001:001 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God.
001:002 The same was in the beginning with God.
001:003 All things were made through him. Without him was not anything
made that has been made.
001:004 In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
001:005 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn't
overcome{The word translated "overcome" (katelaben) can also
be translated "comprehended." It refers to getting a grip
on an enemy to defeat him.} it.
001:006 There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John.
001:007 The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light,
that all might believe through him.
001:008 He was not the light, but was sent that he might testify
about the light.
001:009 The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.
001:010 He was in the world, and the world was made through him,
and the world didn't recognize him.
001:011 He came to his own, and those who were his own didn't receive him.
001:012 But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become
God's children, to those who believe in his name:
001:013 who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh,
nor of the will of man, but of God.
001:014 The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory,
such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father,
full of grace and truth.
001:015 John testified about him. He cried out, saying, "This was
he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me has surpassed me,
for he was before me.'"
001:016 From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.
001:017 For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth came
through Jesus Christ.
001:018 No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son,{NU reads
"God"} who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.
001:019 This is John's testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites
from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"
001:020 He confessed, and didn't deny, but he confessed, "I am
not the Christ."
001:021 They asked him, "What then? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not."
"Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No."
001:022 They said therefore to him, "Who are you?
Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us.
What do you say about yourself?"
001:023 He said, "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness,
'Make straight the way of the Lord,'{Isaiah 40:3} as Isaiah
the prophet said."
001:024 The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees.
001:025 They asked him, "Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ,
nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"
001:026 John answered them, "I baptize in water, but among you stands
one whom you don't know.
001:027 He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me,
whose sandal strap I'm not worthy to loosen."
001:028 These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan,
where John was baptizing.
001:029 The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, "Behold,
the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
001:030 This is he of whom I said, 'After me comes a man who is preferred
before me, for he was before me.'
001:031 I didn't know him, but for this reason I came baptizing in water:
that he would be revealed to Israel."
001:032 John testified, saying, "I have seen the Spirit descending
like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him.
001:033 I didn't recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water,
he said to me, 'On whomever you will see the Spirit descending,
and remaining on him, the same is he who baptizes in
the Holy Spirit.'
001:034 I have seen, and have testified that this is the Son of God."
001:035 Again, the next day, John was standing with two of his disciples,
001:036 and he looked at Jesus as he walked, and said, "Behold,
the Lamb of God!"
001:037 The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.
001:038 Jesus turned, and saw them following, and said to them, "What are
you looking for?" They said to him, "Rabbi" (which is to say,
being interpreted, Teacher), "where are you staying?"
001:039 He said to them, "Come, and see." They came and saw
where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day.
It was about the tenth hour.{4:00 PM.}
001:040 One of the two who heard John, and followed him,
was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.
001:041 He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him,
"We have found the Messiah!" (which is, being interpreted,
Christ{"Messiah" (Hebrew) and "Christ" (Greek) both mean
"Anointed One".}).
001:042 He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said,
"You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas"
(which is by interpretation, Peter).
001:043 On the next day, he was determined to go out into Galilee,
and he found Philip. Jesus said to him, "Follow me."
001:044 Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter.
001:045 Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, "We have found him,
of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote:
Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."
001:046 Nathanael said to him, "Can any good thing come out
of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see."
001:047 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, "Behold,
an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!"
001:048 Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him,
"Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree,
I saw you."
001:049 Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are
King of Israel!"
001:050 Jesus answered him, "Because I told you, 'I saw you underneath
the fig tree,' do you believe? You will see greater
things than these!"
001:051 He said to him, "Most certainly, I tell you, hereafter you
will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending
and descending on the Son of Man."
002:001 The third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee.
Jesus' mother was there.
002:002 Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to the marriage.
002:003 When the wine ran out, Jesus' mother said to him,
"They have no wine."
002:004 Jesus said to her, "Woman, what does that have to do with you and me?
My hour has not yet come."
002:005 His mother said to the servants, "Whatever he says to you, do it."
002:006 Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews'
manner of purifying, containing two or three metretes{2
to 3 metretes is about 20 to 30 U. S. Gallons, 16 to 25
imperial gallons, or 75 to 115 litres.} apiece.
002:007 Jesus said to them, "Fill the water pots with water."
They filled them up to the brim.
002:008 He said to them, "Now draw some out, and take it to the ruler
of the feast." So they took it.
