009:033 If this man were not from God, he could do nothing."
009:034 They answered him, "You were altogether born in sins,
and do you teach us?" They threw him out.
009:035 Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him,
he said, "Do you believe in the Son of God?"
009:036 He answered, "Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?"
009:037 Jesus said to him, "You have both seen him, and it is he who
speaks with you."
009:038 He said, "Lord, I believe!" and he worshiped him.
009:039 Jesus said, "I came into this world for judgment, that those who
don't see may see; and that those who see may become blind."
009:040 Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things,
and said to him, "Are we also blind?"
009:041 Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin;
but now you say, 'We see.' Therefore your sin remains.
010:001 "Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn't enter by the door
into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same
is a thief and a robber.
010:002 But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
010:003 The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep
listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name,
and leads them out.
010:004 Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them,
and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.
010:005 They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him;
for they don't know the voice of strangers."
010:006 Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn't understand
what he was telling them.
010:007 Jesus therefore said to them again, "Most certainly, I tell you,
I am the sheep's door.
010:008 All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep
didn't listen to them.
010:009 I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved,
and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.
010:010 The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy.
I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
010:011 I am the good shepherd.{Isaiah 40:11; Ezekiel 34:11-12,15,22}
The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
010:012 He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn't own
the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees.
The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them.
010:013 The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn't
care for the sheep.
010:014 I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I'm known by my own;
010:015 even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father.
I lay down my life for the sheep.
010:016 I have other sheep, which are not of this fold.{Isaiah 56:8}
I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice.
They will become one flock with one shepherd.
010:017 Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life,{Isaiah
53:7-8} that I may take it again.
010:018 No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself.
I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.
I received this commandment from my Father."
010:019 Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because
of these words.
010:020 Many of them said, "He has a demon, and is insane!
Why do you listen to him?"
010:021 Others said, "These are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon.
It isn't possible for a demon to open the eyes of the blind,
is it?"{Exodus 4:11}
010:022 It was the Feast of the Dedication{The "Feast of the Dedication"
is the Greek name for "Chanukkah," a celebration of the
rededication of the Temple.} at Jerusalem.
010:023 It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple,
in Solomon's porch.
010:024 The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, "How long
will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ,
tell us plainly."
010:025 Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you don't believe.
The works that I do in my Father's name, these testify about me.
010:026 But you don't believe, because you are not of my sheep,
as I told you.
010:027 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
010:028 I give eternal life to them. They will never perish,
and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
010:029 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all.
No one is able to snatch them out of my Father's hand.
010:030 I and the Father are one."
010:031 Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him.
010:032 Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from
my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?"
010:033 The Jews answered him, "We don't stone you for a good work,
but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God."
010:034 Jesus answered them, "Isn't it written in your law, 'I said,
you are gods?'{Psalm 82:6}
010:035 If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came
(and the Scripture can't be broken),
010:036 do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world,
'You blaspheme,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God?'
010:037 If I don't do the works of my Father, don't believe me.
010:038 But if I do them, though you don't believe me, believe the works;
that you may know and believe that the Father is in me,
and I in the Father."
010:039 They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.
010:040 He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John
was baptizing at first, and there he stayed.
010:041 Many came to him. They said, "John indeed did no sign,
but everything that John said about this man is true."
010:042 Many believed in him there.
011:001 Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village
of Mary and her sister, Martha.
011:002 It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment,
and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick.
011:003 The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, "Lord, behold, he for
whom you have great affection is sick."
011:004 But when Jesus heard it, he said, "This sickness is not to death,
but for the glory of God, that God's Son may be glorified by it."
011:005 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
011:006 When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days
in the place where he was.
011:007 Then after this he said to the disciples, "Let's go
into Judea again."
011:008 The disciples told him, "Rabbi, the Jews were just trying
to stone you, and are you going there again?"
011:009 Jesus answered, "Aren't there twelve hours of daylight?
If a man walks in the day, he doesn't stumble, because he sees
the light of this world.
011:010 But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light
isn't in him."
