014:005 "Master," said Thomas, "we do not know where you are going.
In what sense do we know the way?"
014:006 "I am the Way," replied Jesus, "and the Truth and the Life.
No one comes to the Father except through me.
014:007 If you--all of you--knew me, you would fully know my Father also.
From this time forward you know Him and have seen Him."
014:008 "Master," said Philip, "cause us to see the Father:
that is all we need."
014:009 "Have I been so long among you," Jesus answered, "and yet you,
Philip, do not know me? He who has seen me has seen the Father.
How can *you* ask me, `Cause us to see the Father'?
014:010 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and that the Father
is in me? The things that I tell you all I do not speak on
my own authority: but the Father dwelling within me carries
on His own work.
014:011 Believe me, all of you, that I am in the Father and that the Father
is in me; or at any rate, believe me because of what I do.
014:012 In most solemn truth I tell you that he who trusts in me--
the things which I do he shall do also; and greater things
than these he shall do, because I am going to the Father.
014:013 And whatever any of you ask in my name, I will do, in order
that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
014:014 If you make any request of me in my name, I will do it.
014:015 "If you love me, you will obey my commandments.
014:016 And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate
to be for ever with you--the Spirit of truth.
014:017 That Spirit the world cannot receive, because it does not see
Him or know Him. You know Him, because He remains by your
side and is in you.
014:018 I will not leave you bereaved: I am coming to you.
014:019 Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you
will see me: because I live, you also shall live.
014:020 At that time you will know that I am in my Father, and that you
are in me, and that I am in you.
014:021 He who has my commandments and obeys them--he it is who loves me.
And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will
love him and will clearly reveal myself to him."
014:022 Judas (not the Iscariot) asked, "Master, how is it that you
will reveal yourself clearly to us and not to the world?"
014:023 "If any one loves me," replied Jesus, "he will obey my teaching;
and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make
our home with him.
014:024 He who has no love for me does not obey my teaching;
and yet the teaching to which you are listening is not mine,
but is the teaching of the Father who sent me.
014:025 "All this I have spoken to you while still with you.
014:026 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send
at my request, will teach you everything, and will bring
to your memories all that I have said to you.
014:027 Peace I leave with you: my own peace I give to you.
It is not as the world gives its greetings that I give you peace.
Let not your hearts be troubled or dismayed.
014:028 "You heard me say to you, `I am going away, and yet I am coming
to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced because I
am going to the Father; for the Father is greater than I am.
014:029 I have now told you before it comes to pass, that when it has
come to pass you may believe.
014:030 In future I shall not talk much with you, for the Prince
of this world is coming. And yet in me he has nothing;
014:031 but it is in order that the world may know that I love the Father,
and that it is in obedience to the command which the Father
gave me that I thus act. Rise, let us be going."
015:001 "I am the Vine--the True Vine, and my Father is the vine-dresser.
015:002 Every branch in me--if it bears no fruit, He takes away;
and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may
bear more fruit.
015:003 Already you are cleansed--through the teaching which I
have given you.
015:004 Continue in me, and let me continue in you. Just as the branch
cannot bear fruit of itself--that is, if it does not continue
in the vine--so neither can you if you do not continue in me.
015:005 I am the Vine, you are the branches. He who continues in me
and in whom I continue bears abundant fruit, for apart from me
you can do nothing.
015:006 If any one does not continue in me, he is like the unfruitful
branch which is at once thrown away and then withers up.
Such branches they gather up and throw into the fire and
they are burned.
015:007 "If you continue in me and my sayings continue in you,
ask what you will and it shall be done for you.
015:008 By this is God glorified--by your bearing abundant fruit
and thus being true disciples of mine.
015:009 As the Father has loved me, I have also loved you:
continue in my love.
015:010 If you obey my commands, you will continue in my love, as I
have obeyed my Father's commands and continue in His love.
015:011 "These things I have spoken to you in order that I may have joy
in you, and that your joy may become perfect.
015:012 This is my commandment to you, to love one another as I
have loved you.
015:013 No one has greater love than this--a man laying down his life
for his friends.
015:014 You are my friends, if you do what I command you.
015:015 No longer do I call you servants, because a servant does not
know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends,
because all that I have heard from the Father I have made
known to you.