002:009 When the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine,
and didn't know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn
the water knew), the ruler of the feast called the bridegroom,
002:010 and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first,
and when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse.
You have kept the good wine until now!"
002:011 This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee,
and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.
002:012 After this, he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother,
his brothers, and his disciples; and they stayed there
a few days.
002:013 The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went
up to Jerusalem.
002:014 He found in the temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves,
and the changers of money sitting.
002:015 He made a whip of cords, and threw all out of the temple,
both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers'
money, and overthrew their tables.
002:016 To those who sold the doves, he said, "Take these things out of here!
Don't make my Father's house a marketplace!"
002:017 His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your
house will eat me up."{Psalm 69:9}
002:018 The Jews therefore answered him, "What sign do you show us,
seeing that you do these things?"
002:019 Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days
I will raise it up."
002:020 The Jews therefore said, "Forty-six years was this temple
in building, and will you raise it up in three days?"
002:021 But he spoke of the temple of his body.
002:022 When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples
remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture,
and the word which Jesus had said.
002:023 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast,
many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.
002:024 But Jesus didn't trust himself to them, because he knew everyone,
002:025 and because he didn't need for anyone to testify concerning man;
for he himself knew what was in man.
003:001 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler
of the Jews.
003:002 The same came to him by night, and said to him, "Rabbi, we know
that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do
these signs that you do, unless God is with him."
003:003 Jesus answered him, "Most certainly, I tell you,
unless one is born anew,{The word translated "anew"
here and in John 3:7 (anothen) also means "again" and "from
above".} he can't see the Kingdom of God."
003:004 Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old?
Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb, and be born?"
003:005 Jesus answered, "Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born
of water and spirit, he can't enter into the Kingdom of God!
003:006 That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born
of the Spirit is spirit.
003:007 Don't marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born anew.'
003:008 The wind{The same Greek word (pneuma) means wind, breath,
and spirit.} blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound,
but don't know where it comes from and where it is going.
So is everyone who is born of the Spirit."
003:009 Nicodemus answered him, "How can these things be?"
003:010 Jesus answered him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and don't
understand these things?
003:011 Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know,
and testify of that which we have seen, and you don't
receive our witness.
003:012 If I told you earthly things and you don't believe, how will
you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
003:013 No one has ascended into heaven, but he who descended out of heaven,
the Son of Man, who is in heaven.
003:014 As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must
the Son of Man be lifted up,
003:015 that whoever believes in him should not perish,
but have eternal life.
003:016 For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and
only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish,
but have eternal life.
003:017 For God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world,
but that the world should be saved through him.
003:018 He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn't believe has
been judged already, because he has not believed in the name
of the one and only Son of God.
003:019 This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world,
and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their
works were evil.
003:020 For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come
to the light, lest his works would be exposed.
003:021 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works
may be revealed, that they have been done in God."
003:022 After these things, Jesus came with his disciples into the land
of Judea. He stayed there with them, and baptized.
003:023 John also was baptizing in Enon near Salim, because there
was much water there. They came, and were baptized.
003:024 For John was not yet thrown into prison.
003:025 There arose therefore a questioning on the part of John's
disciples with some Jews about purification.
003:026 They came to John, and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with
you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold,
the same baptizes, and everyone is coming to him."
003:027 John answered, "A man can receive nothing, unless it has been
given him from heaven.
003:028 You yourselves testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ,'
but, 'I have been sent before him.'
003:029 He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of
the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly
because of the bridegroom's voice. This, my joy,
therefore is made full.
003:030 He must increase, but I must decrease.
003:031 He who comes from above is above all. He who is from
the Earth belongs to the Earth, and speaks of the Earth.
He who comes from heaven is above all.
003:032 What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one
receives his witness.
003:033 He who has received his witness has set his seal to this,
that God is true.
003:034 For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God
gives the Spirit without measure.
003:035 The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.
003:036 One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one
who disobeys{The same word can be translated "disobeys"
or "disbelieves" in this context.} the Son won't see life,
but the wrath of God remains on him."
004:001 Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard
that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
004:002 (although Jesus himself didn't baptize, but his disciples),
004:003 he left Judea, and departed into Galilee.
004:004 He needed to pass through Samaria.
004:005 So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel
of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph.
004:006 Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired
from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about
the sixth hour{noon}.