011:011 He said these things, and after that, he said to them,
"Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going
so that I may awake him out of sleep."
011:012 The disciples therefore said, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep,
he will recover."
011:013 Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he spoke
of taking rest in sleep.
011:014 So Jesus said to them plainly then, "Lazarus is dead.
011:015 I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you
may believe. Nevertheless, let's go to him."
011:016 Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus,{"Didymus"
means "Twin"} said to his fellow disciples, "Let's go also,
that we may die with him."
011:017 So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb
four days already.
011:018 Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia{15 stadia
is about 2.8 kilometers or 1.7 miles} away.
011:019 Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary,
to console them concerning their brother.
011:020 Then when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him,
but Mary stayed in the house.
011:021 Therefore Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you would have been here,
my brother wouldn't have died.
011:022 Even now I know that, whatever you ask of God, God will give you."
011:023 Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again."
011:024 Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the
resurrection at the last day."
011:025 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life.
He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.
011:026 Whoever lives and believes in me will never die.
Do you believe this?"
011:027 She said to him, "Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you
are the Christ, God's Son, he who comes into the world."
011:028 When she had said this, she went away, and called Mary,
her sister, secretly, saying, "The Teacher is here,
and is calling you."
011:029 When she heard this, she arose quickly, and went to him.
011:030 Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place
where Martha met him.
011:031 Then the Jews who were with her in the house, and were consoling her,
when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out,
followed her, saying, "She is going to the tomb to weep there."
011:032 Therefore when Mary came to where Jesus was, and saw him,
she fell down at his feet, saying to him, "Lord, if you would
have been here, my brother wouldn't have died."
011:033 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping
who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,
011:034 and said, "Where have you laid him?" They told him, "Lord,
come and see."
011:035 Jesus wept.
011:036 The Jews therefore said, "See how much affection he had for him!"
011:037 Some of them said, "Couldn't this man, who opened the eyes
of him who was blind, have also kept this man from dying?"
011:038 Jesus therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb.
Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it.
011:039 Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of him
who was dead, said to him, "Lord, by this time there is a stench,
for he has been dead four days."
011:040 Jesus said to her, "Didn't I tell you that if you believed,
you would see God's glory?"
011:041 So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man
was lying.{NU omits "from the place where the dead man was
lying."} Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, "Father, I thank
you that you listened to me.
011:042 I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude
that stands around I said this, that they may believe that
you sent me."
011:043 When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice,
"Lazarus, come out!"
011:044 He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings,
and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said
to them, "Free him, and let him go."
011:045 Therefore many of the Jews, who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did,
believed in him.
011:046 But some of them went away to the Pharisees, and told them
the things which Jesus had done.
011:047 The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council,
and said, "What are we doing? For this man does many signs.
011:048 If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him,
and the Romans will come and take away both our place
and our nation."
011:049 But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year,
said to them, "You know nothing at all,
011:050 nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man
should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish."
011:051 Now he didn't say this of himself, but being high priest that year,
he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,
011:052 and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather
together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
011:053 So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put
him to death.
011:054 Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews,
but departed from there into the country near the wilderness,
to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples.
011:055 Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went
up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover,
to purify themselves.
011:056 Then they sought for Jesus and spoke one with another,
as they stood in the temple, "What do you think--that he isn't
coming to the feast at all?"
011:057 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded
that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it,
that they might seize him.
012:001 Then six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany,
where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he raised
from the dead.
012:002 So they made him a supper there. Martha served, but Lazarus
was one of those who sat at the table with him.
012:003 Mary, therefore, took a pound{a Roman pound of 12 ounces,
or about 340 grams} of ointment of pure nard, very precious,
and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair.
The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.
012:004 Then Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, one of his disciples,
who would betray him, said,
012:005 "Why wasn't this ointment sold for three hundred denarii,{300
denarii was about a year's wages for an agricultural laborer.}
and given to the poor?"
012:006 Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor,
but because he was a thief, and having the money box,
used to steal what was put into it.