015:016 It is not you who chose me, but it is I who chose you and
appointed you that you might go and be fruitful and that your
fruit might remain; so that whatever petition you present
to the Father in my name He may give you.
015:017 "Thus I command you to love one another.
015:018 If the world hates you, remember that it has first had me
as the fixed object of its hatred.
015:019 If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own property.
But because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen
you out of the world--for that reason the world hates you.
015:020 Bear in mind what I said to you, `A servant is not superior
to his master.' If they have persecuted me, they will
also persecute you: if they have obeyed my teaching,
they will obey yours also.
015:021 But they will inflict all this suffering upon you on account
of your bearing my name--because they do not know Him
who sent me.
015:022 "If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have had no sin;
but as the case stands they are without excuse for their sin.
015:023 He who hates me hates my Father also.
015:024 If I had not done among them, as I have, such miracles as no
one else ever did, they would have had no sin; but they
have in fact seen and also hated both me and my Father.
015:025 But this has been so, in order that the saying may be fulfilled
which stands written in their Law, `They have hated me
without any reason.'
015:026 "When the Advocate is come whom I will send to you from
the Father's presence--the Spirit of Truth who comes forth
from the Father's presence--He will be a witness concerning me.
015:027 And you also are witnesses, because you have been with me
from the first.
016:001 "These things I have spoken to you in order to clear
stumbling-blocks out of your path.
016:002 You will be excluded from the synagogues; nay more, the time
is coming when any one who has murdered one of you will suppose
he is offering service to God.
016:003 And they will do these things because they have failed
to recognize the Father and to discover who I am.
016:004 But I have spoken these things to you in order that when
the time for their accomplishment comes you may remember them,
and may recollect that I told you. I did not, however, tell you
all this at first, because I was still with you.
016:005 But now I an returning to Him who sent me; and not one of you
asks me where I am going.
016:006 But grief has filled your hearts because I have said all
this to you.
016:007 "Yet it is the truth that I am telling you--it is to your
advantage that I go away. For unless I go away, the Advocate
will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.
016:008 And He, when He comes, will convict the world in respect of sin,
of righteousness, and of judgement;--
016:009 of sin, because they do not believe in me;
016:010 of righteousness, because I am going to the Father, and you
will no longer see me;
016:011 of judgement, because the Prince of this world is under sentence.
016:012 "I have much more to say to you, but you are unable at present
to bear the burden of it.
016:013 But when He has come--the Spirit of Truth--He will guide
you into all the truth. For He will not speak as Himself
originating what He says, but all that He hears He will speak,
and He will make known the future to you.
016:014 He will glorify me, because He will take of what is mine
and will make it known to you.
016:015 Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said
that the Spirit of Truth takes of what is mine and will make
it known to you.
016:016 "A little while and you see me no more, and again a little
while and you shall see me."
016:017 Some of His disciples therefore said to one another, "What does
this mean which He is telling us, `A little while and you
do not see me, and again a little while and you shall see me,'
and `Because I am going to the Father'?"
016:018 So they asked one another repeatedly, "What can that `little while'
mean which He speaks of? We do not understand His words."
016:019 Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask Him, and He said,
"Is this what you are questioning one another about--
my saying, `A little while and you do not see me, and again
a little while and you shall see me'?
016:020 In most solemn truth I tell you that you will weep aloud
and lament, but the world will be glad. You will mourn,
but your grief will be turned into gladness.
016:021 A woman, when she is in labour, has sorrow, because her
time has come. But when she has given birth to the babe,
she no longer remembers the pain, because of her joy at a child
being born into the world.
016:022 So you also now have sorrow; but I shall see you again,
and your hearts will be glad, and your gladness no one will
take away from you.
016:023 You will put no questions to me then. "In most solemn truth
I tell you that whatever you ask the Father for in my name
He will give you.
016:024 As yet you have not asked for anything in my name: ask, and you
shall receive, that your hearts may be filled with gladness.
016:025 "All this I have spoken to you in veiled language.
The time is coming when I shall no longer speak to you
in veiled language, but will tell you about the Father
in plain words.