004:007 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her,
"Give me a drink."
004:008 For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
004:009 The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, "How is it that you,
being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?"
(For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
004:010 Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it
is who says to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him,
and he would have given you living water."
004:011 The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw with,
and the well is deep. From where then have you that living water?
004:012 Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well,
and drank of it himself, as did his children, and his livestock?"
004:013 Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks of this water
will thirst again,
004:014 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never
thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become
in him a well of water springing up to eternal life."
004:015 The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I
don't get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw."
004:016 Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here."
004:017 The woman answered, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her,
"You said well, 'I have no husband,'
004:018 for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is
not your husband. This you have said truly."
004:019 The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.
004:020 Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that
in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship."
004:021 Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour comes,
when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you
worship the Father.
004:022 You worship that which you don't know. We worship that which we know;
for salvation is from the Jews.
004:023 But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers
will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father
seeks such to be his worshippers.
004:024 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in
spirit and truth."
004:025 The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah comes,"
(he who is called Christ). "When he has come, he will declare
to us all things."
004:026 Jesus said to her, "I am he, the one who speaks to you."
004:027 At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking
with a woman; yet no one said, "What are you looking for?"
or, "Why do you speak with her?"
004:028 So the woman left her water pot, and went away into the city,
and said to the people,
004:029 "Come, see a man who told me everything that I did.
Can this be the Christ?"
004:030 They went out of the city, and were coming to him.
004:031 In the meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, "Rabbi, eat."
004:032 But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you don't know about."
004:033 The disciples therefore said one to another, "Has anyone
brought him something to eat?"
004:034 Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me,
and to accomplish his work.
004:035 Don't you say, 'There are yet four months until the harvest?'
Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the fields,
that they are white for harvest already.
004:036 He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life;
that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
004:037 For in this the saying is true, 'One sows, and another reaps.'
004:038 I sent you to reap that for which you haven't labored.
Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor."
004:039 From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of
the word of the woman, who testified, "He told me everything
that I did."
004:040 So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay
with them. He stayed there two days.
004:041 Many more believed because of his word.
004:042 They said to the woman, "Now we believe, not because of your speaking;
for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed
the Christ, the Savior of the world."
004:043 After the two days he went out from there and went into Galilee.
004:044 For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor
in his own country.
004:045 So when he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him,
having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast,
for they also went to the feast.
004:046 Jesus came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made
the water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son
was sick at Capernaum.
004:047 When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee,
he went to him, and begged him that he would come down and heal
his son, for he was at the point of death.
004:048 Jesus therefore said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders,
you will in no way believe."
004:049 The nobleman said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies."
004:050 Jesus said to him, "Go your way. Your son lives."
The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him,
and he went his way.
004:051 As he was now going down, his servants met him and reported,
saying "Your child lives!"
004:052 So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better.
They said therefore to him, "Yesterday at the seventh hour,{1:00
P. M.} the fever left him."
004:053 So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said
to him, "Your son lives." He believed, as did his whole house.
004:054 This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come
out of Judea into Galilee.
005:001 After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus
went up to Jerusalem.
005:002 Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which is
called in Hebrew, "Bethesda," having five porches.
005:003 In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame,
or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water;
005:004 for an angel of the Lord went down at certain times into
the pool, and stirred up the water. Whoever stepped in first
after the stirring of the water was made whole of whatever
disease he had.
005:005 A certain man was there, who had been sick for thirty-eight years.
005:006 When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been sick
for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to be made well?"
005:007 The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into
the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I'm coming,
another steps down before me."
005:008 Jesus said to him, "Arise, take up your mat, and walk."
005:009 Immediately, the man was made well, and took up his mat and walked.
Now it was the Sabbath on that day.
005:010 So the Jews said to him who was cured, "It is the Sabbath.
It is not lawful for you to carry the mat."
005:011 He answered them, "He who made me well, the same said to me,
'Take up your mat, and walk.'"
005:012 Then they asked him, "Who is the man who said to you,
'Take up your mat, and walk'?"
005:013 But he who was healed didn't know who it was, for Jesus
had withdrawn, a crowd being in the place.
005:014 Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him,
"Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing
worse happens to you."
005:015 The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had
made him well.
005:016 For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him,
because he did these things on the Sabbath.
005:017 But Jesus answered them, "My Father is still working,
so I am working, too."