012:007 But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day
of my burial.
012:008 For you always have the poor with you, but you don't
always have me."
012:009 A large crowd therefore of the Jews learned that he was there,
and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might
see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.
012:010 But the chief priests conspired to put Lazarus to death also,
012:011 because on account of him many of the Jews went away and
believed in Jesus.
012:012 On the next day a great multitude had come to the feast.
When they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
012:013 they took the branches of the palm trees, and went out to
meet him, and cried out, "Hosanna{"Hosanna" means "save us"
or "help us, we pray."}! Blessed is he who comes in the name
of the Lord,{Psalm 118:25-26} the King of Israel!"
012:014 Jesus, having found a young donkey, sat on it.
As it is written,
012:015 "Don't be afraid, daughter of Zion. Behold, your King comes,
sitting on a donkey's colt."{Zechariah 9:9}
012:016 His disciples didn't understand these things at first,
but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that
these things were written about him, and that they had done
these things to him.
012:017 The multitude therefore that was with him when he called
Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from the dead,
was testifying about it.
012:018 For this cause also the multitude went and met him, because they
heard that he had done this sign.
012:019 The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, "See how you
accomplish nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him."
012:020 Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship
at the feast.
012:021 These, therefore, came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee,
and asked him, saying, "Sir, we want to see Jesus."
012:022 Philip came and told Andrew, and in turn, Andrew came with Philip,
and they told Jesus.
012:023 Jesus answered them, "The time has come for the Son of Man
to be glorified.
012:024 Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls
into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone.
But if it dies, it bears much fruit.
012:025 He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life
in this world will keep it to eternal life.
012:026 If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am,
there will my servant also be. If anyone serves me,
the Father will honor him.
012:027 "Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? 'Father, save me
from this time?' But for this cause I came to this time.
012:028 Father, glorify your name!" Then there came a voice out
of the sky, saying, "I have both glorified it, and will
glorify it again."
012:029 The multitude therefore, who stood by and heard it, said that it
had thundered. Others said, "An angel has spoken to him."
012:030 Jesus answered, "This voice hasn't come for my sake,
but for your sakes.
012:031 Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this
world will be cast out.
012:032 And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all
people to myself."
012:033 But he said this, signifying by what kind of death he should die.
012:034 The multitude answered him, "We have heard out of the law
that the Christ remains forever.{Isaiah 9:7; Daniel 2:44
(but see also Isaiah 53:8)} How do you say, 'The Son of Man
must be lifted up?' Who is this Son of Man?"
012:035 Jesus therefore said to them, "Yet a little while the light
is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness
doesn't overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn't
know where he is going.
012:036 While you have the light, believe in the light, that you
may become children of light." Jesus said these things,
and he departed and hid himself from them.
012:037 But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they
didn't believe in him,
012:038 that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled,
which he spoke, "Lord, who has believed our report?
To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?"{Isaiah 53:1}
012:039 For this cause they couldn't believe, for Isaiah said again,
012:040 "He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they
should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart,
and would turn, and I would heal them."{Isaiah 6:10}
012:041 Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke
of him.{Isaiah 6:1}
012:042 Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed in him,
but because of the Pharisees they didn't confess it,
so that they wouldn't be put out of the synagogue,
012:043 for they loved men's praise more than God's praise.
012:044 Jesus cried out and said, "Whoever believes in me, believes not
in me, but in him who sent me.
012:045 He who sees me sees him who sent me.
012:046 I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes
in me may not remain in the darkness.
012:047 If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn't believe,
I don't judge him. For I came not to judge the world,
but to save the world.
012:048 He who rejects me, and doesn't receive my sayings, has one
who judges him. The word that I spoke, the same will judge
him in the last day.
012:049 For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave
me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
012:050 I know that his commandment is eternal life. The things
therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me,
so I speak."
013:001 Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time
had come that he would depart from this world to the Father,
having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them
to the end.
013:002 After supper, the devil having already put into the heart
of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him,
013:003 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands,
and that he came forth from God, and was going to God,
013:004 arose from supper, and laid aside his outer garments.