016:026 At that time you will make your requests in my name;
and I do not promise to ask the Father on your behalf,
016:027 for the Father Himself holds you dear, because you have held me
dear and have believed that I came from the Father's presence.
016:028 I came from the Father and have come into the world.
Again I am leaving the world and am going to the Father."
016:029 "Ah, now you are using plain language," said His disciples,
"and are uttering no figure of speech!
016:030 Now we know that you have all knowledge, and do not need to be
pressed with questions. Through this we believe that you
came from God."
016:031 "Do you at last believe?" replied Jesus.
016:032 "Remember that the time is coming, nay, has already come, for you
all to be dispersed each to his own home and to leave me alone.
And yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me.
016:033 "I have spoken all this to you in order that in me you
may have peace. In the world you have affliction.
But keep up your courage: *I* have won the victory
over the world."
017:001 When Jesus had thus spoken, He raised his eyes towards Heaven
and said, "Father, the hour has come. Glorify Thy Son
that the Son may glorify Thee;
017:002 even as Thou hast given Him authority over all mankind,
so that on all whom Thou hast given Him He may bestow the Life
of the Ages.
017:003 And in this consists the Life of the Ages--in knowing Thee
the only true God and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent.
017:004 I have glorified Thee on earth, having done perfectly the work
which by Thine appointment has been mine to do.
017:005 And now, Father, do Thou glorify me in Thine own presence,
with the glory that I had in Thy presence before the world existed.
017:006 "I have revealed Thy perfections to the men whom Thou gavest me
out of the world. Thine they were, and Thou gavest them to me,
and they have obeyed Thy message.
017:007 Now they know that whatever Thou hast given me is from Thee.
017:008 For the truths which Thou didst teach me I have taught them.
And they have received them, and have known for certain that I
came out from Thy presence, and have believed that Thou
didst send me.
017:009 "I am making request for them: for the world I do not make
any request, but for those whom Thou hast given me.
Because they are Thine,
017:010 and everything that is mine is Thine, and everything that is
Thine is mine; and I am crowned with glory in them.
017:011 I am now no longer in the world, but they are in the world and I
am coming to Thee. "Holy Father, keep them true to Thy name--
the name which Thou hast given me to bear--that they may be one,
even as we are.
017:012 While I was with them, I kept them true to Thy name--the name
Thou hast given me to bear--and I kept watch over them, and not
one of them is lost but only he who is doomed to destruction--
that the Scripture may be fulfilled.
017:013 "But now I am coming to Thee, and I speak these words while I
am in the world, in order that they may have my gladness
within them filling their hearts.
017:014 I have given them Thy Message, and the world has hated them,
because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not
belong to the world.
017:015 I do not ask that Thou wilt remove them out of the world,
but that Thou wilt protect them from the Evil one.
017:016 They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong
to the world.
017:017 Make them holy in the truth: Thy Message is truth.
017:018 Just as Thou didst send me into the world, I also have sent them;
017:019 and on their behalf I consecrate myself, in order that they
may become perfectly consecrated in truth.
017:020 "Nor is it for them alone that I make request.
It is also for those who trust in me through their teaching;
017:021 that they may all be one, even as Thou art in me, O Father,
and I am in Thee; that they also may be in us; that the world
may believe that Thou didst send me.
017:022 And the glory which Thou hast given me I have given them,
that they may be one, just as we are one:
017:023 I in them and Thou in me; that they may stand perfected in one;
that the world may come to understand that Thou didst send me
and hast loved them with the same love as that with which Thou
hast loved me.
017:024 "Father, those whom Thou hast given me--I desire that where I
am they also may be with me, that they may see the glory--
my glory--my gift from Thee, which Thou hast given me because
Thou didst love me before the creation of the world.
017:025 And, righteous Father, though the world has failed to
recognize Thee, I have known Thee, and these have perceived
that Thou didst send me.
017:026 And I have made known Thy name to them and will make it known,
that the love with which Thou hast loved me may be in them,
and that I may be in them."
018:001 After offering this prayer Jesus went out with His
disciples to a place on the further side of the Ravine
of the Cedars, where there was a garden which He entered--
Himself and His disciples.
018:002 Now Judas also, who at that very time was betraying Him,
knew the place, for Jesus had often resorted there
with His disciples.
