gave
it
to
them,
and
the
fish
too.
\VS{14}This
was
the
third
time
that
Jesus
showed
himself
to
the
disciples
after
he
had
risen
from
the
dead.
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{15}When breakfast
was
over,
Jesus
said
to
Simon
Peter,
{\WJ{“Simon,
son
of
John,
do
you
love
me
more
than
the
others?”}}
\par }{\PP “Yes,
Master,”
he
answered, “you
know
that
I
am
your
friend.”
\par }{\PP {\WJ{“Feed
my
lambs,”}}
said
Jesus.
\VS{16}Then,
a
second
time,
Jesus
asked,
{\WJ{“Simon,
son
of
John,
do
you
love
me?”}}
\par }{\PP “Yes,
Master,”
he
answered, “you
know
that
I
am
your
friend.”
\par }{\PP {\WJ{“Tend
my
sheep,”}}
said
Jesus.
\VS{17}The
third
time,
Jesus
said
to
him,
{\WJ{“Simon,
son
of
John,
are
you
my
friend?”}}
Peter
was
hurt
at
his
third
question
being ‘Are
you
my
friend?’;
and
exclaimed, “Master,
you
know
everything!
You
can
tell
that
I
am
your
friend.”
\par }{\PP {\WJ{“Feed
my
sheep,”}}
said
Jesus.
\VS{18}{\WJ{“In
truth
I
tell
you,”
he
continued, “when
you
were
young,
you
used
to
put
on
your
own
clothes,
and
walk
wherever
you
wished;
but,
when
you
have
grown
old,
you
will
have
to
stretch
out
your
hands,
while
someone
else
puts
on
your
clothes,
and
takes
you
where
you
do
not
wish.”}}
\VS{19}Jesus
said
this
to
show
the
death
by
which
Peter
was
to
honor
God,
and
then
he
added,
{\WJ{“Follow
me.”}}
\VS{20}Peter
turned
around,
and
saw
the
disciple
whom
Jesus
loved
following –
the
one
who
at
the
supper leant
back
on
the
Master’s
shoulder,
and
asked
him
who
it
was
who
would
betray
him.
\VS{21}Seeing
him,
Peter
said
to
Jesus, “Master,
what
about
this
man?”
\par }{\PP \VS{22}{\WJ{“If
it
is
my
will
that
he
should
wait
until
I
come,”}}
answered
Jesus,
{\WJ{“what
has
that
to
do
with
you?
Follow
me
yourself.”}}
\VS{23}So
the
report
spread
among
his
followers
that
that
disciple
was
not
to
die;
yet
Jesus
did
not
say
that
he
was
not
to
die,
but
said
{\WJ{“If
it
is
my
will
that
he
should
wait
until
I
come,
what
has
that
to
do
with
you?”}}
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{24}It
is
this
disciple
who states
these
things,
and
who
recorded
them;
and
we
know
that
his
statement
is
true.
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{25}There
are
many
other
things
which
Jesus
did;
but,
if
every
one
of
them
were
to
be
recorded
in
detail,
I
suppose
that
even
the
world
itself
would
not
hold
the
books
that
would
be
written.
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