005:018 For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him,
because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God
his own Father, making himself equal with God.
005:019 Jesus therefore answered them, "Most certainly, I tell you, the Son
can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing.
For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise.
005:020 For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all
things that he himself does. He will show him greater works
than these, that you may marvel.
005:021 For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life,
even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.
005:022 For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment
to the Son,
005:023 that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father.
He who doesn't honor the Son doesn't honor the Father
who sent him.
005:024 "Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him
who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn't come into judgment,
but has passed out of death into life.
005:025 Most certainly, I tell you, the hour comes, and now is,
when the dead will hear the Son of God's voice; and those
who hear will live.
005:026 For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son
also to have life in himself.
005:027 He also gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is
a son of man.
005:028 Don't marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are
in the tombs will hear his voice,
005:029 and will come out; those who have done good, to the
resurrection of life; and those who have done evil,
to the resurrection of judgment.
005:030 I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my
judgment is righteous; because I don't seek my own will,
but the will of my Father who sent me.
005:031 "If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid.
005:032 It is another who testifies about me. I know that the testimony
which he testifies about me is true.
005:033 You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.
005:034 But the testimony which I receive is not from man.
However, I say these things that you may be saved.
005:035 He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing
to rejoice for a while in his light.
005:036 But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John,
for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish,
the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father
has sent me.
005:037 The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me.
You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.
005:038 You don't have his word living in you; because you don't
believe him whom he sent.
005:039 "You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you
have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.
005:040 Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.
005:041 I don't receive glory from men.
005:042 But I know you, that you don't have God's love in yourselves.
005:043 I have come in my Father's name, and you don't receive me.
If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
005:044 How can you believe, who receive glory from one another,
and you don't seek the glory that comes from the only God?
005:045 "Don't think that I will accuse you to the Father.
There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have
set your hope.
005:046 For if you believed Moses, you would believe me;
for he wrote about me.
005:047 But if you don't believe his writings, how will you
believe my words?"
006:001 After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the sea
of Galilee, which is also called the Sea of Tiberias.
006:002 A great multitude followed him, because they saw his signs
which he did on those who were sick.
006:003 Jesus went up into the mountain, and he sat there with his disciples.
006:004 Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand.
006:005 Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a great
multitude was coming to him, said to Philip, "Where are we
to buy bread, that these may eat?"
006:006 This he said to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.
006:007 Philip answered him, "Two hundred denarii worth of bread
is not sufficient for them, that everyone of them may
receive a little."
006:008 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother,
said to him,
006:009 "There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish,
but what are these among so many?"
006:010 Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." Now there was much
grass in that place. So the men sat down, in number
about five thousand.
006:011 Jesus took the loaves; and having given thanks, he distributed
to the disciples, and the disciples to those who were sitting down;
likewise also of the fish as much as they desired.
006:012 When they were filled, he said to his disciples, "Gather up
the broken pieces which are left over, that nothing be lost."
006:013 So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with broken
pieces from the five barley loaves, which were left over
by those who had eaten.
006:014 When therefore the people saw the sign which Jesus did, they said,
"This is truly the prophet who comes into the world."
006:015 Jesus therefore, perceiving that they were about to come
and take him by force, to make him king, withdrew again
to the mountain by himself.
006:016 When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea,
006:017 and they entered into the boat, and were going over the sea
to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not come to them.
006:018 The sea was tossed by a great wind blowing.
006:019 When therefore they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty
stadia,{25 to 30 stadia is about 5 to 6 kilometers or about 3
to 4 miles} they saw Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing
near to the boat; and they were afraid.
006:020 But he said to them, "It is I{or, I AM}. Don't be afraid."
006:021 They were willing therefore to receive him into the boat.
Immediately the boat was at the land where they were going.
006:022 On the next day, the multitude that stood on the other
side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there,
except the one in which his disciples had embarked,
and that Jesus hadn't entered with his disciples into the boat,
but his disciples had gone away alone.
006:023 However boats from Tiberias came near to the place where they
ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks.
006:024 When the multitude therefore saw that Jesus wasn't there,
nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats,
and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.
006:025 When they found him on the other side of the sea, they asked him,
"Rabbi, when did you come here?"
006:026 Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, you seek me,
not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves,
and were filled.
006:027 Don't work for the food which perishes, but for the food which
remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you.
For God the Father has sealed him."
