Martha, says to him: Lord, by this time he is offensive; for he has
been dead four days. (40)Jesus says to her: Said I not to thee, that,
if thou believe, thou shalt see the glory of God?
(41)So they took away the stone. And Jesus raised his eyes upward, and
said: Father, I thank thee that thou didst hear me. (42)And I knew
that thou always hearest me; but for the sake of the multitude
standing around I said it, that they might believe that thou didst
send me. (43)And having thus spoken, he cried with a loud voice:
Lazarus, come forth. (44)And he that was dead came forth, bound hand
and foot with grave clothes; and his face was bound about with a
napkin. Jesus says to them: Loose him, and let him go.
(45)Many therefore of the Jews who came to Mary, and saw what he did,
believed on him. (46)But some of them went away to the Pharisees, and
told them what Jesus did.
(47)Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council,
and said: What do we, seeing that this man works many signs? (48)If we
let him thus alone, all will believe on him; and the Romans will come
and take away both our place and nation. (49)And a certain one of
them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them: Ye know
nothing; (50)nor do ye consider that it is expedient for us, that one
man die for the people, and not the whole nation perish. (51)And this
he spoke not of himself; but being high priest that year, he
prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation; (52)and not for the
nation only, but that also he should gather together into one the
children of God that were scattered abroad.
(53)Therefore from that day forth they took counsel together to put
him to death. (54)Jesus therefore no longer walked openly among the
Jews; but departed thence to the country near to the wilderness, to a
city called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples.
(55)And the passover of the Jews was at hand; and many went up to
Jerusalem out of the country, before the passover, that they might
purify themselves. (56)They sought therefore for Jesus, and said among
themselves, as they stood in the temple: What think ye, that he will
not come to the feast? (57)Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had
given a commandment, that, if any one knew where he was, he should
make it known, that they might seize him.
XII.
THEREFORE Jesus, six days before the passover, came to Bethany, where
Lazarus was who had been dead, whom Jesus raised from the dead.
(2)They therefore made him a supper there, and Martha served; and
Lazarus was one of those who reclined at table with him.
(3)Then Mary took a pound of ointment of pure spikenard, very costly,
and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair; and
the house was filled with the odor of the ointment. (4)Then says one
of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, who was about to betray
him: (5)Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred
denaries[12:5], and given to the poor? (6)This he said, not because he
cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and
bore[12:6] what was put therein. (7)Then said Jesus: Let her alone;
she has kept it[12:7] to the day of my preparation for burial. (8)For
the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not always.
(9)A great multitude of the Jews therefore knew that he was there. And
they came, not because of Jesus only, but that they might see Lazarus
also, whom he raised from the dead.
(10)But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also
to death; (11)because by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and
believed on Jesus.
(12)On the morrow a great multitude that had come to the feast,
hearing that Jesus is coming to Jerusalem, (13)took branches of the
palm-trees and went forth to meet him, and cried: Hosanna; blessed is
he who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel. (14)And
Jesus, having found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is written:
(15)Fear not, daughter of Zion;
Behold, thy King comes,
Sitting on an ass's colt.
(16)These things his disciples understood not at the first. But when
Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were
written of him, and that they did these things to him.
(17)The multitude therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus
out of the tomb, and raised him from the dead, bore witness. (18)For
this the multitude also met him, because they heard that he had
wrought this sign. (19)The Pharisees therefore said among themselves:
Perceive ye that ye avail nothing? Behold, the world is gone after
him.
(20)And there were certain Greeks, of those who come up to worship at
the feast. (21)These came therefore to Philip, who was from Bethsaida
of Galilee, and desired him, saying: Sir, we would see Jesus.
(22)Philip comes and tells Andrew; Andrew and Philip come and tell
Jesus.
(23)And Jesus answered them, saying: The hour has come, that the Son
of man should be glorified. (24)Verily, verily, I say to you, except
the grain of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abides alone; but
if it die, it brings forth much fruit. (25)He that loves his life
shall lose it; and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it
unto life eternal. (26)If any one serve me, let him follow me; and
where I am, there shall also my servant be. If any one serve me, him
will the Father honor.
(27)Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me
from this hour[12:27]! But for this cause came I unto this hour.
(28)Father, glorify thy name. Then there came a voice out of heaven: I
both have glorified it, and will glorify it again.
(29)The multitude therefore that stood by and heard, said that it
thundered; others said: An angel has spoken to him. (30)Jesus answered
and said: This voice came not for my sake, but for your sakes. (31)Now
is the judgment of this world; now shall the prince of this world be
cast out. (32)And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all
men to me. (33)This he said, signifying by what manner of death he
should die.