018:003 So Judas, followed by the battalion and by a detachment
of the Temple police sent by the High Priests and Pharisees,
came there with torches and lamps and weapons.
018:004 Jesus therefore, knowing all that was about to befall Him,
went out to meet them. "Who are you looking for?"
He asked them.
018:005 "For Jesus the Nazarene," was the answer. "I am he," He replied.
(Now Judas who was betraying Him was also standing with them.)
018:006 As soon then as He said to them, "I am he," they went backwards
and fell to the ground.
018:007 Again therefore He asked them, "Who are you looking for?"
"For Jesus the Nazarene," they said.
018:008 "I have told you," replied Jesus, "that I am he.
If therefore you are looking for me, let these my disciples
go their way."
018:009 He made this request in order that the words He had spoken
might be fulfilled, "As for those whom Thou hast given me,
I have not lost one."
018:010 Simon Peter, however, having a sword, drew it, and, aiming at
the High Priest's servant, cut off his right ear.
The servant's name was Malchus.
018:011 Jesus therefore said to Peter, "Put back your sword.
Shall I refuse to drink the cup of sorrow which the Father
has given me to drink?"
018:012 So the battalion and their tribune and the Jewish police closed in,
and took Jesus and bound Him.
018:013 They then brought Him to Annas first; for Annas was the father-in-law
of Caiaphas who was High Priest that year.
018:014 (It was this Caiaphas who had advised the Jews, saying, "It is
to your interest that one man should die for the People.")
018:015 Meanwhile Simon Peter was following Jesus, and so also was
another disciple. The latter was known to the High Priest,
and went in with Jesus into the court of the High Priest's palace.
018:016 But Peter remained standing outside the door, till the disciple
who was acquainted with the High Priest came out and induced
the portress to let Peter in.
018:017 This led the girl, the portress, to ask Peter, "Are you also
one of this man's disciples?" "No, I am not," he replied.
018:018 Now because it was cold the servants and the police had lighted
a charcoal fire, and were standing and warming themselves;
and Peter too remained with them, standing and warming himself.
018:019 So the High Priest questioned Jesus about His disciples
and His teaching.
018:020 "As for me," replied Jesus, "I have spoken openly to the world.
I have continually taught in some synagogue or in the Temple
where all the Jews are wont to assemble, and I have said
nothing in secret.
018:021 Why do you question me? Question those who heard what it was I
said to them: these witnesses here know what I said."
018:022 Upon His saying this, one of the officers standing by struck Him
with his open hand, asking Him as he did so, "Is that the way
you answer the High Priest?"
018:023 "If I have spoken wrongly," replied Jesus, "bear witness to it
as wrong; but if rightly, why that blow?"
018:024 So Annas sent Him bound to Caiaphas the High Priest.
018:025 But Simon Peter remained standing and warming himself, and this
led to their asking him, "Are you also one of his disciples?"
He denied it, and said, "No, I am not."
018:026 One of the High Priest's servants, a relative of the man
whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Did I not see you
in the garden with him?"
018:027 Once more Peter denied it, and immediately a cock crowed.
018:028 So they brought Jesus from Caiaphas's house to the Praetorium.
It was the early morning, and they would not enter the Praetorium
themselves for fear of defilement, and in order that they
might be able to eat the Passover.
018:029 Accordingly Pilate came out to them and inquired, "What accusation
have you to bring against this man?"
018:030 "If the man were not a criminal," they replied, "we would
not have handed him over to you."
018:031 "Take him yourselves," said Pilate, "and judge him by your Law."
"We have no power," replied the Jews, "to put any man to death."
018:032 They said this that the words might be fulfilled in which Jesus
predicted the kind of death He was to die.
018:033 Re-entering the Praetorium, therefore, Pilate called Jesus
and asked Him, "Are *you* the King of the Jews?"
018:034 "Do you say this of yourself, or have others told it you
about me?" replied Jesus.
018:035 "Am I a Jew?" exclaimed Pilate; "it is your own nation
and the High Priests who have handed you over to me.
What have you done?"
018:036 "My kingdom," replied Jesus, "does not belong to this world.
If my kingdom did belong to this world, my subjects would have
resolutely fought to save me from being delivered up to the Jews.