006:028 They said therefore to him, "What must we do, that we may work
the works of God?"
006:029 Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you believe
in him whom he has sent."
006:030 They said therefore to him, "What then do you do for a sign,
that we may see, and believe you? What work do you do?
006:031 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written,
'He gave them bread out of heaven{Greek and Hebrew use the same
word for "heaven", "the heavens", "the sky", and "the air".}
to eat.'"{Exodus 16:4; Nehemiah 9:15; Psalm 78:24-25}
006:032 Jesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly, I tell you,
it wasn't Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven,
but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven.
006:033 For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven,
and gives life to the world."
006:034 They said therefore to him, "Lord, always give us this bread."
006:035 Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. He who comes
to me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will
never be thirsty.
006:036 But I told you that you have seen me, and yet you don't believe.
006:037 All those who the Father gives me will come to me.
Him who comes to me I will in no way throw out.
006:038 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will,
but the will of him who sent me.
006:039 This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has
given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up
at the last day.
006:040 This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees
the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life;
and I will raise him up at the last day."
006:041 The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said,
"I am the bread which came down out of heaven."
006:042 They said, "Isn't this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father
and mother we know? How then does he say, 'I have come
down out of heaven?'"
006:043 Therefore Jesus answered them, "Don't murmur among yourselves.
006:044 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him,
and I will raise him up in the last day.
006:045 It is written in the prophets, 'They will all be taught by
God.'{Isaiah 54:13} Therefore everyone who hears from the Father,
and has learned, comes to me.
006:046 Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God.
He has seen the Father.
006:047 Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life.
006:048 I am the bread of life.
006:049 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
006:050 This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone
may eat of it and not die.
006:051 I am the living bread which came down out of heaven.
If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever.
Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world
is my flesh."
006:052 The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, "How can
this man give us his flesh to eat?"
006:053 Jesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly I tell you,
unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood,
you don't have life in yourselves.
006:054 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life,
and I will raise him up at the last day.
006:055 For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
006:056 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me,
and I in him.
006:057 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father;
so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.
006:058 This is the bread which came down out of heaven--not as our
fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread
will live forever."
006:059 These things he said in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.
006:060 Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said,
"This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?"
006:061 But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this,
said to them, "Does this cause you to stumble?
006:062 Then what if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where
he was before?
006:063 It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing.
The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
006:064 But there are some of you who don't believe." For Jesus
knew from the beginning who they were who didn't believe,
and who it was who would betray him.
006:065 He said, "For this cause have I said to you that no one can
come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father."
006:066 At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no
more with him.
006:067 Jesus said therefore to the twelve, "You don't also want
to go away, do you?"
006:068 Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom would we go?
You have the words of eternal life.
006:069 We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ,
the Son of the living God."
006:070 Jesus answered them, "Didn't I choose you, the twelve,
and one of you is a devil?"
006:071 Now he spoke of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, for it was
he who would betray him, being one of the twelve.
007:001 After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn't
walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.
007:002 Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand.
007:003 His brothers therefore said to him, "Depart from here,
and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works
which you do.
007:004 For no one does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be
known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself
to the world."
007:005 For even his brothers didn't believe in him.
007:006 Jesus therefore said to them, "My time has not yet come,
but your time is always ready.
007:007 The world can't hate you, but it hates me, because I testify
about it, that its works are evil.
007:008 You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast,
because my time is not yet fulfilled."
007:009 Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee.
007:010 But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also
went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.
007:011 The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said,
"Where is he?"
007:012 There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him.
Some said, "He is a good man." Others said, "Not so,
but he leads the multitude astray."
007:013 Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.
007:014 But when it was now the midst of the feast, Jesus went up
into the temple and taught.
007:015 The Jews therefore marveled, saying, "How does this man
know letters, having never been educated?"
007:016 Jesus therefore answered them, "My teaching is not mine,
but his who sent me.
007:017 If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching,
whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.
007:018 He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks
the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness
is in him.
007:019 Didn't Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law?
Why do you seek to kill me?"
007:020 The multitude answered, "You have a demon! Who seeks
to kill you?"
007:021 Jesus answered them, "I did one work, and you all marvel
because of it.
007:022 Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses,
but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy.
007:023 If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law
of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I
made a man every bit whole on the Sabbath?
007:024 Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."
007:025 Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, "Isn't this he whom
they seek to kill?