(34)The multitude answered him: We heard out of the law that the
Christ abides forever; and how sayest thou: The Son of man must be
lifted up? Who is this Son of man? (35)Jesus therefore said to them:
Yet a little while is the light among you. Walk while ye have the
light, that darkness may not overtake you; and he that walks in the
darkness knows not whither he goes. (36)While ye have the light,
believe on the light, that ye may become sons of light.
These things spoke Jesus, and departed, and hid himself from them.
(37)But though he had wrought so many signs before them, they did not
believe on him; (38)that the saying of Isaiah the prophet might be
fulfilled, which he spoke:
Lord, who believed our report,
And to whom was the arm of the Lord revealed?
(39)Therefore they could not believe, because Isaiah said again:
(40)He has blinded their eyes,
And has hardened their heart;
That they should not see with their eyes,
And understand with their heart,
And turn, and I should heal them.
(41)These things said Isaiah, because he saw his glory, and spoke of
him. (42)Yet, even of the rulers many believed on him; but because of
the Pharisees they did not acknowledge him, lest they should be put
out of the synagogue; (43)for they loved the glory of men more than
the glory of God.
(44)And Jesus cried and said: He that believes on me, believes not on
me but on him who sent me. (45)And he that beholds me beholds him who
sent me. (46)I have come a light into the world, that whoever believes
on me may not abide in the darkness. (47)And if any one hear my words,
and keep them not, I do not judge him; for I came not to judge the
world, but to save the world. (48)He that rejects me, and receives not
my words, has one that judges him. The word that I spokes that shall
judge him in the last day. (49)Because I spoke not from myself; but
the Father who sent me, he has given me a commandment, what I should
say, and what I should speak. (50)And I know that his commandment is
everlasting life. What things I speak therefore, as the Father has
said to me, so I speak.
XIII.
AND before the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing that his hour has
come that he should depart out of this world to the Father, having
loved his own who were in the world, loved them to the end. (2)And
supper being served, the Devil having already put into the heart of
Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him; (3)knowing that the Father
has given all things into his hands, and that he came out from God,
and is going to God, (4)he rises from the supper, and lays aside his
garments, and taking a towel he girded himself. (5)After that he pours
water into the basin, and began to wash the feet of his disciples, and
to wipe them with the towel with which he was girded.
(6)He comes therefore to Simon Peter; and Peter says to him: Lord,
dost thou wash my feet? (7)Jesus answered and said to him: What I do
thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter. (8)Peter says to
him: Never shalt thou wash my feet. Jesus answered him: If I wash thee
not, thou hast no part with me. (9)Simon Peter says to him: Lord, not
my feet only, but also my hands and my head. (10)Jesus says to him: He
that has bathed has no need save to wash the feet, but is wholly
clean. And ye are clean; but not all. (11)For he knew his betrayer;
therefore he said: Ye are not all clean.
(12)When therefore he had washed their feet, he took his garments, and
reclining again at table, said to them: Know ye what I have done to
you? (13)Ye call me the Teacher, and the Master; and ye say well, for
so I am. (14)If I then, the Master and the Teacher, washed your feet,
ye also ought to wash one another's feet. (15)For I gave you an
example, that as I did to you, ye also should do. (16)Verily, verily,
I say to you, a servant is not greater than his lord, nor one that is
sent[13:16] greater than he who sent him. (17)If ye know these things,
happy are ye if ye do them.
(18)I speak not of you all; I know whom I chose; but that the
scripture might be fulfilled, He that eats the loaf with me lifted up
his heel against me. (19)Even now I tell you, before it comes to pass,
that when it comes to pass, ye may believe that I am he. (20)Verily,
verily, I say to you, he that receives whomsoever I send receives me;
and he that receives me receives him who sent me.
(21)Having said this, Jesus was troubled in spirit, and testified and
said: Verily, verily, I say to you, that one of you will betray me.
(22)The disciples therefore looked one on another, doubting of whom he
spoke. (23)And there was reclining in Jesus' bosom one of his
disciples, whom Jesus loved. (24)To him therefore Simon Peter beckons,
and says to him: Say who it is of whom he speaks. (25)And he, leaning
back on Jesus' breast, says to him: Lord, who is it? (26)Jesus
answers: He it is, to whom I shall give the morsel, when I have dipped
it. And having dipped the morsel, he gives it to Judas Iscariot, son
of Simon. (27)And after the morsel, then entered Satan into him. Jesus
therefore says to him: What thou doest, do quickly.
(28)And no one at the table knew for what intent he spoke this to him.
(29)For some thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus said to
him: Buy what we need for the feast; or, that he should give something
to the poor.
(30)He then, having received the morsel, went immediately out; and it
was night.