But, as a matter of fact, my kingdom has not this origin."
018:037 "So then *you* are a king!" rejoined Pilate. "Yes," said Jesus,
"you say truly that I am a king. For this purpose I
was born, and for this purpose I have come into the world--
to give testimony for the truth. Every one who is a friend
of the truth listens to my voice."
018:038 "What is truth?" said Pilate. But no sooner had he spoken
the words than he went out again to the Jews and told them,
"I find no crime in him.
018:039 But you have a custom that I should release one prisoner
to you at the Passover. So shall I release to you the King
of the Jews?"
018:040 With a roar of voices they again cried out, saying, "Not this man,
but Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a robber.
019:001 Then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him.
019:002 And the soldiers, twisting twigs of thorn into a wreath,
put it on His head, and threw round Him a crimson cloak.
019:003 Then they began to march up to Him, saying in a mocking voice,
"Hail King of the Jews!" And they struck Him with the palms
of their hands.
019:004 Once more Pilate came out and said to the Jews, "See, I am
bringing him out to you to let you clearly understand that I
find no crime in him."
019:005 So Jesus came out, wearing the wreath of thorns and the
crimson cloak. And Pilate said to them, "See, there is the man."
019:006 As soon then as the High Priests and the officers saw Him,
they shouted "To the cross! To the cross!" "Take him
yourselves and crucify him," said Pilate; "for I, at any rate,
find no crime in him."
019:007 "We," replied the Jews, "have a Law, and in accordance with that
Law he ought to die, for having claimed to be the Son of God."
019:008 More alarmed than ever, Pilate no sooner heard these words
than he re-entered the Praetorium and began to question Jesus.
019:009 "What is your origin?" he asked. But Jesus gave him no answer.
019:010 "Do you refuse to speak even to me?" asked Pilate; "do you
not know that I have it in my power either to release you
or to crucify you?"
019:011 "You would have had no power whatever over me,"
replied Jesus, "had it not been granted you from above.
On that account he who has delivered me up to you is more
guilty than you are."
019:012 Upon receiving this answer, Pilate was for releasing Him.
But the Jews kept shouting, "If you release this man,
you are no friend of Caesar's. Every one who sets himself up
as king declares himself a rebel against Caesar."
019:013 On hearing this, Pilate brought Jesus out, and sat down
on the judge's seat in a place called the Pavement--
or in Hebrew, Gabbatha.
019:014 It was the day of Preparation for the Passover, about six o'clock
in the morning. Then he said to the Jews, "There is your king!"
019:015 This caused a storm of outcries, "Away with him! Away with him!
Crucify him!" "Am I to crucify your king?" Pilate asked.
"We have no king, except Caesar," answered the High Priests.
019:016 Then Pilate gave Him up to them to be crucified.
Accordingly they took Jesus;
019:017 and He went out carrying His own cross, to the place
called Skull-place--or, in Hebrew, Golgotha--
019:018 where they nailed Him to a cross, and two others at the same time,
one on each side and Jesus in the middle.
019:019 And Pilate wrote a notice and had it fastened to the top of
the cross. It ran thus: JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS.
019:020 Many of the Jews read this notice, for the place where Jesus
was crucified was near the city, and the notice was in
three languages--Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.
019:021 This led the Jewish High Priests to remonstrate with Pilate.
"You should not write `The King of the Jews,'" they said,
"but that he claimed to be King of the Jews."
019:022 "What I have written I have written," was Pilate's answer.
019:023 So the soldiers, as soon as they had crucified Jesus, took His
garments, including His tunic, and divided them into four parts--
one part for each soldier. The tunic was without seam,
woven from the top in one piece.
019:024 So they said to one another, "Do not let us tear it.
Let us draw lots for it." This happened that the Scripture
might be fulfilled which says, "They shared my garments
among them, and drew lots for my clothing." That was just
what the soldiers did.
019:025 Now standing close to the cross of Jesus were His mother and His
mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala.
019:026 So Jesus, seeing His mother, and seeing the disciple whom He
loved standing near, said to His mother, "Behold, your son!"
019:027 Then He said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!"
And from that time the disciple received her into his own home.
019:028 After this, Jesus, knowing that everything was now brought
to an end, said--that the Scripture might be fulfilled,
"I am thirsty."