007:026 Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him.
Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is
truly the Christ?
007:027 However we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes,
no one will know where he comes from."
007:028 Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying,
"You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come
of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don't know.
007:029 I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me."
007:030 They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him,
because his hour had not yet come.
007:031 But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said,
"When the Christ comes, he won't do more signs than those
which this man has done, will he?"
007:032 The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things
concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent
officers to arrest him.
007:033 Then Jesus said, "I will be with you a little while longer,
then I go to him who sent me.
007:034 You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am,
you can't come."
007:035 The Jews therefore said among themselves, "Where will this
man go that we won't find him? Will he go to the Dispersion
among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?
007:036 What is this word that he said, 'You will seek me, and won't
find me; and where I am, you can't come'?"
007:037 Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and
cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!
007:038 He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within
him will flow rivers of living water."
007:039 But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him
were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given,
because Jesus wasn't yet glorified.
007:040 Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words,
said, "This is truly the prophet."
007:041 Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "What,
does the Christ come out of Galilee?
007:042 Hasn't the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed
of David,{2 Samuel 7:12} and from Bethlehem,{Micah 5:2}
the village where David was?"
007:043 So there arose a division in the multitude because of him.
007:044 Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid
hands on him.
007:045 The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees,
and they said to them, "Why didn't you bring him?"
007:046 The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man!"
007:047 The Pharisees therefore answered them, "You aren't also
led astray, are you?
007:048 Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?
007:049 But this multitude that doesn't know the law is accursed."
007:050 Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them)
said to them,
007:051 "Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him
personally and knows what he does?"
007:052 They answered him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see
that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.{See Isaiah 9:1
and Matthew 4:13-16.}"
007:053 Everyone went to his own house,
008:001 but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
008:002 Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple,
and all the people came to him. He sat down, and taught them.
008:003 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery.
Having set her in the midst,
008:004 they told him, "Teacher, we found this woman in adultery,
in the very act.
008:005 Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such.{Leviticus 20:10;
Deuteronomy 22:22} What then do you say about her?"
008:006 They said this testing him, that they might have something
to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down, and wrote on
the ground with his finger.
008:007 But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them,
"He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first
stone at her."
008:008 Again he stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground.
008:009 They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience,
went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last.
Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was,
in the middle.
008:010 Jesus, standing up, saw her and said, "Woman, where are
your accusers? Did no one condemn you?"
008:011 She said, "No one, Lord." Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you.
Go your way. From now on, sin no more."
008:012 Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light
of the world.{Isaiah 60:1} He who follows me will not walk
in the darkness, but will have the light of life."
008:013 The Pharisees therefore said to him, "You testify about yourself.
Your testimony is not valid."
008:014 Jesus answered them, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony
is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going;
but you don't know where I came from, or where I am going.
008:015 You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.
008:016 Even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone,
but I am with the Father who sent me.
008:017 It's also written in your law that the testimony of two people
is valid.{Deuteronomy 17:6; 19:15}
008:018 I am one who testifies about myself, and the Father who sent
me testifies about me."
008:019 They said therefore to him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered,
"You know neither me, nor my Father. If you knew me,
you would know my Father also."
008:020 Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple.
Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.
008:021 Jesus said therefore again to them, "I am going away,
and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins.
Where I go, you can't come."
008:022 The Jews therefore said, "Will he kill himself, that he says,
'Where I am going, you can't come?'"
008:023 He said to them, "You are from beneath. I am from above.
You are of this world. I am not of this world.
008:024 I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins;
for unless you believe that I AM he, you will die in your sins."
008:025 They said therefore to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them,
"Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning.
008:026 I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you.
However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard
from him, these I say to the world."
008:027 They didn't understand that he spoke to them about the Father.
008:028 Jesus therefore said to them, "When you have lifted up the Son
of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing
of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things.
008:029 He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn't left me alone,
for I always do the things that are pleasing to him."
008:030 As he spoke these things, many believed in him.
008:031 Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him,
"If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.
008:032 You will know the truth, and the truth will make
you free."{Psalm 119:45}
008:033 They answered him, "We are Abraham's seed, and have never been
in bondage to anyone. How do you say, 'You will be made free?'"
008:034 Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, everyone who
commits sin is the bondservant of sin.
008:035 A bondservant doesn't live in the house forever.
A son remains forever.