(31)When therefore he was gone out, Jesus says: Now is the Son of man
glorified, and God is glorified in him. (32)If God is glorified in
him, God will also glorify him in himself, and will straightway
glorify him. (33)Children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye will
seek me; and as I said to the Jews, whither I go ye can not come, so
now I say to you. (34)A new commandment I give to you, that ye love
one another; as I loved you, that ye also love one another. (35)By
this shall all know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one
toward another.
(36)Simon Peter says to him: Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered
him: Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow
me afterward. (37)Peter says to him: Lord, why can not I follow thee
now? I will lay down my life for thee. (38)Jesus answers: Wilt thou
lay down thy life for me? Verily, verily, I say to thee, a cock will
not crow, till thou hast denied me thrice.
XIV.
LET not your heart be troubled. Believe on God, and believe on
me[14:1]. (2)In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not
so, I would have told you; because I go to prepare a place for you.
(3)And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and
will receive you to myself; that where I am ye may be also. (4)And ye
know the way whither I go.
(5)Thomas says to him: Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how
do we know the way? (6)Jesus says to him: I am the way, the truth, and
the life. No one comes to the Father, but by me. (7)If ye knew me, ye
would know my Father also; and from henceforth ye know him, and have
seen him.
(8)Philip says to him: Lord, show us the Father, and it suffices us.
(9)Jesus says to him: Am I so long time with you, and dost thou not
know me, Philip? He that has seen me has seen the Father; and how
sayest thou: Show us the Father? (10)Believest thou not that I am in
the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak to you I
speak not of myself; but the Father who dwells in me, he does the
works. (11)Believe me, that I am in the Father, and the Father in me;
or else believe for the very works' sake.
(12)Verily, verily, I say to you, he that believes on me, the works
that I do he shall do also, and greater than these shall he do,
because I go to the Father. (13)And whatever ye shall ask in my name,
that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. (14)If ye
shall ask anything in my name, I will do it.
(15)If ye love me, keep my commandments. (16)And I will ask of the
Father, and he will give you another Comforter, that he may be with
you forever; (17)the Spirit of truth, whom the world can not receive,
because it sees him not, neither knows him; but ye know him, because
he abides with you, and shall be in you. (18)I will not leave you
bereaved[14:18]; I will come to you.
(19)Yet a little while, and the world sees me no more; but ye see me;
because I live, ye shall live also. (20)In that day ye shall know that
I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. (21)He that has my
commandments, and keeps them, he it is that loves me; and he that
loves me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will
manifest myself to him.
(22)Judas says to him (not Iscariot): Lord, how is it that thou wilt
manifest thyself to us, and not to the world? (23)Jesus answered and
said to him: If any one loves me, he will keep my word; and my Father
will love him, and we will come to him, and make our abode with him.
(24)He that loves me not, keeps not my words; and the word which ye
hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.
(25)These things have I spoken to you, while abiding with you. (26)But
the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name,
he will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things
which I said to you.
(27)Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you; not as the world
gives, give I to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it
be afraid. (28)Ye heard how I said to you: I go away; and I come to
you. If ye loved me, ye would have rejoiced that I go to the Father;
because the Father is greater than I. (29)And now I have told you
before it comes to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye may
believe.
(30)I will no longer talk much with you; for the prince of the world
comes, and in me he has nothing. (31)But that the world may know that
I love the Father, and as the Father gave me commandment, so I do.
Arise, let us go hence.
XV.
I AM the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. (2)Every branch
in me that bears not fruit, he takes it away; and every one that bears
fruit, he cleanses it, that it may bear more fruit. (3)Ye are already
clean, through the word which I have spoken to you.
(4)Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch can not bear fruit of
itself, if it abide not in the vine, so neither can ye, if ye abide
not in me. (5)I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abides in me
and I in him, the same bears much fruit; because without me ye can do
nothing. (6)If any one abide not in me, he is cast forth as the
branch, and is withered; and they gather them, and cast them into the
fire, and they are burned. (7)If ye abide in me, and my words abide in
you, ask whatever ye will, and it shall be done to you.
(8)Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; and ye
shall become my disciples. (9)As the Father loved me, I also loved
you; abide in my love. (10)If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide
in my love; as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his
love.
(11)These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and
your joy be made full. (12)This is my commandment, that ye love one
another, as I loved you. (13)Greater love has no one than this, that
one lay down his life for his friends. (14)Ye are my friends, if ye do
whatever I command you.
(15)No longer do I call you servants; because the servant knows not
what his lord does. But I have called you friends because all things
that I heard from my Father I made known to you. (16)Ye did not choose
me, but I chose you, and appointed you that ye may go and bear fruit,
and that your fruit may remain; that whatever ye shall ask of the
Father in my name, he may give it you.
(17)These things I command you, that ye love one another. (18)If the
world hates you, ye know that it has hated me before it hated you.