He took a towel, and wrapped a towel around his waist.
013:005 Then he poured water into the basin, and began to wash
the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel that was
wrapped around him.
013:006 Then he came to Simon Peter. He said to him, "Lord, do you
wash my feet?"
013:007 Jesus answered him, "You don't know what I am doing now,
but you will understand later."
013:008 Peter said to him, "You will never wash my feet!"
Jesus answered him, "If I don't wash you, you have no
part with me."
013:009 Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, not my feet only, but also my
hands and my head!"
013:010 Jesus said to him, "Someone who has bathed only needs to have
his feet washed, but is completely clean. You are clean,
but not all of you."
013:011 For he knew him who would betray him, therefore he said,
"You are not all clean."
013:012 So when he had washed their feet, put his outer garment back on,
and sat down again, he said to them, "Do you know what I
have done to you?
013:013 You call me, 'Teacher' and 'Lord.' You say so correctly,
for so I am.
013:014 If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet,
you also ought to wash one another's feet.
013:015 For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I
have done to you.
013:016 Most certainly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his lord,
neither one who is sent greater than he who sent him.
013:017 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
013:018 I don't speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen.
But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, 'He who eats bread
with me has lifted up his heel against me.'{Psalm 41:9}
013:019 From now on, I tell you before it happens, that when it happens,
you may believe that I am he.
013:020 Most certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send,
receives me; and he who receives me, receives him who sent me."
013:021 When Jesus had said this, he was troubled in spirit, and testified,
"Most certainly I tell you that one of you will betray me."
013:022 The disciples looked at one another, perplexed about whom he spoke.
013:023 One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was at the table,
leaning against Jesus' breast.
013:024 Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, and said to him,
"Tell us who it is of whom he speaks."
013:025 He, leaning back, as he was, on Jesus' breast, asked him,
"Lord, who is it?"
013:026 Jesus therefore answered, "It is he to whom I will
give this piece of bread when I have dipped it."
So when he had dipped the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas,
the son of Simon Iscariot.
013:027 After the piece of bread, then Satan entered into him.
Then Jesus said to him, "What you do, do quickly."
013:028 Now no man at the table knew why he said this to him.
013:029 For some thought, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus
said to him, "Buy what things we need for the feast,"
or that he should give something to the poor.
013:030 Therefore, having received that morsel, he went out immediately.
It was night.
013:031 When he had gone out, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man has
been glorified, and God has been glorified in him.
013:032 If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him
in himself, and he will glorify him immediately.
013:033 Little children, I will be with you a little while longer.
You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, 'Where I am going,
you can't come,' so now I tell you.
013:034 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another,
just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.
013:035 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you
have love for one another."
013:036 Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?"
Jesus answered, "Where I am going, you can't follow now,
but you will follow afterwards."
013:037 Peter said to him, "Lord, why can't I follow you now?
I will lay down my life for you."
013:038 Jesus answered him, "Will you lay down your life for me?
Most certainly I tell you, the rooster won't crow until you
have denied me three times.
014:001 "Don't let your heart be troubled. Believe in God.
Believe also in me.
014:002 In my Father's house are many homes. If it weren't so,
I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.
014:003 If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again,
and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may
be there also.
014:004 Where I go, you know, and you know the way."
014:005 Thomas said to him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going.
How can we know the way?"
014:006 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life.
No one comes to the Father, except through me.
014:007 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also.
From now on, you know him, and have seen him."
014:008 Philip said to him, "Lord, show us the Father, and that will
be enough for us."
014:009 Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you such a long time, and do
you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father.
How do you say, 'Show us the Father?'
014:010 Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me?
The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself;
but the Father who lives in me does his works.
014:011 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me;
or else believe me for the very works' sake.
014:012 Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works
that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works
than these, because I am going to my Father.
014:013 Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father
may be glorified in the Son.
014:014 If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it.
014:015 If you love me, keep my commandments.
014:016 I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another