019:029 There was a jar of wine standing there. With this wine they
filled a sponge, put it on the end of a stalk of hyssop,
and lifted it to His mouth.
019:030 As soon as Jesus had taken the wine, He said, "It is finished."
And then, bowing His head, He yielded up His spirit.
019:031 Meanwhile the Jews, because it was the day of Preparation
for the Passover, and in order that the bodies might not remain
on the crosses during the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was one
of special solemnity), requested Pilate to have the legs
of the dying men broken, and the bodies removed.
019:032 Accordingly the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first
man and also of the other who had been crucified with Jesus.
019:033 Then they came to Jesus Himself: but when they saw that He
was already dead, they refrained from breaking His legs.
019:034 One of the soldiers, however, made a thrust at His side
with a lance, and immediately blood and water flowed out.
019:035 This statement is the testimony of an eye-witness, and it is true.
He knows that he is telling the truth--in order that you
also may believe.
019:036 For all this took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled
which declares, "Not one of His bones shall be broken."
019:037 And again another Scripture says, "They shall look on Him whom
they have pierced."
019:038 After this, Joseph of Arimathaea, who was a disciple of Jesus,
but for fear of the Jews a secret disciple, asked Pilate's permission
to carry away the body of Jesus; and Pilate gave him leave.
So he came and removed the body.
019:039 Nicodemus too--he who at first had visited Jesus by night--
came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, in weight about
seventy or eighty pounds.
019:040 Taking down the body they wrapped it in linen cloths along
with the spices, in accordance with the Jewish mode of
preparing for burial.
019:041 There was a garden at the place where Jesus had been crucified,
and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had yet been buried.
019:042 Therefore, because it was the day of Preparation for
the Jewish Passover, and the tomb was close at hand,
they put Jesus there.
020:001 On the first day of the week, very early, while it was still dark,
Mary of Magdala came to the tomb and saw that the stone had
been removed from it.
020:002 So she ran, as fast as she could, to find Simon Peter
and the other disciple--the one who was dear to Jesus--
and to tell them, "They have taken the Master out of the tomb,
and we do not know where they have put Him."
020:003 Peter and the other disciple started at once to go to the tomb,
both of them running,
020:004 but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and reached it
before he did.
020:005 Stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths lying there
on the ground, but he did not go in.
020:006 Simon Peter, however, also came, following him, and entered the tomb.
There on the ground he saw the cloths;
020:007 and the towel, which had been placed over the face of Jesus,
not lying with the cloths, but folded up and put by itself.
020:008 Then the other disciple, who had been the first to come to the tomb,
also went in and saw and was convinced.
020:009 For until now they had not understood the inspired teaching,
that He must rise again from among the dead.
020:010 Then they went away and returned home.
020:011 Meanwhile Mary remained standing near the tomb, weeping aloud.
She did not enter the tomb, but as she wept she stooped
and looked in,
020:012 and saw two angels clothed in white raiment, sitting one at
the head and one at the feet where the body of Jesus had been.
020:013 They spoke to her. "Why are you weeping?" they asked.
"Because," she replied, "they have taken away my Lord,
and I do not know where they have put him."
020:014 While she was speaking, she turned round and saw Jesus
standing there, but did not recognize Him.
020:015 "Why are you weeping?" He asked; "who are you looking for?"
She, supposing that He was the gardener, replied, "Sir, if you
have carried him away, tell me where you have put him and I
will remove him."
020:016 "Mary!" said Jesus. She turned to Him. "Rabboni!" she cried
in Hebrew: the word means `Teacher!'
020:017 "Do not cling to me," said Jesus, "for I have not yet ascended
to the Father. But take this message to my brethren:
`I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God
and your God.'"
020:018 Mary of Magdala came and brought word to the disciples.
"I have seen the Master," she said. And she told them that He
had said these things to her.
020:019 On that same first day of the week, when it was evening and,
for fear of the Jews, the doors of the house where the
disciples were, were locked, Jesus came and stood in their midst,
and said to them, "Peace be to you!"
020:020 Having said this He showed them His hands and also His side;
and the disciples were filled with joy at seeing the Master.
020:021 A second time, therefore, He said to them, "Peace be to you!