(19)If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because
ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this
the world hates you. (20)Remember the word that I said to you: A
servant is not greater than his lord. If they persecuted me, they will
also persecute you; if they kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
(21)But all these things they will do to you for my name's sake,
because they know not him who sent me.
(22)If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but
now they have no cloak for their sin. (23)He that hates me hates my
Father also. (24)If I had not done among them the works which no other
one has done, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and
hated both me and my Father. (25)But this comes to pass, that the word
might be fulfilled that is written in their law: They hated me without
a cause.
(26)But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send to you from the
Father, the Spirit of truth, which proceeds from the Father, he will
bear witness of me. (27)And ye also shall bear witness, because ye are
with me from the beginning.
XVI.
THESE things I have spoken to you, that ye should not be offended.
(2)They will put you out of the synagogues; yea, a time is coming,
that every one who kills you will think he makes an offering to God.
(3)And these things they will do to you, because they have not known
the Father, nor me. (4)But these things I have spoken to you, that
when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you. And these
things I told you not from the beginning, because I was with you.
(5)And now I go to him who sent me; and none of you asks me: Whither
goest thou? (6)But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow
has filled your heart. (7)But I tell you the truth, it is expedient
for you that I depart; for if I depart not, the Comforter will not
come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. (8)And when he is
come, he will convict the world, in respect of sin, and of
righteousness, and of judgment; (9)of sin, in that they believe not on
me; (10)of righteousness, in that I go to my Father, and ye behold me
no more; (11)of judgment, in that the prince of this world has been
judged.
(12)I have yet many things to say to you, but ye can not bear them
now. (13)But when he, the Spirit of truth is come, he will guide you
into all the truth; for he will not speak from himself, but whatever
he shall hear, that will he speak, and he will tell you the things to
come. (14)He will glorify me; because he will receive of mine, and
will tell it to you. (15)All things that the Father has are mine.
Therefore, I said, that he will receive of mine, and will tell it to
you. (16)A little while, and ye behold me not; and again a little
while, and ye shall see me.
(17)Therefore some of his disciples said to one another: What is this
that he says to us, A little while, and ye behold me not; and again a
little while, and ye shall see me; and, I go to the Father? (18)They
said therefore: What is this that he says, A little while? We know not
what he says.
(19)Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him, and said to them:
Do ye inquire of this with one another, that I said, A little while,
and ye behold me not; and again a little while, and ye shall see me?
(20)Verily, verily, I say to you, that ye will weep and lament, but
the world will rejoice; and ye will be sorrowful, but your sorrow
shall be turned into joy. (21)A woman when she is in travail has
sorrow, because her hour is come; but when she has borne the child,
she remembers no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the
world. (22)And so ye now have sorrow; but I will see you again, and
your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one takes from you.
(23)And in that day ye shall ask nothing of me. Verily, verily, I say
to you: Whatever ye shall ask of the Father, he will give it you in my
name. (24)Hitherto ye asked nothing in my name. Ask, and ye shall
receive, that your joy may be made full.
(25)These things I have spoken to you in parables. A time is coming,
when I will no more speak to you in parables, but I will tell you
plainly of the Father. (26)In that day ye shall ask in my name. And I
say not to you, that I will pray the Father for you; (27)for the
Father himself loves you, because ye have loved me, and have believed
that I came forth from God. (28)I came forth from the Father, and have
come into the world; again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.
(29)His disciples say to him: Lo, now thou speakest plainly, and
speakest no parable. (30)Now we know that thou knowest all things, and
needest not that any one should ask thee. By this we believe that thou
camest forth from God.
(31)Jesus answered them: Do ye now believe? (32)Behold, an hour is
coming, and has come, that ye will be scattered, each one to his own,
and will leave me alone; and I am not alone, because the Father is
with me.
(33)These things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace.
In the world ye have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have
overcome the world.
XVII.
THESE words spoke Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said:
Father, the hour has come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son may glorify
thee; (2)as thou gayest him authority over all flesh, that as many as
thou hast given to him, to them he should give eternal life. (3)And
this is the eternal life, that they know thee the only true God, and
Jesus Christ, whom thou didst send. (4)I glorified thee on the earth;
I finished the work which thou hast given me to do. (5)And now, O
Father, glorify thou me with thine own self, with the glory which I
had with thee before the world was. (6)I manifested thy name to the
men whom thou hast given me out of the world. Thine they were, and
thou hast given them to me; and they have kept thy word. (7)Now they
know that all things whatever thou hast given me are from thee;
(8)because the words which thou gayest me I have given to them, and
they received them, and knew in truth that I came forth from thee, and
believed that thou didst send me. (9)I pray for them; I pray not for
the world, but for those whom thou hast given me; because they are
thine. (10)And all things that are mine are thine, and thine are mine;
and I am glorified in them.