008:036 If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.
008:037 I know that you are Abraham's seed, yet you seek to kill me,
because my word finds no place in you.
008:038 I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you
also do the things which you have seen with your father."
008:039 They answered him, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus said to them,
"If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham.
008:040 But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth,
which I heard from God. Abraham didn't do this.
008:041 You do the works of your father." They said to him, "We were
not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God."
008:042 Therefore Jesus said to them, "If God were your father,
you would love me, for I came out and have come from God.
For I haven't come of myself, but he sent me.
008:043 Why don't you understand my speech? Because you can't
hear my word.
008:044 You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires
of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning,
and doesn't stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him.
When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar,
and the father of it.
008:045 But because I tell the truth, you don't believe me.
008:046 Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth,
why do you not believe me?
008:047 He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you
don't hear, because you are not of God."
008:048 Then the Jews answered him, "Don't we say well that you are
a Samaritan, and have a demon?"
008:049 Jesus answered, "I don't have a demon, but I honor my Father,
and you dishonor me.
008:050 But I don't seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges.
008:051 Most certainly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word,
he will never see death."
008:052 Then the Jews said to him, "Now we know that you have a demon.
Abraham died, and the prophets; and you say, 'If a man keeps
my word, he will never taste of death.'
008:053 Are you greater than our father, Abraham, who died?
The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?"
008:054 Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing.
It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that
he is our God.
008:055 You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, 'I don't
know him,' I would be like you, a liar. But I know him,
and keep his word.
008:056 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it,
and was glad."
008:057 The Jews therefore said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old,
and have you seen Abraham?"
008:058 Jesus said to them, "Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham
came into existence, I AM."
008:059 Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden,
and went out of the temple, having gone through the midst
of them, and so passed by.
009:001 As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.
009:002 His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents,
that he was born blind?"
009:003 Jesus answered, "Neither did this man sin, nor his parents;
but, that the works of God might be revealed in him.
009:004 I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day.
The night is coming, when no one can work.
009:005 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
009:006 When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with
the saliva, anointed the blind man's eyes with the mud,
009:007 and said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which means
"Sent"). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing.
009:008 The neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he was
blind before, said, "Isn't this he who sat and begged?"
009:009 Others were saying, "It is he." Still others were saying,
"He looks like him." He said, "I am he."
009:010 They therefore were asking him, "How were your eyes opened?"
009:011 He answered, "A man called Jesus made mud, anointed my eyes,
and said to me, 'Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash.'
So I went away and washed, and I received sight."
009:012 Then they asked him, "Where is he?" He said, "I don't know."
009:013 They brought him who had been blind to the Pharisees.
009:014 It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.
009:015 Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received
his sight. He said to them, "He put mud on my eyes, I washed,
and I see."
009:016 Some therefore of the Pharisees said, "This man is
not from God, because he doesn't keep the Sabbath."
Others said, "How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?"
There was division among them.
009:017 Therefore they asked the blind man again, "What do you
say about him, because he opened your eyes?" He said,
"He is a prophet."
009:018 The Jews therefore did not believe concerning him, that he had
been blind, and had received his sight, until they called
the parents of him who had received his sight,
009:019 and asked them, "Is this your son, who you say was born blind?
How then does he now see?"
009:020 His parents answered them, "We know that this is our son,
and that he was born blind;
009:021 but how he now sees, we don't know; or who opened
his eyes, we don't know. He is of age. Ask him.
He will speak for himself."
009:022 His parents said these things because they feared the Jews;
for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess
him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.
009:023 Therefore his parents said, "He is of age. Ask him."
009:024 So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him,
"Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner."
009:025 He therefore answered, "I don't know if he is a sinner.
One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see."
009:026 They said to him again, "What did he do to you?
How did he open your eyes?"
009:027 He answered them, "I told you already, and you didn't listen.
Why do you want to hear it again? You don't also want
to become his disciples, do you?"
009:028 They insulted him and said, "You are his disciple, but we
are disciples of Moses.
009:029 We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man,
we don't know where he comes from."
009:030 The man answered them, "How amazing! You don't know where
he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.
009:031 We know that God doesn't listen to sinners, but if anyone
is a worshipper of God, and does his will, he listens
to him.{Psalm 66:18, Proverbs 15:29; 28:9}
009:032 Since the world began it has never been heard of that anyone