As the Father sent me, I also now send you."
020:022 Having said this He breathed upon them and said,
"Receive the Holy Spirit.
020:023 If you remit the sins of any persons, they remain remitted to them.
If you bind fast the sins of any, they remain bound."
020:024 Thomas, one of the twelve--surnamed `the Twin'--was not among
them when Jesus came.
020:025 So the rest of the disciples told him, "We have seen
the Master!" His reply was, "Unless I see in his hands
the wound made by the nails and put my finger into the wound,
and put my hand into his side, I will never believe it."
020:026 A week later the disciples were again in the house, and Thomas
was with them, when Jesus came--though the doors were locked--
and stood in their midst, and said, "Peace be to you."
020:027 Then He said to Thomas, "Bring your finger here and feel my hands;
bring you hand and put it into my side; and do not be ready
to disbelieve but to believe."
020:028 "My Lord and my God!" replied Thomas.
020:029 "Because you have seen me," replied Jesus, "you have believed.
Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."
020:030 There were also a great number of other signs which Jesus
performed in the presence of the disciples, which are not
recorded in this book.
020:031 But these have been recorded in order that you may believe that He
is the Christ, the Son of God, and that, through believing,
you may have Life through His name.
021:001 After this, Jesus again showed Himself to the disciples.
It was at the Lake of Tiberias. The circumstances were as follows.
021:002 Simon Peter was with Thomas, called the Twin, Nathanael of
Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zabdi, and two others of
the Master's disciples.
021:003 Simon Peter said to them, "I am going fishing." "We will go too,"
said they. So they set out and went on board their boat;
but they caught nothing that night.
021:004 When, however, day was now dawning, Jesus stood on the beach,
though the disciples did not know that it was Jesus.
021:005 He called to them. "Children," He said, "have you any
food there?" "No," they answered.
021:006 "Throw the net in on the right hand side," He said, "and you
will find fish." So they threw the net in, and now they
could scarcely drag it along for the quantity of fish.
021:007 This made the disciple whom Jesus loved say to Peter, "It is
the Master." Simon Peter therefore, when he heard the words,
"It is the Master," drew on his fisherman's shirt--
for he had not been wearing it--put on his girdle, and sprang
into the water.
021:008 But the rest of the disciples came in the small boat (for they
were not far from land--only about a hundred yards off),
dragging the net full of fish.
021:009 As soon as they landed, they saw a charcoal fire burning there,
with fish broiling on it, and bread close by.
021:010 Jesus told them to fetch some of the fish which they
had just caught.
021:011 So Simon Peter went on board the boat and drew the net ashore
full of large fish, 153 in number; and yet, although there
were so many, the net had not broken.
021:012 "Come this way and have breakfast," said Jesus. But not one
of the disciples ventured to question Him as to who He was,
for they felt sure that it was the Master.
021:013 Then Jesus came and took the bread and gave them some,
and the fish in the same way.
021:014 This was now the third occasion on which Jesus showed Himself
to the disciples after He had risen from among the dead.
021:015 When they had finished breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, "Simon,
son of John, do you love me more than these others do?"
"Yes, Master," was his answer; "you know that you are dear to me."
"Then feed my lambs," replied Jesus.
021:016 Again a second time He asked him, "Simon, son of John,
do you love me?" "Yes, Master," he said, "you know that you
are dear to me." "Then be a shepherd to my sheep," He said.
021:017 A third time Jesus put the question: "Simon, son of John,
am I dear to you?" It grieved Peter that Jesus asked him
the third time, "Am I dear to you?" "Master," he replied,
"you know everything, you can see that you are dear to me."
"Then feed my much-loved sheep," said Jesus.
021:018 "In most solemn truth I tell you that whereas, when you were young,
you used to put on your girdle and walk whichever way you chose,
when you have grown old you will stretch out your arms
and some one else will put a girdle round you and carry you
where you have no wish to go."
021:019 This He said to indicate the kind of death by which that disciple
would bring glory to God; and after speaking thus He said
to him, "Follow me."
021:020 Peter turned round and noticed the disciple whom Jesus
loved following--the one who at the supper had leaned
back on His breast and had asked, "Master, who is it that
is betraying you?"